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If Asian Americans are to assume the role of bridge builders across the
Pacific, what are the opportunities, the risks, the promises, and the
perils? The answer to this question comes in eight essays in which
contributors to Across the Pacific address issues of contemporary growth
and diversification of Asian America in relation to the increasingly
global economy. This book explores, in descriptive and critical ways, how
transnational relationships and interactions in Asian American communities
are manifested, exemplified, and articulated within the international
context of the Pacific Rim.
Table of Contents
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Foreword |
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Acknowledgments |
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| Ch. 1 |
Introduction: Asian American Formations in the Age of
Globalization |
1 |
| Ch. 2 |
Asians on the Rim: Transnational Capital and Local
Community in the Making of Contemporary Asian America |
29 |
| Ch. 3 |
Chinese Americans in the Formation of the Pacific
Regional Economy |
61 |
| Ch. 4 |
Asian American Economic Engagement: Vietnam Case Study |
79 |
| Ch. 5 |
Asian American Activism and U.S. Foreign Policy |
109 |
| Ch. 6 |
Exclusion and Inclusion: Immigration and American
Orientalism |
129 |
| Ch. 7 |
Asian Americans at the Intersection of International
and Domestic Tensions: An Analysis of Newspaper Coverage |
152 |
| Ch. 8 |
Inventing the Earth: The Notion of "Home" in
Asian American Literature |
191 |
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About the Contributors |
219 |
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