America's Asia: racial form and American literature, 1893-1945

Acknowledgments ix Introduction: The Minority Which Is Not One 1 Chapter One: A Genealogy of the Yellow Peril 12 Jack London, George Kennan, and the Russo-Japanese War Chapter Two: Meat versus Rice 47 Frank Norris, Jack London, and the Critique of Monopoly Capitalism Chapter Three: The End of Asian Exclusion? 96 The Specter of Cheap Farmers and Alien Land Law Fiction Chapter Four: A New Deal for Asians 141 John Steinbeck, Carey McWilliams, and the Liberalism of Japanese-American Internment Chapter Five: One World 204 Pearl S. Buck, Edgar Snow, and John Steinbeck on Asian American Character Notes 255 Works Cited 301 Index 329