The Asian Pacific American Heritage

by Leonard, George

• ISBN13: 9780815329800
• ISBN10: 0815329806
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-10-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Meeting the challenge of teaching multiculturalism Students-and their teachers-encountering literature and arts from unfamiliar cultures will welcome the special help this book provides. Instructors who are unfamiliar with Asian Pacific cultures are now being asked to explain a reference to the Year of the Rat, Obon Season, or to interpret a haiku. When Amy Tan refers to the Moon Lady or the Kitchen God, what does she mean? Is Confucianism actually a religion? This book answers these and many other questions, for students, teachers, and the librarians to whom they turn for help. Provides sound information on in-demand topics TheCompanionpresents lengthy articles-written specifically for this book-on the topics that unlock the work of a number of contemporary Asian Pacific American writers and artists, for example: Asian naming systems, the "model minority" discourse, Chinese diaspora, Filipino American values, the Confucian family and its tensions, Japanese internment,Mao's Great Cultural Revolution, the Korean alphabet, food and ethnic identity, religious traditions, Fengshui and Chinese medicine, Filipino folk religion, Hmong needlework, and reading Asian characters in English, just to name a few. Covers major contemporary writers The articles are coupled with in-depth studies of the authors most likely to be part of the multicultural curriculum during the next decade, among them Maxine Hong Kingston, Frank Chin, Amy Tan, Younghill Kang, Carlos Bulosan, Jessica Hagedorn, Lawson Fusao Inada, Garret Hongo, David Henry Hwang, Kim Ronyoung, and Cathy Song. Expert contributors This volume was created under the supervision of distinguished Advisory Editors from the Asian Pacific American community. The contributors, a Who's Who of Asian Pacific American humanistic scholarship, are frequently the founders of their disciplines, and most are from the ethnic group being written about. Helps studentsunderstand arts andliterature Multicultural courses are generally taught by exposing students to literature or arts, with reference to their political, sociological, and historical contexts. This book is designed to help students reading novels, watching films, and confronting artworks with information needs quite different from those of social scientists and historians.

Table of Contents

Preface	xiii	(10)
George J. Leonard
Introduction	xxiii
George J. Leonard
PART I. FUNDAMENTALS	3	(38)
1. Reading Asian Characters in English Why "Chou" and "Zhou" Are the Same Word, and They Are Both Pronounced "Joe": The Perils of Reading Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Characters Transliterated into English; with Notes on Vietnamese and Thai	3	(12)
George J. Leonard
2. Characters: The Asian Ideogram Systems An Invitation for Beginning Students	15	(14)
George J. Leonard
3. Asian Naming Systems Is Du Xiao Bao Mr. Du or Mr. Bao? Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, and Southeast Asian Naming Systems	29	(6)
George J. Leonard
4. The "Model Minority" Discourse	35	(6)
Brian Niiya
PART II. THE FAMILY AND THE SELF	41	(130)
5. Confucius and the Asian American Family A Personal View	41	(26)
George J. Leonard
6. My Grandfather's Concubines A First-Generation Woman Remembers Life in Peking	67	(18)
Molly H. Isham
7. Japanese American Life in the Twentieth Century A Personal Journey	85	(28)
K. Morgan Yamanaka
8. The Nisei Go to War The Japanese American 442nd Regimental Combat Team	113	(6)
Brian Niiya
9. Being Nisei Reflections on the Second Generation of Japanese Americans "Building the Nisei-style House"--A Guide for Sansei	119	(4)
Brian Niiya
10. Being Sansei Reflections on the Third Generation of Japanese Americans	123	(4)
Brian Niiya
11. First-Generation Memories One Filipina's Story	127	(12)
Salve Millard
Max Millard
12. Filipino American Values	139	(4)
Daniel Gonzales
13. Korean American One-Point-Five	143	(8)
Jeeyeon Lee
14. The Lizard Hunter My Life as a Vietnamese Girl	151	(20)
Thuy Tran
PART III. ROOTS, TRADITIONS, AND ASIAN PACIFIC LIFE: THE OLD COUNTRY AND ITS CULTURAL LEGACY	171	(128)
15. Food and Ethnic Identity Theory	171	(10)
Robert A. Leonard
Wendy J. Saliba
16. Chinese Food	181	(8)
Mary Scott
17. Japanese Food	189	(8)
Mary Scott
18. Filipino Food	197	(2)
Ed Romero
Dan Gonzales
Max Millard
Salve Millard
19. Korean Food	199	(8)
Jeeyeon Lee
20. Vietnamese Food	207	(6)
Chuong Hoang Chung
21. Southeast Asian Food The Durian and Beyond	213	(6)
Robert A. Leonard
Wendy J. Saliba
22. Tea	219	(10)
Kakuzo Okakura
23. Fengshui, Chinese Medicine, and Correlative Thinking	229	(8)
Mary Scott
24. Lunar New Year, the Moon Lady, and the Moon Festival	237	(10)
Molly H. Isham
25. Obon Season in Little Tokyo The Persistence of Community	247	(4)
Brian Niiya
26. Filipinos and Religion	251	(20)
Salve Millard
Max Millard
Marie Castillo-Pruden
27. Maoism and Surviving the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution My Personal Experiences from 1966 to 1976	271	(28)
Molly H. Isham
PART IV. ASIAN PACIFIC CULTURE: DIASPORA	299	(34)
28. The Chinese Diaspora A Selection from the Work of Evelyn Hu-DeHart	299	(12)
Evelyn Hu-DeHart
29. The Arrival of the Asians in California The Six Companies	311	(6)
Steven A. Chin
30. The Early History of Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, and Filipinos in America	317	(6)
Brian Niiya
31. Chinatown, 1899	323	(10)
C.A. Higgins
PART V. LITERATURE	333	(216)
32. Dialect, Standard, and Slang Sociolinguistics and Ethnic American Literature	333	(18)
Robert A. Leonard
33. Dialect Literature in America Theory	351	(12)
James J. Kohn
34. Roots The Journey to the West	363	(6)
Mary Scott
35. Roots Japanese Haiku and Matsuo Basho	369	(8)
George J. Leonard
36. The Beginnings of Chinese Literature in America The Angel Island Poems: Two Poems by Xu of Xiangshan	377	(4)
Simei Leonard
George J. Leonard
37. D.T. Suzuki and the Creation of Japanese American Zen	381	(14)
George J. Leonard
38. Asian American Literary Pioneers	395	(18)
Jeffery Paul Chan
George J. Leonard
39. Asian American Literature The Canon and the First Generation	413	(10)
S.E. Solberg
40. First-Generation Writings Younghill Kang and Carlos Bulosan	423	(4)
S.E. Solberg
41. Asian American Autobiographical Tradition	427	(8)
Brian Niiya
42. Frank Chin First Asian American Dramatist	435	(4)
Jeffery Paul Chan
43. Maxine Hong Kingston	439	(8)
Amy Ling
Patricia P. Chu
44. A Reader's Guide to Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club	447	(26)
Molly H. Isham
45. David Henry Hwang	473	(8)
Patricia P. Chu
46. A Reader's Guide to Cebu and Dark Blue Suit Based on Interviews with Its Author, Peter Bacho	481	(16)
George J. Leonard
Diane Rosenblum
47. Jessica Hagedorn An Interview with a Filipina Novelist	497	(10)
Joyce Jenkins
48. Lawson Fusao Inada Japanese American Poet	507	(6)
Jeffery Paul Chan
George J. Leonard
49. Garret Hongo An Interview with a Hawaiian Japanese American Poet	513	(2)
Jenny Stern
50. The Literature of Korean America	515	(12)
S.E. Solberg
51. The Korean American Novel Kim Ronyoung A Memoir by Her Daughter	527	(8)
Kim Hahn
52. Discovering Korean American Literature The Manuscript of Clay Walls	535	(2)
S.E. Solberg
53. Clay Walls The Great Korean American Novel	537	(4)
S.E. Solberg
54. Cathy Song and the Korean American Experience in Poetry Peering Through "Frameless Windows, Squares of Light"	541	(8)
S.E. Solberg
PART VI. THE ARTS	549	(70)
55. Chinese Opera	549	(6)
Mary Scott
56. Bernardo Bertolucci and the Westernization of The Last Emperor A Conversation with Bernardo Bertolucci's Advisor, the Emperor's Grand Tutor's son, Leo Chen	555	(12)
George J. Leonard
57. A Viewer's Guide to Wayne Wang's Dim Sum An Interview with Its Star and Co-Screenwriter, Laureen Chew	567	(18)
George J. Leonard
58. Asian American Visual Arts An Interview with Betty Kano	585	(6)
Timothy Drescher
59. Story Cloths The Hmong, the Mien, and the Making of an Asian American Art	591	(16)
George J. Leonard
60. Toi Hoang Painting and Healing	607	(4)
Amy Feldman
61. First-Generation Painting A Conversation Among Hung Liu, George J. Leonard, and Jeff Kelley	611	(8)
Jeff Kelley
Appendix A. Asian Pacific American Chronology and Statistics	619	(24)
Diane Rosenblum
David Woo
Claire Eckman
Stephen Egawa
Debbie Lee
Galin Luk
Max Millard
Appendix B. A Cultural Lexicon for Asian Pacific Studies	643	(26)
Amy Feldman
Daniel Gonzales
Geoffrey Nathan
Contributors	669	(12)
Index	681