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Techno-Orientalism: Imagining Asia in Speculative Fiction, History, and Media

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Techno-Orientalism: Imagining Asia in Speculative Fiction, History, and Media - Roh, David S (Editor)
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To judge from many speculative fiction films and books, 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 ...

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Techno-Orientalism: Imagining Asia in Speculative Fiction, History, and Media 2015, Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ

ISBN-13: 9780813570631

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Techno-Orientalism: Imagining Asia in Speculative Fiction, History, and Media 2015, Rutgers University Press

ISBN-13: 9780813570648

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