... Reviewed by. Dan Bacalzo New York University. Christine Bacareza Balance University of Califo... more ... Reviewed by. Dan Bacalzo New York University. Christine Bacareza Balance University of California, Riverside. LM San Pablo Burns University of ... Art Acuña, and Ramon de Ocampo, as well as newer cast members Paolo Montalban and [End Page 283] Bernardo Bernardo. ...
Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas, 2015
1 A qipao is a form-fitting gown with mandarin collar and slits on the side, traditionally having... more 1 A qipao is a form-fitting gown with mandarin collar and slits on the side, traditionally having huaniu ("flower buttons") or frogs on the neck and front flap. 2 The website's own description for would-be tenants reads "Swatow Plaza is a multi-purpose and multi-storey new building in Chinatown, at the heart of the commercial and cultural centre in Montreal. With a Japanese restaurant on the first floor and a high end Chinese restaurant on the 6th floor, offices and a travel agent on the 5th floor and retail stores on the 2nd floor and a grocery store in the basement, Swatow Plaza offers a unique blend of convenience and shopping experience."
As part of a larger project on freedom and belonging in the Chinese Atlantic, I elaborate the log... more As part of a larger project on freedom and belonging in the Chinese Atlantic, I elaborate the logic of "incorporating." I focus on the oeuvre of Chinese Trinidadian artist, writer, and dramatist Willi Chen. Chen is perhaps the best known writer of Chinese descent in the Anglophone Caribbean, but he has received little critical attention.
... Reviewed by. Dan Bacalzo New York University. Christine Bacareza Balance University of Califo... more ... Reviewed by. Dan Bacalzo New York University. Christine Bacareza Balance University of California, Riverside. LM San Pablo Burns University of ... Art Acuña, and Ramon de Ocampo, as well as newer cast members Paolo Montalban and [End Page 283] Bernardo Bernardo. ...
Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas, 2015
1 A qipao is a form-fitting gown with mandarin collar and slits on the side, traditionally having... more 1 A qipao is a form-fitting gown with mandarin collar and slits on the side, traditionally having huaniu ("flower buttons") or frogs on the neck and front flap. 2 The website's own description for would-be tenants reads "Swatow Plaza is a multi-purpose and multi-storey new building in Chinatown, at the heart of the commercial and cultural centre in Montreal. With a Japanese restaurant on the first floor and a high end Chinese restaurant on the 6th floor, offices and a travel agent on the 5th floor and retail stores on the 2nd floor and a grocery store in the basement, Swatow Plaza offers a unique blend of convenience and shopping experience."
As part of a larger project on freedom and belonging in the Chinese Atlantic, I elaborate the log... more As part of a larger project on freedom and belonging in the Chinese Atlantic, I elaborate the logic of "incorporating." I focus on the oeuvre of Chinese Trinidadian artist, writer, and dramatist Willi Chen. Chen is perhaps the best known writer of Chinese descent in the Anglophone Caribbean, but he has received little critical attention.
This article elaborates a Chinese/Cuban cultural critique that operates through the notion of uns... more This article elaborates a Chinese/Cuban cultural critique that operates through the notion of unsettling in light of recent work in Asian American studies and Chinese diaspora studies. Examining three case studies-Carlos Felipe's play The Chinaman (El Chino), Rigoberto López's documentary The Longest Journey (El Viaje Más Largo), and Michael Mann's feature fi lm Miami Vice-the author suggests that these examples of expressive culture function as memory projects, which construct Chinese/Cuban fi gures and reconfi gure attachments to place through often immaterial, but not insignifi cant, investments. Chinese/ Cuban cultural critique fi nally provokes a series of productive questions for the study of human migration.
Sean Metzger‘s Chinese Looks: Fashion, Performance, Race (Indiana University Press 2014), examine... more Sean Metzger‘s Chinese Looks: Fashion, Performance, Race (Indiana University Press 2014), examines how, in the past 150 years, China was rendered legible to Americans through items of clothing and adornment. Professor Metzger offers a rich and detailed study of Chinese fashion, calling it the “Sino/American interface” that marks political and cultural investments in America’s views of China and Chinese Americans. Professor Metzger does this by providing a cinematic and performance-based cultural history of four iconic objects: the queue, or man’s hair braid; the woman’s suit or the qipao; the Mao suit; and the tuxedo. Rather than simply provide a consumptive or trading history of these garments, professor Metzger traces their emergence as consolidating discourses of gender, race, politics and aesthetics. In doing so, he asks larger questions about how garments can and have been used to express ethnicity, and to render new meanings onto racialized bodies.
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