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Bound Feet and Western Dress

As a first-generation Chinese-American dutifully majoring in Chinese studies, Pang-Mei Natasha Chang stumbled across the name of her great-aunt Chang Yu-i in a history book. To Pang-Mei's astonishment, her eighty-three-year-old aunt, best known in…

Bound for Owens Valley

A photocopy of a picture that appeared in the local papers showed Tatsumi Miyajima checking his rocking chair as he prepared to drive his car to the Manzanar internment camp.

Bowling Tournaments - A National JACL Pastime

History of Japanese Americans in bowling. It took years for Japanese Americans and other minorities to be included into the American Bowling Congress.

Bows and Arrows Surrendered by Seattle Japanese

T.T. Hayashi, a Japanese alien, turned in his bows and arrows to Seattle police headquarters after learning that they were among the items banned among aliens.

Boy on the Lion Throne: The Childhood of the 14th Dalai Lama

Follows the childhood of the 14th Dalai Lama from his simple life in a mountain village to the thousand-room Potala Palace and his perilous escape into exile.