Table of Contents:
  • The promise of exchange : production, circulation, and consumption within Chinatown ethnographies
  • The universality of exchange : Japanese American travel narratives and the emergence of the global citizen
  • The embodiment of exchange : Asian mail-order brides, the threat of global capitalism, and the rescue of the U.S. nation-state
  • The logic of exchange : ordering the chaos of twentieth-century Chinese women's history.