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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I am indebted to Stephanie Syjuco, Lonnie Carter, and Ma-Yi Theater Company, especially Ralph Peña and Jorge Ortell, for their brilliant work, and I thank them for their kind forbearance as I have tried to do justice to their creations. For their generosity in spirit and time, I am grateful to the staff at the University of Michigan Museum of Natural History, especially John Klausmeyer and Amy Harris; and the staff at the Frank Murphy Memorial Museum, especially Barb MacGowan and Bobbie Ramsey. I thank the Dean’s Office of the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at the University of California Riverside for a timely grant that helped to fund book production. Special thanks to Joshua Sung, Jason Corañez Bolton, Dakota Lindsi Tu, and Alex Ratanapratum for their research assistance; Mark Gjukich, Matt Zugale, and Lynda Fitzgibbon for permission to reproduce their photography; Bradley Cardozo and the other members of the Ethnography As Activism Subgroup on Repatriation at the University of Michigan for their insistence on the merging of politics and research; and my colleagues in Media and Cultural Studies at U.C. Riverside, who make the day job a joyous challenge.

Eric Zinner helped me see that there was indeed a there there before I could discern anything. Fred Moten, Bakirathi Mani, Lucy Burns, Karen Tongson, Thea Tagle, Alexandra Dalferro, and Chairat Polmuk kindly invited me to give talks at their respective campuses that helped me to develop the book. Paula Chakravartty, Denise da Silva, and Lorenzo Veracini provided excellent editorial feedback on earlier essay versions. Allan Isaac and again Denise da Silva provided feedback both generous and sharp at a later critical stage. Clare Counihan’s editorial acumen is wondrous and frightening and helped the chapters take on shape in ways that allowed me to despair less. I have the finest of writing companions, those who continue to believe in the importance and even primacy of talking about rather than merely reading one another’s work: Marie Lo, Sadia Abbas, David Lloyd, Kimberly Alidio, Nadine Naber, Jodi Kim, Karlyn Koh, and Christine So; the “Hangouts” Faye Chen, Anthony Ocampo, and Jason Magobo Perez; the FSP gang Lorena Llosa, Nicolas Zegre, Hall Bjornstad, and Joy Gayles; and the PTF gang of women professors at U.C. Riverside. Alan Krohn talked me into doing the writing. And Hiram Pérez has helped me keep hope alive all these years we’ve known each other by refusing to discuss the writing. For their love and support throughout, I am profoundly grateful to my parents, Anicia Echavez See and See Chak Mun, and my brother and sister-in-law, Gerald and Amy See. David Lloyd does it all—reads the writing, talks about the writing, doesn’t talk about the writing, walks away from the writing—and it is my luck to be able to learn daily from him how to give, so thoughtfully and unthinkingly.