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No textbooks! — Books you will actually want to read

September 12, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Samantha Pak Northwest Asian Weekly Nisei Daughter By Monica Sone University of Washington Press, 2014 Growing up in Seattle in the 1920s and 1930s, Monica Sone constantly battled with her Japanese heritage and her American home. From the time she was 5 and told by her parents that she and her older brother Henry […]

Filed Under: On the Shelf Tagged With: 2014, Aman Sethi, Beggars Court, China, Lu Hsiu-lien, Meet Mohammad Ashraf, Monica Sone, Nationalist Party, Nisei Daughter, Northwest Asian Weekly, Norton Company, Old Delhi Railway Station, Pearl Harbor, Seattle, Taiwan, United States, Vol 33 No 38 | September 13 - September 19, Washington Press

August reading recommendations

August 10, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Samantha Pak Northwest Asian Weekly Pioneer Girl By Bich Minh Nguyen Viking, 2014 Ever since she received the box set from her grandfather when she turned 8, Lee Lien has always loved Laura Ingalls Wilder’s “Little House on the Prairie” books.

Filed Under: On the Shelf Tagged With: 2014, Beijing Ballet, Carlos Bulosan, Chinatown, Filipino, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Lee Lien, Little House, Pacific Ocean, Philippines, Pioneer Girl, United States, Vietnamese, Vol 33 No 33 | August 9 - August 15, Washington Press, poverty

Ground broken on Hirabayashi Place development

January 30, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Sue Misao Northwest Asian Weekly About 150 people attended the groundbreaking ceremony for the Hirabayashi Place, a new housing

Filed Under: Features, Community News Tagged With: 2012, 2013, 2014, Esther Furugori, Gordon Hirabayashi, Hirabayashi Place, InterIm, Japanese Americans, Jay Hirabayashi, Main Street, Nihonmachi Little Japantown, President Barack Obama, Seattle Kokon Taiko, Sue Misao, Vol 33 No 6 | February 1 - February 7, WWII, Washington Press

Old Seattle artfully captured by Issei painters

February 10, 2012 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Andrew Hamlin Northwest Asian Weekly As part of the Seattle Asian Art Museum’s “Painting Seattle” exhibit, canvases by Kamekichi Tokita occupy one showroom wall. Works from Kenjiro Nomura are exhibited on the opposite wall. The two men, friends, co-workers, and Japanese American Issei chroniclers of their hometown, shared much but also diverged as they […]

Filed Under: Features, Features, Community News Tagged With: 2012, Andrew Hamlin, Barbara Johns, George Tsutakawa, Japanese American Issei, Kamekichi Tokita, Kenjiro Nomura, Northwest Asian Weekly, Noto Sign Company, Old Seattle, Painting Seattle, Professor Johns, Seattle Asian Art Museum, Vol 31 No 7 | February 11 - February 17, Washington Press

Author Ron Chew tells often forgotten story of murdered Filipino cannery workers

February 2, 2012 By Northwest Asian Weekly

For Northwest Asian Weekly Ron Chew, executive director of the International Community Health Services Foundation, said his recently completed book on Silme Domingo and Gene Viernes, two young cannery union officials murdered in 1981, is the most difficult piece of writing he’s ever done. “It took me 30 years to arrive in an emotional space […]

Filed Under: Features, Profiles, On the Shelf Tagged With: 2010, 2012, ACWA, Alaskero Foundation, Author Ron Chew, Debbie Louie, Ed Echtle, Ferdinand Marcos, Filipino, Gene Viernes, International Community Health Services Foundation, International Examiner, Pioneer Square, Ron Chew, Silme Domingo, Terri Mast, Vol 31 No 6 | February 4 - February 10, Washington Press, Wing Luke Museum

NWAW’s June must-reads

June 4, 2009 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Samantha Pak Northwest Asian Weekly “The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya” By Nagaru Tanigawa, published by Little, Brown and Company, April 2009 Almost every kid has moments where he or she wishes that life was a little less ordinary and a little more exciting.

Filed Under: Arts & Entertainment, Reviews, On the Shelf Tagged With: 2008, American Knees, Asian Americans, Beijing, China, Chinese American, Cultural Revolution, Haruhi Suzumiya, Meet Mei Wang, NWAW, Northwest Asian Weekly, Samantha Pak, Simon Schuster, Washington Press, attention, vol 28 no 24 | June 6 - June 12

Far East awkwardly meets Old West ‘Yellowfish’ review

January 8, 2009 By Northwest Asian Weekly

John Keeble’s novel “Yellowfish” begins in the thick fog of San Francisco’s Chinatown. In such a fog, things disappear

Filed Under: On the Shelf Tagged With: 2009, Andrew Hamlin, Chinatown, Chinese, Far East, Ginarn Taam, John Keeble, Northwest Asian Weekly, Old West, San Francisco, Seattle, Vol 28 No 3 | January 10 - January 16, Washington Press, Wesley Erks

RESOLUTE | UW Press

October 4, 2008 By Northwest Asian Weekly

For nearly 90 years, the University of Washington Press has been in the business of publishing books. For over half that time, Naomi Pascal has been at the forefront of the operations.

Filed Under: News, Profiles, Community News Tagged With: Acquisitions Editor Beth Fuget, Asian Americans, Gerald Patriarca, Naomi Pascal, Northwest Asian Weekly, Pat Soden, Paul Pascal, Safeco Building, Skinner Building, Washington Press, vol 27 no 41 | October 4 - October 10

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