Music for Alice by Allen Say [in AsianWeek]
28 May, by in Biography, Children/Picture Books, Japanese, Nonfiction, Repost
Based on the true story of Alice Sumida, a Japanese American woman who, with her husband Mark, established the country's largest gladiola flower bulb farm. Forced from their home post-9066 that sanctioned...
More than three decades after ‘Orientals' claimed their identities as Asian Americans in the late 1960s, the said moniker no longer encompasses this growing group of Americans whose one commonality...
Silent No More: The Varsity Victory Volunteers of World War II
Write what you know best” is the advice that writers probably hear most often. Franklin Odo, activist, academic, and museum curator extraordinaire, does exactly that. His latest title, No Sword...
With one of the best covers I’ve ever seen on an academic text, this diverse collection of essays explores the global phenomenon that was Pokémon (from “pocket monster,” in case you were...
A down-to-earth account of one of the most inspiring women of our times. The memoir that world-renowned activist Yuri Kochiyama began to write at the age of 77 for her family, is...
Kim argues that the New Korean Cinema of the last two decades, which catapulted Korean films into the international spotlight, is finished as a movement. While the art-house flicks of...
“We are a nation of immigrants,” Hing states in his introduction. And certainly that is a factual statement. However, since the United States was established more than two...
Okay, would-be potters and wannabes like me … so maybe you won’t quite get the results these teachers do (can you say, “wow!”) – but you can hope. Oh, if...
While the premise of a young girl’s diary about surviving war in contemporary Iraq is promising – if not necessary in order to put an innocent human face to the so-called ‘war on terrorism’...
Is it a textbook? Is it a comic book? It’s both, it’s neither. It’s a unique (and clever!) hybrid made up of 30 lessons that use manga to teach basic conversational Japanese....
An absolutely stunning, breathtaking collection of photos by a self-described Japanese geographer and geography teacher who, over the past 26 years, has traveled to all of China’s 28 provinces and taken over 10,000 photographs....
It starts out interestingly – although predictably – enough with a Chinese great-grandmother whose Gold Mountain husband returns with great riches, a grandmother who marries down but is saved from the Cultural Revolution by...
A wide-ranging collection of 25 essays that share a common focus on films from China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and even the Chinese/U.S. crossover blockbuster, Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon....
A superbly detailed, wordless journey through Spain with the blue-capped guide on horseback from the award-winning creator of Anno's Journey and Anno's U.S.A.
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An ethnographic study of gay Filipino men in New York City, with stories culled from interviews with 50 men between 1990 and 1995, including a fascinating look at the unique gay Filipino American vernacular...
A dictionary-like overview of the original Chinese American legendary superstar's career.
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A compilation of 14 essays that highlight the experiences of a group of elite Chinese soldiers who were trained at China's first modern military institution, Whampoa Military Academy, who were...
Now that Mad Cow’s Disease is on the loose (although it hasn’t changed our beef-eating habits in any way) and fish is purportedly filled with poisonous mercury, chicken is looking more and...
Published on what would have been the legendary star’s 99th birthday (Jan. 4), Hodges’ biography captures Wong’s humble beginnings as the second daughter of eight children born to immigrant parents, to her...
For the first time, the legendary principles of karate as espoused by Master Funakoshi, called the father of karate, are available in English translation. Rather than focusing on...