Ends of empire : Asian American critique and the Cold War / Jodi Kim.

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Main Author: Kim, Jodi, 1970-
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2010], ©2010.
Series:Critical American studies series.
Subjects:
Asian Americans > History.
Asian Americans > Ethnic identity.
Asian Americans > Politics and government.
Asians in literature.
Asians in motion pictures.
Cold War.
United States > Foreign relations > Asia.
Asia > Foreign relations > United States.
Physical Description:305 pages : illustrations.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction: unsettling hermeneutics and global nonalignments
  • Cold war logics, cold war poetics: conjuring the specter of a red Asia
  • The El Dorado of commerce: China's billion bellies
  • Asian America's Japan: the perils of gendered racial rehabilitation
  • The forgotten war: Korean America's conditions of possibility
  • The war-surplus of our new imperialism: Vietnam, masculinist hypervisibility, and the politics of (af)filiation
  • Epilogue: imagining an end to empire.