Treacherous Subjects is a provocative and thoughtful examination of Vietnamese films and literature viewed through a feminist lens. Lan Duong investigates the postwar cultural productions of writers and filmmakers, including Tony Bui, Trinh T. Minh-ha, and Tran Anh Hung. Taking her cue from the double meaning of "collaborator," Duong shows how history has shaped the loyalties and shifting alliances of the Vietnamese, many of whom are caught between opposing/constricting forces of nationalism, patriarchy, and communism. Working at home and in France and the United States, the artists profiled...
Treacherous Subjects is a provocative and thoughtful examination of Vietnamese films and literature viewed through a feminist lens. Lan Duong investig...
An exciting analysis of the myriad literary effects of Tiananmen, Belinda Kong's Tiananmen Fictions Outside the Square is the first full-length study of fictions related to the 1989 movement and massacre. More than any other episode in recent world history, Tiananmen has brought a distinctly politicized Chinese literary diaspora into stark relief. Kong redefines Tiananmen's meaning from an event that ended in local political failure to one that succeeded in producing a vital dimension of contemporary transnational writing today. She spotlights key writers - Gao Xingjian, Ha Jin, Annie Wang,...
An exciting analysis of the myriad literary effects of Tiananmen, Belinda Kong's Tiananmen Fictions Outside the Square is the first full-length study ...
An exciting analysis of the myriad literary effects of Tiananmen, Belinda Kong's Tiananmen Fictions Outside the Square is the first full-length study of fictions related to the 1989 movement and massacre. More than any other episode in recent world history, Tiananmen has brought a distinctly politicized Chinese literary diaspora into stark relief. Kong redefines Tiananmen's meaning from an event that ended in local political failure to one that succeeded in producing a vital dimension of contemporary transnational writing today. She spotlights key writers - Gao Xingjian, Ha Jin, Annie Wang,...
An exciting analysis of the myriad literary effects of Tiananmen, Belinda Kong's Tiananmen Fictions Outside the Square is the first full-length study ...
Between 1919-1938, aa contact between Asia and America forced a reassessment of the normative boundaries of race, sex, gender, class, home, and nation. Karen KuoOCOs provocative "East Is West and West Is East" looks closely at these global shifts to modernity.
In her analysis of five forgotten textsOCothe 1930 film East Is West, Frank CapraOCOs 1937 version of "Lost Horizon "and its 1973 remake, Younghill Kang's novel "East Goes West," and Baroness IshimotoOCOs memoir/manifesto, "Facing Both Ways"OCoKuo elucidates how OC AsiaOCO played a role in shaping American gender and racial...
Between 1919-1938, aa contact between Asia and America forced a reassessment of the normative boundaries of race, sex, gender, class, home, and nat...
In Claiming the Oriental Gateway, Shelley Sang-Hee Lee explores the various intersections of urbanization, ethnic identity, and internationalism in the experience of Japanese Americans in early twentieth-century Seattle. She examines the development and self-image of the city by documenting how U.S. expansion, Asian trans-Pacific migration, and internationalism were manifested locally--and how these forces affected residents' relationships with one another and their surroundings. Lee details the significant role Japanese Americans--both immigrants and U.S. born citizens--played in the social...
In Claiming the Oriental Gateway, Shelley Sang-Hee Lee explores the various intersections of urbanization, ethnic identity, and internationalism in th...
The evil mastermind and master of disguise Fu Manchu has long threatened to take over the world. In the past century, his dastardly plans have driven serialized novels, comic books, films, and TV. Yet this sinister Oriental character represents more than an invincible criminal in pop culture; Fu Manchu became the embodiment of the Yellow Peril."Serial Fu Manchu" provides a savvy cultural, historical, and media-based analysis that shows how Fu Manchu s irrepressibility gives shape to and reinforces the persistent Yellow Peril myth. Ruth Mayer argues that seriality is not merely a commercial...
The evil mastermind and master of disguise Fu Manchu has long threatened to take over the world. In the past century, his dastardly plans have driven ...
The evil mastermind and master of disguise Fu Manchu has long threatened to take over the world. In the past century, his dastardly plans have driven serialized novels, comic books, films, and TV. Yet this sinister Oriental character represents more than an invincible criminal in pop culture; Fu Manchu became the embodiment of the Yellow Peril.Serial Fu Manchu provides a savvy cultural, historical, and media-based analysis that shows how Fu Manchu s irrepressibility gives shape to and reinforces the persistent Yellow Peril myth. Ruth Mayer argues that seriality is not merely a...
The evil mastermind and master of disguise Fu Manchu has long threatened to take over the world. In the past century, his dastardly plans have driven ...
Vietnamese diasporic relations affect and are directly affected by events in Viet Nam. In Transnationalizing Viet Nam, Kieu-Linh Caroline Valverde explores these connections, providing a nuanced understanding of this globalized community. Valverde draws on 250 interviews and almost two decades of research to show the complex relationship between Vietnamese in the diaspora and those back at the homeland.In the series Asian American History and Culture, edited by Sucheng Chan, David Palumbo-Liu, Michael Omi, K. Scott Wong, and Linda Trinh Vo"
Vietnamese diasporic relations affect and are directly affected by events in Viet Nam. In Transnationalizing Viet Nam, Kieu-Linh Caroline Valve...
Based on more than a decade of research, "Making a Global Immigrant Neighborhood" charts the evolution of Sunset Park--with a densely concentrated working-poor and racially diverse immigrant population--from the late 1960s to its current status as one of New York City's most vibrant neighborhoods.
Tarry Hum shows how processes of globalization, such as shifts in low-wage labor markets and immigration patterns, shaped the neighborhood. She explains why Sunset Park's future now depends on Asian and Latino immigrant collaborations in advancing common interests in community building, civic...
Based on more than a decade of research, "Making a Global Immigrant Neighborhood" charts the evolution of Sunset Park--with a densely concentrated...
Based on more than a decade of research, "Making a Global Immigrant Neighborhood" charts the evolution of Sunset Park--with a densely concentrated working-poor and racially diverse immigrant population--from the late 1960s to its current status as one of New York City's most vibrant neighborhoods.
Tarry Hum shows how processes of globalization, such as shifts in low-wage labor markets and immigration patterns, shaped the neighborhood. She explains why Sunset Park's future now depends on Asian and Latino immigrant collaborations in advancing common interests in community building, civic...
Based on more than a decade of research, "Making a Global Immigrant Neighborhood" charts the evolution of Sunset Park--with a densely concentrated...
