M & D Group Read (cont.)

[Monte Davis]

TE> "lascivious Chinaman" is or was a stereotype

There was a hint of it in Sax Rohmer's "Fu Manchu" thrillers of 1912-1959
(!), mixed in with "white slavery": innocent English & American women lured
into sin by opium. These days, since US troops cycled through the
Philippines, Japan, S. Korea, Vietnam etc., the American pornosphere
hypersexualizes Asian women and desexualizes Asian men. (Meanwhile, the
supposedly dumpy, sexless women of the USSR have become the glamorous,
pen-pal-seeking Sex Slavs seeking Western mates via the Internet.)

I take the more general schema (see M&D's Company Seraglio) to be: *Every*
ethnic group but our own is lascivious because it's either (1) more
primitive, animal and uninhibited or (2) more ancient, over-refined, effete
and perverse. Preferably both.

On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 6:10 AM, Thomas Eckhardt <
thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de> wrote:

> I gather from a quick internet search that "lascivious Chinaman" is or was
> a stereotype, too. Is this present in today's readers' minds?
>
> Am 23.01.2018 um 10:46 schrieb Mark Kohut:
>
>> Which by this time is (one of) the stereotypical meanings.
>>
>> On 1/23/18, bulb at vheissu.net <bulb at vheissu.net> wrote:
>>
>>> "Chinaman" in Against the Day; 3 occurences, all in an opium context:
>>>
>>> - AD One 8.1: 82 (no - and his opium)
>>> - AD Two 16.1: 191 (Smoking opium with the -)
>>> - AD Three 36.7: 496 (opium products [...] -)
>>>
>> -
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