Illuminates a Cold War transpacific drama played out across US campusesIsland X delves into the compelling political lives of Taiwanese migrants who came to the United States as students from the 1960s through the 1980s. Often depicted as compliant model minorities, many were in fact deeply political, shaped by Taiwan's colonial history and influenced by the global social movements of their times. As activists, they fought to make Taiwanese people visible ...

U.S. suburbs are typically imagined to be predominantly white communities, but this is increasingly untrue in many parts of the country. Examining a multiracial suburb that is decidedly nonwhite, Wendy Cheng unpacks questions of how identity—especially racial identity—is shaped by place. She offers an in-depth portrait, enriched by nearly seventy interviews, of the San Gabriel Valley, not far from downtown Los Angeles, where approximately 60 percent of residents are Asian American and more...

台灣知識分子，如何在海的另一端找到屬於自己的認同。這本書，是台灣歷史欠缺的一片關鍵拼圖。我們對台灣的意識與定義，甚至全民該守護的價值，也許，正是這些留學生，在海的另一端締造的。台灣民主的海外支線：一段被忽略的歷史《Ｘ島嶼》是台灣第一本講述台美人經歷的書。本書系統性爬梳1960至1980年代，台灣留學生於美國參與社會運動、逐步建立台灣意識的過程。這條自美國校園延伸出的自我探詢之路，構成了台灣民主進程中一條重要卻長期被忽略的支線。美國的沉默與校園裡的監控冷戰時期，國民黨政府滲透、監控美國各大學，設置黑名單，許多學生曾受騷擾，甚至有人死因成謎。美國政府的沉默與縱容，是鄭昕筆下林孝信、黃啟明、陳玉璽與陳文成等人遭遇的背後推力。她經由深度訪談與檔案研究，揭露這段在自由民主國度的壓迫史...

East of East: The Making of Greater El Monte, is an edited collection of thirty-one essays that trace the experience of a California community over three centuries, from eighteenth-century Spanish colonization to twenty-first century globalization. Employing traditional historical scholarship, oral history, creative nonfiction and original art, the book provides a radical new history of El Monte and South El Monte, showing how interdisciplinary and community-engaged scholarship ca...

A People’s Guide to Los Angeles offers an assortment of eye-opening alternatives to L.A.’s usual tourist destinations. It documents 115 little-known sites in the City of Angels where struggles related to race, class, gender, and sexuality have occurred. They introduce us to people and events usually ignored by mainstream media and, in the process, create a fresh history of Los Angeles. Roughly dividing the city into six regions—North Los Angeles, the Eastside and San Gabriel Valle...

Throughout the world, people spend much of their time with animal companions of various kinds, frequently with cats and dogs. What meanings do we make of these relationships? In the ecocritical collection Reading cats and Dogs, a diverse array of scholars considers the philosophy, literature, and film devoted to human relationships with companion species. In addition to illuminating famous animal stories by Beatrix Potter, Jack London, Italo Svevo, and Michael Ondaatje, readers are introdu...

This book gathers selected papers from the Hong Kong Association for Educational Communications and Technology 2019 International Conference on the theme of “Shaping the Future of Education, Communication and Technology.” It contributes to a scholarly discussion that looks beyond what future media and technology can offer for education, and reflects on best practices and lessons learned from applying new media and technology in a wide range of fields. Scholars from educational technology, ...