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[T]his book is much more than a postcolonial intellectual effort. Indeed, one of the virtues of this book is that it opens the arena to an enriching dialogue about the scope and content of transpacific studies as an emerging field. . . . Moreover, the justification for a volume on the transpacific does not require a straw man: the social spaces that fill the intra-Pacific relations--which are aptly developed in most chapters--are rich enough to justify the intellectual effort of rethinking the Pacific as an area of study. Despite its limitations, the editors should be commended for their openness to views that do not necessarily reflect their own, and this ambitious book is a valuable resource for scholars and the general public with an interest in the Pacific.--Pedro Iacobelli ""International Social Science Review, 91:1 (2015)"" The editors of Trans-Pacific Studies . . . seek critical and subaltern perspectives to study a new field of inquiry which will combine the lessons of Asian Studies, Asian-American Studies and American Studies into a re-figurative dynamic. As such, each of the above disciplines must be shaken from their routine pathways and familiar boundaries and draw inspiration from the contemporary movements of people and scholars--as well as goods and ideas--as both the stuff and the frame of this emergent region. . . . All in all, this volume has taken an important step in developing methods, perspectives and approaches to a new field of inquiry.--Prasenjit Duara ""International Journal of Asian Studies, 14:1 (January 2017)""

The editors of Trans-Pacific Studies . . . seek critical and subaltern perspectives to study a new field of inquiry which will combine the lessons of Asian Studies, Asian-American Studies and American Studies into a re-figurative dynamic. As such, each of the above disciplines must be shaken from their routine pathways and familiar boundaries and draw inspiration from the contemporary movements of people and scholars--as well as goods and ideas--as both the stuff and the frame of this emergent region. . . . All in all, this volume has taken an important step in developing methods, perspectives and approaches to a new field of inquiry.--Prasenjit Duara International Journal of Asian Studies, 14:1 (January 2017) The editors should be commended for their openness to views that do not necessarily reflect their own, and this ambitious book is a valuable resource for scholars and the general public with an interest in the Pacific.--Prasenjit Duara International Social Science Review, 91:1 (2015)

The editors should be commended for their openness to views that do not necessarily reflect their own, and this ambitious book is a valuable resource for scholars and the general public with an interest in the Pacific.-- <i>International Social Science Review, </i> 91:1 (2015)

The editors should be commended for their openness to views that do not necessarily reflect their own, and this ambitious book is a valuable resource for scholars and the general public with an interest in the Pacific.-- International Social Science Review, 91:1 (2015)

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Janet Hoskins is professor of anthropology at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA. She is the author of The Play of Time: Kodi Perspectives on Calendars, History and Exchange (University of California Press 1994, winner of the 1996 Benda Prize for Southeast Asian Studies), Biographical Objects: How Things Tell the Story of People’s Lives (Routledge, 1998), and is the contributing editor of Headhunting and the Social Imagination in Southeast Asia (Stanford, 1996), Anthropology as a Search for the Subject: The Space Between One Self and Another (Donizelli, 1999), and Fragments from Forests and Libraries (Carolina Academic Press 2000). Her book The Divine Eye and the Diaspora: Vietnamese Syncretism Becomes Transpacific Caodaism will be published in 2015. Viet Thanh Nguyen is an associate professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California, USA. He is the author of Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America (Oxford University Press, 2002). He has held residencies, fellowships and scholarships at the Fine Arts Work Center, the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and the American Council of Learned Societies. He is currently working on a comparative study of American and Vietnamese memories and representations of the American War in Viet Nam, focusing on the literary and visual arts.

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