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2013-2014 Lucie Cheng Prize: Call for Nominations
Amerasia Journal invites faculty to nominate exceptional graduate student essays (masters and doctoral level) in the interdisciplinary field of Asian American and Pacific Islander Studies for the 2013-14 Lucie Cheng Prize. The selected article will be published in Amerasia Journal, with a $1500 prize to be awarded to the winner.
The Lucie Cheng Prize honors the late Professor Lucie Cheng (1939-2010), a longtime faculty member of UCLA and the first permanent director of the UCLA Asian American Studies Center (1972-1987). Professor Cheng was a pioneering scholar who brought an early and enduring transnational focus to the study of Asian Americans and issues such as labor and immigration.
Submission: Nominations must be submitted via email by the graduate advisor by October 1, 2013, with notification to the winner by the end of the calendar year.
Nominations are to include:
1. Graduate Advisor Name, Title, Institution, and Contact Information
2. Graduate Advisor Recommendation (500 word limit)
3. Graduate Student Brief CV (2 pages)
4. Essay (5000-7000 words) in a MS-Word file, formatted according to the Amerasia Journal Style Sheet; for journal style guidelines, see: http://www.amerasiajournal.org/blog/?page_id=42.
Submit materials and queries to ajprize@aasc.ucla.edu and arnoldpan@ucla.edu.
Amerasia Journal publishes special issue on Asian American folklore
Amerasia Journal is pleased to announce the publication of “Asian American Folklore: Passages and Practices”, our first issue devoted exclusively to Asian American Folklore Studies. This project is undertaken by two of the leading scholars in this area of study, Jonathan H. X. Lee (San Francisco State University) and Kathleen Nadeau (California State University, San Bernardino).
Issue 39:2 “Asian American Folklore: Passages and Practices” explores how Asian American Studies and folklore studies converge. One of the most important insights Lee and Nadeau offer is that Asian American folk practices are living, breathing, and constantly transforming, not simply vestiges of immigrant pasts, as evidenced by articles examining topics that range from Asian American graphic narratives to origami, from Chinese American children’s folk literature to Chinatown architecture. In particular, Lee and Nadeau make a claim for a uniquely Asian American folklore that has its roots in Asian America, with ties to diasporic and transnational cultures that link Asian Americans to Asia from the past to the present.
“Asian American Folklore: Passages and Practices” includes Cathy Schlund-Vials’s incisive study of the first Asian American graphic narrative collection, Secret Identities, as she argues that the comic book form provides Asian Americans a venue to imagine alternate histories and futures. Art historian Winston Kyan excavates over a century of Chinatown architecture to show how it has reflected the changing perceptions of U.S.-China relations, while Lorraine Dong offers a comprehensive catalog of Chinese American children’s folktales written for an American audience. Brett Esaki presents truly novel research into Japanese American origami practices, focusing on how the work of origami designer Linda Mihara embodies the social interactions and history of the Japanese American community.
The issue also features a roundtable on the controversial charges that Richard Aoki was a FBI informant. Organized by long-time UCLA Asian American Studies Center Publications Coordinator and Asian American Movement veteran Mary Uyematsu Kao, the forum on this complex affair brings together insights from Aoki’s old and new compatriots: Douglas Daniels, Harvey Dong, and Wayie Ly.
Published by UCLA’s Asian American Studies Center since 1971, Amerasia Journal is regarded as the core journal in the field of Asian American Studies.
ORDERING INFORMATION: Copies of the issue can be ordered via phone, email, or mail. Each issue of Amerasia Journal costs $15.00 plus shipping/handling and applicable sales tax. Please contact the Center Press for detailed ordering information.
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Amerasia Journal is published three times a year: Spring, Summer/Fall, and Winter. Annual subscriptions for Amerasia Journal are $99.99 for individuals and $445.00 for libraries and other institutions. Instructors interested in this issue for classroom use should contact the above email address to request a review copy.
CCED Opens Photography Exhibit at Chinese American Museum
July 19, 2013 was a warm summer evening when Chinatown Community for Equitable Development (CCED) opened its photography exhibit at the Chinese American Museum. About 290 people came out to celebrate the opening of “The Streets Between Us” which showcases the visions and voices of Chinatown residents and small businesses.
As part of the on-going struggle to keep WalMart out of Chinatown because of its track record of taking out the neighborhood small store owners, local residents and small businesses were given disposable cameras to photograph what they call “home.”
As CCED’s Facebook page for the exhibit states:
“The Streets Between Us” tells the story of community member’s daily lives in a rapidly changing Chinatown. Through the eyes of nine community members and participants, the exhibit creatively documents the everyday experiences of long-time Chinese, Vietnamese, Cambodian, and Thai residents and small business owners of different ages and genders, and what they hope for Chinatown.
All exhibit text is in English, Chinese, and Spanish
“From their unique perspectives, scenes of a familiar ‘home’ emerge, despite the growing reality that the neighborhood is at the crossroads of a development and housing struggle.
“CCED holds ‘The Streets Between Us’ to show the beauty of the neighborhood but also fight for its preservation.”
The exhibit will be on-going until September 19, 2013, thanks to the community support from the Chinese American Museum (CAM). There is also a complementary exhibit at CAM on the history of Monterey Park (aka Chinatown East).
CCED has been the only Chinatown grassroots organization to organize, mobilize, and create a presence in Chinatown that is opposed to the destruction of the mom-and-pop store character that has historically made Chinatown Chinatown. CCED just marked its first anniversary with a successful celebration dinner last month. From its beginning last year in June when CCED joined the powerful ranks of union labor against WalMart, the heart of the organization has been high school and college students who have grown up in Chinatown representing Asian and Latino residents—but CCED is a multigenerational group of students, teachers, residents, older adults, and activists. “The Streets Between Us” gives testament to the creative energy and contagious spirit that makes CCED one to watch for!
Resident and small business community photographers” and supporting organizations of “The Streets Between Us.”
Trilingual captions
A lively crowd attentively listens to program of speakers.
Featured speakers for program: (from left) Stefanie Ritoper, Jenny Lin, and Preeti Sharma, the three organizers of the exhibit, are introduced by John Allan Angkham, one of the local business owner/photographers in the exhibit.
Steve Wong, Interim Director and Curator of the Chinese American Museum (CAM).
Bob Lee, Chinatown small business owner, speaks to an enthusiastic crowd.
The senior ladies of Chinatown and CCED organizer Sophia Cheng look at photographs together opening night.
Plentiful and refreshing food for the warm summer night made a festive event.
CCED’s own “mom-and-pop” Diane Tan and King Cheung.
Diane Tan introduces CAM board members and important guests attending the evening’s event.
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UCLA’s Amerasia Journal releases second volume of the Chinese-language Global Identities, Local Voices
The UCLA Asian American Studies Center (AASC) and Amerasia Journal are proud to announce the U.S.-release of the second installation of Global Identities, Local Voices: Amerasia Journal at 40 Years. Following the publication of Volume 1 last year, the new volume marks the continuation of this collaborative project with the Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica Taiwan to bring the pages of Amerasia Journal and Asian American scholarship to the Chinese-reading world.
This volume provides an ever-expansive view of Asians in the Americas – featuring works that cross borders and boundaries, comparatively examine issues across race and ethnicity, and cover ethnic enclaves. The scholars and literary writers featured here include Lucie Cheng with Liu Yuzun and Zheng Dehua, Tritia Toyota, Arif Dirlik, Roshni Rostumji, and Henry Yu. Eric Yamamoto and Christine Ho provide cross-racial connections, while Dana Takagi looks at sexuality and gender. Shan Te-Hsing interviews author Karen Tei Yamashita and Christopher Lee examines the literary work of Eileen Chang. The volume ends with multi-faceted investigations of American Chinatowns by Katie Quan, Marlon Hom, and Sauling Wong. This is the first time many of the pieces have been made available in translation to Chinese-reading audiences.
Global Identities, Local Voices is a collaborative editorial and translation project between the Center and the Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica Taiwan. The three co-editors are: Russell C. Leong, long-time editor of Amerasia Journal (1977-2010); Professor Emeritus Don T. Nakanishi, publisher and co-founder of the journal, and Professor Te-hsing Shan, head of the Chinese translation team. The introduction to the second volume (in English) by Russell C. Leong is attached to this release. Physical copies of the preface are also available in Chinese upon request.
Published by UCLA’s Asian American Studies Center since 1971, Amerasia Journal is regarded as the core journal in the field of Asian American Studies.
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Global Identities, Local Voices: Amerasia Journal at 40 Years Volumes 1 & 2 are available for purchase. Each volume costs $24.95 or take advantage of a Special Limited Time Offer: Save $10 and order both for the discounted price of $40. There is an additional charge of $5 for domestic shipping and applicable sales tax for California residents. Please contact the UCLA AASC Press for more detailed ordering information.
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Amerasia Journal releases first-ever issue on disabilities
Amerasia Journal is pleased to announce the publication of “The State of Illness and Disability in Asian America,” our first issue entirely devoted to Disabilities Studies. This groundbreaking interdisciplinary project is spearheaded by Jennifer Ho (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill) and James Kyung-Jin Lee (University of California, Irvine) and features leading scholars working in the fields of Asian American Studies and Disabilities Studies.
Issue 39:1 “The State of Illness and Disability in Asian America” covers a wide variety of topics examined from a broad range of perspectives, from compelling first-person accounts to innovative research articles. This special issue tackles illness and disability from the vantage points of poetics, ethics, and politics, presenting subjects that have been previously overlooked in Asian American Studies, including autism and representations of deafness, as well as re-examining more familiar matters, such as John Okada’s novel No-No Boy and the case of the “Siamese Twins” Chang and Eng Bunker. Yet no matter the topic and approach, what stands out about the contributions is the committed, urgent tone the authors use to convey their respective messages— be it a personal account of undergoing breast cancer treatments or a call to rethink the ableist figures of speech we use in politics.
The issue includes:
* Poetics: This section features creative and critical work, including a poem by literary scholar Floyd Cheung, as well as thought-provoking analyses of No-No Boy by Cynthia Wu and of the play Mother Tongue by Ellen Samuels. Crystal Parikh develops a theory of health and well-being as human rights through Asian American literary studies by her readings of Jhumpa Lahiri’s short stories.
* Ethics: In this section, first-person accounts of how to cope with illness and disability are combined with historical study and pedagogical experiences. Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu tells of his first-hand experience of providing hospice care, and Kristina Chew describes what she learned about her own adolescence through the life of her autistic son Charlie. Stevie Larson offers new insights on the value systems used to judge Chang and Eng Bunker. Asian American Studies faculty at California State University, Northridge provide an account of how disability impacts the way they teach and think about teaching.
* Politics: The final section of the special issue delves into the politics of illness and disability in Asian America, tackling them through theoretical knowledge and personal experience. Mel Chen scrutinizes common tropes used in politics and the able-bodied assumptions behind them, while Alice Wong looks back at her childhood to explain how she became a scholar and activist on disability issues. Jennifer Ho, through her personal account of battling breast cancer, powerfully articulates the limits of theory in the ill body.
Published by UCLA’s Asian American Studies Center since 1971, Amerasia Journal is regarded as the core journal in the field of Asian American Studies.
ORDERING INFORMATION: Copies of the issue can be ordered via phone, email, or mail. Each issue of Amerasia Journal costs $15.00 plus shipping/handling and applicable sales tax. Please contact the Center Press for detailed ordering information.
UCLA Asian American Studies Center Press
3230 Campbell Hall | Los Angeles, CA 90095-1546
Phone: 310-825-2968 | Email: aascpress@aasc.ucla.edu
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Amerasia Journal is published three times a year: Spring, Summer/Fall, and Winter. Annual subscriptions for Amerasia Journal are $99.99 for individuals and $445.00 for libraries and other institutions. Instructors interested in this issue for classroom use should contact the above email address to request a review copy.
Call for Papers: Asian American Cultural Politics Across Platforms
Amerasia Journal Special Issue Call for Papers
Asian American Cultural Politics Across Platforms
Guest Editors:
Professor Victor Bascara (UCLA) and Professor Lisa Nakamura (University of Michigan)
Publication Date:
Summer 2014
Due Date:
Paper submissions (up to 5,000 words) due July 1, 2013
This special issue focuses on the relationship between technology, new social movements, and Asian American cultural politics. One of the central early insights of cultural studies has been the recognition of cultural politics beyond aesthetic culture, narrowly understood. While literature has long been turned to for symptomatic readings, a growing body of recent work in Asian American cultural studies has read everything from visual art, new/old media, music, dance, and performance to legal and political discourse, the spectacle of bodies in protest, infrastructures of deindustrialized cities, and diasporic networks that have emerged under neoliberal globalization.
This special issue seeks papers of approximately 5,000 words in length that examine the diverse and platform-crossing manifestations of Asian American cultural politics. We especially welcome interdisciplinary and teachable writings that appreciate the significance of platform-crossing cultural production to adopt for courses ranging from literary studies to communications to performance to film and popular culture as well as Asian American Studies and Ethnic Studies. The deadline for submission is July 1, 2013.
Submission Guidelines:
The review process involves the following steps. The guest editors, in consultation with the Amerasia Journal editors and peer reviewers, make decisions on the final essays:
• Initial review of submitted papers by guest editors and Amerasia Journal editorial staff
• Papers approved by editors will undergo blind peer review
• Revision of accepted peer-reviewed papers and final submission
Please send papers and correspondence to Arnold Pan, Associate Editor, Amerasia Journal at arnoldpan@ucla.edu, by July 1, 2013.
2013 FOUNDATIONS FOR CHANGE: Thomas I. Yamashita Prize
UC Berkeley’s Center for Research on Social Change (formerly ISSC) is accepting nominations for the 2013 FOUNDATIONS FOR CHANGE: Thomas I. Yamashita Prize
The FOUNDATIONS FOR CHANGE: Thomas I. Yamashita Prize is awarded annually to an outstanding young social change activist/scholar in California. The award of $2,500 honors a person whose work transforms the existing social landscape and serves as a bridge between the academy and the community. An awardee helps to build the capacity of community-based organizations and social movements to confront pressing issues by applying her/his academic expertise. Simultaneously, she/he enriches academic scholarship by sharing the insights and knowledge produced from community engagement with the broader academic community.
NOTE: The award is not limited to students or scholars, but an honoree’s work should reflect a commitment to strengthening ties between the academy and communities. There is no age limit for this award, but the honoree should be in the early stages of his/her career as a social change activist/scholar.
Deadline: Thursday, February 14 @5pm.
2013 Nomination Process
The FOUNDATIONS FOR CHANGE: Thomas I. Yamashita Prize uses a nomination system, where someone other than the nominee identifies the nominee, their contributions, and the kinds of expertise they bring to understanding how change works. To download a nomination form, click here.
Nomination due date: Thursday, February 14, 2013, by 5pm
(The Prize will be announced within four to six weeks after the deadline date. An award ceremony will be held in the spring.)
Please send nomination forms and supporting materials to:
FOUNDATIONS FOR CHANGE: The Thomas I. Yamashita Prize
Center for Research on Social Change Institute for the Study of Societal Issues University of California 2420 Bowditch Street, MC 5670 Berkeley, CA 94720-5670Deadline: Thursday, February 14 @5pm.
Read about other past recipients of the FOUNDATIONS FOR CHANGE: Thomas I. Yamashita Prize: Past Recipients
About Thomas I. Yamashita
Thomas Isao Yamashita was an undergraduate student in civil engineering at the University of California at Berkeley and a member of the class of 1942. He was one of the first Asian-Americans elected to two of the University of California’s honor societies—Winged Helmet and the Order of the Golden Bear. The internment of Americans of Japanese descent on the West Coast of the United States in 1942 made it impossible for him to graduate from Berkeley. He eventually received his engineering degree from the University of Nebraska. Even so, Tom supported and cherished the University of California at Berkeley and was a life member of the Alumni Association.
As a civil engineer, Tom spent the majority of his career in Hong Kong. His work did not involve building the structures that typify its landscape. His work is unseen, focusing on foundations, on solving the complex engineering problems that enable steel and glass towers to be built. His work made possible the transportation corridors that allowed the city to become a regional economic hub. Through his leadership, Tom developed new construction techniques that altered the practice of building. His work changed the city’s landscape. In this spirit of engineering the foundations of change, the FOUNDATIONS FOR CHANGE: Thomas I. Yamashita Prize is housed at the Institute for the Study of Social Change.
For more information about the Prize and nomination process, contact Dr. Christine Trost: (510) 643-7237, ctrost@berkeley.edu.
The Center for Research on Social Change (CRSC, formerly ISSC) is an interdisciplinary research center that is part of the Institute for the Study of Societal Issues (ISSI) at the University of California, Berkeley. CRSC researchers use a combination of qualitative and quantitative social science research methods to undertake empirical investigations into critical social issues facing the nation and to illuminate the lived experiences of people whose social locations are profoundly affected by broad processes of social change. A major focus of the Center is how immigration, globalization, economic restructuring, and development of new technologies have shaped and changed the structure and culture of various spheres within US society and societies throughout the world.
Global Identities: Local Voices, UCLA’s Amerasia Journal in New Chinese Language Edition
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
BY RUSSELL C. LEONG, UCLA
UCLA’s Asian American Studies Center Director and Amerasia Journal Editor Professor David Yoo announces the publication of Global Identities; Local Voices: Amerasia Journal at 40 Years, a two-volume book project that introduces almost half-a-century of work from Asian American scholars, writers, and researchers in Chinese translation to the Chinese-reading world. Through the power of translation, the pages of Amerasia Journal are now “freed” from the confines of the English language and can reach new audiences of scholars, students, and readers in Taiwan, in mainland China, and in the greater Chinese world on both sides of the Pacific.
According to Professor Yoo: “This volume is an excellent teaching tool for educators of Chinese in the U.S. and those who require historical, literary, and cultural materials about Asians in the U.S. This volume is a ‘must have’ for libraries and all institutions of learning who study Chinese and Asian Americans, comparative literature and diaspora studies, and the Chinese overseas.”
This volume features a range of scholars and literary writers who have contributed to the field of Asian American Studies, including Asian American pioneers, such as Him Mark Lai and Yuji Ichioka, as well as the work of leaders in the field such as Sauling C. Wong, Wu Bing, and Glenn Omatsu. The poems, letters, and essays of acclaimed writers Carlos Bulosan, Maxine Hong Kingston, Hisaye Yamamoto, Jessica Hagedorn, and Lawson Fusao Inada are also included alongside other essential works selected for this publication. The release of these books marks the first time many of the pieces have been made available in translation to Chinese-reading audiences.
Global Identities, Local Voices is a collaborative editorial and translation project between the Center and the Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica Taiwan. The three co-editors are: Russell C. Leong, long-time editor of Amerasia Journal (1977-2010); Professor Emeritus Don T. Nakanishi, publisher and co-founder of the journal, and Professor Te-hsing Shan, head of the Chinese translation team. An excerpt of the first volume’s introduction, by Russell C. Leong and translated by Shan Te-hsing, follows this release. (See the Introduction in Chinese and the English version).
Published by UCLA’s Asian American Studies Center since 1971, Amerasia Journal is regarded as the core journal in the field of Asian American Studies.
PDF version of this release can be found here: UCLA’s Amerasia Journal in New Chinese Language Edition
ORDERING INFORMATION:
Global Identities, Local Voices: Amerasia Journal at 40 Years (Volume 1) is available for purchase. Each copy costs $24.95, plus $5 domestic shipping and applicable sales tax for California residents. Multiple book and international orders may be subject to additional charges. Copies can be obtained by ordering via phone, email or mail. Please contact the UCLA AASC Press for more detailed ordering information.
UCLA Asian American Studies Center Press
3230 Campbell Hall | Los Angeles, CA 90095-1546
Phone: 310-825-2968 | Email: aascpress@aasc.ucla.edu
Blog: http://www.amerasiajournal.org/blog/
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