Chasing Hepburn: A Memoir of Shanghai, Hollywood, and a Chinese Family’s Fight for Freedom by Gus Lee [in AsianWeek]
31 Jan, by in Adult Readers, Chinese, Chinese American, Memoir, Nonfiction, Repost
Four generations of the Lee family, in a tale that reads more like a novel than a memoir, who criss-cross continents over sprawling historical eras. And yes, it’s true – Lee’s father cannot travel...
A collection of essays in time for the centennial anniversary of Korean American immigration, which focuses on the little known “Korean Diaspora,” made up of some six million Koreans living outside the home country,...
A fascinating look at a much-ignored segment of the APA immigrant population, using intensive, exhaustive interviews with numerous Korean ‘war brides.’
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To Tame the Tiger
In a word, Century of the Tiger: One Hundred Years of Korean Culture in America: 1903-2003 is remarkable. One hundred years after the first group of 102...
Literary Vagabond Suki Kim Makes Her Debut
Suki Kim and I have so many similarities in our respective pasts that we most certainly have crossed paths before. We were both in London at the same time, studying...
Drawn to Life: Yangsook Choi, when not being a kid, is busy writing and illustrating children's books
NEW YORK CITY — By the time Yangsook Choi graduated from art school, she already had her first...
Fabulous, thorough focus on the lives of APA women caught in poverty, isolation, servitude, and violent situations – and still surviving and fighting to make a better life. Based on research done in 2001 by...
An absolutely fabulous first novel about young Indian American named Rajiv Kothari, and his path to understanding his recently deceased father, his father’s view of life as an immigrant, and his own...
A touching memoir that traces the life of a young man from a tribal village in Burma. Thwe comes of age amidst political and economic turmoil, from his experiences as...
The Asian Pacific American community, post-1965 immigration laws, post-1960s Civil Rights and APA movements, is facing great changes. A questioning, provoking look at communities in transition, communities in transformation, and communities of...
A look at the long-term implications of the U.S.’s role in East Asia, the Americanization of Asia, and – even more importantly – the “extraordinary” Asianization of America.
Readers: Adult
Published: 2002...
Three titles from the We Came to America series from a new publishing house devoted to young adult books – some fabulous stuff, too! For the most part, all three...
The Making of a Hero
Helie Lee's Rescue Mission
When Helie Lee wrote her first book, the bestselling Still Life With Rice: A Young American Woman Discovers the Life and...
Family Devotions
Da Chen’s late father was supportive of every endeavor his son attempted. Except for becoming a writer. “Writers were always the first to be blamed and punished for any...
Visually stunning look at the first hundred years of San Francisco's Chinatown, from 1850 to 1950.
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Society in true color by 
Also 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...
Groundbreaking, inspiring celebration of more than three decades of Asian American activism.
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