You Asians

Naoki Sakai's "'You Asians': On the Historical Role of the West and Asia Binary," South Atlantic Quarterly, Vol. 99, No. 4, Fall 2000, pp. 789-817. Japanese historical contexts

"the unity of the West is far from being unitarily determinable. The West is a mythical construct." (p. 789) In North American academia, "[t]hings Asiatic were brought to scholarly attention by being recognized as 'different and therefore Asian...'being Asian' were taken to be synonymous in its anthropologizing gesture." (p. 790) "Asia was a postcolonial entity from the outset." (p. 791)