Research Catalog

Title

Transpacific studies : framing an emerging field / Janet Hoskins and Viet Thanh Nguyen, editors.

Publication

Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2014.

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Additional Authors

• Hoskins, Janet
• Nguyen, Viet Thanh, 1971-

Description

viii, 270 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Series Statement

Asian and Pacific American transcultural studies

Uniform Title

Intersections (Honolulu, Hawaii)

Subject

• Interregionalism > Asia
• Interregionalism > Pacific Area
• Interregionalism > United States
• Asia > Relations
• Pacific Area > Relations
• United States > Relations

Contents

Introduction: transpacific studies: interventions and intersections / Viet Thanh Nguyen and Janet Hoskins -- Transpacific studies: the view from Asia / Weiqiang Lin and Brenda S.A. Yeoh -- The transpacific Cold War / Heonik Kwon -- The Pacific paradox / Xiang Biao -- The Pageant of the Pacific: Miguel Covarrubias and the Golden Gate International Exposition 1939-1940 / Nancy C. Lutkehaus -- Transpacific studies and the cultures of U.S. imperialism / John Carlos Rowe -- Passionate attachments to area studies and Asian American studies: subjectivity and diaspora in the transpacific / J. Francisco Benitez and Laurie J. Sears -- Imaginationalisms: imaginary languages in translation, imagined national cinemas / Akira Lippit -- Militarized refuge: a critical rereading of Vietnamese flight to the U.S. / Yen Le Espiritu -- Special money in the Vietnamese diaspora / Hung Cam Thai -- Conclusion: living transpacifically / Yunte Huang.

ISBN

• 9780824839949
• 0824839943
• 9780824839987 (alk. paper)
• 0824839986 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2014002196

OCLC

• ocn869282809
• SCSB-14481129

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library