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What is Sinophobia & Orientalism?
Updated from the retired post in 2025.
Sinophobia [Update APR 2026] — Discrimination against Chinese East & Southeast Asian elements, and anything perceived in association with or proximity to China and/or Sinocultures.
Orientalism—Orientalism refers to the appropriation, exoticisation, weaponisation and/or manipulation of elements from the “East of the Anglosphere” referring to Asia, for the construction of the other cultures.
More SINO-LIOMOGAI intersectional terms coined by @knightfaetality , in the intersection of race, gender and sex-based marginalisations, which stem from Sinophobia. They go into detail about it here. @this-is-sinosexism as another activism sideblog.
These typically involve the intersections of:
Racism—Systemic-level discrimination on the basis of racial groups and their associations, self-sustained by further propagating and perpetuating racial discrimination at all levels. ie “This bullying was an act of racism”.
Racial Prejudice—Discrimination on the basis of racial groups and their associations, that may or may not be at a systemic level.
Xenophobia—Discrimination against people with affiliations to other nationalities. While anti-immigration discrimination is the most current prominent subset of Xenophobia, Xenophobia also targets civilian diasporas.
Sinophobia Elaboration:
Given the expansive integration of Sinitic and non-Sinitic Chinese cultures since Neolithic history, the Sinocultural circle includes limited coverage of some civilisations, both ancient and modernised. These include Singapore, Vietnam, Korea, Japan, and others involving Confucianism, Taoism, Zen and Mahayana Buddhism. This states nothing on the distinct cultural identities, core elements and autonomies of these cultures. Due to conflated stereotypes, anti-Chinese racism has been generalised to impact other East & SEAsian discrimination as well, therefore this blog will use Sinophobia to also refer to the latter.
Sinophobia has been and still is weaponised by some Asians against Chinese-Chinese and Sinodiasporic peoples, both Sinitic and non-Sinitic. More accurately, Sinophobia refers to the antagonism towards Sinocultures including localised Sinodiasporic cultures and cultures involving Sinocultural motifs, which may or may not be enmeshed with other anti-E/SEAsian discrimination. If a situation involves a specific subtype of anti-Asianness or generalised anti-Asianness without triangulating Chinese or Sinocultural associations, it would be better to use a term more specific to that situation.
Orientalism Elaboration:
“The East” aka “Orient” is a Colonial term first used to describe the Islamic and Arab influences as the first Eastside empires to be in contact with Europeans. Later epitomizing the Far East aka East Asia being “more Oriental” and further from “The West” the “Occident” due to Europe’s Eastward expansion. The former were often seen as threatening, mysterious, inferior, passive, weak, static and regressive, to justify colonial domination and violence against them. Where aestheticised and romanticised, It also involved the appropriation, commodification and commercialisation of these cultures, thus benefitting or profiting off the objectification of it, misrepresented or otherwise. It should be noted that “Oriental” colloquially refers to and describes E/SEAsian elements by association with Sinicization.
The first use of “Orientalism” was used to by Arthur Christy in “The Asian Legacy and American Life”, in 1945, focusing on the appropriation and Chinese/Sino-Orientalism in informing Europe and America’s Enlightenment period, ranging from gentlemanly virtues, to leadership conduct, to political structures to agricultural methods. Although Orientalism has a close relationship to Eurocolonisation, some Asian peoples may have internalised Orientalism/self-orientalising tendencies, and/or perpetuate Orientalism between and within Asian cultures.
The widely understood concept of “Orientalism” is by Edward Said focusing on SWANA-Orientalism. There has been scholarly criticisms towards Said’s work and how its limitations has fuelled mainstream improper usage and assumptions about Orientalism.
Sinophobia & Orientalism views Asian people, bodies, lives, personhoods, cultures, emotional, intellectual and most especially intimate labour, as passive objects that should be dominated, possessed, enslaved, harmed or destroyed. Sinophobes frequently feel entitled to such.
Yellow Peril, Forever Foreigner, Model Minority, Red Scare/Lavender Scare, and more are all contributors to Sinophobia, Sino-LIOMOGAI intersections and Orientalism.
Given the intersection of race, class, gender and sexuality, Sinophobia is one of the ways in which a person can be oppressed under the globalised Eurocolonial Cisheteropatriarchal Capitalistic system. As such, white people are typically the biggest offenders of Sinophobia and Orientalism. Recent examples are campaigns in the recent years by the Anglosphere’s governments against E/SEAsia.
However even if you are an E/SEAsian person, BIPOC, 2SLGBTQIA+—you aren’t exempt from also perpetuating Sinophobia & Orientalism.
One ongoing example is the continued Sinophobic oppression of Chinese immigrant civilians and Chinese-Japanese diasporic citizens under the Japanese government. This has history stemming from WWII, with Japan’s colonisation of China. Unit 731 & Unit 9420 human experiments, the Rape of Nanking/Nanjing massacre, the Sookching massacre, are some of the well-documented genocides, atrocities and horrific war crimes committed against the Chinese on the basis of anti-Indigenous and anti-Chinese racism, xenophobia, colourism, eugenics and ethnocentrism.
It should not be forgotten that Chinese populations and SEAsian populations were already weakened by Eurocolonial Imperialism before Japan’s colonisation. Therefore, this is simply continued & repetitive colonial violence.
Furthermore, Sinophobia does not only occur on the basis of colourism or White-led oppressions, with many ongoing national-level marginalisations & violence occurring under other Sinophobic BIPOC leaderships. Sinocultural persons are recognisably “foreign” from many variables ranging from facial and bodily features, to cultural participation, names and accents, and are thus subject to racialisation EVEN IF they have pale skin and other Asiatic features that overlap with Eurocentric ones.
This does not erase the fact that there is a certain amount of "admiration" and "peripheral membership" afforded to pale-skinned upperclass diasporic non-migrant Asians (ie including SOME ethnic groups of East, Southeast, South, West, North and Central Asian descent) in Western contexts of colourism and Eurocentricity, but that this does not necessarily translate to inclusion, belonging, humanisation nor safety for any other Asians.
To assume so weaponises the pan-Asian identity to harm and invisibilise the diversity of Asians from a range of melanated complexions, more/less "chinky features" or "Jungle Asian features", socioeconomic and ethnocultural backgrounds. Asians have our own intraracial and intra-class disputes, our authorities, leaders and media, do not represent all of us.
One such example occurs within SEAsia, with inequities against Sinodiasporic populations in Malaysian and Indonesian politics, as well as the threat that Malaysian or Indonesian Sinodiasporic fems would be spared only if they offer their intimate labour (coerced sex, sexual slavery, rape) to SEAsian persecutors. Justice has not been served and the threat of recurring violences, including sex-based violence targeting Chinese peoples, has always been globally present and pervasive.
Examples of Sinophobia include:
See Sinosexism here.
The appropriation of E/SEAsian motifs to be racially ambiguous is Sinophobic. Trans-Race and RCTA is Sinophobic.
Not believing that E/SEAsian people have unique systems of racialised oppressions set against them that require their own specialised and autonomous decolonial and anti-racist strategies, is Sinophobic.
THE INVISIBILISATION OF ASIAN STRUGGLES & ACTIVISM, the assumption that Asian people have kept silent about their struggles, have not shown solidarity with BIPOC or "are white".
The MODEL MINORITY MYTH, Golden Child Myth, Forever Foreigner myth are all anti-Asianness, and may be perpetuated by anyone including non-Asian white people and POC, as well as Asians with internalised anti-Asianness.
Viewing E/SEAsian as apolitical, having no stakes nor communal involvements in their countries of residence and as extensions of Eurocolonial power. Viewing Asian people as inherently White or assimilationists into Eurocolonialism. This is especially ahistorical and erases Asia’s fraught history with Eurocolonialism of which many Asian countries’ revolted against it and inconvenienced Eurocolonialism as much as possible, so as to win their independence. Contrary to dominant belief, Asia’s independence was not given out of [White Benevolence]. These are myths that have been weaponised against Asian people & BIPOC solidarity, reabsorbing Asia into Eurocolonial possession, while society invisibilises Asian Activism.
Fearmongering of economic takeovers & surveillance operations of the Chinese government, spies and state agents. The view that All E/SEAsian People are From China, and any Chinese-diasporic citizen is a Chinese Agent. Not only does this overlook our autonomy and integrity as persons, this has real material consequences on Sinodiasporas within the Anglosphere and in Asia, and has contributed to the social and workplace barriers, concentration camps, imprisonment, state violence including violent interrogations, deportations, state surveillance, racialised hate crimes, mass rapes and massacres of our peoples throughout history.
Cultural appropriation of E/SEAsian culture. Decontextualising and failing to credit E/SEAsian culture. Treating E/SEAsian cultures as interchangeable which diminishes them into simply "other", with no unique characteristics. Overlooking their differences and politics, and further ridiculing them if they take offense.
Tokenising of E/SEAsian culture and people. This often looks like inclusion, but is an empty form of filling diversity quotas while NOT curating a safe and welcoming space for involving E/SEAsian voices and values.
Viewing the Anglosphere as being the ONLY representation of progressiveness. Not recognising E/SEAsian cultures as autonomous and proactive in their own versions of progressiveness with identity politics. Rejecting or projecting Western judgements on E/SEAsian identity politics and concepts for race, sex, gender, queerness. Treating these as unimportant, nonexistent or inferior.
Viewing E/SEAsian people as having no intersections with disability, and therefore denying sufficient culturally-sensitive support and vigilance for E/SEAsian persons with disabilities. Assuming E/SEAsian people are "neurodivergent-coded" and ridiculing us for it is both Sinophobic & Ableist.
Viewing E/SEAsian people as having no intersections with classism due to the perception that we are either "naturally poor", that a majority of us are wealthy and upperclass, or even wealthy enough to be considered not-working-class. Assuming stereotypes of Asian people and immigrants under Eurocolonial models of class. Using this as a reason to overlook racism faced by E/SEAsian is both Sinophobic & Classism.
Annexing innovativeness and other virtues to Eurocolonialism, demonising & villainising E/SEAsian cultures and people, while fixating hostility on them for things one would otherwise accept from Eurocolonial and White figures.
Xenophobic campaigns against immigrant rights and viewing all E/SEAsian people as foreigners and aliens infiltrating the nation. Seeing E/SEAsian people as emotionless, robotic, deceptive, dangerous, terrorists, violent people, conmen, invaders, aliens and underserving dependents.
The capital of philanthropy, and how this was exploited to support illegal adoption rings involved in the child trafficking of Chinese & Vietnamese children. The normalisation and even romanticisation of sex, child and human trafficking even those disguised as White Benevolence—is Sinophobic & Sinomisogynistic. [click here for an introduction to White Benevolence].
The exploitative demand for intimate labour from Asian peoples and communities associated with Sinocultures, as manifesting from racist stereotypes stemming from the historical sexual tourism and human trafficking of Asian children and adults as sex slaves and mail-order brides. This is combined with the perception of migrants and Asian people as cheap labourers, victims of the Pacific and trans Atlantic Slave Trade. As well as centuries of indentured labour of Asian people which has continued to the present forming the basis of the modern slavery.
Refusing to acknowledge the history of systemic slavery of Chinese, Sinodiasporic and Sinocultural peoples in the forms of child slavery and trafficking, sex slavery and trafficking, the Pacific and trans-Atlantic Slave trade, human trafficking, indentured labour, Comfort Women and the Coolie trade.
See BAMBOO CEILING. The view that E/SEAsian people are undeserving of their wealth as they do not do any hard work but merely "take" from the system. Or, that they only reason they are wealthy is because they "work harder than other BIPOC" which contributes to the Model Minority myth, completely overlooks privileges from proximities to whiteness as well as the completely different Eurocolonial histories that enable SOME E/SEAsian people to succeed over other E/SEAsian people, as well as other BIPOC.
Viewing E/SEAsian International and Anglospheric identity politics for race, sex, gender, queerness as unimportant, nonexistent or inferior. Viewing E/SEAsian as apolitical, having no stakes nor communal involvements in their countries of residence and as extensions of Eurocolonial power; Myths that have been weaponised against Asian people & BIPOC solidarity while society invisibilises Asian Activism.
Seeing E/SEAsian people as indistinct from their governments, news outlets and authoritarian leaders. E/SEAsian people hold MANY diverse opinions, we are not a monolith. We have always fought, had our own movements, resistances and activism for our rights within our own spheres. Our progress and rhetoric develops differently and looks different to the Anglosphere but this should not be inferiorised nor expected to progress the same way.
Seeing E/SEAsian people altogether as cheap labourers catering to Eurocolonial gender-based norms, which contribute to workplace violence, harassment, as well as exploitation and underpaying of E/SEAsian people.
Viewing Asian peoples as only being worthy/valued where it avails its intimate labour. As well as being inherently sexually-subservient and appealing to Cisheteropatriarchal and/OR Eurocolonial masculinity.
The cultural appropriation and butchering of E/SEAsian cultures in any piece of media. The use of these cultures in furthering Eurocolonial and Anglocentric glorification, especially noting the strained relations between Asia and Eurocolonialism. The use of these cultures to further Sinophobic or Orientalist perceptions. The capitalisation and profiting off of this, whether economically or via social influence. All of this may occur intentionally or unintentionally; remember that IMPACT not intent matters.
Historical examples of Sinophobia include:
Eurocolonialism against Asia
Indentured labour & coolies, Pacific Slave Trade & Blackbirding of Pacific Islanders & Asian people
The Opium Wars (yes there were multiple).
anti-Chinese policies and laws created to preserve White dominance in the Anglosphere
anti-miscegenation laws against white-interracial relations
the encampment of and coercive military recruitment of Japanese civilians AND citizens, during WWII. This occurred in Australia, US, Brazil, and other places around the world.
The military conscription of especially BIPOC, including Black, Indigenous, BIPOC-Latine & Chicana, and Asian people during wars. Either directly, or indirectly via systemic inequities and inaccessibility to conscription deferments.
Yellowface and caricature portrayals of Asian people in media as inferior, passive, scheming/deceptive, violent, culturally "backwards", ridiculing Asian people and Asian culture, which has fed into the stereotypes, essentialising and caricaturisations of Asian people and Asian culture.
Anti-Communist Red Scare & how this tied into the Lavender Scare (homophobic)
Examples of Orientalism :
Culturally appropriating ANYTHING from E/SEAsian culture when you are not from it.
Viewing all of these as interchangeable by removing the dimensionality, history and lived experiences embedded in our heritages.
Viewing E/SEAsian culture, bodies ,spiritualities as aesthetics to pick & choose.
Viewing these as able to be bought, sold, commodified and commercialised and not understanding that these are priceless. That anyone who sells them, even if an Asian person, is operating under capitalising on our culture by reducing it to a commodity. That is Orientalism.
Advertising any object, media, or art as E/SEAsian culture by adopting the veneer of it, while actually showing no respect, proper research nor the inclusion, reference and credit of E/SEAsian involvement.
Insisting that you should be allowed access, possession, entry or inclusion in E/SEAsian practices and culture that are closed to you or to non-E/SEAsian in general. Whether this is a collective agreement, or whether this is one E/SEAsian person saying it.
Viewing E/SEAsian culture and knowledge as esoteric. On one hand, Orientalism sees these as "special and profound", and thus fetishising, commercialising or misrepresenting it. Some may romanticise or modify it to suit their desires which may erase the full dimensions and complexity of it. On another hand, Orientalism also sees this as invalid and inferior knowledge, or pseudoscience compared to the Eurocolonial Cisheteropatriarchal institution of science and White Academia. Therefore disrespecting and dismissing it.
Intersections Include:
Intersection of Anti-Indigeneity: Imposing an Anglocentric view on Indigeneity onto Asia, which operates differently.
Refusing to recognise Asian peoples as indigenous to ancestral regions of E/SEAsia, who should be afforded protections against colonisation and Eurocolonial forces and having the right to sovereignty. Refusing to recognise that many parts of Asia including China, has been colonised by Eurocolonialists and the Japanese.
Refusing to recognise the multiple Opium Wars in which Eurocolonisers used drugs in forced “trade” for natural resource extraction as a method of weakening and corrupting Indigenous infrastructures, including in China and other parts of Asia.
Justifying Eurocolonial political interventions, invasions, sanctions, and manoeuvres of political control due to the assumption that Asian peoples are unable to resolve their internal conflicts without the “assistance” of Eurocolonialists who typically disguise exploitations of international relations as altruistic and diplomatic intents.
Intersection of Anti-Blackness and Colourism: Sexualising darker skinned Asians, mistreating them, alienating them from stereotypical Asian standards of beauty, devaluing them and perceiving them as inferior to fairer-skinned Asians, is a product of Sinophobia & Colourism—Discrimination against skin colour. This is typically on the basis of Anti-Blackness (Colorism was coined by Alice Walker, a Black woman). Additionally, Asian cultures also has colourism tied to classism (ie darker skinned Asians were peasants tanned under the Sun, while lighter skinned Asians were nobility who were typically kept indoors). Where this marginalisation relies on imposed constructs of femininity and masculinity Eurocolonial or otherwise, this also involves Sinomisogyny and Sinomisandry.
Refusing to recognise that there are Asian people who are monoethnic or multiethnic, which differs from monoracial and multiracial. Monoethnic means that they are from one ethnicity, but this ethnicity can span multiple racial groups, making them multiracial. Multiethnic means they are from multiple ethnicities, however, this can be either monoracial, or multiracial. There are Asian people who can also classify as Black, Indigenous, and other BIPOC identities, as the Anglocentric racial classification fails as an absolute categorisation of non-Anglospheric persons.
Intersection of Xenophobia, Forever Foreigner Myth: Viewing E/SEAsian people in countries outside of their indigenous ancestral regions, as forever Foreignors. Some of these are immigrants who are still civilians, others are diasporic descendants who have citizenship.
Denying them due citizenship, social treatment and belonging equal to that of other citizens. The Anglosphere has a history of denying Chinese people citizenry rights including voting. These were due to anti-Chinese immigrant laws, and denying Chinese civilians due citizenship until the 1950s, after which Chinese citizens still had to wait for the 1965 change in literacy laws, and the 1975 minority language provisions and bilingual support, so that voting became accessible to them. This is YEARS of delay following the voting rights given to White Women, and the Asian population faced significant delay compared to every other racial group.
Believing that E/SEAsian people will never have a stake in their homelands’ politics and are thus undeserving of solidarity and rights. This is Xenophobic and Sinophobic.
Intersections of Queerphobia: Sinomisogyny intersects with Transandrophobia, Transmisogyny, Femphobia, Butchphobia, Mascphobia, Homophobia, Monosexism, Exorsexism, Biphobia and more queer marginalisations.
Interactions of LIOMOGAI, Transphobia, Sinotransmisogyny, Sinomisogyny & Sinomisandry: [Femboys & Ladyboys, Fetishising Asian Culture & Whitewashing]
Intersections of Sinomisandry & Homophobia: Viewing E/SEAsian cisheterosexual men as "secretly homosexual" due to a combination of racism & homophobia involving the view originating from 20th century McCarthyism that both asian men and homosexual men are feminine. This involves misgendering, hyperfeminising and emasculating them.
Seeing E/SEAsian men as deceptive, violent, chauvinistic, misogynistic, extremely conservative, manipulative conmen. As passive, weak but sinister infiltrators via emasculating misogynistic rhetoric.
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Sato said the Page Exclusion Act is a precursor to the dehumanizing narratives and tropes that render Asian woman as objects of sexual fetishization and unworthy of being part of the national consciousness. “In the 1875 Act, we see the ways in which race and gender are beginning to be entangled and codified in the law, and how Asian women were deemed to be bringing in sexual deviancy,” said Sato. “That far back, we can see how racism and sexism were being conflated.” (Source)
“So from the get-go, we've always been seen as temptresses and sexual objects,” she says. “And so the fact that those were the words used by the killer to describe Asian American women cannot be separated from these historical contexts from which we come from.” These harmful perspectives were compounded and shaped further during World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War when the U.S. military’s presence spiked the demand for Asian sex workers, she says. (Source)
In his pioneering 1978 book Orientalism, postcolonial studies scholar Edward Said defined Orientalism as “a style of thought based upon an ontological and epistemological distinction made between ‘the Orient’ and … ‘the Occident.’” Put simply, the “Orient” is a colonial invention. Orientalism is a collection of binaries — between “East” and “West,” foreign and familiar, civilized and uncivilized, primitive and progressive, colonizer and colonized, self and Other. It is a system of representation through which the West produced the East as its opposite, its “surrogate and underground self” — a strange, backward, barbaric land, steeped in mysticism and danger. — (Source)
Tellingly, Orientalism opens with this Karl Marx quote: “They cannot represent themselves; they must be represented.” As Thomas Babington Macaulay, the British politician who imposed English colonial education on India, once infamously stated, it could not be denied that “a single shelf of a good European library was worth the whole native literature of India and Arabia.” Given the assumed superiority of Western culture and literature, it fell to the West to represent the East. Western colonial powers assumed this paternalistic obligation by manufacturing the body of theory and practice that became the “Orient.” —(Source)
Through the colonial project of Orientalism, the “Occident” produced the “Orient.” However, and perhaps more importantly, the “Orient” also produced the “Occident.” Without the East, there is no West. The Orient “helped define Europe (or the West) as its contrasting image, idea, personality, experience.” European culture came into being “by setting itself off against the Orient” — by defining the “self” as what it is not. Edward Said stressed that the Orient “was not (and is not) a free subject of thought or action.” In essence, to be “Oriental” is to be “Orientalized” — to inhabit whatever vessel deemed appropriate for you at any given time, whether that be a bloodthirsty terrorist or hypersexualized yogic fantasy. Fatimah Asghar aptly captures this slippery, shifting state of personhood in a poem: “you’re kashmiri until they burn your home … you’re muslim until you’re not a virgin. you’re pakistani until they start throwing acid. you’re muslim until it’s too dangerous ... you’re american until the towers fall. until there’s a border on your back.” —(source)
In the decades since Said published his seminal text, the term Orientalism has trickled into the mainstream. However, in the process, the concept has been diluted — severed from its radical roots. These days, the word Orientalism conjures up images of glittering saris, Chinese dragons, and cramped, dusty cities. Maybe a snake charmer or two, for good measure. While these tropes are, of course, part and parcel of Orientalism, the heart of Said’s theory is that Orientalism is not an abstract concept — not just an “airy European fantasy” — but instead “a relationship of power, of domination.” The West’s “material investment” in creating and maintaining the structure of Orientalism sanctioned the violence of European imperialism. As Said puts it in another work, Culture and Imperialism: “‘They’ were not like ‘us,’ and for that reason deserved to be ruled.” Orientalism underpins the systems that allowed Europe to “manage — and even produce — the Orient politically, sociologically, militarily, ideologically, scientifically, and imaginatively.” At its core, then, Orientalism is a symbolic and literal battleground, littered with thorny questions around power, profit, and personhood. Who wields power? To what end? Who tells what story? Who profits? And at whose expense? —(source)
From bindis at Coachella to Bridgerton’s romanticized imperialism.
