Yellow Slavery,” Narratives of Rescue, and Sui Sin Far/Edith Maude Eaton’s “Lin John” (1899)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12469252 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Yu-Fang Cho (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 35-63 |
| Publication date | 2009-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Asian American Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1096-8598 • E-ISSN: 1097-2129 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/jaas.0.0027 |
| OpenAlex | W2041171142 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 20 |
This article examines Sui Sin Far/Edith Maude Eaton’s “Lin John” (1899), a deceptively simple story about a Chinese prostitute’s refusal to be “rescued,” in relation to the discourse of “yellow slavery,” best exemplified by sensational accounts in late-nineteenth-century San Francisco newspapers that demonize Chinese men, infantilize Chinese “slave girls,” and glorify white missionary women’s heroic rescue efforts. I argue that these representations register the contradictions within U.S. culture of benevolence, which simultaneously promises and limits the agency of racialized groups while obscuring and legitimizing disciplinary actions through displacing racial politics of a transnational political economy onto gender politics of national morality
Agency (philosophy · Art · Literature · Media studies · Morality · Narrative · Newspaper · Political science · Politics · Relation (database · Social science · Sociology · White (mutation · Asian American and Pacific Histories · History · Law · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Race, History, and American Society
Miriam Michelson's Yellow Journalism and the Multi-Ethnic West
Disease, Disability, and the Alien Body in the Literature of Sui Sin Far
Cultural Nationalism, Orientalism, Imperial Ambivalence
Slavery in Sui Sin Far’s Early Fictions
Cross-Cultural Affinities between Native American and White Women in "The Alaska Widow" by Edith Eaton (Sui Sin Far)
New York before Chinatown
Governing the hearth
Cultures of letters
Iron cages
Cultures of United States imperialism
The Culture of sentiment
Surviving on the Gold Mountain
Unbound Feet
Free, Indentured, Enslaved
Racial Transformations
Sui Sin Far and the Chinese American Canon
From Vice District to Tourist Attraction
American Historians and East Asian Immigrants
Zenanas and Girlless Villages
Common Ground
Roaring Camp
Haunted by Empire
Strangers From A Different Shore
Entry Denied
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2019 (9) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |