Race Magic and the Yellow Peril

Abstract

Among the many historical examples in which the Orient has been imaginatively associated with magic, one of the most fascinating involves an actual overlap between race and magic in the popular performances of yellowface magicians at the turn of the twentieth century. I use this example to show and analyze some of the dynamics between magic and the aesthetics of race, especially as these play out through one of the most influential and long‐standing contradictions of the “Yellow Peril”: Chinese people are unassimilable, yet Chinese aesthetics are easily appropriated.

Aesthetic Attitude Based on Kant’s Aesthetics of Caring Relationships in Nursing

“…Nurses who have the virtue that includes emotional understanding as a characteristic can exhibit appropriate feelings toward a patient genuinely [7][8][9]. Notably, their altruistic emotion to help others is regarded as an aesthetic characteristic which is as essential as a moral characteristic in a caring relationship between a nurse and patient [10,11], although the concept of aesthetic characteristic is vaguely discussed in the field of nursing.…”

“…The art of caring is based on the empathetic capacity to feel expression and transmit through imagination [12]. It includes aesthetic attitude in the caring relationships of nursing practice [10,13]. Several nursing ethicists have discussed the relationship between morality and art in nursing practice and called it a moral art or practical art [14,15].…”