Encyclopedia of Asian-American Literature

apartment buildings. The couple became citizens in 1960, when she took the name Mary Paik Lee. Quiet Odyssey continues into the ...

potential wife. In the end, the speaker experiences disillusionment: “I wrote off filial piety / as useless, / a fallen branch.” ...

Studies: Writing, Research, and Commentary. Pull- man: Washington State University Press, 1989. Catherine Fung Li, Ling Ai (1908 ...

Selected Poems (1994), and What the Fortune Teller Didn’t Say (1998). Her poems are often centered on the themes of migration, t ...

success in finally overcoming anorexia, with which she was afflicted for eight years beginning at the age of 13, to the process ...

heterogeneous audience. One of her stories, “My Father’s Chinese Wives,” was awarded a Pushcart Prize (1995), while other public ...

grew up in Singapore. She holds undergraduate and medical degrees from Boston University and graduated from the Warren Wilson Co ...

Lord, Bette Bao (1938– ) At the age of eight, Bette Bao traveled with her family to the United States when her father was sent o ...

Japanese-occupied Korea, Lost Names blurs the boundaries between fiction and nonfiction. The narrator of the stories—unnamed, bu ...

lished himself as one of the leading voices among Chinese-American authors of the “baby-boom” generation. Born in Rockville Cent ...

Burns, Carole. “Off the Page: Gish Jen,” Online Discussion. washingtonpost.com (30 Septem- ber 2004). Available online. URL: htt ...

Bibliography Lum, Darrell H. Y., Joseph Stanton, and Estelle Enoki, eds. The Quietest Singing. Honolulu: Bamboo Ridge Press, 200 ...

18 0  Mah, Adeline Yen (1937– ) Born Jun-ling Yen, the fifth child in an affluent family in Tianjin, China, Mah lived in Shang ...

nisei weekly, the Japanese American Courier, and contributed essays and poetry to other Japanese- American newspapers. Upon ente ...

an untarnished image of the martyrs so that such symbolism might help eclipse some of the daily suffering they experience due to ...

own antiques business in Tokyo and runs it from Hugh Glendinning’s apartment. While searching for a specific tansu chest—a piece ...

Mueller, 36–52. Madison, N.J.: Fairleigh Dicken- son University Press, 2003. Joel Kuortti Matsueda, Pat (1952– ) Poet and editor ...

has been translated into 15 languages, and its se- quel Autumn Bridge (2004). Matsuoka’s first book, Clouds of Sparrows, echoes ...

Madama Butterfly. The woman, Song Liling— played by B. D. Wong on Broadway—tempts Gallimard into an affair. She acts coyly and s ...

student; Gallimard is berated aggressively by ex- pense-cheating French agents; and there is a scene set in the sumptuous interi ...