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. TechnoOrientalism investigates the phenomenon of imagining Asia and Asians in hypo or hypertechnological terms in literary cinematic and new media representations while critically examining the stereotype of Asians as both technologically advanced and intellectually primitive in dire need of Western consciousnessraising.ampnbsp ampnbsp The collections fourteen original essays trace the discourse of technoorientalism across a wide array of media from radio serials to cyberpunk novels from Sax Rohmers Dr. Fu Manchu to Firefly. ampnbspApplying a variety of theoretical historical and interpretive approaches the contributors consider technoorientalism a truly global phenomenon. In part they tackle the key question of how these stereotypes serve to both express and assuage Western anxieties about Asias growing cultural influence and economic dominance. Yet the book also examines artists who have appropriated technoorientalist tropes in order to critique racist and imperialist attitudes.ampnbsp ampnbsp TechnoOrientalism is the first collection to define and critically analyze a phenomenon that pervades both science fiction and realworld news coverage of Asia. With essays on subjects ranging from wartime rhetoric of race and technology to science fiction by contemporary Asian American writers to the cultural implications of Korean gamers this volume offers innovative perspectives and broadens conventional discussions in Asian American Cultural studies.ampnbsp ampnbsp ampnbsp ampnbsp