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Sweet Cakes, Long Journey

The Chinatowns of Portland, Oregon

By Marie Rose Wong

Around the turn of the twentieth century, and for decades thereafter, Oregon had the second largest Chinese population in the United States. In terms of geographical coverage, Portland’s two Chinatowns (one an urban area of...

Nisei Daughter

By Monica Sone. Introduction by Marie Rose Wong

With charm, humor, and deep understanding, Monica Sone tells what it was like to grow up Japanese American on Seattle’s waterfront in the 1930s and to be subjected to “relocation” during World War II. Along...