Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Mapping Studies in the Asian Diaspora / Kandice Chuh and Karen Shimakawa
I. Investments and Interventions
(Un)Disciplined Subjects: (De)Colonizing the Academy? / Dorinne Kondo
(Re)Viewing and Asian American Diaspora: Multiculturalism, Interculturalism, and the Northwest Asian American Theatre / Karen Shimakawa
Creating Performative Communities: Through Text, Time, and Space / Russell Leong
Cross-Discipline Trafficking: What’s Justice Got to Do With It? / Sharon K. Hom
II. Translating Knowledge
Notes toward a Conversion between Area Studies and Diasporic Studies / Dipesh Chakrabarty
The Stakes of Textual Border-Crossings: Hualing Nieh’s Mulberry and Peach in Sinocentric, Asian American, and Feminist Critical Practices / Sau-Ling C. Wong
Biyuti in Everyday Life: Performance, Citizenship, and Survival among Filipinos in the United States / Martin F. Manalansan IV
Missile Internationalism / Kuan-Hsing Chen
III. Para-Sites, Or, Constituting Borders
Leading Questions / Rey Chow
Modeling the Nation: The Asian/American Split / David Palumbo-Liu
Postwar Japan / Yoshikuni Igarashi
Conjunctural Identities, Academic Adjancencies / R. Radhakrishnan
IV. Asian/American Epistemologies
Epistemological Shifts: National Ontology and the New Asian Immigrant / Lisa Lowe
“Imaginary Borders” / Kandice Chuh
“To Tell the Truth and Not Get Trapped”: Why Interethnic Antiracism Matters Now / George Lipsitz
References
Contributors
Index

About the Author

Kandice Chuh is Professor of English, Graduate Center, City University of New York.

Karen Shimakawa is Assistant Professor of Theatre and Dance and Asian American Studies at the University of California, Davis.

Reviews

"Bristling with provocations, this timely collection of intoxicating essays interrogates the margins of disciplinary and institutional centres, revealing unsettling glimpses of the intellectual and material investments in 'Asia,' 'America,' and the fields that figure and are configured by them." - Gary Y. Okihiro, author of Margins and Mainstreams: Asians in American History and Culture