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Madeline Y. Hsu
Asian American History

Very Short Introductions : Brilliant, Sharp, InspiringAsians have migrated to North America for centuries, in search of opportunities and conveyed by increasingly dense, international circuits of trade, l…

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Smithsonian Asian Pacific American History, Art, and Culture in 101 Objects

A rich and compelling introduction to the history of Asian Pacific American communities as told through 101 objects, from a fortune cookie baking mold to the debut Ms. Marvel comic featuring Kamala Khan A…

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Gordon H Chang
War, Race, and Culture

"Writing history, the systematic effort to understand the human past, is a demanding intellectual endeavor. For historian Gordon H. Chang, it has also been a personal and moral enterprise intimately …

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Scott Kurashige
American Peril

This probing account shines a new light on the problem of anti-Asian violence and inspires us to build lasting solidarity.During the COVID-19 pandemic, racist demagoguery fomented a campaign of terror aga…

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Erika Lee, Christina Soontornvat
Made in Asian America: A History for Young People

"Powerful. . . . Made in Asian America isn't just about the past. It's about the history being made right now by young people, inspired by the Asian Americans who came before them to ensure that our …

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Phil Tajitsu Nash
Our Place in History

A long overdue counternarrative to the story of Asian Americans as passive participants in the American storyInterest in Asian American issues and the place of Asian Americans in U.S. history has surged i…

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Diego Javier Luis
The First Asians in the Americas

Diego Javier Luis tells the story of transpacific Asian movement to and through the Spanish Americas. On arrival in Mexico, diverse Asian peoples became "chinos" subject to the colonial caste sy…

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Charlotte Decroes Jacobs
90 Seconds to Midnight

90 Seconds to Midnight tells the gripping and thought-provoking story of Setsuko Nakamura Thurlow, a thirteen-year-old girl living in Hiroshima in 1945, when the city was annihilated by an atomic bomb. St…

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Muzaffar Alam, Sanjay Subrahmanyam
Mirrors of Empire

Approaches the history of the Mughal Empire at the level of human experience, through a diverse group of autobiographical narratives.Starting from 1526, the Mughals ruled over much of India for three cent…

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Bo Tao
Cooperative Evangelist

"Cooperative Evangelist uncovers the extraordinary world of a Japanese man who was once described as the "Saint Francis" or the "Gandhi" of Japan. A renowned religious figure on t…

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Jung Chang
Fly, Wild Swans

The magnificent follow-up to Wild Swans, the multimillion copy, internationally bestselling sensation that traces the history of modern China through the true stories of three generations of courageous wo…

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Steven Schwankert
The Six

"When RMS Titanic sank on a cold night in 1912, barely seven hundred people escaped with their lives. Among them were six Chinese men. Arriving in New York, these six were met with suspicion and slan…

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Charlotte Brooks
The Moys of New York and Shanghai

The most extraordinary family you've never heard of. Born to Chinese immigrant parents, the Moy siblings grew up in an America that questioned their citizenship and denied their equality. Sophisticated an…

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Gregg Jones
Most Honorable Son

The first and only comprehensive biography of unjustly forgotten war hero Ben Kuroki, a Japanese American farm boy from Nebraska who flew fifty-eight combat missions during World War II while battling rac…

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Kendra Strand
An Unfamiliar Place

In mid-fourteenth-century Japan, amid decades of civil unrest caused by a violent rivalry over imperial succession, three men embarked on journeys that would lead them to reimagine their world: the second…

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Chantha Nguon
Slow Noodles

A haunting and beautiful memoir from a Cambodian refugee who lost her country and her family during Pol Pot's genocide in the 1970s but who finds hope by reclaiming the recipes she tasted in her mother's …

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Marc Petitjean,
A Remarkable Man

"A poignant, eye-opening portrait of a witness to the atomic bomb who dedicated his life to treating and advocating for radiation survivors. As a young doctor, Shuntaro Hida (1917-2017) played an ess…

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Ju Yon Kim
Paper Performance

Since the late nineteenth century, various agencies of the U.S. government have attempted to manage "suspect" immigrants, colonial subjects, and activists of Asian descent through bureaucratic p…

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Ju Yon Kim
Paper Performance

Since the late nineteenth century, various agencies of the U.S. government have attempted to manage "suspect" immigrants, colonial subjects, and activists of Asian descent through bureaucratic p…

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Zhongping Chen
The Transpacific Chinese Diaspora

Zhongping Chen examines the origins, rise, and reform of the Cantonese-dominated Chinese diaspora in Canada between 1788 and 1898. Combining a diasporic approach with both qualitative and quantitative ana…

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