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A list of some suggested texts by or about early figures in Asian American history.
Ida Pruitt, "A Daughter of Han: Autobiography of a Chinese Working Woman" An as-told to autobiography written by a long-time American resident in China.
Buwei Yang Chao, "Autobiography of a Chinese Woman," memoir of a woman who became half of a noted husband-and-wife team of scholars of Chinese linguistics
Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto, "A Daughter of the Samurai," memoir of the first Japanese woman to visit America.
Janice P. Nishimura, "Daughters of the Samurai," biography of three Japanese sisters who also were early visitors to America,
Yung Wing, the first Chinese student to graduate from an American university (Yale). There is a lot written about him.
Isabella Bird, intrepid Victorian traveller and pioneering photographer, took many pictures of China.
Ernest Fenollosa was a pioneering scholar of Asian (especially Japanese) art. He was an important influence on Ezra Pound.
Robert H. Van Gulik was a Dutch diplomat and scholar of Chinese esoterica. He is best known now as the author of the Judge Dee series of detective novels, written in the Chinese style.
Asian American populations in the USA, 2020
AAPI Data-mapping Asian and PI diversity
Violence against Asians during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Asian American, Pacific Island Data
Magazine:
https://asiamattersforamerica.org/asia/data/population
https://www.anychart.com/blog/2021/05/21/amazing-new-data-visualization/
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The Poetry Foundation: link to their page on Asian American Voices in Poetry.
"5 Asian American Poets you should know" (and an example poem for each):
VIJAY SESHADRI : “The Disappearances”
KIMIKO HAHN : “The Ashes”
