Transpacific Articulations

Student Migration and the Remaking of Asian America

Bibliographic Data

ID19938702
AuthorsChih-Ming Wang (0000-0001-8318-7680, corresponding author)
Year2017
Pages248
Publication date2017-12-31
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueTranspacific Articulations (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherUniversity of Hawaii Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1515/9780824839161
OpenAlexW616869907
Open LibraryOL29357193M
ISBN9780824839161
LanguageEN
Citations received13
References cited1

In 1854 Yung Wing, who graduated with a bachelor's degree from Yale University, returned to a poverty-stricken China, where domestic revolt and foreign invasion were shaking the Chinese empire. Inspired by the U.S. and its liberal education, Yung believed that having more Chinese students educated there was the only way to bring reform to China. Since then, generations of students from China-and other Asian countries-have embarked on this transpacific voyage in search of modernity. What forces have shaped Asian student migration to the U.S.? What impact do foreign students have on the formation of Asian America? How do we grasp the meaning of this transpacific subject in and out of Asian American history and culture? Transpacific Articulations explores these questions in the crossings of Asian culture and American history.Beginning with the story of Yung Wing, the book is organized chronologically to show the transpacific character of Asian student migration

Cultural phenomenon · Epistemology · Phenomenon · Political science · Politics · Relation (database) · Sociology · Anthropology · Asian American and Pacific Histories · Gender Studies · History · Law · Philosophy

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