{"id":47382,"date":"2016-06-07T00:27:04","date_gmt":"2016-06-07T00:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=47382"},"modified":"2016-06-07T00:54:45","modified_gmt":"2016-06-07T00:54:45","slug":"bridging-asian-and-asian-american-studies-through-critical-mixed-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=47382","title":{"rendered":"Bridging Asian and Asian American Studies through Critical Mixed Race"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bridging Asian and Asian American Studies through Critical Mixed Race<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

UCLA International Institute<\/a>
\nAsia Institute<\/a>
\n2016-05-25<\/p>\n

Samantha Fletcher<\/strong> (UCLA 2016)<\/p>\n

Professor Emma Teng<\/a> of MIT recently examined mixed-race identities in the U.S., China and Hong Kong<\/a> as part of the Taiwan Studies Lecture Series of the Asia Institute.<\/em><\/p>\n

UCLA International Institute, May 25, 2016<\/em> \u2014 The most recent UCLA Taiwan Studies Lecture<\/a> examined a wide range of ideas, laws and constructs that were instrumental in shaping mixed-race identities in the United States, China and Hong Kong.<\/p>\n

On May 10, 2016, Professor Emma Teng<\/a> of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology delivered the presentation, \u201cTraversing Boundaries: Bridging Asian and Asian American Studies through Critical Mixed Race.\u201d The event was jointly sponsored by UCLA’s Asia Institute <\/a>and Dean of Humanities<\/a>, with funding from the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Los Angeles<\/a>. The Center for Chinese Studies<\/a> cosponsored the event.<\/p>\n

Professor Teng shared issues raised by critical and mixed race theory that are detailed in her recent book, \u201cEurasian: Mixed Identities in the United States, China and Hong Kong, 1842\u20131943<\/a>\u201d (University of California, 2013).<\/p>\n

Teng\u2019s book explores the place of mixed-race children in Chinese society by examining the stories of their families and patterns of labor migration among merchants and students between China<\/a> and the United States<\/a>. The endpoint of her study is 1943, when the Chinese Exclusion Act<\/a> was lifted in the U.S \u2014 a time when China and the U.S. were allied against Japan<\/a> in World War II<\/a>…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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