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Category: Asian American

Asian American/Diaspora/Ethnic Minorities/globalization/Historiography/Imperialism/India/Nationalism

Diaspora experience as a function of modernity, imperialism, and nationalism.

Posted on February 22, 2017 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

From my online course on Asia-US migration, an upcoming discussion: The second half of [Vinay] Lal’s book [The Other Indians: A Political And Cultural His...

Asian American/Current Events/Ethnic Minorities/Historiography/US-Japan/War

Oh, internment again.

Posted on February 2, 2017 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

This is something I wrote for my Asia-US migration class this week. We’re reading Erika Lee’s The Making of Asian America. You can figure out which ...

Academia/Asian American

Edward Alsworth Ross and the good old days of scholarship

Posted on February 19, 2016 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

Edward Alsworth Ross  was the father of modern Sociology, or maybe Criminology or Anthropology (disciplines were harder to distinguish back then) and also a maj...

Asian American/Historiography/Japan/Memory/Public History/US-Japan/昭和

Immigrant Panics, then and now.

Posted on November 19, 2015 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

There’s not all that much to add to George Takei’s devastating response to Roanoke Mayor David Bowen’s attempt to rationalize refusing Syrian ...

Art/Asian American/Cultural/Museums/US-Japan/明治

Doing Ironic Irony Ironically: Play-Acting Satires of Orientalist Japonisme?

Posted on July 7, 2015 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

Update at end Evan Smith of “Big, Red, and Shiny” reports: The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston has found itself mired in controversy over an in-gallery ...

Asian American/Books/China/English/Literature

Commander Bradshaw goes to China

Posted on September 8, 2013 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

Lately I have been going through Project Guttenberg and reading old books set in China. Late at night when you are too tired to go to bed, or in the odd quarter...

Asian American/China/Diaspora/English/Ethnic Minorities/Web Sites and Resources

When the Chinese went out for Jews

Posted on March 19, 2013 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

For the benefit of our Chinese readers, as well as anyone else who has not seen this excellent piece, I would like to introduce Scott Seligman’s “Th...

Asian American/China/English/Food

Who's Afraid of Chop Suey? Or, The Politics of Authenticity

Posted on February 14, 2012 by C. W. Hayford / 14 Comments

  I humbly report that I have a piece —  “Who’s Afraid of Chop Suey?” — in the most recent Education About Asia (Winter 2011)...

Asian American/China/Class/Culture/English/Social History

From all the junks, the one I need more is music

Posted on February 5, 2012 by Alan Baumler / 2 Comments

Slate has a piece up on the Asian-ization of Western classical music. It’s more historically informed than you might think for a Slate piece, although it ...

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