Transpacific Studies: Framing an Emerging Field Janet Hoskins has co-edited this collection of essays with Viet Thanh Nguyen of American Studies and Ethnicity at USC In their introduction, they propose a framework for a Transpacific Studies that examines the flows of culture, capital, ideas, and labor across the Pacific, involving Asia, the Americas, and the Pacific Islands They consider the advantages and limitations of models found in Asian studies, American studies, and Asian American studies for dealing with these flows, and argue that a Transpacific Studies model can draw from all three These flows have existed for centuries, and at different times, different names and paradigms have been created to deal with them Most recently in the past few decades, Asia Pacific and Pacific Rim have been terms that dealt with the importance of the Pacific to economic, political, and cultural arrangements that span Asia and the Americas But the rise of the Transpacific Partnership (TPP) between the United States and at least ten other countries bordering the Pacific or in the Pacific (as of this moment) signals a new geopolitical alliance that has implications for global capitalism and strategic maneuvers between the US and China Transpacific Studies is a framework for studying the Transpacific Partnership and the emergence of transpacific paradigms and concepts, and is also a critical model for considering the inequalities and possibilities of exploitation involved in transpacific economic, military, and corporate ambitions The University of Hawaii Press published this volume in October 2014, and it can be ordered here: http://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/p-92179780824839949.aspx ... geopolitical alliance that has implications for global capitalism and strategic maneuvers between the US and China Transpacific Studies is a framework for studying the Transpacific Partnership and the... emergence of transpacific paradigms and concepts, and is also a critical model for considering the inequalities and possibilities of exploitation involved in transpacific economic, military, and corporate... and corporate ambitions The University of Hawaii Press published this volume in October 2014, and it can be ordered here: http://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/p-92179780824839949.aspx