Judy Tzu–chun Wu
Biographic Data
| ID | 4506504 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Judy Tzu–chun Wu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Judy Tzu–chun |
| FAMILY NAME | Wu |
| SIGNATURE | WU J T C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Irvine |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3541-4492 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 39 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Feminisms Against Empire
Elisabeth Armstrong’s Bury the Corpse of Colonialism is a passionate account of the 1949 Asian Women’s Conference, held in Beijing, shortly after the founding of the People’s Republic of China. Despite the name, the conference attracted attendees not only across fourteen countries in Asia but also around the world, spanning the first (Western, capitalist-aligned countries), second (socialist states), and third worlds (Global South). Organized by …
Intersectional Feminist Biography as Method
The genre of biography, typically associate with elite individuals, may seem like an unlikely approach for writing feminist history. And yet, in writing about exceptional women, many of them women of color, I have found that their lives reveal how structures of power functioned and how the marginalized responded. This essay is part of a PHR forum on the theme of “Personal Reflections on Feminist Historical Methods,” with additional essays by Y. Y…
When and Where We Entered Unequal Sisters
Women’s history was the entry into scholarship that embraced broad, intersectional topics as essential components of the American past. This chapter builds upon concepts of intersectionality developed by historian Patricia Hill Collins and by legal scholar Kimberle Crenshaw as an analytic framework that highlights overlapping inequalities of race, gender, and other categories of identity. It pays particular attention to how women worked across ra…
Unequal Sisters: A Revolutionary Reader in U.S. Women’s History
“Nothing Less Than Justice”
This article analyzes the significance of the 1977 California International Women’s Year (IWY) Conference, one of fifty-six state and territorial meetings held ahead of the 1977 National Women’s Conference (NWC) in Houston, Texas. The NWC was the first and only time that the U.S. federal government funded and authorized an event focused on women’s rights. Utilizing primary and oral history sources, we examine the political mobilization of women o…
Pacific Feminist Imaginaries: The 1977 US National Women’s Conference and the Politics of Territorial Representation
En novembre 1977, près de 20 000 personnes se rassemblent à Houston, au Texas, pour la National Women’s Conference (NWC). Il s’agit de la première manifestation financée au niveau fédéral dans le but d’élaborer un programme national pour combattre les discriminations à l’égard des femmes. La CNF s’inspire de la première conférence mondiale sur le statut des femmes, qui a été organisée par les Nations Unies à Mexico en 1975, dans le cadre de l’Ann…
Restarting at Midlife
As the first woman of color in the U.S. House of Representatives and the namesake for Title IX, Patsy Takemoto Mink served in Washington, D.C., from 1965 to 1977 and again from 1990 to 2002. In between, when Mink was in her fifties and sixties, she continued her political advocacy at the federal and local levels. This essay reflects on two aspects of Mink’s political career during the period between her terms of service in the U.S. Congress. The …
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The Centrality of Islands and Taiwan as Method
The Centrality of Islands and Taiwan as Method Judy Tzu-Chun Wu (bio) In a groundbreaking essay, "Our Sea of Islands," Epeli Hau'ofa asks us to reorient our sense of geographic scale. Instead of regarding islands in the Pacific as small, isolated, and underdeveloped, he offers an alternative vision of Oceania as vast, interconnected through land, water, storytelling, and cosmology. Even though this American Quarterly forum asks us to focus on a r…
To Our Readers
To Our Readers
Reflections on 2020
To Our Readers
Discriminating Sex: White Leisure and the Making of the American “Oriental
Amy Sueyoshi has written an intriguing and nuanced study of how the gender and sexual discourse in turn-of-the-century San Francisco reflected and projected white anxieties onto Asian bodies. The title of her book, Discriminating Sex, foregrounds her argument “that exercises in gender and sexual freedom in fact clarify the ubiquity of white privilege and supremacy” (p. 12). The displacement of white sexual liberation and unease onto Chinese and J…
The Chinese Must Go: Violence, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America. By Beth Lew-Williams
Radicals on the Road: Internationalism, Orientalism, and Feminism during the Vietnam Era
Wu analyzes how interactions among people from the U.S. and several East and Southeast Asian nations inspired transnational identities and multiracial coalitions that challenged political commitments during the Vietnam War era.
The Dead, the Living, and the Sacred
This article focuses on the antinuclear and antimilitarism politics of Patsy Takemoto Mink (1927-2002), the first Japanese American female lawyer in Hawai'i, the first woman of color to become a U.S. congressional representative, and the namesake for Title IX. During the late 1960s and 1970s, Mink challenged the use of the Pacific lands, waters, and peoples as sites of military experimentation, subject to nuclear and chemical testing as well as w…
US Feminisms and Their Global Connections
This chapter reinterprets the history of twentieth-century US feminism by foregrounding the importance of the global. Both international events and transnational flows of people, ideas, and goods have shaped the development of feminism in the United States. Recognizing the importance of the global foregrounds the diversity of political goals and political actors within movements for gender equality. Also, acknowledging US feminists’ engagement wi…
What Makes a Good War Story? Absences of Empire, Race, and Gender in The Vietnam War
“What is a war story, and what makes a good one?”1 These questions, articulated by Viet Thanh Nguyen in his masterful treatise on war and memory, Nothing Ever Dies, reverberated in my mind as I watched the Ken Burns and Lynn Novick ten-part series, The Vietnam War.2 Over the course of eighteen plus hours, Burns and Novick tell a complex story of the war through historic footage as well as intimate interviews. They introduce viewers to a diverse r…
The U.S. 1968: Third-Worldism, Feminisms, and Liberalism
Becoming Refugee American: The Politics of Rescue in Little Saigon
In Nothing Ever Dies (2016), the Pulitzer Prize–winning writer Viet Thanh Nguyen highlights the afterlife of war. The so-called Viet Nam War did not end with the 1973 Paris Peace Accord or the 1975 reunification of the North and South. The conflict continues to haunt the lives of those who survived. Phuong Tran Nguyen explores this insight by analyzing the political formation of the Vietnamese diasporic community in the United States. The title o…
Becoming Refugee American: The Politics of Rescue in Little Saigon
In Nothing Ever Dies (2016), the Pulitzer Prize–winning writer Viet Thanh Nguyen highlights the afterlife of war. The so-called Viet Nam War did not end with the 1973 Paris Peace Accord or the 1975 reunification of the North and South. The conflict continues to haunt the lives of those who survived. Phuong Tran Nguyen explores this insight by analyzing the political formation of the Vietnamese diasporic community in the United States. The title o…
Combahee River Collective Statement: A Fortieth Anniversary Retrospective
Leslie Bow, Avtar Brah, Mishuana Goeman, Diane Harriford, Analouise Keating, Yi-Chun Tricia Lin, Laura Pérez, Becky Thompson, Zenaida Peterson, Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, Kristen A. Kolenz, Krista L. Benson, Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, Shari M. Huhndorf, Combahee River Collective Statement: A Fortieth Anniversary Retrospective, Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, Vol. 38, No. 3 (2017), pp. 164-189
Soul Power: Culture, Radicalism, and the Making of a U.S. Third World Left
Book Review| July 01 2007 Soul Power: Culture, Radicalism, and the Making of a U.S. Third World Left Soul Power: Culture, Radicalism, and the Making of a U.S. Third World Left, Cynthia A. Young. Judy Tzu-Chun Wu Judy Tzu-Chun Wu Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2007) 26 (4): 96–97. https://doi.org/10.2307/40543205 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permiss…
Loveliest Daughter of our Ancient Cathay: Representations of Ethnic and Gender Identity in the Miss Chinatown U. S. A. Beauty Pageant
Gendering the Trans-Pacific World
As the inaugural volume of the new Brill book series Gendering the Trans-Pacific World: Diaspora, Empire, and Race, this anthology presents an emergent interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary field that highlights the inextricable link between gender and the trans-Pacific world. The anthology features twenty-one chapters by new and established scholars and writers. They collectively examine the geographies of empire, the significance of intimacy …
Journeys for Peace and Liberation: Third World Internationalism and Radical Orientalism during the U.S. War in Vietnam
This article introduces a forthcoming book project that examines the international travels of American antiwar activists during the U.S. War in Vietnam. Specifically, it explores how going beyond the nation's borders fostered and solidified a sense of internationalism, a conviction of political solidarity, with Third World nations among U.S. radicals of varying backgrounds. This study builds on recent trends in Asian American history and contribu…
An African-Vietnamese American: Robert S. Browne, the Antiwar Movement, and the Personal/Political Dimensions of Black Internationalism
The Chinatown Trunk Mystery: Murder, Miscegenation, and Other Dangerous Encounters in Turn-of-the-Century New York City
Book Review| July 01 2005 The Chinatown Trunk Mystery: Murder, Miscegenation, and Other Dangerous Encounters in Turn-of-the-Century New York City The Chinatown Trunk Mystery: Murder, Miscegenation, and Other Dangerous Encounters in Turn-of-the-Century New York City, Mary Ting Yi Lui. Judy Tzu-Chun Wu Judy Tzu-Chun Wu Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2005) 24 (4): 114–115. https://doi.o…
Rychetta Watkins, Black Power, Yellow Power, and the Making of Revolutionary Identities (Jackson: (University Press of Mississippi, 2012)
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
Loveliest Daughter of our Ancient Cathay: Representations of Ethnic and Gender Identity in the Miss Chinatown U. S. A. Beauty Pageant
Porcelain, Yellowface, and Immigration Exclusion: Orientalism and American Identity
New York before Chinatown: Orientalism and the Shaping of American Culture, 1776-1882. By John Kuo Wei Tchen. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1999. 385 pages. $42.50. In the summer of 1776, as George Washington prepared to defend Manhattan against Sir William Howe's British forces, the military leader of the revolutionaries provided detailed instructions for the purchase of costly Chinese porcelains for his personal use at his New York …
History Book Prize Awardee
The selection committee would like to award the 2002 Association for Asian American Studies History Book Award to Nayan Shah for Contagious Divides: Epidemics and Race in San Francisco's Chinatown. There were many worthy nominations for this award, testifying to the strength and breadth of the field of Asian American history. However, our committee believes that Shah's work stands out from the rest
The Chinatown Trunk Mystery: Murder, Miscegenation, and Other Dangerous Encounters in Turn-of-the-Century New York City
Book Review| July 01 2005 The Chinatown Trunk Mystery: Murder, Miscegenation, and Other Dangerous Encounters in Turn-of-the-Century New York City The Chinatown Trunk Mystery: Murder, Miscegenation, and Other Dangerous Encounters in Turn-of-the-Century New York City, Mary Ting Yi Lui. Judy Tzu-Chun Wu Judy Tzu-Chun Wu Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2005) 24 (4): 114–115. https://doi.o…
Doctor Mom Chung of the Fair-Haired Bastards: The Life of a Wartime Celebrity
Journal Article Doctor Mom Chung of the Fair-Haired Bastards: The Life of a Wartime Celebrity Get access Doctor Mom Chung of the Fair-Haired Bastards: The Life of a Wartime Celebrity. By Wu Judy Tzu-Chun. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. 282 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $55.00, cloth; $21.95 paper.) Sue Fawn Chung Sue Fawn Chung University of Nevada, Las Vegas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Acad…
Soul Power: Culture, Radicalism, and the Making of a U.S. Third World Left
Book Review| July 01 2007 Soul Power: Culture, Radicalism, and the Making of a U.S. Third World Left Soul Power: Culture, Radicalism, and the Making of a U.S. Third World Left, Cynthia A. Young. Judy Tzu-Chun Wu Judy Tzu-Chun Wu Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2007) 26 (4): 96–97. https://doi.org/10.2307/40543205 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permiss…
Journeys for Peace and Liberation: Third World Internationalism and Radical Orientalism during the U.S. War in Vietnam
This article introduces a forthcoming book project that examines the international travels of American antiwar activists during the U.S. War in Vietnam. Specifically, it explores how going beyond the nation's borders fostered and solidified a sense of internationalism, a conviction of political solidarity, with Third World nations among U.S. radicals of varying backgrounds. This study builds on recent trends in Asian American history and contribu…
An African-Vietnamese American: Robert S. Browne, the Antiwar Movement, and the Personal/Political Dimensions of Black Internationalism
Daryl J. Maeda, Chains of Babylon: The Rise of Asian America
Daryl J. Maeda, Chains of Babylon: The Rise of Asian America (2009), xviii + 203 (Minnesota University Press, Minneapolis, $60.00, paperback $20.00). Chains of Babylon is a welcome addition to the ...
The East is Black: Cold War China in the Black Radical Imagination, written by Robeson Taj Frazier
The Origins of the Model Minority
Research Article| January 01 2017 The Origins of the Model Minority The Good Immigrants: How the Yellow Peril Became the Model Minority. By Madeline Y. Hsu. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2015. 352 pp. Illustrations, tables, appendix, bibliography, and index. $35 (cloth).The Color of Success: Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority. By Ellen D. Wu. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2014. 376 pp. Illustrations, l…
Combahee River Collective Statement: A Fortieth Anniversary Retrospective
Leslie Bow, Avtar Brah, Mishuana Goeman, Diane Harriford, Analouise Keating, Yi-Chun Tricia Lin, Laura Pérez, Becky Thompson, Zenaida Peterson, Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, Kristen A. Kolenz, Krista L. Benson, Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, Shari M. Huhndorf, Combahee River Collective Statement: A Fortieth Anniversary Retrospective, Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, Vol. 38, No. 3 (2017), pp. 164-189
Gendering the Trans-Pacific World
As the inaugural volume of the new Brill book series Gendering the Trans-Pacific World: Diaspora, Empire, and Race, this anthology presents an emergent interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary field that highlights the inextricable link between gender and the trans-Pacific world. The anthology features twenty-one chapters by new and established scholars and writers. They collectively examine the geographies of empire, the significance of intimacy …
US Feminisms and Their Global Connections
This chapter reinterprets the history of twentieth-century US feminism by foregrounding the importance of the global. Both international events and transnational flows of people, ideas, and goods have shaped the development of feminism in the United States. Recognizing the importance of the global foregrounds the diversity of political goals and political actors within movements for gender equality. Also, acknowledging US feminists’ engagement wi…
What Makes a Good War Story? Absences of Empire, Race, and Gender in The Vietnam War
“What is a war story, and what makes a good one?”1 These questions, articulated by Viet Thanh Nguyen in his masterful treatise on war and memory, Nothing Ever Dies, reverberated in my mind as I watched the Ken Burns and Lynn Novick ten-part series, The Vietnam War.2 Over the course of eighteen plus hours, Burns and Novick tell a complex story of the war through historic footage as well as intimate interviews. They introduce viewers to a diverse r…
The U.S. 1968: Third-Worldism, Feminisms, and Liberalism
Becoming Refugee American: The Politics of Rescue in Little Saigon
In Nothing Ever Dies (2016), the Pulitzer Prize–winning writer Viet Thanh Nguyen highlights the afterlife of war. The so-called Viet Nam War did not end with the 1973 Paris Peace Accord or the 1975 reunification of the North and South. The conflict continues to haunt the lives of those who survived. Phuong Tran Nguyen explores this insight by analyzing the political formation of the Vietnamese diasporic community in the United States. The title o…
Radicals on the Road: Internationalism, Orientalism, and Feminism during the Vietnam Era
Wu analyzes how interactions among people from the U.S. and several East and Southeast Asian nations inspired transnational identities and multiracial coalitions that challenged political commitments during the Vietnam War era.
The Dead, the Living, and the Sacred
This article focuses on the antinuclear and antimilitarism politics of Patsy Takemoto Mink (1927-2002), the first Japanese American female lawyer in Hawai'i, the first woman of color to become a U.S. congressional representative, and the namesake for Title IX. During the late 1960s and 1970s, Mink challenged the use of the Pacific lands, waters, and peoples as sites of military experimentation, subject to nuclear and chemical testing as well as w…
To Our Readers
To Our Readers
Reflections on 2020
To Our Readers
Discriminating Sex: White Leisure and the Making of the American “Oriental
Amy Sueyoshi has written an intriguing and nuanced study of how the gender and sexual discourse in turn-of-the-century San Francisco reflected and projected white anxieties onto Asian bodies. The title of her book, Discriminating Sex, foregrounds her argument “that exercises in gender and sexual freedom in fact clarify the ubiquity of white privilege and supremacy” (p. 12). The displacement of white sexual liberation and unease onto Chinese and J…
Sociology (30 works) · Political science (29 works) · History (25 works) · Law (19 works) · History (17 works) · Gender Studies (15 works) · Politics (13 works) · Asian American and Pacific Histories (11 works) · Race, History, and American Society (10 works) · Art (9 works)