Category: Asian Diaspora

  • Alien Citizen: An Earth Odyssey [solo show] USA Projects 2012 Elizabeth Liang Los Angeles Over the last two years, I’ve developed Alien Citizen (originally titled Unpacked) at the David Henry Hwang Writers Institute, Terrie Silverman’s “Start to Finish Solo-Show” Master Class, and on my own.  I performed segments of it at the “5,000 Women” Festival…

  • Han Suyin Dies; Wrote Sweeping Fiction The New York Times 2012-11-05 Margalit Fox Han Suyin, a physician and author known for writing the sweeping novel that became the Hollywood film “Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing” and for her outspoken championing of China under Mao Zedong, died on Friday at her home in Lausanne, Switzerland. As…

  • Han Suyin’s Many-Splendored World The New York Times 1985-01-25 Georgia Dullea Being remembered as the author of  ”A Many-Splendored Thing,” the semiautobiographical love story of a Eurasian physician and a British journalist in Hong Kong, which inspired a sentimental movie and an even more sentimental song, is a bore, says Han Suyin, 33 years and…

  • Being Amerasian in South Korea: Purebloodness, Multiculturalism, and Living Alongside the U.S. Military Empire The Ohio State University June 2012 96 pages Yuri W. Doolan Honors Research Thesis Presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for graduation with Honors Research Distinction in History in the undergraduate colleges of The Ohio State University This thesis focuses…

  • Race, Religion, and Law in Colonial India. Trials of an Interracial Family [Review] Reviews in History: Covering books and digital resources across all fields of history October 2012 Peter Robb, Research Professor of the History of India School of Oriental and African Studies University of London Race, Religion, and Law in Colonial India. Trials of…

  • Race, Religion and Law in Colonial India: Trials of an Interracial Family Cambridge University Press November 2011 286 pages 6 b/w illus. 3 maps 228 x 152 mm; 0.51kg Hardback ISBN: 9781107012615 Adobe eBook ISBN: 9781139181242 Mobipocket eBook: ISBN:9781139184861 Chandra Mallampalli, Associate Professor of History Westmont College, Santa Barbara, California How did British rule in…

  • Drawn in Bloodlines: Blood, Pollution, Identity, and Vampires in Japanese Society University of Texas, Austin May 2012 117 pages Benjamin Paul Miller Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of The University of Texas at Austin in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts This thesis is an examination…

  • In 1898, journalist Louis J. Beck offered the reading public what he saw as a valuable case study in “heredity and racial traits and tendencies.” This case study was none other than the infamous “half-breed” criminal George Washington Appo (1856–1930), whose name was virtually a household word for New Yorkers of the time.

  • Amerasians Atmo 1998-10-22 52 minutes Erik Gandini, Director/Producer In 1988, after the Congress passed the Amerasian Homecoming Act, Vietnamese youngsters who could prove they had been fathered by an American were issued with a ticket for the U.S. and granted six months ”upkeep”. Overnight, society’s lowest ranks became ”golden children”, able to take a whole…

  • Event: Joe Bataan, the Afro-Filipino King of Latin Soul Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Program National Museum of Natural History Baird Auditorium 10th & Constitution Avenue, NW Washington, D.C. 20530 Friday, 2012-10-19, 18:30-21:00 EDT (Local Time) “Latin soul comes straight from the streets of Harlem. It’s a cha-cha backbeat with English lyrics and a pulsating rhythm…