Chasing Hepburn: A Memoir of Shanghai, Hollywood, and a Chinese Family’s Fight for Freedom by Gus Lee [in AsianWeek]
31 Jan, by in Adult Readers, Chinese, Chinese American, Memoir, Nonfiction, Repost
Four generations of the Lee family, in a tale that reads more like a novel than a memoir, who criss-cross continents over sprawling historical eras. And yes, it’s true – Lee’s father cannot travel...
A slim introduction to Yasunari Kawabata, Yukio Mishima, Jun’ichiro Tanizaki, Ryotaro Shiba, and Kobo Abe by the much-recognized Japanese literature scholar who knows (or knew) them all.
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A collection of essays in time for the centennial anniversary of Korean American immigration, which focuses on the little known “Korean Diaspora,” made up of some six million Koreans living outside the home country,...
A fascinating look at a much-ignored segment of the APA immigrant population, using intensive, exhaustive interviews with numerous Korean ‘war brides.’
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The legendary Martin Luther King, Jr. remembered as a young boy by his older sister, with images spectacularly captured by the award-winning Korean American illustrator Chris Soentpiet.
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An essay collection that originated from an Im Kwon-Taek film festival/conference at the University of Southern California in 1996. Amazingly enough, this is the very first English language title on South Korean cinema. More...
To Tame the Tiger
In a word, Century of the Tiger: One Hundred Years of Korean Culture in America: 1903-2003 is remarkable. One hundred years after the first group of 102...
History in the Making
“When people asked me if I would edit an updated edition of Iraq Under Siege, my answer has always been ‘no’ – that I hoped the book would soon become historically obsolete...
First trade paperback release that captures the 24 hours leading up to noon on August 15, 1945, the fateful day that the Japanese Emperor announced the country’s defeat in World War II....
Brand new edition of the classic collection of almost 300-year-old tidbits on how to live the life of the proper samurai. Historically, its followers have been many and notable, including the legendary writer Yukio Mishima and...
A collection of 80-plus essays on race, culture, feminism, and activism, which continues the dialogue begun two decades ago in the revolutionary this bridge called my back. Included...
Fabulous, thorough focus on the lives of APA women caught in poverty, isolation, servitude, and violent situations – and still surviving and fighting to make a better life. Based on research done in 2001 by...
A touching memoir that traces the life of a young man from a tribal village in Burma. Thwe comes of age amidst political and economic turmoil, from his experiences as...
Read the real and complete Kamasutra here for the first time! The first and only translation of the Kamasutra, published in 1883 and widely attributed to the 19th-century explorer and scholar Sir Richard Francis Burton, is...
“It is easy to understand why Japanese Americans want to know what happened in this war relocation camp,” Cooper writes. “But why is it important for other Americans to remember Manzanar?” Cooper necessarily questions....
Gorgeous book that centers around five traditional Chinese festivals or holidays, with accompanying tales, recipes, and crafts.
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The Asian Pacific American community, post-1965 immigration laws, post-1960s Civil Rights and APA movements, is facing great changes. A questioning, provoking look at communities in transition, communities in transformation, and communities of...
Lush, gorgeous collection of garden photos. The Asian answer to all those house books on too many coffee tables.
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If you can look beyond the lit crit-ese (“acceptance of assimilation as a natural trajectory” or “to transcend hegemonic and racially prejudiced narratives of integration” blah blah blah), the 20...