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The Impressionist by Hari Kunzru [in AsianWeek]

26 Sep, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, British Asian, Fiction, Indian, Repost, South Asian

ImpressionistA fascinating, serpentine tale of a privileged Indian boy who at 15 is thrown out into the streets by the man he thought was his father, and how he becomes a chameleon re-inventor of himself in...

Asian Americans On War & Peace edited by Russell C. Leong and Don T. Nakanishi [in AsianWeek]

05 Sep, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Nonfiction, Pan-Asian Pacific American, Repost

Asian Americans on War and PeaceCollateral Damage The Aug.13 issue of USA Today reports that more than 150 books that deal with Sept. 11 have already been or are about to be...

A Single Square Picture: A Korean Adoptee’s Search for Her Roots by Katy Robinson + Author Profile [in KoreAm Journal]

01 Sep, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Author Interview/Profile, Korean, Korean American, Memoir, Nonfiction, Repost, Young Adult Readers

Single Square PictureJourney to the East: Katy Robinson's search for her Korean family in A Single Square Picture BOISIE, IDAHO — In 1977 at the age of 7, Kim Ji-yun left Seoul and arrived in...

Fox Girl by Nora Okja Keller + Author Interview [in Bloomsbury Review]

01 Sep, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Author Interview/Profile, Fiction, Korean, Korean American, Repost

fox-girlFox Girl takes readers back to post-Korean War “America Town,” where the abandoned, racially mixed children of U.S. soldiers fought for bare survival and Korean women continued to service occupying GIs in order to put food...

When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka [in Bloomsbury Review]

01 Sep, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Absolute Favorites, Adult Readers, Japanese American, Middle Grade Readers, Repost, Young Adult Readers

when-the-emperor-was-divineOver 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...

A Single Square Picture: A Korean Adoptee’s Search for Her Roots by Katy Robinson + Author Interview [in AsianWeek]

09 Aug, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Author Interview/Profile, Korean, Korean American, Memoir, Nonfiction, Repost, Young Adult Readers

Single Square PictureJourney to the East A single Polaroid captures the day that Katy Robinson’s life changed forever. Her mother’s worried face, her grandmother’s stoic grimace, and Katy’s childishly silly smile mark the day that...

A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park + Author Interview [in KoreAm Journal]

01 Aug, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Author Interview/Profile, Fiction, Korean, Korean American, Middle Grade Readers, Repost

Single ShardChild'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 –...

One Man’s Bible by Gao Xingjian, translated by Mabel Lee [in AsianWeek]

18 Jul, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Chinese, Fiction, Repost, Translation

One Man's BibleThe follow-up to Gao’s Nobel Prize-winning Soul Mountain. At the request of his naked, white German lover in the relative freedom of a Hong Kong hotel room in 1996, Gao’s fictionalized counterpart...

Apple Pie 4th of July by Janet S. Wong, illustrated by Margaret Chodos-Irvine [in AsianWeek]

18 Jul, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Children/Picture Books, Chinese American, Fiction, Repost

Apple Pie FourthDelightful, delicious story of a little girl whose parents own an always-open store (except for Christmas) that offers Chinese food, even on the Fourth of July. Certain that no one wants chow...

When My Name Was Keoko by Linda Sue Park + Author interview [in AsianWeek]

11 Jun, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Author Interview/Profile, Fiction, Korean, Korean American, Middle Grade Readers, Repost, Young Adult Readers

when-my-name-was-keokoLinda Sue Park's Post-Newbery Award Life Although Linda Sue Park was just 9 when her work was first published – a haiku for a children’s magazine – it would be almost three decades before she attempted her...

Last Witnesses: Reflections on the Wartime Internment of Japanese Americans edited by Erica Harth [in aMagazine: Inside Asian America]

01 Feb, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Japanese American, Nonfiction, Repost

Last WitnessesPowerful, timely collection of testimonies from the survivors of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's infamous Executive Order 9066, and reactions from their children. Review: "New and Notable," aMagazine: Inside Asian America, February/March 2002 Readers: Adult Published:...

Screening Asian Americans edited and with an introduction by Peter X. Feng [in AsianWeek]

01 Jan, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Nonfiction, Pan-Asian Pacific American, Repost

Screening Asian AmericansFeng’s title is ingeniously layered: “Screening Asian Americans” refers to at least three ways in which Asian Americans are screened – how they are evaluated, how their images are projected, and how...

Identities in Motion: Asian American Film and Video by Peter X. Feng [in AsianWeek]

01 Jan, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Nonfiction, Pan-Asian Pacific American, Repost

Identities in MotionThis time, Feng gets the whole book to himself. And if you read nothing else about film, read this introduction. His questions about identity – who defines it, how it’s defined, can...

Bruce Lee by Simon B. Kenny [in Push > for NAATA]

01 Jan, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Biography, Chinese, Chinese American, Hapa/Mixed-race, Hong Kongese, Nonfiction, Repost

Bruce LeeAlso from the PocketEssentials series. A quick guide to the man who single-handedly changed the face of martial arts films, from his San Francisco birth to his child actor days in Hong...

Memoirs from the Beijing Film Academy: The Genesis of China’s Fifth Generation by Ni Zhen, translated by Chris Berry [in AsianWeek]

01 Jan, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Chinese, Memoir, Nonfiction, Repost, Translation

Memoirs from the Beijing Film AcademyA thoroughly enjoyable combination of memoir entwined with film, social, and political history by a professor from the prestigious Beijing Film Academy, which graduated the...

Fixer Chao by Han Ong + Author Profile [in aMagazine: Inside Asian America]

01 Dec, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Author Interview/Profile, Fiction, Filipina/o, Filipina/o American, Repost, Southeast Asian, Southeast Asian American

Fixer ChaoaList 100 23. Han Ong: The Literary World's Latest Darling Han Ong finds it “surprising and shocking and ticklish” that his first book is doing so well. Called an “inventively malevolent debut novel” by the...

Dictee by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha and The Dream of the Audience: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (1951-1982) by Constance M. Lewallen [in aMagazine: Inside Asian America]

01 Dec, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Korean American, Memoir, Nonfiction, Repost

Dictee.Audience The welcome return of Dictee, a seminal Korean American classic – part autobiography, part history, part art, part experimentation. The Dream of the Audience, with essays by Whitney Museum curator Lawrence R. Rinder and theorist/filmmaker Trinh...

Asian Americans: The Movement and the Moment edited by Steve Louie and Glenn Omatsu [in aMagazine: Inside Asian America]

01 Dec, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Nonfiction, Pan-Asian Pacific American, Repost, Young Adult Readers

Asian Americans Movement and MomentGroundbreaking, inspiring celebration of more than three decades of Asian American activism. Review: "New and Notable," aMagazine: Inside Asian America, December 2001/January 2002 Readers: Young Adult, Adult Published: 2001...

For Rouenna by Sigrid Nunez [in aMagazine: Inside Asian America]

01 Dec, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, Hapa/Mixed-race, Repost, Southeast Asian, Vietnamese

For RouennaA writer tries to reconstruct the life of a childhood acquaintance – an ex-combat nurse during Vietnam – after her sudden suicide. Review: "New and Notable," aMagazine: Inside Asian America, December 2001/January 2002 Readers:...

The Donald Richie Reader: 50 Years of Writing on Japan by Donald Richie, edited by Arturo Silva [in aMagazine: Inside Asian America]

01 Dec, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Japanese, Memoir, Nonfiction, Repost

Donald Richie ReaderAnthology of writings by Japan’s favorite American gaijin, credited with introducing Japanese film to the West. Review: "New and Notable," aMagazine: Inside Asian America, December 2001/January 2002 Readers: Adult Published: 2001...

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