Techno-Orientalism : imagining Asia in speculative fiction, history, and media / edited by David S. Roh, Betsy Huang, and Greta A. Niu.

Includes bibliographies and index.

part I Iterations and Instantiations -- 1. Demon Courage and Dread Engines: America's Reaction to the Russo-Japanese War and the Genesis of the Japanese Invasion Sublime / Kenneth Hough -- 2. "Out of the Glamorous, Mystic East": Techno-Orientalism in Early Twentieth-Century U.S. Radio Broadcasting / Jason Crum -- 3. Looking Backward, from 2019 to 1881: Reading the Dystopias of Future Multiculturalism in the Utopias of Asian Exclusion / Victor Bascara -- 4. Queer Excavations: Technology, Temporality, Race / Warren Liu -- 5. I, Stereotype: Detained in the Uncanny Valley / Seo-Young Chu -- 6. The Mask of Fu Manchu, Son of Sinbad, and Star Wars IV: A New Hope: Techno-Orientalist Cinema as a Mnemotechnics of Twentieth-Century US.-Asian Conflicts / Abigail De Kosnik -- 7. Racial Speculations: (Bio)technology, Battlestar Galactica, and a Mixed-Race Imagining / Jinny Huh -- 8. Never Stop Playing: StarCraft and Asian Gamer Death / Se Young Kim -- 9. "Home Is Where the War Is": Remaking Techno-Orientalist Militarism on the Homefront / Dylan Yeats -- pt. II Reappropriations and Recuperations -- 10. Thinking about Bodies, Souls, and Race in Gibson's Bridge Trilogy / Julie Ha Tran -- 11. Reimagining Asian Women in Feminist Post-Cyberpunk Science Fiction / Kathryn Allan -- 12. The Cruel Optimism of Asian Futurity and the Reparative Practices of Sonny Liew's Malinky Robot / Aimee Bahng -- 13. Palimpsestic Orientalisms and Antiblackness; or, Joss Whedon's Grand Vision of an Asian/American Tomorrow / Douglas Ishii -- 14. "How Does It Not Know What It Is?": The Techno-Orientalized Body in Ridley Scott's Blade Runner and Larissa Lai's Automaton Biographies / Catherine Fung -- 15. A Poor Man from a Poor Country: Nam June Paik, TV-Buddha, and the Techno-Orientalist Lens / Charles Park.

What will the future look like? To judge from many speculative fiction films and books, from Blade Runner to Cloud Atlas, the future will be full of cities that resemble Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Shanghai, and it will be populated mainly by cold, unfeeling citizens who act like robots. Techno-Orientalism investigates the phenomenon of imagining Asia and Asians in hypo- or hyper-technological terms in literary, cinematic, and new media representations, while critically examining the stereotype of Asians as both technologically advanced and intellectually primitive, in dire need of Western consciousness-raising. The collection's fourteen original essays trace the discourse of techno-orientalism across a wide array of media, from radio serials to cyberpunk novels, from Sax Rohmer's Dr. Fu Manchu to Firefly. Applying a variety of theoretical, historical, and interpretive approaches, the contributors consider techno-orientalism a truly global phenomenon. In part, they tackle the key question of how these stereotypes serve to both express and assuage Western anxieties about Asia's growing cultural influence and economic dominance. Yet the book also examines artists who have appropriated techno-orientalist tropes in order to critique racist and imperialist attitudes.

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