The Columbia Guide to Asian American History by Gary Y. Okihiro [in aMagazine: Inside Asian America]
01 Dec, by in Adult Readers, Nonfiction, Pan-Asian Pacific American, Repost, Young Adult Readers
Asian American Studies guru captures 200 years of Asian Pacific American history. Together with the Bossman Franklin Odo's Columbia Documentary of the...
Anthology of writings by Japan’s favorite American gaijin, credited with introducing Japanese film to the West.
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Perhaps 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...
In a new translation by Xie’s own daughter Lily Chia Brissman and Barry Brissman, this autobiography gives a fresh new voice to a revolutionary Chinese woman who lived almost the entire 20th century –...
From one of Taiwan’s best-known writers, Apples is a superb collection filled with sharp, resonating stories about simple native folk surviving day to day, fighting poverty and isolation.
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Diverse, entertaining collection by ethnic Chinese, born outside China, who travel back to a foreign “homeland.”
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Who needs Peter Mayle when we’ve got the original Chinese German Valley Girl?
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With some 30,000 Chinese children, mostly daughters, being raised throughout the West, books addressing transracial adoption are growing rapidly. Wuhu Diary: On Taking My Adopted Daughter Back to Her Hometown in China, by novelist Emily Prager,...
A sweet, loving story of a family awaiting the arrival of their second child, via airplane from Korea. Illustrated by the fabulously talented 
Illustrator Yumi Heo whimsically renders Look's touching new-sibling story about young Jen who helps her grandmother prepare for her little brother's joyous feast day.
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Young Asian American girls from all over the country share poems, essays, and stories that speak of their bicultural roots – feeling at home in no land, challenging family relationships made more difficult by...
The Kip Club
Kip Fulbeck is not your average performance artist. At age 35, he’s a tenured professor at UC Santa Barbara, does outreach programs for at-risk kids, was a nationally ranked swimmer, and he...
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....
This anthology, which includes both short stories and excerpts from larger works, celebrates the diversity of Asian American literature, from the many literary styles to the various ethnic backgrounds, ages...
A great book overall because most of it is told in the actual voices of the very Asian Americans who helped create our history. Takaki's follow-up, A Different...
International Quest: Paisley Rekdal’s Search for Identity
Born to a Chinese mother and a Norwegian father, Paisley Rekdal has traversed the world, in search of her identity,...
Modern Girls
Growing up in a large, extended family in Hong Kong, 
My initial reaction – and it does not fade through the course of the book – is utter annoyance at yet another non-Asian exoticizing, objectifying, making inscrutable the Asian culture and its people. But...
A word of advice: Don’t read The Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (which just won the Pulitzer for fiction) at the same time as Anita Desai’s new collection of short stories, Diamond Dust....