Economic citizens : a narrative of Asian American visibility / Christine So.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

So, Christine, 1967-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Asian Americans--Economic conditions.

Asian Americans.

Exchange--United States.

Exchange.

Social exchange.

Globalization--Social aspects--United States.

Globalization.

Asian Americans--Ethnic identity.

Asian Americans--Historiography.

Asian Americans in literature.

United States--Ethnic relations.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (191 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Economic Citizens argues that Asians have been traditionally imagined as the threat of capitalism gone awry and demonstrates that the logic of economic exchange has been an overlooked but critical means for Asian Americans to negotiate political and cultural equivalence.

Contents:

The promise of exchange : production, circulation, and consumption within Chinatown ethnographies

The universality of exchange : Japanese American travel narratives and the emergence of the global citizen

The embodiment of exchange : Asian mail-order brides, the threat of global capitalism, and the rescue of the U.S. nation-state

The logic of exchange : ordering the chaos of twentieth-century Chinese women's history.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [163]-169) and index.

ISBN:

9786611299057

9781281299055

1281299057

9781592135868

1592135862

OCLC:

476153643