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The Asian Mystique: Dragon Ladies, Geisha Girls, and Our Fantasies of the Exotic Orient
Sheridan Prasso
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Description for The Asian Mystique: Dragon Ladies, Geisha Girls, and Our Fantasies of the Exotic Orient
A prize-winning journalist and Asia expert issues a provocative critique of the West's eroticized illusions about Asia and how profoundly they color our social, cultural, business, personal, and political interactions. Num Pages: 464 pages, b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1FP; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 147 x 26. Weight in Grams: 744.
Few Westerners escape the images, expectations and misperceptions that lead us to see Asia as exotic, sensual, decadent, dangerous, and mysterious. Despite , and because of , centuries of East-West interaction, the stereotypes of Western literature, stage, and screen remain pervasive icons: the tea-pouring, submissive, sexually available geisha girl the steely cold dragon lady dominatrix as well as the portrayal of the Asian male as effeminate and asexual. These "Oriental" illusions colour our relations and relationships in ways even well-respected professional "Asia hands" and scholars don't necessarily see. The Asian Mystique lays out a provocative challenge to see Asia ... Read more
Few Westerners escape the images, expectations and misperceptions that lead us to see Asia as exotic, sensual, decadent, dangerous, and mysterious. Despite , and because of , centuries of East-West interaction, the stereotypes of Western literature, stage, and screen remain pervasive icons: the tea-pouring, submissive, sexually available geisha girl the steely cold dragon lady dominatrix as well as the portrayal of the Asian male as effeminate and asexual. These "Oriental" illusions colour our relations and relationships in ways even well-respected professional "Asia hands" and scholars don't necessarily see. The Asian Mystique lays out a provocative challenge to see Asia ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2006
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Condition
New
Number of Pages
464
Format
Paperback
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9781586483944
SKU
V9781586483944
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About Sheridan Prasso
Sheridan Prasso has been writing about Asia for more than fifteen years, most recently as Asia Editor and a Senior News Editor for BusinessWeek. Her articles have appeared in Time, The New Yorker, The New Republic, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times,and other publications. An advisor to the Asia Society's Social Issues Programs and a member of the ... Read more
Reviews for The Asian Mystique: Dragon Ladies, Geisha Girls, and Our Fantasies of the Exotic Orient
"...a compelling study of Occidental misperceptions about Asia." Los Angeles Times "Valuable as a study of manufactured imagery and the racism that comes with and of it." Kirkus Reviews"