Model Machines: A History of the Asian As Automaton - Couverture rigide

Bui, Long T.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1439922330 ISBN 13 : 9781439922330

Editeur : Temple University Press,U.S., 2022

Synopsis

In the contemporary Western imagination, Asian people are frequently described as automatons, which disavows their humanity. In Model Machines, Long Bui investigates what he calls Asian roboticism or the ways Asians embody the machine and are given robotic characteristics.

Bui offers the first historical overview of the overlapping racialization of Asians and Asian Americans through their conflation with the robot-machine nexus. He puts forth the concept of the "model machine myth," which holds specific queries about personhood, citizenship, labor, and rights in the transnational making of Asian/America.

The case studies in Model Machines chart the representation of Chinese laborers, Japanese soldiers, Asian sex workers, and other examples to show how Asians are reimagined to be model machines as a product of globalization, racism, and colonialism. Moreover, it offers examples of how artists and everyday people resisted that stereotype to consider different ways of being human. Starting from the early nineteenth century, the book ends in the present with the new millennium, where the resurgence of China presages the "rise of the machines" and all the doomsday scenarios this might spell for global humanity at large.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Long T. Bui is an Associate Professor at the University of California, Irvine and the author of Returns of War: South Vietnam and the Price of Refugee Memory.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Temple University Press,U.S.
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1439922330
• ISBN 13: 9781439922330
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 305
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible