... Rewriting Exile, Remapping Empire, Re-membering Home. Hualing Nieh's Mulberry and Peach.... more ... Rewriting Exile, Remapping Empire, Re-membering Home. Hualing Nieh's Mulberry and Peach. Yu-Fang Cho. ... We often do the opposite things. And if we do the same thing, our reasons are different. Hualing Nieh, Mulberry and Peach ([1976] 1998, 182-83) [End Page 157]. ...
In her article Reimagining \u27Tense and Tender Ties\u27 in Garcia\u27s Monkey Hunting Yu-Fang Ch... more In her article Reimagining \u27Tense and Tender Ties\u27 in Garcia\u27s Monkey Hunting Yu-Fang Cho analyses Cristina García\u27s re-narration of transnational histories of the multi-racial, multi-generational Chinese Cuban family in Monkey Hunting (2003) as a critical project that recasts developmental immigrant narratives primarily set in the United States as part of the emerging cultural archive of global migrations. Drawing on recent scholarship on comparative racialization, especially Ann Laura Stoler\u27s formulation of tense and tender ties as a method, Cho examines how García\u27s family saga unsettles the temporal and spatial logics of Euro-American modernity through the deployment of cyclical narrative structure that spatially maps emerging or even unintelligible connections between disparate life stories. Reading Monkey Hunting as a piece of imaginative critical historiography, Cho argues that it is through creative reconceptualization of the structure of history — and the...
ABSTRACT This paper examines two recent Godzilla-themed cultural artefacts that highlight the ent... more ABSTRACT This paper examines two recent Godzilla-themed cultural artefacts that highlight the entanglement between nuclear weaponry and nuclear energy: first, the 60th anniversary Godzilla exhibit at the Tokyo Metropolitan Daigo Fukuryū Maru Exhibition Hall; second, the 2014 American Godzilla directed by Gareth Edwards. This paper frames these two distinctive post-Fukushima cultural texts as memory work that mediates post-WWII genealogies of nuclear weaponry and nuclear power as constitutive elements of U.S. militarism and transpacific technological modernity. Specifically, this paper foregrounds how these two recent cultural texts, produced at different Pacific shores, bring the complexity of the often-absented Pacific back into focus. By enacting what Rob Wilson and Chris Connery call ‘worlding’ to make sense of divergent representations of the tragic Lucky Dragon/Bikini incident that decidedly informed the creation of the original Japanese Gojira [1954. Film. Directed by Honda Ishiro. Japan: Toho Co., Ltd.], this paper analyses geopolitical figurations of the Pacific and its peoples in both the specific context of this tragic incident and the broader formation of transpacific nuclear modernity. In so doing, this paper unravels the ways in which these divergent representations grapple with nuclear modernity’s reordering of necropolitics and biopolitics and its effects: specifically, the ways in which the renarration of death-making nuclear technology as a technology of good life conveniently erases the victims of nuclear weapons, radioactive fallout, and nuclear waste that the reproduction of U.S. nuclearism depends on and continues to produce.
Yu-Fang Cho's essay examines the central role of nuclear energy and nuclear weaponry in Taiwa... more Yu-Fang Cho's essay examines the central role of nuclear energy and nuclear weaponry in Taiwan, the Marshall Islands, and Okinawa. The article claims that discourses of nuclear reproductive futures often obscure and erase indigenous and working-class communities most directly affected by nuclear power and warfare.
... Photograph by Bertha E. Magness (18921976), a missionary teacher in Yuhsien, Hunan, China fr... more ... Photograph by Bertha E. Magness (18921976), a missionary teacher in Yuhsien, Hunan, China from 1916 to 1921. ... of Mission-Educated Chinese American Women, 18741939, in Unequal Sisters: A Multi-Cultural Reader in US Women's History, 2nd ed., ed. Vicki L Ruiz and ...
This essay analyzes the workings of romantic love and its legal institution, marriage, as signs o... more This essay analyzes the workings of romantic love and its legal institution, marriage, as signs of universal humanity in fictional representation of Chinese immigrant women in two important California magazines in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Overland Monthly and the Land of Sunshine, including short stories written by Asian American/Eurasian writer Sui Sin Far/Edith Maude Eaton. Reading
Author(s): Cho, Yu-Fang | Abstract: This essay examines African American novelist Pauline Hopkins... more Author(s): Cho, Yu-Fang | Abstract: This essay examines African American novelist Pauline Hopkins’s deployment of the trope of respectable domesticity to contest black disenfranchisement in the context of African Americans’ ambivalent relationship to late-nineteenth-century US imperial expansion in the Asia Pacific. This essay analyzes Contending Forces (1900) in relation to two crucial yet underexplored contexts: first, Hopkins’s commentaries on international race relations; second, African American intellectuals’ commentaries on US imperial ventures in the Asia Pacific and on Chinese immigration in the Colored American Magazine, where Hopkins’s fictional works were serialized. Situated within these contexts of comparative racialization, Hopkins’s works offer critical responses to the masculine nationalist representations of black–Asian relations, illuminating the divisive effects of nationalist identification on differentially racialized subjects, the uneven effects of marriage on...
... Rewriting Exile, Remapping Empire, Re-membering Home. Hualing Nieh's Mulberry and Peach.... more ... Rewriting Exile, Remapping Empire, Re-membering Home. Hualing Nieh's Mulberry and Peach. Yu-Fang Cho. ... We often do the opposite things. And if we do the same thing, our reasons are different. Hualing Nieh, Mulberry and Peach ([1976] 1998, 182-83) [End Page 157]. ...
In her article Reimagining \u27Tense and Tender Ties\u27 in Garcia\u27s Monkey Hunting Yu-Fang Ch... more In her article Reimagining \u27Tense and Tender Ties\u27 in Garcia\u27s Monkey Hunting Yu-Fang Cho analyses Cristina García\u27s re-narration of transnational histories of the multi-racial, multi-generational Chinese Cuban family in Monkey Hunting (2003) as a critical project that recasts developmental immigrant narratives primarily set in the United States as part of the emerging cultural archive of global migrations. Drawing on recent scholarship on comparative racialization, especially Ann Laura Stoler\u27s formulation of tense and tender ties as a method, Cho examines how García\u27s family saga unsettles the temporal and spatial logics of Euro-American modernity through the deployment of cyclical narrative structure that spatially maps emerging or even unintelligible connections between disparate life stories. Reading Monkey Hunting as a piece of imaginative critical historiography, Cho argues that it is through creative reconceptualization of the structure of history — and the...
ABSTRACT This paper examines two recent Godzilla-themed cultural artefacts that highlight the ent... more ABSTRACT This paper examines two recent Godzilla-themed cultural artefacts that highlight the entanglement between nuclear weaponry and nuclear energy: first, the 60th anniversary Godzilla exhibit at the Tokyo Metropolitan Daigo Fukuryū Maru Exhibition Hall; second, the 2014 American Godzilla directed by Gareth Edwards. This paper frames these two distinctive post-Fukushima cultural texts as memory work that mediates post-WWII genealogies of nuclear weaponry and nuclear power as constitutive elements of U.S. militarism and transpacific technological modernity. Specifically, this paper foregrounds how these two recent cultural texts, produced at different Pacific shores, bring the complexity of the often-absented Pacific back into focus. By enacting what Rob Wilson and Chris Connery call ‘worlding’ to make sense of divergent representations of the tragic Lucky Dragon/Bikini incident that decidedly informed the creation of the original Japanese Gojira [1954. Film. Directed by Honda Ishiro. Japan: Toho Co., Ltd.], this paper analyses geopolitical figurations of the Pacific and its peoples in both the specific context of this tragic incident and the broader formation of transpacific nuclear modernity. In so doing, this paper unravels the ways in which these divergent representations grapple with nuclear modernity’s reordering of necropolitics and biopolitics and its effects: specifically, the ways in which the renarration of death-making nuclear technology as a technology of good life conveniently erases the victims of nuclear weapons, radioactive fallout, and nuclear waste that the reproduction of U.S. nuclearism depends on and continues to produce.
Yu-Fang Cho's essay examines the central role of nuclear energy and nuclear weaponry in Taiwa... more Yu-Fang Cho's essay examines the central role of nuclear energy and nuclear weaponry in Taiwan, the Marshall Islands, and Okinawa. The article claims that discourses of nuclear reproductive futures often obscure and erase indigenous and working-class communities most directly affected by nuclear power and warfare.
... Photograph by Bertha E. Magness (18921976), a missionary teacher in Yuhsien, Hunan, China fr... more ... Photograph by Bertha E. Magness (18921976), a missionary teacher in Yuhsien, Hunan, China from 1916 to 1921. ... of Mission-Educated Chinese American Women, 18741939, in Unequal Sisters: A Multi-Cultural Reader in US Women's History, 2nd ed., ed. Vicki L Ruiz and ...
This essay analyzes the workings of romantic love and its legal institution, marriage, as signs o... more This essay analyzes the workings of romantic love and its legal institution, marriage, as signs of universal humanity in fictional representation of Chinese immigrant women in two important California magazines in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Overland Monthly and the Land of Sunshine, including short stories written by Asian American/Eurasian writer Sui Sin Far/Edith Maude Eaton. Reading
Author(s): Cho, Yu-Fang | Abstract: This essay examines African American novelist Pauline Hopkins... more Author(s): Cho, Yu-Fang | Abstract: This essay examines African American novelist Pauline Hopkins’s deployment of the trope of respectable domesticity to contest black disenfranchisement in the context of African Americans’ ambivalent relationship to late-nineteenth-century US imperial expansion in the Asia Pacific. This essay analyzes Contending Forces (1900) in relation to two crucial yet underexplored contexts: first, Hopkins’s commentaries on international race relations; second, African American intellectuals’ commentaries on US imperial ventures in the Asia Pacific and on Chinese immigration in the Colored American Magazine, where Hopkins’s fictional works were serialized. Situated within these contexts of comparative racialization, Hopkins’s works offer critical responses to the masculine nationalist representations of black–Asian relations, illuminating the divisive effects of nationalist identification on differentially racialized subjects, the uneven effects of marriage on...
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