Abstract
Inside a San Francisco Bay area four pan-Asian teens head spin and body pop to modern Taiwanese and American hip hop beats. In these hallways of what western observers have termed the Asian mall, these youth have found a place to express the complex cultural milieu that they inhabit as both Asians and Americans. As they contest and simultaneously redefine the cultural norms of this space, they work to build a hybrid culture from the materials they encounter as diasporic youth. This paper explores this struggle among transnational Taiwanese youth who spend their lives straddling cultural and national borders, as part of what Shenglin Chang has termed transpacific commuter families.
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