Sign-In
Cart
Island X: Taiwanese Student Migrants, Campus Spies, and Cold War Activism
Hardcover
Asian American StudiesChinese HistoryGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies
ISBN13: 9780295752068
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: Nov 21 2023
Pages: 270
Weight: 1.25
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Illuminates a Cold War transpacific drama played out across US campuses
Island 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 as subjects of injustice and deserving of self-determination.
Under the distorting shadows of Cold War geopolitics, the Kuomintang regime and collaborators across US campuses attempted to control Taiwanese in the diaspora through extralegal surveillance and violence, including harassment, blacklisting, imprisonment, and even murder. Drawing on interviews with student activists and extensive archival research, Wendy Cheng documents how Taiwanese Americans developed tight-knit social networks as infrastructures for identity formation, consciousness development, and anticolonial activism. They fought for Taiwanese independence, opposed state persecution and oppression, and participated in global political movements. Raising questions about historical memory and Cold War circuits of power, Island X is a testament to the lives and advocacy of a generation of Taiwanese American activists.
Also in
Asian American Studies
Daughters of the Bamboo Grove: From China to America, a True Story of Abduction, Adoption, and Separated Twins
Demick, Barbara
Paperback
Real Japanese Cooking: Traditions, Tips & Techniques with Over 600 Authentic Recipes
Itoh, Makiko
Hardcover
Ghosts of Gold Mountain: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad
Chang, Gordon H.
Paperback
John Doe Chinaman: A Forgotten History of Chinese Life Under American Racial Law
Lew-Williams, Beth
Hardcover
Strangers in the Land: Exclusion, Belonging, and the Epic Story of the Chinese in America
Luo, Michael
Hardcover
The Moys of New York and Shanghai: One Family's Extraordinary Journey Through War and Revolution
Brooks, Charlotte
Hardcover
Strangers in the Land: Exclusion, Belonging, and the Epic Story of the Chinese in America
Luo, Michael
Paperback
Nalu: History, Legends, and Wisdom from 1,000 Years of Hawaiian Surfing
Lendler, Ian
Brown, Marie Alohalani
Hardcover
Let My Country Awake: Indian Revolutionaries in America and the Fight to Overthrow the British Raj
Miller, Scott
Hardcover
Good Luck Life: The Essential Guide to Chinese American Celebrations and Culture
Gong, Rosemary
Paperback
Escape to Gold Mountain: A Graphic History of the Chinese in North America
Wong, David H. T.
Paperback
Emergent Dharma: Asian American Feminist Buddhists on Practice, Identity, and Resistance
Suh, Sharon a.
Paperback
The Woo-Woo: How I Survived Ice Hockey, Drug Raids, Demons, and My Crazy Chinese Family
Wong, Lindsay
Paperback
Japan Now! a Japanese Language Reader: Bilingual Stories and Essays about Contemporary Japan (with Free Online Audio Recordings)
Sato, Anna
Sato, Eriko
Paperback
Moving Mountains: Asian American and Pacific Islander Feminisms and the 1977 National Women's Conference
Wu, Judy Tzu-Chun
Winans, Adrienne A.
Paperback
Seattle from the Margins: Exclusion, Erasure, and the Making of a Pacific Coast City
Asaka, Megan
Paperback
Secret Paths Revealed: A Hmong Woman's Journey from Escaping a Secret War to Becoming a Physician - A Memoir
Kue, Ia Yang
Paperback
The Eagles of Heart Mountain: A True Story of Football, Incarceration, and Resistance in World War II America
Pearson, Bradford
Paperback
Asian American Is Not a Color: Conversations on Race, Affirmative Action, and Family
Poon, Oiyan A.
Paperback
Looking Like the Enemy: My Story of Imprisonment in Japanese American Internment Camps
Gruenewald, Mary Matsuda
Paperback
Queering the Hmong Diaspora: Racial Subjectivity and the Myth of Hyperheterosexuality
Pha, Kong Pheng
Paperback
Strangers in the Land: Exclusion, Belonging, and the Epic Story of the Chinese in America (Large Print Edition)
Luo, Michael
Paperback
Rise: A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now
Yang, Jeff
Yu, Phil
Wang, Philip
Hardcover
Legacies of Incarceration: The World War II Experience of Hawai'i's Japanese
Nakamura, Kelli Y.
Paperback
American Sutra: A Story of Faith and Freedom in the Second World War
Williams, Duncan Ryūken
Paperback
Chinese American Mothering: Toy Len Goon's Legacy and the Myth of the Model Minority
Louie, Andrea
Paperback
The Heartland of U.S. Empire: Race, Region, and the Queer Filipinx Midwest
Sarmiento, Thomas Xavier
Paperback
The Violence of Protection: Policing, Immigration Law, and Asian American Women
Wang, Lee Ann S.
Paperback
Where I Belong: Healing Trauma and Embracing Asian American Identity
Lee, Soo Jin
Yoon, Linda
Hardcover
Coming Full Circle: The Process of Decolonization Among Post-1965 Filipino Americans
Strobel, Leny Mendoza
Paperback
The Transpacific Chinese Diaspora: Migration Networks from China to Canada and Beyond, 1788-1898
Chen, Zhongping
Hardcover
Racial Virtuality: Information Capitalism and the Suggestive Materiality of Asianness
Wong, Danielle
Paperback
The White Devil's Daughters: The Women Who Fought Slavery in San Francisco's Chinatown
Siler, Julia Flynn
Paperback
Manzanar Mosaic: Essays and Oral Histories on America's First World War II Japanese American Concentration Camp
Hansen, Arthur A.
Paperback
The Chinese Must Go: Violence, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America
Lew-Williams, Beth
Paperback
Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation: On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans
Han, Shinhee
Eng, David L.
Paperback
The Violence of Protection: Policing, Immigration Law, and Asian American Women
Wang, Lee Ann S.
Hardcover
Our Laundry, Our Town: My Chinese American Life from Flushing to the Downtown Stage and Beyond
Eng, Alvin
Paperback
Technologies of Kinship: Asian American Racialization and the Making of Family
Johnson, Lili
Paperback
Secret Paths Revealed: The Memoir of a Hmong Woman's Journey from Escaping a Secret War to Becoming a Physician
Kue, Ia Yang
Hardcover
Asian Americans at the Margins: A History of Stereotyping, Discrimination and Achievement
Kaplan, H. Roy
Paperback
Tigerfish: A Memoir of a South Vietnamese Colonel's Daughter and Her Coming of Age in America
Truong, Hoang Chi
Paperback
Supporting Asian American Students in Multicultural Contexts: Language, Culture, Identity and Power in the Us
Lee, Chaehyun
Paperback
In Reunion: Transnational Korean Adoptees and the Communication of Family
Docan-Morgan, Sara
Paperback
Brotherhood Is a Constant Possibility: Asian Masculinity in a World Made for Whiteness
Cho, Ryan
Paperback
Our Place in History: Ten Milestones in the Fight for Asian American Rights
Nash, Phil Tajitsu
Hardcover
American by Birth: Wong Kim Ark and the Battle for Citizenship
Novkov, Julie
Nackenoff, Carol
Paperback
War, Race, and Culture: Journeys in Trans-Pacific and Asian American Histories
Chang, Gordon H.
Hardcover
The Violence of Love: Race, Family, and Adoption in the United States Volume 74
Myers, Kit W.
Paperback
Asian American Is Not a Color: Conversations on Race, Affirmative Action, and Family
Poon, Oiyan A.
Hardcover
The Broken Country: On Trauma, a Crime, and the Continuing Legacy of Vietnam
Rekdal, Paisley
Paperback