Fu Manchu Survives: An Archive of Anti-Asian Fear




The Brian Lehrer Show show

Summary: John Kuo Wei Tchen, professor at New York University, co-founder of the Museum of Chinese in America, author of New York Before Chinatown, and co-author of Yellow Peril!: An Archive of Anti-Asian Fear (Verso, 2014) with Dylan Yeats, looks at the portrayal of Asians in Western pop culture. Top, 1936, bottom, 2010. Talking with NYU's Jack Tchen about persistent anti-Asian fear in popular culture, at 10:50. pic.twitter.com/lCooxllaDm — Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) February 11, 2014