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• Bluff City Chinese

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  BLUFF CITY CHINESE is a documentary following two storytellers of different generations on a mission to share the untold history of Chinese American immigrants in Memphis, Tennessee. The film observes the complex nature of crafting historical…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Daughters of the Sun and Moon

  See, Lisa

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  In 1870, three Chinese women arrive in the small, dusty, and violent pueblo of Los Angeles. Dove, the bound-footed daughter of an imperial scholar, is entrancing and innocent. These characteristics should bring her great rewards, beginning with her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Songs of Love From Hawaii

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  A musical film exploring the history of Korean American immigrants in Hawaiʻi through three episodes blending storytelling and performance. It follows early pioneers' hopes, the struggles of picture bride Lim Ok Soon, and honors those who died in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Pōhaku

  Hakes, Jasmin 'Iolani,

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  A young woman lies comatose in a hospital, watched by her estranged grandmother. Mystery surrounds the woman's fall. Did she jump off the cliff, or was she swept away by a wave? Her grandmother suspects it is linked to the pMhaku, an ancient stone…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Crown City

  Hirahara, Naomi, 1962-

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  Pasadena, 1903 : Eighteen-year-old Ryunosuke 'Ryui' Wada staggers off the boat from Yokohama, Japan, ready to reinvent himself after the untimely deaths of his parents. Though battling loneliness and culture shock, Ryui does his best to settle into…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Boat Baby

  a Memoir

  Nguyen, Vicky,

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  Starting in 1975, Vietnam’s ‘boat people'—desperate families seeking freedom—fled the Communist government and violence in their country any way they could, usually by boat across the South China Sea. Vicky Nguyen and her family were among them.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Asian American Histories of the United States

  Choy, Catherine Ceniza, 1969-

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  Asian American Histories of the United States illuminates how an over-century-long history of Asian migration, labor, and community formation in the United States is fundamental to understanding the American experience and its existential crises of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dinner With An Astronaut (Original)

  Chiao, Leroy

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  The inspiring journey of Leroy Chiao, one of the first Asian American astronauts in history, illuminating his remarkable path into space and the fascinating history of rocketry and space travel from its very beginnings Imagine if you could sit down…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• One & Only

  Goo, Maurene,

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  Cassia Park believes in soul mates. Fated love stories. It's her family business, after all...for centuries, from Korea to Los Angeles. Park women have peered into clients' past lives to find their one true love, their fated. This magical secret is…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Everyone Hot Pot

  Creating the Ultimate Meal for Gathering and Feasting

  Pickowicz, Natasha,

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  Hot pot is the ancient East Asian cookery method of rapidly poaching bite-size morsels of fresh vegetables, meats, seafood, and tofu in a tableside broth. This communal way of eating is perfect for home dinner parties where guests become active…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Good People

  Sabit, Patmeena,

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  The Sharaf family is the picture of success. Prosperous, rich, happy. They came to this country as refugees with nothing more than the clothes on their backs. And now, after years of hard work, they live in the most exclusive neighborhood, their…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Water Mirror Echo

  Bruce Lee and the Making of Asian America

  Chang, Jeff,

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  More than a half-century after his passing, Bruce Lee is as towering a figure to people around the world as ever. On his path to becoming a global icon, he popularized martial arts in the West, became a bridge to people and cultures from the East,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Capturing Kahanamoku

  How a Surfing Legend and a Scientific Obsession Redefined Race and Culture

  Rossi, Michael (Historian of science),

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  Deep in the archives of New Yorks American Museum of Natural History sits a wardrobe filled with fifty plaster casts of human heads a century old. How they came to be is the story of one of the most consequential, and yet least-known, encounters in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Midnight Taxi

  Gunasekera, Yosha,

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  Siriwathi Perera doesn't quite know where she's going in life. She never expected to be a taxicab driver in New York City, struggling to make ends meet and still living with her parents at twenty-eight. The true-crime podcasts that keep Siri company…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Last Thing Lost

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  Sarith Ou's narrow escape from the Khmer Rouge genocide took him on an improbable journey to small-town Wisconsin. Safe in America, his past still haunted him. With his new friend Roger, a Vietnam veteran turned psychologist, they set out to bring…Read moreRead more of this annotation