Transpacific Studies: Framing an Emerging Field 9780824847746

Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Transpacific Studies: Critical Perspectives on an Emerging Field
Part I. Theories of the Transpacific
1. Transpacific Studies: The View from Asia
2. The Transpacific Cold War
3. The Pacific Paradox: The Chinese State in Transpacific Interactions
Part II. Transpacific Cultures
4 Miguel Covarrubias and the Pageant of the Pacific: The Golden Gate International Exposition and the Idea of the Transpacific, 1939– 1940
5. Transpacific Studies and the Cultures of U.S. Imperialism
6. Passionate Attachments to Area Studies and Asian American Studies: Subjectivity and Diaspora in the Transpacific
Part III. Transpacific Populations
7. Imaginary Languages in Translation, Imagined National Cinemas
8. Militarized Refuge: A Critical Rereading of Vietnamese Flight to the United States
9. Special Money in the Vietnamese Diaspora
Conclusion: Living Transpacifically
Contributors
Index