Fiscal Orientalism

China Panic, the Indebted Citizen, and the Spectacle of National Debt

Bibliographic Data

ID12469848
AuthorsFan Yang (0000-0003-2978-7102, corresponding author)
Year2016
Volume19
Issue3
Pages375-396
Publication date2016-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Asian American Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1096-8598 • E-ISSN: 1097-2129
PublisherProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/jaas.2016.0032
OpenAlexW2534820960
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited9

This essay critically examines the proliferating media artifacts and political discourses that dramatize China's ownership of U.S. national debt in contemporary America. It argues that this new mode of representing China is best captured by the term "fiscal orientalism." Complementing techno-orientalism, a configuration prompted by Japan's (technological) rise in the 1980s, fiscal orientalism draws attention to the ideological work performed by a menacing "Chinese future." Fiscal-orientalist narratives, by conjoining the time of the Other with the time of debt, racialize the effects of neoliberal financialization and perpetuate a historically specific form of indebted citizenship

China · Debt · Economics · Financialization · Ideology · Market economy · Neoliberalism (international relations · Orientalism · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Spectacle · Australian History and Society · History · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Political and Economic history of UK and US

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