Encyclopedia of Asian-American Literature

lishers Book Award. By investigating the power of the English language and questioning the pos- sibility of translation between ...

Kim, Richard E. (1932– ) Born in Hamhung City, Korea, Richard Kim served in the Republic of Korea Army from 1950 to 1954, where ...

history. She became a docent at the Avery Brund- age Museum (now part of the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco). Moreover she ea ...

ally nomadic childhood. This experience of being multicultural and bilingual profoundly influences her writing. In 1992 Kim rece ...

that he has no shoes. His peers collect money for him to buy shoes, but Chun Bok buys sunglasses instead to cover his eyes, disa ...

of the top 10 nonfiction works of the decade. The attention the book received allowed Kingston the freedom to write full time. H ...

matters of the heart, the need to balance different cultural values, and the role of food in transmit- ting culture. Her fiction ...

Tan, Amy. The Opposite of Fate: A Book of Musings. New York: Putnam, 2003. Vanessa Rasmussen Kogawa, Joy (Nozomi) (1935– ) Born ...

Kuo, Alex (1939– ) Alex Kuo was born in Boston, where his father taught psychology at Harvard University, but grew up in wartime ...

157  Lahiri, Jhumpa (1967– ) Born in London to Bengali parents, Lahiri was raised in South Kingstown, Rhode Island, and discov ...

in Cambridge, Massachusetts, but the offer of a fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center in Prov- incetown, Massachusetts, in 199 ...

for the Pacific News Service, a newspaper wire ser- vice that specializes in news concerning the Pacific Rim. Since then his art ...

self-explorations represent a woman constructing and revealing herself at the limits of experience. Bibliography Chao, Lien. “Fr ...

faculty at Hunter College and then at Princeton. Lee now lives in Princeton, New Jersey, with his wife and two daughters. Each o ...

Wangs, and their struggle with two common prob- lems in San Francisco’s Chinatown: the generation gap and the imbalance between ...

the stereotypes that define them. The question that runs through the stories is the one Danny Kim, in the title story, struggles ...

military service, Lee returned to California to work as an attorney and legal educator. Lee and his fam- ily moved to Colorado w ...

Lee, Helie (1964– ) Helie Lee was born in Seoul, South Korea. When she was four years old, her family immigrated to Montreal, Ca ...

in Hong Kong, where Lee’s father became a suc- cessful evangelist. The family finally settled in the United States in 1964. Once ...

to read other books about alienation, such as The Outsiders and The Catcher in the Rye. Lee’s novels for younger audiences inclu ...