Extraordinary Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders
By: Susan Sinnott.
Contributors: Sinnott, Susan.
Edition: Rev. ed.
Series: Extraordinary people
Publisher: Children's Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
Subjects: Asian Americans -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.; Pacific Islander Americans -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.; Asian Americans.; Pacific Islander Americans.
Genres: Biography; Juvenile literature.
Description: Biographical sketches of notable Asian Americans and Pacific Islander Americans, from the nineteenth century up to the present.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-274) and index.
Rev ed. of: Extraordinary Asian Pacific Americans. 1993.
Table of contents: title: Davida Malo, 1795-1853; title: Yung Wing, 1828-1912; title: Queen Lydia Liliuokalani, 1838-1917; title: Travelers to Gold Mountain, 1848; title: Polly Bemis (Lalu Nathoy), 1853-1933; title: Chinese laundry workers, 1850s; title: Chinese railroad workers, 1860s; title: Sugarcane workers in Hawaii, 1870s; title: Prisoners of Angel Island; title: D.T. Suzuki, 1870-1966; title: Mary Kawena Pukui, 1895-1986; title: Chiura Obata, 1888-1975; title: "Sessue" Kintaro Hayakawa, 1890-1973; title: Pablo Manlapit 1891-1969; title: James Wong Howe, 1899-1976; title: Dalip Singh Saund, 1899-1973; title: Isamu Noguchi, 1904-1988; title: Philip Vera Cruz, 1904-1994; title: Anna May Wong, 1905-1961; title: S.I. Hayakawa, 1906-1992; title: Hiram Leong Fong, 1906-; title: Toshio Mori, 1910-1980; title: Bienvenido Santos, 1911-1996; title: Carlos Bulosan, 1911-1956; title: Ahn Chang-Ho, 1878-1938; title: Philip Ahn, 1905-1978; title: Chien-Shiung Wu, 1912-1997; title: Minoru Yamasaki, 1912-1986; title: Spark Masayuki Matsunaga, 1916-1990; title: I.M. Pei, 1917-; title: Joyce Chen, 1918-1994; title: An Wang, 1920-1990; title: Sammy Lee, 1920-; title: Yoshiko Uchida, 1921-1992; title: Jade Snow Wong, 1922-; title: Daniel K. Inouye, 1924-; title: Tsung Dao Lee, 1926- ; Chen Ning Yang, 1922-; title: Patsy Takemoto Mink, 1927-2002; title: K.W. Lee, 1928-; title: Gerard Tsai Jr., 1928-; title: Toshiko Akiyoshi, 1929-; title: Chang-Lin Tien, 1935-; title: Norman Mineta, 1932-; title: Nam June Paik, 1932-; title: Yoko Ono, 1933-; title: Seiji Ozawa, 1935-; title: Zubin Mehta, 1936-; title: Allen Say, 1937-; title: Betta Bao Lord, 1938-; title: Maxine Hong Kingston, 1940-; title: Bruce Lee, 1940-1973; title: Dith Pran, 1942-; title: Internment camp inmates, 1942-1945; title: Gordon Hirabayashi, Fred Korematsu, and Minoru Yasui, Internment resistance fighters; title: Ellison S. Onizuka, 1946-1986; title: Connie Chung, 1946-; title: Lawrence Yep, 1948-; title: June Kuramoto, 1948-; title: Wayne Wang, 1949-; title: Vera Wang, 1949-; title: Gary Locke, 1950-; title: Eugene H. Trinh, 1950-; title: Amy Tan, 1952-; title: Myung-Whun Chung, 1953-; title: Elaine Chao, 1953-; title: Ang Lee, 1954-; title: Yo-Yo Ma, 1955-; title: Gish Jen, 1955-; title: David Henry Hwang, 1957-; title: Maya Ying Lin, 1959-; title: Greg Louganis, 1960-; title: Jerry Yang, 1968-; title: Midori, 1971-; title: Kristi Yamaguchi, 1971-; title: Michael Chang, 1972-; title: Vietnamese boat people, 1970s; title: Hmong refugees, 1970s; title: Tiger Woods, 1975-; title: Michelle Kwan, 1980-; title: Anoushka Shankar, 1982-.