Films and books from Asian American Perspectives

Have you ever wondered about your own culture?
Are you curious about your neighbor’s history?
A series of Asian-related books & films are on display or available online

American Chinese Stories:

Forever struggle: activism, identity, & survival in Boston’s Chinatown: 1880-2018

American born Chinese

The Joy Luck Club

Other East Asian related

Pachinko

“Taiwan Cinema: International Reception and Social Change” Chapters 11 – 14.

Seventeen books and films with QR codes on display.

Novels About China:

My Year Abroad

Lotus: A Novel

Red sorghum

A Chinese Life

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (film)

Research About China

Little emperors and material girls: sex and youth in modern China

Chinese Families: Tradition, Modernization, and Change

Modern China: a very short introduction

Leftover in China: the women shaping the world’s next superpower

The man who loved China: the fantastic story of the eccentric scientist who unlocked the mysteries of the Middle Kingdom