She is the author of The China Mystique: Pearl S. Buck, Anna May Wong, Mayling Soong Chiang and the Transformation of American Orientalism (California, 2005). Andrea Smith is an associate professor of media and cultural studies at the University of California, Riverside, and the author of Native Americans and the Christian Right: The Gendered Politics of Unlikely Alliances (Duke, 2008) and Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide (South End Press, 2005).