MAO: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday [in AsianWeek]
03 Nov, by in Adult Readers, Biography, British Asian, Chinese, Nonfiction, Repost
From the bestselling author of Wild Swans (together with a well-known academic), comes an unflinching look at one of the most powerful, influential figures of the 20th-century, not to mention one of the most...
Oh my gawd: “the secret to life in america” will rip through your soul. A first collection from Korean American poetry slam artist, writer, and playwright infuses new energy into the APA...
Award-winning Haitian American writer 
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Leong examines the lives of this trio – author of The Good Earth, the APA actress of all time, and the Wellesley-educated wife of Chiang Kai-shek – as the most prominent women associated with...
Good Morning America viewers, with a panel of bestselling authors, chose Ahmedi’s story in a nationwide search for the most extraordinary true-life experience. Afghani-born Ahmedi’s 19 years are marked by...
The first available translation of important fiction highlighting the Japanese colonization of Korea: Kannani exposes the brutality endured by Koreans at the hands of their Japanese oppressors – even among the children – while Document follows...
A stirring collection of portraits of activists, writers, artists and (even!) politicians accompanied by stirring quotes. Mini-bios are available in the back. But where are the APAs among...
WOW. Here’s a white man’s exploration of race in America and his humble, blunt, sometimes even unknowingly racist attempts to be anti-racist even as he is part of the privileged majority.
Review: <a...
The long-awaited follow-up to the provocative 
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Review: 
A long-overdue first biography of the life of extraordinary activist Yuri Kochiyama. Major plus: It’s extensively researched by a fellow activist.
Review: 
A masterful collection of loosely intertwined short stories from the author of the critically-acclaimed Ginseng and Other Tales from Manila which captures the immigrant life lived in between – not...
From the celebrated author of 
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Paperback reissue of the inspirational story of legendary Hank Aaron, who first had to break through color barriers in the world of professional major league baseball before he could break the Babe’s record for...
A beautifully rendered, haunting autobiographical story about a young boy coming of age during China’s Cultural Revolution, a time marked with incomprehensible, dangerous, chaotic change. Absolutely breathtaking.
Review: <a href="http://bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com/files/2009/07/asianweek-2005-02-25-new-and-notable.pdf"...
Novelist and essayist (and frequent New York Review of Books contributor) Mishra adds to what seems to be a growing hybrid genre of memoir infused with history, philosophy, and politics. What begins...
In the wake of the devastation caused by the Cultural Revolution and the government corruptions of the Open Door Policy, the Chinese people can do little more than just survive – and some are...