Lok Siu

Lok Siu

Associate Professor of Anthropology, Asian Pacific American Studies
Stanford University, Ph.D., 2000
University of California, Berkeley; B.A. 1992

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Research Interests:

Diaspora, transnationalism, citizenship, gender and racial formations, and Asians in the Americas.

Selected Works:

Books

2005: Memories of a Future Home: Diasporic Citizenship of Chinese in Panama. Stanford University Press (November 2005). Social Sciences Book Award from the Association for Asian American Studies (April 2007).

In Prep: Transnational Asian America: New Theories and Methods in Asian American Studies.

Edited Books

In Prep: Asian Migrants and U.S. Neoliberalism. Co-Edited with Rhacel Parrenas. Under Rev. Gender and Cultural Citizenship: Transnational Feminist Approaches. Co-Editor with the Gender and Cultural Citizenship Working Group (Kia Caldwell, Kathleen Coll, Tracy Fisher, and Renya Ramirez).

2007: Asian Diasporas: New Formations, New Conceptions. Co-Edited with Rhacel Parrenas. Stanford University Press.

2006: Human, Society & Culture: An Introductory Reader. NY: Linus Publications.

Journal Articles and Book Chapters

In Prep: Introduction. Gender and Cultural Citizenship. Co-Author with the Gender and Cultural Citizenship Working Group. Forthcoming Migration Stories: Serial Migration and the Production of Home and Identity in Diaspora. Routing Diasporas: Labor, Citizenship, Empire. Edited by Sukanya Banarjee, Aims McGuinness, and Steve McKay. 21st Century Studies Book Series. Indiana University Press (Reprinted from Siu, Memories of a Future Home: Diasporic Citizenship of Chinese in Panama. Stanford University Press [2005]) (Reprint).

2007: Introduction. Asian Diasporas: New Formations, New Conceptions. Co-Author with Rhacel ParreÒas. Stanford University Press.

2007: The Queen of the Chinese Colony: Contesting Nationalism, Engendering Diaspora. Asian Diasporas: New Formations, New Conceptions. Co-edited with with Rhacel Parre&ngrave;as. Stanford University Press. [Reprint]

2007: In Search of Chino Latinos in Diaspora: the Cuban Chinese in New York City. Cuba: Idea of a Nation Displaced. Ed. by Andrea O'Reilly Herrera. SUNY Press.

2006: Ethnicity in Globalization: the Return of the Panama Canal, the Hong Kong Handover, and the Refashioning of Chineseness. Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas. Special issue on Latin America-Asian Writing and Arts. Issue 72, Volume 39, Number 1. Pp. 45-59.

2005: Queen of the Chinese Colony: Gender, Nation, and Belonging in Diaspora. Anthropological Quarterly. (Lead Article) Volume 78. Number 3. Pp. 511-542.

Citoyenneté Culturelle Diasporique: Identité Chinoise et Appartenance en Amérique Centrale et au Panama. Les Diasporas: 2000 Ans D'histoire. Edited by Lisa Anteby-Yemini, William Berthomiére, and Gabriel Sheffer. Poitiers, France: Presses Universitaires de Rennes. Pp. 433-456. (French translation of "Diasporic Cultural Citizenship: Chineseness and Belonging in Central America and Panama. "Social Text [2001])

2004: Panamá. El Ferrocarril, la tienda y el barrio. Cuando Oriente Llegó a América. Contribuciones de inmigrantes chinos, japonese y coreanos. Banco Interamericano de Desarollo (Inter-American development Bank). Washington, D.C. Pp. 79-88. (Portuguese and English versions will follow.)

2004: Migration Stories: Serial Migration and the Production of Home and Identity in Transnationalism. The Chinese in the Caribbean. Edited by Andrew Wilson. Princeton, NJ: Markus Wiener Publishers. Pp. 159-190.

2002: Cultural Citizenship of Diasporic Chinese in Panama. Amerasia Journal. Special issue on Asians in the Americas. Volume 28. Number 2. Pp. 181-202. LA: UCLA Press.

2001: Diasporic Cultural Citizenship: Chineseness and Belonging in Central America and Panama. Social Text. (Lead Article) Special issue on cultural citizenship. Number 69, Winter. Pp. 7-28. Durham: Duke University Press.

1999: Lessons From the Field: Being Chinese American in Panama. Encounters: People of Asian Descent in the Americas. Edited by Roshni Rustomji-Kerns. Boulder: Rowman & Littlefield. Pages 49-55.

2000: Asia Latin America: Trans-Pacific Links and the Formation of Latin America. Anthropology News. American Anthropological Association. December.

2000: Geopolitics, Nationalism, and the Formation of Diasporic Chinese in Panama. [Papers Presented to the Conference] Asian Migrations to the Americas Conference. St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago: University of West Indies.

1994: Apple King Nicaragua: Re-membering Biographies. Stanford Asian Women's Journal. Spring.

Book Reviews

2007: Review of Caribbean Quarterly. Special issue on The Chinese in the Caribbean. Journal of Chinese Overseas. May, Volume 3, number 1, pp. 171-173.

2007: Review of Bernard P. Wong's The Chinese in Silicon Valley: Globalization, Social Networks, and Ethnic Identity. American Ethnologist. Volume 34, Issue 4. Pp. 4016-4018.

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