Christine So

Economic Citizens: A Narrative of Asian American Visibility

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Economic Citizens argues that Asians have been traditionally imagined as the threat of capitalism gone awry and demonstrates that the logic of economic exchange has been an overlooked but critical means for Asian Americans to negotiate political and cultural equivalence.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Temple University Press
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: Dezember 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 150mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 345g
• ISBN-13: 9781592135844
• ISBN-10: 1592135846
• Artikelnr.: 22707965

Autorenporträt

Christine So is Associate Professor of English at Georgetown University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction    1
       
       
       
1.    The Promise of Exchange:
Production, Circulation, and Consumption Within Chinatown Ethnographies
    45
       
2.    The Universality of Exchange:
Japanese American Travel Narratives and the Emergence of the Global Citizen
    88
       
       
3.    The Embodiment of Exchange:
Asian Mail-Order Brides, the Threat of Global Capitalism, and the Rescue of
the U.S. Nation-State    122
       
       
       
4.    The Logic of Exchange:
Ordering the Chaos of Twentieth Century Chinese Women's History    156
       
       
       
       
    Notes    193
       
       
       
    Bibliography    199