{"id":224,"date":"2023-05-17T12:58:37","date_gmt":"2023-05-17T19:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-usc-dornsife.pantheonsite.io\/transpacific-studies\/?page_id=224"},"modified":"2025-11-06T15:32:32","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T23:32:32","slug":"transpacific-studies-book-series","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/transpacific-studies\/transpacific-studies-book-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Transpacific Studies Book Series"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Janet Alison Hoskins and Viet Thanh Nguyen <\/strong><\/p>\n

Series Editors The University of California Press<\/strong><\/p>\n

A Luminos Open Access Book Series<\/strong><\/p>\n

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In recent years, the issue of how regions are connected and what kinds of cultural exchanges take place on a global scale has become of increasing importance. The term Transpacific, developed to some extent because of controversies over the proposed Trans-Pacific partnership, has come to signify the nexus of these flows of culture, capital, ideas and labor across the Pacific. Drawing from Asian Studies, American Studies and Asian-American Studies, a new generation of scholars is developing new models for considering the geopolitical struggle over the Pacific and its attendant possibilities for inequality and exploitation. The word and concept of the Transpacific can be harnessed for purposes of both domination and resistance. By looking at cultural and political movements and artistic works that have arisen to contest state, corporate and military ambitions, we seek to place them in a context that should be more dynamic than older ideas of the “Asia Pacific” or the “Pacific Rim” of global trade.<\/p>\n

The notion of Transpacific Studies has to a certain extent come of age over the past decade. An increasing number of new monographs have begun to situate themselves at the intersection of studies of Asia and American Studies, including new and significant books about people on the various Pacific Islands. Specific authors who we have invited to speak at the Center for Transpacific Studies highlight this fact: Emma Jinhua Teng Eurasian: Mixed Identities in the United States, China, and Hong Kong, 1842-1943 <\/i>(University of California Press 2013), Heonik Kwon The Other Cold War<\/i>. (Columbia Studies in International and Global History. New York: Columbia University Press 2010), Yen Le Espiritu Body Counts: The Vietnam War and Militarized Refugees <\/i>(Berkeley: University of California Press 2014), Brian Bernards Writing the South Seas: Imagining the Nanyang in Chinese and Southeast Asian Colonial Literature <\/i>(Seattle: University of Washington Press) Grace Cho Haunting the Korean Diaspora: Shame, Secrecy, and the Forgotten War <\/i>(University of Minnesota Press, 2008), Khatharya Um From the Land of Shadows: War, Revolution and the Making of the Cambodia Diaspora <\/i>(New York: NYU Press 2015), Kornel Chang Pacific Connections: The Making of US-Canada Borderlands <\/i>(Berkeley: University of California Press), Adria Imada Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire <\/i>(Duke University Press 2012), Janet Hoskins The Divine Eye and the Diaspora: Vietnamese Syncretism Becomes Transpacific Caodaism <\/i>(University of Hawaii Press 2015), Viet Thanh Nguyen Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War <\/i>(Cambridge: Harvard University Press 2015) and Lon Kurashige Two Faces of Exclusion<\/i>: The Untold History of Anti- Asian Racism in the United States <\/i>(University of North Carolina Press 2016).<\/p>\n

Janet Hoskins<\/strong><\/a> and Viet Thanh Nguyen<\/strong><\/a> published an edited volume in 2014 which outlined this new field as Transpacific Studies: Framing an Emerging Field <\/i>(University of Hawaii Press). In 2018, one of our first Transpacific Fellows at the University of Southern California, Ana Paulina Lee, published Mandarin Brazil: Race, Representation and Memory <\/i>(Stanford University Press), exploring the centrality of Chinese exclusion to the Brazilian nation-building project. By looking at how Chinese-ness is represented in popular music, literature and visual culture, she shows how Asian racialization shaped Brazil\u2019s image as a racial democracy. In 2017, Transpacific faculty member Lon Kurashige edited another anthology with University of Hawaii Press titled Pacific America: Histories of Transoceanic Crossings, <\/i>including chapters by former Transpacific doctoral student at USC Phuong Tran Nguyen and former Transpacific faculty member John E. Wills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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Format & Funding<\/strong><\/p>\n

Transpacific Studies will be an open access book program in partnership with the University of California Press\u2019s Luminos program. As such books will undergo the standard review and board approval process, and receive standard editorial and marketing attention. Books in the series will be made available as free e-books as well as a paperback edition. It is understood that as participants in the Luminos program, authors are expected to forgo royalties on any future sales of the paperback. Proceeds from those sales go to funding the Luminos program.<\/p>\n

Subvention required to participate in Luminos will be made available by the Center for Transpacific Studies at the University of Southern California with assistance from the Henry Luce Foundation (Asia Program) on a per title basis. Subvention begins at $7500 for non-UC authors, $5000 for UC authors. (UCLA and UCSD authors require no outside funding due to an Open Access subvention available from their campus libraries). This dollar amount is based on books of no more than 90,000 words and 20 images. Any book longer or more complex than this will require a higher subsidy to be determined by the editor. The total funding immediately available for the subvention on Open Access publishing is $15,000 from Luce and $15,000 from USC. During the initial three-year period (2019-2021) only three to four titles are expected to be published, at which point the Press and series editors are free to discuss the option of extending or revising the terms of the contract.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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