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100 1 $aMa, Sheng-mei.
245 14$aThe tao of s :$bAmerica's Chinee & the Chinese century in literature and film /$cSheng-mei Ma.
260 $aColumbia, South Carolina :$bThe University of South Carolina Press ;$aTaipei City, Taiwan :$c[2022].$bNational Taiwan University Press,
300 $aviii, 239 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
490 1 $aEast-West encounters in literature and cultural studies
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 $aThe Tao of S is an engaging study of American racialization of Chinese and Asians, Asian American writing, and contemporary Chinese cultural production, stretching from the nineteenth century to the present. Sheng-mei Ma examines the work of nineteenth-century Sinophobic American writers, such as Bret Harte, Jack London, and Frank Norris, and twentieth-century Sinophiliac authors, such as John Steinbeck and Philip K. Dick, as well as the movies Crazy Rich Asians and Disney's Mulan and a host of contemporary Chinese authors, to illuminate how cultural stereotypes have swung from fearmongering to an overcompensating exultation of everything Asian. Within this framework Ma employs the Taoist principle of yin and yang to illuminate how roles of the once-dominant American hegemony-the yang-and the once-declining Asian civilization-the yin-are now, in the twenty-first century, turned upside down as China rises to write its side of the story, particularly through the soft power of television and media streamed worldwide--$cProvided by publisher.
650 0$aAmerican literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0$aChinese in literature.
650 0$aStereotypes (Social psychology) in literature.
650 0$aMass media and culture$zChina.
650 0$aAmerican literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism.
651 0$aChina$xForeign relations$y21st century.
651 0$aChina$xCivilization$y21st century.
830 0$aEast-West encounters in literature and cultural studies.