Yellow Perils: China Narratives in the Contemporary World 9780824876012
China’s meteoric rise and ever expanding economic and cultural footprint have been accompanied by widespread global disq
173 84 6MB
English Pages 284 [288] Year 2018
Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
2. Yellow Peril Epidemics: The Political Ontology of Degeneration and Emergence
3. Day of Judgment: Australia and the Rise of Asia
4. Chinese Entrepreneurship in Prato, Italy
5. Yellow, Red, and Black: Fantasies about China and “the Chinese” in Contemporary South Africa
6. “The Chinese are Coming”: Social Dependence and Entrepreneurial Ethics in Postcolonial Nigeria
7. Sinophobic Tales: Imaginations of China from the Northern Border
8. Swarm of the Locusts: The Ethnicization of Hong Kong–China Relations
9. Who’s Afraid of Confucius? Fear, Encompassment, and the Global Debates over the Confucius Institutes
10. Fears Abroad, Propaganda at Home: Reflections on the Yellow Peril Discourse in China
Contributors
Index
Contents
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
2. Yellow Peril Epidemics: The Political Ontology of Degeneration and Emergence
3. Day of Judgment: Australia and the Rise of Asia
4. Chinese Entrepreneurship in Prato, Italy
5. Yellow, Red, and Black: Fantasies about China and “the Chinese” in Contemporary South Africa
6. “The Chinese are Coming”: Social Dependence and Entrepreneurial Ethics in Postcolonial Nigeria
7. Sinophobic Tales: Imaginations of China from the Northern Border
8. Swarm of the Locusts: The Ethnicization of Hong Kong–China Relations
9. Who’s Afraid of Confucius? Fear, Encompassment, and the Global Debates over the Confucius Institutes
10. Fears Abroad, Propaganda at Home: Reflections on the Yellow Peril Discourse in China
Contributors
Index
