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Author So, Christine

Title Economic Citizens : a Narrative of Asian American Visibility
Published Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (191 pages)
Contents Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The Promise of Exchange: Production, Circulation, and Consumption within Chinatown Ethnographies; 2. The Universality of Exchange: Japanese American Travel Narratives and the Emergence of the Global Citizen; 3. The Embodiment of Exchange: Asian Mail-Order Brides, the Threat of Global Capitalism, and the Rescue of the U.S. Nation-State; 4. The Logic of Exchange: Ordering the Chaos of Twentieth-Century Chinese Women's History; Notes; References; Index
Summary In narratives dominated by money, exchange is the route to Asian American visibility
Notes Print version record
Subject Asian Americans -- Economic conditions
Exchange -- United States
Social exchange.
Globalization -- Social aspects -- United States
Asian Americans -- Ethnic identity
Asian Americans -- Historiography
Asian Americans in literature.
Asian Americans -- Economic conditions.
Asian Americans -- Ethnic identity.
Asian Americans -- Historiography.
Asian Americans in literature.
Ethnic relations.
Exchange.
Globalization -- Social aspects.
Social exchange.
SUBJECT United States -- Ethnic relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140043
Subject United States.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781592135868
1592135862