02885nam 2200697 a 450 991078182720332120200520144314.01-281-29905-797866112990571-59213-586-2(CKB)1000000000485895(EBL)336419(OCoLC)476153643(SSID)ssj0000143130(PQKBManifestationID)11158948(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000143130(PQKBWorkID)10109624(PQKB)11588983(Au-PeEL)EBL336419(CaPaEBR)ebr10227050(CaONFJC)MIL129905(MiAaPQ)EBC336419(EXLCZ)99100000000048589520070221e20082007 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrEconomic citizens[electronic resource] a narrative of Asian American visibility /Christine SoPhiladelphia Temple University Pressc20081 online resource (191 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-59213-584-6 Includes bibliographical references (p. [163]-169) and index.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.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.Asian AmericansEconomic conditionsExchangeUnited StatesSocial exchangeGlobalizationSocial aspectsUnited StatesAsian AmericansEthnic identityAsian AmericansHistoriographyAsian Americans in literatureUnited StatesEthnic relationsAsian AmericansEconomic conditions.ExchangeSocial exchange.GlobalizationSocial aspectsAsian AmericansEthnic identity.Asian AmericansHistoriography.Asian Americans in literature.305.895/1073001So Christine1967-1554429MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910781827203321Economic citizens3815677UNINA