...This book explores the historical arc of American film representations of China in the context of the tensions between the self and the other or, more generally, those between America and China. Through an analysis of such films as Broken Blossoms, The Bitter Tea of General...

...This chapter provides an overview of sovereignty in North America. The European powers that colonized North America based their territorial claims on sweeping assertions of sovereignty over vast areas of the continent. Initially, these claims had little basis in reality; the colonizing powers were...

... and kabuki sets, and the interactive use of dialogue, mask, costume, video, music and tableau. Anime Wong Historical fiction Los Angeles city Migration Orientalism Science fiction Brazil Maru Yamashita Identity Asian American Cyborg Satire Diaspora Asian America Stage Set Fantasy Mask Kabuki...

...America’s southernmost territory, American Samoa has national parks, marine sanctuaries and wildlife refuges that protect tropical rainforests and coral reefs. Rare birds, fruit bats, Norway rats, and Tahiti petrels are the focus of my work at the National Park of American Samoa. Anthropologist...

... on the formation of Asian America? How do we grasp the meaning of this transpacific subject in and out of Asian American history and culture? This book explores these questions in the crossings of Asian culture and American history. Beginning with the story of Yung Wing, the book is organized chronologically...

...This book is a study of an Okinawan diasporic community in South America and Japan. Under extraordinary conditions throughout the twentieth century, Okinawans left their homeland and created various diasporic communities around the world. Colonia Okinawa, a farming settlement in the tropical plains...

...Karen Tei Yamashita’s novels, essays, and performance scripts have garnered considerable praise from scholars and reviewers, and are taught not only in the United States but in at least half a dozen countries in Asia, South America, Europe. Her work has been written about in numerous disciplines...

... eagerness to write in English would lead him to America and later to writer Joaquin Miller's home in Oakland, where he was initiated into San Francisco's Bohemian Club and met various artists and writers who drew inspiration from him. One of these writers was Stoddard, who was drawn not only to Japan...

... and images Niwa Hasegawa Sendai Daikannon Yokohama Museum of Art Buddhism in North America park comparative religion affect modernity internet architecture leisure Asia the scent of camellia hung in the thick jungle air. One at a time, beads of sweat clung to the tip of my nose before...

...This chapter analyzes the development of the Honpa Honganji Mission of Hawaii (HHMH) and the Buddhist Mission of North America (BMNA). Shin Buddhism spread in Hawaii and North America as an “organized religion” with headquarters in Kyoto. On that note, the initial goals of the HHMH and the BMNA...

...This concluding chapter asserts that the organizational amendments, ritual alterations, and doctrinal interpretations of Honpa Honganji Mission of Hawaii (HHMH) and the Buddhist Mission of North America (BMNA) are deeply rooted in the forces of globalization. Each mission or church was under...

...This chapter examines American films of the 1990s containing intensely negative images of China. Films of the 1990s came after a period of détente between America and China. In the decades following U.S. President Richard Nixon’s 1972 meeting with Chinese leader Mao Zedong, Americans were full...

... I, and his later visit to South America, permit a biography of depth and detail that serves as a kind of cultural history of Japan during an often turbulent period. With Tōson himself as its complex protagonist, this book is arguably the most thorough account of any modern Japanese writer presently...

... explains what sovereignty is and accuses America of taking the sovereignty of the indigenous people of Hawai‘i, calling the Americans their enemies. She says the only way to fight the United States is to be political. For her part, Mililani Trask discusses the platform of Ka Lāhui Hawai‘i regarding...

...This chapter aims to investigate how the interjections and interruptions from ancient apocalyptic traditions interact with the present of an “intrusive” and alien-ated (Asian) America, focusing primarily on the apocalyptic tradition that grows out of the book of Revelation in the New Testament...

... Cambodia Laos Indochina Race Imperialism Children Motherhood France orphan métis whiteness FOEFI Eurasian Afroasian post-colonial studies child removals lost generation Native America boarding schools Jean Battin took a deep breath as he faced the studio audience for the television...

... in the Philippines was to a certain extent different from that in most parts of Spanish America. Cushner Nicholas Hispano Dutch War Mexico viceroyalty Phelan John Population decline Cebu island Conquest Influenza Measles Mindanao Minerals Negros Plague Population density Population estimates pre...

... ideological groups. One was a conservative group whose members belonged to the Korean National Association of North America. The other major anti-Rhee faction was a progressive group affiliated with two left-leaning organizations: (1) the Sino-Korean Peoples’ League in Honolulu and (2) the Societies for Aid...