| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 95.1

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Japanese and Chinese Immigrant Activists: Organizing in American and International Communist Movements, 1919–1933. By Josephine Fowler. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2007. xvi, 272 pp. Cloth, $70.00, ISBN 978-0-8135-4040-5. Paper, $27.95, ISBN 978-0-8135-4041-2.)

In Japanese and Chinese Immigrant Activists, Josephine Fowler sets out to write a broad transnational history that meaningfully integrates leftist Japanese and Chinese migrants into fields from which they have been traditionally excluded, especially the histories of American Communism and Asian America. Working "at the intersection of several interdisciplinary fields," Fowler examines a broad range of topics, from questions of agency to both practical and theoretical inquiries about space, identity, race, gender, and nation (p. 3). The author grounds her work in transnational approaches increasingly popular with historians of labor, immigration, and Asian Americans to write a detailed study focused on the role of Chinese and Japanese migrants in creating and sustaining networks that facilitated the flow of people and ideas across national boundaries in North America, Europe, and Asia. While Fowler acknowledges the continued power of the nation-state, she rightfully insists on a broader examination of activists, information, and ideology.

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