Henry Yu
Biographic Data
| ID | 3629453 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Henry Yu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Henry |
| FAMILY NAME | Yu |
| SIGNATURE | YU H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Los Angeles |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Cantonese migrant networks, white supremacy, and the political utility of apologies in Canada
Using the specific example of the attempts of the municipal government of Vancouver in 2018 and the provincial government of British Columbia in 2014 to apologise for historical anti-Chinese legislation in Canada, this paper illustrates how Cantonese migrant networks shaped and were shaped by the politics of white supremacy in Pacific white-settler nations, and argues that historical narratives about historical anti-Chinese discrimination that er…
Asian Canadian Studies Reader
Roland Sintos Coloma and Gordon Pon’s Asian Canadian Studies Reader brings together essential writings by leading and emerging scholars in the field to explore the vibrancy of the diverse Asian diaspora in Canada
Cultivating Connections
Within and Without the Nation
Moving beyond well-known comparisons with Britain and the United States, the fifteen essays in this collection connect Canada with Latin America, the Caribbean, and the wider Pacific world, as well as with other parts of the British Empire
Reviving a Lost Potential of the Chicago School of Sociology
This paper traces the effects of anti-Asian politics and immigration exclusion in shaping early studies of Asian migration in the Pacific region, in particular within the United States, Canada, and Australian. Yu argues that there are collaborative community research approaches that marked early 20th century studies of Asian migrants to North America that should be recovered, a lost potential of early survey research work of the Chicago school of…
Introduction
Between 1830 and 1930, migrants speaking various dialects of Chinese originating in a small number of regions in Guangdong province dominated transpacific labor migrations. By the 1880s the Cantonese Pacific was firmly established, and Hong Kong was its main port of origination. It is a great historical irony of the nineteenth century Pacific World that from the west coast of North America eastward the Cantonese built the very means of transporta…
The Intermittent Rhythms Of The Cantonese Pacific
In an attempt to re-vision the interconnectedness of the Pacific Ocean and the Asian continent through migration, the chapter first discusses what can be termed a two empire paradigm. The rest of the chapter presents a story of Japanese migration as a varied but unified human experience within that interconnected space. Popularized during the 1880s, what was termed a discourse on overseas development ( kaigai hattenron ) formed a locus of interse…
Connecting Seas and Connected Ocean Rims
Long-distance migration of peoples have been a central if little understood factor in global integration. The essays in this collection contribute to a new history of world migrations, written by specialists of particular areas of the world. Collectively these essays point towards a shift from the regional migrations of individual seas and oceans of the early modern era toward nineteenth-century labor migrations that connected the Pacific and Ind…
Before Internment, Between Nations, Beyond Integration
In the last two years, a pair of giants of Chinese American and Overseas Chinese migration history have passed away—Him Mark Lai and Edgar Wickberg. As each passing led to an examination of his individual impact upon scholarship, it is perhaps fitting that all of us who have benefited from the foundational work that an earlier generation of scholars performed pause a moment to take stock. A decade ago, the historian Valerie Matsumoto guest edited…
Global Migrants and the New Pacific Canada
THE NEW CANADAIn the last quarter of a century, a wholesale shift of immigration patterns from transatlantic to trans-Pacific flows has created a Canada. The changes were quiet at first, beginning after the creation of a the points system for immigration in 1967, but rising in volume during the 1980s so that increasingly the voices of the new are spoken in various Asian languages, a powerful blend of multhingual Canadians that has created a globa…
Teaching Asian Canada
Yu: You've been teaching Asian Canadian studies classes now for over three years at Simon Fraser University, and you brought Asian American studies into your teaching. For this issue of Amerasia, I'm interested in what you've learned from Asian American studies, how that has affected your teaching. I'd also like to see how teaching in Canada might help us think in new ways about Asian American studies. What kinds of classes do you teach?Ho: I tea…
Towards a Pacific History of the Americas
This issue of Amerasia is an attempt in some ways to begin an examination of how the 49th parallel, marking the political border that separates Canada and the United States, has made a difference, and what scholars and activists on both sides of that border might learn in thinking about the similarities and differences in how Asian migrants acted and were treated. The migrants themselves had come from some of the very same places-specific regions…
Is Vancouver the Future or the Past? Asian Migrants and White Supremacy
Review Article| May 01 2006 Is Vancouver the Future or the Past? Asian Migrants and White Supremacy HENRY YU HENRY YU University of British Columbia and the University of California, Los Angeles Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Pacific Historical Review (2006) 75 (2): 307–312. https://doi.org/10.1525/phr.2006.75.2.307 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Re…
History
Chair: Henry Yu ([email protected]) Committee members: Barbara Posadas, Xiaojian Zhao Winners: At America's Gates: Chinese Immigration During the Exclusion Era, 1882 1943 by Erika Lee Empire of Care: Nursing and Migration in Filipino American History by Catherine Ceniza Choy Honorable Mentions: Chinese Immigrants, African Americans, and Racial Anxiety in the United States 1848–82 by Najia Aarim-Heriot, American Workers, Colonial Power by…
Section I
Could Edward Said have known at the time he wrote Orientalism that he would not only be revolutionizing the field of Middle East Studies and the disciplines at its core, but also a number of allied and aligned fields, one of which, Women's Studies, had not fully come into being? This presentation is about genealogies of knowledge, in this case Middle East gender studies. It is about counter-hegemonic thought, in this case, the rupture of the gene…
History Book Prize Awardees
Remaking Chinese America: Immigration, Family, and Community, 1940-1965, by Xiaojian Zhao (Rutgers University Press, 2002), Japanese American Celebration and Conflict: A History of Ethnic Identity and Festival in Los Angeles, 1934-1990, by Lon Kurashige (University of California Press, 2002). [End Page 178] Award Committee: (chair) Henry Yu, Paul Spickard, Eiichiro Azuma With the growth of the field of Asian American history and the increasing nu…
Los Angeles and American Studies in a Pacific World of Migrations
In this essay Henry Yu argues for using migration to re-imagine American studies. He begins by observing how Los Angeles is notable for the atypical way in which it is usually understood as a place of origin, with its most famous inhabitants often having come from somewhere else. This rootless sense of belonging, rather than making Los Angeles an aberration, can serve as a model for understanding how migration defines local places. Using family m…
Tiger Woods Is Not the End of History
Tiger Woods und die Weltgeschichte des Sports
The Politics of Remembering
About This Issue
Writing the Past in the Present
My grandmother was born in 1918. This is what my family has always known. Her government ID cards list her name, Suey Fun Low, followed by her date of birth, October 28, 1918, and each year we counted out the candles for her birthday cake accordingly. When she turned eighty years old several years ago, she had two birthday parties-one with all her friends and relatives in Vancouver, and another larger one with all our relatives in Zhongshan Count…
Thinking Orientals
Thinking Orientals is a ground breaking study of Asian Americans and the racial formation of twentieth-century American society. It reveals the influential role Asian Americans played in constructing the understandings of Asian American identity. It examines the unique role played by sociologists, particularly sociologists at the University of Chicago, in the study of the “Oriental Problem” before World War II and also analyzes the internment of …
Dreaming of Gold, Dreaming of Home
There is much talk nowadays about transnational perspectives on Asian Pacific American history. Some of it is idle chatter, filled with theoretical musings and little substantive research. Fortunately, however, there have been a number of groundbreaking studies that are truly transnational in both their approaches and, most importantly, in their archival sources. Madeline Hsu's Dreaming of Gold, Dreaming of Home is just such an outstanding book, …
Department and discipline
Connecting Seas and Connected Ocean Rims
Long-distance migration of peoples have been a central if little understood factor in global integration. The essays in this collection contribute to a new history of world migrations, written by specialists of particular areas of the world. Collectively these essays point towards a shift from the regional migrations of individual seas and oceans of the early modern era toward nineteenth-century labor migrations that connected the Pacific and Ind…
Los Angeles and American Studies in a Pacific World of Migrations
In this essay Henry Yu argues for using migration to re-imagine American studies. He begins by observing how Los Angeles is notable for the atypical way in which it is usually understood as a place of origin, with its most famous inhabitants often having come from somewhere else. This rootless sense of belonging, rather than making Los Angeles an aberration, can serve as a model for understanding how migration defines local places. Using family m…
Cantonese migrant networks, white supremacy, and the political utility of apologies in Canada
Using the specific example of the attempts of the municipal government of Vancouver in 2018 and the provincial government of British Columbia in 2014 to apologise for historical anti-Chinese legislation in Canada, this paper illustrates how Cantonese migrant networks shaped and were shaped by the politics of white supremacy in Pacific white-settler nations, and argues that historical narratives about historical anti-Chinese discrimination that er…
Global Migrants and the New Pacific Canada
THE NEW CANADAIn the last quarter of a century, a wholesale shift of immigration patterns from transatlantic to trans-Pacific flows has created a Canada. The changes were quiet at first, beginning after the creation of a the points system for immigration in 1967, but rising in volume during the 1980s so that increasingly the voices of the new are spoken in various Asian languages, a powerful blend of multhingual Canadians that has created a globa…
Section I
Could Edward Said have known at the time he wrote Orientalism that he would not only be revolutionizing the field of Middle East Studies and the disciplines at its core, but also a number of allied and aligned fields, one of which, Women's Studies, had not fully come into being? This presentation is about genealogies of knowledge, in this case Middle East gender studies. It is about counter-hegemonic thought, in this case, the rupture of the gene…
Reviving a Lost Potential of the Chicago School of Sociology
This paper traces the effects of anti-Asian politics and immigration exclusion in shaping early studies of Asian migration in the Pacific region, in particular within the United States, Canada, and Australian. Yu argues that there are collaborative community research approaches that marked early 20th century studies of Asian migrants to North America that should be recovered, a lost potential of early survey research work of the Chicago school of…
On a Stage Built by Others
Orientalizing the Pacific Rim
Everett C. Hughes on work, race, and the sociological imagination
T-Cytotoxic CD8 Lymphocytes, L-selectin, and Plasma Catecholamines in Vulnerable Caregivers of Alzheimer's Patients
Mills, Paul J; Yu, Henry; Ziegler, Michael G.; Patterson, Thomas L.; Grant, Igor Author Information
Vulnerable Caregivers of Patients With Alzheimer's Disease Have a Deficit in Circulating CD62L- T Lymphocytes
OBJECTIVE: The cell adhesion molecule, L-selectin (CD62L), serves a crucial role in the migration of naive T lymphocytes and is typically shed on cell activation. The objective of this study was to determine the effects of chronic stress on L-selectin expression on peripheral lymphocytes in elderly spousal caregivers of patients with Alzheimer's disease. METHODS: Twenty caregivers (mean age, 73.5 years) had their lymphocytes and catecholamine lev…
On a Stage Built by Others
Thinking Orientals
Thinking Orientals is a ground breaking study of Asian Americans and the racial formation of twentieth-century American society. It reveals the influential role Asian Americans played in constructing the understandings of Asian American identity. It examines the unique role played by sociologists, particularly sociologists at the University of Chicago, in the study of the “Oriental Problem” before World War II and also analyzes the internment of …
Dreaming of Gold, Dreaming of Home
There is much talk nowadays about transnational perspectives on Asian Pacific American history. Some of it is idle chatter, filled with theoretical musings and little substantive research. Fortunately, however, there have been a number of groundbreaking studies that are truly transnational in both their approaches and, most importantly, in their archival sources. Madeline Hsu's Dreaming of Gold, Dreaming of Home is just such an outstanding book, …
Department and discipline
The Politics of Remembering
About This Issue
Writing the Past in the Present
My grandmother was born in 1918. This is what my family has always known. Her government ID cards list her name, Suey Fun Low, followed by her date of birth, October 28, 1918, and each year we counted out the candles for her birthday cake accordingly. When she turned eighty years old several years ago, she had two birthday parties-one with all her friends and relatives in Vancouver, and another larger one with all our relatives in Zhongshan Count…
Tiger Woods Is Not the End of History
Tiger Woods und die Weltgeschichte des Sports
History Book Prize Awardees
Remaking Chinese America: Immigration, Family, and Community, 1940-1965, by Xiaojian Zhao (Rutgers University Press, 2002), Japanese American Celebration and Conflict: A History of Ethnic Identity and Festival in Los Angeles, 1934-1990, by Lon Kurashige (University of California Press, 2002). [End Page 178] Award Committee: (chair) Henry Yu, Paul Spickard, Eiichiro Azuma With the growth of the field of Asian American history and the increasing nu…
Los Angeles and American Studies in a Pacific World of Migrations
In this essay Henry Yu argues for using migration to re-imagine American studies. He begins by observing how Los Angeles is notable for the atypical way in which it is usually understood as a place of origin, with its most famous inhabitants often having come from somewhere else. This rootless sense of belonging, rather than making Los Angeles an aberration, can serve as a model for understanding how migration defines local places. Using family m…
History
Chair: Henry Yu ([email protected]) Committee members: Barbara Posadas, Xiaojian Zhao Winners: At America's Gates: Chinese Immigration During the Exclusion Era, 1882 1943 by Erika Lee Empire of Care: Nursing and Migration in Filipino American History by Catherine Ceniza Choy Honorable Mentions: Chinese Immigrants, African Americans, and Racial Anxiety in the United States 1848–82 by Najia Aarim-Heriot, American Workers, Colonial Power by…
Section I
Could Edward Said have known at the time he wrote Orientalism that he would not only be revolutionizing the field of Middle East Studies and the disciplines at its core, but also a number of allied and aligned fields, one of which, Women's Studies, had not fully come into being? This presentation is about genealogies of knowledge, in this case Middle East gender studies. It is about counter-hegemonic thought, in this case, the rupture of the gene…
Is Vancouver the Future or the Past? Asian Migrants and White Supremacy
Review Article| May 01 2006 Is Vancouver the Future or the Past? Asian Migrants and White Supremacy HENRY YU HENRY YU University of British Columbia and the University of California, Los Angeles Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Pacific Historical Review (2006) 75 (2): 307–312. https://doi.org/10.1525/phr.2006.75.2.307 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Re…
Teaching Asian Canada
Yu: You've been teaching Asian Canadian studies classes now for over three years at Simon Fraser University, and you brought Asian American studies into your teaching. For this issue of Amerasia, I'm interested in what you've learned from Asian American studies, how that has affected your teaching. I'd also like to see how teaching in Canada might help us think in new ways about Asian American studies. What kinds of classes do you teach?Ho: I tea…
Towards a Pacific History of the Americas
This issue of Amerasia is an attempt in some ways to begin an examination of how the 49th parallel, marking the political border that separates Canada and the United States, has made a difference, and what scholars and activists on both sides of that border might learn in thinking about the similarities and differences in how Asian migrants acted and were treated. The migrants themselves had come from some of the very same places-specific regions…
Global Migrants and the New Pacific Canada
THE NEW CANADAIn the last quarter of a century, a wholesale shift of immigration patterns from transatlantic to trans-Pacific flows has created a Canada. The changes were quiet at first, beginning after the creation of a the points system for immigration in 1967, but rising in volume during the 1980s so that increasingly the voices of the new are spoken in various Asian languages, a powerful blend of multhingual Canadians that has created a globa…
Before Internment, Between Nations, Beyond Integration
In the last two years, a pair of giants of Chinese American and Overseas Chinese migration history have passed away—Him Mark Lai and Edgar Wickberg. As each passing led to an examination of his individual impact upon scholarship, it is perhaps fitting that all of us who have benefited from the foundational work that an earlier generation of scholars performed pause a moment to take stock. A decade ago, the historian Valerie Matsumoto guest edited…
Introduction
Between 1830 and 1930, migrants speaking various dialects of Chinese originating in a small number of regions in Guangdong province dominated transpacific labor migrations. By the 1880s the Cantonese Pacific was firmly established, and Hong Kong was its main port of origination. It is a great historical irony of the nineteenth century Pacific World that from the west coast of North America eastward the Cantonese built the very means of transporta…
The Intermittent Rhythms Of The Cantonese Pacific
In an attempt to re-vision the interconnectedness of the Pacific Ocean and the Asian continent through migration, the chapter first discusses what can be termed a two empire paradigm. The rest of the chapter presents a story of Japanese migration as a varied but unified human experience within that interconnected space. Popularized during the 1880s, what was termed a discourse on overseas development ( kaigai hattenron ) formed a locus of interse…
Connecting Seas and Connected Ocean Rims
Long-distance migration of peoples have been a central if little understood factor in global integration. The essays in this collection contribute to a new history of world migrations, written by specialists of particular areas of the world. Collectively these essays point towards a shift from the regional migrations of individual seas and oceans of the early modern era toward nineteenth-century labor migrations that connected the Pacific and Ind…
History (22 works) · Political science (21 works) · Sociology (20 works) · History (15 works) · Asian American and Pacific Histories (14 works) · Law (14 works) · Gender Studies (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works)