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Bridging Work and Global Asias: Stars and Sandbars

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 January 2022

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Andrew Way Leong*
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Andrew Way Leong (andrewleong@berkeley.edu) is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Abstract

Proposals for Global Asias as an emerging field that “bridges” Asian studies and Asian American studies should attend to the residual debris of older understandings of global bridging work. This response explores two motifs for speculating about what bridging work in Global Asias could be: stars, as understood in terms of interimperial constellations, and sandbars, as a metaphor for more local, coalitional, and temporary aggregations.

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Asian American studiesbridging workconstellationdiasporaglobal transnationalisminterimperial

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Forum: Global Asias
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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 80 , Issue 4 , November 2021 , pp. 1011 - 1021
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Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2022

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