A comprehensive archive of the underbelly of anxiety and hatred. As the US economy suffers from acute indigestion, 'China,' like 'Japan' before it, will provide a dishonest salve. Close attention to the history of the 'yellow peril' will protect the good-minded from falling deep into the well of is virulence.

- Vijay Prashad, author of <i>The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South</i>,

This brilliant, well-documented book provides much-needed historical perspectives on oriental-phobia, and other racist and racial ways of thinking.

- Jack G. Shaheen, author of <i>Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People</i>,

An exhaustive but not exhausting set of readings.

- Sander L. Gilman, author of <i>Smart Jews</i> and <i>Fat: A Cultural History of Obesity</i>,

In this illuminating book, Tchen and Yeats address the political and cultural legacy of yellow perilism, that set of beliefs and practices stemming from a long tradition of othering, identity formation, and binary divisions of 'the West' and 'the East' . What emerges is a compelling case that cultural and political change is needed, and that change is possible only through 'historical recognition,' which, Tchen and Yeats say, leads to 'reckoning and action.'

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