Asian Americans: The Movement and the Moment edited by Steve Louie and Glenn Omatsu [in aMagazine: Inside Asian America]
01 Dec, by in Adult Readers, Nonfiction, Pan-Asian Pacific American, Repost, Young Adult Readers
Groundbreaking, inspiring celebration of more than three decades of Asian American activism.
Review: "New and Notable," aMagazine: Inside Asian America, December 2001/January 2002
Readers: Young Adult, Adult
Published: 2001...
Asian American Studies guru captures 200 years of Asian Pacific American history. Together with the 
Anthology of writings by Japan’s favorite American gaijin, credited with introducing Japanese film to the West.
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Fascinating essay collection about being various shades of hapa.
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The Dealmaker
Six years ago, as a brand-new literary agent, Theresa Park was handed a certain letter by her then assistant. It came from the unwanted slush pile (one toss away from the garbage can)...
Here's the updated, revised second edition of the bestselling academic classic. Put it together with the two-parter Sources of Japanese Tradition, Volume Two: 1600 to 2000, and you'll have the...
Hats off to Columbia University Press for being the über-publisher of translated titles year, including The Columbia History of Chinese Literature, which happens to be the first comprehensive...
In a new translation by Xie’s own daughter Lily Chia Brissman and Barry Brissman, this autobiography gives a fresh new voice to a revolutionary Chinese woman who lived almost the entire 20th century –...
The unpredictable Murakami deftly forays into nonfiction with an eerily unput-downable compilation of eyewitness accounts of what happened on March 20, 1995 when members of a religious cult unleashed deadly sarin gas on a crowded rush-hour...
Extensive poetry, prose, drama, and photos that capture the gay APA experience.
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Academically heavy but intellectually enlightening look at perceptions of Asian American men.
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Diverse, entertaining collection by ethnic Chinese, born outside China, who travel back to a foreign “homeland.”
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Who needs Peter Mayle when we’ve got the original Chinese German Valley Girl?
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With some 30,000 Chinese children, mostly daughters, being raised throughout the West, books addressing transracial adoption are growing rapidly. Wuhu Diary: On Taking My Adopted Daughter Back to Her Hometown in China, by novelist Emily Prager,...
Here's the young adult version of Chen’s lyrical bestseller, Colors of the Mountain.
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Young Asian American girls from all over the country share poems, essays, and stories that speak of their bicultural roots – feeling at home in no land, challenging family relationships made more difficult by...
Here's the book that brought more tears of joy, sadness, and the greatest of hope this month: With the ever-growing phenomenon of transracial adoption, Sacred Connections should be in every adoptive family's library. While...
A definitive look at how we diverse people of Asian descent (Asians make up some 57% of the world population!) got lumped together as "Oriental" in the U.S. and eventually claimed our status as...
Here's looking forward to the next generation of writers of South Asian descent: Bolo! Bolo! includes 84 diverse pieces, from poetry to essays to short stories. The title refers to a Hindi colloquial phrase...
Never mind its faults. Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail, by Malika Oufkir and Michele Fitoussi is going to sell well. It's already a runaway bestseller in France, where it debuted in 1999 as...