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"Smart, funny, and comprehensive." -Nell Irvin Painter

About the Author

John Kuo-Wei Tchen is a professor at New York University, the author of New York Before Chinatown, and co-founder of the Museum of Chinese in America. 

Dylan Yeats is a doctoral candidate at New York University.

Reviews

Smart, funny, comprehensive, and theoretically astute.
*Nell Irvin Painter, author of The History of White People*

A kaleidoscopic study rich in historical depth, topical breadth, and critical rigor.
*John Dower, author of Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II*

An insightful new anthology.
*Atlantic*

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 The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South*

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 Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People*

An exhaustive but not exhausting set of readings.
*Sander L. Gilman, author of Smart Jews and Fat: A Cultural History of Obesity*

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.'
*Publishers Weekly*