Across the Pacific
Subtitle: Asian Americans and globalization
By: edited by Evelyn Hu-DeHart.
Contributors: Hu-DeHart, Evelyn.
Edition: 1st pbk. ed.
Series: Asian American history and culture; Asian American history and culture
Publisher: Asia Society; Temple University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York; Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
Subjects: Asian Americans -- Economic conditions; Asian Americans -- Politics and government; Competition, International; United States -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 20th century; Asia -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 20th century; Pacific Area -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 20th century; United States -- Foreign relations -- Asia; Asia -- Foreign relations -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Asian American formations in the age of globalization / Evelyn Hu-DeHart; title: Asians on the rim: transnational capital and local community in the making of contemporary Asian America / Arif Dirlik; title: Chinese Americans in the formation of the Pacific regional economy / Lucie Cheng; title: Asian American economic engagement: Vietnam case study / Le Anh Tu Packard; title: Asian American activism and U.S. foreign policy / Paul Y. Watanabe; title: Exclusion and inclusion: immigration and American orientalism / Neil Gotanda; title: Asian Americans at the intersection of international and domestic tensions: an analysis of newspaper coverage / Setsuko Matsunaga Nishi; title: Inventing the earth: the notion of "home" in Asian American literature / Luis H. Francia.