Ends of Empire: Asian American Critique and the Cold War

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Acheson, Dean, 52, 56, 69–70; China Lobby and, 69; Greek revolution and, 51; Korean War and, 26; Mao/recognition and, 71; NSC 68 and, 53, 54; patronizing logic of, 70; Soviet expansion and, 71 adoption agencies, 177, 182, 183, 187, 209–10, 283n72 adoptions, 34, 167, 170, 279n49; African American, 181; Amerasian, 205; Chinese, 283n76; complexities of, 169, 171, 180, 183; happiness/sadness of, 182; Korean War and, 183, 184, 278n36; subjectivity of, 170, 174; successful, 170; transnational, 161, 168, 169, 171, 174, 176, 177, 180, 186, 190, 191, 203, 205, 206, 208, 215, 218, 223, 278n36, 279n51, 280n52, 280– 81n53, 281n54, 282n64, 283n72, 284n81; transracial, 107, 168, 169, 171, 172, 174, 176, 177, 180, 181, 184, 185, 186, 189, 190, 191, 208, 215, 223, 280n51, 280– 81n53, 281n56, 284n81 Adorno, Theodor, 250n15 African Americans: adoption of, 181; disenfranchisement of, 50 agency, Asian, 60, 61, 91, 201, 233 Agent Orange, 29, 149, 194 Ahn, Chang “Chuck,” 150, 151, 152, 155–59, 165, 167; doubling/splitting of, 153– 54; nonalignment and, 159; revisionist history and, 153 Ahn Junghyo, 278–79n43 Alien Land Law (1913), 118, 271n57 al-Qaeda, 109, 240 Alsop, Stewart, 140, 141 Amerasian Homecoming Act (1987), 19 Amerasian Immigration Act (1982), 19 American Asiatic Association, 67 “American Century, The” (Luce), 20, 21 American Dream, 158, 220, 238 Americanness, 119–20, 121, 128, 182 Anglo-Saxon traditions, 22, 46 anticolonialism, 16, 22, 62, 67, 150, 254n41 anticommunism, 38, 64, 104, 204, 248n8; Cold War liberalism and, 257n87; logics of, 29, 92; Orientalism of, 32 antiracism, 14, 22, 254n41 Aristophanes, 50 Armstrong, Charles, 164 Arrighi, Giovanni, 24 Asian Americans, 6, 249n14; coherent incoherence of, 7; as exiles/refugees, 9; as racialized minority, 9 assimilation, 128, 146, 170, 171, 182, 278n34 atomic bomb, 124, 148; ghosts of, 125; peace and, 123; victims of, 138 291 Index 292 Index Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission (ABCC), 117 Atomic Energy Commission, 17 atrocities, 97, 98, 110, 164 Aunt Jemima’s Kitchen, 177; photo of, 179 axis of evil, 4, 19, 34, 239, 240 bachelor societies, 121 Baldwin, Hanson, 107, 222 Ball, George, 200 Bandung Conference (1955), 14, 88, 254n41 Bank of Japan, 107 Baruch, Bernard, 17 Bascara, Victor, 12 Bates, Milton J., 202 Beef Export and Trade Syndicate (BEEF-EX), 133, 134, 135, 140 Belasco, David, 79 Bell, Daniel, 250n15 Benjamin, Walter, 156, 227–28 Berg, Rick, 195, 202 Berlin Wall, 3, 239, 241 Bilbo, Theodore G., 101 Bildung, 30, 32, 38–39, 45, 49, 54, 62 billion bellies, 88, 89, 90 biopolitics, 29, 167, 170, 186, 187 birth mothers, social death of, 168–91 Boarding School Healing Project, 282n60 Bonesteel, Charles H., 275n10 Boorstin, Daniel, 249n15 Borden, William S., 25, 26 Borshay, Alveen, 174, 178, 182 Borshay, Arnold, 178, 180 Borshay, Denise, 177, 178 Borshay, Duncan, 177 Borshay Liem, Deann (Kang Ok Jin), 34, 146, 167, 169, 173, 178, 184, 189, 191, 207, 210, 282n63, 284n86; on adoption/ happiness/sadness, 182; adoption of, 171, 172, 176, 188; affective/cognitive dissonance for, 174; birth mother of, 185, 188, 189, 189 (photo); distance and, 181; kinship and, 203, 205; Korean identity/history of, 179; personal trauma of, 176, 183; photo of, 172, 173, 178, 188; positioning/appropriation and, 190 Borstelmann, Thomas, 14, 16, 199, 285n20, 286n21 Bowie, David, 84 brainwashing, 75–76, 78, 264n43 Brando, Marlon, 129; photo of, 130 Briggs, Laura, 175, 176, 208, 282n71 Brookhurst 354: 22, 220 Bub, Heidi (Mai Thi Hiep), 205, 206, 207, 209, 210–17; adoption of, 208, 210; depression for, 211, 212; financial assistance and, 212, 214 (photo), 215; homesickness for, 213–14; photo of, 213; Vietnamese family and, 214, 215 Bub, John, 210 Buddhism, 137–38 Bureau of Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, 290n6 Burlingame Treaty (1868), 66 Bush, George W., 239, 240 Butterfly, 64–65, 82, 84–85, 86, 90; as Americanized product/commodity, 80; displacement of, 80; gendered racial figure of, 78; genre, 65, 78–81 capitalism, 14, 100, 105, 194, 256n68; Cold War and, 24, 26, 45, 99; communism and, 23–24, 28, 226, 228, 230; competitiveness with, 64; crisis of, 25, 105; global, 79, 89, 90, 184, 237; spreading, 20, 22, 27, 32 Caputo, Philip, 199 Carlyle Group, 238 Cartwright, Lisa, 175 Central Intelligence Act (1949), 254n49 Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 17, 75, 78, 204, 254–55n49, 261n49 Césaire, Aimé (quote of), 1 Cha, Theresa Hak Kyung, 155 Chabon, Michael, 239 Index 293 Cha Jung Hee, 173, 174...