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

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments This book was written with the support and help of many people . Its glimmerings began as a PhD dissertation under the guidance of Priscilla Wald, Caroline Chung Simpson, Shawn Wong, and Susan Jeffords at the University of Washington. Over the years, I have benefited from the comments of Judy Tzun-Chun Wu, Andy Chih-ming Wang, Victoria A. Davis, Traise Yamamoto , Claudia Sadowski-Smith Chong-suk Han, Mary Ting Yi Lui, Gordon Chang, Vincente L. Rafael, Camilla Fojas, Kandice Chuh, and Karen Shimakawa. Celine Parreñas-Shimizu’s reading of the manuscript encouraged me in the final stages of revision. At Arizona State University, friends and colleagues contributed to my growth as a scholar: Aaron Baker, Lisa Aubrey, Lisa Anderson, Eric Margolis, and Sherril Tomita; Montye Fuse, Michelle Chin, Sudarat Musikawong, and Hyaeweol Choi. Some of these friends and colleagues also remind me that work and pleasure are not necessarily incompatible. During my first few years as a tenure-track faculty member, my writing group, which included Seline Szkupinski-Quiroga, Marivel Danielson, and Alesha Durfee, was a pleasure to be a part of every time viii / acknowledgments we met. The Institute for Humanities Research’s Jenny Norton Grant in Feminist Epistemologies provided food for thought these past couple of years. I want to thank Sally Kitch, director of the Institute for Humanities and Reverend Jenny Norton for providing the space and funding for the intellectual musings with graduate students and colleagues. Myla Vicenti Carpio and Carol Takao always manage to draw me out for Thai food, video games, and laughs. I am enormously blessed to have wonderful colleagues in the Asian Pacific American Studies program, some still at APAS and others who have moved on or will be moving on: Melinda de Jesús, Rudy Guevarra, Brandon Yoo, Wei Li, and Wendy Cheng prove that you can have a department with brilliant colleagues who are also fun to hang out with. Old friends and new friends have contributed to the book in significant ways. Karen Felts had faith in this project and in me since our graduate school years. Steve Tanaka reminds me that I need to put on my queer thinking cap when things get rough. Daniel Bernardi has always been there to lend a helping hand. Rachel Duclos’s enduring friendship has been a comfort to me in hard times. Tina Kotecha’s inside jokes remind me of my roots. Lisa Schamus gave good company over food, movies, and playing /watching hockey. I want to thank my chair Kathy Nakagawa for providing much-needed time to write the book, and Mary Margaret Fonow for providing other forms of institutional support as the director of the School of Social Transformation. Mary Romero, who was my chair for one year, continues to be a model scholar, mentor, and dear friend. A consistent and persistent presence in Asian Pacific American Studies, Roisan Rubio has given me his time, a sympathetic ear, his own brand of constructive criticism on everything (but the book), tea, and snacks, all of which I will always be grateful for. And of course, this book could not have been written without these individuals. Karen Leong read multiple drafts even when she did not have the time. Her historian’s keen eye and acknowledgments / ix her reminders that sentences should not be five lines long have taught me a lot about being honest and clear in one’s work. My copyeditor, Ann Gelder, my writer’s therapist, went beyond the call of duty. Janet Francendese at Temple University Press stuck with this project and with me. Her thoroughness, patience, and kindness are remarkable. I have the deepest gratitude and respect for David Palumbo-Liu, the series editor of Temple, for not only having faith in this project but for also showing me what it means to really write your first book and how transformative and fulfilling that process can be. The individuals closest to my heart have also sustained and nourished me. My brother, Kevin, who became the little brother turned friend. Joe has always provided a home from which to write no matter where we lived: Los Angeles, Seattle, or Phoenix. For Massimo and Luc, my two sons, who have lived with this project their entire lives, I can finally tell them that this book is done. They make me marvel at life and inspire me to be a better person every day. This...