This introduction gives an overview of Asian American literature

Headnote to Hisaye Yamamoto's "Seventeen Syllables" in The Heath Anthology.

Headnote and introduction to John Okada's No-No Boy in the anthology

The article uses McCunn’s Wooden Fish Songs as an example to articulate how to reimagine transnational and interracial Chinese American history. It emphasizes the importance of accepting and integrating varied views of scholars from Asia, North America, and other ethnic areas. Only so can we enrich Asian American Studies, and avoid blind patriotism and narrow nationalist psychology.

Reflections by the author, a Chinese American woman, on the opening ceremony of the 2008 Olympic Games in China.