Paper Angels and Bitter Cane by Genny Lim [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]
01 Mar, by in Adult Readers, Chinese American, Drama/Theater, Repost, Young Adult Readers
Two important plays on the Asian American experience: Paper Angels, a groundbreaking one-act play about Chinese immigrants detained on the West Coast immigration center, Angel Island, debuted in 1980 and was produced by American...
"One of the best introductions I have been given was at a meeting at the Chinese Historical Society. The person said, 'Connie only writes for a purpose,'" explained Connie Young Yu to...
Michi Weglyn's first career, which she began at the age of 21, catapulted her to fame as the first nationally prominent Japanese American costume designer in the United States. By the 1950s,...
One day in 1971, Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston's nephew came to visit. He was taking a sociology course at the University of California at Berkeley and wanted to know more about the concentration...
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...