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    "pk": 19909,
    "title": "The Peripheral and the Ephemeral: Power Struggle, Violence and Fear in the Depiction of Chinos in Mexican Literature and Visual Arts",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "This article analyzes how visual colonial representations of \nchinos\n (“Chinese”) resonate in contemporary Mexican literature. It examines power relationships, the fear of the Oriental Other and the violence associated with it in the eighteenth-century \ncastas \npaintings and explores repercussions of this image in the broader context of the tumultuous modern Mexican history represented in the contemporary novel by Juan José Rodríguez \nAsesinato en una lavandería china\n (\nMurder in a Chinese Laundry\n, 1996). This text offers a controversial image of the Oriental Other, submerged in the world of violence, fear and power struggle where, as in \ncastas \npaintings\n,\n characters live in a space that combines the historical and the imaginary. The article looks into these parallel images to uncover avenues of Orientalization of the \nchino \nand compares them to other images of the Orient that appear alongside it, exploring how these images relate to Mexican national identity.",
    "language": "en",
    "license": {
        "name": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0",
        "short_name": "CC BY 4.0",
        "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.",
        "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0"
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Mexican Orientalism, Other, castas paintings, Chinese, vampires."
        }
    ],
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3zr006kw",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Svetlana",
            "middle_name": "V.",
            "last_name": "Tyutina",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "",
            "department": "None"
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    ],
    "date_submitted": "2018-10-03T17:40:39+02:00",
    "date_accepted": "2018-10-03T17:40:39+02:00",
    "date_published": "2018-01-01T01:00:00+01:00",
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    ]
}