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The Beautiful Generation: Asian Americans and the Cultural ...

The Beautiful Generation: Asian Americans and the Cultural ...

Thuy Linh N. Tu

Quoted in Syl Tang, ''China's Designs on Global Chic,'' Financial Times, October 8, 2005. 24. Quoted in Suzy Menkes, ''Taking China: Vera Wang's Long March,'' International Herald Tribune, November 8, 2005. 25. See, for instance, Gopinath  ...
Ru: A Novel

Ru: A Novel

Kim Thúy

Kim Thúy's Ru is literature at its most crystalline: the flow of a life on the tides of unrest and on to more peaceful waters.
Ru

Ru

Kim Thuy

Ru: In Vietnamese it means lullaby; in French it is a small stream, but also signifies a flow - of tears, blood, money.
Maddie

Maddie

Brian Caswell

When Maddie lived in Vietnam, she was called Mai Linh.
Ru: A Novel

Ru: A Novel

Kim Thúy

The novel's title, Ru, has meaning in both Kim's native and adoptive languages: in Vietnamese, ru is a lullaby; in French, a stream. And it provides the perfect name for this slim yet potent novel.
Only the Heart

Only the Heart

Brian Caswell

Only The Heart is the story of Toan and Linh and a family that endures the nightmare in search of the dream. When logic says the dream is beyond your reach only heart knows the truth …
Ru

Ru

Kim Thúy

"Written with piercing clarity, sharp observation and sly wit, Ru carries us on an unforgettable journey from a palatial residence in Saigon to a crowded and muddy Malaysian refugee camp, and onward to a new beginning in Quebec.
Erotic Justice: Law and the New Politics of Postcolonialism

Erotic Justice: Law and the New Politics of Postcolonialism

Ratna Kapur

I am particularly grateful for comments provided by Doris Buss, Thuy Do, SusanMarks, Dianne Otto,Lynn Savery and Chantal Thomas. I would liketothank BrigitteKurt, Aparna Ravi andConnie Chang fortheir research assistance. Everybookis ...
Chinatown and China City in Los Angeles

Chinatown and China City in Los Angeles

Jenny Cho

... Shay McAtee, J. Eric Lynxwiler, Sheldon E. Cohen, Milton Quon, Mike Quon ( www.quonart.com), Sherrill Quon, Gunnar Kullenberg, Pauline Wong, Linh Duong, Long Truong, Christina Rice, Terri Garst, Matthew Mattson, William Chun- Hoon, ...
Những hiện tượng bí ẩn: thế giới tâm linh

Những hiện tượng bí ẩn: thế giới tâm linh

Mary Ann Winkowski

Mary Ann Winkowski er gift og mor til to voksne døtre. Hun bor i Ohio, går i kirke hver søndag, og kan se og tale med spøgelser. I denne bog fortæller Mary Ann hendes utrolige historie.

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