Instead of seeing the overnaming of the yellow woman as confounding identity or authenticity, I offer a different grammar as a provocation about the hybrid that is ornamental Asiatic femininity. What if we were to take the collusion between abstraction and racial embodiment as the given condition of Asiatic femininity? And what if, instead of seeing this amalgamation as eccentric to the conceptualization of a modern personhood, we were to see this peculiar figure as its constitutive double? That is, philosophically speaking, Western modern personhood as inherited from the Enlightenment is
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