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I am kind of excited that Asian studies scholars are looking into Asian/American transpacific studies, as this has been my intellectual home when writing my book. Scholars in both fields have been doing this work for a while. Here are some works I really admire 1/?
David Palumbo-Liu& #39;s Asian/American (1999) the / you see in Asian/American is because for P-L "Asian/American marks both the distinction installed between & #39;Asian& #39; and & #39;American& #39; and a dynamic, unsettled, and inclusive movement." You can be Asian, Asian American, or in-between. 2/?
Nguyen and Hoskins& #39; Transpacific Studies (2014) is an anthology with both Asian and Asian American studies scholars from N America and Asia. 3/?
Lisa Yoneyama& #39;s Cold War Ruins (2016) looks at "transborder redress culture" among movements seeking redress for Japanese war crimes, JA redress, and US bases in Okinawa. 4/?
Tak Fujitani& #39;s Race for Empire (2011) compares Japanese and American respective instrumentalization of Koreans and Japanese Americans as military draftees and how this took the form of "polite racism." 5/?
Laura Madokoro& #39;s Elusive Refuge (2016) discusses the migrant crisis on the HK/PRC border that was not called a refugee crisis and the way that these migrants were positioned in the US, Canada, Australia, and South Africa, among other places. 6/?
Gerald Horne& #39;s Facing the Rising Sun (2018) looks at African American intellectuals& #39; desire to see the rise of a non-white power led them to support an increasingly fascist Japan. 7/?
Lily Wong& #39;s Transpacific Attachments (2018) looks at the representation of Chinese, Sinophone and American women as sex workers in Chinese, Taiwanese, and American literature and film.
Richard Jean So& #39;s Transpacific Community looks at the social connections between Chinese and American leftists in the pre-Cold War period.
Monica Kim& #39;s The Interrogation Rooms of the Korean War is a really fascinating account of how interrogations were conducted during the Korean War. Did you know that some of the earliest interrogators were Japanese Americans from the MIS? I definitely did not.
Brian Hu& #39;s Worldly Desires (2018) looks at Sinophone cinematic cosmopolitanism. His chapter on the wooden, exotic, and strangely infantile charms of the ABC actor even when they are British or half-Vietnamese is really interesting. Also he talks about the movie Gen Y Cops.
