Books on Chinese and Asian California History
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Only What We Could Carry: The Japanese American Internment Experience
by Lawson Fusao Inada, 2000 $18.95 |
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| This book provides an important account of the Japanese American internment experience after the Japanese attack of Pearl Harbor. Personal documents, art and propaganda are presented in a title which captures the camp experience in a series of personal autobiographical revelations. | |
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Unbound Voices: A Documentary History of Chinese Women in San Francisco
by Judy Yung, 1999 $19.95 |
| Unbound Voices brings together the voices of Chinese
American women in a fascinating, intimate collection
of documents--letters, essays, poems, autobiographies,
speeches, testimonials, and oral histories--detailing
half a century of their lives in America. Together,
these sources provide a captivating mosaic of Chinese
women's experiences in their own words, as they tell
of making a home for themselves and their families in
San Francisco from the Gold Rush years through World
War II. | |
