The book display I set up for Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month (May) at work.
I can only work with what we have, and the store had no books about Pacific Islanders, and a lot of books are by Asian authors, not Asian Americans.
Also, I stretched "Asian" to include writers from Turkey and India--countries technically in Asia, but then, so is a lot of Russia...
I can only work with what we have, and the store had no books about Pacific Islanders, and a lot of books are by Asian authors, not Asian Americans.
Also, I stretched "Asian" to include writers from Turkey and India--countries technically in Asia, but then, so is a lot of Russia...
ABOVE: Michael Chow: Voice for My Father. Michael Chow, born Zhou Yinghua in Shanghai in 1939, was abruptly uprooted to England at the age of thirteen, where he lost his family and name. Voice for My Father illuminates Chow’s long journey, celebrating both father and son—the Beijing opera star Zhou Xinfang (1895–1975), and the artist and legendary restaurateur who has recently made a triumphant return to painting.
ABOVE: Wang Ping (Last Communist Virgin) was born in Shanghai, lives in St. Paul, MN.
ABOVE: Photograph on cover of ARTFORUM: Apprehension, by Seattle-based Chinese American Chao-Chen Yang, ca. 1942
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