Transpacific articulations : student migration and the remaking of Asian America / Chih-ming Wang.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wang, Chih-ming, 1975-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chinese students--Political activity--United States.

Chinese students.

College students--Political activity--United States.

College students.

College students' writings, Chinese--United States.

College students' writings, Chinese.

College students' writings, American.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (226 p.)

Place of Publication:

Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In 1854 Yung Wing, who graduated with a bachelor's degree from Yale University, returned to a poverty-stricken China, where domestic revolt and foreign invasion were shaking the Chinese empire. Inspired by the U.S. and its liberal education, Yung believed that having more Chinese students educated there was the only way to bring reform to China. Since then, generations of students from China-and other Asian countries-have embarked on this transpacific voyage in search of modernity. What forces have shaped Asian student migration to the U.S.? What impact do foreign students have 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? Transpacific Articulations explores these questions in the crossings of Asian culture and American history. Beginning with the story of Yung Wing, the book is organized chronologically to show the transpacific character of Asian student migration. The author examines Chinese students' writings in English and Chinese, maintaining that so-called "overseas student literature" represents both an imaginary passage to modernity and a transnational culture where meanings of Asian America are rearticulated through Chinese. He also demonstrates that Chinese student political activities in the U.S. in the late 1960's and 1970's-namely, the Baodiao movement that protested Japan's takeover of the Diaoyutai Islands and the Taiwan independence movement-have important but less examined intersections with Asian America. In addition, the work offers a reflection on the development of Asian American studies in Asia to suggest the continuing significance of knowledge and movement in the formation of Asian America. Transpacific Articulations provides a doubly engaged perspective formed in the nexus of Asian and American histories by taking the foreign student figure seriously. It will not only speak to scholars of Asian American studies, Asian studies, and transnational cultural studies, but also to general readers who are interested in issues of modernity, diaspora, identity, and cultural politics in China and Taiwan.

Contents:

Leaving Asia for America: Yung Wing, study abroad, and translated subjectivity

Writing diaspora: tactics of intervention and pedagogy of desire

Tracking Baodiao: diaspora, sovereignty, and Cold War imperialism

Formosa betrayed: transnational politics and Taiwanese American identity

Internationalism at work: bridge and Asian American studies in Asia.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-197) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Aug 2019)

ISBN:

9780824871055

0824871057

9780824839161

0824839161

OCLC:

859157652