LibGuides: Unsettling Things: Asian Studies

Books

Asian Heritage Management: contexts, concerns, and prospects by Kapila D. Silva (Editor); Neel Kamal Chapagain (Editor)
Call Number: G156.5.H47 A85 2013
ISBN: 9780415520546
Publication Date: 2013
This book explores this complexity of managing the cultural heritage in Asia. Case studies include sites of Angkor, Himeji Castle, Kathmandu Valley, Luang Prabang, Lumbini, and Malacca, and the book uses these to explore the religious worldviews, heritage policies, intangible heritage dimensions, traditional preservation practices, cultural tourism, and the notion of cultural landscape that are crucial in understanding the cultural heritage in Asia.
Yellow Peril! : an archive of anti-Asian fear by John Kuo Wei Tchen; Dylan Yeats
Call Number: E184.A75 Y45 2014
ISBN: 9781781681237
Publication Date: 2014
Written by two dedicated scholars and replete with paintings, photographs, and images drawn from pulp novels, posters, comics, theatrical productions, movies, propagandistic and pseudo-scholarly literature, and a varied world of pop culture ephemera, this is both a unique and fascinating archive and a modern analysis of this crucial historical formation.
Investing in the Early Modern Built Environment: Europeans, Asians, settlers and indigenous societies by Carole Shammas (Volume Editor)
Call Number: NA203 .I58 2012
ISBN: 9789004231160
Publication Date: 2012
Today the bulk of tangible wealth around the globe resides in buildings and physical infrastructure rather than moveable goods. This situation was not always the case. Investing in the Early Modern Built Environment represents the first attempt to delve into the period's enhanced architectural investment--its successes, its failures, and the conflicts it provoked.
Dress, Gender and Cultural Change: Asian American and African American rites of passage by Annette Lynch; Joanne B. Eicher (Series edited by)
Call Number: GT525 .L96 1999
ISBN: 9781859739792
Publication Date: 1999
This author shows that within the homogenizing context of American society, dress serves as a site for the continual renegotiation of identity - gendered, ethnic and otherwise.

Journals and Databases

Database: Bibliography of Asian Studies
BAS offers broad bibliographical coverage of Western-language journal articles, review articles, papers in conference proceedings and chapters in edited volumes and Festschriften published anywhere in the world that deal with East, Southeast and South Asia and with the overseas Asian communities.

Media

Chinese American: Exclusion/Inclusion (online exhibition)
Chinese American: Exclusion/Inclusion chronicles the complex history of the Chinese in America—the challenges of immigration, citizenship, and belonging that shaped both the Chinese American experience and the development of the United States as a nation. Learn more about the first American trade ship to sail for China, the early Chinese laborers hoping to strike it rich on “Gold Mountain,” the passage of the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act to limit Chinese immigration and access to citizenship, the experience of multiple generations of Chinese American families in the twentieth century…and see how this history contributed to shaping American society.