Yellow perils : China narratives in the contemporary world /

China's meteoric rise and ever expanding economic and cultural footprint have been accompanied by widespread global disquiet. Whether admiring or alarmist, media discourse and representations of China often tap into the myths and prejudices that emerged through specific historical encounters. T...

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Other Authors / Creators:Billé, Franck, editor.
Urbansky, Sören, editor.
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Imprint: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2018]
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Online Access:Click here for full text at JSTOR
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Franck Billé
  • Yellow peril epidemics : the political ontology of degeneration and emergence / Christos Lynteris
  • Day of judgment : Australia and the rise of Asia / David Walker
  • Chinese entrepreneurship in Prato, Italy / Xiaojian Zhao
  • Yellow, red, and black : fantasies about China and "the Chinese" in contemporary South Africa / Romain Dittgen and Ross Anthony
  • "The Chinese are coming" : social dependence and entrepreneurial ethics in postcolonial Nigeria / Yu Qiu
  • Sinophobic tales : imaginations of China from the northern border / Franck Billé
  • Swarm of the locusts : the ethnicization of Hong Kong-China relations / Kevin Carrico
  • Who's afraid of Confucius? : fear, encompassment, and the global debates over the Confucius Institutes / Magnus Fiskesjö
  • Fears abroad, propaganda at home : reflections on the yellow peril discourse in China / Sören Urbansky.