‘YELLOW FEVER’: ANOTHER (YAWN) FORGETABLE MODERN SOCIAL BOOGYMAN SYNDROME

(My 标准汉语方言 was terrible; teacher made me stay after class repeatedly, LoL; China, 1986)

Very recently, I had occasion to do some research into certain aspects of Asian cultural affairs, among them a review of historical statistics on post-war (WW2) mixed marriages involving so-called ‘GI Brides’. Since I was, many years ago, a student of Asian and Asian-American studies back in Berkeley, it was a natural area of interest for me to return to when…