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Surface Relations: Queer Forms of Asian American Inscrutability by Vivian L. Huang 9781478016359
RRP: £90.00£76.75In Surface Relations Vivian L. Huang traces how Asian and Asian American artists have strategically reworked the pernicious stereotype of inscrutability as a dynamic antiracist, feminist, and queer form of resistance. Following inscrutability in... -
Experiments in Skin: Race and Beauty in the Shadows of Vietnam by Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu 9781478010661
RRP: £92.00£78.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781478010661Author Thuy Linh Nguyen TuFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Duke University PressPublisher Duke University PressWeight(grams) 152g -
Postcolonial Grief: The Afterlives of the Pacific Wars in the Americas by Jinah Kim 9781478001355
RRP: £90.00£76.75In Postcolonial Grief Jinah Kim explores the relationship of mourning to transpacific subjectivities, aesthetics, and decolonial politics since World War II. Kim argues that Asian diasporic subjectivity exists in relation to afterlives because the deaths... -
Migrant Futures: Decolonizing Speculation in Financial Times by Aimee Bahng 9780822363644
RRP: £92.00£78.42In Migrant Futures Aimee Bahng traces the cultural production of futurity by juxtaposing the practices of speculative finance against those of speculative fiction. While financial speculation creates a future based on predicting and mitigating risk for... -
Migrant Returns: Manila, Development, and Transnational Connectivity by Eric J. Pido 9780822363538
RRP: £92.00£78.42In Migrant Returns Eric J. Pido examines the complicated relationship among the Philippine economy, Manila's urban development, and balikbayans-Filipino migrants visiting or returning to their homeland-to reconceptualize migration as a process of... -
Missing: Youth, Citizenship, and Empire after 9/11 by Sunaina Marr Maira 9780822343912
RRP: £98.00£83.45In Missing, Sunaina Marr Maira explores how young South Asian Muslim immigrants living in the United States experienced and understood national belonging (or exclusion) at a particular moment in the history of U.S. imperialism: in the years immediately... -
From Orphan to Adoptee: U.S. Empire and Genealogies of Korean Adoption by ShooJin Pate 9780816683079
RRP: £23.99£20.41Since the 1950s, more than 100,000 Korean children have been adopted by predominantly white Americans; they were orphans of the Korean War, or so the story went. But begin the story earlier, as SooJin Pate does, and what has long been viewed as... -
The American Dream in Vietnamese by Nhi T. Lieu 9780816665709
RRP: £21.99£18.79In her research on popular culture of the Vietnamese diaspora, Nhi T. Lieu explores how people displaced by war reconstruct cultural identity in the aftermath of migration. Embracing American democratic ideals and consumer capitalism prior to arriving in... -
Suspended Apocalypse: White Supremacy, Genocide, and the Filipino Condition by Dylan Rodriguez 9780816653508
RRP: £23.99£20.41Suspended Apocalypse is a rich and provocative meditation on the emergence of the Filipino American as a subject of history. Culling from historical, popular, and ethnographic archives, Dylan Rodriguez provides a sophisticated analysis of the Filipino... -
Contemporary Asian America (second edition): A Multidisciplinary Reader by Min Zhou 9780814797129
RRP: £80.00£38.17When Contemporary Asian America was first published, it exposed its readers to developments within the discipline, from its inception as part of the ethnic consciousness movement of the 1960s to the more contemporary theoretical and practical issues... -
The Force of Domesticity: Filipina Migrants and Globalization by Rhacel Salazar Parrenas 9780814767351
RRP: £25.99£22.04Taking as her subjects migrant Filipina domestic workers in Rome and Los Angeles, transnational migrant families in the Philippines, and Filipina migrant entertainers in Tokyo, Parrenas documents the social, cultural, and political pressures that... -
Beyond the City and the Bridge: East Asian Immigration in a New Jersey Suburb by Noriko Matsumoto 9780813588889
RRP: £28.99£24.46In recent decades, the American suburbs have become an important site for immigrant settlement. Beyond the City and the Bridge presents a case study of Fort Lee, Bergen County, on the west side of the George Washington Bridge connecting Manhattan and New... -
The Resilient Self: Gender, Immigration, and Taiwanese Americans by Chien-Juh Gu 9780813586069
RRP: £134.00£114.53The Resilient Self 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... -
Imagining Asia in the Americas by Zelideth Maria Rivas 9780813585215
RRP: £134.00£114.53For centuries, Asian immigrants have been making vital contributions to the cultures of North and South America. Yet in many of these countries, Asians are commonly viewed as undifferentiated racial ""others"", lumped together as... -
Inside China's Grand Strategy: The Perspective from the People's Republic by Ye Zicheng 9780813126456
£37.90China's enormous size, vast population, abundant natural resources, robust economy, and modern military suggest that it will emerge as a great world power. Inside China's Grand Strategy: The Perspective from the People's Republic offers unique insights... -
Chinese Chicago: Race, Transnational Migration, and Community Since 1870 by Huping Ling 9780804775595
RRP: £25.99£22.04Numerous studies have documented the transnational experiences and local activities of Chinese immigrants in California and New York in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Less is known about the vibrant Chinese American community that... -
When Half Is Whole: Multiethnic Asian American Identities by Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu 9780804775175
RRP: £90.00£76.75"I listen and gather people's stories. Then I write them down in a way that I hope will communicate something to others, so that seeing these stories will give readers something of value. I tell myself that this isn't going to be done unless I do... -
Straitjacket Sexualities: Unbinding Asian American Manhoods in the Movies by Celine Shimizu 9780804773003
RRP: £90.00£76.75Depictions of Asian American men as effeminate or asexual pervade popular movies. Hollywood has made clear that Asian American men lack the qualities inherent to the heroic heterosexual male. This restricting, circumscribed vision of masculinity-a... -
Legacies of Struggle: Conflict and Cooperation in Korean American Politics by Angie Y. Chung 9780804756570
£96.61Since the 1992 Los Angeles riots, Koreatown has become increasingly fractured by intergenerational conflict, class polarization, and suburban flight. In the face of these struggles, community organizations can provide centralized resources and... -
Asian Diasporas: New Formations, New Conceptions by Rhacel Salazar Parrenas 9780804752435
£101.05Asian migrants are inextricably linked to contemporary debates concerning the nation-state, neoliberalism, globalization, and transnationalism. This volume brings together these streams of inquiry and proposes a synthetic approach to examine various... -
Asian Religions in British Columbia by Larry DeVries 9780774816625
RRP: £94.00£80.10These insightful, accessible community portraits are mandatory reading for teachers, policy makers, scholars of British Columbia history and Asian Canadian studies, or anyone who wants to be well informed about this province and nation.Book... -
Korean, Asian, or American?: The Identity, Ethnicity, and Autobiography of Second-Generation Korean American Christians by Jacob Yongseok Young 9780761858744
RRP: £52.00£48.03The voices of second-generation Korean Americans echo throughout the pages of this book, which is a sensitive exploration of their struggles with minority, marginality, cultural ambiguity, and negative perceptions. Born in the United States, they are... -
Common Destiny: Filipino American Generations by Juanita Tamayo Lott 9780742546509
RRP: £83.00£75.00Filipino Americans, like many ethnic groups in America, are complex and heterogeneous. This book documents how Filipino Americans have grown within the context of political forces, the prevailing social order, rights and responsibilities of individuals,... -
Emotional Bridges to Puerto Rico: Migration, Return Migration, and the Struggles of Incorporation by Elizabeth M. Aranda 9780742543249
RRP: £90.00£81.22Emotional Bridges to Puerto Rico examines the experiences of incorporation among two groups of middle-class Puerto Ricans: one that currently lives in the U.S. mainland and one that has resettled in Puerto Rico. The analysis focuses on their subjective... -
Traditional Chinese Medicine in the United States: In Search of Spiritual Meaning and Ultimate Health by Emily S. Wu 9780739173664
RRP: £82.00£76.23Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) originated from the traditional medical system in the Chinese civilization, with influences from the Daoist and Chinese folk traditions in bodily cultivation and longevity techniques. In the past few decades, TCM has... -
The Snake Dance of Asian American Activism: Community, Vision, and Power by Michael Liu 9780739127193
RRP: £97.00£89.14This text reinterprets a misunderstood and overlooked epoch of the Asian American experience, the Asian American Movement (AAM). The authors argue that, contrary to the common view of the movement as a passing phase limited to college youth, the Asian... -
American by Birth: Wong Kim Ark and the Battle for Citizenship by Carol Nackenoff 9780700632886
RRP: £26.95£21.81In this abridged edition for the Landmark Law Cases and American Society series American by Birth is now available in a format designed for students and general readers and includes a chronology outlining the key points in the case plus a bibliographical... -
Adios to Tears: The Memoirs of a Japanese-Peruvian Internee in U.S. Concentration Camps by Seiichi Higashide 9780295998633
RRP: £94.00£80.10Adios to Tears is the very personal story of Seiichi Higashide (1909-97), whose life in three countries was shaped by a bizarre and little-known episode in the history of World War II. Born in Hokkaido, Higashide emigrated to Peru in 1931. By the late... -
The Pacific Muse: Exotic Femininity and the Colonial Pacific by Patty O'Brien 9780295996165
RRP: £94.00£80.50The Pacific Muse offers a fresh perspective on a seductively familiar topic: the colonial stereotype of the exotic Pacific island woman. By tracing the evolution of female primitivism from Western antiquity to twentieth-century Hollywood images, the book... -
Altered Lives, Enduring Community: Japanese Americans Remember Their World War II Incarceration by Stephen S. Fugita 9780295995885
RRP: £94.00£80.10Altered Lives, Enduring Community examines the long-term effects on Japanese Americans of their World War II experiences: forced removal from their Pacific Coast homes, incarceration in desolate government camps, and ultimate resettlement. As part of... -
The Nature of California: Race, Citizenship, and Farming since the Dust Bowl by Sarah D. Wald 9780295995663
RRP: £94.00£80.50The California farmlands have long served as a popular symbol of America's natural abundance and endless opportunity. Yet, from John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath and Carlos Bulosan's America Is in the Heart to Helena Maria Viramontes's Under the Feet... -
Meng Jiangnu Brings Down the Great Wall: Ten Versions of a Chinese Legend by Wilt L. Idema 9780295987835
£102.03Meng Jiangnu Brings Down the Great Wall brings together ten versions of a popular Chinese legend that has intrigued readers and listeners for hundreds of years. Elements of the story date back to the early centuries B.C.E. and are an intrinsic part of... -
The Adventures of Eddie Fung: Chinatown Kid, Texas Cowboy, Prisoner of War by Judy Yung 9780295987545
RRP: £21.99£16.31Eddie Fung has the distinction of being the only Chinese American soldier to be captured by the Japanese during World War II. He was then put to work on the Burma-Siam railroad, made famous by the film The Bridge on the River Kwai. In this moving and... -
Wooden Fish Songs: A Novel by Ruthanne Lum McCunn 9780295987149
RRP: £25.99£22.04"Wooden fish songs" were the laments sung by Chinese women left behind by husbands, sons, and brothers who, in the nineteenth century, sailed to America in quest of the good life - and found instead years of indentured servitude and racial... -
Growing Up Brown: Memoirs of a Filipino American by Peter M. Jamero 9780295986425
£28.46"I may have been like other boys, but there was a major difference -- my family included 80 to 100 single young men residing in a Filipino farm-labor camp. It was as a 'campo' boy that I first learned of my ancestral roots and the sometimes tortuous... -
Everyday Modernity in China by Madeleine Yue Dong 9780295986029
£32.57Is modernity in non-Western societies always an "alternative" modernity, a derivative copy of an "original modernity" that began in the West? No, answer the contributors to this book, who then offer an absorbing set of case studies... -
Scenic Spots: Chinese Tourism, the State, and Cultural Authority by Pál Nyíri 9780295985886
£101.32Twenty years ago, commercial tourism in the People’s Republic of China hardly existed. Today, China has a burgeoning tourist industry, characterized by a unique style with deep roots in traditional Chinese culture. Scenic Spots is an engaging exploration... -
The Anguish of Surrender: Japanese POWs of World War II by Ulrich A. Straus 9780295985084
RRP: £27.99£23.66On December 6, 1941, Ensign Kazuo Sakamaki was one of a handful of men selected to skipper midget subs on a suicide mission to breach Pearl Harbor's defenses. When his equipment malfunctioned, he couldn't find the entrance to the harbor. He hit several... -
Form and Transformation in Asian American Literature by Xiaojing Zhou 9780295985046
£28.15This critical anthology draws on current theoretical movements to examine the breadth of Asian American literature from the earliest to the most recent writers. Covering fiction, essays, poetry, short stories, ethnography, and autobiography, Form and... -
Judgment Without Trial: Japanese American Imprisonment During World War II by Tetsuden Kashima 9780295984513
£28.302004 Washington State Book Award Finalist Judgment without Trial reveals that long before the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. government began making plans for the eventual internment and later incarceration of the Japanese American population...