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 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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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...
Literary Vagabond Suki Kim Makes Her Debut
Suki Kim and I have so many similarities in our respective pasts that we most certainly have crossed paths before. We were both in London at the same time, studying...
An absolutely fabulous first novel about young Indian American named Rajiv Kothari, and his path to understanding his recently deceased father, his father’s view of life as an immigrant, and his own...
Often hilarious, surprisingly poignant play which looks at the life and works of the all-too-often caricatured Yoko Ono, perhaps the more talented (gasp! dare we say that?) of the Lennon-Ono duo.
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A look at the long-term implications of the U.S.’s role in East Asia, the Americanization of Asia, and – even more importantly – the “extraordinary” Asianization of America.
Readers: Adult
Published: 2002...
Society in true color by 
Asian American Studies guru captures 200 years of Asian Pacific American history. Together with the 
Flower 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 latest novel by this year’s Nobel Prize winner examines dislocation, tragic relationships, and the ultimately redemptive powers of love. Willie Chandran, born in India to a Brahmin who married down, immigrates...
Funny, dark short story-debut about vaguely interrelated characters with challenging lives.
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After her father is killed by terrorists, young Kenyan Indian woman arrives to unwelcoming relatives in Paris, and escapes to wend her way through various 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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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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Da Pidgin Guy: Lee Tonouchi reclaims his native language
They call him “Da Pidgin Guerrilla.” Bekuz o’ da way he talk. And da fak dat he determined to keep duh langwage of da Locals alive....
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...
A startlingly complex novel, The Glass Palace opens with a literal bang, as British cannons thunder over the noise of a busy Burmese marketplace in 1885. A historical work that sweeps over a century...