Between Asias and Americas
Between Asias and Americas features scholarship that bridges Asian studies and American studies (conceived hemispherically to include Latin American studies and Asian American studies), while bringing into closer dialogue “area studies” and “ethnic studies” approaches to timely topics in a range of disciplines, foregrounding work in the social sciences while also welcoming boundary-crossing research in the humanities. The series intends to become a platform for work that explores the flows and fluxes of populations, affects, cultures, ideas, technologies, and goods across the national, regional, continental, and maritime borders that interlace multiple Asias and multiple Americas. By focusing attention on the dynamic networks of commerce, migration, and interaction that connect these continents, the series encourages projects that rethink geographical and conceptual boundaries across both the Global North and the Global South, while being attentive to the identities and potential solidarities of subnational communities, vulnerable minorities, and indigenous peoples. The series invites proposals for monographs as well as edited collections, from new and experienced scholars, that investigate intercontinental interconnectivities involving West, Central, South, Southeast, and East Asia; the Pacific Islands; and North, Central, and South America, including the Caribbean.
Acquiring Editor: William Masami Hammell
Editorial Board:
- Wesley Attewell (University of Hong Kong)
- Mariano Bonialian (National University of Córdoba)
- Takashi Fujitani (University of Toronto)
- Pedro Iacobelli (University of the Andes)
- Junyoung Verónica Kim (University of Pittsburgh)
- Doreen Lee (Northeastern University)
- Bakirathi Mani (University of Pennsylvania)
- Lok Siu (University of California, Berkeley)
- Rolando Tolentino (University of the Philippines Diliman)
- Duncan Ryūken Williams (University of Southern California)
- Christine Yano (University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa)
Series Editors
Sonia RyangRice University
Sonia Ryang is T.T. and W. F. Chao Professor of Asian Studies at Rice University. She is a social anthropologist of transnational Korea (North and South), particularly the Korean diaspora in Japan and the United States. She is the author, editor, or coeditor of numerous books, including Writing Selves in America: Ethnography of Autobiographics of Korean Women in Japan and the United States; Diaspora without Homeland: Being Korean in Japan; North Korea: Toward a Better Understanding; the forthcoming Do You Still Love the Great Leader? Revisiting North Koreans in Japan; and others. She also serves as editor-in-chief of Transnational Asia: An Online Interdisciplinary Journal.
Sidney X. LuRice University
Sidney X. Lu is Annette and Hugh Gragg Associate Professor of Transnational Asian Studies at Rice University. He is a historian of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Japan, with a focus on connections and interactions between Japan and North and South America. He is the author of The Making of Japanese Settler Colonialism: Malthusianism and Trans-Pacific Migration, 1868–1961 and coeditor of The Japanese Empire and Latin America.
