Psychoanalytic film study that explores the way East Asia is a key enigmatic signifier for the West.
In an exploration of how Western cinema has represented East Asia as a space of radical indecipherability, King traces a long-standing association of the Orient with the enigmatic. The fantasy of an inscrutable East, she argues, is a kernel of otherness that has shaped Hollywood…
Mind and Body in Early China' critiques Orientalist accounts of early China as the radical, "holistic" other. The idea that the early Chinese held the "strong" holist view, seeing no qualitative difference between mind and body, has long been contradicted by traditional archeolo…
Mind and Body in Early China' critiques Orientalist accounts of early China as the radical, "holistic" other. The idea that the early Chinese held the "strong" holist view, seeing no qualitative difference between mind and body, has long been contradicted by traditional archeolo…
Drawing upon cutting-edge knowledge and techniques from the sciences and digital humanities, 'Mind and Body in Early China' employs the lens of mind-body concepts to critique Orientalist accounts of early China. Mind and Body in Early China' critiques Orientalist accounts of ea…
Orientalism, Philology, and the Illegibility of the Modern World examines the philology of orientalism. It discusses how European (and in particular German) orientalism has influenced the modern understanding of how language accesses reality and offers a critical reinterpretatio…
"Orientalism, Philology, and the Illegibility of the Modern World examines the philology of orientalism. It discusses how European (and in particular German) orientalism has influenced the modern understanding of how language accesses reality and offers a critical reinterpretati…