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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.

Technology in literature. --- Asians in mass media. --- Asians in motion pictures. --- Asians in literature. --- Science fiction --- Mass media --- Motion pictures --- History and criticism. --- Asia --- In literature. --- Asians in literature --- Asians in motion pictures --- Asians in mass media --- Technology in literature --- S02/0300 --- S02/0310 --- S17/2000 --- S19/0160 --- History and criticism --- China: General works--Chinese culture and the World and vice-versa --- China: General works--Intercultural dialogue --- China: Art and archaeology--Film --- China: Natural sciences--Technology, inventions