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If Asian Americans are to assume the role of bridge builders across the Pacific, what are the opportunities, the risks, the promises, and the perils? The answer to this question comes in eight essays in which contributors to Across the Pacific address issues of contemporary growth and diversification of Asian America in relation to the increasingly global economy. This book explores, in descriptive and critical ways, how transnational relationships and interactions in Asian American communities are manifested, exemplified, and articulated within the international context of the Pacific Rim.

Table of Contents

	Foreword
	Acknowledgments
Ch. 1	Introduction: Asian American Formations in the Age of Globalization	1
Ch. 2	Asians on the Rim: Transnational Capital and Local Community in the Making of Contemporary Asian America	29
Ch. 3	Chinese Americans in the Formation of the Pacific Regional Economy	61
Ch. 4	Asian American Economic Engagement: Vietnam Case Study	79
Ch. 5	Asian American Activism and U.S. Foreign Policy	109
Ch. 6	Exclusion and Inclusion: Immigration and American Orientalism	129
Ch. 7	Asian Americans at the Intersection of International and Domestic Tensions: An Analysis of Newspaper Coverage	152
Ch. 8	Inventing the Earth: The Notion of "Home" in Asian American Literature	191
	About the Contributors	219

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