Paper Son: One Man’s Story by Tung Pok Chin with Winifred Chin [in aMagazine: Inside Asian America]
01 Oct, by in Adult Readers, Chinese American, Memoir, Nonfiction, Repost
A rare first-person account of an immigrant's journey to America during the period of Chinese Exclusion. The memoir, written with his daughter, covers over a half century of Chin's life from his entry into...
With A Blessing Over Ashes: The Remarkable Odyssey of My Unlikely Brother, Adam Fifield adds a new twist to the currently trendy suffering-child memoir boom (a lá Angela’s Ashes – and really, no disrespect...
Lost and Found: An Interview with Karin Evans
Just days after the death of her beloved father, Karin Evans and her husband, Mark, experienced one of the most joyful events of...
A Legacy of Survival
What began as a casual lunch in San Francisco with a then-business acquaintance ended in a cathartic literary accomplishment for journalist Elizabeth Kim. After exchanging life stories, agent Patti...
The story of a young Chinese American boy growing up in a small produce town in California is told through wonderful sketches that capture the places, faces, and...
Determined to become an artist, young Sei Koichi convinces the famous cartoonist Noro Shinpei to take him on as an apprentice. Under Sensei’s (Japanese for "teacher") nurturing tutelage, he receives a new name, Kiyoi,...
Haesu Chun, newly arrived in the U.S. from Korea with her husband, struggles to establish a home in a foreign land. Born into a wealthy family, Haesu is initially ill-prepared for the racism, humiliation,...
A rich collection of stories, plays, and memoir that span over 35 years by one of the pioneer voices of Asian America. Yamauchi is best known for her...
The author returns to her ancestral homeland, guided by the stories her father – her "Baba" – has told her. There she begins a personal odyssey through northern China of the 1930s and ‘40s, following the...
As the first major compilation that focuses on South Asian American and South Asian immigrant women in the U.S., this anthology offers a wide variety of short stories,...
An autobiographical exploration of memory and personal history, presented via a vast spectrum of mediums, including prose, poetry, descriptions of dreams, biography, family history in Korea, French translation exercises, photographs, handwritten notes, calligraphy, letters, and more....
Jade Snow Wong is the American-born fifth daughter of Chinese immigrants. Growing up in San Francisco’s Chinatown, Jade Snow must come to terms with two diverse worlds: a traditional household which strictly...
The autobiographical account of a second-generation Japanese American woman growing up in Berkeley, California, and her family’s internment experiences at Camp Topaz during World War II.
During World War II, some 120,000 Americans of Japanese...
The autobiograhical account of a second-generation Japanese American woman growing up in Seattle in the 1920s through the '40s, her family’s incarceration during World War II in Idaho, and her new life as a...
Lisa See’s great-great-grandfather arrived in the U.S. from China more than 100 years ago, followed by his son who eventually became one of the most successful Chinese American antiques merchants. The Fong...
The autobiographical account, told through sketches and text, of a second-generation Japanese American woman, who was reduced to Citizen Number 13660 and incarcerated during World War II, first at the Tanforan Assembly Center in...
Lydia Minatoya, a second-generation Japanese American, searches for her own answers to what it means to be Asian American. Her personal odyssey begins in...
The saga of one Korean family, interwoven with the country’s turbulent history, from 1900 to the present. The Kang clan, once a powerful North...
A personal memoir of Min’s difficult young life in China during the brutal Cultural Revolution. From Shanghai to an intense labor camp to menial labor in a film studio – until she finally escapes...