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Examines how US American culture has often projected its fantasies and fears about the future onto Asia and Asian Americans, from the "yellow peril" of the early twentieth century to the rise of Japan at the forefront of technological change in the 1980s to current anxieties about Chinese global dominance. Themes nclude how Asian American writers, artists, and filmmakers contest stereotypes of Asians and Asian Americans in US popular culture and in some cases, redeploy for their own speculative imaginaries of a just, Asian American future.