Copying and conversion: an 1824 friendship album "from a Chinese youth" / Karen Sánchez-Eppler -- The New Englandization of Yung Wing: family, nation, region / Amy Bangerter -- Paper butterflies: Japanese acrobats in mid-nineteenth-century New England / Krystyn R. Moon -- Collecting Asia: cultural politics and the creation of the department of Chinese and Japanese arts at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts / Constance J. S. Chen -- Bridges and chasms: orientalism and the constructions of Asian Indians in New England / Bandana Purkayastha and Anjana Narayan -- New WORLD theater archives: Asian American women playwrights in Western Massachusetts / Lucy Mae San Pablo Burns -- Vietnamese American community cultural development and the making of history in Boston / Shirley Suet-ling Tang and James Đìên Bùi -- Performative blackness and Lao Americans: cool in a New Hampshire school / Monica Chiu -- On the edges of indigenous: a personal narrative of a Cambodian sociologist researching Cambodian refugees in Massachusetts / Leakhena Nou.