Asian American History & Culture

Founded by Sucheng Chan in 1991, the Asian American History and Culture series has sponsored innovative scholarship that has redefined, expanded, and advanced the field of Asian American studies while strengthening its links to related areas of scholarly inquiry and engaged critique. Like the field from which it emerged, the series remains rooted in the social sciences and humanities, encompassing multiple regions, formations, communities, and identities. Extending the vision of founding editor Sucheng Chan and emeriti editor Michael Omi, David Palumbo-Liu, K. Scott Wong and Linda Trinh Võ, series editors Cathy Schlund-Vials, Rick Bonus, and Shelley Sang-Hee Lee continue to develop a foundational collection that embodies a range of theoretical and methodological approaches to Asian American studies.

Prospective authors should contact Editor Sara Cohen at Temple University Press to discuss their work in progress for inclusion in the series.

Between the Lines
South Asians and Postcoloniality
edited by Bahri, Deepika and Mary Vasudeva

384 pp • 6x9 • Fall 1996
paper 978-1-56639-468-0
cloth 978-1-56639-467-3

Creating a Buddhist Community
A Thai Temple in Silicon Valley
Bao, Jiemin

204 pp • 5.5x8.25 • Spring 2015
paper 978-1-4399-0955-3
cloth 978-1-4399-0954-6

Locating Filipino Americans
Ethnicity and the Cultural Politics of Space
Bonus, Rick

248 pp • 6x9 • Spring 2000
paper 978-1-56639-779-7
cloth 978-1-56639-778-0

Reframing Transracial Adoption
Korean Adoptees, White Parents and the Politics of Kinship
Brian, Kristi

230 pp • 6x9 • Spring 2012
paper 978-1-4399-0184-7
cloth 978-1-4399-0183-0

The Cry and the Dedication
Bulosan, Carlos, edited by E. San Juan, Jr.

344 pp • 6x9 • Spring 1995
paper 978-1-56639-296-9
cloth 978-1-56639-295-2

On Becoming Filipino
Selected Writings of Carlos Bulosan
Bulosan, Carlos, edited by E. San Juan, Jr.

240 pp • 5.5x8.25 • Spring 1995
paper 978-1-56639-310-2
cloth 978-1-56639-309-6

Chinese Americans and the Politics of Race and Culture
edited by Chan, Sucheng and Madeline Y. Hsu

264 pp • 6x9 • Spring 2008
paper 978-1-59213-753-4
cloth 978-1-59213-752-7

Chinese American Transnationalism
The Flow of People, Resources, and Ideas between China and America during the Exclusion Era
edited by Chan, Sucheng

312 pp • 6x9 • Fall 2005
paper 978-1-59213-435-9
cloth 978-1-59213-434-2

Entry Denied
Exclusion and the Chinese Community in America, 1882-1943
Chan, Sucheng

320 pp • Spring 1991
paper 978-1-56639-201-3
cloth 978-0-87722-798-4

Hmong Means Free
Life in Laos and America
edited by Chan, Sucheng

296 pp • 6x9 • Spring 1994
paper 978-1-56639-163-4
cloth 978-1-56639-162-7

The Vietnamese American 1.5 Generation
Stories of War, Revolution, Flight, and New Beginnings
edited by Chan, Sucheng

344 pp • 6x9 • Spring 2006
paper 978-1-59213-501-1
cloth 978-1-59213-500-4

Smuggled Chinese
Clandestine Immigration to the United States
Chin, Ko-lin, foreword by Douglas S. Massey

296 pp • 6x9 • Fall 1999
paper 978-1-56639-733-9
cloth 978-1-56639-732-2

Doing What Had to Be Done
The Life Narrative of Dora Yum Kim
Chin, Soo-Young

272 pp • 6x9 • Spring 1999
paper 978-1-56639-694-3
cloth 978-1-56639-693-6

Paper Son
One Man's Story
Chin, Tung Pok with Winifred C. Chin, introduction by K. Scott Wong

184 pp • 5.5x8.25 • Fall 2000
paper 978-1-56639-801-5
cloth 978-1-56639-800-8

The Asian American Avant-Garde
Universalist Aspirations in Modernist Literature and Art
Clark, Audrey Wu

246 pp • 6x9 • Fall 2015
paper 978-1-4399-1227-0
cloth 978-1-4399-1226-3

The Transnational Politics of Asian Americans
edited by Collet, Christian and Pei-te Lien
Foreword by Don Nakanishi

252 pp • 6x9 • Spring 2009
paper 978-1-59213-861-6
cloth 978-1-59213-860-9

Treacherous Subjects
Gender, Culture, and Trans-Vietnamese Feminism
Duong, Lan P.

264 pp • 6x9 • Spring 2012
paper 978-1-4399-0178-6
cloth 978-1-4399-0177-9

Q& A
Queer in Asian America
edited by Eng, David L. and Alice Y. Hom

445 pp • 7x10 • Fall 1998
paper 978-1-56639-640-0
cloth 978-1-56639-639-4

Asian American Panethnicity
Bridging Institutions and Identities
Espiritu, Yen Le

238 pp • 6x9 • Fall 1992
paper 978-1-56639-096-5
cloth 978-0-87722-955-1

Filipino American Lives
Espiritu, Yen Le

240 pp • 6x9 • Spring 1995
paper 978-1-56639-317-1
cloth 978-1-56639-316-4

The First Suburban Chinatown
The Remaking of Monterey Park, California
Fong, Timothy P.

240 pp • 6x9 • Fall 1993
paper 978-1-56639-262-4
cloth 978-1-56639-123-8

Organizing Asian American Labor
The Pacific Coast Canned-Salmon Industry, 1870-1942
Friday, Chris

296 pp • 6x9 • Spring 1994
paper 978-1-56639-398-0
cloth 978-1-56639-139-9

San Francisco's International Hotel
Mobilizing the Filipino American Community in the Anti-Eviction Movement
Habal, Estella

256 pp • 6x9 • Spring 2007
paper 1-59213-446-7
EAN 978-1-59213-446-5
cloth 1-59213-445-9
EAN 978-1-59213-445-8

Countervisions
Asian American Film Criticism
edited by Hamamoto, Darrell Y. and Sandra Liu

317 pp • 7x10 • Spring 2000
paper 978-1-56639-776-6
cloth 978-1-56639-775-9

But Still, Like Air, I'll Rise
New Asian American Plays
edited by Houston, Velina Hasu, foreword by Roberta Uno

520 pp • 6x9 • Spring 1997
paper 978-1-56639-538-0
cloth 978-1-56639-537-3

The Politics of Life
edited by Houston, Velina Hasu

288 pp • 6x9 • Spring 1993
paper 978-1-56639-001-9
cloth 978-1-56639-000-2

Across the Pacific
Asian Americans and Globalization
edited by Hu-DeHart, Evelyn

232 pp • 6x9 • Spring 1999
paper 978-1-56639-824-4
cloth 978-1-56639-710-0

Making a Global Immigrant Neighborhood
Brooklyn's Sunset Park
Hum, Tarry

296 pp • 6x9 • Spring 2014
paper 978-1-4399-1091-7
cloth 978-1-4399-1090-0

The Racial Logic of Politics
Asian Americans and Party Competition
Kim, Thomas P.

208 pp • 6x9 • Fall 2006
paper 978-1-59213-549-3
cloth 978-1-59213-548-6

Tiananmen Fictions Outside the Square
The Chinese Literary Diaspora and the Politics of Global Culture
Kong, Belinda

292 pp • 6x9 • Spring 2012
paper 978-1-4399-0759-7
cloth 978-1-4399-0758-0

East Is West and West Is East
Gender, Culture, and Interwar Encounters between Asia and America
Kuo, Karen

220 pp • 5.5x8.25 • Fall 2012
paper 978-1-4399-0587-6
cloth 978-1-4399-0586-9
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Recovered Legacies
Authority and Identity in Early Asian American Literature
edited by Lawrence, Keith and Floyd Cheung

320 pp • 6x9 • Spring 2005
paper 978-1-59213-119-8
cloth 978-1-59213-118-1

Performing Asian America
Race and Ethnicity on the Contemporary Stage
Lee, Josephine

256 pp • 6x9 • Spring 1997
paper 978-1-56639-637-0
cloth 978-1-56639-502-1

Re/collecting Early Asian America
Essays in Cultural History
edited by Lee, Josephine, Imogene L. Lim and Yuko Matsukawa

384 pp • 7x10 • Spring 2002
paper 978-1-56639-964-7
cloth 978-1-56639-963-0

Orientals
Asian Americans in Popular Culture
Lee, Robert G.

288 pp • 6x9 • Fall 1998
paper 978-1-56639-753-7
cloth 978-1-56639-658-5

Claiming the Oriental Gateway
Prewar Seattle and Japanese America
Lee, Shelley Sang-Hee

272 pp • 6x9 • Fall 2010
paper 978-1-4399-0214-1
cloth 978-1-4399-0213-4

Making Ethnic Choices
California's Punjabi Mexican Americans
Leonard, Karen Isaksen

352 pp • 6x9 • Spring 1992
paper 978-1-56639-202-0
cloth 978-0-87722-890-5

Reading the Literatures of Asian America
edited by Lim, Shirley Geok-lin and Amy Ling

384 pp • 6x9 • Fall 1992
paper 978-0-87722-936-0
cloth 978-0-87722-935-3

Yellow Light
The Flowering of Asian American Arts
edited by Ling, Amy

384 pp • 7x10 • Fall 2000
paper 978-1-56639-817-6
cloth 978-1-56639-670-7

Prisons and Patriots
Japanese American Wartime Citizenship, Civil Disobedience, and Historical Memory
Lyon, Cherstin M.

256 pp • 6x9 • Fall 2011
paper 978-1-4399-0187-8
cloth 978-1-4399-0186-1

Desis in the House
Indian American Youth Culture in New York City
Maira, Sunaina Marr

256 pp • 6x9 • Fall 2001
paper 978-1-56639-927-2
cloth 978-1-56639-926-5

Cultural Compass
Ethnographic Explorations of Asian America
edited by Manalansan, Martin F.

272 pp • 7x10 • Spring 2000
paper 978-1-56639-773-5
cloth 978-1-56639-772-8

Serial Fu Manchu
The Chinese Supervillain and the Spread of Yellow Peril Ideology
Mayer, Ruth

216 pp • 6x9 • Fall 2013
paper 978-1-4399-1056-6
cloth 978-1-4399-1055-9

No Sword to Bury
Japanese Americans in Hawai'i during World War II
Odo, Franklin S.

336 pp • 6x9 • Fall 2003
paper 978-1-59213-270-6
cloth 978-1-59213-207-2

Ethnicity and Inequality in Hawai'i
Okamura, Jonathan Y.

256 pp • 6x9 • Spring 2008
paper 978-1-59213-756-5
cloth 978-1-59213-755-8

Cane Fires
The Anti-Japanese Movement in Hawaii, 1865-1945
Okihiro, Gary Y.

360 pp • 6x9 • Spring 1991
paper 978-0-87722-945-2
cloth 978-0-87722-799-1

The New Asian Immigration in Los Angeles and Global Restructuring
edited by Ong, Paul, Edna Bonacich and Lucie Cheng

344 pp • 6x9 • Fall 1994
paper 978-1-56639-218-1
cloth 978-1-56639-217-4

This Is All I Choose to Tell
History and Hybridity in Vietnamese American Literature
Pelaud, Isabelle Thuy

216 pp • 5.5x8.25 • Fall 2010
paper 978-1-4399-0217-2
cloth 978-1-4399-0216-5

Discrepant Histories
Translocal Essays on Filipino Cultures
edited by Rafael, Vicente L.

360 pp • 6x9 • Spring 1995
paper 978-1-56639-356-0
cloth 978-1-56639-355-3

Fashioning Diaspora
Beauty, Femininity, and South Asian American Culture
Reddy, Vanita

280 pp • 6x9 • Spring 2016
paper 978-1-4399-1155-6
cloth 978-1-4399-1154-9

The Philippine Temptation
Dialectics of Philippines-U.S. Literary Relations
San Juan, E., Jr.

320 pp • 6x9 • Spring 1996
paper 978-1-56639-418-5
cloth 978-1-56639-417-8

Racial Feelings
Asian America in a Capitalist Culture of Emotion
Santa Ana, Jeffrey

272 pp • 6x9 • Spring 2015
paper 978-1-4399-1193-8
cloth 978-1-4399-1192-1

Laotian Daughters
Working toward Community, Belonging, and Environmental Justice
Shah, Bindi V.

216 pp • 6x9 • Fall 2011
paper 978-1-4399-0815-0
cloth 978-1-4399-0813-6

A Part, Yet Apart
South Asians in Asian America
edited by Shankar, Lavina Dhingra and Rajini Srikanth

320 pp • 6x9 • Fall 1997
paper 978-1-56639-578-6
cloth 978-1-56639-577-9

The World Next Door
South Asian American Literature and the Idea of America
Srikanth, Rajini

304 pp • 6x9 • Fall 2004
paper 978-1-59213-081-8
cloth 978-1-59213-080-1

Unsettled
Cambodian Refugees in the New York City Hyperghetto
Tang, Eric

234 pp • 5.5x8.25 • Fall 2015
paper 978-1-4399-1165-5
cloth 978-1-4399-1164-8

Nisei/Sansei
Shifting Japanese American Identities and Politics
Takahashi, Jere

280 pp • 6x9 • Fall 1997
paper 978-1-56639-659-2
cloth 978-1-56639-550-2

Positively No Filipinos Allowed
Building Communities and Discourse
edited by Tiongson, Antonio T., Jr., Edgardo V. Gutierrez and Ricardo V. Gutierrez, foreword by Lisa Lowe

272 pp • 6x9 • Fall 2005
paper 978-1-59213-122-8
cloth 978-1-59213-121-1