M & D Group Read (cont.)

[Mark Kohut]

>From a scholarly book on Chinese-Canadian writing. Writing from
1970s-80s, it sez.

Speaks from another country to both posts:

"Vancouver's was depicted in local newspaper editorial cartoons as a
congestion of rooming houses, of unmarked doorways to a labyrinth
where lascivious Chinamen smoked opium, lay with Chinese prostitutes,
fed on rats and enslaved white girls."

On 1/23/18, 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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