Baba: A Return to China Upon My Father’s Shoulders by Belle Yang + Author Profile [in aMagazine: Inside Asian America]
01 Apr, by in Adult Readers, Author Interview/Profile, Chinese American, Memoir, Nonfiction, Repost, Taiwanese American, Young Adult Readers
Belle Lettres
For Belle Yang, creating Baba: A Return to China Upon My Father’s Shoulders, a lyrical new book filled with impressive pictures and musical prose, was somewhat akin to a rescue...
Searching for Frank Chin
Last summer, I spent what seemed like an inordinate amount of time and effort searching for Frank Chin. Frank Chin, the controversial literary figure, the co-editor of the seminal Asian American texts, <a...
Michi Weglyn's first career, which she began at the age of 21, catapulted her to fame as the first nationally prominent Japanese American costume designer in the United States. By the 1950s,...
One day in 1971, Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston's nephew came to visit. He was taking a sociology course at the University of California at Berkeley and wanted to know more about the concentration...
Frank Chin describes himself first and foremost as "a writer." In the biographical profile he provided after declining to be interviewed, he wrote, "I have written short fiction, plays, nonfiction, reviews, essays, research pieces...