Yellow Peril, Red Scare: Orientalism, Anti-Asian Racism, New Cold War on China | China and the Left

At the conference China and the Left: A Socialist Forum held on September 18, 2021 hosted by Qiao Collective at The People’s Forum in New York City, Robert Lee, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Madison Tang, and Sheila Xiao speak on a panel titled, “Yellow Peril, Red Scare: Orientalism, Anti-Asian Racism, and The New Cold War on China.” Each speaker delivered a talk on the panel moderated by Qiao Collective.
• ROBERT G. LEE - Mapping Anti-Asian Violence, the Racial State and U.S. Imperialism
• MADISON TANG - CODEPINK - Orientalism & Imperialism of the U.S. Empire: The Stakes of U.S. Projection
• SHEILA XIAO - PIVOT TO PEACE - The Centrality of Demonization in the Contemporary Imperialist War Drive
• ROXANNE DUNBAR-ORTIZ - “Yellow Peril” and Chinese Exploitation and Exclusion in the United States
• MODERATOR: QIAO COLLECTIVE
The conference was a one-day convening of organizers, scholars, and journalists whose work grapples with questions of Chinese socialism, Western imperialism, Global South internationalism, and the renewed Cold War consensus taking hold in the West. Speakers and events analyzed current trends in U.S.-China relations, Chinese development, and international relations through a socialist, anti-imperialist lens. The conference provided a space for those invested in challenging the rise in U.S.-led imperialist aggression on China to meet, strategize, and discuss. The convening was co-sponsored by Monthly Review, The People’s Forum, and CODEPINK.
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Robert Lee has taught Asian American Studies at Brown University, the University of Minnesota and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is the author of the award winning, Orientals, Asian Americans in Popular Culture; the editor of Dear Miye: Letters Home from Japan 1939-46, and co-editor of Race, Nation and Empire in American History and Displacements and Diasporas; Asians in the Americas.
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz is a long time anti-colonial activist, historian, writer, professor emeritus at California State University, and author of twelve books, including Roots of Resistance: A History of Land Tenure in New Mexico; An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States; Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment; and Not “A Nation of Immigrants” Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion.
Sheila Xiao is a researcher, data scientist, and community organizer. A second generation Chinese American who was raised in San Francisco, CA and studied in University of California, Irvine and University of Hong Kong, she is a tireless advocate for communities of color and the co-founder of the organization Pivot to Peace.
Madison Tang is the coordinator for the CODEPINK China Is Not Our Enemy campaign. A writer, organizer, and educator from southern California, they earned their Bachelor's in Literature & Creative Writing from UCSB's College of Creative Studies with a focus on Ethnic Studies and Feminist Studies. Madison has worked extensively as an educator and curriculum developer of various subjects, offering anti-imperialist, anti-capitalist, and intersectional frameworks to students K-12. As a feminist, an anti-imperialist, and a staunch internationalist, she believes in the power of anticolonial, transnational working class solidarity to achieve collective liberation.