CONTENTS
Foreword: Vishakha N. Desai
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1 Introduction: Asian American Formations in the Age of Globalization
Evelyn Hu-DeHart
Chapter 2 Asians on the Rim: Transnational Capital and Local Community in the Making of Contemporary
Asian America
Arif Dirlik
Chapter 3 Chinese Americans in the Formation of the Pacific Regional Economy
Lucie Cheng
Chapter 4 Asian American Economic Engagement: Vietnam Case Study
Le Anh Tu Packard
Chapter 5 Asian American Activism in Foreign Policy
Paul Y. Watanabe
Chapter 6 Exclusion and Inclusion: Immigration and American Orientalism
Neil Gotanda
Chapter 7 Asian Americans at the Intersection of International and Domestic Tensions: An Analysis
of Newspaper Coverage
Setsuko Matsunaga Nishi
Chapter 8 Inventing the Earth: The Notion of "Home" in Asian American Literature
Luis H. Francia
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