Encyclopedia of Asian-American Literature

but to Ma and Liu, who blame Bin for the contro- versy and subject him to a series of public humili- ations. Bin’s fortunes fina ...

Restless Wave, published in 1940 under the pen name Haru Matsui, is one of the first English- language books written by an Asian ...

Alberta, and the postwar years and early adulthood in Coaldale, where Naomi attended an evangelical church, which contribute to ...

131  J Jaisohn, Philip (1864–1951) Also known as Jae-pil Suh, Jaisohn was born in North Jul-la Province of Korea. The youngest ...

Bibliography Oh, Seiwoong. “Hansu’s Journey by Philip Jaisohn: The First Fiction in English from Korean Amer- ica.” Amerasia Jou ...

of racial fluidity was to become the hallmark of Eaton’s later work, explored perhaps most fully and provocatively in Heart of H ...

racism, they are still able to provide food, shelter, and love for their children and to give them every opportunity to pursue t ...

that resists closure and suggests a strategy of con- tinual transformation as a necessary and histori- cally contingent ethic of ...

a Chinese American. Her short stories and nov- els explore acculturation, assimilation, and “out- siderness,” even as she tries ...

vala, an Indian architect. The couple moved to India and lived there for more than 20 years with their three daughters before mo ...

with the personal life of Thomas Jefferson in the years before he became president, especially when he went to Paris as a U.S. a ...

third collection of poetry, Wreckage, which focuses mainly on China’s ancient history and its impact on contemporary China. Ocea ...

University, receiving both bachelor’s (1972) and master’s (1976) degrees with first honours in English language and literature. ...

Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale Group, 2006. St. John’s University School of Law. “Lawrence Jo- seph.” Available online. U ...

While the novel as a whole deals with Jing-Mei “June” Woo’s emotional discovery of her mother’s life through the stories of the ...

14 3  K Kadohata, Cynthia (1956– ) Born in Chicago and raised in Arkansas, Georgia, Michigan, and California, Cynthia Kadohata ...

parents. She also wrote Kira-Kira, a children’s book about a young Japanese-American girl who has to cope with her sister’s deat ...

Department of Far Eastern Art in New York. He also obtained a position as a lecturer in the Eng- lish department at New York Uni ...

Following the completion of her bachelor’s degree, Keller attended the University of Califor- nia, Santa Cruz, where she earned ...

episodes.” Despite what seems like a lifetime of parrying “Hoarders of All Things Asian”—weird white men who unabashedly and unc ...