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Classics of Asian American Literature

The University of Washington Press publishes new editions of these classic works of fiction and memoirs, with new introductions by leading scholars and writers.

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Picture Bride

Picture Bride

A Novel

By Yoshiko Uchida. Foreword by Elena Tajima Creef

Seeking an escape from life in her small village in Japan, Hana Omiya arrives in California in 1917, one of thousands of Japanese “picture brides" whose arranged marriages brought them to the United States. When...

ISBN: 9780295751122

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Awake in the River and Shedding Silence

Awake in the River and Shedding Silence

By Janice Mirikitani. Foreword by Juliana Chang

Fierce, raw, and unapologetic, Janice Mirikitani’s poetry and prose are as vibrant and resonant today as when these two collections were first published in 1978 and 1987. Now back in print in one volume, Awake...

ISBN: 9780295749587

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Eat a Bowl of Tea

Eat a Bowl of Tea

By Louis Chu. Foreword by Fae Myenne Ng. Introduction by Jeffery Paul Chan

At the close of the Second World War, racist immigration laws trapped enclaves of old men in Chinatowns across the United States, preventing their wives or families from joining them. They took refuge from loneliness...

ISBN: 9780295747057

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Quiet Odyssey

Quiet Odyssey

A Pioneer Korean Woman in America

By Mary Paik Lee. Edited with an Introduction by Sucheng Chan. Foreword by David K. Yoo

Mary Paik Lee left her native country in 1905, traveling with her parents as a political refugee after Japan imposed control over Korea. Her father worked in the sugar plantations of Hawaii briefly before taking...

ISBN: 9780295746722

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Fifth Chinese Daughter

Fifth Chinese Daughter

By Jade Snow Wong. Introduction by Leslie Bow. Illustrated by Kathryn Uhl

Jade Snow Wong’s autobiography portrays her coming-of-age in San Francisco's Chinatown, offering a rich depiction of her immigrant family and her strict upbringing, as well as her rebellion against family and societal expectations for a...

ISBN: 9780295745909

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Aiiieeeee!

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...

ISBN: 9780295746487

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Pangs of Love and Other Writings

Pangs of Love and Other Writings

By David Wong Louie. Foreword by Viet Thanh Nguyen. Afterword by King-Kok Cheung

An apprentice sushi chef and a mysterious blue-eyed woman share a bottle of wine inside a climate-controlled otter tank. The Great Wall of China grumbles as workers forego construction to watch an imperial game of...

ISBN: 9780295745398

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Scent of Apples

Scent of Apples

A Collection of Stories

By Bienvenido N. Santos. Foreword by Jessica Hagedorn. Introduction by Allan Punzalan Isaac

Winner of the Before Columbus Foundation's American Book Award

This collection of sixteen stories brings the work of a distinguished Filipino writer to an American audience. Scent of Apples contains work from the 1940s to the...

ISBN: 9780295995113

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Desert Exile

Desert Exile

The Uprooting of a Japanese American Family

By Yoshiko Uchida. Introduction by Traise Yamamoto

After the attack on Pearl Harbor, everything changed for Yoshiko Uchida. Desert Exile is her autobiographical account of life before and during World War II. The book does more than relate the day-to-day experience of...

ISBN: 9780295994758

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No-No Boy

No-No Boy

By John Okada. Foreword by Ruth Ozeki. Introduction by Lawson Fusao Inada and Frank Chin

"No-No Boy has the honor of being among the first of what has become an entire literary canon of Asian American literature,” writes novelist Ruth Ozeki in her new foreword. First published in 1957, No-No...

ISBN: 9780295994048

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Yokohama, California

Yokohama, California

By Toshio Mori. Introduction to the 2015 Edition by Xiaojing Zhou. Introductions by William Saroyan and Lawson Fusao Inada

Yokohama, California, originally released in 1949, is the first published collection of short stories by a Japanese American. Set in a fictional community, these linked stories are alive with the people, gossip, humor, and legends...

ISBN: 9780295994741

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Citizen 13660

Citizen 13660

By Miné Okubo. Introduction by Christine Hong

Mine Okubo was one of over one hundred thousand people of Japanese descent - nearly two-thirds of whom were American citizens - who were forced into “protective custody” shortly after Pearl Harbor. Citizen 13660, Okubo's...

ISBN: 9780295993546

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Nisei Daughter

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...

ISBN: 9780295993553

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America Is in the Heart

America Is in the Heart

A Personal History

By Carlos Bulosan. Introduction by Marilyn C. Alquizola and Lane Ryo Hirabayashi

First published in 1943, this classic memoir by well-known Filipino poet Carlos Bulosan describes his boyhood in the Philippines, his voyage to America, and his years of hardship and despair as an itinerant laborer following...

ISBN: 9780295993539

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