Empire of Care: Nursing and Migration in Filipino American History by Catherine Ceniza Choy [in AsianWeek]
28 Mar, by in Adult Readers, Filipina/o, Filipina/o American, Nonfiction, Repost, Southeast Asian, Southeast Asian American
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...
Honoring Community
If a single picture speaks a thousand words, then the timeless images captured in Chinatown Dreams: The Life and Photographs of George Lee make up the history of a community long gone. George Lee, a...
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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A comprehensive overview of the history of Asian American politics, from the early historical cases of the first Asian immigrants against exclusion, to significant immigration law changes in 1924 (which virtually shut...
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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Extremely timely title, especially with impending war upon us, that offers “an overview of the tangible remains currently left at the sites of the Japanese American internment during World War II.” Includes...
Catch a Tiger by Its Tales: Celebrating 100 Years of Korean American Literature
HONOLULU — Aesthetically, Century of the Tiger: One Hundred Years of Korean Culture in America 1903-2003 is one...
An almost comic tale about an immature, overprivileged, married professor who falls in love with a much younger woman on her wedding day, set on the eve of the horrific Rape of Nanjing when...
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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History in the Making
While Mishima’s fiction (not to mention his flamboyant life) is internationally renowned, his dramas are virtually unknown in the West, although he published more than 60 plays. This collection includes five of...
It’s no surprise that Hollywood has apparently snapped up film rights to this sweeping historical saga, filled with all the exotica you ever tried to avoid – the geisha, the samurai, the...
If you can look beyond the lit crit-ese (“acceptance of assimilation as a natural trajectory” or “to transcend hegemonic and racially prejudiced narratives of integration” blah blah blah), the 20...
Over 60 years ago, the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 – “a day that will live in infamy” as then-President Roosevelt named it – eventually led to the signing of Executive Order 9066...
Child's Play: The Writerly Life of Newbery Award-Winner Linda Sue Park
ROCHESTER, N.Y. — When Linda Sue Park first received the call last spring that she had won the top honor in children’s literature –...
A sweeping saga of Tibet before the Chinese occupation, told through the privileged view of the self-proclaimed “renowned idiot son” of a Tibetan chieftain.
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A Filipino family and friends struggle to survive the brutal Japanese occupation during World War II.
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First-ever memoir available in English about the horrors of surviving and escaping the brutal Communist labor camps of closed, barren North Korea.
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