Fu Manchu Survives: An Archive of Anti-Asian Fear

The Brian Lehrer Show | Feb 11, 2014

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.

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