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Keller's book, Comfort Woman (Viking; 213 pages; $21.95), is one of a trio of powerful debut novels by Asian-American women to arrive in bookstores lately. The others: Monkey King (HarperCollins; 310 pages; $24) by Patricia Chao (of Chinese and Japanese descent) and The Necessary Hunger (Simon & Schuster; 365 pages; $23) by Nina Revoyr (whose mother and father are Japanese and Polish-American, respectively). Although these books share some themes--all of them deal with parents and children in conflict over such issues as cultural and sexual identity--each author has a sharp, specific vision...
...over the next five years by asking corporations to pitch in, the organization is scrambling to answer why five highly paid political appointees stayed on the payroll after their jobs were abolished--and why one of them wrote John Huang to arrange a meeting between a Clinton official and Asian-American business owners in Los Angeles...
Shieh said that the eradication of Asian-American stereotypes should be a matter of importance to all Harvard students...
...Chinese Students Association will also co-sponsor a lecture with AAA by Professor Paul Y. Watanabe, co-director of the Institute of Asian-American Studies at UMass-Boston, on Sunday...
...April 4, students of various New York universities participated in a national protest rally in front of National Review's Manhattan headquarters. Last week, Asian-American students at Yale protested against Sullivan's presence on campus...