Asian American Identity in Literature: Overview (Identities and Issues in Literature)
Introduction
Although East Asia has been subjected to the challenges and influences of Western civilization, including pressures of modernization and of capitalism, it did not succumb, as did other regions of Asia, to the colonization efforts of the West. Contacts between East Asia and the West resulted, however, in political, economic, military, and ideological conditions that have contributed to mass emigration, through displacement and recruitment, from China, Japan, and Korea.
The United States of America, emerging as a world power in the late nineteenth century and...
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