Extraordinary Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders /
Biographical sketches of notable Asian Americans and Pacific Islander Americans, from the nineteenth century up to the present.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Children's Press,
[2003]
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| Edition: | Rev. ed. |
| Series: | Extraordinary people.
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Table of Contents:
- Davida Malo, 1795-1853
- Yung Wing, 1828-1912
- Queen Lydia Liliuokalani, 1838-1917
- Travelers to Gold Mountain, 1848
- Polly Bemis (Lalu Nathoy), 1853-1933
- Chinese laundry workers, 1850s
- Chinese railroad workers, 1860s
- Sugarcane workers in Hawaii, 1870s
- Prisoners of Angel Island
- D.T. Suzuki, 1870-1966
- Mary Kawena Pukui, 1895-1986
- Chiura Obata, 1888-1975
- "Sessue" Kintaro Hayakawa, 1890-1973
- Pablo Manlapit 1891-1969
- James Wong Howe, 1899-1976
- Dalip Singh Saund, 1899-1973
- Isamu Noguchi, 1904-1988
- Philip Vera Cruz, 1904-1994
- Anna May Wong, 1905-1961
- S.I. Hayakawa, 1906-1992
- Hiram Leong Fong, 1906-
- Toshio Mori, 1910-1980
- Bienvenido Santos, 1911-1996
- Carlos Bulosan, 1911-1956
- Ahn Chang-Ho, 1878-1938
- Philip Ahn, 1905-1978
- Chien-Shiung Wu, 1912-1997
- Minoru Yamasaki, 1912-1986
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga, 1916-1990
- I.M. Pei, 1917-
- Joyce Chen, 1918-1994
- An Wang, 1920-1990
- Sammy Lee, 1920-
- Yoshiko Uchida, 1921-1992
- Jade Snow Wong, 1922-
- Daniel K. Inouye, 1924-
- Tsung Dao Lee, 1926- ; Chen Ning Yang, 1922-
- Patsy Takemoto Mink, 1927-2002
- K.W. Lee, 1928-
- Gerard Tsai Jr., 1928-
- Toshiko Akiyoshi, 1929-
- Chang-Lin Tien, 1935-
- Norman Mineta, 1932-
- Nam June Paik, 1932-
- Yoko Ono, 1933-
- Seiji Ozawa, 1935-
- Zubin Mehta, 1936-
- Allen Say, 1937-
- Betta Bao Lord, 1938-
- Maxine Hong Kingston, 1940-
- Bruce Lee, 1940-1973
- Dith Pran, 1942-
- Internment camp inmates, 1942-1945
- Gordon Hirabayashi, Fred Korematsu, and Minoru Yasui, Internment resistance fighters
- Ellison S. Onizuka, 1946-1986
- Connie Chung, 1946-
- Lawrence Yep, 1948-
- June Kuramoto, 1948-
- Wayne Wang, 1949-
- Vera Wang, 1949-
- Gary Locke, 1950-
- Eugene H. Trinh, 1950-
- Amy Tan, 1952-
- Myung-Whun Chung, 1953-
- Elaine Chao, 1953-
- Ang Lee, 1954-
- Yo-Yo Ma, 1955-
- Gish Jen, 1955-
- David Henry Hwang, 1957-
- Maya Ying Lin, 1959-
- Greg Louganis, 1960-
- Jerry Yang, 1968-
- Midori, 1971-
- Kristi Yamaguchi, 1971-
- Michael Chang, 1972-
- Vietnamese boat people, 1970s
- Hmong refugees, 1970s
- Tiger Woods, 1975-
- Michelle Kwan, 1980-
- Anoushka Shankar, 1982-.