Anna May Wong: From Laundryman’s Daughter to Hollywood Legend by Graham Russell Gao Hodges [in AsianWeek]
06 Feb, by in Adult Readers, Biography, Chinese American, Nonfiction, Repost
Published on what would have been the legendary star’s 99th birthday (Jan. 4), Hodges’ biography captures Wong’s humble beginnings as the second daughter of eight children born to immigrant parents, to her...
A Legacy of Change
‘Write what you know best’ is the advice that writers probably hear most often. And for 
A multifaceted look at the lasting effects of what has become an iconic event – the December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor – which has been brought back to...
An anthology of ‘autobiographies as activisms’ by gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and self-identified ‘queer’ Asian Pacific Americans, Restoried Selves also provides young gay APAs a tool for empowerment and finding community.
Review: 
The paperback edition of an important title that explores the frontline news happening in a complicated, troubled, often misunderstood part of the world where war, terrorism and endless ethnic conflict have ravaged...
A unique collection of essays that explores the experience of being Japanese in Brazil (during the first half of the 20th century, tens of thousands of Japanese immigrated to Brazil)...
Part memoir, part activist handbook, part medical advice column, Hayashi who is the founder of the National Asian Women’s Health Organization, "breaks the silence” of her own history, debunks the myth of...
How timely, indeed: Two erudite Korean American professors offer multiple viewpoints on North Korea and the potential for nuclear proliferation not-so-contained within.
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Looking Back at a Family's Internment: Julie Otsuka's novel debuts in paperback
OK, I'm going to go out on a limb and say that Julie Otsuka's 
Her Bum Is on Fire: Jessica Hagedorn debuts with her latest novel
After years of chatting on the phone and sending various e-mails back and forth, I finally got the chance to meet writer extraordinaire...
Gathering History for the Future: A Profile of Curator & Historian Franklin Odo
Building Character: Susan Choi re-emerges with her second novel, American Woman
In many ways, Susan Choi’s life has been a series of unpremeditated choices. “I didn’t set out to bring my life into line with...
An intriguing collection of interviews with one of the most brilliant minds today. Originally broadcast on KGNU in Boulder, Colo., the interviews cover such topics as the so-called peace process, the 2000...
A rather quirky, earnest memoir of sorts – although Muench won't mind if you call it a novel because he admits that "there is some fiction...
Koul captures the lives of four generations of women in her native Kashmir, a tiny country caught between India and Pakistan since the Partition of 1947, the year of her birth. She weaves a...
Make sure you get this one into your library – it's the very first collection of historical writings by and about APA women. It's about rethinking our collective past as...
"It is not the accuracy of the story that concerns us," the author writes in the title's opening poem. "But who gets to tell it." Dhompa captures her fractured self...
Drawing upon the experiences of over 60 multiracial families – including her own, made up of a Japanese American husband and two hapa children – Nakazawa...
A fabulous collection of prose and poetry from a new generation of Korean American authors. Grouped into three sets of pairings – arrival/return, dwelling/crossing, descent/flight, all with multiple layers of meaning –...