FAQ's for Soc.culture.asian.american
Bryan Wu
These FAQs and other informative articles (such as new additions and
AA statistics) can be found at the SCAA FAQ web page. Point your browser at
http://www.panix.com/~bwu/ to check it out! 9/1/95 -Bryan
Last changed: Nov 22, 1994
This FAQ has no official status whatsoever; it's just something I put
together in my spare time. I post it weekly; it's aimed primarily at
newcomers, but it also includes some reference information. Comments
and criticism are welcome, either in e-mail or on the net.
- Bryan Wu
New York City
FAQ Maintainer
The original maintainer of the scaa FAQ was:
Russil Wvong
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Maintainer till 5/17/93
Some notes on this revision of the FAQ - I've incorporated many of the
suggestions and additions that were posted and e-mailed to me. The
resource directory has some substantial additions.
Thanks to this revision's contributors:
Charles Alden <al...@rfd.niehs.nih.gov>, Efren A Bose
<ef...@watmail.ucr.edu>, Wayne L. Castillo <cast...@halcyon.com>, Gardner
Cohen <bel...@netcom.com>, Michael Hornbuckle <horn...@sfsuvax1.sfsu.edu>,
michael jung <mj...@reed.edu>, Jeff J. Lin <jj...@u.washington.edu>, Robert
Liu <rl...@telebit.com>, Susan Nakasora <sus...@uclink2.berkeley.edu>,
Audrey Tsui <audre...@midnite.com>
I may have misplaced an e-mail here and there, so
please e-mail or post to the net if I missed something. Thanks!
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soc.culture.asian.american - Frequently Asked Questions
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Table of Contents:
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Introductory Information
1. How do I access soc.culture.asian.american?
2. Where did soc.culture.asian.american come from?
3. How can I use this FAQ efficiently?
General
4. What's an Asian American?
5. What's the difference between Asian Americans and other Americans?
6. How many Asian Americans are there?
Terminology
7. Doesn't "Asian" really refer to East Asians only?
8. What's the difference between "Asian" and "Asian American"?
9. What's the difference between "Oriental" and "Asian"?
10. Is it "Asian American" or "Asian-American"?
11. Asian American Slang? Is there really such a thing?
12. What does calling someone a "banana" mean?
13. What are some derogatory names to call white people that don't
make me sound like a throwback from the 70's?
14. What does "Chinese-cu" mean?
Dating
15. Why are Asian female/white male (AF/WM) couples more common than
Asian male/white female (AM/WF) couples?
Netnews
17. Why isn't Asian culture ever discussed in this newsgroup?
18. So why isn't Asian American culture discussed in this newsgroup?
19. I'd like to meet some Asian girls. Is this the right place to post
a personal ad?
20. Is this the right place to discuss martial arts?
21. I can't figure out how to post to this newsgroup. Help!
22. What's a good way to deal with people who post inflammatory or
offensive articles?
23. What's a KILL file?
24. Isn't this censorship?
References, Publications and Media
25. Are there any Asian American magazines or periodicals?
26. What other kinds of AA media are there?
27. How about some Asian American calendars for my wall?
28. How about some books?
29. Are there any Asian American organizations?
30. Are there any Asian American college organizations?
31. How about some performers?
32. I'm worried about violence against Asian-Americans. Reporting
Harrassment and Hate Crimes.
33. Where can I get some information on self-defense?
34. I'm not a big fan of the way Asians are portrayed on TV.
New Sections
35. Are there any AA specific health issues?
36. Health Alert to people of Southern Chinese descent
37. Asian Americans vs. Milk!
38. If the earth's population is 60% Asian, then why aren't there any
Asians on Star Trek?
39. Random quotes
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Introductory Info
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1. How do I access soc.culture.asian.american?
soc.culture.asian.american (s.c.a.a. for short), is a "usenet newsgroup".
Usenet is a world-wide collection of hundreds/thousands of individual
newsgroups - of which, s.c.a.a. is one. You should be able to access
s.c.a.a. using a 'newsreader' on your computer if your site carries usenet
newsgroups. Some sites carry only a subset of usenet's newsgroups, so if
you do not recieve s.c.a.a., please contact your system administrator or
local computer guru (expert) for advice.
2. Where did s.c.a.a. come from?
s.c.a.a. was created in the early part of 1988 (way before the 'information
superhighway', I might add :-) to facilitate the dissemination of ideas and
information, and to encourage a nationwide dialogue of Asian Americans
everywhere. It originally began as a way to enable Asian American college
organizations to communicate, yet s.c.a.a. has evolved into a broader
dialogue with a broader audience - and it is much richer for this as we can
learn from each other and recognise the diversity that encompases 'Asian
America'. With the present-day "super info highway" being touted
everywhere, we're likely to see more and more volume here. Additionally,
the signal:noise ratio has actually gone way up since it's inception due to
the fact that many regulars know their stuff and are able to back
themselves up with solid research and evidence. This has stopped much of
the 'flaming with opinion only, without solid facts' action which seems to
happen in other newsgroups.
3. How can I use this FAQ efficiently?
The one piece of advice I can give is to use the search command. On many
unix systems, the command to start a search is "/" (a slash). Once you
type the slash, the newsreader you are using will prompt you for a "search
pattern". Type the number, or word you would like to search for (i.e. to
find a particular question in this FAQ, search for it's number in the table
of contents (i.e. "1.") and press return. The newsreader will jump you to
the correct spot. If you would like to search for the same word, type "/"
again, and press return without entering a word. That should automatically
search for the same word.
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General
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4. What's an Asian American?
An American of Asian/Pacific Islander ancestry (Chinese, Filipino,
Japanese, Indian, Korean, Vietnamese, Pakistani, etc.).
Immigrants are "first-generation" ; their children are
"second-generation"; their grandchildren are "third-generation"; etc.
The different Asian communities often adapt and add to this
terminology to better describe themselves to each other and sometimes
those terms are picked up and used by Asian America.
For example: issei, nissei and sansei : 1st, 2nd and 3rd generation
people (from the Japanese American community) 1.5 generation : someone
who immigrated when they were a teenager (Korean American).
Some people count 1st generation as the first generation being born in
the USA, however, this is not the standard usage of the terms. To avoid
confusion, please use the generally accepted definition, given above.
There is often a big cultural gap between the first generation (who
grew up overseas) and later generations (who grew up here) and is the
topic of tons of Asian American literature. Often, language is lost
somewhere between the first and third generation - making it hard for
the different generations to communicate with each other. This
further excaborates the gap.
5. What's the difference between Asian Americans and other Americans?
Plenty. In general, Asian Americans, particularly children, face
anti-Asian racism of varying degrees throughout their lives. Asian
Americans also tend to come upon a sense of ethnic identity sometime
in their lives. This realization is the famed Asian American
"Identity Crisis".
In many cities and an increasing number of suburbs, there are Asian
American communities which serve as a cultural "home-base" (i.e. yummy
foods, festivals, a sense of community, heritage, etc.) to many Asian
Americans - even to those who live away from these communities.
Children of immigrants are sometimes bilingual, using English at
school and their "ancestral" language at home, but this is not always
the case: many second-generation Asian Americans can understand their
ancestral language, but not speak it well. If there is a big enough
community in the area, sometimes kids are sent to "Saturday school" to
learn the language from a community sponsored school. Many Asian
Americans wish they could speak their ancestral toungues and some take
it up in high school or college.
Because they are Asian, Asian Americans are often mistaken for
foreigners. This tends to irritate second-generation Asian Americans
intensely.
Asian immigrants generally place high value on education, hard work,
family, and social status, and to some extent they pass these values
on to their children.
2nd generation Asian Americans often have relatives in Asia, and some
have visited them. However, probably just as common are
country-sponsored 'cultural summer-school programs' which take Asian
Americans, bring them to their 'mother' country, and give them
cultural and language classes. For example, there is a program -
nicknamed "The Love Boat" probably because the participants presumably
learn more biology than Chinese :-) - that is based in Taiwan that a
suprising number of Chinese Americans go to. These programs are fun
and culturaly affirming which can be nice if you've grown up in, say,
Oaklahoma and don't see other Chinese around very often. They also
apparently make for good friendships.
There are also numerous other programs of varying study:play ratios.
These programs can be very interesting and broadening experiences.
For example, there is a Chinese (PRC) language program that takes
Chinese-Americans, Chinese-British, Chinese-French, Chinese-Cubans,
etc. and brings them all together to learn Chinese.
6. How many Asian Americans are there?
About 7 million, or 3% of the population. Broken down by ethnic
origin, about 1.5m are Chinese, 1.4m Filipino, 0.85m Japanese, 0.8m
Indian, 0.8m Korean, and 0.6m Vietnamese. (From the 1990 census,
courtesy of John Ho.) However, by latest count, Filipinos are the
largest ethnic group in Asian America.
[Please, someone give me up to date stats! -BWu]
About 40% of Asian Americans are born here. There are many 5th and
6th generation Asian Americans. About 60% of Asian Americans are
foreign-born. However, this 60% also includes children who immigrate
with their parents so it really doesn't say much and is a 'factoid'
that probably does more harm than good. If someone has more
complete information (breakdown of the 60% by age of immigration),
please contact me.
Hawaii has a huge number of Asian Americans and they make up a
majority (?) of the Hawaiian population. That's probably why Hawaiian
AAs are really cool folks. If someone has info about AA population by
state/city, please contact me.
7. Does "Asian" really refer to East Asians only?
Definitely Not.
8. What's the difference between "Asian" and "Asian American"?
"Asian" refers to anyone of Asian ancestry. "Asian American" refers
to people of Asian ancestry who live in America. This includes Asian
non-citizens, Asian nationals and illegal immigrants as well. It is
important not to marginalize those people since they are often the
most easily exploited.
The term "Asian American" grew out of the civil rights movement in the
60's and 70's and has parallels with the African American community's
movement from "negro" to "black" and from "black" to "African American".
It is an issue of having the power to name your own community rather than
being named by someone else.
9. What's the difference between "Oriental" and "Asian"?
"Oriental" is a term which has negative connotations for many Asian
Americans because it reflects European and American colonialistic
attitudes of the past and present. It is also a term that has always
been used to exotify people and products. i.e. Exotic oriental
teas/women/attitudes/customs/foods/etc. A general rule of thumb is
"Oriental is for rugs, not people." Besides, no one uses the term
"Occidental" to describe white folks. Additionally, "oriental" is a
term which describes location in respect to Europe (and to England
specifically). "Asian" is in respect to nothing.
In contrast to America, British use "Asian" to refer to South Asians,
and "Oriental" to refer to East Asians. The "Far East" in British
terminology means East Asia, while the "Near East" means areas such as
Turkey and Greece. The terms "near" and "far" were coined in relation
to England's then-colonial posessions - hence the problem that many Asian
Americans have with the terms.
Some Asian Americans still use "oriental" - particularly in areas where
there are no large Asian American populations or a sense of pan-ethnic
community.
George Wu <geo...@metasw.com> writes:
>The term "oriental" offends some AAs, just as the term "nigger"
>sometimes (but not always) offends some African-Americans. If you want
>to go on using the term, so be it. Of course, you run the risk of
>offending others, but that's your problem.
>
>If is often claimed that the argument for the use of the term
>"oriental" comes from the (overly?) politically correct movement. Let
>me set that matter to rest here and now and state this is not the case.
>The PC movement, if there is one, may also advocate dropping the term,
>but rest assured that said movement does so because AAs tell them that
>"oriental" is offensive. It's not the PC movement telling you to drop
>the term, but AAs themselves. Who better to decide?
>
>At one time, to be called "oriental" was fine, just as "nigger" was
>once widely accepted. However, if a term is frequently used in an
>insulting context, that term will take on negative connotations. This
>has happened with the term "oriental."
>
>Some people, even AAs, do not realize "oriental" has picked up these
>negative connotations. Perhaps it's because such AAs come from a region
>where "oriental" is not so frequently used in an insulting manner.
>Perhaps it's because such AAs have missed the connotations, as is sure to
>happen from time to time if American English isn't their native language.
>Who cares why. By the sheer volume of debate over the term right here in
>scaa, it's clear that a significant portion of AAs prefer "Asian-American"
>to "oriental." What better reason to switch.
You can replace "nigger" with "negro" above, if you like. However, the
point of people using "nigger" is especially valid today. African
Americans use the term "nigger" and "nigga" amongst themselves, which is
their perogative, but the same people may take offense if a non-AfAm uses
the term.
On the same note, non-Asians are likely to be completely oblivious as to
objections to its usage. My way of handling this situation is that if the
person does not know my (or others') objections to the usage, then that
person cannot be held responsible until that person knows better. Certainly,
the vast majority of people do not mean to offend, however, there are
always exceptions. The first time is excusible, the second is not.
Two strikes and you're out.
10. Is it "Asian American" or "Asian-American"?
People prefer Asian American instead of Asian-American.
Asian-American is used to describe foreign affairs kind of things.
i.e. "Asian-American trade talks" The lack of the hyphen stresses
that Asian Americans are not foreigners.
11. Asian American Slang? Is there really such a thing?
Are you kidding? Of course!
[please send in your contributions/corrections/more eloquent definitions!
- please include entymologies if possible. - BWu]
Haole - Hawai'ian for "outsider", used by everyone in Hawai'i -
pronounced 'how-lee - i.e. white.
Hapa - Japanese American, used in Hawaii a lot - meaning 'half'.. as in
"hapa haole" - but used for all combinations of ethnicities.
Not derogatory.
Jalepen~o = haole+pinoy, or a mix between a Filipino and a Caucasian.
can be derrogatory.
Pinoy/Pinay: Slang for Filipino/Filipina. Not offensive.
Flip: Slang for a Filipino. Can be offensive, not offensive usually among
youngsters. According to one poster, originated from 'fucking little
island punk'. Use with caution.
12. What does calling someone a "banana" mean?
It means that the speaker is claiming that they are yellow on the
outside and white on the inside, i.e. claiming that they are ashamed
of being asian (usually applied to second- or later-generation Asian
Americans).
Generally derogatory. "Twinkie" means the same thing.
"Coconut" - brown on the outside, white on the inside. (used in
Filipino & South Asian communities) Generally derogatory.
"Banana", "twinkie", and "coconut" are analogous to "oreo" in the
context of black people.
"ABC" stands for "American-born Chinese", i.e. second or later
generation Chinese Americans. Somewhat negative connotations (?).
"ABCD" stands for "American-born confused desi" (Indian or Pakistani).
Somewhat derogatory.
"FOB" stands for "fresh off the boat" (an immigrant). Derogatory.
"jook-sing" - Cantonese for someone who's Chinese who can't speak
Chinese and has 'lost their heritage'. (it's the part of the bamboo
that is hollow). Somewhat derogatory.
"jook-kak" - Cantonese for someone who's so rigid that they will not
change. (it/s the knot of the bamboo). Somewhat derogatory.
13. What are some derogatory names to call white people that don't make me
sound like a throwback from the 70's?
Yes, this really is a Frequently Asked Question..
Whitey
Cracker
White Trash
Eurotrash
Honkey (cheezey throwback from the '70s)
Haole
Lo-fan (Cantonese)
(more?)
See Andrew Chin's <ac...@dcs.kcl.ac.uk> "Verbal Self Defense FAQ" (info in
self-defense section)
14. What does "Chinese-cu" mean?
It's a term used by Dwight Joe; it means "culturally Chinese".
"Chinese-ge" means "genetically Chinese", and "Chinese-ci" means "a
Chinese citizen".
Just to get new folks up to speed, Dwight tends to post rather inflammatory
articles, including unprovoked personal and racial attacks. He seems to
hate Koreans and Chinese especially - suprising, since he is Chinese
himself. Many people here think it best to ignore them to avoid drowning
the group in anti-Dwight flames.
Also, please don't use "Chinese-cu" terminology-ci because it's really
irritating-ge and no one will understand-ge you-cu.
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Dating
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15. Why are Asian female/white male (AF/WM) couples more common than
Asian male/white female (AM/WF) couples?
Russil Wvong <rus...@idacom.hp.com> writes:
>This topic tends to generate a lot of sociological theorizing. Both
>Alan Hu <a...@CS.Stanford.EDU> and Tanaka Tomoyuki <tan...@indiana.edu> have FAQs on
>this topic.
>
>However, it should be pointed out that the actual disparity isn't that high. Based
>on 1980 US census figures, the ratio of WM/AF married couples to AM/WF married
>couples is 1.7 to 1, for US-born Asian Americans. (From Tomoyuki Tanaka's FAQ
>(http://bronze.ucs.indiana.edu/~tanaka/)) According to Arthur Hu's analysis of the
>1980 census, outmarriage rates for Chinese Americans are 12.5% for men, 15% for
>women.
>
[Note that the two figures above seem to disagree with each other in the
extreme. I have seen figures that match what Arthur Hu has listed, I
cannot confirm Tomoyuki's numbers. Also note that far more Asian women
immigrate due to marriage than Asian men (war brides, etc.), and with this
in mind, the ratio of 1.7 to 1 for US-born AAs sounds _very outrageous. -
Bryan]
>
>Besides the endless sociological theories, some practical advice on
>dating gets posted here from time to time, but a better source is
>probably alt.romance. There's an FAQ, posted biweekly, which includes
>answers to questions like "How do I know if someone's interested?"
>as well as a list of references.
>
>Intercultural and interracial relationships are discussed on
>soc.couples.intercultural.
I might add that what people see and what really happens seems to be very
out of proportion. How do you know that a AF/WM or AM/WF 'couple' walking
down the street next to each other are really a couple and not total
strangers? Furthermore, I would like to add that logic dictates that if
there is a large difference in the male and female outmarriage rates (for
US-born AA's), then there will be a bachelor community of unmarried males
or females. Since this does not seem to exist, I put forth that people
tend make this a bigger thing than it really is, in part because of
stereotypes and the fact that compared to Asian females, few Asian males
immigrate due to marriage. Furthermore, it may be an issue of projections
based on a few pieces of anecdotal evidence. Case in point: Californians
and Hawaiians seem to have little problem with this topic while on the East
coast (where Asians are not adequately acknowledged in the media), it seems
to be a bigger issue. Why? Perhaps because in California, an Asian man
dating a white woman is common enough that I saw a Wallmart-type store's
advertisment with an AM/WF couple on the cover. Would that ever happen for
say, a NYC store? Nope. Do many AM/WF couples exist in NYC? You betcha.
Which comes first - the chicken or the egg. Draw your own conclusions.
From: rl...@telebit.com (Robert Liu)
Subject: Re: The Emotional Conflict of the Asian-American Male
>
>al...@rfd.niehs.nih.gov (Charles Alden) writes:
>>There have been many, many posts in this group on the subject of a seeming
>>lack of success of some AA guys in gaining female companionship - I'm
>>trying to give some friendly advice. I have had Chinese women complain to
>>me about how standoffish they have found some Chinese guys - the women were
>>interested and were waiting for the guys to initiate some action, but
>>nothing ever happened. The women got the impression that the guys were
>>scared, as if initiating a conversation was tantamount to a marriage
>>proposal (and in some circles it may come close to that - I expect this is
>>truer among recent immigrants than American-born).
>
>>We see many complaints about AA women associating with whites rather than
>>AA men, and the most frequent reactions are 1) to blame the women for
>>"selling out"; 2) to blame the white guys for predatory behavior; and 3) to
>>blame the media for portraying AA men as less desirable, and thus disposing
>>the AA women to reject them. Rather than pursuing any of the avenues of
>>blame, I am encouraging you to try a fourth line - look at how you project
>>yourselves, and not at how you imagine anyone else projects you.
>
>>So think about it -you have all the natural advantages - cultural
>>similarity, common histories, greater access through family and group
>>events. Sometimes it just takes some courage, to be willing to encounter
>>some rejection to achieve some success. No salesman would ever succeed if
>>he was convinced his product was poor and was afraid every customer might
>turn him down.
>
>Thank you Charles. Thats very well said. I have been trying to say the
>same thing here for sometimes now without any success. I think all the AMs
>should not think they should only date AFs, since many AFs certainly dont
>care about whom they date. If all the AMs work on their attitude and
>confidence, they can date females of any race.
>
>I have proved this myself, so have my three brothers. We are AMs, aren't
>we?
> Charles Alden
>- Rob
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17. Why isn't Asian culture ever discussed in this newsgroup?
This newsgroup is supposed to be for Asian American culture, not Asian
culture. There's a number of newsgroups devoted to various Asian
cultures, including soc.culture.japan, hongkong, indian, pakistani,
china, taiwan, asean (for the ASEAN nations), thai, filipino, and
several more I can't think of right now. There's also
soc.culture.usa, which discusses American culture.
18. Is Asian American culture discussed in this newsgroup?
Is there such a thing as Asian American culture? (Why are you looking
at me like that?) The answer is "sure, kind of". There is a growing
number of Asian Americans who see themselves as just as much "Asian
American" as they are Chinese American or Filipino American or
Pakistani American. This is particularly true of AA activists because
ethnicity is not usually a boundary to AA activism.
This newsgroup is a place for people with related backgrounds to
socialize and exchange bits of information. Historically speaking,
s.c.a.a. was created for the dissemination of information among
colleges and to facilitate a dialogue among Asian American activists
and Asian Americans at large.
It's also important to note that the "Asian.American" part of
"s.c.a.a." doesn't mean that it's a place meant for people to talk
about "Asians" who go out with "Americans".
If you want to talk about languages, literature, theater, cooking,
movies, or whatever, feel free to post an article on the topic. If
it's an ethnic-specific post, then consider crossposting it to both
s.c.a.a. and the other s.c. group. You'll find that generally
s.c.a.a. is a bustling place.
19. I'd like to meet some Asian girls. Is this the right place to
post a personal ad?
Probably not. A lot of people here get irritated by this kind of
personal ad. There's a newsgroup for personal ads, called
alt.personals.
20. Is this the right place to discuss martial arts?
Again, probably not -- another thing which irritates many Asian
Americans is people assuming they're interested in martial arts.
There's a rec.martial-arts newsgroup.
21. I can't figure out how to post to this newsgroup. Help!
"If you can send e-mail to soc-culture-a...@cs.utexas.edu,
your message will automatically be posted to
soc.culture.asian.american. That's what I do most of the time."
- Russil Wvong
22. What's a good way to deal with people who post inflammatory or
offensive articles?
1. Ignore them.
2. Put them in your KILL file. That way, you'll never have to
read their articles again. This also deprives them of
attention, which often seems to be their objective.
When you do this, you may want to post a short followup,
telling them that they're going into your KILL file. This is
usefulfor two reasons: it tells them that they'll be ignored,
and it encourages other people to do the same.
3. Flame them in e-mail. Don't flame them on the net if they are
obviously inflammatory articles - it just adds more 'static'
to s.c.a.a. (see Jeff Yang's anti-flame petition)
4. Try to post a calm and rational response on s.c.a.a.
Sometimes people don't realize that their articles may be
offensive. Sometimes they do, but they feel compelled to
offend people for some reason.
Either way, try to keep the discussion as constructive as
possible.
The Usenet guidelines suggest restricting flames to e-mail. Also,
excessive flaming on s.c.a.a. can get annoying for everyone else -
keep that in mind. Also, keep in mind that there are a lot more
people reading s.c.a.a. than you think - many are 'lurking' (only
reading, occasionally writing).
One last thing: Usenet doesn't have much in the way of central
control, and where it does exist, invoking it is usually frowned on.
In particular, contacting someone's system administrator is usually
viewed as violating their right to freedom of speech.
However, if someone is harrassing you via e-mail (i.e., mail-bombs -
filling your mailbox with tons of garbage, death threats, etc.), then
contact your system administrator, because mail-bombing is frowned
upon by system administrators and, like death threats, is an infraction
of "nettiquite" rules. Likewise, do not mail-bomb others.
23. What's a KILL file?
It's a way to automatically filter out articles you don't want to see.
In groups like this one, it can do wonders for your blood pressure.
For example, if you're using rn as your newsreader, and you want to
filter out all articles by anno...@foo.com (Annoyingman):
Start reading the newsgroup.
Press CTRL-K to edit your KILL file for the newsgroup.
Add the following line to the file:
/annoying@foo/h:j
The next time you start reading the newsgroup, rn will check each of
the new articles in the group, and junk any of them containing the
string "annoying@foo" in its header. So you'll never see any
articles that I post.
If you also want to filter out any followups that other people post to
my articles, use the following line instead:
/annoying@foo/a:j This command will junk any articles
containing the string "annoying@foo" anywhere in the article.
For more information about KILL files, please consult your local news
guru.
24. Isn't this censorship?
No. It is not censorship because you are only restricting what you
read, not what other people read.
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References, Publications and Media
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19. Are there any Asian American magazines or periodicals?
"A. Magazine" is published quarterly. The editor-in-chief, Jeff Yang,
is on the net, and has posted a couple of interesting previews.
Subscriptions are US$12, Canada$22/year (five(?) issues), and they're
interested in submissions as well. (Cheques should be made out to
Metro East Publications (publishers of A. Mag), not A. Magazine.)
A. Magazine
296 Elizabeth Street
Suite 2F
New York, NY 10012
(212) 505-2077
(800) 446-6235
Jeff Yang <jy...@panix.com> (editor-in-chief)
There's a bi-weekly(?) newspaper called Asian New Yorker (ANY) and
it's got a lighter take on Asian America - good reading.
Asian New Yorker
97-07 63rd Rd #1M
Rego Park, NY 11374
(718) 997-0009
There's also "Asian Week", a weekly newspaper published from the SF Bay
area covering national as well as local issues. Arthur (not Alan) Hu
writes a column for it.
Asian Week
809 Sacramento St.
San Francisco, CA 94108
(415) 397-0220 Editorial
(415) 397-7258 FAX
Subscription rates: $28/year
Another AA newspaper is "International Examiner", and is published out of
Seattle - one of the editors is on the net as well. I saw a couple copies
of it - and it was excellent. IE also puts out an literary review
dedicated to contemporary AA literature (with a section on children's
books) twice a year in the spring and fall which is included in the
subscription as well as sold in bookstores.
International Examiner
622 S. Washington
Seattle WA 98104
(206) 624-3925
Editor: Jeff J. Lin <jj...@u.washington.edu>
Subscription rates: $18/1 year, $29/2 years
2nd Generation - another NYC newspaper publication targeted at the AA
community - anyone have the address? Does it still exist?
There's a glossy magazine called "Transpacific" which is the Asian
American equivalent of "GQ" or "Cosmopolitan". Some people like it,
others hate it. From the same publishers, there is a new women's
beauty magazine called "Face" and an AA men's magazine called "XO"
(but I haven't seen it) - both magazines are in the Cosmo/GQ genre.
TMI Subscriptions
23715 W. Malibu Road, No. 390
Malibu, CA 90265-9986
(800) 888-8723
Transpacific $39/year
XO 39/year
Face 29/year
The Asian Pacific American Journal is a semiannual literary journal.
Single issues are $10, plus $2 for shipping and handling; subscriptions (2
or 4 issues) are $16 or $30, respectively.
The Asian American Writers' Workshop
attn: The APA Journal
630 First Ave, Suite 4K
New York, NY 10016
aa...@panix.com
(212) 481-3237
-- College publications:
East Wind
CB# 5240, International Center
Student Union
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27514
"We just started this past school year with an issue/semester. Next
year two big issues are planned. Since two issues aren't much to
refer to, I really can't say much more than that. Supposedly
we're one of the first AsAm campus publications in the South."
-Sterling Chen <SC...@UNCMVS.OIT.UNC.EDU>
There are also many college-based publications (such as "Slant" at
Berkeley) - if you have info on your college's publication, please
contact me w/ info.
Asian Community Times (ACT)
204 Costo Hall
University of California at Riverside
Riverside CA 92507
(909) 787-7272
editor in chief: Angela Chen
Submissions: Efren A Bose <ef...@watmail.ucr.edu>
[Someone please send me info on Critical Mass (the journal out of Berkeley)
Also, please include subscription information. -BWu]
-- AA Publications which serve specific ethnic communities:
"News India" is a publication for Indian Americans:
News India
244 Fifth Ave
New York, NY 10001
(212) 481-3433
There's also "The Indian-American"
The Indian-American
87 Fifth Avenue, Suite 603
New York, NY 10003
(212)-929-3929
fax: (212)-989-0800
For the Filipino American community:
Filipinas Magazine
5222 Diamond Heights Boulevard
San Francisco, CA 94131-9925
1-800-654-7777
"Sinorama" is a Taiwanese magazine aimed at Chinese living overseas.
It has articles in both Chinese and English. A similar magazine is
"Megachine", a New York publication which is aimed at permanent residents
and replicates the look of glossy Hong Kong mags.
26. What other kinds of AA media are there?
--Television:
New York City:
In New York City, there's also a show called "Asian Panorama" on Channel 31
that's shown on Saturday afternoons which is made by young people - look in
your TV guide.
Also in NYC is a public access cable show called the "Asian Pacific
American Cable Network". Anyone have info on when it's on?
Additionally, there's a new show on Channel 31 called "Asian America" which
seems to be pretty interesting - please check your TV guide.
Radio:
Radio Bandung, NYC
Asian American radio with a focus on Filipino and Pan-Asian American issues.
???? Anyone have the frequency and schedule?
27. How about some Asian American calendars for my wall?
_Asian American Men Calendar_
AA Hunks 'a the month w/ real lives
Giselle Ow Yang
Pomona College
Mudd-Blaisdell 267
230 E. Bonita Ave.
Claremont, CA 91711-6351
Cost: $7.00 plus $2.00 for shipping (incl. pkg.)
Total = $9.00.
Info: Giselle Ow Yang <GOW...@pomona.claremont.edu>
_The Asian Americans United Calendar_
It's an excelent calendar full of significant dates and community stuff - I
highly recommend it.
Asian Americans United
801 Arch Street
Philadelphia, PA 19107
(215) 925-1539
28. How about some books?
How many do you want? Thanks to everyone for their recommendations.
Non-fiction:
Ronald Takaki, Strangers from a Different Shore. A commonly used
history text. Also: "A Different Mirror"
Sucheng Chan, Asian Americans: An Interpretive History, 1991. Chan
is the head of the UC Santa Barbara Asian American Studies Program.
Includes a filmography.
State-by-state AA populations are given in Sucheng Chan's
"Asian Americans," a must-read. - Andrew Chin [same book? - BWu]
Lynn Pan, Sons of the Yellow Emperor. Discusses the history of the
overseas Chinese, including Chinese Americans.
Victor G. and Brett de Bary Nee, Longtime Californ': A Documentary
Study of an American Chinatown, 1986. A study of Chinatown in San
Francisco.
Michael Omi and Howard Winant, Racial Formation in the United
States: From the 1960s to the 1980s.
Amy Tachiki, Roots: An Asian American Reader, 1971. An anthology
of Asian American writings.
Frank Chin, Jeffery Paul Chan, Lawson Fusao Inada, and Shawn Wong,
ed., The Big Aiiieeeee!: The History of Chinese American and
Japanese American Literature, 1991.
U. S. Commission on Civil Rights, Civil Rights Issues Facing
Asian Americans in the 1990s. Discusses bigotry and violence
against Asian Americans.
Yen Le Espiritu, Asian American Panethnicity: Bridging
Institutionsand Identities, 1992. A book-length study assessing
and arguing for pan-Asian American identification.
--Japanese American Internment:
Peter Irons, _Justice at War_, Oxford University Press, 1983
"Its been a while since I read this, but from what I recall the
people who wrote the book were involved in the legal battles for
victims of the internment (the Fred Korematsu case?- not sure). Good
background on the legal history & backdrop of the internment, as well
as the subsequent cases against it. (The kind of stuff I wish more
people on scaa would learn about before trying to argue that it might
have been justified <- personal peeve here...). I'll see if I can get
more info on it for you if needed."
- ken william nose <no...@cis.ohio-state.edu>
"Possibly the most comprehensive and enlightening book on AA Lit so far (my
biased opinion): _Reading Asian American Literature: From Necessity to
Indulgence_ by Sau-ling C. Wong, 14.95 paperback, $40.00 cloth, 1993,
Princeton. - Michael Yin <y...@soda.berkeley.edu>
Also, Wataru Ebihara recommends the bookstore Asian American Books.
Its 40-page catalog costs $3.
Asian American Books
JACP Inc.
234 Main St.
P.O. Box 1587
San Mateo, CA 94401
(415) 343-9408
(800) 874-2242
If you have any additions to this list, please contact me.
29. Are there any Asian American (non-student) organizations?
Lots and lots. Thanks to everybody who contributed to the following
list.
National organizations: (student orgs. are in the next section)
Japanese American Citizens League (JACL)
Dennis Hayashi, National Director [no longer?]
1765 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94115
(415) 921-5225
service: victim advocacy and assistance in reporting,
information/referral, legislative advocacy
Organization of Chinese Americans (OCA)
Daphne Kwok
2025 I St., N.W., Ste. 926
Washington, DC 20006
(202) 223-5500
National Association of Asian American Professionals:
NAAAP-New York
Jean Woo, President
P.O. Box 772
New York, NY 10002
(212) 514-8191
NAAAP-Boston
Judy Yung, President
P.O. Box 1435
Cambridge, MA 02238
NAAAP-Chicago
P.O. Box 81138
Chicago, IL 60681
(312) 918-2454
NAAAP-Seattle
Judy Yu, President
P.O. Box 14344
International Station
Seattle, WA 98104
Organizations based in California:
Asian American Communities Against AIDS
info: (415) 563-0553
Asian Americans for Community Involvement
info: (408) 452-5151
office: 232 E. Gish Road 2nd floor
San Jose, CA 95112
AKA: AACI
Asian/Pacific AIDS Coalition
info: (415) 243-8909
Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA)
1765 Sutter St., Rm. 1000
San Francisco, CA 94115
(415) 346-2051
Asian American Manufacturers Association
(high technology manufacturing)
(415) 321-2262
800 Menlo Ave., Suite 115
Menlo Park CA 94025
Asian Business League
(415) 788-4664
San Francisco chapter
166 Geary Street, Suite 405
San Francisco CA 94108
Asian Health Services
info: (510) 444-2437
Asian Immigrant Women Advocates (AIWA)
310 Eighth Street #301
Oakland, CA 94607
(510) 268-0192 (voice)
(510) 268-0194 (fax)
Young Shin, director
Asian Inc.
(small businesses)
(415) 928-5910
1670 Pine Street
San Francisco CA 94109
Asian Law Caucus
Paul Igasaki, Ex. Director
468 Bush Street, Third Floor
San Francisco, CA 94108
(415) 391-1655
service: provides free or low-cost legal advice and counseling in
Cantonese, Mandarin, Korean, Vietnamese, Tagalog and other Asian languages
Asian Pacific Legal Center
1010 Flower St.
Los Angeles, CA 90015
(213) 748-2022
service: victim advocacy, including reporting to police and other
government agencies, public advocacy, community education,
information/referral
Asian Pacific Sisters
peg: (510) 531-6879
candine: (415) 621-2982
info: (510) 465-7394
AKA: APS
Break the Silence
P.O. Box 2165
San Francisco, CA 94126
(415) 982-2959
Filipino Task Force on AIDS
info: (415) 703-9880
AKA: FTFA
notes: GAY filipino AIDS org
Filipinos for Affirmative Action
310 Eighth St.
OAKLAND, CA _____
ph: (213) 748-2022
service: assistance in reporting to police
Gay Asian Pacific Alliance
hotline: (415) 282-4272
postal: PO Box 421884
San Francisco, CA 94142-1884
AKA: GAPA
notes: Lavender Godzilla (newsletter, $4)
Japanese American AIDS Project
info: (415) 563-0553
info: 1840 Sutter Street, Suite 207
San Francisco, CA
Japanese American Gay Social
info: (415) 584-7224
AKA: JAGS
Lavender Dragon Society
Daniel: (415) 992-2656
notes: gay chinese/chinese american group
National Asian American Telecommunications Association
346 9th St., 2nd fl.
San Francisco, CA 94103
(415) 863-0814
Chinese Progressive Association
123 Waverly Place, 3/F
San Francisco, CA 94108
Media Action Network for Asian Americans (MANAA)
P.O. Box 1881
Santa Monica, CA 90406-1881
(213) 486-4433 "media offenses" hotline
Southeast Asian AIDS Prevention Project
info: (415) 885-2743
Trikone - Gay and Lesbian South Asians
info: (408) 270-8776
info: PO Box 21354
San Jose, CA 95151-1354
net: tri...@rahul.net
notes: gay south asian group
Vietnamese Gay Men's Group
Brian Dang
info: 2200 Market Street #95
San Francisco, CA 94114
Visual Communications
263 S. Los Angeles St., #307
Los Angeles, CA 90012
(213) 680-4462
Vietnamese Lesbians' Group
info: (415) 575-3934
info2: (510) 676-3652
Midwest:
"I just wanted to drop a short message to promote another Asian Am
"network". It's called the Midwest Asian American Writer's Union
(affiliated with the Asian Am Writer's Workshop in New York).
It's for all Asian Americans interested in writing -- creative
writing, newsletter writing, whatever..."
- Wataru Ebihara <af...@cleveland.freenet.edu>
Midwest Asian American Writers Union
c/o Mary Chi-Whi Kim
P.O. Box 02202
Columbus, OH 43202-9998
af...@cleveland.freenet.edu
New York:
Asian American Arts Alliance
(Arts organization - they publish an AA arts resource directory)
339 Lafayette St. #5
New York, NY 10016
(212) 979-6734
Asian Americans for Equality
180 Eldridge St.
New York, NY 10002
(212) 677-7210
Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF)
99 Hudson St.
New York, NY 10013
(212) 966-5932
Asian American Writers' Workshop (AAWW)
296 Elizabeth St. Suite 2R
New York, NY 10016
(212) 481-3237
Asian CineVision, Inc. (ACV)
32 East Broadway
New York, NY 10002
(212) 925-8685
(212) 925-8157 (fax)
Asian Pacific American Journal (APA Journal)
296 Elizabeth St. Suite 2R
New York, NY 10016
(212) 481-3237
AparNet
(Asian American BBS)
via modem: (212) 740-7051
(set terminal to 8-N-1)
(sysop: davi...@panix.com)
Association of Indian Americans
Committee Against Anti-Asian Violence (CAAAV)
191 East Third St.
New York, NY 10009
(212) 473-6485
service: victim advocacy, community organizing & education,
information/referral, legislative advocacy
Federation of Indian Americans
(info anyone?)
Pan Asian Repertory Theatre
(212) 505-5655
Sakhi
(212) 909-6160
United Federation of Filipino Youth (UFYC)
Asia Society (I really wouldn't call this an Asian American org.)
725 Park Ave.
New York, NY
Other cities:
Asian Americans United
801 Arch Street
Philadelphia, PA 19107
(215) 925-1539
services: victim advocacy, education, information/referral
Asian Young Professionals Group
Jason Lee, President
22341 Peachtree
Novi, MI 48375
(313) 746-9217
American Citizens for Justice
(313) 557-2772
Asian American Resource Workshop
Fred Dow, Exec Dir
27 Beach St., 3rd Floor
Boston, MA 02111
(617) 426 5313
I just got word that the AARW may have moved - can someone please
confirm this information?:
Michael ______ - director
106 Kneeland St. - new address?
(Primarily an community group organizing community projects, protest,
outreach. Recent examples include an AsAm conference for high school
students in Boston area, coordinate Chinatown protest/polit involvement
over a proposed New England Medical Center parking garage in Chinatown.
But they are involved with cultural sort of activities as well such
as a "Welcome to Asian America" art exhibit and a reception for Henry
David Huang a couple years ago when his new play played in Boston. They
also had put out "Asian American Comic Book" which was excerpted in
Amerasia Journal last year.
- Sterling Chen <SC...@UNCMVS.OIT.UNC.EDU>)
in addition:
John Ho <jo...@jho.com> writes:
Gale Research has published a 400+ pages directory in
1992 year called "Asian American Information Directory". It
has everything you want to know about Asian Americans.
Topics includes organisation, museum and library colections,
embassies and consulates, research centers, studies program,
publications and publishers, broadcast media and videos.
Cost: $75 + S/H. To order called 1800-347-GALE.
[I do not have any more info on this - if people know about other
AA resource guides, and their availability, please contact me. -BWu]
30. Are there any Asian American college organizations?
National-scale AA Student organizations:
Asian Pacific American Student Union (APSU)
Comprises of colleges all over California and the West coast.
Grand-daddy of AA student orgs.
Washington Asian Pacific American Student Union (WAPSU)(?)
Made up of colleges in Washington state.
Midwest Asian American Student Union (MAASU)
Made up of colleges in the midwest - they also run an e-mail
mailing list.
East Coast Asian American Student Union (ECASU)
Made up of colleges in the Northeast from New England down to
Philly. They run an e-mail mailing list as well: ec...@mit.edu
Mid-Atlantic Asian Student Union (AACASU?)
Made up of colleges in the Southeast.
FIND
a network of Filipino student groups that's in the Northeast.
[Anyone have more info on this group/it's mailing list?]
National People of Color Student Coalition, which is part of the United
States Student Assocation (the largest Activist Student org in the country).
The NPCSC has an Asian/Pacific Islander caucus. The USSA's office in
Washington, D.C., (please send in the phone number)
Asian American College groups across the nation:
Reed College Asian Student Union
3203 SE Woodstock Boulevard
Reed College, Portland, OR 97202-8199
(503) 771-1112 x891
The Asian and Pacific American Coalition
University of Colorado
CB 207
Boulder, CO 80309
(303) 492-5354
HSA Hmong Student Association
same address
(303) 492-4144
KSA Korean Student Association
same address
(303) 492-1063
KFAC Kaibigan Filipino American Club
same address
VSAB Vietnamese Student Association at Boulder
same address
(303) 492-4211
31. How about some performers?
Commedians:
Phil Nee:
contact at DCA Productions 212-245-2063. Chinese Am comedian from NYC.
Margaret Cho:
contact Jackman & Taussig Inc. 310-478-6641. Korean Am comedian.
Henry Cho: contact Joey Edmonds 312-871-1444. Korean Am comedian.
Acting troupes:
Here and Now: AA acting troupe (premier college based one)
(Please try to contact Jean Lau first.)
Jean Lau John Miyasaki
Box 72 2043 Stratford Ave
1600 Campus Rd. South Pasadena, CA 91030
Los Angeles, CA 90041
(213) 341 6730 (818) 441 9615
or try (310) 478-6641
"Good luck to all this year with programming. I would say that
Here and Now has the widest appeal...
Be sure to inquire with Here and Now about new Asian Indian Am
material which has been absent in their previous work. You may
also request for them to do a continuous show...vs. a chop best of
type show. Currently they are touring in California with "Why is
Hello Kitty's head so big?""
- Elvin Chan <el...@jaws.ae.utexas.edu>
"Here and Now came here to Indiana University to perform for the
Asian American Heritage Month, and it was a big success.
The compliments people on the net have been giving to Here and
Now are not exaggerations at all! The performance was phenomenal.
The skits they performed were:
(I don't remember all of them) Orientals, Siblings, White Guys and
Asian Girls, Tiananmen Square, Red Rain... and a few others.
The group also had a question and answer period where you could
ask just about anything you wanted."
- ayun <ay...@nations.ucs.indiana.edu>
32. I'm worried about violence against Asian Americans. Reporting
Harrassment and Hate Crimes.
Audrey Tsui <audre...@midnite.com>:
>
>Who to contact re anti-Asian violence:
>
>WEST COAST:
>
>Asian Pacific Legal Center
>1010 Flower St.
>LOS ANGELES, CA 90015
>ph: (213) 748-2022
>service: victim advocacy, including reporting to police and other
>government agencies, public advocacy, community education,
>information/referral
>
>Asian Law Caucus
>468 Bush St. 3rd Fl.
>SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94108
>ph: (415) 391-1655
>service: provides free or low-cost legal advice and counseling in
>Cantonese, Mandarin, Korean, Vietnamese, Tagalog and other Asian
>languages
>
>Break the Silence Coalition Against Anti-Asian Violence
>P.O.Box 2165
>SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94126
>ph: (415) 982-2959
>service: information/referral, assistance in reporting, community
>education, public advocacy
>
>California State Attorney General
>(800) 952-5225
>
>Filipinos for Affirmative Action
>310 Eighth St.
>OAKLAND, CA _____
>ph: (213) 748-2022
>service: assistance in reporting to police
>
>Intergroup Clearinghouse
>995 Market St. rm 1114
>SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103
>ph: (415) 896-1355
>service: assistance in reporting, information/referral
>
>Japanese American Citizens League (JACL)
>1765 Sutter St.
>SAN FRANCSICO, CA 94115
>ph: (415) 921-5225
>service: victim advocacy and assistance in reporting,
>information/referral, legislative advocacy
>
>Mental Health Association of San Francisco
>2398 Pine St.
>SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94115
>ph: (415) 921-4401
>service: volunteer panel of bay area psychotherapists offer crisis
>intervention sessions
>
>S.F Lawyers Committee for Urban Affairs
>ph: (415) 543-9444
>
>San Francisco Police Department Hate Violence Unit
>ph: (415) 553-1133
>
>
>EAST COAST:
>
>Asian American Legal Defense Education Fund (AALDEF)
>99 Hudson Street,
>12th Floor
>New York, NY 10013
>ph: (212) 966-5932
>
>Asian Americans United (AAU)
>801 Arch Street
>Philadelphia, PA 19107
>ph: (215) 925-1529
>services: victim advocacy, education, information/referral
>
>Committee Against Anti-Asian Violence (CAAAV)
>191 East 3rd St.
>NEW YORK, NY 10009
>ph: (212) 473-6485
>service: victim advocacy, community organizing & education,
>information/referral, legislative advocacy
>
>National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium (NAPALC)
>1629 K Street, NW, suite 1010
>Washington, DC 10006
>ph: (202) 296-2300
>
>U.S. Department Civil Rights Division
>call (202) 514-2000 to report incidents involving servious injuries or
>property damage
>
>U.S. Justice Department's Community Relations Service Federal Hate
>Violence Hotline (800) 347-HATE
>call to report incidents involving physical or verbal harassment
Alan Hu <a...@CS.Stanford.EDU>:
>
> Disclaimer: I'm not an attorney; this is not legal advice.
>
> Reporting Harassment and Hate Crimes
>
> I encourage people to report harassment and hate crimes. Even if
> the local authorities don't do anything, at least there will be
> some record, which may help someone in the future. The US
> Department of Justice maintains a hate crimes hotline, which you
> can use to report incidences to the DOJ.
> The number is (800) 347-HATE.
33. Where can I get some information on self-defense?
Alan Hu <a...@CS.Stanford.EDU>:
> Disclaimer: I'm not an attorney; this is not legal advice.
>[...]
>
> Violent Response
>
> The general legal principle, as I understand it, is that you have
> the right to use physical force to stop an *immediate* threat to
> your personal safety. Laws and interpretations vary from locale
> to locale, but in general, you'd probably be in trouble if you
> were to, say, trash someone's car or beat them up or even rip up
> their pocket protector in response to a verbal slur. At the
> opposite extreme, if a gang of racists is actively attempting to
> bash your skull in with baseball bats, you can probably justify
> employing physical force to stop the attack.
>
> The moral question of whether and when to use physical force is entirely
> personal. You may decide it's better to let yourself be beaten to death
> rather than compromise your pacifist ideals. That's fine. Personally,
> I have no qualms over using physical force to stop an immediate threat
> to my life, but that's just my personal decision. The important thing,
> IMHO, is to decide *before* you need to deal with it, how you feel about
> the issue.
>
> Self-Defense Resources
>
> If you decide that you can imagine ever needing to employ physical force,
> you may choose to get some training. There are obviously many traditional
> martial arts to choose from. Look around and ask around to see what's good
> in your area. (Rec.martial-arts is a good place for general info.)
>
> One quick self-defense course that gets frequent high praise is called
> Model Mugging or IMPACT. (I'm not sure if one group spun off from the
> other, or if it's the same people with a different name.) This is a short
> (a few days of a few hours each) self-defense course for women, during
> which they train mental attitudes as well as physical techniques full
> force against a padded "mugger", for dealing with the types of attacks
> women are statistically most likely to have to deal with. I've heard
> that some chapters have recently added a men's course as well. IMPACT's
> national information line is (800) 345-KICK.
>
> Some people may be interested in mace, tear gas, pepper spray, etc.,
> as well as other weapons. If you choose something, be sure to learn
> how to use it properly, and practice! The various chemical sprays
> get mixed reviews from self-defense experts -- they're better than
> nothing, but experiments have demonstrated that none of them will
> really stop a determined attacker. (One article pops up regularly in
> rec.martial-arts and rec.guns.) The various electronic devices (tasers,
> stun guns) don't seem to be recommended for self-defense. Also, there
> are considerable laws regulating most weapons, so find out what's legal
> before you carry (e.g. last I heard, in California, possession of
> nunchaku is a felony).
>
> Firearms
>
> Statistically, firearms are the most effective self-defense tool
> available, but they also carry considerable legal and social stigma
> in many circles, as well as the considerable burden of legal, safe,
> and responsible ownership. If you decide to go this route, be sure
> to get proper safety training! The NRA should be able to point you
> to somewhere to get lessons in your area; their number is (202) 828-6000.
[Just a personal note - choose your battles wisely and don't let people
stomp on your pride and get away with it. If you're feeling strong
that day, give them a piece of your mind (or your fist). Because
believe me, if you don't take care of it right then and there, it'll be
like an red-hot ember burning a hole in your heart for the next few days.]
- Bryan
Andrew Chin's "Verbal Self-Defense FAQ" is available by email. Details below:
Andrew Chin <ac...@dcs.kcl.ac.uk> writes:
>
>My multicultural self-education has enabled me to tackle ignorance
>and racism where I see it on the net, but I'm still sluggish in the
>art of verbal self-defense. So I've started a private compilation
>of snappy responses to ignorant and/or racist remarks about Asian-
>Americans. This is now available as a FAQ via email.
>
>Caveat emptor: sometimes counter-insults aren't the best or most
>appropriate responses to racism. From the age of four I was taught
>to ``just ignore'' racist taunts from my peers, and this advice is
>still useful in most cases. On the other hand, there are times when
>a counter-insult can be very satisfying, and without doing damage
>to the overall state of race relations. At these times it can be
>very useful to have some stock responses in mind rather than standing
>there dumbstruck and figuring out what I should have said 10 seconds
>too late.
>
>Access to this FAQ is strictly limited to contributors only; i.e.,
>_only_ people who submit ideas will receive a copy of the FAQ,
>which will be updated from time to time. Submission will
>indicate permission to publish in this limited way.
>
>Responses to the following categories of remarks are being collected
>(further categories are welcomed):
>
>1. General ignorance [pulling eyes into slants, bowing, other attempts
> to imitate stereotypical Asian behavior/speech]
>2. Assuming Asian-Americans are foreigners [surprise at your ability
> and preference to speak English]
>3. Assuming Asian cultural characteristics [you remind them of the
> last Asian person they knew/their travels in the Orient (never
> mind that _you've_ never been there)]
>4. Intrusive genealogical queries [``Where are you from? No, where
> are you really from? Well, where were your parents born? Oh yeah,
> well where were your grandparents born? Oh yeah, well, where were
> your great-grandparents born?'' (walks away, thinking, ``Jeez, why
> so testy?'' and writes to Ann Landers, who will sympathize)]
>5. Japan-bashing [``You Japs are stealing all our jobs!'' (n.b.
> Inspect speaker thoroughly for baseball bat before responding)]
>6. Assuming the model minority myth [``All you Orientals are math
> whizzes, why don't you give us normal students a break?'']
34. I'm not a big fan of the way Asians are portrayed on TV.
Me neither. Here's the addresses and phone numbers for NBC, ABC, CBS,
and Fox, courtesy of Bryan Wu:
National Broadcasting Corp.
30 Rockefeller Plaza
New York, NY 10112
(212) 664-4444
Comments to:
Audience Services (at above address)
(212) 664-2333
--
American Broadcasting Corp.
77 W. 66th
New York, NY 10023
(212) 456-7777
Comments to:
Network Programming (at above address)
(212) 456-7477
--
CBS
51 W. 52nd
New York, NY 10019
Comments to:
(212) 975-3247
--
Fox Broadcasting
PO Box 900
Beverly Hills, CA 90213
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New Sections
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35. Are there any AA specific health issues?
Health information specific to Asian Americans is rarely found in the mass
media, therefore this section will be dedicated to "health" issues
regarding Asian Americans.
The first book dedicated to Asian & Pacific Islander American health,
Confronting Critical Health Issues of Asian and Pacific Islander
American, commissioned by Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum
(formerly, Asian American Health Forum) is now available. Call
(415)541-0866 for more information.
36. _Health Alert to people of Southern Chinese descent:_
Nasopharyngeal Cancer is a relatively rare cancer which has stuck two
people that I know personally. One of them was 24 years old.. Because this
cancer is rare among non-Asians, it is rarely diagnosed correctly and when
it is finally recognized, it may be too late. Symptoms include recurring
nose-bleeds.
James Ou <jam...@zygote.hsc.usc.edu> writes:
>I have just found this from IARC Scientific Publications iss. 105 (1991): pp. 39-47
> Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is a disease with a
>remarkable racial and geographical distribution. It is very rare
>in most parts of the world, and in only a handful of populations
>does this low-risk profile deviate; these groups include people
>in southern China.......... Convincing evidence implicates
>dietary factors as the primary cause of NPC among Chinese. A
>series of case-control studies conducted in various Chinese
>populations with distinct risks of NPC, ranging from the very
>high-risk Cantonese populations to the relatively low-risk
>northern Chinese, have suggested that ingestion of salted fish
>and other kinds of preserved foods constitutes the most important
>cause of NPC among these people... causes of NPC and there are other factors which
>may also cause NPC.
If someone has a sucinct listing of symptoms, please e-mail me.
37. _Asian Americans vs. Milk!_
Basically, 80% of Asian Americans have some kind of lactose intollerance
which can cause bloating pain and gas (farting:*p). This lactose
intollerance is not an allergy per se, but rather the lack of the enzyme
"lactase" required to digest the lactose which naturally occours in cow
milk. If you still love milk, then consider lactase supplements which
come in both capsule and liquid form. Capsules you take when first
starting to eat dairy. Liquids you add a few drops to your carton of milk
and overnight, the lactose is removed by the enzyme and you have a carton
of lactose-free milk.
Personally, I'm lactose intollerant and have found these drops to be useful
when I have a craving for milk & cereal or heavy-duty ice cream
consumption.. I've also found that out in California, there are generic
brands of lactase suppliment which are much cheaper than the name-brands.
(someone send me info on these generics please - Bryan)
From _The Merck Manual_, 16th edition (1992) [a standard medical reference],
p. 825-826:
>
>Carbohydrate Intolerance
>(Lactose Intolerance; Lactase Deficiency; Disaccharidase Deficiency;
>Glucose-Calactose Malabsorption; Alactasia)
>
>Pathophysiology
>
>Disaccaharides are normally split into monosaccharides by lactase,
>maltase, isomaltase, and sucrase (invertase) in the small intestine.
>Lactase splits lactose into glucose and galactose. Unsplit
>disaccharides remain in the lumen and osmotically retain fluid,
>causing diarrhea. Bacterial fermentation of sugar in the colon leads
>to gaseous, acidic stools. ...
>
>Incidence
>
>Lactase deficiency occurs _normally_ [emphasis in the original] in
>about 75% of adults in all ethnic groups except those of northwest
>European origin, in whom the incidence is < 20%. Although statistics
>are unreliable, most nonwhites of North America gradually become
>lactase-deficient between ages 10 and 20 yr. It affects 90% of
>Orientals [sic] and 75% of American blacks and Indians [sic], with a
>high incidence among peopls from the Mediterranean area.
> ...
>
>Symptoms and Signs
>
>Symptoms and signs are similar, regardless of the specific enzyme
>deficiency. A child who cannot tolerate sugar will have diarrhea and
>fail to gain weight. An adult may have borborygmi, bloating, flatus,
>nausea, diarrhea, and abdominal cramps. Even when only lactose
>absorption is directly impaired by deficiency of the enzymem lactase,
>the resulting diarrhea may be severe enough to purge other nutrients
>before they can be absorbed. ...
> ... [I'm omitting the diagnosis section, which includes a
> test where you give someone lactose and see if they get sick.] ...
>
>Treatment
>
>The disorder is readily controlled by a lactose-free diet, or often
>simply by avoiding milk drinks. ... If a lactose-free diet is
>continued, oral Ca supplements should be given. Lactose in milk can
>be predigested by the addition of commercially prepared lactase.
>
>[My comments: Personally, I swear by Lactaid Brand lactose-reduced
>non-fat milk, available in a grocery stores everywhere. I find it
>odd that a condition that "afflicts" a substantial majority of human
>beings is classed as a "disorder". In reality those lucky few people
>who continue to produce this bizarre enzyme (lactase) to digest the
>glandular secretions of another species should probably be labelled
>as having "hyperlactasia" or something. The current terminology
>and notion of normalcy reflect the historical bias arising from modern
>Western medicine's development occuring primarily in Northwestern Europe.
> - Alan Hu <a...@CS.Stanford.EDU>
>
>Note that the degree of lactose intolerance varies in that different
>lactose intolerant people can consume differing amounts of dairy
>products without side effects. Cultured milk products (yogurt,
>buttermilk, cheese) tend to be less likely to produce side effects
>than plain milk.
38. If the earth's population is 60% Asian, then why aren't there any
Asians on Star Trek other than the nurse, Admiral and O'Brien's wife?
Good Question. The upcoming series, Star Trek: Voyager, will have a Korean
liutenant and who can forget Sulu? Where are the Chinese and Indians? Who
knows! If you're an actor or would like to write in, get in touch with the
people below.
Michael Chih Ming Hornbuckle <horn...@sfsuvax1.sfsu.edu> writes:
> I recommend that all Asian American actors send your headshots
>and resumes to these two sources. It IS kind of silly that there are
>virtually no Asians in space considering that the world is over 50%
>Asian.
>
>Paramount Studios
>5555 Melrose Avenue
>Von Sternberg Bldg., #104
>Los Angeles, CA 90038
>(213) 956-5000
>
>Also:
>Nancy Foy, Vice President of Casting (213) 956-5444
>Helen Mossler, Vice President of Talent (213) 956-5578
>
>For the SERIES, casting is done by
>
>June Lowry Johnson Casting
>20th Century Fox Studios
>10201 W. Pico Blvd., Bldg 26, Stage 2
>With California 1.sfsu.edu>(
>310-203-1296
>213-956-4856
>
>Aaron Spelling? Okay.
>
>Aaron Spelling Productions
>5700 Wilshire Blvd. #575
>Los Angeles, CA 90036
>213-965-5700
>
>Also:
>Tony Shepherd (VP of Talent and Casting)
>213-965-5718
39. Random quotes
"Craig F. Harmon" <har...@csulb.edu> writes (in reply to a non-Asian
American poster who wrote something about his 'understanding' Asian
Americans):
>I think the reason they got mad at you is that most people who do that
>are trying to use the fact they are dating an Asian (male/female) as some
>sort of qualification for membership in this newsgroup. Kind of like,
>"Yeah I can relate to you people, my girlfriend/boyfriend is Asian." Or
>by using the fact they are dating said person to try to win arguments,
>like, "No, you're all wrong, I KNOW, because my girlfriend/boyfriend is
>Asian!" Besides I guess who you date is irrellevent for most of what is
>posted here, so keep that good personal info personal. (Easier said than
>done). I guess a good rule of thumb to follow would be, don't post
>anything about your personal life unless specifically
>asked, or unless that info will show that you have a life experience
>which would give you some intimate knowledge of the subject being
>discussed.
>I think a better place to discuss inter-racial relationships is a group
>called, soc.culture.intercultural or soc.couples.intercultural, something
>like that. I hope this helps. Also try wearing NOMEX when you write.
>It is fire resistent.
Tehshik Yoon <ty...@husc9.harvard.edu>:
>(hunh hunh hunh.... Romulans suck.... hunh hunh hunh....)
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The End (for now!)
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Please feel free to send me suggested additions/corrections to the
FAQ. For one, I'd like to include a recomended fiction books section.
- Bryan
---------
>From nl...@s.psych.uiuc.edu Sun Aug 7 18:55:29 1994
Date: Tue, 2 Aug 1994 23:51:27 -0500 (CDT)
From: Nancy Linn <nl...@s.psych.uiuc.edu>
To: b...@panix.com
Subject: Asian Am lit list
28. How about some books?
How many do you want? Thanks to everyone for their recommendations.
Asian British/Canadian authors are included. Other Asian-(whatever
country) recommendations are welcome, please included a note when you
send in your selection.
There are 2 sections: nonfiction and fiction.
------------------------------------------------
NONFICTION / HISTORY / BIOGRAPHY / AUTOBIOGRAPHY
------------------------------------------------
Armour, John & Peter Wright. Manzanar, Times Books, New York, 1988.
Outstanding photos by Ansel Adams.
Asian Pacific Americans. (1988 ?) [booklet. That's all the info
that was given.]
Asian Women United in California (eds.). MAKING WAVES: AN ANTHOLOGY
OF WRITING BY AND ABOUT ASIAN WOMEN. Boston, MA: Beacon Press,
1989
Baker, Lillian. AMERICAN AND JAPANESE RELOCATION IN WWII, Webb
Research Group, 1990.
Barnhart, Edward N.; Floyd W. Matson, & Jacobus tenBroek. Prejudice,
War and the Constitution: Causes and Consequences of the
Evacuation of the Japanese Americans in World War II,
University of California Press, Berkeley, 1954.
Bhatt, Sheela, Preety Kalra et al (eds.). OUR FEET WALK THE SKY:
WOMEN OF THE SOUTH ASIAN DIASPORA, Aunt Lute Books.
Bonacich, Edna and Cawing, Lucia. LABOR IMMIGRATION UNDER
CAPITALISM: ASIAN WORKERS IN THE UNITED STATES BEFORE WORLD WAR
II, Berkeley, CA: Univ. of California Press, 1980
Bosworth, Allan R. America's Concentration Camps, New York: W.W.
Norton, 1967. (Bantam, 1968)
Bulosan, Carlos. AMERICA IS IN THE HEART, A PERSONAL HISTORY,
Seattle, WA: Univ. of Washington Press, 1974, 1981.
Chan, Sucheng. Asian Americans: An Interpretive History, Boston,
MA: Twayne, 1991. [Chan is the head of the UC Santa Barbara
Asian American Studies Program. Includes a filmography.]
State-by-state AA populations are given in Sucheng Chan's
"Asian Americans," a must-read. - Andrew Chin [same book? -
BWu]
- ENTRY-DENIED: EXCLUSION AND THE CHINESE COMMUNITY IN AMERICA,
1882-1943, Philadelphia, PA: Temple Univ. Press, 1991.
Chang, Lucie & Edna Bonacich (eds.). LABOR IMMIGRATION UNDER
CAPITALISM: ASIAN WOKERS IN THE U.S. BEFORE WORLD WAR II, Univ.
of California Press, 1984.
Cheng, Nien. Life and death in Shanghai. London: Grafton, 1987. ISBN
0-586-07115-6 [autobiography]
Chiang, Yee. China revisited, after forty-two years. New York:
Norton, c1977.
- A Chinese childhood. New York: Norton, 1963.
- Dabbitse. London, New York: Transatlantic Arts, 1944.
- The men of the Burma road. 4th ed. London: Metheun & Co. Ltd.,
1943.
- The silent traveler in New York. London: Methuen, 1950.
- The silent traveler in the Yorkshire dales. 6th ed. London:
Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1948.
- The silent traveller; a Chinese artist in Lakeland. With a
preface by Herbert Read. London: Country Life Ltd.; New York:
C. Scribner's Sons, 1938.
- The silent traveller in Boston. London: Methuen, 1960.
- The silent traveller in Dublin. London: Methuen, 1953.
- The silent traveller in Edinburgh. (2nd ed.) London: Methuen,
1950.
- The silent traveller in Japan. New York: Norton, 1972.
- The silent traveller in London. London: Country Life; New
York: Transatlantic Arts, 1951.
- The silent traveller in Oxford. (4th ed). London: Methuen,
1948.
- The silent traveller in Paris. New York: W. W. Norton, 1956.
- The silent traveller in San Francisco. New York: Norton, 1964.
- The silent traveller in war time. London: Country Life, 1939.
Chin, Frank, Jeffery Paul Chan, Lawson Fusao Inada, and Shawn Wong,
(eds.). The Big Aiiieeeee!: The History of Chinese American
and Japanese American Literature, 1991. [An anthology of Asian
American writers.]
Ching, Frank. Ancestors, 900 years in the life of a Chinese family.
New York: Morrow, 1988. ISBN 0688044611 [biography]
Choy, Bong-Youn. KOREANS IN AMERICA, Chicago, IL: Neilson Hall,
1985.
Chuman, Frank F. The Bamboo People: The Law and Japanese Americans,
Del Mar, California: Publishers, Inc., 1976. (Available at JACL
HQ in SF.)
Chrisgau, John. ENEMIES: WORLD WAR II ALIEN INTERNMENT, Iowa State
Univ. Press, 1985.
Daniels, Roger. The Politics of Prejudice: The Anti-Japanese
Movement in California and the Struggle for Japanese Exclusion,
Berkeley: The Univ. of California Press, 1962 + 1977. [A
somewhat scholarly history of the anti-Japanese-American
movement in pre-war California.]
- Concentration Camps USA: Japanese Americans and World War II,
New York: Holt, Rinehart, Winston, 1972.
- THE POLITICS OF PREJUDICE, Atheneum, 1977.
Daniels(?) & Kitano "American Racism" (around 1970, out of print)
Daniels, Roger & Spencer D. Olin Jr. RACISM IM CALFORNIA: A READER
IN THE HISTORY OF OPPRESSION, MacMillan Co., 1972.
Daniels, Roger, Sandra C. Taylor, & Harry H.L. Kitano. JAPANESE
AMERICANS: FROM RELOCATION TO REDRESS, Seattle, WA: Univ. of
Washington Press, 1991.
Drinnon, Richard. KEEPER OF THE CONCENTRATION CAMP: DILLON S. MYER
AND AMERICAN RACISM, UC Press, 1987.
Duus, Masayo Umezawa. UNLIKELY LIBERATORS, U.of HI Pr.,1983.
[Japanese Americans: (WW II) Military Service]
Embry, Sue Kunitomi. THE LOST YEARS, 1942-46 (Moonlight
Publications, 1972.
Espiritu, Yen Le. Asian American Panethnicity: Bridging
Institutions and Identities, Philadelphia, PA: Temple Univ.
Press, 1992. [A book-length study assessing and arguing for
pan-Asian American identification.]
Freeman, James A. HEARTS OF SORROW: VIETNAMESE-AMERICAN LIVES,
Stanford CA: Stanford Univ. Press, 1989.
Gee, Emma (ed.). COUNTERPOINT: PERSPECTIVES ON ASIAN AMERICA, UCLA
AASC, 1976.
Gesensway, Deborah, & Mindy Roseman. BEYOND WORDS: IMAGES FROM
AMERICAN'S CONCENTRATION CAMPS (Cornell U.Pr., 1987)
Girdner, Audrey. The Great Betrayal: The Evacuation of the Japanese
Americans During World War II. New York: Macmillan, 1969.
Grodzins, Morton M. Americans Betrayed: Politics and the Japanese
Evacuation, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1949.
Han, Suyin (pseud.). Birdless summer; China, autobiography, history.
London: Cape, 1968. ISBN 0224614711
- The crippled tree; China: biography, history, autobiography.
London: J. Cape, 1965.
- Destination Chungking, an autobiography. London: J. Cape, 1943.
- A mortal flower: China, autobiography, history. London: Cape,
1966.
- My house has two doors: China, autobiography, history.
London: J. Cape, 1980. ISBN 0224017020
- Tigers and butterflies : selected writings on politics,
culture, and society; edited and with an introduction by Aamer
Hussein. London: Earthscan, 1990. ISBN 1853830690
Harrington, Joe. YANKEE SAMURI: THE SECRET POLE OF NISEI IN
AMERICAN'S PACIFIC VICTORY, Pettigrew Enterprise, 1979.
[Japanese Americans: (WW II) Military Service]
Hohri, William Minoru. REPAIRING AMERICA: AN ACCOUNT OF THE MOVEMENT
FOR JAPANESE AMERICAN REDRESS, WA S.U.Pr., 1988.
Hong, Maria, ed. and an introduction; afterward by Stephen H. Sumida.
Growing up Asian American: an anthology. New York: W. Morrow,
1993. ISBN 0688112668
Hosokawa, Bill. Nisei: The Quiet Americans," New York: William
Morrow, 1969.
Houston, Jeanne. Farewell to Manzanar.
Hsu, Kai-yu & Helen Palubinskas (eds.). Asian-American authors.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1976. ISBN 0395240395
Hune, Shirley, Hyung-Chan Kim, Stephen S. Fujita, Amy Ling (eds.)
ASIAN AMERICANS, COMPARATIVE AND GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES.
Pullman: Washington State U.P., 1991. ISBN 0-87422-071-8
Hunt, Michael. THE MAKING OF A SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP: THE U.S. AND
CHINA TO 1914, New York, NY: Columbia Univ. Press, 1983.
Ichinokuchi, Tad. JOHN AISO AND THE MIS: JAPANESE AMERICAN SOLDIERS
IN THE MILITARY INTELLIGENCE SERVICE IN WORLD WAR TWO, MIS
Association of Southern California, 1988. [Japanese Americans:
(WW II) Military Service]
Ichioka, Yuji. THE ISSEI, JAPANESE IMMIGRANTS, 1885-1924, New York,
NY: The Free Press, 1988.
Irons, Peter. Justice at War: The Story of the Japanese American
Internment Cases, New York:Oxford University Press, 1983. [
Internment] [A careful history and examination of the main
legal cases brought before the U.S. Supreme Court concerning
the Japanese American internment.] [Its been a while since I
read this, but from what I recall the people who wrote the book
were involved in the legal battles for victims of the
internment (the Fred Korematsu case?- not sure). Good
background on the legal history & backdrop of the internment,
as well as the subsequent cases against it. (The kind of stuff
I wish more people on scaa would learn about before trying to
argue that it might have been justified <- personal peeve
here...). - ken william nose <no...@cis.ohio-state.edu>]
- JUSTICE DELAYED: THE RECORD OF THE JAPANESE AMERICAN INTERNMENT
CASES, Wesleyan, 1989.
- Justice Long Overdue, NEW PERSPECTIVES, Winter/Spring 1986.
Joe, Jeanne. Ying-Ying, pieces of a childhood; illustrations & cover
design by Faustino Caigoy. San Francisco: East/West Pub. Co.,
1982. ISBN 0934788022 (pbk.) [autobiography]
Kibria, Nazli. FAMILY TIGHTROPE, Princeton University Press.
Kim, Hyung-chan (ed.) Asian American studies: an annotated
bibliography and research guide. New York: Greenwood Press,
1989. ISBN 0313260265
Kwong, Peter. CHINATOWN, N.Y.: LABOR AND POLITICS, 1930-1950, New
York, NY: Monthly Review, 1989.
- THE NEW CHINATOWN, NYC: Hill & Wang, 1987.
Lau, Evelyn. Runaway: A Diary of a Street Kid. "I think the book
will usually be classified under sociology (read: troubled
childhood), but it is infused with "Chinese-ness" nonetheless.
I thought it was well written, but (not to trivialize the
horrors Evelyn went through), I thought it was rather
self-absorbed. If everyone thinks that Western-born Asian
males whine too much, this book will probably balance it out
between the sexes.
Lee, Mary Paik. QUIET ODYSSEY: A PIONEER KOREAN WOMAN IN AMERICA,
Seattle WA: Univ. of Washington Press, 1990.
Li, Y. & J. Lim (eds.). Another province: new Chinese writing from
London. London: Lambeth Chinese Community Association, 1994.
ISBN 0-9522973-0-2
Light, Ivan & Bonacich, Edna. IMMIGRANT ENTREPRENEURS: KOREANS IN
LOS ANGELES 1965-1982, Berkeley, CA: Univ. of CA Press, 1988.
Lim, Janet. Sold for silver: an autobiography. Singapore, New York:
Oxford University Press, 1985. ISBN 0195826280
Lin, Alice Murong Pu. Grandmother had no name. San Francisco: China
Books & Periodicals, c1988. ISBN 0835120457 [biography]
Lin, Hazel Ai Chun. Weeping may tarry: my long night with cancer.
Boston: Branden Press, 1980. ISBN 082831733X [autobiography]
Ling, Amy. Between worlds: women writers of Chinese
ancestry. New York: Pergamon Press, c1990. ISBN 0080374646
0080374638 (pbk.)
Lord, Bette Bao. Eighth moon: the true story of a young girl's life
in Communist China / by Sansan as told to Bette Lord. London:
R. Hale, 1966, 1964.
Marger, Martin N. RACE AND ETHNIC RELATIONS: AMERICAN AND GLOBAL
PERSPECTIVES (3rd ed), Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing
Company, 1994.
McCunn, Ruthanne Lum. Chinese American portraits: personal histories
1828-1988. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, c1988. ISBN
0877014914 (pbk.) 0877015805 (hard)
- Pie-biter; illustrated by You-shan Tang. San Francisco: Design
Enterprises of San Francisco, 1983. ISBN 0932538096
- Sole survivor. San Francisco, Calif.: Design Enterprises of
S.F., 1985. ISBN 0932538614 0932538622 (pbk.) [biographical
novel]
- Thousand pieces of gold: a biographical novel. Boston: Beacon
Press, 1988, c1981. ISBN 0807083178 (pbk.)
McWilliams, Carey. Prejudice: Japanese Americans: Symbol of Racial
Intolerance, Boston: Little, Brown, 1944.
Nee, Victor G. & Brett de Bary. Longtime Californ': A Documentary
Study of an American Chinatown, 1986. A study of Chinatown in
San Francisco.
Niiya, Brian (ed.). JAPANESE AMERICAN HISTORY: AN A-TO-Z REFERNCE
FROM 1868 TO THE PRESENT, Japanese American National Museum.
Nishimoto, Richard S. & Dorothy S. Thomas. The Spoilage: Japanese
American Evacuation and Resettlement, Berkeley: Univ. of
California Press, 1946.
Oda, James. HEROIC STRUGGLES OF JAPANESE AMERICANS: PARTISAN
FIGHTERS FROM AMERICA'S CONCENTRATION CAMPS, KNI Inc., 1980.
[Japanese Americans: (WW II) Military Service]
Okada, John. No-No Boy. [Chauvinistic as all get out but pays a due
homage to those JA males incarcerated who didn't want to be
there -_or_ fighting in the army of a country that didn't
respect them.]
Okihiro, Gary. CANE FIRES: THE ANTI-JAPANESE MOVEMENT IN HAWAII,
1865-1945, (1991).
Omi, Michael & Howard Winant. Racial Formation in the United States:
From the 1960s to the 1980s, New York & London: Routledge &
Kegan Paul, 1986.
THE PACIFIC WAR AND PEACE: AMERICANS OF JAPANESE ANCESTRY IN
MILLITARY INTELLIGENCE 1941-1952, MIS Association of Northern
California and NJAHS, 1991. [Japanese Americans: (WW II)
Military Service]
Pan, Lynn. Sons of the Yellow Emperor. Discusses the history of the
overseas Chinese, including Chinese Americans.
Portes, Alejandro & Rumbaut, Ruben G. IMMIGRANT AMERICAN: A
PORTRAIT, Berkeley, CA: Univ. of CA Press, 1990.
ROOTS: AN ASIAN AMERICAN READER, UCLA Asian American Studies Center.
Saran, Parmatma. THE ASIAN INDIAN EXPERIENCE IN THE UNITED STATES,
Cambridge, MA: Schenkman Publishing Co. Inc, 1985.
Shibutani, Tamotsu. THE DERELECTS OF COMPANY K: A SOCIOLOGICAL STUDY
OF DEMORALIZATION, UC Press, 1978. [Japanese Americans: (WW
II) Military Service]
Somes, Monica. Nisei Daughter, University of Washington Press,
Seattle, 1979. [Autobiographical.] Originally published by
Little, Brown and Company, 1953.
THE STATE OF ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICA, UCLA Asian American Studies
Center/Leadership Education for Asian Pacifics [LEAP], 1993.
Takaki, Ronald. A Different Mirror.
- PAU HANA: PLANTATION LIFE AND LABOR IN HAWAII, 1835-1930, Univ.
of Hawaii Press, 1983.
- IRON CAGES: RACE AND CULTURE IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICA,
NYC: Knopf (Random House), 1979. (New York, NY: Oxford Univ.
Press, 1990)
- STRANGERS FROM A DIFFERENT SHORE: A HISTORY OF ASIAN AMERICANS,
NYC: Penguin Books, 1990. [A commonly used history text.]
Tateishi, John. And Justice for All, Random House, New York, 1984.
[An oral history of the Japanese American detention camps.]
Tsukano, John. BRIDGE OF LOVE, Hawaii Hosts, 1985. [Japanese
Americans: (WW II) Military Service]
TULE LAKE PILGRIMAGE COMMITTEE. KINENHI, 1980.
Uchida, Yoshiko. Desert Exile, University of Washington Press,
Seattle, 1982. [Autobiography.]
U. S. Commission on Civil Rights, Civil Rights Issues Facing
Asian Americans in the 1990s. Discusses bigotry and violence
against Asian Americans.
U.S. Government Printing Office. Personal Justice Denied, Report of
the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of
Civilians. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office,
1982.
Weglyn, Michi. Years of Infamy: The Untold Story of America's
Concentration Camps, New York: William Morrow, 1976.
Wei, Katherine and Quinn, Terry. Second daughter. Boston: Little,
1984. [autobiography]
Wong, Jade Snow. Fifth Chinese daughter; with a new introduction by
the author. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1989.
ISBN 0-295-96826-5 [autobiography]
- No Chinese stranger; illustrated by Deng Ming-Dao. New York:
Harper & Row, 1975. [autobiography]
Yep, Laurence (ed.). American dragons: twenty-five Asian American
voices. New York: HarperCollins, 1993.
Zenner, Walter P. Middlemen Minority: A Critical Review, in Roy
Simon Bryu-Laporte (ed.) source book on the New Immigrant, New
Brunswick, NY, 1980.
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FICTION / LITERATURE / POETRY
-----------------------------
Asian Women United in California (eds.). MAKING WAVES: AN ANTHOLOGY
OF WRITING BY AND ABOUT ASIAN WOMEN, Boston, MA: Beacon Press,
1989.
Baker, Houston A., Jr. (ed.). Three American literatures: essays in
Chicano, Native American, and Asian-American literature for
teachers of American literature. New York: Modern Language
Association of America, 1982. ISBN 0-87352-352-0
Berssenbrugge, Mei-mei. Empathy. Barrytown, N.Y.: Station Hill
Press; New York, N.Y.: Talman Co., 1989. ISBN 0882680781
[poetry?]
- Fish souls. San Francisco: Greenwood, 1972. [poetry]
- The heat bird. Providence [R.I.]: Burning Deck, [c1983]
ISBN 0930901029 0930901037 (pbk.) [poetry]
- Random possession. New York : I. Reed Books, c1979. ISBN
091840813X [poetry]
- Sphericity, poems ; Richard Tuttle, drawings. [Berkeley]:
Kelsey St. Press, 1993. ISBN 093271630X 0932716318 (special
ed.)
- Summits move with the tide. Greenfield Center, N.Y.:
Greenfield Review Press, c1974. ISBN 0912678151 [poetry]
Brainerd, Cecilia Manguerra (ed.). FICTION BY FILIPINOS IN AMERICA,
New Day Publishers.
Bruchac, Joseph (ed.). Breaking silence: an anthology of
contemporary Asian American poets. N.Y.: Greenfield Review
Press, c1983. ISBN 0912678593 (pbk.)
Brushstrokes, Yellow Dandelions. Liverpool: Liverpool City
Libraries, 1993. Distributed by: The Chinese Community
Librarian, Multiracial Library Promotions Unit, Central
Library, William Brown Street, Liverpool L3 8EW, England. [An
anthology of writing by Chinese in North-West England.]
Bulosan, Carlos. PHILIPPINES IS IN THE HEART (A COLLECTION OF
STORIES), Queson City: New Day Publishers, 1978.
Chang, Diana. An Animal named Year: the story of Chinese New Year /
retold by Diana Chang; illustrations by Helen Chu. Oakland,
Calif.: Four Treasure Press, 1980.
- Eye to eye. New York: Harper & Row, 1974.
- The frontiers of love. New York: Random House, 1956.
- The gift of love; based on a teleplay by Caryl Ledner. New
York: Ballantine Books, 1978.
- The horizon is definitely speaking; with, Union regulations, by
Leonard Greco; and, Exit laughing, by Martin Willits, Jr. New
York: Backstreet Editions, 1982. [poetry]
- The only game in town. New York: Signet, 1963.
- A passion for life. New York: Random House, 1961.
- A perfect love. New York: Jove Publications, 1978.
- Saying yes. Cross Cult., 1991. ISBN 0-89304-445-8
- A woman of thirty. New York: Random House, 1959.
- What Matisse is after: poems & drawings. New York: Contact
II Publications, c1984. ISBN 0-936556-12-9
Chang, Jung. Wild swans: three daughters of China. London:
Flamingo, 1993. ISBN 0-00-637492-1
Chao, Evelina. Gates of grace. New York, NY: Warner Books, c1985.
ISBN 0446513032
Chen, Yuan-tsung. The Dragon's village. New York: Pantheon, 1980.
Cheung, King-Kok and Yogi, Stan. Asian American literature: An
annotated bibliography. New York: Modern Language Association
of America, 1988. ISBN 0873529618 (pbk) 087352960X
1Chia, Cheng Sait. Turned clay. Fredericton, New Brunswick:
Fiddlehead, 1982. [poetry]
Chiang, Fay. In the city of contradictions. New York: Sunbury, 1979
[poetry]
- Miwa's song. Bronx, N.Y.: Sunbury Press, c1982. ISBN 0916324125
[poetry]
Chiang, Yee. Chin-pao and the giant pandas. New York: Studio
Publications, 1943.
Chin, Frank. The chickencoop Chinaman ; and, The year of the dragon
: two plays; introduction by Dorothy Ritsuko McDonald. Seattle:
University of Washington Press, c1981. ISBN 0-295-95833-2
- The Chinaman Pacific & Frisco R.R. Co.: short stories.
Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 1988. ISBN 0-918273-44-7
- Donald Duk : a novel. Minneapolis: Coffee House Press ; St.
Paul, Minn.: Distributor, Consortium Book Sales and
Distribution, 1991. ISBN 0-918273-83-8
Chin, Marilyn, David Wong Louie, & Ken Weisner (eds.). Dissident
song: a contemporary Asian American anthology. Santa Cruz,
Calif.: Quarry West, 1991.
- The phoenix gone, the terrace empty; drawings by R.W.
Scholes. Minneapolis: Milkweek Editions, 1994.
ISBN 0915943875 [poetry]
- Dwarf bamboo. Greenfield Center, N.Y.: Greenfield Review
Press, c1987. ISBN 0912678712 [poetry]
Chinese American poetry: An anthology. Santa Barbara: Asian
American Voices, 1991. ISBN 0-295-97154-1
Chiu, Tony. Port Arthur chicken. New York: Morrow, 1979. ISBN
0688034195
Chock, Eric Edward. Last days here. Honolulu, Hawaii: Bamboo Ridge
Press, 1990, 1989. ISBN 0-910043-18-3
Chock, Eric Edward (ed.). Small kid time Hawaii. Honolulu:
Bamboo Ridge Press, 1981. ISBN 0-910043-03-5
Chock, Eric, et al.; with a foreword by Maxine Hong Kingston. Talk
story: an anthology of Hawaii's local writers. Honolulu, HI:
Petronium Press/Talk Story, 1978. ISBN 0-932136-03-6
Chock, Eric & Darrell H.Y. Lum (eds.). The Best of Bamboo ridge, the
Hawaii writers' quarterly. Honolulu, Hawaii: Bamboo Ridge
Press, 1986.
- Pake: writings by Chinese in Hawaii. Honolulu, Hawaii: Bamboo
Ridge Press, 1989. ISBN 0-910043-17-5
Chu, Louis. Eat a bowl of tea; introduction by Jeffery Chan. New
York: Carol Publ. Group, 1990, 1961.
Chuang, Hua. Crossings. Boston: Northeastern U.P., 1986.
Hagedorn, Jessica (ed.). Charlie Chan is dead: an anthology of
contemporary Asian American fiction. New York: Penguin Books,
1993.
Han, Suyin (pseud.). ... and the rain my drink. London: J. Cape,
1956.
- The enchantress. Toronto, New York: Bantam Books, 1985. ISBN
0553050710
- The four faces. New York: Putnam, 1963.
- A many-splendoured thing. London: J. Cape, 1952.
- The mountain is young. London: J. Cape, 1958.
- Till morning comes: a novel. Toronto, New York: Bantam
Books, 1982. ISBN 0553050117
- Two loves. New York: Putnam, 1962.
Hong, Maria (ed.). GROWING UP ASIAN AMERICAN. New York: Morrow,
1993, ISBN 0-688-11266-8 [It has a suggested bibliography at
the end which lists dozens of Asian American books. The book
itself is pretty interesting--it includes a bit of the Joy Luck
Club and some of Woman Warrior and some of Frank Chin's stuff.
-Tehshik (ty...@husc.harvard.edu)]
Hwang, David Henry. Broken promises: four plays. New York: Avon
Books, 1983.
- The dance and the railroad; and, Family devotions: two plays.
New York: Dramatists Play Service, c1983.
- FOB and other plays; with a foreword by Maxine Hong
Kingston. New York: New American Library, c1990.
- FOB; and, The house of sleeping beauties : two plays. New
York: Dramatists Play Service Inc., c1983. ISBN 0-8222-0413-4
- M. Butterfly; with an afterword by the playwright.
Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1989.
- The sound of a voice. New York: Dramatists Play Service (440
Park Ave. S., New York 10016), c1984. ISBN 0-8222-1060-6
Jen, Gish. Typical American. New York: Plume, 1992. Series title:
Plume contemporary fiction. ISBN 0-452-26774-9
Jenkins, Esther C. and Austin, Mary C. Literature for children
about Asians and Asian Americans: analysis and annotated
bibliography, with additional readings for adults. New York:
Greenwood Press, 1987. ISBN 0313259704
Kim, Elaine. ASIAN AMERICAN LITERATURE: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE
WRITING AND THEIR HISTORICAL CONTEXT, Philadephia PA: Temple
Univ. Press, 1982.
Kingston, Maxine Hong. China men. London: Picador Books, 1981. ISBN
0-330-26367-6
- Tripmaster Monkey: his fake book. London: Picador Books,
1990. ISBN 0-330-31459-9
- The Woman warrior. London: Picador Books, 1981. ISBN
0-330-26400-1
Kogawa, Joy. Obasan. [Perhaps the most well-crafted Asian American
(actually Japanese Canadian...) contemporary novel, Tan and
Kingston inclusive.]
Kuo, Alexander. Changing the river. Berkeley: I. Reed Books, 1986.
ISBN 0918408245
- New letters from Hiroshima and other poems. Greenfield
Center, N.Y.: Greenfield, 1974.
- The window tree. Peterborough, N.H.: Windy Row Press, 1971.
ISBN 0911838120 [poetry]
Lau, Alan Chong. The Buddha bandits down Highway 99 : poetry / by
Garrett Kaoru Hongo, Alan Chong Lau, Lawson Fusao Inada;
[artwork by Alan Lau]. Mountain View, Calif.: Buddhahead
Press, 1978.
- Songs for Jadina. Greenfield Center, N.Y.: Greenfield, 1980.
[poetry]
Lau, Evelyn. Fresh girls & other stories. Toronto: HarperCollins,
c1993. ISBN 0002240157
- Oedipal dreams. Victoria, B.C.: Beach Holme Publishers,
c1992. ISBN 0888783159
Lee, Bennett & Jim Wong-Chu. Many-mouthed birds: contemporary
writing by Chinese Canadians. Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre;
Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1991. ISBN
0-88894-711-9
Lee, C. Y. China saga: a novel. New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson,
1987.
- Cripple man & the new order. New York: Farrar, Straus and
Cudahy, 1961. ISBN 0-374-13164-3
- Days of the Tong wars. New York: Ballantine Books, 1974.
- The flower drum song. New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy,
1957.
- Gate of rage: a novel of one family trapped by the events at
Tiananmen Square. New York: Morrow, 1991.
- The land of the golden mountain. New York: Meredith Press,
1967.
- Lover's point. New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1958.
- Madame Goldenflower. New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1960.
- The second son of heaven: a novel of nineteenth-century China.
New York: Morrow, 1990.
- The virgin market. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1964.
Lee, Gus. China boy: a novel. New York: Dutton, 1991. ISBN
0-525-24994-X
- Honor & duty. New York: A.A. Knopf; distributed by Random
House, 1994. ISBN 0-679-41258-1
Lee, Li-Young. The City in which I love you: poems. Brockport, N.Y.:
BOA Editions, 1990. ISBN 0918526825
- Rose: poems. Brockport, N.Y.: BOA Editions; St. Paul, Minn.:
distributed by Bookslinger, 1986. ISBN 0918526523 0918526531
(pbk)
Lee, Sky. Disappearing Moon Cafe. Seattle, Wash.: Seal Press, 1991.
ISBN 1-878067-12-5
Lee, Virginia Chin-lan. The house that Tai Ming built. New York:
Macmillan, 1963.
Lem, Carol. Don't ask why : poems. Los Angeles, Calif. (4410 Temple
City Blvd., Temple City 91780): Peddler Press, 1982.
Leong, Monfoon. Number one son. San Francisco: East/West Pub. Co.,
1975.
Lim, Shirley Geok-lin and Ling, Amy. Reading the literatures
of Asian America. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1992.
ISBN 087722935X (cloth) 0877229368 (paper)
Lim, Shirley Geok-Lin, Mayumi Tsutakawa, & Margarita Donnelly. The
Forbidden stitch: an Asian American women's anthology.
Corvallis, Oregon: Calyx Books, 1989. ISBN 0934871102
0934971048 (pbk.)
Lin, Hazel Ai Chun. House of Orchids, a novel. New York: Citadel
Press, 1960.
- The moon vow. New York: Pageant Press, 1958.
- The physicians, a novel. New York: J. Day Co., 1951.
- Rachel weeping for her children uncomforted. Boston: Branden
Press, 1976. ISBN 0828316198
Lin, Tai-yi. The eavesdropper. Cleveland: World Pub. Co., 1959, 1958
- The golden coin. New York: The John Day Company, 1946.
- Kampoon Street. Cleveland: World Pub. Co., 1964.
- The Lilacs overgrow. Cleveland: World Pub. Co., 1960.
- War tide, a novel. New York: The John Day Company, 1943.
Lin, Yutang. Chinatown family: a novel. New York: J. Day Co., 1948.
[This is another author who does not really fit into the
category we arelooking for but who is simply too important to
be omitted. This is a very small selection from his works.]
- Moment in Peking; a novel of contemporary Chinese life.
Garden City, N.Y.: Sun Dial Press, 1942.
- The vermilion gate; a novel of a far land. London: Heinemann,
1954.
- Lady Wu, a novel. New York: Putnam, 1965.
- A leaf in the storm, a novel of war-swept China. London:
Heinemann, 1942.
- Memoirs of an octogenarian. Taipei; New York: Mei Ya
Publications, 1975.
- Juniper Loa. Taipei; New York: Mei Ya Publications, 1975.
- My country and my people. London, Toronto: W. Heinemann, 1942.
- The red peony. Cleveland, Ohio: World Pub. Co., 1961.
- The secret name. Taipei, Taiwan: Mei Ya Publications, Inc.,
1979.
- Widow, nun and courtesan; three novelettes from the Chinese /
translated and adapted by Lin Yutang. New York: J. Day Co.,
1951.
- With love and irony. New York: J. Day Co., 1940.
Ling, Amy. Asian American literature [a bibliography]. IN:
Ruoff, A. LaVonne Brown and Ward, Jerry W., Jr. (eds.)
Redefining American literary history. New York: The Modern
Language Association of America, 1990. ISBN 0-87352-188-9
- Chinamerican reflections. Lewiston: Great Raven, 1984. [poetry]
Lord, Bette Bao. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson. New
York: HarperCollins Children's Books, 1984. ISBN 0-06-440175-8
- Legacies: a Chinese mosaic. London: Chapmans Publishers, 1990.
ISBN 1-85592-502-8
- Spring Moon: a novel of China. London: Sphere, 1983.
ISBN 0-7221-5614-6
Louie, David Wong. Pangs of love: stories. New York: Plume, 1992.
Lum, Darrell H. Y. Pass on, no pass back! [edited by Eric Chock et
al.]. Honolulu, Hawaii: Bamboo Ridge Press, 1990. ISBN
0-910043-19-1
- Sun, short stories and drama. [Honolulu, Hawaii (2163 Apio
La., Honolulu, Hawaii 96817)] : Bamboo Ridge Press, 1980.
ISBN 0-910043-02-7
Lum, Wing Tek. Expounding the doubtful points. Honolulu, Hawaii:
Bamboo Ridge Press, 1987. Series title: Bamboo ridge no. 34-35.
- Matrices, paradoxes, and personal passions. In: Bamboo ridge.
no. 47 (Summer 1990)
Min, Anchee. Red azalea. New York: Pantheon Books, 1994.
Mo, Timothy. An Insular possession. London: Picador Books, 1987.
ISBN 0-330-29810-0
- The Monkey King. London: Vintage, 1993. ISBN 0-09-996210-1
- The Redundancy of courage. London: Vintage, 1992. ISBN
0-09-989060-7
- Sour sweet. London: Vintage, 1992. ISBN 0-09-996200-4
Moy, James. MARGINAL SIGHTS, University of Iowa Press.
Namioka, Lensey. Yang the youngest and his terrible ear. Boston: Joy
Street Books, 1992.
Ng, Fae Myenne. Bone. New York: Hyperion, 1993.
Peck, David R. American ethnic literatures: native American,
African American, Chicano/Latino, and Asian American writers
and their backgrounds, an annotated bibliography. Pasadena,
Calif.: Salem Press, c1992. ISBN 0893566845
Reed, Ishmael & Al Young. Yardbird lives! New York: Grove Press;
distributed by Random House, 1978. ISBN 0802141633, 0394170415
(Random House)
Sledge, Linda Ching with Gary Allen Sledge. Empire of heaven. New
York: Bantam Books, c1990. ISBN 0553057553
Tachiki, Amy. Roots: An Asian American Reader, 1971. An anthology
of Asian American writings.
Tan, Amy. The Joy Luck Club. London: Mandarin, 1991. ISBN
0-7493-9957-0
- The Kitchen God's wife. London: Flamingo, 1992. ISBN
0-00-654506-8
- Moon Lady. London: H. Hamilton, 1992. ISBN 0-241-13279-7
Telemaque, Eleanor Wong. It's crazy to stay Chinese in Minnesota.
Nashville: T. Nelson, 1978. ISBN 0840766130
Tsui, Kitty. The words of a woman who breathes fire: poetry and
prose. Argyle, N.Y.: Spinster's, c1983. ISBN 0933216068
(pbk.)
Uchida, Yoshiko. Journey to Topaz. [She is an accomplished
children's author: this book is a good fictional story of the
camps written for children.]
Uno, Roberta (ed.). UNBROKEN THREAD: An ANTHOLOGY OF PLAYS BY ASIAN
AMERICAN WOMEN, University of Massachusetts Press. [an artist
I admire greatly and one of the few Asian American artistic
directors for theatre in the country.]
Wang, David Rafael. The Goblet moon. Lunenburg: Stinehaur, 1955.
[poetry]
- The Intercourse. Greenfield Center, N.Y.: Greenfield, 1974.
[poetry]
- Rivers on fire. Dunkirk: Basilisk, 1974-75. [poetry]
Wong, May. A bad girl's book of animals. New York: Harcourt, Brace &
World [1969] [poetry]
- Reports. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1972.
ISBN 0151768501 [poetry]
- Superstitions: Poems. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich,
1978. ISBN 0151867984
Wong, Nellie. The Death of the Long Steam Lady. Los Angeles: West
End, 1986. [poetry]
- Dreams in Harrison Railroad Park. Berkeley: Kelsey St., 1977.
[poetry]
Wong, Sau-ling C. Reading Asian American Literature: From Necessity
to Indulgence. 14.95 paperback, $40.00 cloth, 1993, Princeton.
[Possibly the most comprehensive and enlightening book on AA
Lit so far (my biased opinion) - Michael Yin
<y...@soda.berkeley.edu>]
Wong, Shawn. Homebase. New York: Plume, 1991. Series title: Plume
contemporary fiction. ISBN 0-452-26529-0
- Blue Funnel Line / special guest editor, Shawn Wong. Seattle,
WA: The Seattle Review, 1988.
Yahp, Beth. The Crocodile fury. Pymble, N.S.W., Australia: Angus &
Robertson, 1992. ISBN 020717055X [An Australian author who may
be of interest.]
Yahp, Beth, Margo Daly, & Lorraine Falconer (eds.). My look's
caress: a collection of modern romances. Sydney, Australia:
Local Consumption Publications, 1990. ISBN 0949793175
Yau, John. Broken off by the music. Providence: Burning Deck, 1981.
[poetry]
- Corpse and mirror. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1983.
ISBN 0030630428 003063041X (pbk.) [poetry]
- Edificio sayonara. Santa Rosa, Calif.: Black Sparrow Press,
1992. ISBN 0876858884 (cloth) 0876858876 (pbk.) 0876858892
(signed cloth)
- Radiant silhouette: new & selected work, 1974-1988. Santa Rosa,
Calif.: Black Sparrow Press, 1989. ISBN 0876857748 (signed)
087685773X (hard) 0876857721 (pbk.)
- Sometimes: poems. New York City: Sheep Meadow Press distributed
by Persea Books, 1979. ISBN 0935296026 0935296034 (pbk.)
Yee, Paul. The Curses of third uncle. Toronto: Lorimer, 1986. ISBN
0888629109
- Roses sing on new snow: a delicious tale; pictures by Harvey
Chan. Toronto: Douglas & McIntyre, 1991. ISBN 0888991444
- Tales from Gold Mountain: stories of the Chinese in the New
World; paintings by Simon Ng. Vancouver, Toronto: Douglas
& McIntyre, 1989. ISBN 0888990987
- Teach me to fly, Skyfighter! and other stories; illustrated by
Sky Lee. Toronto: Lorimer, 1983. ISBN 0888626460
Yep, Laurence. Child of the owl. New York: Harper & Row, 1977.
- Dragon cauldron. New York: HarperCollins, 1991.
- Dragon of the lost sea. 1st Harper Trophy ed. New York:
Harper and Row, 1988, 1982.
- Dragon steel. New York: Harper & Row, 1985.
- Dragon war. New York: HarperCollins, 1992.
- Dragonwings. New York: Dramatists Play Service, 1993.
- The lost garden. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: J. Messner, 1991.
- The Mark Twain murders. New York: Four Winds Press, 1982.
- Monster Makers, Inc. New York: NAL Penguin, 1987, 1986.
- Mountain light. New York: Harper & Row, 1985.
- The rainbow people. New York: Harper & Row, 1989.
- Sea glass. New York: Harper & Row, 1979.
- Seademons. 1st Perennial library ed. New York: Harper & Row,
1979, 1977.
- The serpent's children. New York: Harper & Row, 1984.
- Shadow Lord. New York: Pocket Books, 1985. Series title: Star
trek #22.
- The star fisher. New York: Morrow Junior Books, 1991.
- Sweetwater. 1st Harper Trophy ed. New York: Harper & Row, 1983,
1973.
- The Tom Sawyer fires. New York: W. Morrow, 1984.
- Tongues of jade. New York: HarperCollins, 1991.
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BOOKSTORES / SOURCES
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AMERASIA JOURNAL Vol.18, No 3 (1992) A 189 page Bibliography
Also, Wataru Ebihara recommends the bookstore Asian American Books.
Its 40-page catalog costs $3.
Asian American Books
JACP Inc.
234 Main St.
P.O. Box 1587
San Mateo, CA 94401
(415) 343-9408
(800) 874-2242
If you have any additions to this list, please contact me.
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Lee Xuanwu prove Kung Fu and Kick Boxing are superior to Boxing!
When a Kung Fu or Kick Boxing practitioner fight a boxer on street, Kung Fu win absolutely. Do you agree?
Lee Xuanwu prove Kung Fu is a superior fighting styles compared to boxing in his fight with Kimura Sho. In the fight of Lee Xuanwu vs Kimura, Lee defeated Kimura with wrestling. Lee gain his reputation for beating up imitator and fan of Bruce Lee. Meanwhile, imitators and fan of Bruce Lee are beat up and defeated everywhere.
In contrary to fan of Mikuru Asakura and Nasukawa Tenshin who blame their idols’ defeat by Mayweather for the rule of boxing, Chinese fan of Kimura call it unfair and blame their idol’s defeat on the sudden change of rule from boxing to Kung Fu. Fan of Lee claim that Lee only want to retaliate Japan for Pearl Harbor attack and for the American people. Chinese fan of Kimura and supporters of Xu Xiaodong complain that war is different from sport and there is no room for nationalism. Lee’s fan said: “Exactly because it is sport, Kimura can quit the fight anytime he wish.”
Compared to the fight between Inoki and Ali in the past under the rule of MMA, Lee’s wrestling move is considered practical, outstanding and far more entertaining. Lee’s fan further propose a fight between Lee Xuanwu and Mayweather under the rule of kung Fu. They argue that Lee did not try to imitate Inoki who was elected to become a congressman and earned respect from Japanese because Lee’s fighting styles is unique. Whether Mayweather can exceed Ali with other than his prefect boxing record depend on Mayweather’s performance under the rule of Kung Fu.
在 YouTube 上觀看「Olympic Boxer tries Muay Thai - This Happened」
https://youtu.be/5xYrvimQIHU
Olympic boxer defeated by Muay Thai
奧運拳手証明泰拳優於拳擊！
在 YouTube 上觀看「2021年最噁心的比賽，玄武抱摔「終結」木村翔，拳迷：丟盡了中國武林的臉！神獸玄武 vs.木村翔，Xuan Wu vs.Kimura Sho【搏擊先鋒】」
https://youtu.be/PN871wCxvDI
在 YouTube 上觀看「【為甚麼梅威瑟被丟花束 ? 】 朝倉未來慘遭老梅擊倒 ！牛蒡黨又是甚麼 ?」
blame it on the rule of kung fu
https://youtu.be/RQwvstm0K-8
blame it on the rule of boxing
在 YouTube 上觀看「那須川天心VS梅威瑟 比賽解析」
https://youtu.be/CsfGQoNjkRA
blame it on the rule of boxing
在 YouTube 上觀看「李小龍模仿者：泰森都佩服我的功夫，太厲害了，踢館卻慘遭館主TKO，李小龍功夫秒變王八拳........Funny kungfu of Bruce Lee」
https://youtu.be/O9ath1CYpNk
Fan of Bruce Lee claim to defeat Mike Tyson got KO.
李小龍粉絲不服泰森被kO
在 YouTube 上觀看「 香港傳武 VS. 日本空手道 20世紀傳武征戰世界頂級格鬥擂台戰史！」
Students of Bruce Lee were defeated.
https://youtu.be/_gcvWFbe5Rc
李小龍的截拳道戰敗！
在 YouTube 上觀看「五個李小龍模仿者被K.O的精彩畫面，台下全是李小龍，台上打成一條蟲，裝B精神小夥嘴炮的下場......」
https://youtu.be/9JUzeM8ql44
Fan of Bruce Lee were defeated.
李小龍粉絲和徒弟不斷戰敗！
在 YouTube 上觀看「李小龙模仿者谭龙被玄武KO」
https://youtu.be/Wu1CMjQIn1g
Student and fan of Bruce Lee were defeated everywhere
玄武KO李小龍粉絲；李小龍粉絲為何處處捱打？
在 YouTube 上觀看「这次无耻的“拳击赛“，我向司马难先生求教。」
https://youtu.be/6EANj6NUrtk
按徐晓冬說法，踢傷阿里的日本豬木也遺臭萬年，但豬木卻成了令日人尊重的議員！
在 YouTube 上觀看「每一拳每一腳都在給中國丟人，玄武VS木村翔全場丟人視頻」
https://youtu.be/WtAQ0hRnySg
當年我在黑拳比賽中也對戰很多重量級洋人，美國人怎不說丢臉！
https://youtu.be/47bRCCCul1w
在 YouTube 上觀看「氣得睡不著，說說玄武和木村翔的事。是做個中國英雄，還是做個人，現在只能二選一（坐澳觀天第547期 20211220）」
中國右派的雙重標準：儘管玄武摔倒木村翔比豬木踢傷阿里精彩多了，仍然受到右派攻擊指責！右派所說英雄不分種族國籍政治宗教立埸這話誰信？！
在 YouTube 上觀看「玄武事件后续来了！冬哥发布2021年：江湖通缉令！」
https://youtu.be/FMt-3usL3P8
徐晓冬極端言論：因為一埸跨界別比賽抵制玄武不值；況且玄武是李世民唐朝唐人粉絲（玄武門之變）！事實上日本人豬木也跟阿里打過跨界別，徐晓冬太偏激了！
在 YouTube 上觀看「拳王阿里被摔跤手打進醫院，格鬥史上大爛戰，觀眾大喊退票【跨界大戰】Muhammad Ali」
https://youtu.be/0HqB99gZKvE
豬本vs阿里
在 YouTube 上觀看「【拳王阿里】乜嘢係「阿里與豬木狀態」？仲影響後世？拳王阿里就係蝕在冇搵國術師傅？｜乜乜棠水舖」
https://youtu.be/frxFnQYWzNU
豬木打傷阿里受日人讚揚！李玄武打敗木村翔卻被國人辱罵，公平嗎？
在 YouTube 上觀看「玄武直播间叫嚣：我跟木村翔讲什么规则，他敢来继续打，我没必要道歉，日本人要给我们跪下#北京格斗狂人徐晓冬#格斗#搏击#武术#拳赛」
https://youtube.com/shorts/Yun1ONMOLCc?feature=share
李玄武發動現代版玄武門之變，珍珠港式突襲；不信木村翔沒有翻譯！
在 YouTube 上觀看「玄武事件后续，玄武偷录与木村翔经纪人刘刚通话，合伙坑害木村翔，中国人的耻辱败类」
https://youtu.be/shGrSukgZLY
李連杰好友王占海徒弟李玄武玄武門式突襲摔倒木村翔！木村翔輸不起否認改規則！
在 YouTube 上觀看「靠中國功夫打贏日本拳王？中拳手「作弊勝」小粉紅瞎挺：報了南京大屠殺仇－民視新聞」
https://youtu.be/RXgFnGusXes
玄武門式突襲木村翔不光彩，但是公平比賽，沒有作弊，也不是不宣而戰！更沒有用藥！沒有什麼可恥的！熟悉珍珠港突襲的日本人應深明此道！
在 YouTube 上觀看「終結「李小龍是MMA之父」的意淫！」
https://youtu.be/Z0_bKsKjxaw
終結白大拿的謊言！
在 YouTube 上觀看「李小龍實戰能力最終定論 ｜ 李小龍親口說「拳王阿里能打死我」 阿里說「沒有亞洲人打得過我」」
https://youtu.be/gHgQeI5yYAo
實踐是檢驗真理的唯一標準！
沒有經歷實戰支持的李小龍格鬥哲學，毫無價值！