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Extraordinary Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders

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Biographical sketches of notable Asian Americans and Pacific Islander Americans, from the nineteenth century up to the present.

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Children's Press
Language
English
Pages
288

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2003, Children's Press
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Table of Contents

Davida Malo, 1795-1853
Yung Wing, 1828-1912
Queen Lydia Liliuokalani, 1838-1917
Travelers to Gold Mountain, 1848
Polly Bemis (Lalu Nathoy), 1853-1933
Chinese laundry workers, 1850s
Chinese railroad workers, 1860s
Sugarcane workers in Hawaii, 1870s
Prisoners of Angel Island
D.T. Suzuki, 1870-1966
Mary Kawena Pukui, 1895-1986
Chiura Obata, 1888-1975
"Sessue" Kintaro Hayakawa, 1890-1973
Pablo Manlapit 1891-1969
James Wong Howe, 1899-1976
Dalip Singh Saund, 1899-1973
Isamu Noguchi, 1904-1988
Philip Vera Cruz, 1904-1994
Anna May Wong, 1905-1961
S.I. Hayakawa, 1906-1992
Hiram Leong Fong, 1906-
Toshio Mori, 1910-1980
Bienvenido Santos, 1911-1996
Carlos Bulosan, 1911-1956
Ahn Chang-Ho, 1878-1938
Philip Ahn, 1905-1978
Chien-Shiung Wu, 1912-1997
Minoru Yamasaki, 1912-1986
Spark Masayuki Matsunaga, 1916-1990
I.M. Pei, 1917-
Joyce Chen, 1918-1994
An Wang, 1920-1990
Sammy Lee, 1920-
Yoshiko Uchida, 1921-1992
Jade Snow Wong, 1922-
Daniel K. Inouye, 1924-
Tsung Dao Lee, 1926- ; Chen Ning Yang, 1922-
Patsy Takemoto Mink, 1927-2002
K.W. Lee, 1928-
Gerard Tsai Jr., 1928-
Toshiko Akiyoshi, 1929-
Chang-Lin Tien, 1935-
Norman Mineta, 1932-
Nam June Paik, 1932-
Yoko Ono, 1933-
Seiji Ozawa, 1935-
Zubin Mehta, 1936-
Allen Say, 1937-
Betta Bao Lord, 1938-
Maxine Hong Kingston, 1940-
Bruce Lee, 1940-1973
Dith Pran, 1942-
Internment camp inmates, 1942-1945
Gordon Hirabayashi, Fred Korematsu, and Minoru Yasui, Internment resistance fighters
Ellison S. Onizuka, 1946-1986
Connie Chung, 1946-
Lawrence Yep, 1948-
June Kuramoto, 1948-
Wayne Wang, 1949-
Vera Wang, 1949-
Gary Locke, 1950-
Eugene H. Trinh, 1950-
Amy Tan, 1952-
Myung-Whun Chung, 1953-
Elaine Chao, 1953-
Ang Lee, 1954-
Yo-Yo Ma, 1955-
Gish Jen, 1955-
David Henry Hwang, 1957-
Maya Ying Lin, 1959-
Greg Louganis, 1960-
Jerry Yang, 1968-
Midori, 1971-
Kristi Yamaguchi, 1971-
Michael Chang, 1972-
Vietnamese boat people, 1970s
Hmong refugees, 1970s
Tiger Woods, 1975-
Michelle Kwan, 1980-
Anoushka Shankar, 1982-.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-274) and index.
Rev ed. of: Extraordinary Asian Pacific Americans. 1993.

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New York
Series
Extraordinary people
Genre
Biography, Juvenile literature.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
920/.009295
Library of Congress
E184.O6 S558 2003, E184.O6S558 2003

The Physical Object

Pagination
288 p. :
Number of pages
288

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3555497M
Internet Archive
extraordinaryasi0000sinn
ISBN 10
051622655X, 0516293559
LCCN
2002011220
Goodreads
4050594
649801

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