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Claudia Huang
Dancing for Their Lives

Dancing for Their Livesdelves into the world of retired Chinese "dancing grannies" who seek fulfillment amid broad social transformation. Based on ethnographic research, it challenges convention…

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Claudia Huang
Dancing for Their Lives

Dancing for Their Livesdelves into the world of retired Chinese "dancing grannies" who seek fulfillment amid broad social transformation. Based on ethnographic research, it challenges convention…

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Samantha Bresnahan
In Blood, Flowers Bloom

"In Blood, Flowers Bloom illuminates one of the last untold stories of World War II, the common act of soldiers taking their enemy's possessions after victory. This is the story of a single Japanese …

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Caste, Country, and Creed

What happens when ancient systems of oppression travel across oceans? How do Indian diaspora communities across five nations challenge centuries-old systems of oppression while building new forms of solid…

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Caste, Country, and Creed

What happens when ancient systems of oppression travel across oceans? How do Indian diaspora communities across five nations challenge centuries-old systems of oppression while building new forms of solid…

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Danielle Wong
Racial Virtuality

Racial Virtuality contends that racialization not only occurs through representation in media, but also through our very interactions with media technologies and their unseen operations. The racialization…

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Asian America Rising

A collection of movement flashpoints and insurgent visions for Asian American activism In the late 1960s, Asian American political activism emerged to unite disparate Asian diasporic communities living in…

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Micah S Muscolino
Remaking the Earth, Exhausting the People

State-led conservation transformed Gansu's landscape---rural communities bore the costsFrom the 1940s to the 1960s, soil and water conservation measures transformed both the arid, erosion-prone environmen…

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Yunuen Ysela Mandujano-Salazar
Beyond the Male Idol Factory

"A star-making factory without rival, the Japanese talent agency Johnny's Jimusho has brought fame to several generations of male stars - singers, actors and performers. Beyond the Male Idol Factory …

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Midori Ogasawara
Colonial Surveillance

In order to compete with Western powers, Japan began to rapidly modernize its governing institutions, in the process creating a national population registration and identification bureaucracy, the Koseki …

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Siyuan Yin
Contesting Inequalities

After four decades of market reform, China has developed a fast-growing, prosperous economy--the second largest in the world. Despite this prosperity, social inequality has persisted and expanded, particu…

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Kaila Yu
Fetishized

A "raw and lyrical" (New York Times) memoir-in-essays from former pinup model and lead singer of Nylon Pink Kaila Yu, reckoning with being an object of Asian fetish and how media, pop culture, a…

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Garrett Hongo
Ocean of Clouds

**NAMED AN ESSENTIAL READ OF THE YEAR BY THE New Yorker •In his fourth book of poems, award-winning poet Garrett Hongo sees coastlines and waters, skylines and ancestral lines for what they inspire and te…

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Siyuan Yin
Contesting Inequalities

After four decades of market reform, China has developed a fast-growing, prosperous economy--the second largest in the world. Despite this prosperity, social inequality has persisted and expanded, particu…

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Ju Yon Kim
Paper Performance

Since the late nineteenth century, various agencies of the U.S. government have attempted to manage "suspect" immigrants, colonial subjects, and activists of Asian descent through bureaucratic p…

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Ju Yon Kim
Paper Performance

Since the late nineteenth century, various agencies of the U.S. government have attempted to manage "suspect" immigrants, colonial subjects, and activists of Asian descent through bureaucratic p…

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Adrian de Leon,
Balikbayan

How migrants imagined a country through their acts of return What does it mean to go back home, especially when "home" is shaped by conquest, labor, and longing? This question has animated the e…

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Jenny Banh
Fantasies of Hong Kong Disneyland

Jenny Banh examines the attempt to transplant Disney's "happiest place on earth" to Hong Kong, delving into the three-way dynamics of American culture-corporation intentions; Hong Kong, China go…

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Smithsonian Asian Pacific American History, Art, and Culture in 101 Objects

A rich and compelling introduction to the history of Asian Pacific American communities as told through 101 objects, from a fortune cookie baking mold to the debut Ms. Marvel comic featuring Kamala Khan A…

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Jenny Banh
Fantasies of Hong Kong Disneyland

Jenny Banh examines the attempt to transplant Disney's "happiest place on earth" to Hong Kong, delving into the three-way dynamics of American culture-corporation intentions; Hong Kong, China go…

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