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Book SynopsisEconomic Citizens argues that Asians have been traditionally imagined as the threat of capitalism gone awry and demonstrates that the logic of economic exchange has been an overlooked but critical means for Asian Americans to negotiate political and cultural equivalence.
Trade Review"An original, engaging, complex, and thought-provoking work. So spells out her theoretical influences in the course of the work, but also argues forcefully for her unique contribution, which is the connection of Marxian exchange value to the production of Asian American subjectivity. So is clearly marking out a new territory, exploring a set of literary texts that have not been addressed before." -Viet Nguyen, University of Southern California and author of Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America
Table of ContentsIntroduction 1
1. The Promise of Exchange:
Production, Circulation, and Consumption Within Chinatown Ethnographies
45
2. The Universality of Exchange:
Japanese American Travel Narratives and the Emergence of the Global Citizen
88
3. The Embodiment of Exchange:
Asian Mail-Order Brides, the Threat of Global Capitalism, and the Rescue of the U.S. Nation-State 122
4. The Logic of Exchange:
Ordering the Chaos of Twentieth Century Chinese Women's History 156
Notes 193
Bibliography 199
