Instructions: Answer one of the questions below.
Don’t forget to include quotes and page numbers and to use analysis and evaluation.
Refer to grading rubric for Critical Responses
1. Discuss how old stereotypes about the Chinese have resurfaced in the 20th and 21st-century images of Chinese contagion? Compare fears of the plague in San Francisco to today’s fears of covid-19. How do these current and past public health issues re-circulate old fears and stereotypes of China?
2. Pick one of the examples of Yellow Peril discourse from the readings. How is this an example of Yellow Perilism? Relate it to another example of Yellow Perilism either cited in the book or in the media today. What are the different conditions (economic, political, historical) that are inspiring these two different moments?
3. Compare and contrast Mel Chen’s analysis of Fu Manchu with Ono and Pham’s. What are their different ideas, how might they converge and/or conflict with one another? Do you think one approach is better than the other? Why?
Source from
REVIEW: skim “Trump has no qualms about calling coronavirus the ‘Chinese Virus.’ That’s a dangerous attitude, experts say” https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/03/20/coronavirus-trump-chinese-virus/
“Plague in San Francisco: rats, racism and reform” https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01239-x
READ Ono and Pham, Chapter 2; Mel Chen, Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect,
Read ONLY Chapter 3 (bottom of pg. 106 to 121) Chen_M Ch 3 Queer Animality(1) accessible.docx
WATCH: “Professor Kurashige On The Yellow Peril & Model Minority Stereotypes Of Asians In The U.S” (6 minutes)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOB0VCCEUa4
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