Everything you need to know about Asian American history
By: Lan Cao and Himilce Novas.
Contributors: Novas, Himilce.
Publisher: Plume
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 366
ISBN-13: 9780452273153
Subjects: Asian Americans -- History -- Miscellanea
Genres: Miscellanea.
Description: One can hardly understand American history without knowing the crucial role people of Asian ancestry have played in shaping our past, politics, and culture. Yet many standard history books fail to fully capture the contributions and experiences of Asian Americans, and too many of us know little more about these people and their customs than Bruce Lee movies and take-out Chinese food. For example, you may not know that tennis star Michael Chang is the youngest player to ever win a U.S. Open match. Or that traditionally the hula is a religious dance performed in remembrance of Hawaiian gods. Or that ginseng, a popular herbal remedy, was first grown in the forests of Korea.

In a lively question-and-answer format, this informative guide chronicles all the important dates and figures in Asian-American history, and also provides a complete understanding of the traditions and ideas that people of Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, Korean, Indian, and Pacific Island descent have brought to bear on American life.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 339-355) and index.
Table of contents: title: Chinese Americans; title: Japanese Americans; title: Filipino Americans; title: Southeast Asian Americans; title: Korean Americans; title: Asian Indian Americans; title: Pacific Islander Americans.