Subject: Immigrants--United States

Among the white moon faces : an Asian-American memoir of homelands
AuthorLim, Geok-Lin, Shirley
PlaceNew York
PublisherThe Feminist Press
CollectionRicci Institute Library
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook
ShelfStacks
Call NumberPS3562.I459 1996
Description232 p. 23 cm
Note

Among the White Moon Faces. An Asian-American Memoir of Homelands / Shirley Geok-lin Lim.

Shirley Geok-lin Lim's memoir is a courageously frank and deeply affecting account of a Malaysian girlhood and of the making of an Asian-American woman, writer, and teacher. With insight, candor, and grace, Lim reveals the material poverty and violence of her childhood in colonized and then war-torn Malaysia after her father's business fails and her mother abandons the family, leaving Shirley to travel the road toward womanhood alone. Lim's decision in 1968 to leave Malaysia and the man she loves for a Fulbright Scholarship at Brandeis University marks a crucial turning point in her life. Grappling to secure a place for herself in the United States, Lim is often caught between the stifling traditions of the old world and the harsh challenges of the new. But throughout her journey, she is sustained by her warrior spirit. Very gradually, and often painfully, she moves from a numbing alienation as a dislocated Asian woman to a new sense of identity as an Asian American woman: professor, wife, mother of a son she determines to raise as an American, and, above all, an impassioned writer. (Book Blurb) 

ISBN9781558617902
Coat of many colors : reflections on diversity by a minority of one
AuthorEoyang, Eugene
PlaceBoston
PublisherBeacon Press
CollectionRicci Institute Library
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook
ShelfStacks
Call NumberE184.A1 E62 1995
Descriptionxix, 188 p. ; 23 cm.
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Coat of many colors : reflections on diversity by a minority of one / Eugene Eoyang.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-181) and index.

ISBN0807004200 ; 9780807004203
LCCN94013421
Fifth Chinese daughter
AuthorWong, Jade Snow
PlaceSeattle, London
PublisherUniversity of Washington Press
CollectionRicci Institute Library
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook
ShelfStacks
Call NumberNK4210.W55 A2 1989
Description246 p. : illustrations ; 20 cm
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Fifth Chinese daughter / Jade Snow Wong ; with a new introduction by the author ; illustrations by Kathryn Uhl.

The world was new -- The world grows -- Forgiveness from heaven -- Grandmother and her world back home -- Lucky to be born a Chinese -- Uncle Kwok -- Learning to be a Chinese housewife -- The taste of independence -- Saturday's reward and Sunday's holiday -- "One who or that which slips" -- With eyes on China -- Cousin Kee -- A person as well as a female -- Girl meets boy -- A measure of freedom -- Marriage old and new style -- An unexpected offer--and a decision -- "Learning can never be poor or exhausted" -- Musicians on and off stage -- She finds her hands -- A summer of excitements -- Sending the ships to war -- "A little child shall lead them" -- Rediscovering Chinatown -- The sanctum of harmonious spring -- Alas, she was born too tall -- A life plan is cast -- "The work of one day is gazed upon for one thousand days."

ISBN9780295745916