Gendering the Trans-Pacific World

Catherine Ceniza Choy, Ph.D. (1998), University of California, Los Angeles, is Professor of Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Empire of Care: Nursing and Migration in Filipino American History (Duke University Press, 2003) and Global Families: A History of Asian International Adoption in America (New York University Press, 2013).Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, Ph.D. (1998), Stanford University, is Professor and Chair of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Irvine. She authored Dr. Mom Chung of the Fair-Haired Bastards: The Life of a Wartime Celebrity (University of California Press, 2005) and Radicals on the Road: Internationalism, Orientalism, and Feminism during the Vietnam Era (Cornell University Press, 2013).

• Part I: Gendering the Trans-Pacific1. Gendering the Trans-Pacific World, by Catherine Ceniza Choy and Judy Tzu-Chun Wu2. Notes on Trans-Pacific Archives, by Denise Cruz3. The Many Labors of the Gendered Trans-Pacific World, by Karen J. LeongPart II: Geographies of Empire4. Rethinking the Sexual Geography of American Empire in the Philippines: Interracial Intimacies in Mindanao and the Cordilleras, 1898–1921, by Tessa Ong Winkelmann5. A Fascist Triangle or a Rotary Wheel: The Sino-Japanese War and the Gendered Internationalisms of Sylvia Pankhurst and Carlos Romulo, by Erika Huckestein and Mark L. Reeves6. Moving Within Empires: Korean Women and Trans-Pacific Migration, by Ji-Yeon Yuh7. Re-franchising Women of Hawaiʻi, 1912–1920: The Politics of Gender, Sovereignty, Race, and Rank at the Crossroads of the Pacific, by Rumi Yasutake8. Currencies of U.S. Empire in Hawaiʻi’s Tourism and Prison Industries, by Liza Keānuenueokalani WilliamsPart III: Intimacies and Affect9. The Sexualized Child and Mestizaje: Colonial Tropes of the Filipina/o, by Gladys Nubla10. “Ashamed of Certain Japanese”: The Politics of Affect in Japanese Women’s Immigration Exclusion, 1919–1924, by Chrissy Yee Lau11. Gendered Adoptee Identities: Performing Trans-Pacific Masculinity in the 21st Century, by Kimberly McKee12. Up in the Air: Circuits of Transnational Asian and Asian American Mothering, by Miliann Kang Part IV: Beauty and the Body13. Pageant Politics: Tensions of Power, Empire, and Nationalism in Manila Carnival Queen Contests, by Genevieve Clutario14. “Golden Lilies” across the Pacific: Footbinding and the American Enforcement of Chinese Exclusion Laws, by Fang He15. Traces of Empires in Breast Cancer in South Korea and the Trans-Pacific, by Laura C. Nelson16. Graphical and Ethical Spectatorship: Human Trafficking in Stanford Graphic Novel Project’s From Busan to San Francisco and Mark Kalesniko’s Mail Order Bride, by Stella Oh Part V: Culture and Circulation17. Performing between Two Empires: Colonial Modernity and the Racialized Politics of Filipino Masculinity in Okinawa and Japan, by Nobue Suzuki18. A Careful Embrace: Race, Gender, and the Consumption of Hawaiʻi and the South Pacific in Mid-Century Los Angeles, by Shawn Schwaller19. We Are Pacific Men, by Craig Santos Perez20. Gendering the K-Vampire, by Hyungji Park21. Through a Trans-Vietnamese Feminist Lens: The Cinemas of Vietnam and the Diaspora, by Lan Duong