发表于2024-11-19
The Asian Mystique 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
图书标签: 社会学 文化 女性
A prize-winning journalist and Asia expert issues a provocative critique of the West's eroticized illusions about Asia and how profoundly they color our social, cultural, business, personal, and political interactions.
Few Westerners escape the images, expectations and misperceptions that lead us to see Asia as exotic, sensual, decadent, dangerous, and mysterious. Despite — and because of — centuries of East-West interaction, the stereotypes of Western literature, stage, and screen remain pervasive icons: the tea-pouring, submissive, sexually available geisha girl; the steely cold dragon lady dominatrix; as well as the portrayal of the Asian male as effeminate and asexual. These "Oriental" illusions color our relations and relationships in ways even well-respected professional "Asia hands" and scholars don't necessarily see.
The Asian Mystique lays out a provocative challenge to see Asia and Asians as they really are, with unclouded, deeroticized eyes. It traces the origins of Western stereotypes in history and in Hollywood, examines the phenomenon of ‘yellow fever,' then goes on a reality tour of Asia's go-go bars, middle-class homes, college campuses, business districts, and corridors of power, providing intimate profiles of women's lives and vivid portraits of the human side of an Asia we usually mythologize too well to really understand. It strips away our misconceptions and stereotypes, revealing instead the fully dimensional human beings beyond our usual perceptions. The Asian Mystique is required reading for anyone with interest in or interaction with Asia or Asian-origin people, as well as any serious student or practicioner of East-West relations.
非学术著作有一点不好,就是没法迅速锁定作者想说啥。后来发现会被优美的文字和丰富的细节吸引,不愧是彭博香港总编辑,尽管故事是一个大家都知道的故事。我读的有点功利,因为是要写作业。不过这本书本不适合做参考书。
评分非学术著作有一点不好,就是没法迅速锁定作者想说啥。后来发现会被优美的文字和丰富的细节吸引,不愧是彭博香港总编辑,尽管故事是一个大家都知道的故事。我读的有点功利,因为是要写作业。不过这本书本不适合做参考书。
评分非学术著作有一点不好,就是没法迅速锁定作者想说啥。后来发现会被优美的文字和丰富的细节吸引,不愧是彭博香港总编辑,尽管故事是一个大家都知道的故事。我读的有点功利,因为是要写作业。不过这本书本不适合做参考书。
评分非学术著作有一点不好,就是没法迅速锁定作者想说啥。后来发现会被优美的文字和丰富的细节吸引,不愧是彭博香港总编辑,尽管故事是一个大家都知道的故事。我读的有点功利,因为是要写作业。不过这本书本不适合做参考书。
评分非学术著作有一点不好,就是没法迅速锁定作者想说啥。后来发现会被优美的文字和丰富的细节吸引,不愧是彭博香港总编辑,尽管故事是一个大家都知道的故事。我读的有点功利,因为是要写作业。不过这本书本不适合做参考书。
The Asian Mystique 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书