{"id":7409,"date":"1997-03-01T11:24:58","date_gmt":"1997-03-01T15:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookdragon.si.edu\/?p=7409"},"modified":"2015-08-17T10:35:16","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T14:35:16","slug":"yellow-fever-by-r-a-rick-shiomi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/yellow-fever-by-r-a-rick-shiomi\/","title":{"rendered":"Yellow Fever by R.A. (Rick) Shiomi [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/1997\/03\/Yellow-fever-screen.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-33540\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/1997\/03\/Yellow-fever-screen.jpg\" alt=\"Yellow fever - screen\" width=\"940\" height=\"1483\" srcset=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/1997\/03\/Yellow-fever-screen.jpg 1565w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/1997\/03\/Yellow-fever-screen-507x800.jpg 507w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/1997\/03\/Yellow-fever-screen-800x1262.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><\/a>In this parody of the hard-boiled detective genre, Sam Shikaze (of the Sam Spade school) is a Japanese American private detective hired to find the missing Cherry Blossom Queen. In the process, he meets all sorts of seedy, disreputable characters.<\/p>\n<p>A modern Asian American theater classic, <em>Yellow Fever<\/em> debuted at San Francisco\u2019s Asian American Theater Company in 1982 and subsequently was produced throughout the U.S. and Canada, including a successful, extended run Off-Broadway. Today, playwright Rick Shiomi is the artistic director at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatermu.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Theater Mu<\/a>, an Asian American theater based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/09\/what-do-i-read-next.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">&#8220;Asian American Titles,&#8221; <em>What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature<\/em>, Gale Research, 1997<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Young Adult, Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 1984<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7065\" title=\"Yellow Fever\" src=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/09\/yellow-fever.jpg\" alt=\"Yellow Fever\" width=\"129\" height=\"201\" \/>In this parody of the hard-boiled detective genre, Sam Shikaze (of the Sam Spade school) is a Japanese American private detective hired to find the missing Cherry Blossom Queen. In the process, he meets all sorts of seedy, disreputable characters.<\/p>\n<p>A modern Asian American theater classic, <em>Yellow Fever<\/em> debuted at San Francisco\u2019s Asian American Theater Company in 1982 and subsequently was produced throughout the U.S. and Canada, including a successful, extended run Off-Broadway. Today, playwright Rick Shiomi is the artistic director at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatermu.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Theater Mu<\/a>, an Asian American theater based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/09\/what-do-i-read-next.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Asian American Titles,&#8221; <em>What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature<\/em>, Gale Research, 1997<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Young Adult, Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 1984<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1045,426,6535,31],"tags":[6608,397,51,216,5206,4867,5207],"class_list":["post-7409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adult-readers","category-drama-theater","category-japanese-american","category-repost","category-young-adult-readers","tag-bookdragon","tag-humor","tag-identity","tag-mystery","tag-rick-shiomi","tag-what-do-i-read-next-multicultural-literature","tag-yellow-fever"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Yellow Fever by R.A. 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