ABOUT THIS BOOK
As a book about cultural memory and retrieval, this collection of essays asks readers to reconsider who represents Asian America and what constitutes its history. Defining the early period as spanning the nineteenth century and the 1960s, the original essays here speak to the difficulty of recovering a past that was largely unrecorded as well as understanding the varied experiences of peoples of Asian descent. Interdisciplinary in approach, the essays address the Asian American individuals and communities that have been omitted from "official" histories; trace the roots of persistent racial stereotypes and myths; and retrieve artistic production that raises vexed questions of what counts as "art" or as Asian American. By reconsidering the political, cultural, and material history written in the last three decades, this volume contributes to a new understanding of Asian America's past and relationship to the present.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Josephine Lee is Associate Professor of English at the University of Minnesota and the author of Performing Asian America (Temple).Imogene Lim is University-College Professor of Anthroplogy at Malaspina University.Yuko Matsukawa has taught American literature and women's studies at Rhode Island College, Tufts University, and the State University of New York at Brockport.Contributors: Guy Beauregard, Tina Chen, Fabiana Chiu-Rinaldi, Catherine Ceniza Choy, Robert Cooperman, Helena Grice, Lane Ryo Hirabayshi, Amy Ling, Edward Marx, Adam McKeown, Mae M. Ngai, Jeanette Roan, Randal Rohe, Rajini Srikanth, Emma J. Teng, Guanhua Wang, Meredith Wood, and the editors.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Introduction – Yuko Matsukawa, Josephine Lee, and Imogene L. LimPart I: Locations and Relocations2. Pacific Entry, Pacific Century: Chinatown and Chinese Canadian History – Imogene L. Lim3. Chinese Campus and Chinatowns: Chinese Mining Settlements in the Canadian and American West – Randall Rohe4. Artifacts of a Lost City: Arnold Genthe's Pictures of Old Chinatown and its Intertexts – Ema Teng5. The Komagata Maru: Memory and Mobilization Among the South Asian Diaspora in North America – Rajini Srikanth6. Community Destroyed? Assessing the Impact of the Loss of Community on Japanese Americans During World War II – Lane Ryo HirabayashiPart II: Crossings7. From Colonial Subject to Undesirable Alien: Filipino Immigration Exclusionand Repatriation 1920-1940 – Mae M. Ngai8. The Sojourner as Astronaut: Paul Siu in Global Perspective – Adam McKeown9. Between Fact and Fiction: Literary Portraits of Chinese Americans in the 1905 Anti-American Boycott – Guanhua Wang10. From Exchange Visitor to Permanent Resident: Reconsidering Filipino Nurse Migration as a Post-1965 Phenomenon – Catherine Ceniza Choy11. China Latina – Fabiana Chiu-RinaldiPart III: Objects12. Exotic Explorations: Travels to Asia in Early Cinema – Jeanette Roan13. Representing the Oriental in Nineteenth-Century Trade Cards – Yuko Matsukawa14. Dissecting the "Devil Doctor": Stereotype and Sensationalism in Sax Rohmer's Fu Manchu – Tina Chen15. Footprints from the Past: Passing Racial Stereotypes in the Hardy Boys – Meredith Wood16. Face-ing/De-Face-ing Racism: Physiognomy as Ethnic Marker in Early Eurasian/Amerasian Women's Texts – Helena GricePart IV: Recollecting17. Yan Phou Lee on the Asian American Frontier – Amy Ling18. "A Different Mode of Speech": Yone Noguchi in Meiji America – Edward Marx19. Asian American sin Progress: College Plays 1937-1955 – Josephine Lee20. The Americanization of Americans: The Phenomenon of Nisei Internment Camp Theater – Robert Cooperman21. Reclaiming Sui Sin Far – Guy Beauregard

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