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Autore |
So Christine <1967-> |
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Titolo |
Economic citizens [[electronic resource] ] : a narrative of Asian American visibility / / Christine So |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, c2008 |
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ISBN |
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1-281-29905-7 |
9786611299057 |
1-59213-586-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (191 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Asian Americans - Economic conditions |
Exchange - United States |
Social exchange |
Globalization - Social aspects - United States |
Asian Americans - Ethnic identity |
Asian Americans - Historiography |
Asian Americans in literature |
Electronic books. |
United States Ethnic relations |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [163]-169) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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The promise of exchange : production, circulation, and consumption within Chinatown ethnographies -- The universality of exchange : Japanese American travel narratives and the emergence of the global citizen -- The embodiment of exchange : Asian mail-order brides, the threat of global capitalism, and the rescue of the U.S. nation-state -- The logic of exchange : ordering the chaos of twentieth-century Chinese women's history. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Economic 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. |
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