Developmental Fairy Tales: Evolutionary Thinking and Modern Chinese Culture
In 1992 Deng Xiaoping famously declared, “Development is the only hard imperative.” What ensued was the transformation of China from a socialist state to a capitalist market economy. The spirit of development has since become the prevailing creed of the People’s Republic, helping to bring...Read more about Developmental Fairy Tales: Evolutionary Thinking and Modern Chinese Culture
The Survival of Soap Opera: Transformations for a New Media Era
The soap opera, one of U. S. television's longest-running and most influential formats, is on the brink. Declining ratings have been attributed to an increasing number of women working outside the home and to an intensifying competition for viewers' attention from cable and the Internet....Read more about The Survival of Soap Opera: Transformations for a New Media Era
Becoming Imperial Citizens: Indians in the Late-Victorian Empire
In this remarkable account of imperial citizenship, Sukanya Banerjee investigates the ways that Indians formulated notions of citizenship in the British Empire from the late nineteenth century through the early twentieth. Tracing the affective, thematic, and imaginative tropes that...Read more about Becoming Imperial Citizens: Indians in the Late-Victorian Empire
The Lost Boys of Zeta Psi: A Historical Archaeology of Masculinity in a University Fraternity
The Lost Boys of Zeta Psi takes us inside the secret, amusing, and sometimes mundane world of a California fraternity around 1900. Gleaning history from recent archaeological excavations and from such intriguing sources as oral histories, architecture, and photographs, Laurie A. Wilkie...Read more about The Lost Boys of Zeta Psi: A Historical Archaeology of Masculinity in a University Fraternity
Like a Knife: Ideology and Genre in Contemporary Chinese Popular Music
The first comprehensive study of Chinese popular music in a Western language. Drawing on extensive interviews with singers, songwriters and critics, as well as cultural, sociological, musical, and textual analysis, the book portrays the disparate ways in which China's state-run popular...Read more about Like a Knife: Ideology and Genre in Contemporary Chinese Popular Music
Racial Geometries of the Black Atlantic, Asian Pacific and American Theatre
An exciting new work on how black and Asian racial structures were woven together within US theatrical practices in the run up to the Second World War, Steen uses this history to model how we might use performance histories to more carefully assess how racial formation occurs on the...Read more about Racial Geometries of the Black Atlantic, Asian Pacific and American Theatre
Gendered Citizenships: Transnational Perspectives on Knowledge Production, Political Activism, and Culture
Edited By Kia Lilly Caldwell, Kathleen Coll, Tracy Fisher, Renya K. Ramirez, and Lok Siu: Drawing on ethnographic research with underrepresented communities in the Caribbean, Europe, South America, and the United States, this wide-ranging anthology examines...Read more about Gendered Citizenships: Transnational Perspectives on Knowledge Production, Political Activism, and Culture
Derrida and the Time of the Political
An intellectual event, Derrida and the Time of the Political marks the first time since Jacques Derrida’s death in 2004 that leading scholars have come together to critically assess the philosopher’s political and ethical writings. Skepticism about the import of deconstruction for...Read more about Derrida and the Time of the Political
Getting Saved in America: Taiwanese Immigration and Religious Experience
Carolyn Chen - What does becoming American have to do with becoming religious? Many immigrants become more religious after coming to the United States. Taiwanese are no different. Like many Asian immigrants to the United States, Taiwanese frequently convert to Christianity...Read more about Getting Saved in America: Taiwanese Immigration and Religious Experience
Asian Diasporas: New Formations, New Conceptions
Editors Rhacel S. Parreñas and Lok C. D. Siu: Asian migrants are inextricably linked to contemporary debates concerning the nation-state, neoliberalism, globalization, and transnationalism. This volume brings together these streams of inquiry and...Read more about Asian Diasporas: New Formations, New Conceptions
Shanghai Splendor: A Cultural History, 1843-1945
Rich with details of everyday life, this multifaceted social and cultural history of China's leading metropolis in the twentieth century offers a kaleidoscopic view of Shanghai as the major site of Chinese modernization. Engaging the entire span of Shanghai's modern history from the Opium...Read more about Shanghai Splendor: A Cultural History, 1843-1945
Inhuman Conditions: On Cosmopolitanism and Human Rights
Globalization promises to bring people around the world together, to unite them as members of the human community. To such sanguine expectations, Pheng Cheah responds deftly with a sobering account of how the "inhuman" imperatives of capitalism and technology are transforming our...Read more about Inhuman Conditions: On Cosmopolitanism and Human Rights
AfroAsian Encounters: Culture, History, Politics
How might we understand yellowface performances by African Americans in 1930s swing adaptations of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado, Paul Robeson's support of Asian and Asian American struggles, or the absorption of hip hop by Asian American youth culture?AfroAsian Encounters is the first...Read more about AfroAsian Encounters: Culture, History, Politics
Legal Borderlands: Law and the Construction of American Borders
This collection focuses broadly on the role of law in the construction of U.S. borders and takes up an important question raised by the global turn in American studies scholarship: once territory becomes less critical to scholarship in the discipline, what constitutes the frame of American...Read more about Legal Borderlands: Law and the Construction of American Borders
Memories of a Future Home: Diasporic Citizenship of Chinese in Panama
By Lok Siu - While the history of Asian migration to Latin America is well documented, we know little about the contemporary experience of diasporic Asians in this part of the world. Memories of a Future Home offers an intimate look at how diasporic Chinese in...Read more about Memories of a Future Home: Diasporic Citizenship of Chinese in Panama
Sampling Many Pots: A Historical Archaeology of a Multi-Ethnic Bahamian Community
The enslaved population of Clifton Plantation was an early 19th-century cultural melange including native Africans, island-born Creoles, and African-American slaves brought by the owners from the American South as part of the Loyalist resettlement. This study of the multi-ethnic African...Read more about Sampling Many Pots: A Historical Archaeology of a Multi-Ethnic Bahamian Community
America's Asia: Racial Form and American Literature, 1893-1945
America's Asia explores a discursive tradition that affiliates the East with modern efficiency, in contrast to primitivist forms of Orientalism. Colleen Lye traces the American stereotype of Asians as a "model minority" or a "yellow peril"--two aspects of what she calls "Asiatic racial...Read more about America's Asia: Racial Form and American Literature, 1893-1945
Mixing It Up: Multiracial Subjects
The United States Census 2000 presents a twenty-first century America in which mixed-race marriages, cross-race adoption, and multiracial families in general are challenging the ethnic definitions by which the nation has historically categorized its population. Addressing a wide spectrum...Read more about Mixing It Up: Multiracial Subjects
Grounds of Comparison: Around the Work of Benedict Anderson
Benedict Anderson, professor at Cornell and specialist in Southeast Asian studies, is best known for his book Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (1991). It is no understatement to say that this is one of the most influential books of the last twenty...Read more about Grounds of Comparison: Around the Work of Benedict Anderson
The Archaeology of Mothering: An African-American Midwife’s Tale
Using archaeological materials recovered from a housesite in Mobile, Alabama, Laurie Wilkie explores how one extended African-American family engaged with competing and conflicting mothering ideologies in the post-Emancipation South Read more about The Archaeology of Mothering: An African-American Midwife’s Tale
Empire of Care: Nursing and Migration in Filipino American History
By Catherine Ceniza Choy: In western countries, including the United States, foreign-trained nurses constitute a crucial labor supply. Far and away the largest number of these nurses come from the Philippines. Why is it that a developing nation with a comparatively...Read more about Empire of Care: Nursing and Migration in Filipino American History
Yellow Music: Media Culture and Colonial Modernity in the Chinese Jazz Age
Yellow Music is the first history of the emergence of Chinese popular music and urban media culture in early-twentieth-century China. Andrew F. Jones focuses on the affinities between "yellow” or “pornographic" music—as critics derisively referred to the "decadent" fusion of American jazz...Read more about Yellow Music: Media Culture and Colonial Modernity in the Chinese Jazz Age
Measured Excess: Status, Gender, and Consumer Nationalism in South Korea
This insightful analysis of the ways in which South Korean economic development strategies have reshaped the country's national identity gives specific attention to the manner in which women, as the primary agents of consumption, have been affected by this transformation. Past scholarship...Read more about Measured Excess: Status, Gender, and Consumer Nationalism in South Korea
Creating Freedom: Material Culture and African-American Identity at Oakley Plantation, Louisiana, 1845-1950
Historians' conception of plantation life in the American South, both post- and antebellum, derives almost exclusively from the written record, hence mainly from the white owners' perspectives. In Creating Freedom, historical archaeologist Laurie Wilkie pulls the half-opened curtain wider...Read more about Creating Freedom: Material Culture and African-American Identity at Oakley Plantation, Louisiana, 1845-1950
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