Vanessa Künnemann, Ruth Mayer / Transnational Nationalisms – China and the United States in a Pacific World. An Introduction. PART I: NATIONALISMS AND CONFIGURATION OF NATIONAL IDENTITY IN CHINA AND THE UNITED STATES . Yong Chen / The American Dream and Dreams of China: A Transnational Approach to Chinese American History - Klaus Mühlhahn / National Studies and Global Entanglements: The Re-Envisioning of China in the Early Twentieth Century - Nicola Spakowski / China in the World: Constructions of a Chinese Identity in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century.
PART II: CHINESE AMERICA, CITIZENSHIP, NATIONALITY, AND THE WORLD. Ruth Mayer / Paper Citizens and Biometrical Identification. Immigration, Nationality, and Belonging in Chinese America during the Exclusion Era -- Madeline Y. Hsu / Befriending the Yellow Peril: Student Migration and the Warming of American Attitudes towards Chinese, 1905-1950 – K. Scott Wong / Between the 'Mountain of Tang' and the 'Adopted Land': The Chinese American Periodical Press and the Emergence of Chinese American Identities in the Face of Exclusion.
PART III: MISSIONARY INTERVENTIONS: CULTURAL MEDIATION IN CHINA AND THE UNITED STATES. Thoralf Klein / Christian Mission and the Internationalization of China, 1830-1950 - Vanessa Künnemann / Following with bleeding footsteps?' American Missions in China and the (Gendered) Critique of Pearl S. Buck - Dominika Ferens / The Deserving Heathen: Missionary Ethnography of China and its American Converts.