The Columbia Documentary History of the Asian American Experience edited by Franklin Odo + Author Profile [in Bloomsbury Review]
01 Sep, by in Adult Readers, Author Interview/Profile, Nonfiction, Pan-Asian Pacific American, Repost, Young Adult Readers
Gathering History for the Future: A Profile of Curator & Historian Franklin Odo
For decades, Franklin Odo has been a professional groundbreaker. He was the first from his Hawai’i high school to get to Princeton...
An intriguing collection of interviews with one of the most brilliant minds today. Originally broadcast on KGNU in Boulder, Colo., the interviews cover such topics as the so-called peace process, the 2000...
The re-release of the 10-million copy-strong bestselling epic memoir about three generations of Chinese women, opens with a brand-new introduction by the author. First published in 1991, Chang chronicles the lives of her concubine...
"It is not the accuracy of the story that concerns us," the author writes in the title's opening poem. "But who gets to tell it." Dhompa captures her fractured self...
A testosterone-driven adventure about a journalist with a military past who has a heyday tracking down drug smugglers, guerrillas, mobsters, and nuclear missiles.
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Already a bestseller in France, where it was first published, Satrapi’s achievement is capturing her childhood in spare comic book images that speak utter volumes. Satrapi, whose great grandfather was a Persian emperor, recalls her life...
A slim, must-read collection of powerful essays by the author of the Booker Prize-winning The God of Small Things that questions everything from nuclear power, the so-called war against terror, and the new imperialism....
A history of a changing Filipino population in and around Seattle, bookended by both World Wars.
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Living With War
When Sabina Murray heard she had won the prestigious PEN/Faulkner Award for her short story collection The Caprices, she was so surprised that she hardly believed it. Not until the house began to rapidly...
A memorable debut novel (big month for debuts, no?) about the Vietnamese live-in cook for the legendary American expats Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, a young man with a complicated past...
Newly released paperback edition of critically acclaimed autobiographical novel which details the life of a young boy in 1930s Japan through World War II, whose father is a secret anti-war activist and...
An academic text, interspersed with narrative case studies, that explores the problematic status of women as recognized – or, more accurately, not recognized – by the Indian government. The picture...
A touching story (and, yes, another debut novel!) about the age-old generation gap, this time set in postcolonial India, focusing on the relationship between Dr. Dam, a veterinary surgeon, and his hapless...
Since the lifting of immigration laws in 1965, the U.S. medical work force has had huge support from growing numbers of Filipino-trained medical staff arriving on U.S. shores, especially Filipino nurses. Choy...
An overwhelming, necessary, eye-witnessing anthology of the legacy of a century of colonial – political, economic, and especially social – occupation of the Philippines by the United States.
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Socio-historic summary of Korean cinema though films of three periods: pre-separation between North and South and the Japanese occupation, North/South division, and the postwar reality of a divided people.
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From Commodore Perry’s “opening” of Japanese ports to the 1964 Tokyo Olympics when the Japanese shocked the world by winning 16 gold medals, a lively look at the rise of modern Japan.
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An undeniably superb, even breathtaking short story collection about life spent in the “in-between” by the Japanese-born, German-domiciled, multi-dimensioned Tawada.
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One man’s vision of a little-known – at least to the West – land as it was a quarter century ago, caught in a glorious mix of Chinese and Portuguese influences.
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Already a bestseller in India and Australia, this debut novel by LeHunte (who is hapa of South Asian and British parents) centers around the family of Aakash, a sage and healer who...