LEADER 03472nam 2200457I 450 001 9910857779403321 005 20240202081813.0 010 $a9780472904464 024 7 $a10.3998/mpub.12838895 035 $a(CKB)32245529600041 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31465744 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31465744 035 $a(MiU)10.3998/mpub.12838895 035 $a(ODN)ODN0010869340 035 $a(EXLCZ)9932245529600041 100 $a20240202h20242024 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aDisorienting politics$eChimerican media and transpacific entanglements /$fFan Yang 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aAnn Arbor, Michigan :$cUniversity of Michigan Press,$d2024. 210 4$dİ2024 215 $a1 online resource (231 pages) 300 $aTitle from eBook information screen.. 311 08$a9780472076796 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- One. Chimerica and Chimerican Media -- Two. Economic Chimerica: Fiscal Orientalism and the Indebted Citizen -- Three. Cultural Chimerica: Imagining Chinese as a Global Language -- Four. Political Chimerica: House of Cards and/in China -- Conclusion. Ecological Chimerica: Breath, Racialization, and Relational Politics -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. 330 $aDisorienting Politics mines 21st-century media artifacts--including films like The Martian and TV/streaming media shows such as Firefly and House of Cards--to make visible the economic, cultural, political, and ecological entanglements of China and the United States. Describing these transpacific entanglements as "Chimerica"--coined by economic historians to reference the symbiosis of China and America--Yang examines how Chimerican media, originating in the US but traversing national boundaries in their production, circulation, and consumption, co-create the figure of rising China and extend a political imagination beyond the conventional ground of the nation. Examining how Chimerican media is shaped by and perpetuates uneven power relations, Disorienting Politics argues that the pervasive tendency among wide-ranging cultural producers to depict the Chinese state as a racialized Other in American media life diminishes the possibility of engaging transpacific entanglements as a basis for envisioning new political horizons. Such othering of China not only results in overt racism against people of Asian descent, Yang argues, but also impacts the wellbeing of people of color more generally. This interdisciplinary book demonstrates the ways in which race is embedded in geopolitics even when the subject of discussion is not the people, but the (Chinese) state. Bridging media and cultural studies, Asian and Asian American studies, geography, and globalization studies, Disorienting Politics calls for a relational politics that acknowledges the multifarious interconnectivity between people, places, media, and environment. 607 $aChina$xCivilization$xAmerican influences 607 $aUnited States$xCivilization$xChinese influences 607 $aChina$xIn motion pictures 686 $aSOC000000$aSOC052000$aSOC008020$2bisacsh 700 $aYang$b Fan$f1977-$01635131 801 0$bEYM 801 1$bEYM 912 $a9910857779403321 996 $aDisorienting Politics$94169803 997 $aUNINA