Introduction: Asian American formations in the age of globalization / Evelyn Hu-DeHart -- Asians on the rim: transnational capital and local community in the making of contemporary Asian America / Arif Dirlik -- Chinese Americans in the formation of the Pacific regional economy / Lucie Cheng -- Asian American economic engagement: Vietnam case study / Le Anh Tu Packard -- Asian American activism and U.S. foreign policy / Paul Y. Watanabe -- Exclusion and inclusion: immigration and American orientalism / Neil Gotanda -- Asian Americans at the intersection of international and domestic tensions: an analysis of newspaper coverage / Setsuko Matsunaga Nishi -- Inventing the earth: the notion of "home" in Asian American literature / Luis H. Francia