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Global Cities And Covid-19: Stories Of Resilience And Fragility In Los Angeles, Edward J.W. Park
Global Cities And Covid-19: Stories Of Resilience And Fragility In Los Angeles, Edward J.W. Park
Asian and Asian American Studies Faculty Works
This paper examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on global cities. In particular, the paper revisits and updates the academic literature on global cities and focuses on the discussion of the resilience and fragility of global cities in light of an unprecedented global pandemic. By severely testing the strength and durability of the international flow of goods and people, the sweeping scale and intensity of the COVID-19 pandemic directly called into question the thick and complicated network of global cities that serve as modes for international trade and travel. The paper then draws on the impact of COVID-19 on …
The Trouble With (The Lack Of) Accents, Gladys Mac
The Trouble With (The Lack Of) Accents, Gladys Mac
Asian and Asian American Studies Faculty Works
How accent reveals identity politics in Hong Kong cinema.
A Divergent Path: Korean American Politics In An Age Of Globalization, Edward J.W. Park
A Divergent Path: Korean American Politics In An Age Of Globalization, Edward J.W. Park
Asian and Asian American Studies Faculty Works
In a globalizing world, Korean Americans political participation is being increasingly shaped not only by their demand for empowerment in the United States―the nation of their citizenship―but also by their desire to manage their increasingly transnational lives and to fully maximize economic opportunities on the other side of the Pacific. While finding meaningful political power in the diverse and contentious American society has been a slow process, Korean Americans have found much more success in the interstitial political space of globalization and transnationalism. Within the past two decades, Korean Americans have been wooed by the South Korean government and the …
The Political Formation Of Korean Americans, 1992-2019: From Ethnic Politics To Managing Transnational Lives, Edward J.W. Park
The Political Formation Of Korean Americans, 1992-2019: From Ethnic Politics To Managing Transnational Lives, Edward J.W. Park
Asian and Asian American Studies Faculty Works
No abstract provided.
Too Many Homelands, Gladys Mac
Too Many Homelands, Gladys Mac
Asian and Asian American Studies Faculty Works
No abstract provided.
Golden Chicken As Historicomedy: Sex Work In Hong Kong And Local Popular Culture, Gladys Mac
Golden Chicken As Historicomedy: Sex Work In Hong Kong And Local Popular Culture, Gladys Mac
Asian and Asian American Studies Faculty Works
Golden Chicken金雞was released in 2002. The film traces the life of a sex worker, Kam, from the late 1970s into the early 2000s. The film is a historicomedy that portrays local history from the life and career of a sex worker, as well as the popular culture she consumed. History is presented in a lighthearted manner, with no moral or social condemnations of prostitution. While many of the historical events in the film are serious matters with long lasting consequences, a comedic angle presents a more palatable version of events to younger audiences who did not personally experience these incidents. …
Classically Trained, Gladys Mac
Classically Trained, Gladys Mac
Asian and Asian American Studies Faculty Works
Gladys Mac leaps into Jin Yong’s retro wuxia language.
Painting Native America In Public: American Indian Artists And The New Deal, Nicolas G. Rosenthal
Painting Native America In Public: American Indian Artists And The New Deal, Nicolas G. Rosenthal
History Faculty Works
The New Deal represents a critical period in the development of American Indian art. Shifts in policy created opportunities for American Indians to study art, and New Deal commissions for murals in post offices and other public spaces enabled artists to develop skills, establish their reputations, and make a living. American Indian artists also faced challenges in the form of dominant expectations for Native art and paternalism from officials and administrators. The benefits of New Deal commissions and the struggles with their limitations nonetheless formed a foundation for subsequent generations of Native artists who claimed more control over their art.
Representing Native Peoples: Native Narratives Of Indigenous History And Culture, Nicolas G. Rosenthal
Representing Native Peoples: Native Narratives Of Indigenous History And Culture, Nicolas G. Rosenthal
History Faculty Works
Together, the articles in this special issue of the American Indian Culture and Research Journal offer a discussion of how Indigenous peoples have represented themselves and their communities in different periods and contexts, as well as through various media. Ranging across anthropology, art history, cartography, film studies, history, and literature, the authors examine how Native people negotiate with prominent images and ideas that represented Indians in the dominant culture and society in the United States and the Americas. These essays go beyond the problems of cultural appropriation by non-Indians to probe the myriad ways Native Americans and Indigenous people have …
Global Religion And Local Faith: Korean Churches In Beijing And Tokyo, Edward J.W. Park
Global Religion And Local Faith: Korean Churches In Beijing And Tokyo, Edward J.W. Park
Asian and Asian American Studies Faculty Works
Korea Christian churches and missionaries have a prominent presence around the world. In cities such as Yanji and Los Angeles, Korean churches are an essential part of century-old Korean ethnic communities that trace their origins to Japanese colonization that began in the late-1800s. More recently, the economic success of South Korean corporations has resulted in Korean churches and missionaries in global metropoles such as Beijing, London, and Singapore that serve thriving Korean communities anchored by corporate transnationals, entrepreneurs, and international students. This same economic growth has financed Korean missionaries from Africa to Central Asia to undertake projects ranging from health …
Remapping Emotion And Desire: Same-Sex Romance In Ah Cheng's "The King Of Chess", Yanjie Wang
Remapping Emotion And Desire: Same-Sex Romance In Ah Cheng's "The King Of Chess", Yanjie Wang
Asian and Asian American Studies Faculty Works
This article examines the representation of emotion and desire in Ah Cheng's The King of Chess (Qi wang). The interpretation of The King of Chess has been oriented toward an allegorical reading that revolves around grand cultural concepts, such as aesthetics, Taoist tradition, cultural consciousness, and national identity. In this paradigm of reading, the literary text has largely become a footnote of the master narrative of China's cultural reconstruction of the 1980s. Following the recent interpretative turn of this story from cultural to existential and from allegorical to corporeal, the article extends to yet another domain, that of emotion, intimacy, …
Blaming The Stranger: Parishes Must Resist The Myth Of The Latino Threat, Brett C. Hoover
Blaming The Stranger: Parishes Must Resist The Myth Of The Latino Threat, Brett C. Hoover
Theological Studies Faculty Works
No abstract provided.
This Is Indian Country, Nicolas G. Rosenthal
This Is Indian Country, Nicolas G. Rosenthal
History Faculty Works
For most of the past century, a migration has been taking place within the United States: Native Americans have been moving from tribal and rural lands to America’s cities. But Native Americans have not abandoned reservations for urban life. Instead, they’ve built a network that joins reservations, rural lands, suburban communities and urban centers, with Los Angeles as the “urban Indian capital of the United States.”
Trauma, Migrant Families, And Neoliberal Fantasies In Last Train Home, Yanjie Wang
Trauma, Migrant Families, And Neoliberal Fantasies In Last Train Home, Yanjie Wang
Asian and Asian American Studies Faculty Works
This paper examines the traumatic experience of migrant workers through a reading of Lixin Fan's award-winning documentary film Last Train Home(2009). I am not primarily concerned, like most trauma-studies-based research, with grand, clearly recognizable catastrophes. I also avoid generalizing about human suffering in the age of global capitalism. I focus rather on post-Socialist China's more hidden social violence and its traumatizing effect on the quotidian life of migrantworkers-a subaltern group on the periphery of society. I argue that the trauma of the marginalized population must be socially and politically contextualized. The first section of the essay investigates the traumatic sense …
Editors' Commentary: We Should Opt To Be Turtles And Sing To One Another: Protection, Community, Poetry, Eliza Rodriguez Y Gibson
Editors' Commentary: We Should Opt To Be Turtles And Sing To One Another: Protection, Community, Poetry, Eliza Rodriguez Y Gibson
Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies Faculty Works
No abstract provided.
An Annotated Bibliography Of Books, Dvds, And Internet Resources On Glbt Latinos And Latinas, Walt Walker, Glbtrt Resources Committee
An Annotated Bibliography Of Books, Dvds, And Internet Resources On Glbt Latinos And Latinas, Walt Walker, Glbtrt Resources Committee
LMU Librarian Publications & Presentations
Latino communities have long been parts of our society and culture, but many people, including in the mainstream media, have only recently noticed that 1/6 of the U.S. population is of Latino or Hispanic heritage. The United States is the second-largest Spanish-speaking country in the world, trailing only Mexico. This underrepresented demographic group is starting to receive more recognition in U.S. culture, including in its literature. Gay men, lesbians, bisexuals, and transgender persons make up another minority group that is increasingly visible in our culture. The subject of this bibliography is the intersection of these two minority groups, GLBT Latino/as. …
Violence, Wuxia, Migrants: Jia Zhangke’S Cinematic Discontent In A Touch Of Sin, Yanjie Wang
Violence, Wuxia, Migrants: Jia Zhangke’S Cinematic Discontent In A Touch Of Sin, Yanjie Wang
Asian and Asian American Studies Faculty Works
This article examines the representation of violence in Jia Zhangke's film A Touch of Sin (2013) in light of Žižek's theory of ‘objective violence’ and the wuxia tradition. Jia attempts to understand the rise of individual violent incidents during China's post-socialist transformations by laying out the social, historical and political milieus in which they take place. He unveils the Žižekian objective violence hidden in the realm of social normality, pinpointing the country's sins of collusion with the global capital to impose injustice on the poor and disadvantaged. Invoking the wuxia genre, Jia portrays the protagonists not so much as perpetrators …
Heterogeneous Time And Space: Han Shaogong’S Rethinking Of Chinese Modernity, Yanjie Wang
Heterogeneous Time And Space: Han Shaogong’S Rethinking Of Chinese Modernity, Yanjie Wang
Asian and Asian American Studies Faculty Works
This article is set against the post-Mao official discourse on modernity, in which the conceptualization of a homogeneous, progressive time dominates the public consciousness. The focus is on Han Shaogong, one of the most important writers and cultural theorists in contemporary China, and on how he imagines a heterogeneous spatiotemporality away from the centralized and teleological paradigm. Han’s emphasis on the heterogeneity of time and space puts the homogenized, Hegelian-Marxist, developmentalist logic at the core of China’s modernization project into question. The article begins by examining how the linear and evolutionary concept of time has determined the perception of history …
Editor's Commentary: Our Bodies Of Work, Eliza Rodriguez Y Gibson
Editor's Commentary: Our Bodies Of Work, Eliza Rodriguez Y Gibson
Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies Faculty Works
No abstract provided.
Work That Matters: Tending To Chicana/Latina Studies As Home., Eliza Rodriguez Y Gibson
Work That Matters: Tending To Chicana/Latina Studies As Home., Eliza Rodriguez Y Gibson
Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies Faculty Works
No abstract provided.
Editors' Commentary: No Straight Lines Here: Cartographies Of Home, Eliza Rodriguez Y Gibson
Editors' Commentary: No Straight Lines Here: Cartographies Of Home, Eliza Rodriguez Y Gibson
Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies Faculty Works
No abstract provided.
Editor's Commentary: Demanding Dialogue And Pushing The Conversation, Eliza Rodriguez Y Gibson
Editor's Commentary: Demanding Dialogue And Pushing The Conversation, Eliza Rodriguez Y Gibson
Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies Faculty Works
No abstract provided.
From Eileen Chang To Ang Lee: Lust/Caution Ed. By Peng Hsiao-Yen And Whitney Crothers Dilley, Yanjie Wang
From Eileen Chang To Ang Lee: Lust/Caution Ed. By Peng Hsiao-Yen And Whitney Crothers Dilley, Yanjie Wang
Asian and Asian American Studies Faculty Works
No abstract provided.
Immigration And Belonging: Nation, Class, And Membership In New Migration Policies, Edward J.W. Park
Immigration And Belonging: Nation, Class, And Membership In New Migration Policies, Edward J.W. Park
Asian and Asian American Studies Faculty Works
No abstract provided.
African American Women, Wealth Accumulation, And Social Welfare Activism In 19th Century Los Angeles, Marne Campbell
African American Women, Wealth Accumulation, And Social Welfare Activism In 19th Century Los Angeles, Marne Campbell
African-American Studies Faculty Works
No abstract provided.
From An Ethnic Island To A Transnational Bubble: A Reflection On Korean Americans In Los Angeles, Edward J.W. Park
From An Ethnic Island To A Transnational Bubble: A Reflection On Korean Americans In Los Angeles, Edward J.W. Park
Asian and Asian American Studies Faculty Works
No abstract provided.
Displaced In The Simulacrum: Migrant Workers And Urban Space In The World, Yanjie Wang
Displaced In The Simulacrum: Migrant Workers And Urban Space In The World, Yanjie Wang
Asian and Asian American Studies Faculty Works
The article examines the construction of the World Expo Garden in Shanghai in 2010, in relation to Jia Zhangke’s 2004 film The World. It argues that during the process of large-scale demolition and reconstruction involved in the creation of the World Expo Garden, one cannot ignore the numerous migrant workers who swarmed into the city and contributed tremendously to the completion of one project after another. This article argues that in spite of their pivotal role in providing cheap labor to rebuild the city, migrant workers have not been afforded any space in the spectacular tapestry of Shanghai. This article …
The Down Low And The Sexuality Of Race, Brad E. Stone
The Down Low And The Sexuality Of Race, Brad E. Stone
Philosophy Faculty Works
There has been much interest in the phenomenon called "the Down Low," in which "otherwise heterosexual" African American men have sex with other black men. This essay explores the biopolitics at play in the media’s curiosity about the Down Low. The Down Low serves as a critical, transgressive heterotopia that reveals the codetermination of racism, sexism, and heterosexism in black male sexuality.
Contention Of Lust, Caution: Sexuality, Visuality And Female Subjectivity, Yanjie Wang
Contention Of Lust, Caution: Sexuality, Visuality And Female Subjectivity, Yanjie Wang
Asian and Asian American Studies Faculty Works
This paper investigates the ways in which Ang Lee provides new insights into subject formation in his film Lust, Caution (Se Jie, 2007). In the paradigm of structuralism, the subject is defined, as well as confined, by the symbolic order or the dominant ideology. The puzzle therefore rests on how to explain the subject’s negotiation with its normative identity, its denial thereof, or even its subversion of said identity. In a close reading of the female protagonist’s subject formation in Lust, Caution, this paper acknowledges the power of ideology, specifically the power of its interpellative operation, in constructing a subject. …
The Newest Religious Sect Has Started In Los Angeles: Race, Class, Ethnicity, And The Origins Of The Pentecostal Movement, 1906 – 1913, Marne Campbell
The Newest Religious Sect Has Started In Los Angeles: Race, Class, Ethnicity, And The Origins Of The Pentecostal Movement, 1906 – 1913, Marne Campbell
African-American Studies Faculty Works
No abstract provided.