On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of a Chinese-American Family by Lisa See [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]
01 Mar, by in Adult Readers, Chinese American, Memoir, Nonfiction, Repost
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...
A collection of oral histories of 38 diverse Korean Americans, from recent immigrants to third-generation Americans, who offer vastly different, sometimes startling perspectives as a result of their gender, economic background, education,...
A young girl grows up in the San Francisco Bay Area divided amidst the stories and myths of her parents’ faraway past in China and her own experiences as an immigrant’s daughter coming of...
An Asian American historical classic, focusing on the Chinese in America – from the first Gold Mountain settlers to contemporary activists and shop owners – told through both personal narratives and extensive interviews, using...
A groundbreaking history of Asian Americans in the U.S. during the last 150 years, told predominantly through the actual narratives of Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Filipino, Asian Indian, Vietnamese,...
Most likely the first historical text to examine the experiences of Chinese American women over a 150-year history, utilizing personal interviews, photographs, and long-overlooked documents. Could also be suitable for...
Using the backdrop of San Francisco, Yung traces the vibrant history of Chinese American women who arrived at the turn of the century as the property of their husbands or even as slaves, and...
An illustrated history book which traces the presence of Chinese in America, from the first written proof (a Buddhist priest arrived in Canada and...
A collection of six plays by groundbreaking Asian American playwright, David Henry Hwang, including his much-produced contemporary classic, FOB, the gender-bender Broadway hit, M. Butterfly, and the Philip Glass collaboration, 1000 Airplanes on the Roof.
Hwang was...
Searching for Frank Chin
Last summer, I spent what seemed like an inordinate amount of time and effort searching for Frank Chin. Frank Chin, the controversial literary figure, the co-editor of the seminal Asian American texts, <a...
Gus Lee, one-time attorney, now full-time writer, began his first book in 1989 as a private memoir. "My daughter asked me to write a family journal and it turned out to be <a href="http://bookdragon.si.edu/1997/03/02/china-boy-by-gus-lee/"...
Gish Jen cites her husband, David O'Connor, as "the liberator" who helped her write again. Newly married after completing her master's degree in fine arts, Jen had put her writing aside to become, as...
Frank Chin describes himself first and foremost as "a writer." In the biographical profile he provided after declining to be interviewed, he wrote, "I have written short fiction, plays, nonfiction, reviews, essays, research pieces...