The Tao of S: America's Chinee & the Chinese Century in Literature and Film

by Sheng-Mei Ma

A study of recent shifts in the depictions of Asian cultural stereotypes

The 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1643363077
• ISBN13: 9781643363073
• Release Date: June 2022
• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.3"