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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Professor or Dr. Sheng-mei Ma (Professor, Michigan State University, USA)Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic USA Weight: 0.517kg ISBN: 9781501352201ISBN 10: 1501352202 Pages: 264 Publication Date: 14 November 2019 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand ![]() We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Pearl and Jade and Yellowface and Chinglish 2. Stereograph-cum-Stereotype: Maugham's and Kingston's Chinas 3. Chink in Our Holmes: Oriental Sesame and Anglo-American Detective 4. Dr. Fu-Judge Dee: Serial Yellowface of, for, by the White People 5. Ghost in the White Shell 6. What's UP, Sam Wah?: Whitewashing Chinese Laundrymen 7. Morphing Bingxue: Alchemical Poetics in Taoist Monkey and Nordic Beowulf CGI 8. China's Orient in Fan de Siecle Culture 9. An MSU-within-MSU: Mandarin-Speaking Undergraduates Writing Chinglish 10. Ishiguro's White Dolls Coda: That's Rich!: Asian Americans Author(iz)ing Crazy Rich Asians Notes Works Cited IndexReviewsOff-White is an extraordinarily-learned study of how English-speaking writers, artists, and filmmakers have told stories of China from a Chinese viewpoint. By meticulously analyzing plots, language, and characters through literary, linguistic, philosophical, and psychological lenses, and challenging many long-held beliefs along the way, Sheng-mei Ma provides a remarkable volume, deeply thought-out, full of information, and highly readable. * John A. Lent, Professor Emeritus of English, Temple University, USA * This superb book charts Anglo-American fiction's enduring--and enduringly maladroit--fascination with Chinese cultural identity, from The Good Earth's propagation of 'Chinglish' to Hollywood's lamentable history of 'yellowface' casting. Off-White gets to the heart of those chronic Orientalist stereotypes that refuse to die, showing how they resurface in the most surprising of fictional contexts. * Gary Bettinson, Senior Lecturer in Film Studies, Lancaster University, UK, author of The Sensuous Cinema of Wong Kar-wai: Film Poetics and the Aesthetic of Disturbance (2014) and editor of Asian Cinema * In Off-White, Sheng-mei Ma takes the reader through a hall of ethnically-framed mirrors that reveal the contortions of sinophilic/sinophobic images broadcast in a prodigious range of English-language media. Ma's perceptive decoding and brilliant comparison of Orientalist motifs and themes through historical, linguistic, and Freudian analysis convincingly explain how the vagaries of racism in Asian stereotypes have evolved and persist in popular culture. * Patricia Haseltine, Professor of English, Providence University, Taiwan, and co-editor of Doing English in Asia: Global Literature and Culture (2016) * Off-White is an extraordinarily-learned study of how English-speaking writers, artists, and filmmakers have told stories of China from a Chinese viewpoint. By meticulously analyzing plots, language, and characters through literary, linguistic, philosophical, and psychological lenses, and challenging many long-held beliefs along the way, Sheng-mei Ma provides a remarkable volume, deeply thought-out, full of information, and highly readable. * John A. Lent, Professor Emeritus of English, Temple University, USA * This superb book charts Anglo-American fiction's enduring--and enduringly maladroit--fascination with Chinese cultural identity, from The Good Earth's propagation of 'Chinglish' to Hollywood's lamentable history of 'yellowface' casting. Off-White gets to the heart of those chronic Orientalist stereotypes that refuse to die, showing how they resurface in the most surprising of fictional contexts. * Gary Bettinson, Senior Lecturer in Film Studies, Lancaster University, UK, author of The Sensuous Cinema of Wong Kar-wai: Film Poetics and the Aesthetic of Disturbance (2014) and editor of Asian Cinema * In Off-White, Sheng-mei Ma takes the reader through a hall of ethnically-framed mirrors that reveal the contortions of sinophilic/sinophobic images broadcast in a prodigious range of English-language media. Ma's perceptive decoding and brilliant comparison of Orientalist motifs and themes through historical, linguistic, and Freudian analysis convincingly explains how the vagaries of racism in Asian stereotypes have evolved and persist in popular culture. * Patricia Haseltine, Professor of English, Providence University, Taiwan, and co-editor of Doing English in Asia: Global Literature and Culture (2016) * Off-White is an extraordinarily-learned study of how English-speaking writers, artists, and filmmakers have told stories of China from a Chinese viewpoint. By meticulously analyzing plots, language, and characters through literary, linguistic, philosophical, and psychological lenses, and challenging many long-held beliefs along the way, Sheng-mei Ma provides a remarkable volume, deeply thought-out, full of information, and highly readable. * John A. Lent, Professor Emeritus of Mass Communication, Temple University, USA * This superb book charts Anglo-American fiction's enduring--and enduringly maladroit--fascination with Chinese cultural identity, from The Good Earth's propagation of 'Chinglish' to Hollywood's lamentable history of 'yellowface' casting. Off-White gets to the heart of those chronic Orientalist stereotypes that refuse to die, showing how they resurface in the most surprising of fictional contexts. * Gary Bettinson, Senior Lecturer in Film Studies, Lancaster University, UK, author of The Sensuous Cinema of Wong Kar-wai: Film Poetics and the Aesthetic of Disturbance (2014) and editor of Asian Cinema * In Off-White, Sheng-mei Ma takes the reader through a hall of ethnically-framed mirrors that reveal the contortions of sinophilic/sinophobic images broadcast in a prodigious range of English-language media. Ma's perceptive decoding and brilliant comparison of Orientalist motifs and themes through historical, linguistic, and Freudian analysis convincingly explain how the vagaries of racism in Asian stereotypes have evolved and persist in popular culture. * Patricia Haseltine, Professor of English, Providence University, Taiwan, and co-editor of Doing English in Asia: Global Literature and Culture (2016) * Off-White is an extraordinarily-learned study of how English-speaking writers, artists, and filmmakers have told stories of China from a Chinese viewpoint. By meticulously analyzing plots, language, and characters through literary, linguistic, philosophical, and psychological lenses, and challenging many long-held beliefs along the way, Sheng-mei Ma provides a remarkable volume, deeply thought-out, full of information, and highly readable. * John A. Lent, Professor Emeritus of English, Temple University, USA * This superb book charts Anglo-American fiction's enduring--and enduringly maladroit--fascination with Chinese cultural identity, from The Good Earth's propagation of 'Chinglish' to Hollywood's lamentable history of 'yellowface' casting. Off-White gets to the heart of those chronic Orientalist stereotypes that refuse to die, showing how they resurface in the most surprising of fictional contexts. * Gary Bettinson, Senior Lecturer in Film Studies, Lancaster University, UK, author of The Sensuous Cinema of Wong Kar-wai: Film Poetics and the Aesthetic of Disturbance (2014) and editor of Asian Cinema * Off-White is an extraordinarily-learned study of how English-speaking writers, artists, and filmmakers have told stories of China from a Chinese viewpoint. By meticulously analyzing plots, language, and characters through literary, linguistic, philosophical, and psychological lenses, and challenging many long-held beliefs along the way, Sheng-mei Ma provides a remarkable volume, deeply thought-out, full of information, and highly readable. * John A. Lent, Professor Emeritus of English, Temple University, USA * Author InformationSheng-mei Ma is Professor of English at Michigan State University in Michigan, USA, specializing in Asian Diaspora and East-West comparative studies. He is the author of nine books, including Sinophone-Anglophone Cultural Duet (2017), The Last Isle (2015), and Alienglish (2014). He is also the co-editor of four books, most recently Transnational Narratives in Englishes of Exile (2018), and the author of a collection of poetry in Chinese. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |