Techno-Orientalism with Chinese Characteristics: Maureen F. McHugh’s China Mountain Zhang

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" Techno-Orientalism with Chinese Characteristics: Maureen F. McHugh’s China Mountain Zhang "
Fan, Christopher T.

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	926346
Doc. No	:	LA8n70b1b6
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Fan, Christopher T.
Title & Author	:	Techno-Orientalism with Chinese Characteristics: Maureen F. McHugh’s China Mountain Zhang [Article]\ Fan, Christopher T.
Title of Periodical	:	Journal of Transnational American Studies
Volume/ Issue Number	:	6/1
Date	:	2015
Abstract	:	Christopher T. Fan argues that McHugh’s award-winning 1992 science fiction novel perceives the twilight of the American Century by offering a “critical realism,” to use Georg Lukács’s phrase, of postsocialist US–China interdependency. In other words, it offers a form in which we perceive ourselves as subjects and objects of the twenty-first century world-system’s most important bilateral relationship. Moreover, as a novel about US–China interdependency, it implicitly critiques the binary Orientalism that structures the rapidly growing body of work on “techno-Orientalist” formations. Fan's analysis thus extends arguments about American Orientalism’s non-Manichean formations (Christina Klein, Melani McAlister, Colleen Lye) into the postsocialist era.