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Techno-Orientalism 2.0 - New Intersections And Interventions

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 Building on the groundbreaking Techno-Orientalism: Imagining Asia in Speculative Fiction, History, and Media, published by Rutgers University Press in 2015, Techno-Orientalism 2.0: New Intersections and Interventions addresses the impact of a volatile post-pandemic present on speculative futures by and about Asians.
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Transpacific Cartographies - Narrating The Contemporary Chinese Diaspora In The United States

by Melody Yunzi Li

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 Intersecting with and bridging Sinophone studies, Chinese American studies, and diaspora studies, and drawing on theories of literary cartography, Transpacific Cartographies demonstrates how these â€œmapsâ€ offer their readers different paths for finding a sense of home no matter where they are.
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Asian American History

by Huping Ling

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 A comprehensive survey, Asian American History places Asian immigration to America in international and domestic contexts, and explores the significant elements that define Asian America.
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Chinese Americans In The Heartland - Migration, Work, And Community

by Huping Ling

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 Focused on the heartland cities of Chicago, Illinois and St Louis, Missouri, this book draws rich evidences from various government records, personal stories and interviews, and media reports, and sheds light on the commonalities and uniqueness of the region, as compared to the Asian American communities on the East and West Coast and Hawaii.
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Chasing The American Dream In China - Chinese Americans In The Ancestral Homeland

by Leslie Kim Wang

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 Few studies have highlighted the stories of middle-class children of immigrants who move to their ancestral homelands-countries with which they share cultural ties but haven't necessarily had direct contact. Chasing the American Dream in China addresses this gap by examining the lives of highly educated American-born Chinese (ABC) professionals who "return" to the People's Republic of China to build their careers. Analyzing the motivations and experiences of these individuals deepens our knowledge about transnationalism among the second-generation as they grapple with complex issues of identity and societal belonging in the ethnic homeland. This book demonstrates how these professional migrants maneuver between countries and cultures to further their careers and maximize opportunities in the rapidly changing global economy. When used strategically, the versatile nature of their ethnic identities positions them as indispensable bridges between the global superpowers of China and the United States in their competition for global dominance.
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Invisible Asians - Korean American Adoptees, Asian American Experiences, And Racial Exceptionalism

by Kim Park Nelson

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 <div> <div>The first Korean adoptees were powerful symbols of American superiority in the Cold War; as Korean adoption continued, adoptees'' visibility as Asians faded as they became a geopolitical success story—all-American children in loving white families. In <i>Invisible Asians</i>, Kim Park Nelson analyzes the processes by which Korean American adoptees’ have been rendered racially invisible, and how that invisibility facilitates their treatment as exceptional subjects within the context of American race relations and in government policies.</div> <div> </div> <div><i>Invisible Asians</i> draws on the life stories of more than sixty adult Korean adoptees in three locations: Minnesota, home to the largest concentration of Korean adoptees in the United States; the Pacific Northwest, where many of the first Korean adoptees were raised; and Seoul, home to hundreds of adult adoptees who have returned to South Korea to live and work. Their experiences underpin a critical examination of research and policy making about transnational adoption from the 1950s to the present day.</div> <div> </div> <div>Park Nelson connects the invisibility of Korean adoptees to the ambiguous racial positioning of Asian Americans in American culture, and explores the implications of invisibility for Korean adoptees as they navigate race, culture, and nationality. Raised in white families, they are ideal racial subjects in support of the trope of "colorblindness" as a "cure for racism" in America, and continue to enjoy the most privileged legal status in terms of immigration and naturalization of any immigrant group, built on regulations created specifically to facilitate the transfer of foreign children to American families. </div> <div><br> <i>Invisible Asians</i> offers an engaging account that makes an important contribution to our understanding of race in America, and illuminates issues of power and identity in a globalized world.</div> <div> </div> </div>
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Imagining Asia In The Americas

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 Investigates the myriad ways that Asians throughout the Americas use language, literature, religion, commerce, and other cultural practices to establish a sense of community, commemorate their countries of origin, and anticipate the possibilities presented by life in a new land. This volume provides an illuminating portrait of how immigrants negotiate between their native and adopted cultures.
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Race, Religion, And Civil Rights - Asian Students On The West Coast, 1900-1968

by Stephanie Hinnershitz

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 Histories of civil rights movements in America generally place little or no emphasis on the activism of Asian Americans. Yet, as this fascinating new study reveals, there is a long and distinctive legacy of civil rights activism among foreign and American-born Chinese, Japanese, and Filipino students, who formed crucial alliances based on their shared religious affiliations and experiences of discrimination.
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Racial Ambiguity In Asian American Culture

by Jennifer Ann Ho

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 The sheer diversity of the Asian American populace makes them an ambiguous racial category. In Racial Ambiguity in Asian American Culture, Jennifer Ann Ho shines a light on the hybrid and indeterminate aspects of race, revealing ambiguity to be paramount to a more nuanced understanding both of race and of what it means to be Asian American.
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Techno-Orientalism - Imagining Asia In Speculative Fiction, History, And Media

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 <div>What will the future look like? To judge from many speculative fiction films and books, from <i>Blade Runner</i> to <i>Cloud Atlas</i>, the future will be full of cities that resemble Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Shanghai, and it will be populated mainly by cold, unfeeling citizens who act like robots. <i>Techno-Orientalism</i> investigates the phenomenon of imagining Asia and Asians in hypo- or hyper-technological terms in literary, cinematic, and new media representations, while critically examining the stereotype of Asians as both technologically advanced and intellectually primitive, in dire need of Western consciousness-raising. </div> <div> </div> <div>The collection’s fourteen original essays trace the discourse of techno-orientalism across a wide array of media, from radio serials to cyberpunk novels, from Sax Rohmer’s Dr. Fu Manchu to <i>Firefly</i>. Applying a variety of theoretical, historical, and interpretive approaches, the contributors consider techno-orientalism a truly global phenomenon. In part, they tackle the key question of how these stereotypes serve to both express and assuage Western anxieties about Asia’s growing cultural influence and economic dominance. Yet the book also examines artists who have appropriated techno-orientalist tropes in order to critique racist and imperialist attitudes. </div> <div> </div> <div><i>Techno-Orientalism</i> is the first collection to define and critically analyze a phenomenon that pervades both science fiction and real-world news coverage of Asia. With essays on subjects ranging from wartime rhetoric of race and technology to science fiction by contemporary Asian American writers to the cultural implications of Korean gamers, this volume offers innovative perspectives and broadens conventional discussions in Asian American Cultural studies. </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div>
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Making Asian American Film And Video - History, Institutions, Movements

by Jun Okada

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 The words â€œAsian American filmâ€ might evoke a painfully earnest, low-budget documentary or family drama, destined to be seen only in small film festivals or on PBS. In her groundbreaking study of the past fifty years of Asian American film and video, Jun Okada demonstrates that although this stereotype is not entirely unfounded, a remarkably diverse range of Asian American filmmaking has emerged.
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From Canton Restaurant To Panda Express - A History Of Chinese Food In The United States

by Haiming Liu

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 Takes readers on a compelling journey from the California Gold Rush to the present, letting readers witness both the profusion of Chinese restaurants across the US and the evolution of distinct American-Chinese iconic dishes. Along the way, Haiming Liu explains how immigrants adapted their traditional food to suit local palates, and gives readers a taste of Chinese cuisine embedded in the bittersweet story of Chinese Americans.
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Between Foreign And Family - Return Migration And Identity Construction Among Korean Americans And Korean Chinese

by Helene K. Lee

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 Winner of the 2019 ASA Book Award - Asia/Asian-American Section Between Foreign and Family explores the impact of inconsistent rules of ethnic inclusion and exclusion on the economic and social lives of Korean Americans and Korean Chinese living in Seoul. These actors are part of a growing number of return migrants, members of an ethnic diaspora who migrate "back" to the ancestral homeland from which their families emigrated. Drawing on ethnographic observations and interview data, Helene K. Lee highlights the "logics of transnationalism" that shape the relationships between these return migrants and their employers, co-workers, friends, family, and the South Korean state. While Koreanness marks these return migrants as outsiders who never truly feel at home in the United States and China, it simultaneously traps them into a liminal space in which they are neither fully family, nor fully foreign in South Korea. Return migration reveals how ethnic identity construction is not an indisputable and universal fact defined by blood and ancestry, but a contested and uneven process informed by the interplay of ethnicity, nationality, citizenship, gender, and history.
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Resilient Self - Gender, Immigration, And Taiwanese Americans

by Chien-Juh Gu

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 Explores how international migration re-shapes women's senses of themselves. Chien-Juh Gu uses life-history interviews and ethnographic observations to illustrate how immigration creates gendered work and family contexts for middle-class Taiwanese American women, who, in turn, negotiate and resist the social and psychological effects of the processes of immigration and settlement.
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Redefining Japaneseness - Japanese Americans In The Ancestral Homeland

by Jane H. Yamashiro

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 There is a rich body of literature on the experience of Japanese immigrants in the United States, and there are also numerous accounts of the cultural dislocation felt by American expats in Japan. But what happens when Japanese Americans, born and raised in the United States, are the ones living abroad in Japan? Redefining Japaneseness chronicles how Japanese American migrants to Japan navigate and complicate the categories of Japanese and "foreigner." Drawing from extensive interviews and fieldwork in the Tokyo area, Jane H. Yamashiro tracks the multiple ways these migrants strategically negotiate and interpret their daily interactions. Following a diverse group of subjects-some of only Japanese ancestry and others of mixed heritage, some fluent in Japanese and others struggling with the language, some from Hawaii and others from the US continent-her study reveals wide variations in how Japanese Americans perceive both Japaneseness and Americanness. Making an important contribution to both Asian American studies and scholarship on transnational migration, Redefining Japaneseness critically interrogates the common assumption that people of Japanese ancestry identify as members of a global diaspora. Furthermore, through its close examination of subjects who migrate from one highly-industrialized nation to another, it dramatically expands our picture of the migrant experience.
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Racial Ambiguity In Asian American Culture

by Jennifer Ann Ho

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 The sheer diversity of the Asian American populace makes them an ambiguous racial category. In Racial Ambiguity in Asian American Culture, Jennifer Ann Ho shines a light on the hybrid and indeterminate aspects of race, revealing ambiguity to be paramount to a more nuanced understanding both of race and of what it means to be Asian American.
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Making Asian American Film And Video - History, Institutions, Movements

by Jun Okada

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 The words â€œAsian American filmâ€ might evoke a painfully earnest, low-budget documentary or family drama, destined to be seen only in small film festivals or on PBS. In her groundbreaking study of the past fifty years of Asian American film and video, Jun Okada demonstrates that although this stereotype is not entirely unfounded, a remarkably diverse range of Asian American filmmaking has emerged.
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Racial Ambiguity In Asian American Culture

by Jennifer Ann Ho

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 The sheer diversity of the Asian American populace makes them an ambiguous racial category. In Racial Ambiguity in Asian American Culture, Jennifer Ann Ho shines a light on the hybrid and indeterminate aspects of race, revealing ambiguity to be paramount to a more nuanced understanding both of race and of what it means to be Asian American.
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Making Asian American Film And Video - History, Institutions, Movements

by Jun Okada

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 The words â€œAsian American filmâ€ might evoke a painfully earnest, low-budget documentary or family drama, destined to be seen only in small film festivals or on PBS. In her groundbreaking study of the past fifty years of Asian American film and video, Jun Okada demonstrates that although this stereotype is not entirely unfounded, a remarkably diverse range of Asian American filmmaking has emerged.
Techno-Orientalism 2.0 - New Intersections And Interventions

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Techno-Orientalism - Imagining Asia In Speculative Fiction, History, And Media

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Race, Religion, And Civil Rights - Asian Students On The West Coast, 1900-1968

by Stephanie Hinnershitz

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Techno-Orientalism - Imagining Asia In Speculative Fiction, History, And Media

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Making The Human - Race, Allegory, And Asian Americans

by Corinne Mitsuye Sugino

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