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The Way of Chuang Tzu

Free renderings of selections from the works of Chuang-tzu, taken from various translations.

Pale Ink: Two Ancient Records of Chinese Exploration in America

Evidence of Chinese coming to America in early 400 -500 ce

Japanese Problem

A letter writer to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer said that the Japanese on the West Coast should be sent to some inland area where they could produce war material and farm produce to aid in the war effort and would be safe from possible mob violence…

Captive Hearts

Two American airmen meet very different fates when their bomber is shot down over wartime Japan.

The African Presence in Mexico: From the Yanga to the Present

isc A: Units & lessons: Unit 1: The world of the 1400's, setting the stage ; Unit 2: African presence in colonial Mexico ; Unit 3: Documenting the third root, making culture visible through photographs ; Unit 4: Maroon communities & slave resistance…

"Sato"

A man wrote a piece for The Progressive in which he said that he had been helped when he was down and out and searching for a job, and he applied at a restaurant where he lied about his experience as a cook but was helped and befriended by a Japanese…