Asian-American Studies - Interest | Asian-American Studies - Interest
Dec.03.2012
These 28 poems are Barbara Jane Reyes at her urban political and poetic best. Of the collection, M. Evelina Galang, author of HER WILD AMERICAN SELF and ONE TRIBE, writes: "Scribe of global soundscape, Reyes builds upon the heartbeat of literary and blood ancestors, feeding her 'mythic...
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Jan.23.2011
In her singular voice—humble, elegiac, practical—Maxine Hong Kingston sets out to reflect on aging as she turns sixty-five.
Kingston's swift, effortlessly flowing verse lines feel instantly natural in this fresh approach to the art of memoir, as she circles from present to past and back, from...
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May.05.2010
Late afternoon sun sneaks through the windows of a passport and visa office in an unnamed American city. Most customers and even most office workers have come and gone, but nine people remain. A punky teenager with an unexpected gift. An upper-class Caucasian couple whose relationship is...
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Mar.21.2010
Introducing a fresh, exciting Chinese-American voice,Girl in Translation is an inspiring debut about a young immigrant in America, a smart girl who, living a double life between school and sweatshop, understands that her family’s future is in her hands.
When Kimberly Chang and her mother emigrate...
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Feb.07.2010
From the late 1930's to the early 1960's, Chinese nightclubs fourished in San Francisco's Chinatown. They were the first, and in those days the only venues for talented Asians who sang or danced professionally. Asian entertainers came from everywhere to perform in Chinatown, and they all found a...
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Feb.04.2010
Sweet and Sour examines the history of Chinese family restaurants in the U. S. and Canada. Why did many Chinese immigrants enter this business around the end of the 19th century? What conditions made it possible for Chinese to open and succeed in operating restaurants after they emigrated to North...
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Dec.22.2009
Self-Realization memoir, told in simple narrative poetry.
Truth is stranger than fiction.
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Dec.22.2009
Jesus The True Master Yogi: An Eastern Perspective (Deciphering The Yogic/Mystic Teachings Of Jesus)
This concise edition postulates that Jesus was from the East. Hence, his 'hard' Eastern parables and mystic teachings have been totally misunderstood and misinterpretted by the West. For two thousand years. And more.
The gist and genius of the Master can only be grasped by the SINGLE EYE of the...
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Aug.31.2009
An unprecedented historical novel, Purple Mountain presents a riveting, profoundly intimate portrait of Nanjing and its people during the first six days after its fall to the Japanese army in 1937. Three editions of the novel, one English and two Chinese, were published in 2005. A screenplay Qi...
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Aug.01.2009
In the period leading up to World War II, a young Chinese-American woman in Shanghai falls in love with a German Jewish refugee in the Shanghai Ghetto. In San Francisco, she sees another young man who looks just like him and lures him back to Shanghai to switch his identity documents and save the...
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