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Acknowledgments Acknowledgments / ix An IRGP grant from Michigan State University gave me precious release time in the fall of 2004 to draft this book, followed by a book subvention grant from the College of Arts and Letters and an initiative fund from the Department of English at MSU. I am indebted to my university, the college, and the department for the generous support. Portions or drafts of chapters have appeared in the following journals and books. I thank the editors and publishers for permissions to reprint revisions of “Camp Scatology,” from VERB 3, no. 2 (2006): 1–27; “Kung Fu Films in Diaspora,” from Masculinities and Hong Kong Cinema, edited by Laikwan Pang and Day Wong, pp. 101–118 (Hong Kong: University of Hong Kong Press, 2005); “Tradition and/of Bastards in the Korean Wave,” from Korea Journal 46, no. 3 (Autumn 2006): 132–153 (abstract added by journal); “Rodgers and Hammerstein’s ‘Chopsticks’ Musicals,” from Literature/Film Quarterly 31, no. 1 (2003): 17–26; “The Nine Lives of Blackhawk’s Oriental,” from International Journal of Comic Art 3, no. 1 (Spring 2001): 120–148; “Hmong Refugee’s Death Fugue,” from Hmong Studies Journal 6 (2005): 1–36; “The Fad(k)ing of the 0.5 Generation,” from National Taiwan University (NTU) Studies in Language and Literature 15 (June 2006): 63–86. With this book published on an island that is itself an East-West Montage , I have come almost home, another island further to the west, or rather, to the east. ...

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