Kandice Chuh is Professor of English, Graduate Center, City University of New York.Karen Shimakawa is Assistant Professor of Theatre and Dance and Asian American Studies at the University of California, Davis.

“Bristling with provocations, this timely collection of intoxicating essays interrogates the margins of disciplinary and institutional centers, revealing unsettling glimpses of the intellectual and material investments in ‘Asia,’ ‘America,’ and the fields that figure and are configured by them.”-Gary Y. Okihiro, author of Margins and Mainstreams: Asians in American History and Culture

• Acknowledgments Introduction: Mapping Studies in the Asian Diaspora / Kandice Chuh and Karen Shimakawa I. Investments and Interventions (Un)Disciplined Subjects: (De)Colonizing the Academy? / Dorinne Kondo (Re)Viewing and Asian American Diaspora: Multiculturalism, Interculturalism, and the Northwest Asian American Theatre / Karen Shimakawa Creating Performative Communities: Through Text, Time, and Space / Russell Leong Cross-Discipline Trafficking: What’s Justice Got to Do With It? / Sharon K. Hom II. Translating Knowledge Notes toward a Conversion between Area Studies and Diasporic Studies / Dipesh Chakrabarty The Stakes of Textual Border-Crossings: Hualing Nieh’s Mulberry and Peach in Sinocentric, Asian American, and Feminist Critical Practices / Sau-Ling C. Wong Biyuti in Everyday Life: Performance, Citizenship, and Survival among Filipinos in the United States / Martin F. Manalansan IV Missile Internationalism / Kuan-Hsing Chen III. Para-Sites, Or, Constituting Borders Leading Questions / Rey Chow Modeling the Nation: The Asian/American Split / David Palumbo-Liu Postwar Japan / Yoshikuni Igarashi Conjunctural Identities, Academic Adjancencies / R. Radhakrishnan IV. Asian/American Epistemologies Epistemological Shifts: National Ontology and the New Asian Immigrant / Lisa Lowe “Imaginary Borders” / Kandice Chuh “To Tell the Truth and Not Get Trapped”: Why Interethnic Antiracism Matters Now / George Lipsitz References Contributors Index

Kandice Chuh is Professor of English, Graduate Center, City University of New York.Karen Shimakawa is Assistant Professor of Theatre and Dance and Asian American Studies at the University of California, Davis.

“Bristling with provocations, this timely collection of intoxicating essays interrogates the margins of disciplinary and institutional centers, revealing unsettling glimpses of the intellectual and material investments in ‘Asia,’ ‘America,’ and the fields that figure and are configured by them.”-Gary Y. Okihiro, author of Margins and Mainstreams: Asians in American History and Culture

• Acknowledgments Introduction: Mapping Studies in the Asian Diaspora / Kandice Chuh and Karen Shimakawa I. Investments and Interventions (Un)Disciplined Subjects: (De)Colonizing the Academy? / Dorinne Kondo (Re)Viewing and Asian American Diaspora: Multiculturalism, Interculturalism, and the Northwest Asian American Theatre / Karen Shimakawa Creating Performative Communities: Through Text, Time, and Space / Russell Leong Cross-Discipline Trafficking: What’s Justice Got to Do With It? / Sharon K. Hom II. Translating Knowledge Notes toward a Conversion between Area Studies and Diasporic Studies / Dipesh Chakrabarty The Stakes of Textual Border-Crossings: Hualing Nieh’s Mulberry and Peach in Sinocentric, Asian American, and Feminist Critical Practices / Sau-Ling C. Wong Biyuti in Everyday Life: Performance, Citizenship, and Survival among Filipinos in the United States / Martin F. Manalansan IV Missile Internationalism / Kuan-Hsing Chen III. Para-Sites, Or, Constituting Borders Leading Questions / Rey Chow Modeling the Nation: The Asian/American Split / David Palumbo-Liu Postwar Japan / Yoshikuni Igarashi Conjunctural Identities, Academic Adjancencies / R. Radhakrishnan IV. Asian/American Epistemologies Epistemological Shifts: National Ontology and the New Asian Immigrant / Lisa Lowe “Imaginary Borders” / Kandice Chuh “To Tell the Truth and Not Get Trapped”: Why Interethnic Antiracism Matters Now / George Lipsitz References Contributors Index

Kandice Chuh is Professor of English, Graduate Center, City University of New York.Karen Shimakawa is Assistant Professor of Theatre and Dance and Asian American Studies at the University of California, Davis.

“Bristling with provocations, this timely collection of intoxicating essays interrogates the margins of disciplinary and institutional centers, revealing unsettling glimpses of the intellectual and material investments in ‘Asia,’ ‘America,’ and the fields that figure and are configured by them.”-Gary Y. Okihiro, author of Margins and Mainstreams: Asians in American History and Culture

• Acknowledgments Introduction: Mapping Studies in the Asian Diaspora / Kandice Chuh and Karen Shimakawa I. Investments and Interventions (Un)Disciplined Subjects: (De)Colonizing the Academy? / Dorinne Kondo (Re)Viewing and Asian American Diaspora: Multiculturalism, Interculturalism, and the Northwest Asian American Theatre / Karen Shimakawa Creating Performative Communities: Through Text, Time, and Space / Russell Leong Cross-Discipline Trafficking: What’s Justice Got to Do With It? / Sharon K. Hom II. Translating Knowledge Notes toward a Conversion between Area Studies and Diasporic Studies / Dipesh Chakrabarty The Stakes of Textual Border-Crossings: Hualing Nieh’s Mulberry and Peach in Sinocentric, Asian American, and Feminist Critical Practices / Sau-Ling C. Wong Biyuti in Everyday Life: Performance, Citizenship, and Survival among Filipinos in the United States / Martin F. Manalansan IV Missile Internationalism / Kuan-Hsing Chen III. Para-Sites, Or, Constituting Borders Leading Questions / Rey Chow Modeling the Nation: The Asian/American Split / David Palumbo-Liu Postwar Japan / Yoshikuni Igarashi Conjunctural Identities, Academic Adjancencies / R. Radhakrishnan IV. Asian/American Epistemologies Epistemological Shifts: National Ontology and the New Asian Immigrant / Lisa Lowe “Imaginary Borders” / Kandice Chuh “To Tell the Truth and Not Get Trapped”: Why Interethnic Antiracism Matters Now / George Lipsitz References Contributors Index