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Aiiieeeee!

An Anthology of Asian American Writers

By Frank Chin, Jeffery Paul Chan, Lawson Fusao Inada, Shawn Wong, Tara Fickle

In the eyes of mid-twentieth-century white America, “Aiiieeeee!” was the one-dimensional cry from Asian Americans, their singular expression of all emotions—it signified and perpetuated the idea of Asian Americans as inscrutable, foreign, self-hating, undesirable, and...

Homebase

A Novel

By Shawn Wong

Homebase is the coming of age story of Rainsford Chan in 1950s and '60s California. Rainsford is a fourth-generation Chinese American named after the town where his great-grandfather worked during the gold rush. Orphaned at...

American Knees

By Shawn Wong. Introduction by Jeffrey F. L. Partridge

Read about the movie, Americanese, based on Shawn Wong's book, at: http://www.americanesethemovie.com

Zhi Lin

In Search of the Lost History of Chinese Migrants and the Transcontinental Railroads

By Rock Hushka, Shelley Fisher Fishkin, and Shawn Wong

In this pointed and resonant project, internationally acclaimed artist Zhi Lin refocuses on the forgotten Chinese laborers in America from an iconic moment in US history. In the nineteenth century, thousands of men migrated from...