Fundamentals. Reading Asian characters in English ; Characters: the Asian ideogram systems ; The "model minority" discourse -- The Family and the Self. Confucius and the Asian American family ; My grandfather's concubines ; Japanese American life in the Twentieth century ; The Nisei go to war ; Being Nisei ; First-generation memories ; Filipino American values ; Korean American one-point-five ; The lizard hunter -- Roots, Traditions, and Asian Pacific Life: The Old Country and Its Cultural Legacy. Food and ethnic identity ; Chinese food ; Japanese food ; Filipino food ; Korean food ; Vietnamese food ; Southeast Asian food ; Tea ; Fengshui, Chinese medicine, and correlative thinking ; Lunar new year, the Moon lady, and the Moon festival ; Obon season in Little Tokyo ; Filipinos and religion ; Maoism and surviving the great proletarian cultural revolution -- Asian Pacific Culture: Diaspora. The Chinese diaspora ; The arrival of the Asians in California ; The early history of Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, and Filipinos in America ; Chinatown, 1899 -- Literature. Dialect, standard, and slang ; Dialect literature in America ; Roots ; Roots ; The beginnings of Chinese literature in America ; D.T. Suzuki and the creation of Japanese American Zen ; Asian American literary pioneers ; Asian American literature ; First-generation writings ; Asian American autobiographical tradition ; Frank Chin ; Maxine Hong Kingston ; A reader's guide to Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club ; David Henry Hwang ; A reader's guide to Cebu and Dark Blue Suit based on interviews with its author, Peter Bacho ; Jessica Hagedorn ; Lawson Fusao Inada ; Garret Hongo ; The literature of Korean America ; The Korean American novel ; Discovering Korean American literature ; Clay Walls ; Cathy Song and the Korean American experience in poetry -- The arts. Chinese opera ; Bernardo Bertolucci and the westernization of The Last Emperor ; A viewer's guide to Wayne Wang's Dim Sum ; Asian American visual arts ; Story cloths ; Toi Hoang ; First-generation painting.
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