{"product_id":"model-machines-a-history-of-the-asian-as-automaton-hardcover","title":"Model Machines: A History of the Asian as Automaton - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLong T. Bui\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the contemporary Western imagination, Asian people are frequently described as automatons, which disavows their humanity. In \u003ci\u003eModel Machines, \u003c\/i\u003e Long Bui investigates what he calls Asian roboticism or the ways Asians embody the machine and are given robotic characteristics. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBui offers the first historical overview of the overlapping racialization of Asians and Asian Americans through their conflation with the robot-machine nexus. He puts forth the concept of the \"model machine myth,\" which holds specific queries about personhood, citizenship, labor, and rights in the transnational making of Asian\/America. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe case studies in \u003ci\u003eModel Machines \u003c\/i\u003echart the representation of Chinese laborers, Japanese soldiers, Asian sex workers, and other examples to show how Asians are reimagined to be model machines as a product of globalization, racism, and colonialism. Moreover, it offers examples of how artists and everyday people resisted that stereotype to consider different ways of being human. Starting from the early nineteenth century, the book ends in the present with the new millennium, where the resurgence of China presages the \"rise of the machines\" and all the doomsday scenarios this might spell for global humanity at large.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLong T. Bui\u003c\/b\u003e is an Associate Professor at the University of California, Irvine and the author of \u003ci\u003eReturns of War: South Vietnam and the Price of Refugee Memory\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 305\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.69 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 10, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51784223064352,"sku":"9781439922330","price":159.12,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/2426e595d5aea8b890d7f6f1099a7f12.webp?v=1780602251","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/model-machines-a-history-of-the-asian-as-automaton-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}