What We Are Reading

The Asian American Author Series brings together outstanding Asian American authors to introduce their literary works and talk
about the experiences of American multiculturalism. Below are the most recent Asian American authors featured in the series.

Helen Zia’s Official Website

SpeakOut: Helen Zia’s Media, Testimonies, and Speeches

Women’s Media Center: Shesource

HELEN ZIA Last Boat Out of Shanghai

Jennifer 8. Lee’s New York Times Publications

The Fortune Cookie Chronicles

Wired: Don’t See Yourself on Your Emoji Keyboard? She Can Help
The Fortune Cookie TED Talk: Jennifer 8. Lee, The Hunt for General Tso
JENNIFER 8. LEE Chronicles

Shirley Lim’s Official Website

University of California: Shirley Lim’s Biography

Shirely Geok-Lin Lim: from Malaysia to California

The Shirley Lim Collection:
SHIRLEY LIM Passport and Other Lives

Gish Jen’s Official Website

Literary Hub: Gish Jen on the Profound Differences Between Chinese

and American Culture

GISH JEN The Resisters Looking at Gish Jen and the Conglomeration of Others
Karen Yamashita’s Biography
Author Gish Jen Explains Why She Created a Family of ‘Resisters’
The Atlantic: John Okada’s No-No Boy Is A Test of American
Character

In the Shadow of the I Hotel, Karen Tei Yamashita’s Epic Tale of San
Francisco’s Asian American Movement

KAREN YAMASHITA Sansei and Sensibility NPR: Karen Tei Yamashita & Other Stories

Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan’s Official Website

Foreign Policy: Cheryl Tan Publications

The Atlantic: All Stories by Cheryl Tan

CHERYL LU-LIEN TAN
Sarong Party Girls
 Qiu Xiaolong’s Official Website

Interview: Crime Writer Qiu Xiaolong on his Relationship with his

Most Famous Character

Qiu Xiaolong on Trump’s Trade War and His Latest Books

Shanghai Redemption
QIU XIAOLONG

Frank Ching’s Biography

The Way of One Family in China

Ancestors: 900 Years in the Life

The Roots of Revolution
of a Chinese Family
FRANK CHING

Shawn Wong’s Official Website

What’s at Stake in Keeping Asian American Classics in Print,

Shawn Wong
SHAWN WONG
Homebase Interview with Shawn Wong on Asian-American Literature

Author Magazine, Shawn Wong

What We Are Watching

The Asian American Experience in Their Own Words

Who Killed Vincent Chen, An Academy

Award-nominated Documentary by Christine
Choy and Renee Tajima-Peña

Finding Kukan, A documentary uncover the

forgotten story of Li Ling-Ai by Robin Lung

A Great Wall, An American Comedy Made in

China by Shirely Sun

A Podcast on Anna May Wong, The First

Chinese-American Hollywood Star

Inspector Chen-Hold Your Breath, China by Qiu Xiaolong

PBS: Asian Americans, Good Americans

PBS: Asian Americans, Breaking Through

PBS: Asian Americans, Generation Rising

PBS: Asian Americans, A Question of Loyalty

PBS: Asian Americans, Breaking Ground

 What We Are Learning
A collection of resources for the teaching and studying of Asians in America

Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project at Stanford University

National Endowment for Humanities AAPI Perspectives Within Humanities Education

Smithsonian Institution APA Heritage

Asian Pacific American Heritage Month Teaching Resource

Asia Society: Asian Americans Then and Now

Association for Asian American Studies

Asian Nation

The Center for Asian Pacific American Women

Asia Week

Asian American Writers’ Workshop

Organization of Chinese Americans

National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum (NAPAWF)