Captures the tone of everyday life in an American Chinatown, describing its bachelor society and focusing on a young couple who must reconcile their dreams of married life with reality.
Demonstrates that Asian American male and female writers engage different strategies in the struggle to adapt, reflecting their particular, gender-based relationships to immigration, work, and cultural representation.
In connection with an exhibit at the Portland Art museum depicting the artistry of the the Meiji era, the Nikkei Legacy Center produced an exhibit of the Meiji-era's most important export: immigrants. The exhibit is called From Meiji to the New…