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Sherlock and the representation of Chineseness

October 28, 2011
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Sherlock and the representation of Chineseness

In a text so concerned with updating the Victorian source material to the contemporary period, there is very little else to the representation of Chineseness; it seems that Sherlock Holmes can use SMS messaging and GPS tracking, but Chinese culture is rendered remarkably narrow via such reductive stereotypes.
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