"An original, engaging, complex, and thought-provoking work. So spells out her theoretical influences in the course of the work, but also argues forcefully for her unique contribution, which is the connection of Marxian exchange value to the production of Asian American subjectivity. So is clearly marking out a new territory, exploring a set of literary texts that have not been addressed before."
-Viet Nguyen, University of Southern California and author of Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America

Acknowledgments 
Introduction 
1. The Promise of Exchange: Production, Circulation, and Consumption within Chinatown Ethnographies 
2. The Universality of Exchange: Japanese American Travel Narratives and the Emergence of the Global Citizen 
3. The Embodiment of Exchange: Asian Mail-Order Brides, the Threat of Global Capitalism, and the Rescue of the U.S. Nation-State 
4. The Logic of Exchange: Ordering the Chaos of Twentieth-Century Chinese Women’s History 
Notes 
References 
Index