Intersections: Asian & Pacific American Transcultural Studies – serie
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Tomorrow's Memories
Diary of Angeles Monrayo, 1924-1928
Häftad, 2003
232 kr
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Angeles Monrayo (1912-2000) began her diary on January 10, 1924, a few months before she and her father and older brother moved from a sugar plantation in Waipahu to Pablo Manlapit's strike camp in Honolulu. Here for the first time is a young Filipino girl's view of life in Hawai'i and central …
This Isn't a Picture I'm Holding
Kuan Yin
Häftad, 2004
190 kr
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The bodhisattva Kuan Yin remains one of the most popular figures in Buddhism, loved and worshiped throughout Asia for over a millennium. She arrived in Hawai'i with the first Chinese plantation workers, each of whom would have kept a ricepaper print of her over a small altar in his room. In this …
Entrys
Av Peter Bacho
Häftad, 2005
299 kr
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November 20, 1968 Now I'll have more time. I'm finally out of the shit. The docs say I got hit a week ago, but I don't remember...I woke up in a hospital bed. A nice young doc said, ""You're lucky, Corporal Divina, you're going home. Nasty, yeah, some muscle damage, but no vital organs. A frag just …
From Okinawa to the Americas
Hana Yamagawa and Her Reminiscences of a Century
Av Hana Yamagawa, Akiko Yamagawa Hibbett
Inbunden, 2010
665 kr
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Between 1889 and 1940 more than 40,000 Okinawan contract laborers emigrated to plantations in Hawaii, Brazil, the Philippines, and Peru. In 1912 seventeen-year-old Hana Kaneshi accompanied her husband and brother to South America and dreamed of returning home in two years’ time a wealthy young …
Romancing Human Rights
Gender, Intimacy, and Power Between Burma and the West
Av Tamara C. Ho, Russell Leong m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
565 kr
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When the world thinks of Burma, it is often in relation to Nobel laureate and icon Aung San Suu Kyi. But beyond her is another world, one that complicates the overdetermination of Burma as a pariah state and myths about the “high status” of Southeast Asian women. Highlighting and critiquing this …
Blind Writer
Stories and a Novella
Av Sameer Pandya, Russell Leong
Inbunden, 2015
656 kr
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Together, the five stories and novella in this collection follow the lives of first- and second-generation Indian Americans living in contemporary California. The characters share a similar sensibility: a sense that immigration is a distant memory, yet an experience that continues to shape the …
Transpacific Studies
Framing an Emerging Field
Av Janet Hoskins, Viet Thanh Nguyen m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
641 kr
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The Pacific has long been a space of conquest, exploration, fantasy, and resistance. Pacific Islanders had established civilisations and cultures of travel well before European explorers arrived, initiating centuries of upheaval and transformation. The twentieth century, with its various wars …
Out of the Dust
New and Selected Poems
Av Janice Mirikitani, David K. Yoo
Inbunden, 2014
785 kr
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Out of the Dust is a collection of new poems by activist, leader, poet, and editor Janice Mirikitani. After being named San Francisco’s second Poet Laureate in 2000, this fifth book of poems from Mirikitani was written in response to the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.Drawing from her own …
Confessions of a Number One Son
The Great Chinese American Novel
Av Frank Chin, Calvin McMillin
Inbunden, 2015
771 kr
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In the early 1970s, Frank Chin, the outspoken Chinese American author of such plays as The Chickencoop Chinaman and The Year of the Dragon, wrote a fulllength novel that was never published and presumably lost. Nearly four decades later, Calvin McMillin, a literary scholar specializing in Asian …
Freedom Without Justice
The Prison Memoirs of Chol Soo Lee
Av Chol Soo Lee, Richard S. Kim
Inbunden, 2017
822 kr
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Freedom without Justice is a compelling story of one man’s wrongful incarceration and the actions he took to survive ten years in prison, while his supporters fought to win retrial and freedom. As a memoir, it is at once a captivating chronicle of his life with a trenchant description of how …
Ship of Fate
Memoir of a Vietnamese Repatriate
Av Tran Dinh Tru, Russell Leong m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
318 kr
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Ship of Fate tells the emotionally gripping story of a Vietnamese military officer who evacuated from Saigon in 1975 but made the dramatic decision to return to Vietnam for his wife and children, rather than resettle in the United States without them. Written in Vietnamese in the years just after …
Envisioning Religion, Race, and Asian Americans
Av David K. Yoo, Khyati Y. Joshi
Häftad, 2021
328 kr
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In Envisioning Religion, Race, and Asian Americans, David K. Yoo and Khyati Y. Joshi assemble a wide-ranging and important collection of essays documenting the intersections of race and religion and Asian American communities - a combination so often missing both in the scholarly literature and in …
California Dreaming
Movement and Place in the Asian American Imaginary
Av Christine Bacareza Balance, Lucy Mae San Pablo Burns
Häftad, 2021
393 kr
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California Dreaming is a multi-genre collection featuring works by Asian American artists based in California. Exploring the places of "Asian America" through the migration and circulation of the arts, this volume highlights creative processes and the flow of objects to understand the rendering of …
Reorienting the Pure Land
Nisei Buddhism in the Transwar Years, 1943–1965
Inbunden, 2023
788 kr
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Post–World War II historical developments, including Japanese American resettlement, the U.S. occupation of Japan, the Cold War, and decolonization in an emerging "Third World," created both a climate of uncertainty and possibility for the future of Japanese American Buddhism in the United States. …
Reorienting the Pure Land
Nisei Buddhism in the Transwar Years, 1943-1965
Häftad, 2023
300 kr
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Post–World War II historical developments, including Japanese American resettlement, the U.S. occupation of Japan, the Cold War, and decolonization in an emerging "Third World," created both a climate of uncertainty and possibility for the future of Japanese American Buddhism in the United States. …
Speak American
The Politics of Race, Language, and Education in Territorial Hawai‘i
Inbunden, 2026
869 kr
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Speak American explores how language tied together race, power, and citizenship in Territorial Hawai‘i from 1924 to 1960 via the public K–12 English Standard School System. In this segregated system, children were tested for spoken English fluency: those who passed were placed in elite classes or …
Filipino Federation of America
A History of a Socio-Religious Movement, 1925–1975
Av Steffi San Buenaventura, David K. Yoo m. fl.
Inbunden, 2026
844 kr
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Speak American
The Politics of Race, Language, and Education in Territorial Hawai‘i
Häftad, 2026
314 kr
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Speak American explores how language tied together race, power, and citizenship in Territorial Hawai‘i from 1924 to 1960 via the public K–12 English Standard School System. In this segregated system, children were tested for spoken English fluency: those who passed were placed in elite classes or …
Ricepaper Airplane
A Novel
Av Gary Pak
Häftad, 1998
184 kr
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From a hospital bed a dying man unfolds the tale of his life on the fringes of a Hawaiian sugar plantation in the 1920s. The labourer envisioned building an airplane from scrap parts to carry him back to his Korean homeland and to his wife and children.
Words Matter
Conversations with Asian American Writers
Inbunden, 2000
361 kr
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Introducing 20 writers of Asian descent, this text invites the writers to comment on their work and to speak openly about aesthetics, politics, and the difficulties they have encountered in pursuing a writing career. They address, among other issues, the expectations attached to the label ""Asian …
Ancestry of Experience
A Journey Into Hawaiian Ways of Knowing
Av Leilani Holmes, Russell Leong m. fl.
Inbunden, 2012
812 kr
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As Hawaiians continue to recover their language and culture, the voices of kupuna (elders) are heard once again in urban and rural settings, both in Hawai i and elsewhere. How do kupuna create knowledge and tell history? What do they tell us about being Hawaiian? Adopted by a Midwestern couple in …
What Is Asian American Biblical Hermeneutics?
Reading the New Testament
Häftad, 2007
314 kr
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This is the first single-authored book on Asian American biblical interpretation. It covers all of the major genres within the New Testament and broadens biblical hermeneutics to cover not only the biblical texts, but also Asian American literature and current films and events like genome research …
New Sun
Av Taro Yashima
Häftad, 2008
259 kr
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In 1939 the painter Iwamatsu Jun (1908-1994) and his artist wife, Tomoe, arrived in the U.S. as political refugees. During World War II, Iwamatsu used his artistic talents for the U.S. war effort, and he adopted a pseudonym, Taro Yashima, to protect his young son, whom he left behind in Japan. …
Japanese Robinson Crusoe
Av Jenichiro Oyabe, Greg Robinson m. fl.
Häftad, 2009
249 kr
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First published in 1898 and long out of print, Jenichiro Oyabe's ""A Japanese Robinson Crusoe"" is a pioneering work of Asian American literature. It recounts Oyabe's (1867-1941) early life in Japan, his journey west, and his education at two historically Black colleges, detailing in the process …
Rosebud and Other Stories
Av Wakako Yamauchi, Lillian Howan
Häftad, 2010
233 kr
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In your heart there will always be a small ache reminding you that a place waits for your return. The dancers pause. The singers call. The fireflies await.Secret desires, unfulfilled longing, and irrepressible humor flow through the stories of Wakako Yamauchi, writings that depict the lives of …
From Okinawa to the Americas
Hana Yamagawa and Her Reminiscences of a Century
Av Hana Yamagawa, Akiko Yamagawa Hibbett
Häftad, 2010
289 kr
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Between 1889 and 1940 more than 40,000 Okinawan contract laborers emigrated to plantations in Hawaii, Brazil, the Philippines, and Peru. In 1912 seventeen-year-old Hana Kaneshi accompanied her husband and brother to South America and dreamed of returning home in two years’ time a wealthy young …
Scrutinized!
Surveillance in Asian North American Literature
Av Monica Chiu, Russell Leong m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
586 kr
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Chang-rae Lee’s Native Speaker, Kerri Sakamoto’s The Electrical Field, Don Lee’s Country of Origin, Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Susan Choi’s A Person of Interest. These and a host of other Asian North American detection and mystery titles were published between 1995 and 2010. …
Confessions of a Number One Son
The Great Chinese American Novel
Av Frank Chin, Calvin McMillin
Häftad, 2015
297 kr
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In the early 1970s, Frank Chin, the outspoken Chinese American author of such plays as The Chickencoop Chinaman and The Year of the Dragon, wrote a fulllength novel that was never published and presumably lost. Nearly four decades later, Calvin McMillin, a literary scholar specializing in Asian …
Encountering Modernity
Christianity in East Asia and Asian America
Av Albert L. Park, David K. Yoo
Inbunden, 2014
481 kr
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The story of Catholicism and Protestantism in China, Japan, and Korea has been told in great detail. The existing literature is especially rich in documenting church and missionary activities as well as how varied regions and cultures have translated Christian ideas and practices. Less evident, …
