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Bollywood: The Indian Cinema Story by Nasreen Munni Kabir [in AsianWeek]

01 Jan, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Indian, Nonfiction, Repost, South Asian

BollywoodForget Hollywood, hello Bollywood: With 12 million people going to the movies every day from a potential audience of a billion, India is home to the largest film industry in the entire world. The international phenomenon...

Mother India by Gayatri Chatterjee [in Push > for NAATA]

01 Jan, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Indian, Nonfiction, Repost, South Asian

Mother IndiaPart of the British Film Institute’s Film Classics, a series which highlights 360 landmark films from throughout the world, this volume focuses on one of India’s enduring classics. Released in October 1957, Mother India...

Yash Chopra by Rachel Dwyer [in AsianWeek]

01 Jan, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Biography, Indian, Nonfiction, Repost, South Asian

Yash ChopraOne of India’s most enduring filmmakers, Yash Chopra is known for his lavish, fantastically romantic films. Dwyer, obviously an avid fan and self-professed friend, offers the life story of a man whose life motto...

Vietnam War Movies by Jamie Russell [in Push > for NAATA]

01 Jan, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Nonfiction, Repost, Southeast Asian, Southeast Asian American, Vietnamese, Vietnamese American

Vietnam War MoviesOne of the latest in the Pocketessentials series. And the perfect last title – a book devoted to how the enemy Asian alien is portrayed in the white man’s film world. Caught...

Fixer Chao by Han Ong + Author Profile [in aMagazine: Inside Asian America]

01 Dec, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Author Interview/Profile, Fiction, Filipina/o, Filipina/o American, Repost, Southeast Asian, Southeast Asian American

Fixer ChaoaList 100 23. Han Ong: The Literary World's Latest Darling Han Ong finds it “surprising and shocking and ticklish” that his first book is doing so well. Called an “inventively malevolent debut novel” by the...

Dictee by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha and The Dream of the Audience: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (1951-1982) by Constance M. Lewallen [in aMagazine: Inside Asian America]

01 Dec, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Korean American, Memoir, Nonfiction, Repost

Dictee.Audience The welcome return of Dictee, a seminal Korean American classic – part autobiography, part history, part art, part experimentation. The Dream of the Audience, with essays by Whitney Museum curator Lawrence R. Rinder and theorist/filmmaker Trinh...

Edinburgh by Alexander Chee [in aMagazine: Inside Asian America]

01 Dec, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, Hapa/Mixed-race, Korean American, Repost

EdinburghLyrical debut about Korean American hapa, Fee, who survives child molestration, and the subsequent relationship he unwittingly falls into with his molestor’s teenage son. Review: "New and Notable," aMagazine: Inside Asian America, December 2001/January...

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie, translated by Ina Rilke [in aMagazine: Inside Asian America]

01 Dec, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Absolute Favorites, Adult Readers, Chinese, Fiction, Repost, Translation, Young Adult Readers

Balzac and the Little Chinese SeamstressDelightful 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. Review:...

The Beacon Best of 2001: Great Writing by Women and Men of All Colors and Cultures edited by Junot Diaz [in aMagazine: Inside Asian America]

01 Dec, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Repost, Short Stories, Young Adult Readers

Beacon Best of 2001Title says it all. It's the third edition, by the way, of The Beacon Best, in case you want to check out the others. Review: "New and Notable," aMagazine:...

Asian Americans: The Movement and the Moment edited by Steve Louie and Glenn Omatsu [in aMagazine: Inside Asian America]

01 Dec, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Nonfiction, Pan-Asian Pacific American, Repost, Young Adult Readers

Asian Americans Movement and MomentGroundbreaking, 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...

Shifu, You’ll Do Anything for a Laugh by Mo Yan, translated by Howard Goldblatt [in aMagazine: Inside Asian America]

01 Dec, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Chinese, Fiction, Repost, Short Stories, Translation

Shifu, You'll Do Anything for a LaughIntriguing, disturbing short story collection from the author of haunting Red Sorghum. Review: "New and Notable," aMagazine: Inside Asian America, December 2001/January 2002 Readers:...

For Rouenna by Sigrid Nunez [in aMagazine: Inside Asian America]

01 Dec, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, Hapa/Mixed-race, Repost, Southeast Asian, Vietnamese

For RouennaA writer tries to reconstruct the life of a childhood acquaintance – an ex-combat nurse during Vietnam – after her sudden suicide. Review: "New and Notable," aMagazine: Inside Asian America, December 2001/January 2002 Readers:...

The Columbia Guide to Asian American History by Gary Y. Okihiro [in aMagazine: Inside Asian America]

01 Dec, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Nonfiction, Pan-Asian Pacific American, Repost, Young Adult Readers

Columbia Guide to Asian American HistoryAsian American Studies guru captures 200 years of Asian Pacific American history. Together with the Bossman Franklin Odo's Columbia Documentary of the...

Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl by Tracy Quan [in aMagazine: Inside Asian America]

01 Dec, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Chinese American, Fiction, Repost

Diary of  Manhattan Call GirlFluffy, dishy first novel based on Quan’s own experiences as an elite call girl in the big city. Review: "New and Notable," aMagazine: Inside Asian...

The Donald Richie Reader: 50 Years of Writing on Japan by Donald Richie, edited by Arturo Silva [in aMagazine: Inside Asian America]

01 Dec, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Japanese, Memoir, Nonfiction, Repost

Donald Richie ReaderAnthology of writings by Japan’s favorite American gaijin, credited with introducing Japanese film to the West. Review: "New and Notable," aMagazine: Inside Asian America, December 2001/January 2002 Readers: Adult Published: 2001...

The Sum of Our Parts: Mixed Heritage Asian Americans edited by Teresa Williams-León and Cynthia L. Nakashima [in aMagazine: Inside Asian America]

01 Dec, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Hapa/Mixed-race, Nonfiction, Repost, Young Adult Readers

Sum of Our PartsFascinating essay collection about being various shades of hapa. Review: "New and Notable," aMagazine: Inside Asian America, December 2001/January 2002 Readers: Young Adult, Adult Published: 2001...

Literary Agent Profile: Theresa Park [in aMagazine: Inside Asian America]

01 Dec, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Author Interview/Profile, Fiction, Japanese American, Korean American, Nonfiction, Repost

Park LiteraryThe 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)...

Flower Drum Song by David Henry Hwang, music by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, based on the novel by C.Y. Lee + Playwright Profile [in aMagazine: Inside Asian America]

01 Dec, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Author Interview/Profile, Chinese American, Drama/Theater, Repost

Flower Drum SongFlower Power Ask any Asian American familiar with musicals, and they’ll probably be able to sing “I Enjoy Being a Girl," recalling endless images of mirror-cloned Nancy Kwans. Like it or not, as...

The Tale of Genji by Lady Murasaki Shikibu, translated by Royall Tyler [in aMagazine: Inside Asian America]

01 Oct, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, Japanese, Repost, Translation

Tale of Genji.TylerPerhaps the biggest news in translated Asian titles is the rebirth of the world’s first novel, The Tale of Genji, by Lady Murasaki Shikibu, translated for the third time into English, this...

Sources of Japanese Tradition, Volume One: From Earliest Times to 1600 (second edition) compiled by Wm. Theodore de Bary, Donald Keene, George Tanabe, and Paul Varley [in aMagazine: Inside Asian America]

01 Oct, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, Japanese, Nonfiction, Repost, Translation, Young Adult Readers

Sources of Japanese TraditionHere'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...

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