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“Transoceanic Flows: Pacific Islander Interventions across the American Empire”

Amerasia Journal 38:1 — “Transoceanic Flows:  Pacific Islander Interventions across the American Empire” The first extended treatment devoted to Pacific Islander Studies in Amerasia Journal, “Transoceanic Flows:  Pacific Islander Interventions across the American Empire” addresses the geographical expanse and methodological … Continue reading

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Amerasia Journal Announces Winner of Lucie Cheng Prize, Yuko Konno

The UCLA Asian American Studies Center and Amerasia Journal are pleased to announce that Ms. Yuko Konno, Department of History, University of Southern California is the 2011 Winner of the Amerasia Journal Lucie Cheng Prize for her essay, “Localism and … Continue reading

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“Battle Hymn of the Model Minority Myth” by Mitchell James Chang

This week, we’re continuing our online collaboration with Hyphen Magazine’s “Across the Desk” blog, cross-posting essays from our Amerasia Forum on “The Year of the Tiger Mom.”  Please click over to “Across the Desk” to read OiYan Poon’s piece, “Ching … Continue reading

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“On Tiger Mothers and Music Moms” by Grace Wang

The almost instantaneous uproar elicited by Amy Chua’s Wall Street Journal op-ed “Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior” and her memoir Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother was, in many ways, unsurprising. With her brash and unapologetic claims about the reasons … Continue reading

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“Advice on How Not to Misread the Tiger Mother” by erin Khuê Ninh

We are excited to present online our “Amerasia Forum” on Amy Chua’s Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, which was recently published in the print version of Amerasia Journal.  We are cross-posting the essays with the “Across the Desk” blog … Continue reading

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From the pages of Amerasia: James Kyung-Jin Lee on Russell Leong, “Anxieties of Influence”

Below is an excerpt of James Kyung-Jin Lee’s guest editor’s introduction for the recently published special issue commemorating the career of Amerasia Journal senior editor, Russell C. Leong. “Anxieties of Influence” From Amerasia Journal 37:1 (2011) By James Kyung-Jin Lee … Continue reading

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Amerasia 36:3 – GlobaLinks: Community Institutions & Practices across Nations

Amerasia 36.3 GlobaLinks:  Community Institutions & Practices across Nations Los Angeles — The UCLA Asian American Studies Center Press announces the publication of Amerasia Journal’s latest issue, “GlobaLinks:  Community Institutions & Practices across Nations.”  Guest edited by Michel Laguerre and … Continue reading

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Call for Abstracts: Chinese Writing in the Americas

An International Editorial Collaboration among UCLA, Tsinghua University, and Brown University Amerasia Journal, UCLA Asian American Studies Center Consulting Guest Co-Editors: Prof. Wang Ning Tsinghua University wangning@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn Prof. Evelyn Hu-DeHart Brown University Evelyn_Hu-Dehart@brown.edu Amerasia Journal Editor and Adjunct Prof. Russell Leong … Continue reading

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Karen Tei Yamashita on I Hotel, from the pages of Amerasia

We were greeted by the happy news last week that Karen Tei Yamashita’s latest novel I Hotel was named as one of the five finalists for the National Book Award in fiction.  It’s definitely a worthy nomination for Yamashita, an innovative … Continue reading

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Amerasia 36.2 – Asian Australia and Asian America: Making Transnational Connections

Los Angeles – The UCLA Asian American Studies Center Press announces Amerasia‘s latest issue: “Asian Australia and Asian America:  Making Transnational Connections.” Guest edited by Jacqueline Lo, Dean Chan, and Tseen Khoo, with former Center Director Don T. Nakanishi of … Continue reading

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