In this lecture, held on March 31, 2022, Anne Anlin Cheng, professor of English at Princeton University and Visiting Hurst Professor in the Department of English in Arts & Sciences at Washington University, considered a series of humanoid art objects—monsters, cyborgs, and standing vases—as visual fulcrums through which to explore how racialized gender, specifically the specter of the yellow woman, animates European-American narratives about the past and designs for the future, as well as how contemporary Asian artists disrupt these representations of Asiatic femininity. Chris Eng, assistant professor in the Department of English at Washington University in St. Louis, facilitated a Q&A following the talk.