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Economic citizens : a narrative of Asian American visibility /

"In the past fifty years, according to Christine So, the narratives of many popular Asian American books have been dominated by economic questions - what money can buy, how money is lost, how money is circulated, and what labor or objects are worth. Focusing on books that have achieved mainstre...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: So, Christine, 1967-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2007, ©2008.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.