Unbound Feet: A Social History of Chinese Women in San Francisco by Judy Yung [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]
01 Mar, by in Adult Readers, Chinese American, Nonfiction, Repost
Using the backdrop of San Francisco, Yung traces the vibrant history of Chinese American women who arrived at the turn of the century as the property of their husbands or even as slaves, and...
A collection of oral histories from first- to fourth-generation Asian Americans of Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, Korean, Indian, Southeast Asian, and Pacific Island ancestry. Asian Americans of diverse backgrounds reflect on their American...
An illustrated history book which traces the presence of Chinese in America, from the first written proof (a Buddhist priest arrived in Canada and...
A historical look at the Chinese American experience from early pioneers to modern day heroes. Through personal histories, 
An anthology of four plays by three Asian American women playwrights: 12-1-A by Wakako Yamauchi, 
A collection of four plays by premiere Japanese American playwright 
Two plays by pioneer 
An anthology of diverse plays by six Asian American women playwrights: 
In this parody of the hard-boiled detective genre, Sam Shikaze (of the Sam Spade school) is a Japanese American private detective hired to find the missing Cherry Blossom Queen. In the process, he meets...
Two important plays on the Asian American experience: Paper Angels, a groundbreaking one-act play about Chinese immigrants detained on the West Coast immigration center, Angel Island, debuted in 1980 and was produced by American...
A collection of six plays by groundbreaking Asian American playwright, David Henry Hwang, including his much-produced contemporary classic, FOB, the gender-bender Broadway hit, M. Butterfly, and the Philip Glass collaboration, 1000 Airplanes on the Roof.
Hwang was...
The first published anthology of plays by Asian American writers features six diverse plays: Nuit Blanche: A Select View of Earthlings by Ping Chong, The Wash by Philip Kan Gotanda, Tenement Lover: no palm...
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"One of the best introductions I have been given was at a meeting at the Chinese Historical Society. The person said, 'Connie only writes for a purpose,'" explained Connie Young Yu to...
Laurence Yep is a multi-faceted writer. His best-known works include two children's books, Dragonwings and Dragon's Gate, both of which were named Newbery Honor books. His audiences include children and adults of all ages. Although he...
Hisaye Yamamoto began writing fiction at the age of 14 received her first acceptance from a literary magazine at 27. In between, "I got a whole slew of rejection slips," she recalled with a...
Michi Weglyn's first career, which she began at the age of 21, catapulted her to fame as the first nationally prominent Japanese American costume designer in the United States. By the 1950s,...
Gus Lee, one-time attorney, now full-time writer, began his first book in 1989 as a private memoir. "My daughter asked me to write a family journal and it turned out to be <a href="http://bookdragon.si.edu/1997/03/02/china-boy-by-gus-lee/"...
Gish Jen cites her husband, David O'Connor, as "the liberator" who helped her write again. Newly married after completing her master's degree in fine arts, Jen had put her writing aside to become, as...