Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I War
5. One. JFK, China, and the Bomb 25
6. Two. Eisenhower and Mao’s China 49
7. Three. Chinese Americans and China: A Troubled and Complicated Relationship 65
8. Four. Whose “Barbarism”? Whose “Treachery”?: Race and Civilization in the Unknown United States–Korea War of 1871 79
9. Five. China and the Pursuit of America’s Destiny: Nineteenth-Century Imagining and Why Immigration Restriction Took So Long 119
10. Part II Race
11. Six. “Superman Is About to Visit the Relocation Centers” and the Limits of Wartime Liberalism 143
12. Seven. Social Darwinism Versus Social Engineering: The “Education” of Japanese Americans During World War II 163
13. Eight. Asian Americans and Politics: Some Perspectives from History 183
14. Nine. Chinese Railroad Workers and the U.S. Transcontinental Railroad in Global Perspective 205
15. Ten. History and Postmodernism 223
16. Part III Culture
17. Eleven. Emerging from the Shadows: The Visual Arts and Asian American History 231
18. Twelve. Chinese Painting Comes to America: Zhang Shuqi and the Diplomacy of Art 241
19. Thirteen. America’s Dong Kingman—Dong Kingman’s America 255
20. Fourteen. The Many Sides of Happy Lim: aka Hom Ah Wing, Lin Jian Fu, Happy Lum, Lin Chien Fu, Hom Yen Chuck, Lam Kin Foo, Lum Kin Foo, Hom, Lim Goon Wing, Lim Gin Foo, Gin Foo Lin, Koon Wing Lim, Henry Chin, Lim Ying Chuck, Lim Ah Wing, et al. 261
21. Fifteen. The Life and Death of Dhan Gopal Mukerji 291
22. Appendix: Selected Work 327
23. Acknowledgments 333
24. Notes 337
25. Biographical Note 399