Bruce Lee by Simon B. Kenny [in Push > for NAATA]
01 Jan, by in Adult Readers, Biography, Chinese, Chinese American, Hapa/Mixed-race, Hong Kongese, Nonfiction, Repost
Also from the PocketEssentials series. A quick guide to the man who single-handedly changed the face of martial arts films, from his San Francisco birth to his child actor days in Hong...
PocketEssentials again, published in the U.K. in 2000 and released here late last year. A compilation of interviews, articles, and reviews about Hong Kong’s “gangster gun operas” [as opposed to...
Another slim volume that offers a concise, informative overview of mainland Chinese cinema, with a focus on the last half-decade. Chinese cinema history can be loosely summarized in six generations, beginning with...
A thoroughly enjoyable combination of memoir entwined with film, social, and political history by a professor from the prestigious Beijing Film Academy, which graduated the...
Delightful debut about two teenage boys sent to be “re-educated” during Mao’s Cultural Revolution and their love for a local village girl and banned western literature.
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Intriguing, disturbing short story collection from the author of haunting Red Sorghum.
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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...
Available for the first time in English translation, Mistress and Maid is a renowned 17th-century Chinese classic tragedy about ill-fated lovers who refuse to be parted.
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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 –...
Diverse, entertaining collection by ethnic Chinese, born outside China, who travel back to a foreign “homeland.”
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Fabulous, dark love story of twisted sorts between a Chinese prostitute and a young white boy during the brutal days of late 1800s San Francisco.
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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,...
Currently my children's favorite book, 
Multiple Caldecott Medal-winner 
Here's the young adult version of Chen’s lyrical bestseller, Colors of the Mountain.
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Let's face it, the media is great at creating and perpetuating stereotypes. Take Asians: inscrutable and mysterious, sly and calculating, from the shuffling house boy to the prostitute with the heart of gold, from Ming the...
Kazuo Ishiguro’s latest work, When We Were Orphans, is a remarkable novel of love, loss, and potential redemption. In the same understated, quiet style that worked so well in his...
Twelve short stories about daily life in modern China, penned by National Book Award winner for Waiting. The collection could be read as a companion title to Waiting, as Ha Jin returns to the same Muji...
Modern Girls
Growing up in a large, extended family in Hong Kong, 
My initial reaction – and it does not fade through the course of the book – is utter annoyance at yet another non-Asian exoticizing, objectifying, making inscrutable the Asian culture and its people. But...