Book Reviews

In-Between Souls (p. 179-180)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Paper Shadows: A Chinatown Childhood by Wayson Choy

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Lake and Other Stories by Gerry Shikatani
  • Splendid Monarchy: Powerand Pageantry in Modern Japan by Takashi Fujitani
  • Picture Bride by Yoshiko Uchida

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Me and Mr. Mah by Andrea Spalding and Janet Wilson
  • The Stoneboat by Teddy Jam and Ange Zhang

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Mothertalk: Life Stories of Mary Kiyoshi Kiyooka by Roy Kiyooka and Daphne Marlatt
  • Pacific Windows: Collected Poems of Roy K. Kiyooka by Roy Kiyooka and Roy Miki

Between Borders (p. 186-187)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Excluded Wife by Yuen-Fong Woon
  • Haunting the Tiger: Contemporary Stories from Malaysia by K. S. Maniam

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Making Vancouver: Class, Status, and Social Boundaries, 1863-1913 by Robert A. J. McDonald

The Rising Daughter (p. 189-191)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Mountain Is Moving: Japanese Women's Lives by Patricia Morley
  • From My Grandmother's Bedside: Sketches of Postwar Tokyo by Norma Field

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Electrical Field by Kerri Sakamoto

Traveler’s Tales (p. 193-195)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Picture Brides: Japanese Women in Canada by Tomoko Makabe and Kathleen Chisato Merken
  • The Japan We Never Knew: A Journey of Discovery by David Suzuki and Keibo Oiwa

Varied Stories (p. 195-197)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A Larger Memory: A History of Our Diversity, With Voices by Ronald Takaki
  • Choose Me by Evelyn Lau

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Kowloon Tong by Paul Theroux
  • Transporting the Emporium: Hong Kong Art & Writing Through the Ends of Time by Scott McFarlane
  • Images of Asian American Women by Asian American Women Writers by Esther Mikyung Ghymn

Chinese Speak (p. 200-204)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A Leaf in the Bitter Wind by Ye Ting-xing
  • Hong Kong Poems by Andrew Parkin and Laurence Wong
  • Ingratitude by Ying Chen and Carol Volk
  • China Dog and Other Tales from a Chinese Laundry by Judy Fong Bates

Non-Generic Brands (p. 204-206)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Monkeypuzzle by Rita Wong
  • The Girl from Ermita & Selected Poems: 1961-1998 by Goh Poh Seng
  • The Boy in the Attic by Paul Yee and Gu Xiong

Women Writing Women (p. 206-208)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Masking Selves, Making Subjects: Japanese American Women, Identity, and the Body by Traise Yamamoto
  • In Her Own Words: Japanese American Women, Identity, and the Body by Jill Ker Conway

Anthologizing Asia (p. 208-211)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Canadian Culture and Literature and a Taiwan Perspective by Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek and Yiu-nam Leung
  • Pacific Encounters: The Production of Self and Other by Eva-Marie Kröller, Allan Smith, Joshua S. Mostow and Robert Kramer