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Bücher der Reihe Pacific Formations: Global Relations in Asian and Pacific Perspectives

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  • - The Rhetorical Production of Hawai'i
    von Houston Wood
    78,00 €

    An examination of the strategies used by outsiders to usurp Hawaiian lands and undermine indigenous Hawaiian culture. Drawing upon historical and contemporary examples, it investigates Captain Cook's journals, Hollywood films and commercialized hula, to show how they displace native culture.

  • - Transnational Spaces on the Pacific Rim
    von Xiangming Chen
    92,00 €

  • - Remapping PhilippinesDUnited States Confrontations
    von E. & Jr. San Juan
    71,00 €

    Caught betwixt the Asian continent and the hegemonic power of the United States, the Philippines occupies a contested space or borderland between past and present, East and West. Balancing the memory of colonial experience with an emergent nation-making dream, this innovative book asks if a meaningful future can be envisioned.

  • - A Story of Japanese America, 1889-1947
    von Frank Chin
    83,00 €

    An oral history of the Japanese American saga. It details the lives of first- and second-generation Japanese Americans before World War II with images drawn from interviews, songs, novels and newspaper articles. The heart of the story is the tragedy that followed the bombing of Pearl Harbor.

  • - Globalization, Social Networks, and Ethnic Identity
    von Bernard P. Wong
    82,00 - 188,00 €

    Examines the complex role of Chinese American scientists and engineers in their ever-growing role in Silicon Valley. They learn how to utilize new social networks and make sense of a changed ethnic identity. This book presents important knowledge on the connection of Chinese ethnicity to high-skilled labor and entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley.

  • - Critical Perspectives on the Pacific Region Idea
    von Arif Dirlik
    108,00 €

    This work includes ideas and perspectives for those seeking deeper understanding of the concepts and historical, political, economic, and social force that constitute the "Pacific Rim".

  • von Arif Dirlik
    104,00 €

    Chinese immigrants played a dynamic role in frontier America, yet scholars of Asian America have focused for the most part only on the Pacific Coast, especially California. This reader fills that gap by collecting memoirs, documents, and historical analyses from the other Western states¿from the Cascades to the Great Plains¿to provide a comprehensive overview of the Chinese in nineteenth-century America.

  • - Literature, Cultural Politics, and Identity in the New Pacific
     
    101,00 €

    A set of essays and interviews on the emergent literatures of the new Pacific. There are position papers, polemics and decolonizing critiques, which seek to expose the maze and mix of literatures and cultural identities breaking down and building up across the Pacific Ocean.

  • - People of Asian Descent in the Americas
     
    93,00 €

    People of Asian descent have lived for centuries in North and South America, where they have been involved in the creation of multicultural, multiethnic societies. This anthology explores their experiences among ethnic and cultural groups in a works by and about Asian Americans.

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