Fu Manchu Readings

The readings for Techno-Orientalism for 9.11.07 are the following:

Required Reading:

1. (OASIS) L.H.M. Ling, “The Monster Within: What Fu Manchu and Hannibal Lecter Can Tell Us about Terror and Desire in a Post 9/11-World” (2004).

2. (OASIS) Eugene Franklin Wong, “The Early Years: Asians in the American Films Prior to World War II” (1978).

3. (WWW) “Yellow Myths on the Silver Screen” at
http://web.mit.edu/21h.153j/www/aacinema/intro.html.


Additional Resources:

4. Vernellia R. Randall (editor), “Asian Pacific Americans: Laws and Policies” at http://academic.udayton.edu/race/03justice/aspilaws.htm
(part of “Race, Racism, and the Law” website).

5. Population Resource Center, “Executive Summary: U.S. Immigration: A Legislative History” at
http://www.prcdc.org/summaries/usimmighistory/usimmighistory.html.

6. Lawrence J. Knapp, “The Page of Fu Manchu” at
http://www.njedge.net/~knapp/FuFrames.htm.


OASIS = Article can be downloaded from the course site on OASIS.
WWW = Article can be found on the World Wide Web.