East is West and West is East: Gender, Culture, and Interwar Encounters between Asia and America

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Contents Acknowledgments vii Introduction 1 1 How Yellow and White Women Are Sold: Controlling Chinese and White Female Sexuality and the Making of US Domesticity in East Is West 23 2 Masculine Racial Formations in Younghill Kang’s East Goes West: The Making of an Oriental Yankee 63 3 Utopias Lost and Found: Lost Horizon and the Revitalization of American Masculinity 97 4 Envisioning Feminism across the Pacific: Japanese and American Feminism and the Limits of Race in Facing Two Ways 139 Conclusion 185 Notes 195 Bibliography 219 Index 227 ...