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Interests:
Transnationalism, migration, gender and sexuality,
Buddhism, Asian Americans; Thailand, Mainland
Southeast Asia, China.
Anthropology is
finding new significance in interdisciplinary
approaches. In the study of transnational migration,
identity formation, and cultural citizenship, we must
look into the practices and politics of class, gender,
sexuality, race, and ethnicity in multiple locales. In
this way, we will be able to challenge our preexisting
assumptions and better understand the relationship
between individuals and larger society, between agency
and structural constraints, and between past and
present.
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Selected Publications
2005. Merit-Making
Capitalism: Re-territorializing Thai Buddhism in
Silicon Valley, California. Journal of Asian
American Studies 8(2):115-142.
2005. Chinese in
Thailand. Encyclopedia of Diasporas.
Melvin Ember and Carol R. Ember, & Ian
Skoggard, eds. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum
Publishers, 751-759.
2004. Marital
Acts: Gender, Sexuality, and Identity among the
Chinese Thai Diaspora. U Hawaii Press.
2003. The Gendered
Biopolitics of Marriage and Migration: A Study of
pre-1949 Chinese Immigrants in Thailand. Journal
of Southeast Asian Studies 34/1:127-151.
1999. Chinese-Thai
Transmigrants: Reworking Identities and Gender
Relations in Thailand and the United States. Amerasia
25/2: 95-115.
1998. Same Bed,
Different Dreams: Intersections of Ethnicity,
Gender, and Sexuality among Middle- and
Upper-Class Chinese Immigrants in Bangkok. Positions
6/2: 475-502.
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