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ENGLISH 150 FINAL UW -
MADISON WITH COMPLET E
SOLUTION
Question : Orientalism
Correct answer: Ideas and beliefs held by "the West"
about "the East" Pits the West and East against each other Includes both attraction and repulsion
Question : Edward Said, Orientalism (1978)
Correct answer: The Orient was a European invention
Used as a way to dominate the east Study of British and French knowledge of and representations of "the Orient" Focuses on the Middle East and not eastern Asia
Question : Themes of Orientalism
Correct answer: Feminine, backward, sensual, stagnant,
heathen (non-Christian)
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Question : American Orientalism
Correct answer: Chinese luxury goods ("fine china") play
a major role in early trade between America and China Economic rivalry leads to an increased presence of racism
Question : The Yellow Peril
Correct answer: Ideology that Chinese immigration would
lead to the collapse of Western civilization
Question : London (The Yellow Peril)
Correct answer: Aftermath of Russo-Japanese War in
which Japan defeats Russia real "peril" is a possible union of Chinese and Japanese Success of Japanese is rooted on their "imitation" of the West
Koreans: perfect type of inefficiency
Chinese: perfect type of efficiency, but lack enterprise
due to government
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Question : London (The Unparalleled Invasion)
Correct answer: China and West as opposites, "mental
aliens" Chinese immigration as invasion of West
Solution: genocide of Chinese through biological warfare
Question : Fu Manchu
Correct answer: Personification of the Yellow Peril
feline, genius, deviant, wealthy
Question : Sui Sin Far (Edith Maud Eaton)
Correct answer: mixed-race Asian North American
Often seen as first expression of Asian American Sympathizes with Chinese immigrants
Question : Dhan Gopal Mukerji
Correct answer: First Indian author to write successfully
about India for US audiences Caste and Outcaste
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Question : China Men (Kingston)
Correct answer: Blurring of genres
Father's silence Focuses on men's experiences Narrator invents missing stories
Question : Modernist Orientialism
Correct answer: Ezra Pound
Question : In a Station of the Metro (Pound)
Correct answer: "imagist" poem inspired by haiku
Question : Cathay (Pound)
Correct answer: Translations from Chinese poetry based
on the work of scholar Ernest Fenollosa
Question : The Chinese Written Character as a Medium
for Poetry (Ernest Fenollosa)