1. A Very Long Early Modern? Asia and Its Oceans, 1000–1850

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Preface ix
4. Introduction: Integrating the Pacific 1
5. Part I. China and Ocean Worlds
6. 1. A Very Long Early Modern? Asia and Its Oceans, 1000–1850 15
7. 2. Transatlantic and Transpacific Connections in Early American History 29
8. Part II. Circuits and Diaspora
9. 3. The Pacific Ocean as Highway to Gold Mountain: The Hong Kong Connection, 1850–1900 47
10. 4. Pop Gingle’s Cold War 62
11. 5. Chinese and American Collaborations through Educational Exchange during the Era of Exclusion, 1872–1955 80
12. 6. Japanese Reinvention of Self through Hawai‘i’s Japanese Americans 96
13. 7. Fighting the Postwar in Little Saigon 110
14. Part III. Racism and Imperialism
15. 8. Transpacific Accommodation and the Defense of Asian Immigrants 129
16. 9. Kilsoo Haan, American Intelligence, and the Anticipated Japanese Invasion of California, 1931–1943 146
17. 10. Transpacific Adoption: The Korean War, US Missionaries, and Cold War Liberalism 161
18. 11. Inter-Imperial Relations, the Pacific, and Asian American History 178
19. 12. Japanese Immigrant Settler Colonialism and the Construction of a US National Security Regime against the Transborder “Yellow Peril” 192
20. Part IV. Islands and the Pacific Rim
21. 13. How the Portuguese Became White: The Racial Politics of Pre-Annexation Hawai‘i 213
22. 14. Who Closed the Sea? Archipelagoes of Amnesia between the United States and Japan 229
23. 15. Japanese Commemorations of World War II in the Mariana Islands 247
24. Contributors 265
25. Index 269