Techno-Orientalism: Imagining Asia in Speculative Fiction, History, and Media

by Seo-Young Chu

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813570638
• ISBN13: 9780813570631
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"