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FREE EST. 1974 — SEATTLE VOLUME 36, NUMBER 23 December 2 - December 15, 2009
Literary Supplment | Fall / Winter 2009
Our Annual Asian Pacific North American Review of Books
Cover Designed by Theresa Maramba and Ryan Catabay
12 Pages | 22 Reviews
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Tales from Outer Suburbia
The New Sun
op-ed: why I’m not sold
yet on manny Pacquiao
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The Fold
Good Enough
What It Is
The Arrival
interfaith families
Little Leap Forward
The Slant
A Chant to Soothe Wild Elephants
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bEHIND THE SEAMS:
THE TRUE COST OF
HOLIDAY SPENDING
p.6
Mao and Me
The Buddha’s Diamonds
Something for School
Mini-reviews
Asian comfort foods to
ward off sickness
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“Jagged Noodles” Columnist
The Art of Forgetting Oneself
BY HUY X. LE
IE Columnist
Every once a while, I ponder the
meaning of life. I think about what I have
accomplished in life, where my youth
has gone, and what I want to do next. I
think about my non-profit work, and how
depressing it can be sometimes to deal
with bitter community politics and egotism. Then the fiancée finds me, several
days later, huddled behind a door, crying
and rocking in the fetal position. This
also happens on my birthday, during the
spring when the falling cherry blossoms
remind me of the brevity of life, and every
other day, when it’s my turn to wash the
dishes.
During these moments, I turn to people I respect for guidance. But since Miss
Cleo and the Psychic Readers Network
have been unreachable, I emailed one of
my grad-school professors. “Dr. Ozawa,”
I wrote, “what is the meaning of life?” I
remember that she was especially wise
and no-nonsense. She is over 70, barely
four and a half feet tall, and her mind
moves at the speed of a jet fighter plane
even as she herself moves like a baby
snail. She has published hundreds of
research papers. A few years ago, I came
to visit my school, and she pulled me into
her office. “Mr. Huy,” she said, “You’re
too smart, and that’s why you have trouble finding direction.” She leaned closer.
“Can you try to forget yourself?” I don’t
know how, I said. She said, “When you
can forget yourself and work for the
world, you will be amazing.”
For years, between commercials of
“Law and Order”, I pondered what she
meant. How does one forget oneself?
Wasn’t it enough that I worked in the
non-profit world and had to drink orange
juice from concentrate?! But I realized, as
my youth slips away, that forgetting oneself is not easy. We are programmed to be
self-serving. Even in non-profit and community work, there are still those who put
their interests first, oftentimes ripping the
community apart for their own gains.
“Mr. Huy,” Dr. Ozawa wrote back last
week, explaining the meaning of life,
“First, education is not a means towards
something else. It is good all by itself.
Second, the questions I deal with are
related to other questions. Third, I do
not spend time watching TV drama. And
fourth, I have hobbies. My hobby is photography, and I make pictures with my
computer printer.”
That’s it? That’s the meaning of life?! I
was slightly disappointed in Dr. Ozawa’s
answers. I guess I was expecting something more profound from her, such as
“The tree that stands stillest grows the
fastest.” How can the meaning of life be
distilled down to “stop watching TV” and
“get a hobby”? As if sensing my disappointment, she continued. “I am 77 years
old and half of my brain was paralyzed in
2007. I have to use a walker. At night, I
let a paid care-giver take care of me. But,
in the day-time, I do academic work. I
am the editor-in chief of an international
journal. My collaborators are all over the
world. You can find me on Goggle.” She
asked for my address, and within a week
I received a dozen printouts of her nature
pictures. Meadows. Trees. A single flower.
They were beautiful.
These past few days, I’ve come to
realize Dr. Ozawa’s genius and my own
stupidity. If Dr. Ozawa, whose brain is
half paralyzed, is still publishing dozens
of academic papers each year, and also
takes time for photography, then I have
nothing to complain about. Her take on
the meaning of life is so simple: Learn for
the sake of learning, everything is related
to everything else, stop wasting time, and
do something you enjoy. And forget yourself. These lessons are not new; I think we
just don’t trust things when they are too
simple. And most of the time, the simplest things are often the hardest things to
accomplish.
Well, there’s still much to ponder, but I
hope that mostly takes care of the existential crises of 2009. I’m looking forward to
2010. If anyone needs me, I’ll be working
on my new hobby, yo-yoing. But first, I’m
going to email Dr. Ozawa to ask her for
advice on washing dishes.
Still hungry for Noodles? Visit Huy’s blog
at: Jaggednoodles.wordpress.com
Op-ed:
Unmasking the Myth of
Manny Pacquiao:
Why I’m not
sold yet on the
Filipino superstar
sions? At lightweight he beat only the
b-rated belt holder David Diaz and never
challenged the division’s best, such as
former gold medalist Joel Casamayor, the
seasoned veteran Nate Campbell, or the
former champion Juan Diaz. So which
one is it, fighting for the belt or fighting
the best? You can’t have it both ways.
BY NICK WONG
IE Contributor
Nick Wong is a graduate
from the University of
Washington and is now
pursuing his dream of
boxing around the world.
Follow his journey at www.
thewanderingpugilist.com.
Ever since Manny Pacquiao’s TKO win
over Miguel Cotto, I’ve been asking myself
one question: “Do Pacquaio fans actually
watch boxing?” Don’t get me wrong, the
triumphs of the former Filipino flyweight
have been impressive, but some of the
comments floating around the public are
taking it too far. Here is the top three I’d
like to address:
• Manny Pacquiao is the first fighter to
win titles in 7 weight classes.
Well yes and no. In order to officially win a “title”, it must be from one
of the four sanctioning bodies: the WBC,
WBA, IBF or the WBO. But during his
campaign as featherweight and his brief
stop at lightweight, he only won “The
Ring” championship - a title owned by
a self-interested promotional company.
Some would argue that belts shouldn’t
matter because he fought the best at both
weights, but under that same argument,
has he fought the best in the other divi-
Manny Pacquiao
• Manny Pacquiao has faced the best
competition.
Perhaps in name, but not in form.
Pacquiao’s opponents were chosen when
they either presented a clear weakness to
exploit, or were forced into one. Freddie
Roach, Pacquiao’s longtime trainer, was
quoted on ESPN saying, “Cotto would be
slowed by having to come in 2 pounds
lower than his normal weight,” due to
the catch-weight stipulated in the fight
contract. De La Hoya was a walking
punching bag for fighting at a weight that
he hadn’t seen in seven years, and Hatton
is, well, Hatton. His face-forward, aggres-
sion-first style is a perfect matchup for
Manny, a reason why during the weight
negotiations for the Cotto bout, Team
Pacquiao virtually ignored Shane Mosley
when he waltzed in to offer a fight at 140
(a weight in which Shane has never competed) and instead opted to take on Cotto
5lbs heavier, because stylistically, Cotto
was the easier fight.
• Manny Pacquiao is the greatest boxer
ever.
There is only one “Greatest” in boxing
and his name is Muhammad Ali. Because
of his refusal to fight in the Vietnam War,
Ali was not only forced into a 5-year exile
from boxing, but also robbed of the prime
years of his career, yet despite those setbacks, he still managed to reemerge and
capture the heavyweight championship.
Twice. And even then, the accomplishments of Sugar Ray Robinson trump those
of Ali. What Pacquiao has done in recent
times is indeed impressive, but he hasn’t
even skimmed the legacy that these two
have created.
Let’s get this straight. I am a huge fan
of Manny Pacquiao. I gave him a very
biased five-point decision in the first
Marquez fight, damn near cried in his loss
to Erik Morales, and I am overjoyed by the
fact that he instills hope for the globally
impoverished.
But I am a fan of boxing first.
I am a purist at heart and obsessed
with preserving the sport’s history. But
what I love about the Sweet Science
is that its “history” can be intelligently
debated and at the end of the day, I’m
always open for a good argument with
a well-informed fight fan. But if you’re
someone who thinks they suddenly know
boxing because they just jumped onto the
Pacquiao express, or if I lost you after my
first point, don’t bother wasting my inbox
space.
INTERNATIONAL EXAMINER
COMMUNITY NEWS
Op-ed:
Healthcare Safety Net
Nears Breaking Point
BY CHRISTINE LOREDO
IE Contributor
Christine Loredo is the
Marketing and Communications Supervisor at
International Community Health Services, a
non-profit community
health center providing culturally-relevant,
in-language, and affordable primary medical and dental services. Visit www.ichs.com for
more information.
December 2 - December 15, 2009 —— 3
King County receives $900,000 federal substance abuse treatment grant
with representatives from a coalition
of community organizations working together to preserve Basic Health.
Cantwell recently added an amendment to the Senate health care reform
bill to assist states in establishing and
paying for programs like Basic Health.
Heralded as a model for the nation,
the Basic Health Plan provides access
to affordable preventive care for its
enrollees, which drive down the cost
of treatment for preventable conditions
and emergency room utilization.
For community health centers like
ICHS, Basic Health and its emphasis
on prevention is at the core of how it
provides affordable care. With Basic
Health, patients are able to establish
a “health care home” with a trusted
They say that tough times
call for tough measures. So
when the state made drastic cuts to its Basic Health
Plan earlier this year, many
believed that it was an unfortunate, but necessary move
to balance our budget. Now,
with the state facing a deficit of over $2 billion, health
care advocates fear that Basic
Health and other health programs will be on the chopping block once more.
The state budget crisis
places Basic Health and the
Director Teresita Batayola, left, and Senator Maria Cantwell
people who rely on this vital ICHS
at the Nov. 23 tour of ICHS and Basic Health discussion.
safety net in a precarious position yet again. Earlier this year the pro- provider. They can monitor their health
gram, which provides subsidized health regularly and get connected with other
coverage for working families, imple- services they may need. Without Basic
mented several cost-cutting measures Health, patients are likely to put off
to deal with a $255 million reduction preventive care until they develop seriin their budget. Basic Health eliminated ous and more expensive conditions.
coverage for dually-enrolled members, When that happens, the burden of the
increased premiums for current mem- cost is shouldered by the community
bers, and essentially ceased processing health centers, which are federally mannew applications. At the same time, the dated to provide care to anyone seekstate’s uninsured is increasing at a fast ing services. With over 40 percent of
pace; and already, the number of peo- its patients on Basic Health and at risk
ple waiting to apply for Basic Health of losing their coverage, ICHS faces a
coverage outnumbers those currently bleak future if state lawmakers decide to
on the rolls.
make even more cuts in the program.
Even though federal health care
In the upcoming weeks, there will
reform is almost in sight, new policies be opportunities to speak out on behalf
and funding will not come soon enough of the most vulnerable members of our
for Washington residents who are at community. Urge your representatives
risk of losing their coverage or who are to find other means to raise revenue and
unable to get coverage now, especially to protect the programs that serve as a
if Governor Gregoire proposes eliminat- vital safety net for Washington’s working
ing Basic Health altogether.
families. Go to the Save Health Care in
On a Nov. 23 tour of International Washington Web site (www.savehealthCommunity Health Services’ (ICHS’) careinwa.org) to find out more about
facilities, Senator Maria Cantwell spoke what you can do to help.
Suicide Prevention Curriculum
Makes Federal Registry
According to the most recent Washington State Healthy Youth
Survey, almost 25 percent of eighth graders reported feeling depressed. Fourteen percent said they had seriously considered
killing themselves. In November, the curriculum – called Look
Listen Link – earned a place on the federal Best Practices Registry – the first middle-level suicide prevention curriculum in the
nation to be granted that status. Look Listen Link consists of four
45-minute lessons, designed for middle-school teachers to easily
embed into their health, social skills or family-oriented curricula
during the school year. “I wanted the Look Listen Link curriculum taught at my school
because I see firsthand the struggles that the kids have with managing their own stress
and dealing with depression while at the same time not wanting to talk about it,” said
Harry Brown, Mercer Island Youth and Family Services counselor, working at Islander
Middle School. “I especially like that the curriculum gives practical skills that empower
young people to know what to do if they are worried about a friend.”
Youth and young adults completing substance abuse treatment
programs will have help to complete treatment and transition
successfully back to their communities, thanks to new funding
announced by the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health
Services Administration (SAMHSA). The award to King County’s
Mental Health, Chemical Abuse and Dependency Services Division will provide $300,000 a year for three years to support
substance abuse treatment programs for youth 18-24 years of
age and their families. “This grant increases the likelihood of
completion of treatment and offers a better chance for recovery and healthier and more
productive lives in the community,” said interim King County Executive Kurt Triplett.
King County will implement the pilot program in partnership with Therapeutic Health
Services/Central Youth and Family Services, with the goal of replicating the project
throughout the King County substance abuse provider network.
Tuberculosis remains health threat
in King County
Tuberculosis presents an ongoing community health challenge
for King County, and reflects a local symptom of a continuing
global epidemic. In 2008, 121 people were diagnosed with active tuberculosis (TB), a drop from the 30-year high of 161 cases
reported in 2007. Over the past decade, reported TB cases have
ranged between 121 and 161 cases annually. In response to funding challenges for 2009 and beyond, the TB Control Program has
carefully reassessed its service delivery system for controlling TB in King County. Strategies to improve program efficiencies include: focused use of resources on cases posing
the greatest public health significance and community partnerships for provision of care
and management of non-infectious TB cases. Key findings from the 2008 Annual Report
said that all non-white races continue to have disproportionately higher rates of TB than
whites: Asian American (15.9 per 100,000). Also, 34 percent of people with active TB
in King County came from East Africa, 21 percent of people from Southeast Asia and 15
percent from Central America.
Domestic violence, sexual assault
programs saved in preliminary 2010
King County Budget
After hearing painful personal testimonies from survivors of domestic
violence and sexual assault at four public hearings, members of the Metropolitan King County Council’s Budget Leadership Team announced
they have reprioritized funds in their 2010 budget proposal to fully restore programs that prevent violence against women and families with
children at 2009 levels. “Every year we are reminded of the vital role
public input has on our budget process,” said Council Budget Chair Larry Gossett. “These are programs that literally save lives—we could not
let them end.” Councilmember Julia Patterson said, “Women’s homes
and lives are in crisis more than ever before and we cannot stand by and
watch more of our family, our friends, and our neighbors become victims of violence.”
The Councilmembers said the revised county budget will restore nearly $1.4 million in
dedicated and general funds for programs for the prevention of domestic violence and
sexual assault, and for legal aid programs that help survivors obtain restraining orders
and navigate the judicial system. “Thanks to this action, funding will keep hotlines
staffed, emergency shelters open, and enable support groups to continue,” said Merril
Cousin, executive director of the King County Coalition Against Domestic Violence.
Seniors Save Money on Prescription
Drug Plans with NAPCA Helpline
Now is the time for Asian Pacific Islander (API) seniors to check
their prescription drugs plans and make sure the drugs they need
are covered at a reasonable cost. Medicare Part D Annual Coordinated Election Period (AEP) started Nov. 15 through the end of
the calendar year, December 31. This six-week period is vital for
seniors to check their prescription drug plans, because if they do
not starting in January, seniors could be locked in a plan that is
not best suited for their needs. “Seniors should make sure their
plan is the best fit for them and that they are getting the most affordable and comprehensive plan available,” says Christine Takada, President and CEO
of the National Asian Pacific Center on Aging (NAPCA). It is also important for those who
are eligible but not yet enrolled to take this opportunity to enroll and take advantage of
the program and avoid incurring premium penalties. NAPCA’s Helpline is available to
help Asian language speaking seniors in particular. Helpline staff are fluent in English,
Cantonese, Mandarin, Korean and Vietnamese and are equipped to counsel seniors on
details about different drug plan options. NAPCA staff are also experienced in helping
callers choose a plan that will provide them more coverage at a lower cost. NAPCA
National Toll-free Multilingual Helpline Numbers: English 1-800-336-2722; Chinese
1-800-582-4218; Korean 1-800-582-4259; Vietnamese 1-800-582-4336.
4 —— December 2 - December 15, 2009
AROUND THE NATION
University of california Students
Protest 32 Percent tuition Hike
The University of California is preparing to ask students to pay $2,500 more over two years, a plan
that has drawn protest at two major campuses, reported the Associated Press. President Mark Yudof
told reporters Nov. 18 he couldn’t rule out raising
student fees again if the state is unable to meet his
request for an additional $913 million next year for
the 10-campus system. The university’s governing
board is expected to approve a plan that will boost
undergraduate fees, the equivalent of tuition, by
Students link arms to create a barricade be32 percent in two stages by 2010. The proposal
tween protestors and campus police guarding
was met with student protests across the state that
a UCLA campus building where University
led to 14 arrests at the University of California, Los
of California regents were scheduled to vote
on a 32 percent student fee increase. AP
Angeles, campus. At the University of California,
Photo/Damian Dovarganes.
Berkeley, more than 1,000 demonstrators condemned the pending fee boost and high salaries for university administrators. After a
series of deep cuts in state aid, and with Sacramento facing a nearly $21 billion budget
gap over the next year and a half, Board of Regents members said there was no option
to higher fees.
API b-ball player jeremy lin, a hot
shot in the league
As one of only a handful of Asian Americans playing Division
1 basketball - and easily the most accomplished – Jeremy Lin
has heard just about every taunt imaginable and he’s mostly
been able to laugh them off. Lin’s parents met after they emigrated from Taiwan to the U.S. and settled in Palo Alto, Calif. When their son, Lin, began playing organized basketball,
he encountered preconceptions about his ability based on
his ethnicity, reported the Associated Press. But despite this,
Lin has consistently excelled in big games, capping his high
school career by leading Palo Alto High over a tough competitor in the California Div. 2 state championship game, scoring
17 points and hit a late 3-pointer to secure a 51-47 upset.
Lin was named the Northern California Div. 2 player of the
AP Photo / Michael Dwyer.
year but scholarships were hard to come by. “I think the Asian
American stereotype was definitely there,” Lin said. Now 6-foot-3 and 200 pounds, Lin
has blossomed into a star for the Harvard Crimson team. Last season, Lin was the only
player in the country to rank in the top 10 in his conference in every statistical category,
averaging 21.5 points and eight assists. Lin is considered talented enough to play professionally, but Lin plans on becoming a pastor and working in an urban community.
57 Killed in Philippines Massacre,
Mayor a suspect, Ties to its President
Gunmen ambushed a caravan of political supporters and journalists on their way to file election papers, killing at least 57
people in a massacre considered shocking even for a region
notorious for violence between rival clans, reported the Associated Press. Thirty local reporters and their assistants were part of
the Nov. 23 convoy and killed. Police said the convoy, including
22 women, were going to register Ismael Mangudadatu to run
for provincial governor when they were stopped by some 100
Protesters in Manila call for
gunmen and taken to a remote mountainous area. An official
justice after the massacre
said soldiers and police later found the bodies, including those
in the southern Philippines.
of Mangudadatu’s wife, Genalyn, and his two sisters, sprawled
Noel Celis/AFP/Getty
Images.
on the ground or shot in their vehicles about three miles from
where they were ambushed. The rest of the victims, perhaps as many as 15, happened
to be stopped at a checkpoint along the highway in Ampatuan, a town in Maguindanao
province, when the convoy of Mangudadatu supporters and journalists was stopped
by police officers and militiamen loyal to the Ampatuans, investigators said. They were
killed to eliminate witnesses. In the last elections in 2007, 130 people were killed. The
decades-long Muslim insurgency has killed about 120,000 people since the 1970s. But
a presidential adviser, Jesus Dureza, said the massacre was “unequaled in recent history.” Police identified the prime suspect as Andal Ampatuan Jr., a local mayor, son of
the provincial governor and a scion of the powerful Ampatuan clan.
Japan Airlines to Get $1.1 BilLION
Emergency Loan
Japan Airlines said Nov. 24 it obtained government approval to receive up to $1.1 billion in emergency loans aimed at preventing the money-losing company from grounding flights, reported the Associated Press. JAL signed an agreement with the state-run
Development Bank of Japan after receiving government approval, a company official
said on condition of anonymity, citing policy. Asia’s largest airline has pressed for a government bailout and mulled over massive job cuts and other restructuring steps to avoid
collapse. JAL shares tumbled 8.4 percent to a record low amid worries over a possible
bankruptcy. The transport ministry authorized the airline’s application for the loans after
confirming “an event which would interfere with our flight operations could occur,” in
which “convenience for users and corporate activities would be significantly affected.”
The airline obtained government approval for separate loans of 25 billion yen ($282.2
million) for necessary aircraft imports. Struggling JAL booked $1.5 billion in losses in
the first half of the fiscal year, and faces interest-bearing debt totaling nearly $10 billion.
JAL President Haruka Nishimatsu has said he will make a decision on the offer by the
end of the year.
The US-India Strategic Partnership Is
Vital, SAYS President obama
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh visited Washington
Thanksgiving week for a four-day state visit to discuss a range
of issues crucial to the developing strategic partnership between the United States and India. The U.S.-India partnership is critical to President Barack Obama’s national security
agenda on climate change, economic growth, and nuclear
proliferation. There’s also the question of how to normalize
the tense relations between India and its neighbor, Pakistan,
as the one-year anniversary of the Mumbai terrorist attacks
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President approaches. That the Obama administration chose India as
the first country to receive the honor of a state visit is not
Obama.
surprising given the country’s importance to several Obama
administration national security priorities. Prime Minister Singh’s visit comes during a
sensitive period when there are growing questions about what the Obama administration has tangibly achieved with its new style of diplomatic outreach. President Obama’s
trip to Asia mid-November raised some concerns in India that the United States was
acceding to China’s growing power without demonstrating India’s important role. Gaining India’s cooperation on a range of issues will be an important test of the Obama
administration’s ability to achieve results in his foreign policy.
APIS, LOWEST JOBLESS RATES IN US
Cultural factors help limit recession’s impact: While the recession has been brutal for
just about every segment of the population, Asian Americans have apparently had the
lowest jobless rate every month since 2000, when the Bureau of Labor Statistics began
tracking monthly unemployment among Asians, reported USA Today. The unemployment gap — 7.5 percent for Asians in October, compared with 10.2 percent nationwide
— stems from a combination of education benchmarks and cultural traditions that foster
family support when someone is out of work, researchers say. “Asians in the United
States, both native born Asians and Asian immigrants, have higher educational levels
than other groups,” says Alan Berube, senior fellow and research director of the Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program. A recent Labor Department report on the
work force shows a greater proportion of Asians than other racial or ethnic groups in
management, professional and related occupations — jobs that require more schooling
and are high-paying. About 47 percent work in management or professional jobs compared with 35 percent for the U.S. work force as a whole.
IE NEWS
Interfaith Families
During the holidays when family dynamics are
magnified, how do some deal with differing
religious faiths and keep the peace?
BY BOPHA CHAN SANGUINETTI
IE Contributor
Bopha Chan Sanguinetti earned a Master’s degree in Social Work and now works
as a forensics social worker for the Law Office of the Defender Association. She
loves playing volleyball and writing as much as she can.
The holiday season has arrived. Many
families will come together to celebrate,
to share and to love one another despite
differences. But what do you do during
the holidays when you share different religions? Personally, I was raised Buddhist
and my husband was raised Christian. We
respect each other’s beliefs and values.
Yet, we are not a religious couple. I don’t
visit the neighboring temples every weekend nor does my husband go to church
every Sunday. Yet, there is an unspoken
faith we share rooted in love and mutual
respect when it comes to our religions.
When my grandmother passed away
last December, I was deeply touched by
my husband’s participation in the Buddhist
rituals. It was moving to see amongst the
sea of Asian faces, my American husband sitting there with his hands together
chanting along with the monks. His love
gave me strength, but it was his participation that pushed me beyond my own grief
helping me move forward.
I know my husband and I are not the
only couple around the world who have
dual religions. I asked my good friends,
Nicole Chu and Ketsada Phanivong, to
give me their thoughts on how they
deal with having different religious backgrounds in their family. Chu’s family is
Catholic, while her husband is Buddhist.
I asked them if they ever felt any pressure from their sides of the family. Chu
experienced the most pressure from her
side of the family for not marrying someone who had the same religion. Growing
up, she was taught to marry someone who
is raised Catholic or at least would join
her religion later on.
She felt they wanted this for her because
someone who did not belong to the same
faith would not have the same core values
or beliefs. And in turn could cause strife or
possibly a break up in the relationship.
However, after dating Phanivong for a
long time she realized they had very similar values and beliefs, such as being loyal
and respectful. Phanivong, whose family
is from Laos, said he did not care about
her Catholic upbringing or Vietnamese
background. He said he loved her inde-
Faith and Identity
Religion and spirituality offer a path for some APIs
to reconnect and better understand their cultural
identity and roots.
BY NINA HUANG
IE Contributor
Nina Huang graduated from the University of Washington with a
degree in journalism. She has a passion for writing, loves watching
movies and her favorite animals are dogs and pandas.
Historically, the Chinese community
churches have provided a communal
place for people to gather and share
their experiences. But as times have
changed, some Asian Americans have
turned to religion and their faith to
understand their cultural identities.
Luzminda Eng’s grandparents are
of Chinese ancestry but moved to the
Philippines, where her parents grew
up in a Roman Catholic atmosphere.
She was born and raised in the United
States and grew up going to a Protestant
Christian church. She said that her
church is predominantly made up of
first and second-generation Chinese
Americans.
“I’ve learned a lot about maintaining
my cultural heritage while still staying
true to my religious beliefs,” Eng said.
She also said that she struggled with
participating in traditional practices
such as lighting incenses or bowing
down as well as Catholic rituals.
“I didn’t know if I was compromising my own beliefs by doing that but
I was also afraid of disrespecting my
older relatives. I think that there can be
a lot of animosity between parents and
their children when the parents think
their children are turning away from traditional family practices,” she said.
However, Eng believes that the key
is not acting like your own beliefs are
superior to your family. She realized that
she was able to embrace both religions
without compromising.
“By appreciating my cultural background and respecting my elders I am
showing and practicing my faith,” she said.
Eng added that since one of the main foundations of Christianity is love, she is able to
show love and honor to her family.
Ronald Bang used his faith to learn
more about his cultural identity by simply
being curious of where he came from. He
was raised in a Christian household and
growing up, he was taught the fundamentals of praying before eating and thanking
God for their days and practicing fellowship.
Bang feels that some APIs are drawn
to Christianity because it’s accessible in a
language they can understand and relate
to.
He understood that church played
a huge role in the Korean community
because it was all they could relate to
when they first moved to the United
States.
pendent spirit and personality. As for his
family, he said they only wanted the couple to be happy and to love each other.
This past summer, the couple got married. When they were planning the wedding, they decided to honor both sides of
the family: they had a Laotian wedding, a
Catholic church wedding, and a traditional Vietnamese ceremony. Both expressed
it was important to celebrate all sides of
the family. Chu added, “I really wanted
my family to see his side and his cultural
background, because the families were so
but her family would like her to baptize
them in the Catholic Church. They are
both not sure if they will do this in the
future, but understand it is an important
ritual for her family. For these newlyweds,
they hope their future children will be
able to take “the good parts” from both
religions.
I then asked them, what would they
want their kids to learn? Phanivong
expressed, “Buddhism has taught me to
think for yourself, don’t let others dictate
to you, but always question and make
“When my
grandmother
passed away last
December, I was
deeply touched
by my husband’s
participation in the
Buddhist rituals. “
- Chan Sanguinetti
different on paper, but truly both
families were more similar than
expected.” She felt her family was
able to see at the Laotian wedding
why she had married him and that
he was a good person who came
from a great family.
Of course, there will always be some
pressure or issues in an interfaith relationship. For example, now that they are married both families want grand-children,
sure it is your choice, your path.” Chu
hopes they will learn from Catholicism,
“Being disciplined not to give into outside
influences, but believe in yourself and not
to give into the here and now.”
“They didn’t just go for God, they
came for the community,” Bang said.
He also thinks that this is especially
true for those who don’t feel like they
belong due to a cultural gap in society.
Bang believes that the younger generation these days has a very apathetic view
on life. He doesn’t feel that it’s because
the kids are turning away because of religion but because they just don’t have the
same passion as their parents. But he also
knows people who attend church while
their parents don’t.
“Some of them realize that their kids
just don’t have the drive they do to follow the parent’s religion, so they accept
the kids going to church, but there’s also
express their faith but can still be passionate as well.
Chung feels that some people may
be drawn to Christianity because it’s
a very common religion. “It’s a really
good and easy way to meet people and
a good way to have people start coming
to church as well,” she said.
Philip Louie, who attends the
Chinese International Christian Church
of Tacoma, said that his church experience has been valuable in developing a
sense of cultural identity for himself.
“Growing up in Tacoma, a city with
a rather diverse cultural makeup, I still
struggled with grasping the mysterious
idea of what it means to identify with a
Nicole Chu and Ketsada Phanivong
I think that there can be a lot of animosity
between parents and their children when the
parents think their children are turning away
from traditional family practices,” she said.
plenty of kids who cannot do anything
with the church because of the parents,”
Bang said.
“It depends on how much the parents
have accepted the more liberal and less
traditional culture of America,” he said.
Growing up, Bang had been curious
about his cultural identity. He thanks God
for his parents’ journey from Vietnam to
the United States. He understands why his
parents brought him up the way they did
and his faith further encourages him to see
that he is the way he is for a reason.
Like Eng and Bang, growing up in a
Christian home has brought Sarah Chung
closer to her faith and allowed her to learn
more about her cultural identity. She also
feels that Asians who are Christians tend
to be more conservative about how they
specific culture,” Louie said.
For many Asian American Christians,
religion is something that helps them
grow individually and teaches them
more about their culture.
“We still work to understand each
other’s joys, we deal with one another’s
struggles, and we celebrate the fact that
our desire to grow in our faith has led to
a desire to understand our own cultural
roots.
“I firmly believe that someone can
worship and live out their faith in environments and surroundings not directly
related to their cultural identity. I am
Christian. I am Chinese-American. I
worship with joy and excitement with
many of my peers of whom relate to various cultural identities,” Louie added.
IE NEWS
Tackling Poverty Through
Human Rights
We interview Irene Khan, Secretary General
of Amnesty International, about her new book
“The Unheard Truth”.
BY SHIWANI SRIVASTAVA
IE Contributor
Shiwani Srivastava is a Seattle-based freelance writer covering South
Asian American community issues and cultural trends.
The financial crisis is deepening poverty’s reach across the globe; the fierce
healthcare debate in the U.S. is raising
questions about what rights are truly
universal; and economic inequality continues to grow wider in superpowers like
India and China.
It’s an apt time for Irene Khan,
Amnesty International’s first woman and
first Muslim Secretary General, to release
a project called: “The Unheard Truth:
Poverty and Human Rights.” The book –
part textbook, part memoir, and part treatise – passionately argues that the root of
poverty isn’t just about money; it’s about
human rights. Secretary Khan, who’s based out of
Amnesty International in London, sat down
for an interview with the International
Examiner during the Seattle leg of her
book tour:
1.) What prompted you to write this
book at this moment in your career?
Very early in my book, I talk about the
story of a South African woman named
Rose. I was confronted with her story in
my first few weeks as Secretary General
of Amnesty International. As a lawyer, I
was struck by the fact that the best laws
of the land could not protect this woman
because she didn’t have a bus fare to go
to the magistrate’s court and get a protection order against her abusive husband.
That got me thinking about the issues
other than income that keep people poor
– discrimination, insecurity, their inability
to influence policies ... I began to realize
that you have to take a holistic approach
to human rights if you are going to help
people overcome violence and poverty.
2.) Part of your work at Amnesty includes
launching the Demand Dignity cam-
Behind the Seams:
The True Cost of
Holiday Spending
Before you make that next holiday purchase,
consider in whose hands it was in first.
BY NICK WONG
IE Contributor
Nick Wong is a graduate from the University of Washington and
is now pursuing his dream of boxing around the world. Follow his
journey at www.thewanderingpugilist.com.
You walk into any random coffee
shop and most people are head-down
surfing the net on a smart phone. You
ride any bus, walk down any street,
and it is no longer uncommon to see
someone plugged into their own world
of music. How many of us are planning
to replace those outdated box TV sets
to a flat-screen HD receiver this holiday season? The upgrades in our digital
entertainment have upgraded our holiday wish lists, and especially during this
time of year, our consumerism swells
tremendously. But these advances in
luxury come at a price. While it may
seem that our holiday shopping only
affects our purses and pocketbooks, it
actually has global effects and consequences.
“There is a global linkage to all
the gifts we get this holiday season,”
says Dr. Kam Wing Chan, a professor in the Geography Department at
the University of Washington. Professor
Chan contends that “literally over 90
percent of the goods we see in stores are
produced in Asia; at least 80 percent of
that from China.” He says he wouldn’t be
surprised if popular holiday items such as
laptops, big screen televisions, and other
advanced electronic technology were also
made in China.
And while an item like an iPhone
can cost us upwards of $700 dollars, a
recent study conducted by the private
research firm iSuppli estimated the cost
of parts at about $175. It is unclear if
this includes labor expenses, but even
then, labor expenses are a small fraction
of the entire production cost. According
to the American Public Media program
“Marketplace”, total labor costs for one
iPhone amounts to $4.00, an hourly
wage of about 70 cents for an individual
worker. And pay rates are often the first of
many issues. Factories are often cheaply
built with hazardous materials, insufficiently ventilated for the humid climate,
and employees are commonly forced
beyond the legally allowed work hours.
Proper healthcare coverage isn’t even
addressed because labor is expendable;
waiting outside is another anxious worker
because even in these conditions, any job
paign, which is largely about giving a
voice to the poor. What do dignity and
voice mean to you?
Dignity is what gives us respect for
ourselves as human beings. That’s why
I see human rights not as ends in themselves, but as tools to promote human
dignity so that people can live decent
lives.
Voice means – first of all, having
information, and secondly, being able to
use that information to influence those
in power and take part in decisions that
affect your life.
3.) A major focus of your book seems to
be the gap between measures of economic growth and the reality of human rights
in a country. Can you talk about why you
find this divide to be problematic?
Economists will argue that economic
growth has pulled a lot of people out of
poverty by creating jobs, improving the
economy, and so on. And I’m not denying that economic growth does that. What
I’m saying is that there are also other
consequences of economic growth that
actually marginalize some people and
increase inequalities.
Let’s do a simple calculation. If there is
10 percent growth, the person who earns
$100 will make $110. But the person who
earns $40 will make $44. So the difference actually increases – the difference is
no longer $60, it’s $66.
The other consequence of economic
growth is that it does not necessarily
address some underlying problems of
poverty. You can invest in agriculture, and
that increases the crop yield for the poor
farmer – but he is still a landless peasant at the mercy of his landlord. You can
build a school, but this does not automati-
is better than no job.
“The labor cost is low because China
has a lot of rural labor that is willing to
do the work,” explains the UW professor.
“These low costs are also due partly to a
system in China called the ‘Household
Registration System’. The rural population
does not have the same rights as city residents, so when people from the countryside move to the city to work, they are not
eligible for the same coverage of welfare,
unemployment benefits, healthcare and
so on.”
cally ensure that girls will get as good an
education as boys.
4.) How can the economist and the
human rights advocate work together?
I would say that most economists today
recognize that you can’t only take an economic approach to poverty. The problem
is, even though economists agree to that,
it’s not being translated into practice for
two or three main reasons:
First, some countries don’t recognize
education, health, or housing as human
rights. Here in the U.S. right now, you
have a debate on healthcare and whether
that is a right, even though it’s in the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Second, some countries believe you
have to suppress civil and political rights
in order to progress, like China.
Then there are people who simply say
that the market will take care of it – that
economic growth will shoulder the problem. What economic growth actually
shows is that the poorest are the last to
benefit from a boom and the first to be
hurt by a bust.
5.) Is there anything you would’ve liked
to explore in greater detail?
I would like to explore more the whole
issue of empowerment. How do people
take control of their lives and make a difference? There are many different examples of it around the world, and it’s happening at the grassroots level. To better
understand the process there would help
us use human rights as a breakthrough
strategy for development.
Despite the very negative spiral of poverty, there are so many good stories to tell.
There is optimism. There is hope.
er demand creates this market to exist
and what really needs to be understood
is our spending habits affect our own
lives just as much as a migrant worker
from rural China.
“This kind of cheap product from
China encourages excessive consumption here, and of course, increased consumption contributes to global warming because somebody has to produce
them,” warns Chan. “Particularly in
the case of China, with the relatively
lenient implementation of environ-
Factories are often
cheaply built with
hazardous materials,
insufficiently ventilated
for the humid climate,
and employees are
commonly forced
beyond the legally
allowed work hours.
Foreign-based production works in a
multi-faceted operation. A parent company first develops a product idea and then
contracts the manufacturing to a secondary medium located in countries where
working wages are lower and labor laws
are lax. In this example, Apple contracts
its work to Foxconn, a Taiwanese company that produces computer technology
and has factories located mainly in Asia,
specifically in China. These second-party
companies are the ones actually in charge
of labor practices and when this fact is
combined with the country’s labor conditions, it is debatable who is more responsible for the treatment of laborers. But
what can’t be debated is that our consum-
mental regulations, we are indirectly
contributing to China’s production of
global warming.”
According to the Union of Concerned
Scientists, China has surpassed the US
in pollution rates and now ranks #1 in
CO2 emissions. Much of that statistic
is attributed to the increased factory
production in response to the US consumer demand for cheap products,
and with growing concern for climate
change on both a global and nation
scale, this makes our spending habits
relevant beyond just our expendable
income. So in many ways beyond monetary terms, our consumerism doesn’t
come free.
Asian Comfort Foods
This space is reserved for the young people of our community to share their thoughts, stories, talents,
and hopes. In this installment, young writers from the youth council of the Washington Asian Pacific Islander
Families Against Substance Abuse (WAPIFASA) give their perspective on Typhoon Ketsana’s impact..
The winter season opens the floodgates for all
kinds of illnesses. A food blogger offers her
suggestions to strengthen your system and boost
your immunity.
InspirAsian
Youth Corner
BY MY TAM NGUYEN
IE Contributor
WAPIFASA youth council members, from left to right: Monique Le Phung, Julianne F. Deguzman, Andy Szeto,
Steven Vu, Eleazar Teodoro, and Anthony Nguyen.
My Tam Nguyen is a graduate from the Asian Pacific Islander Community
Leadership Foundation’s (ACLF) Community Leadership Program Class of 2008,
and is launching an ethnic food and community-oriented blog focused around
preserving heritage and memories through food. www.foodofthepeople.tumblr.
com or www.twitter.com/foodofthepeople.
During the flu and cold season, many
of us reach for hot bowls of soup for comfort, and some of these dishes may bring
us additional health benefits. Traditional
Chinese food therapy calls for a balance
of hot and cold foods, equal parts of yin
52nd Street Tofu. Photo credit: My Tam Nguyen.
and yang. Hot foods include curry, meat
and chili and are thought to cause fever,
headaches, and sore throats. Cold foods
include cucumbers, apples, celery, corn,
fish, mushrooms and seaweed and can
help cool us down, yet takes away body
heat and makes it harder for the body
to digest what we consume. There are
also middle categories which are neutral,
including brown rice, egg whites, honey,
water, and barley. So what should we really eat? And are there any real health facts
behind the hot and cold food theory?
“Different people require a different
formula, especially if you have a chronic
disease,” says Dr. Shang Zou Li, an Eastern
medicine expert at Chong Wah Ginseng,
Herbal Tea and Acupuncture Center located in Viet Wah. “Nothing can cure the
cold or flu except for medicine.”
Li and his colleague, Jeff Tran, says that
some foods like ginseng, and ling zhi, a
wood mushroom, can help improve your
overall immune system, yet for specific
symptoms, they would recommend herbs
and herbal teas over curing yourself with
food. Eastern medicine design specific
prescriptions based on an individual’s
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playing pool at WAPIFASA with new people she meets everyday.
gender, age, physique, pallor of skin, etc.,
and it is difficult to make general prescriptions for specific illnesses for the general
population.
“It is generally believed that a bodily
imbalance or ill health is due to the foods
you consume,” says Aliya Haq, a nutritionist from the International Community
Health Services. “For example, if you have
a cold, citrus would make it worse since
it’s a cold food. You’d need hot foods to
make you feel better.”
Rice soups are considered by both
Haq and Tran as the most simple and
easy way to digest nutrients when you’re
sick. It is also one of the most common
dishes among Asian Pacific Islander cultures, kanji in India, juk in Korea, okayu
in Japan, arroz caldo in the Philippines,
chao in Vietnam, and congee in China.
“When you’re sick, you lose your
appetite and you need soup-based foods,”
says Tran. “Congee is not too heavy and
with ginger added, it will help warm you
up.”
Haq says that ginger is a hot food that
is good for digestion. Other ingredients
you can add to your soups includes spinach, which cools your fever and can help
you relax and rest, bitter melon also helps
to get your body in balance and is good
for your stomach. Slow cooked meats
and stews are also found in a lot of Asian
cultures and are a good source of iron,
and beneficial for your general health by
keeping your blood count up.
“Balance and harmony is key, the basic
yin and yang of life, look for food quality
not quantity,” says Haq.
Aliya Haq’s top things people can do to
prepare themselves for the cold and flu
season:
1) Keep hydrated
2) Vitamin C – Consume what has the
most Vitamin C.
3) Drink warm milk. The calcium strengthens bones and is good for overall health.
But if you have a lot of phlegm, refrain
from drinking milk.
4) Tofu is also a good source of calcium,
though for kids it’s not a good source of
complete calcium. For elders, at least it
provides some source of bone nutrients
for general health.
5) Wash your hands
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Typhoon Ketsana’s Impact
“Did you know about the storm
that hit Vietnam and the Philippines?
How do you feel about what happened
to our parent’s homeland?” I asked a
friend, My Hoa Nguyen.
“It’s horrifying and depressing,” she
said. “It’s tragic how these things can
happen. It’s a good thing the U.S. and
other nations are providing aid. These
kind of events show that we need to be
more prepared.”
Vietnam and the Philippines are
frequently hit by tropical storms and
flooding this time of the year but neither country had ever experienced a
storm like Typhoon Ketsana.
“I feel sad for the people that got
injured or died in this disaster. I have
a lot of family members in Vietnam,
which worries me to death,” said another youth, Hau Doan.
The heavily damaged, northern
region of the Philippines has limited
access to power, medical supplies,
and food. President Gloria Macapagal
Arroyo appeared on television telling
citizens to wait for rescuers and to
remain calm.
In typhoon-ravaged Vietnam, U.S.
military helicopters dropped food and
water to victims in isolated areas, but
what can villagers do with a ration of
Good foods for the cold and flu season:
• Fresh, wholesome, clean, simple, easily
digestible food
• Whole grains
• Brown rice is better than white rice.
• Chinese broccoli
• Napa cabbage
• Bok choy
• Bittermelon
• Carrots
• Apples
• Pears
• Chicken Broth and chicken soup
Bad foods for the cold and flu season:
• Spicy foods
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Typhoon Ketsana caused devastating
floods, damage to hundreds of thousands of homes and tens of thousands of
hectare of rice and other crops.
“Having my mother still in Vietnam,
I worry that she could have gotten hit
in the storm since all of the power lines
are down,” said a Vietnamese American
youth, Alex Nguyen. “I don’t know if she
is alive or died.”
But while many are anxious to hear
word from family abroad, others in the
U.S. are unaware of the calamity.
“I didn’t even know until now,” said
Thien Thanh Le and Kathy Pham. “I
didn’t even know this was happening
since we are in the U.S. and all. I just
found out what happened because you
explained this to me now.”
Fathers, mothers, husbands, wives,
and children who have immigrated to
America are working their butts off
to send money to family members in
the Philippines and in Vietnam. Since
the economy hit rock bottom, this has
become increasingly hard. The typhoon
has made it a tough situation for the
people in those hard-hit countries and
for their families in the U.S. who have
not been able to get word from them or
to help.
• Greasy foods
• Improperly preserved foods
• High sodium
• High sugar
For more information on having a healthy
holiday flu and cold season, join Aliya
Haq’s organization, ICHS, and many more
at the: Community Health Plan of Washington First Annual Healthy Holidays
Health Fair on Sunday, Dec. 13, 2009 from
12 - 4 p.m. at the Chinatown Community
Center in the International District, 719
8th Ave S. Seattle WA 98104.Free health
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Santa and giveaways. http://www.chpw.
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It’s been a long time coming but we
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readers to the return of our Pacific
Reader book review supplement
that covers new titles by or about
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Wanted: Inspiring
New Authors!
To fully appreciate and
understand the API
experience, we must inspire
and help cultivate more API
writers.
By Jennifer M. Pang and Valerie Ooka Pang
IE Contributors
Jennifer M. Pang is a UW doctoral student in molecular
and cellular biology; her home lab is at Seattle Biomedical Research Institute. Valerie Ooka Pang is a
professor who specializes in the education of Asian
Pacific American children and multicultural education
at San Diego State University.
Asian Pacific American (APA) parents and community
members must challenge publishers to provide more
quality literature where the protagonists are strong APA
role models. Many books for children draw narrow portraits often shaped by deeply embedded stereotypical
caricatures like the karate kid, heavily-accented foreigner, geisha girl, math/science nerd, and rice rockets
(modified cars). These fallacies are misrepresentations,
not only for our children about both themselves and
their cultures, but are also poor portrayals for other readers. Many of these books for children lack cultural and
human authenticity.
Our young Asian Pacific Americans are vibrant and
dynamic. The experiences of young APAs are a unique
part of the American fabric that simultaneously weaves
together many different subcultures. During this holiday
season when storytelling is an integral part of family
time, we should not only embrace winter classics, but we
should also endeavor to share stories that reflect the rich
and unique experiences of our children like the story of
“Moon Shadow” in Laurence Yep’s “Dragonwings”. Yep’s
story is about the struggles of immigrants. Moon Shadow
and his father are brave individuals who successfully
build and fly one of the earliest airplanes, a metaphor
for soaring over the walls of personal fears and societal
prejudices encountered in the United States. Another
exceptional example of the immigrant experience is
Shaun Tam’s stunning book, “The Arrival”, for upper elementary grade students and older. This outstanding piece
of art is a collection of 128 pages where an immigrant’s
experiences are visually told; the book has no words
and is a treat for the mind. The Arrival is the universal
story of immigrants who arrive in a new country seeking
opportunities. The moving portraits illustrate numerous
challenges immigrants must overcome in order to create
new lives. The book reflects the experiences of firstgeneration APAs and encourages U.S.-born Asians to
explore their family histories.
There are other authors who present the dreams,
struggles, and triumphs of Asian Pacific Americans while
describing institutional and social segregation they
faced. Making book club lists non-stop is Jamie Ford’s
“Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet”. Best for
teenagers, it is a heartwarming story that centers around
the friendship between a Chinese American boy and
a Japanese American girl during World War II and the
subsequent internment of the Seattle Nikkei community.
Ford’s historical fiction is an excellent way to engage
young readers to think about the experiences of individuals during the 1940’s where heightened racism towards
Asians Americans existed not only in the United States,
but the Northwest in particular. The story also examines
generational conflicts through the actions of Henry, the
young Chinese American protagonist, and his father.
While it is important for our children to recognize
their unique history in America, it is also important to
invest in literature that is steeped in everyday experiences
that echo the lives of their readers. For preschoolers,
“A is for Aloha” by Stephanie Feeney is an outstanding picture book. Asian Pacific American children were
photographed being kids together: laughing, slurping
noodles, and playing in the rain. A contemporary novel
for primary grade students is “Alvin Ho: Allergic to Girls,
School, And Other Scary Things” by Lenore Look. This
is a funny, smart chapter book about a second-grade
boy who is “allergic” to girls, scared of a piano teacher
with three fingers, and loves being called “son” by his
dad. While Alvin does not speak much to others, he has
an incredibly active imagination whether in creating a
PDK, Personal Disaster Kit, or dressing up as the superhero Firecracker Man. The modern brush illustrations
by LeUyen Pham are full of the motion and frenzy that
reflects the life of a spirited youngster.
APA children’s literature needs to transcend group
stereotypes and provide readers with multidimensional
characters. While we have highlighted a few exceptional
books, there are still many more exciting and illuminating stories to be written. We hope parents recognize and
encourage the artist, writer, cartoonist, comedian, and
poet inside their children. To combat stereotypes, APA
youth must be encouraged to express their feelings, illustrate their fantastic worlds, and write their stories. These
stories will be filled with their vibrant character. We hope
to see many more inspiring and funny books written by
APA authors so that all readers will more fully understand the rich lives and contributions of Asian Pacific
Americans.
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‘New Sun’
Sheds Light on
Incarceration
Experience
A graphic memoir
humanizes a people
villified during WWII.
By Thomas R. Brierly
IE Contributor
I thank the America which lets me talk
and write freely about people
and events which I shall never forget.
—Taro Yashima
This is the quote which introduces a
defining account of the life of the artist Iwamatsu Jun’s graphic memoir, “The
New Sun”. He had to practice his trade as
a painter under the alias of Taro Yashima
while collaborating with US government’s
propaganda department during WWII.
This was in an attempt to protect his
friends and family from retribution back
in Japan. He believed his efforts with cre-
ating a book about his experience would
help explain to an American public, who
most likely feared or loathe the Japanese,
that the demonization of his people was
creating more fodder for war. Yashima
worked tirelessly in hope of the regenerative possibilities of art and in applying
it towards educating and enlightenment
whether in his homeland or in the US.
The New Sun attempts in humanizing the Japanese people by describing
Yashima’s and some of his peer’s unjustified
incarceration while delicately capturing
his companion’s collective benevolence,
while outlining the appalling actions of
their captors who are the aggressors. He
presents these captors, the Tokka—Japan’s
secret police—as bumbling fools and
heartless tyrants which was apt for a government doling out cruelty to individuals
who didn’t comply with the aggressive
hegemony. With heightened escalation
of Japan’s militarist footprint growing,
affecting the daily peace of its citizens,
Yashima attempted to address this mania
through art and public protest. He and his
companions were classic political prisoners, though Yashima more so for his public
protest. It is from this perspective of a
Japanese citizen’s trials struggling against
these early twentieth-century ambitions
we see the life of a free thinker and the
fact that not every Japanese citizen agreed
with their government’s actions.
The artwork is stark as his imprisonment, rendered by brush, stylized in a
woodblock-carving aesthetic; the accompanying text helps makes this book’s
narrative approachable giving a greater
explanation to the images. The wonderful
humane moments of the story come when
Yashima speaks of his companion’s help
and kindness towards each other while in
captivity. Even under the torturous actions
of the Tokka guards towards these men,
the compassion that the men displayed
help Yashima retain a faith that this situation could eventually change; working
well with the use of light and dark he
exposes the reader to these experiences.
His wife also became a target and was
beaten in prison while she carried their
second child, which Yashima could only
suffer through while listening to it occur.
After their incarceration, Yashima made
his way to the United States as a political
refugee with his wife escaping continued
persecution.
While safely working for the US government, Yashima still viewed himself as
citizen of Japan though appreciated the
help he received as a resident alien. The
narrative captures his razor’s edge balancing act, possibly looking contradictory
by working for the enemy, while keeping
his heart in Japan, pushed him to work
towards ending the war by possibly convincing his countrymen to stop fighting
and return home to their families. It is,
in fact, the very humble grace in which
he strived to banish the rhetoric of war’s
embrace by overcoming it. Yashima confronted the nationalist fog that many did
marched to. He had a lot going against
him considering most of the US’ citizens
probably would never read a book by a
Japanese National, political refugee or
not.
The dents possibly made by this memoir are everlasting and made available
again by University of Hawai’i Press.
Oddly enough, The New Sun resonates
descriptively of actions of many of today’s
governments. This documentation is an
important one in which we collectively
should meet the unknown other, so we
may understand their action and possibly understand our own. Taro Yashima
embraced his ideals and attempted to
humanize a denigrated people to the
American public, which either by sway of
national rhetoric or strong-arm militarism
was no longer in control of its destiny.
Yashima commanded his own destiny
with ideals we all should attempt live up
to.
“The New Sun” by Taro Yashima.
University of Hawai’i Press, 2008.
Tales from Outer Suburbia
An Eye on “The Fold”
A collection of stories play on the nuances of
the suburban landscape.
A novel depicts the unique insecurities
of a 17 year-old girl faced with a plastic
surgery-crazed aunt. prevalent in our society today
IE Contributor
The levity at which Shaun Tan weaves
visually in “The Arrival” is something that
makes his illustrative style an enjoyment
to read, though this previous book had
not a decipherable word to consume.
I don’t state that as a critque—his construct was actually intentional. As with
The Arrival the structure of the suburban
landscape based on the usual mundane
familiar to all he make fantastical twists
with wonderful results. More than just a
collection of stories, it is a description of
Tan’s world that we can maybe succor
to imaginary escape to. In an age that
youth are bombarded by technological
social networking or the white noise of
everything being turned on, reading may
be a reprieve or an escape for the kids
with attention deficit disorder. For all that
tales encompassed here, there’s something for everyone. “The Tales from Outer
Suburbia” is a book for the young reader
to fully invest their time on and unplug
from the virtual world and embrace the
realm of imagination. Tan is a great guide,
who’ll do what he can to invite you there.
It’s this new volume of work, Tales from
Outer Suburbia, we see Tan’s brevity of
working with text along with his multiplicity of visual styles employed to match
these tales. This wonderful collection of
short stories are playful and adhering to
a creativity of spirit balancing one-half
graphic novel between a young adult
reader. Tan has once again accomplished
a fine work that all ages can enjoy. Tales
By Zoey Rogers
IE Contributor
from Outer Suburbia is worth your undivided attention and will probably collect
awards that Tan’s previous book did and
deservedly so. So, the best thing for you
to do is find yourself a quiet place and
crack up the book, it’s probably what Tan’s
doing when not creating these fun works
of visual creativity.
“Tales from Outer Suburbia” by Shaun
Tan. Arthur A. Levine Books, 2009.
In An Na’s “The Fold”, Joyce Park, a
sweet, self-conscious Korean seventeen
year-old is a girl that many teenage girls
will be able to identify with—from dealing with that big annoying zit that comes
at the worst time, to confronting your
long-time crush or just having to deal
with the insecurities of being a teenager.
In Na’s novel, she addresses the issue
of self-image in girls today and the many
insecurities that go along with it. This
issue is played out when Joyce’s aunt
Gomo wins the lottery and gives Joyce
the gift to get plastic surgery to put a fold
on her eyelids (a physical trait that many
western world women take for granted),
Joyce has to decide whether she wants
to endure all the pain to look “beautiful”
and get the guy or to accept herself for
who she is.
Na portrays how Gomo tries to change
Joyce’s family by giving each member
of the family a gift to improve their
looks. The gifts that Gomo gave ranged
from pills to make one taller to finding
a pre-arranged boyfriend. Gomo, who
they sometimes call Michael (short for
Michael Jackson) is obsessed with plastic
surgery, having had it many times, and
so when she wins all this money and
tries to get her family to alter themselves
to look a different way, she is letting her
own insecurities rub off on them, and she
makes the family insecure about themselves. This message that one needs to
look a certain way is unfortunately very
even
from plucking our eyebrows to wearing
makeup. However, An Na makes Joyce
a loveable and relatable character, and
Na is able to show how Joyce is eventually able to accept herself and love
herself for who she is by seeing the
flaws of her loved ones.
Before having read this book I did
not realize that there are different types
of insecurities amongst different ethnicities. For Joyce and other Asian
Americans in the book they were selfconscious and unhappy with their eyelids and lack of a fold and they wanted
their eyelids to have a fold to look
more “American.” It is sad that we live
in a world where we cannot just be
considered beautiful for the way we
are. We have now succumbed to an
environment where we feel the need to
get plastic surgery, liposuction, breast
implants and anything just to achieve
this false image of an “ideal” way a
woman should look. An Na does a
wonderful job in this novel of showing
what is really important in life and how
you should be confident in yourself no
matter who you are. She addresses the
idea of beauty, and how it affects everyone in a funny, sincere and thoughtful
way. This book is very thought provoking, and a great discussion piece that
forces one to look at our own culture
and examine our practices of what we
consider beauty. This book can appeal
to parents and young readers.
“The Fold” by An Na. The Penguin
Group, 2008.
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The Arrival
An immigrant’s
passage is depicted
in Shaun Tan’s
remarkable visual tale.
IE Contributor
Even before you open this large-format
graphic novel, your first take is absorbing
the beauty of this hard-bound book. The
cover appears something of a tattered
leather-bound volume denoting the ravages of age or just heavy
use. Here, we are introduced to the author’s first
metaphor of the protagonist’s migrant experience.
This character endures a
familiar tale which can
be added to the tome
of personal experiences
recounting an immigrant’s
passage to a hopeful better
life. The first direct communication of an old photograph embossed in the
cover has our protagonist
perplexed by a curious
little animal he meets and
thus we are welcomed
into Shaun Tan’s fantastic
tale.
Like any comic, we
delve into the story purely visually. Any
appearance of a lexicon in the story is
unknown to our protagonist and even
with our best interpretation, scarcely decipherable. We become dependent on the
pacing and structure of images that Tan
sometimes illustrates as sequential timelapse photography. The story moves along
like a silent film in a rthym employing a
classical metaphor of time passing. This
device focuses the reader deeper in concentration to what the mise en scène has
to offer. There is much that is offered in
“The Arrival”.
What may be a hinderace here in
the states is that the book itself may be
sequestered in the child or young-adult
section, which would be a shame considering the magnitude of the story and
Tan’s ability to engage it, similar in fashion
to what Hayao Miyazaki does with his
animated movies. This universal tale does
and can speak to a great range of audiences because it isn’t limited to language
that is spoken, but of a visual story-telling
empathetic to the human experience. It
would be well worth the time to engross
yourself within the pages of this wellworn tale.
I contacted Mr. Tan about his book,
which has received recognition from the
Angoulême International Comics Festival
as Best Comic Book and received the 2007
World Fanatsy Award for Best Artist.
Q: Was there any personal reason for you
to tackle this story’s arc of immigration?
I assume you were driven considering the
undertaking of the research and also all
the detail artistically achieved with the illustrations.
A: It just seemed like such a good story –
that’s the main reason. Or rather a whole
narrative universe, one that taps into the
familiar bedrock of many family histories
(including my own, which is Chinese, Malaysian, English, Irish and Australian). You
rarely have to go too far to find a major
story of transition or immigration in any
individual’s background. And almost every great challenge you can imagine in a
human life is evident in the story of someone moving to a new, unknown country,
often without choice.
Not that I felt this was a monumental subject, or one that I could relate
to directly as a middle-class suburban
homebody. In fact, I tend not to feel ‘driven’ or ‘inspired’ until I’ve thought about a
subject for a long time. Up until then I’m
just acting on a vague intuition that an
idea seems promising or interesting, and
I follow this to see where it leads. There
is often a turning point, when an idea or
story begins to take on a life of it’s own
and various parts click together – relations
between style, structure, and lived experience – and the world on paper seems very
real, like looking through a window. That
feeling of an ‘alternative reality’ and trying
to pin it down like
a butterfly or dream
is probably the main
thing that keeps me
so engaged, and able
to spend so many
months producing
what might otherwise
be incredibly tedious
drawings.
I’m not very
experienced actually in this form of
sequential picture
narrative – I’m used
to having some words
in the manner of
conventional picture
books, so I spent a fair amount of time
looking at comics for guidance.
Q: I was caught unguarded with some of
the scenes being somewhat sinister, but
talking of immigration lends itself to a
need of explanation in a story like this.
Who’s is your intended audience for this
book or who do you want this story to
reach?
A: That’s a question I’m often asked, and
the truth is that I don’t think about the audience too much, or at least those thoughts
do not affect the structure and content of
the work beyond inherent notions of ‘accessibility’. I would hope that this is a book
that anybody would be able to enjoy. Very
young children might possibly find some
parts scary or disturbing, or difficult to understand, but over the years I’ve learnt not
to worry about that too much – the worst
that can happen is boredom. One good
thing about books is that they are fairly
‘quiet’, they do not demand to be looked
at, and it’s great when they are not actually pitched to a particular audience. My
ideal reader is probably someone who is
curious and prepared to bring a good deal
of their own imaginative interpretation to
the journey, regardless of age, background
or existing knowledge about the subject.
were then scanned and colour and certain
effects (stains, cracks, photographic burning and dodging) were added using Photoshop. This was really the first time that I
had worked digitally on anything, and it
took a long time to get a result that was
subtle enough to work, to create something that looks like a cross between a
drawing and an old photograph.
Q: You have some characters and objects
that make frequent appearance within
some of your paintings and picture books
such as a large-winged eagle that towers
over the landscape, steamed-powered
aerial ships or mechanized objects, and
buildings that mimic the shapes of pottery or animals. Is there any intentional
references to any of these?
A: Only partially intentional, they are
more subconscious or simply stylistically
comfortable things that I end up drawing
repeatedly. Why that is so is a question
that often intrigues me as much as anyone
else. There are certain vague meanings or
resonances with some elements, but nothing that I would call especially symbolic,
and certainly nothing coded – more like it
has the correct resonance. In The Arrival,
I was drawing a lot of birds and bowlshapes, and only realized halfway through
that this felt right to me because of the associations with migration; how birds travel
and nest, and bowls (and boats and eggs)
were things which ferry valuables through
space and time, empty vessels that needed
to be filled. So I then emphasized those
references a little more by giving them
continuity throughout the book.
Q: Here’s more of a left-brain methodology question, what type of medium did
you work in for The Arrival? Do you ever
you use computer technology to produce
a certain style or effect?
A: All of the images are hand-drawn using
graphite pencil on cartridge paper: these
Q: I am sure any young aspiring artist
would like to know what word of advice
or knowledge you could pass on. What
might you tell this person?
A: One bit of advice I heard from one writer was simply this: ‘finish!’ I thought that
was pretty good! It’s important to try to finish any project that you start, even when it
seems to go belly-up, which is actually a
quite familiar feeling for every artist. Fear
of failure is the biggest hindrance for most
young artists.
My other advice, especially for illustrators, is to cast a wide net and seek
out things that may not interest you at
first. Read a lot of art history and theory,
try many different kinds of painting and
drawing, beyond what is immediately
appealing (one thing art schools are good
for). I’ve noticed a tendency towards
introversion in the world of illustration, of
trying to make something that looks like
other illustrations and not pushing beyond
those safe boundaries. To do anything
original you need be quite experimental,
really ask basic questions about what it
means to draw and tell stories, what the
relationship is to real life, especially your
own life (the source of unique ideas).
Finally, expect a lot of failures, mishaps
and hideous frustrations – but also a lot of
serendipity and unexpected discoveries.
My early drafts for paintings and stories
always look a bit chaotic and incoherent,
and very clumsy, but I accept this as normal. While I also often have lapses in confidence, I persevere through those until I
reach a solution – and there almost always
is a solution to any artistic problem. The
‘problem’ is just not being able to see
what it is straight away – that’s where the
hard work comes in, just sitting down and
investing the hours.
“The Arrival” by Shaun Tan.
Arthur A. Levine Books, 200
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A Little
Leap
Forward
A touching story from
the viewpoint of a
boy growing up in
Beijing during the
Cultural Revolution.
Leap Forward and Lan’s romance and
friendship grow even as the politics of
the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution
heat up. Leap Forward’s mother wistfully
remembers her friendships with her foreign Russian friend but knows that the
xenophobic turn in her nation’s politics
will disallow any sign of that former
friendship.
Leap Forward, named ironically after
the disastrous policies of the Great Leap
Forward (1958 – 63) that resulted in mass
starvation, starts learning some core truths
of his life and times through his pet bird,
who has never sung one note while in
captivity. His philosophical friend LittleLittle asks him: “Wouldn’t you rather be
free, just for a day, than spend a lifetime
in a cage?”
Artist Helen Cann’s lovely, patterned
images bring Leap Forward’s experiences
to charming life: a boy standing with his
father, who is holding an erhu; a tender
mother looking in her son’s face; boyhood
friends mingling on a busy street; children
playing in a traditional schoolyard (from
an aerial view), and childhood friends
walking on a street teeming with Red
Guards posting political tracts. Black-andwhite photos of the author and his friends
are included in the Afterword.
Little Leap Forward offers a touching
boy’s view of the Cultural Revolution as
the backdrop for his growing-up years.
Guo Yue and Clare Farrow are married and have two children. They live in
London. Illustrator Helen Cann lives in
Hove.
“Little Leap Forward: A Boy in Beijing”, by
Guo Yue and Clare Farrow. Illustrated by Helen Cann. Cambridge: Barefoot Books, 2008.
By SHALIN HAI JEW
IE Contributor
Shalin Hai Jew worked in the
People’s Republic of China from
1988 - 1990 and 1992 - 1994, the latter
two years with the United Nations
Development Program/ United Nations
Volunteers. She now teaches for
WashingtonOnline.
“When I was a little boy, I lived in an
old courtyard in Beijing, China, between
the Drum Tower, the Bell Tower and the
river…” So begins Guo Yue and Clare
Farrow’s “Little Leap Forward: A Boy in
Beijing”.
The boy, Leap Forward (Yuejin), is the
much-beloved child of a musician father
and an educated mother, but his father
passed on when the boy was only five. He
keeps silkworms and crickets. He spends
his days with his best friend, Little-Little
(Xiao-Xiao). They are both children of
musicians, and their housing in this same
hutong reveals the government hand in
clustering those with like backgrounds
into neighborhoods.
The two friends have interesting philosophical discussions, such as whether
birds choose which notes to sing, with
Xiao-Xiao musing: “They just sing the
music that’s in them. That’s all they can
do. It’s as simple as that.” They talk about
the Russians sending people to the moon.
They talk about their near-constant hunger.
They make and fly kites as friendly
competitors. As an aside, he recalls how
people would write messages on the
tails of their kites before Chairman Mao,
before self-expression meant potentially
severe political and personal danger. He
continues: “My mother remembers flying them in the winter with her Russian
friends, when she was a little girl. They
all wore fur coats, so they didn’t feel the
cold.”
One day, his friend sets a clever trap
and captures a beautiful yellow bird,
which Leap Forward takes as his own. He
gets his sister’s boyfriend (Clear Waves)
to build him a cage for her. In school, he
brags about her to his friends and is asked
whether he’ll teach her the patriotic political songs they have all memorized. His
teacher chides him for writing with his
left hand, so he’s forced to use his clumsy
right one.
Among his classmates, he’s a bit of a
dreamer. He has a crush on a beautiful
girl named Blue (Lan). Lan’s family lives
in the journalist compound. “I had never
been inside a writers’ compound before,
and had imagined the walls to be covered
with newspapers—the black print still
wet, rubbing off on my finders—the sound
of a hundred tapping typewriters filling
the air.”
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A Chant to
Soothe Wild
Elephants
The Slant
“The Slant” reaches
deep into the identity
issues and struggles
of a middle-school
girl, whose complex
life is both magnified
and clarified within
its pages.
By SIMONE WOOD
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“The Slant”, by Laura Williams, is
the story of Lauren, a middle school girl
struggling with identity. However, what
sets Slant apart, is the combination of the
universal social struggles of adolescence,
with the complex and challenging issues
that Lauren faces. Lauren, adopted from
Korea, her sister Maia, adopted from
China, her father, an American English
professor obsessed with Shakespeare,
and her mother who committed suicide,
makes for a complex family identity.
This combination of cultural history sets
Lauren apart from her peers, particularly
her neighbor, and best friend, Julie. Julie
is wealthy, white, and, in Lauren’s opinion, the epitome of pretty. Although Julie
is Lauren’s closest friend, it is difficult to
imagine that she is able to understand
Lauren’s struggle. On top of her hardships
at home, Lauren is faced with racism from
students at school who call her names
such as ‘slant’, ‘chinko’ and ‘gook face’.
Lauren’s hope is that plastic eye surgery
will help her fit in. Though Lauren’s inner
conflict is complex, her concerns are still
what most middle-school girls are worried about, fitting into the social world.
The writing style reflects the mind set of
young girls, giving it a less appealing tone
for older readers. However, the issues of
racism, cultural history, class, and suicide
are not frequently discussed in books written for middle school students. This book
is accessible and has a positive message
for young readers who may be dealing
with similar challenges, or who are able
to process those themes.
“Slant” by Laura E. Williams. Milkweed
Editions, 2008.
In his memoir, a Thai
American recounts
his time as a monk in
an effort to find peace
with his interracial
background.
In his memoir, “A Chant to Soothe
Wild Elephants”, Jaed Coffin is the child
of a Thai mother and an American father,
in search of the concrete identity he feels
he lacks because of his interracial background. As an American college student
he returns to Thailand, where he briefly
becomes a Buddhist monk in an attempt
to cure his adolescent identity crisis. He
relates both his physical and mental journey as a monk, taking the reader to his
mother’s village of Panomsarakram, to a
Buddhist temple, to a bizarre, introspective retreat in the forest, and back to the
temple as his spiritual endurance winds
down and he finally returns to secular
life.
Coffin’s descriptions of life in Thailand
as a monk are intriguing, yet so much
of the memoir is so internal that the
reader only gets a limited glimpse of the
world outside Coffin’s insecure, convoluted thoughts. This is fitting, considering
that in many ways the young Coffin is the
By Lisa Jaech
IE Contributor
archetypal “seeker” personality—always
searching for his own miraculous enlightenment. His purpose is to cure his identity crisis, so some heavy introspection is
required. Simply put, the memoir is more
a description of Coffin’s mental processes
than what happens in the world around
him and the full breadth of his experience
is lacking in this sense. The character goes
through something of a transformation
throughout the memoir, but only in that
he realizes that a mysterious foray into
the culture and religion of his ancestry is
not an instant cure for his identity crisis.
Coffin’s writing is blunt and honest, with
many allusions to his proclaimed literary
heroes such as Earnest Hemingway and
Jack London, but because of this he lacks
some of the charm of ingenuity.
“A Chant to Soothe Wild Elephants” by
Jaed Coffin. De Capo Press, 2008.
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Mao and Me
A Chinese-Parisian artist shares memories
as a Little Red Guard.
By SHALIN HAI JEW
IE Contributor
Shalin Hai Jew worked in the People’s Republic of China from 1988 - 1990
and 1992 - 1994, the latter two years with the United Nations Development
Program/ United Nations Volunteers. She now teaches for WashingtonOnline.
Chen Jiang Hong’s “Mao and Me:
The Little Red Guard” evokes the ambivalences of one young Chinese child’s
autobiographical experiences growing
up during the Great Proletarian Cultural
Revolution (1966 – 76), a decade-long
political shake-up and the last hurrah of
the Mao era.
Powerfully illustrated in full-color hand
drawings, Mao and Me strives for realism
both in the words and the images, without
much of a shielding overlay of any childhood enchantment.
This story opens in 1966 in a large,
unnamed industrial city of China’s north
(the author was born in
Tianjin). The narrator is
a little boy living with
his two sisters, their
parents, and grandparents.
He describes with
fondness his grandmother’s
cooking,
especially her noodle
and jiaozi specialties.
His grandmother raises
chickens in the courtyard, and the family
has a pet cat named
Hu-Hu. Grandfather
would practice tai-chi in the courtyard
and argue with his friends about whose
caged bird was more beautiful.
His older sister was a deaf-mute who
would share her sign language learning
with her little brother.
He played with his hand-me-down
wooden blocks, and when he exhausted
of ideas, his grandfather would exhort
him: “When one has truly understood
something, a single thing, then one is able
to understand everything.”
Mao and Me continues with realworld aspects of life there, with its electrical shortages, the hand-me-down clothes
from his sisters, and the use of a tub to
share a bath.
Into this simple but joyful life comes
a radio announcement of their supreme
leader Chairman Mao’s announcement
of a Cultural Revolution, the violent overturning of a feudal cultural way of life, to
make way for a more communist China.
Savvy to the different social changes,
his grandparents destroy precious old
photographs. People start reading and
memorizing Chairman Mao’s Little Red
Book, which was the only text that could
be read. The youthful Red Guards visited
their peaceful courtyard to burn books
and destroy ancient objects.
The little boy himself starts wearing Mao’s smiling visage on a medallion around his neck. In the park, the
Chairman Mao statue has been raised up
with a gesture of openness and smiling
beneficence.
As the political turmoil deepens, the
children become hungrier and hungrier.
The adults use ration coupons to get
access to bare staples. And the types of
food available becomes less and less. A
kindly neighbor who shares candy with
the children and plays music for them is
taken away by the Red Guards, tortured in
public, and disappears, never to be seen
again.
The political dangers touch the family
even more intimately, when his father is
“sent down” to the forests of Heilongjiang
on the Russian border.
For comfort, this little boy begins to
draw. Because of the lack of paper, he
draws on the floor with a pencil stub.
In 1970, he is 7 years old and starts
school. The first phrase he learns is “Mao
is our salvation.” His education is part
of a nationwide campaign to promote a cult
of personality around
their “great leader.”
He learns to “confess”: “Every morning
in front of a portrait
of Mao, with his Little
Red Book held over
our hearts, we had to
make a self-critique,
listing our good and
bad actions of the previous day. We also did
daily eye exercises and
gymnastics. We had to
train our bodies in order to be able to
protect our country.” He watches movies
about evil landlords and at 8 years-old, he
is inducted to be a Little Red Guard. He
loses his grandfather to death, and shortly
thereafter, the Red Guards come and kill
his grandmother’s chickens—potentially
because they represent any sign of independence of the Party or reveal some sign
of entrepreneurship.
This text concludes with Chairman
Mao’s death in December 1976 and the
return of his bedraggled father a year
later, when the author was 13. His father
brings him a four-set volume of sayings by
Chairman Mao as a gift. His drawing talent led to his studying art in Beijing.
He concludes subtly, “For a number
of years now I have lived abroad, but I
return to China regularly to see my family. My parents have not moved. The city
of my childhood has changed a lot, yet
my apartment building has stayed the
same and the tree in the courtyard is still
there.”
Mao and Me, evocatively illustrated
with ink, watercolors and calligraphy,
shows an innocent child’s view of Mao
and his service to this leader in his childhood.
Chen Jiang Hong doesn’t mince words
about the suffering that many Chinese
experienced in this succession of political movements over a decade, but his
use of a child’s framework simplifies the
horrors and losses. And, ironically, a
small affection for the country’s supreme
chairman seeps through the book.
“Mao and Me” by Chen Jiang Hong.
New York, Enchanted Lion Books,
2008.
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“Buddha’s
Diamonds”
Sparkles
A poor family in a
remote village in
Vietnam struggle to
stay afloat.
By QUYNH VAN LE
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“The Buddha’s Diamonds” is a storytelling book written in a very easy and
readable language. It is a vivid description of a difficult life of a poor family in
a remote village in Vietnam. The family
mainly contains the parents, Tinh, a boy
– the main character, and his sister. The
family is extremely poor and their life
depends on a bamboo boat for fishing –
and the fish is used solely to buy food.
This boat belongs to the father, and Tinh
will own this boat in the future and take
care of his family. It is interesting to notice
that the family always keeps a statue
of Phat Ba Quan Am, the Vietnamese
Bodhisattva of Compassion, having thousand eyes looking over the earth and
thousand hands to help people in pain
and poverty.
At the beginning of the book, there is
a monk’s saying, “The sea full of fish, the
fresh winds, the breath flowing in and
out of your body – all these things are
beautiful diamonds in your life, shining
day and night. The Buddha offers you
these diamonds of true happiness...” In
this book, you will see Tinh’s helpless life,
his perspective on a red toy car–which
he has access to by playing with his rich
cousin—and his trust in Buddha while
in need of food. In other words, you will
see whether he has a penchant for the
modern toy car or a Buddhist spirit –that
is to say, overcoming any difficulties he
has and be satisfied with what he has:
a poor life with a “diamond boat.” As a
reader and as a Vietnamese myself, I see
that Viet Nam has significantly changed
for the past ten years even though there
are still poor regions that are in lack of
rice like the village portrayed in the story.
I recommend anyone who loves reading
in general and who has a Buddhist spirit
in particular to read this book.
Something For
School
Yoon’s first day of
kindergarten will
leave a lasting
impression on
readers.
By Lanting Huang-Truong
IE Contributor
“Something for School” starts with a
little girl, Yoon off to her first day of kindergarten. Yoon is very sad. Because of
her short hair she is mistakenly identified
as a boy by her classmates and her teacher and is placed in the wrong group.
This picture book details the little girl’s
hard time on the first day of school and
how she copes with it and finds ways to
make herself feel better and how other
kids relate to her feeling and presence.
The illustrations are wonderfully
drawn out in detail showing the traditional Korean classroom setting and how
the kids would wear uniform slippers in
the classroom. On one of the pages, Lee
makes good use of the blank space, portraying the anxiety, emptiness and worries
of little Yoon who couldn’t find the headdress that she took from her sister to bring
to school to show her identity. This book
can be appreciated by kids and is a great
story to instill in them a sense of care and
acceptance.
“Something for School” by Hyun Young
Lee. Kane/Miller Book Publishers, 2006.
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as a topic when creating poetry, and this
book models descriptive writing and the
use of imagery. Children and young adults
from many ethnic backgrounds will relate
to the traditions, food, and experiences
represented in Tan to Tamarind.
family and discovering your place in the
world. Young girls will particularly enjoy
the poems about the author’s desire to
become a writer, and how her mother,
teacher, and a favorite uncle encouraged
her to pursue her dream.
Yeung Russell’s use of humor makes
Tofu Quilt an entertaining read. She writes
about how a delicious dessert provided
motivation for becoming a writer, and
how she dreamt of marrying a bus driver
to drive her around to “see more things”
so that she could gain inspiration for her
writing! Tofu Quilt is an easy to read,
enjoyable collection of poems. The publisher recommends this book for ages
8-12, but I think that middle school-aged
children would enjoy this book as well.
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Mini-Reviews
A mother and child dealing with a winter
storm, a picture book biography of an artist,
a duck going on a picnic, and “brown skin”
round out these mini-reviews.
By Therese Kumasaka
IE Contributor
“The Snow Day” by Komako Sakai.
Arthur A. Levine Books, 2009.
“The Snow Day” is a charming story of
how a child and his mother deal with an
unexpected winter storm. Children will
relate to the wonder and excitement of
playing in freshly fallen snow, and parents
will smile with familiarity at the sense
of dread and caution the day brings for
the mother. Young readers will be captivated by the snowy scenes and filled with
anticipation of the story’s progression no
matter what the season.
Sakai’s use of winter grays and muted
browns give the story a somber yet gentle
feel. Illustrations showing the bunny’s
anticipation while watching the snow
from his apartment, and later building
“snow dumplings”, will engage readers.
The Snow Day, which was first published
in Japan in 2005 as Yuki Ga Yandara, is a
great read aloud for 2-8 year olds.
“The East-West House: Noguchi’s Childhood in Japan” by Christy Hale. Lee &
Low Books, 2009.
“Ready for Anything!” by Keiko Kasza.
G.P. Putnam’s Son’s: Penguin Young Readers Group, 2009.
Tofu Quilt is a collection of poems by
Ching Yeung Russell about the author’s
childhood in China and Hong Kong in
the 1960’s. Although each poem focuses
on a different theme, the book flows like
a cohesive stream of memories. The time
and place may differ, but readers will
relate to Yeung Russell’s stories about
Mini-Reviews
By Sumi Hayashi
IE Contributor
“Wave” by Suzy Lee. Chronicle Books,
2008.
Ready for Anything! is a comical story
about Duck’s efforts to convince his friend
Raccoon to join him on a picnic. Anxietyridden Raccoon is so worried about the
“what ifs” that he would rather hide under
a blanket than venture outside for the
day. The story emphasizes the silliness of
worrying about the unknown. It encourages children to be optimistic rather than
focusing on potential mishaps. This is a
fun read-aloud for younger children—
especially those who get anxious in new
situations!
“Tan to Tamarind: Poems About the Color
Brown” by Malathi Michelle Iyengar. Illustrated by Jamel Akib. Children’s Book
Press, 2009.
Christy Hale’s “The East-West House:
Noguchi’s childhood in Japan” is a
picture book biography of artist Isamu
Noguchi. In this fascinating story, readers learn about Noguchi’s struggle to find
acceptance while growing up as gaijin (a
foreigner) in Japan. The East-West House
describes how Noguchi’s mother supported his endeavors. As an outcast, Noguchi
found solace in nature which, along
with his bicultural background, served as
inspiration for his art.
Hale provides a summary of Noguchi’s
life and work following the story that
includes more details about his early
interest in architecture and his path to
becoming a well-respected artist. The
book is an inspiring story—especially for
young artists and for those longing for
acceptance.
“Tofu Quilt” by Ching Yeung Russell.
Lee & Low Books, 2009.
Author Malathi Michelle Iyengar says
that she was inspired to write this book
because she was teased as a child that
her skin was brown—a “dirty, ugly color”.
In “Tan to Tamarind”, Iyengar uses words
throughout her poems like “splendid”,
“cozy”, and “creamy” to describe the
color brown. Each poem in the book
focuses on a different shade of brown,
from Sienna to Adobe, Nutmeg to Topaz,
and its environmental, cultural, and often
culinary connections. Jamel Akib’s illustrations compliment the theme of the
book; each picture is done in hues of
warm, earthy tones.
Although the book is suitable for ages
2-12, I recommend reading one or two
poems to younger children rather than the
entire book in one sitting. Older readers
will recognize the similarities and connectivity between the poems when read
altogether.
The collection can assist in developing
a healthy self concept for many children
of color who may rarely hear compliments for the beauty of their brown skin.
It is common for teachers to utilize color
With black charcoal and turquoise
blue paint on a stark white background—and no words—a young girl’s
day of discovery at the
beach comes to life in
this delightful book by
Korean artist Suzy Lee.
Lee uses the panoramic format of the
book and simple but
evocative art to bring to
life a child’s encounter
with the sea. On the
title page the girl leaves
her mom’s side to run
toward the surf, and
through the following
pages, a story unfolds,
ending with the girl
waving goodbye to a
new friend.
In the beginning the girl stays on the
safety of the left-side page, testing and
dodging the water on the other side of
the book. When she steps into the bright
blue water on the right-side page the
action kicks up a notch.
Wordless books give parents and
children opportunities to develop language skills and are thought to encourage creativity and vocabulary in readers
of all ages. They provide an opportunity
for parents to switch roles with their
kids, to let the kids tell them a story. And
when the art and story are as engaging
as those in Wave, it can’t help but lead
to fun.
“Night of the Moon: A Muslim Holiday
Story” by Hena Khan. Illustrated by Julie
Paschkis. Chronicle Books, 2008.
The holiday, Ramadan, began in
North America this year with the crescent moon on August 22, and continued through September 20, following
the Islamic calendar. For non-Muslims
it may have been easy to miss. In my
neighborhood, I know by the increased
number of cars parked around as people
gather at a nearby community center in
the evenings during the celebratory
month.
Pakistani American author Hena
Khan, and illustrator Julie Paschkis (a
Seattle resident) have collaborated on
a beautiful book to explain, from a
child’s perspective, some of the holi-
day’s traditions. Yasmeen and her family
follow the moon through its monthly
cycle marking the holiday, and each
evening they prepare feasts to break the
adults’ day-long fast. The family goes
to their mosque, attended by people of
many different races and cultural backgrounds. They have family and friends
over for a backyard barbecue. They
exchange gifts.
Paschkis borrows the motifs and jewel-tone colors of Islamic art to create
boldly painted illustrations that bring
the celebration to life.
This book can be
appreciated by both
Muslim
and
nonMuslim children, and
help fill a disgraceful
void in materials that
should be available to
all American children
to help them know the
people around them.
“A Song for Cambodia” by Michelle Lord.
Illustrated by Shino Arihara. Lee & Low Books,
2008.
The true story of Arn Chorn-Pond,
a Cambodian who survived the Khmer
Rouge children’s work camps. Coming
from a happy, musical family, he survived because he was chosen to play
propaganda music, which allowed him
to mentally escape from the horrors
around him. After four years in the work
camp, at age 12, he was sent to fight
the Vietnamese as a soldier. He eventually was able to run away and get to a
Thai refugee camp. There he met and
was adopted by an American volunteer.
Chorn-Pond now does humanitarian
work in the US and Cambodia and was
the subject of a PBS documentary, “The
Flute Player”, in 2003.
The challenge of writing such a difficult story for children is well met by
Michelle Lord in this book, without
sensationalism or over sentimentality.
The story is told in ways to make the
unthinkable events of Chorn-Pond’s life
recognizable to a child. The fear and
sadness at being separated from his family as a boy and the emotions of seeing
the deaths of so many friends around
him are neither sugar-coated nor overexplained.
It’s not easy to explain the real world
to kids, and sometimes, when they are
ready, something that can help you let
them see the difficulties that happen
in life, can be a gift. That Arn ChornPond lived and continues to be such are
remarkable positive influence on the
world is a gift for all of us.
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Good Enough
A frustrated teen’s
only solace is playing
the violin. Quirky
additions such as
“Top Ten Ways to
Make Your Korean
Parents Happy”
pepper this pseudoautobiographical
account.
By Sophie Daudon
IE Contributor
This book is ultimately about the journey a girl takes towards
better defining herself as she comes to terms with the strange
mix of cultures swirling through her life – Korean, typical high
school, the musical scene and the pressures to prove herself as
a first-generation child in the United States.
Patti Yoon, aged seventeen and up
to her head in SAT study books, AP
Calculus practice tests and, of course,
those soul searching college essays, is
tired of being a PKD (Perfect Korean
Daughter). She is tired of feeling like
the only thing that her Korean parents
care about is what grades she gets in
her seven AP courses and whether or
not she achieves a 2300 on her SATs.
She is tired of going to Korean Church
Group every Sunday just so all her
Korean friends can spend two hours
competing against each other and trying to act sad when Patti announces she
has been demoted from concertmaster
to assistant concertmaster.
The one thing that Patti does love is
her music – playing the violin allows
her to escape into a world of sound and
emotion disconnected from her stressful and busy life. But to her parents
even music is only another “hook” to
get Patti into an Ivy League college, a
hobby that she will stop once she has
gotten into the school of her (or is it
their?) dreams. Patti has always thought
about violin in the same way – until she
meets “Cute Trumpet Guy”, the irresistible, sensitive and caring Ben Wheeler
who never makes her feel like she has
to prove herself by getting a 2300 on
her SAT – who accepts her for exactly
who she is and laughs at all her stupid
jokes. Ben helps her realize that violin
is more than her hobby, it is her passion. Maybe she doesn’t want to go to
HARVARDYALEPRINCETON after all…
is it mere coincidence that the Juilliard
application requires her to play the
exact same Mendelssohn piece that she
will be performing at All-States?
This book is ultimately about the
journey a girl takes towards better
defining herself as she comes to terms
with the strange mix of cultures swirling through her life – Korean, typical
high school, the musical scene and
the pressures to prove herself as a first
generation child in the United States. As
Patti readies herself to leave home and
begin her own life in college, she learns
to appreciate and balance her conflicting cultures by standing up for herself
instead of bending to her parents’ pressures and high school stereotypes, by
finally doing what makes her happy
instead of trying to please anyone else.
In the end Patti teaches both her parents
and the reader that “success” is not necessarily synonymous to “happiness” and
that you don’t have to be number one to
be good enough.
Peppered with funny lists of everything from the “World’s Best Violin
Players” to “10 Ways to Make Your
Korean Parents Happy”, Paula Yoo’s
novel is a quick, amusing and must read
for any senior girl applying to college
(or any teen girl in general). The narrating voice is pleasingly strong, perfectly
quirky (with the occasional and unfortunate tendency to slip into cheesy clichés) and believably nerdy. (Yoo manages to smoothly add in random bits of
fascinating facts into Patti’s narration).
A satisfying mixture of familiar themes
such as self discovery, risk taking and
first love, Yoo’s novel does an especially
good job of examining the pressures on
the youth of first generation immigrants
in America. Because Patti’s parents sacrificed their lives in Korea for her benefit
they are even more anxious that she is
the best and most accomplished – she
is their proof that they made the right
decision. In many ways it is all riding
on first generation children to prove
that America really is a land of opportunities. The narration is at times so real
that it often causes the reader to wonder
– is it mere coincidence that Paula Yoo’s
main character is named Patti Yoon?
“Good Enough” by Paula Yoo. Harper
Collins Publishers, 2008.
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Chaos and Order
in “What It Is”
A book that is neither textbook, graphic, or
novel, it demands a personal interpretation
from readers.
IE Contributor
A tepid reader who first gazes upon
this book may shy away from breaching
its pages. The captivating collages of
magazine cutouts, mammalian illustrations mounted in magic and glittered
fascination of a helpful cephalopod
can seem discordant for most, but the
celebrated world Lynda Barry has created for the imagination and inspiration
is actually most harmonious. It would
be a dereliction of doting, which she
attempts to reinstate for the sake of
one’s imagination we all once probably
had as children and few of us have foster in our adulthood. What Is It happens
to be the catalyst for minds needing a
helping hand.
She may hesitantly refer to it as a
textbook, not wanting to classify it,
being the author’s only description for
the book though even describing it as an
activity book, which is apt considering
the pedagogy in the last third, doesn’t do
it justice. Barry does what artists often do
is the device of having the audience arrive
to their own conclusions. Whether packaged as a textbook or a freeform, visual
barrage of considerable interest, one does
learn or maybe invite back memories of
youth, something safe to the say is what
the author intends.
As an earnest textbook, these lessons complied here are something of
a compendium to Barry’s Writing the
Unthinkable, her creative writing class.
Though to also state that this is a book
only for writers needing inspiration would
be wholly short on the understanding
what Barry has created. We see the
illustrative techniques that Barry uses,
the ‘popular’ group, homosexuality in its
various forms (but in a refreshingly undramatic fashion), how one is judged and
judges others, and finally, experimentation as a teenager. The winning point of
this book is how Skim observes the world
from an outsider’s perspective and frankly
does not give a darn about being unpopular. She just lives life how she wants to
on the outskirts of society, and in the
meantime discovers things about herself. I
Skimming
off the Top
This visual work
illustrates a
teenager’s angst
with poignant
drawings.
girl, she conjured for comfort a method
of waiting or more like meditating on
inanimate objects to tell her stories.
These objects being of toys or characters in magazines or television’s revelry
on a child’s imagination speak to the
author and by way of her, divulges an
intimacy that locks the reader to the
narrative.
It would be a mistake to turn away
from these pages. One might find personal particulars relatable to Barry’s
childhood. These particulars present
themselves in wonderful illustrative
forms and fashion harkening one’s
memory to their own experiences. An
old song playing in the background or a
smell sparking a memory can be turned
into her catalyst which she’ll have
intertwined elements ready for your
own narrative to react to. The small
drops dripping from your conscience
will be flooded by the innate voice
ready to replenish the drought of your
riverbeds of creativity.
What It Is commands a mouthful of
descriptions that may be difficult for a
person not familiar with her style, but
all the better for it when you take the
time to bond with its content. Barry’s
has created a wonderful book that balances a narrative that delves in things
of the past that can be the fodder for
the expulsion of one’s memories for her
lessons bringing full circle a fun read
and even better, inspiring exploration
in one’s creative deep waters.
“What It Is: The Formless Thing Which
Gives Things Form” by Lynda Barry.
Drawn and Quarterly, 2008.
would highly recommend this book to the
often marginalized population of misunderstood girls out there who don’t exactly
fit in and don’t particularly enjoy regular
crappy “teen” lit want to read a beautiful
tale of one girl’s experience coping with
the ridiculous and lonely nature of high
school.
“Skim” by Mariko Tamaki. Illustration by
Jillian Tamaki. Groundwood Books, 2008.
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IE Contributor
Kimberly Keiko Cameron,
a part-Asian pseudo-Wiccanmaybe-Goth high school student also known as Skim,
has issues. Stuck in an allgirls private school with only
one friend and a penchant for
cheap cigarettes, she falls in
love with her English teacher
Ms. Archer. Whilst her classmates are swooped up in the
throes of a popular girl’s exboyfriend’s untimely suicide,
Skim passes the time with a series of introspective diary entries, Wiccan circles, and
tarot card readings. This book outlines
Skim’s redefinition of life. Filled with the
usual teenage angst, this graphic novel
written and illustrated by cousins Mariko
and Jillian Tamaki, is set apart by the
poignant illustrations that draw you into
the characters and their struggles in an
intimate fashion.
Although there is plenty of action with
the plot, each luxurious panel looks like
a Japanese Sumi-e painting and conveys
emotionally and visually the barren nature
of one isolated student’s existence. The
she incorporates found objects building
structure and stories by overlaying cutouts
with her own hand-drawn rendering as
the visual aids in a maxim of her’s, pictures can help us find words to help us
find images. The phrase being of a snake
biting it’s tail conjures the continuous
effort to keep the creative juices flowing.
“What It Is” isn’t all writing activities for
inspiration, there is Barry’s story-telling
she injects as the opener.
The personal narrative starting with
her childhood and weaved within the first
two-thirds tells of the author’s vivid imagination coping with barren inspirational
life that existed growing up. A childhood
experience of parental neglect, as a young
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main thing that detracted from the sheer
splendor of each page was the hokey font
which attempted to look like bad female
handwriting, but ended up just looking
cheesy. Also, the use of internal monologue via journal entries definitely does
not suit the mature drawings, although it
does suit the character’s voice. The narrative is written in a delicious Gossip Girl
style, making it a definite festival of guilty
pleasures supplemented by beautiful art.
All of this combined exemplifies the protagonist’s lofty and pure teenage angst.
“Skim” touches on themes such as
the idea of being distinctly shunned from
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A Sense of
Where You Are
was released in May of 2009 to good
reviews. Avi accompanies herself on guitar
and ukelele with a small band. 2200 2nd
Ave. For details, email info@thecrocodile.
com.
An artist’s video
works are
compulsive,
disturbing, and
mesmerizing.
By SUSAN KUNIMATSU
IE Contributor
Susan Kunimatsu is a writer and
consultant on arts and culture, and an
artist in metals and textiles. She has
also worked in the fields of
arts grant making and historic building
preservation in Seattle.
Early in this century, Japanese immigrants cultivated the land east of Lake
Washington into verdant acres of strawberries and other crops. World War II banished those farmers to internment camps,
their fields to be taken over by suburban blocks, then high-rise buildings. This
autumn, a strawberry field reappeared like
a ghost in downtown Bellevue; in it, an
electronic vision of an immigrant struggles
to show his loyalty to his adopted country.
After two months, this mirage will vanish.
The strawberry field is real for now,
an evocation of history by artist Meiro
Koizumi for his installation, “The Corner of
Sweet and Bitter” at Open Satellite gallery.
Across the lake, a ten-year retrospective of
Koizumi’s video work is on view at Seattle
University’s Hedreen Gallery. A native of
Japan who has lived in Europe and North
America, Koizumi’s acute observation of
Photo credit: Malcolm Smith.
and fascination with different cultures is
evident in both exhibitions.
The show at Hedreen Gallery features
eleven video works made between 2000
and 2009. Koizumi’s early work is conceptual; performance art in which he is
performer, cinematographer, and director,
sometimes simultaneously. He employs
extreme close-ups of disembodied hands
or faces; in “Merokozuuuumi”, one of his
hands is a painted puppet dancing for the
camera held by the other. The compulsive
quality of the action can be mesmerizing
and disturbing. Some videos have musical
themes, but the sound is highly distorted.
There is humor, but of the sort that evokes
nervous laughter, although he says, “I
never try to make things funny.”
Time spent as an artist in residence
in Ibaraki, Japan and in Amsterdam gave
him the luxury of time and studio space
in which to build sets for his videos. The
works made during and after these residencies have more narrative structure and
a palpable connection to the countries
where they were made. But this sense of
Jody Diamond, one of the premiere proponents of contemporary gamelan music in
America today joins the Seattle ensemble,
Gamelan Pacifica for a recital of original
compositions on Dec. 5 at 8 p.m. Cornish
College of the Arts. For tickets & information,
go to www.cornish.edu/music/series.
“Cultural Transcendence is a new group
show at Wing Luke Asian Museum curated
by Lele Barnett that “explores the imporBora Ju, Korean gayageum virtuoso (traditance of technology in our modern experitional Korean stringed zither) is the “artistence and technology’s influence on contemin-residence” at UW’s School of Music for
porary installation art.” Features the work of
the fall quarter, 2009. During her time here,
Robert Hodgin, Eunsu Kang, Heidi Kumao,
Ju is performing around
Horatio Law and Brent
as much as possible.
Watanabe. Opening
Don’t miss hearing this
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cian while she is in
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active dance perforat 7 p.m. at the Asia
mance with Eunsu Kang
Pacific Cultural Center
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Snyder. RSVP jaquino@
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wongluke.org or call
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Canadian singer/songwriter Justin Nozuka.
Dec. 12 at 8 p.m., she
reservations. Opening
plays at Traditions Café & World Folk Art in
reception to the general public is free and
Olympia located at 300 – 5th Ave. SW. Log
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org or call (206) 623-5124.
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HIGHLIGHTS
Photo credit: Meiro Koizumi. Video still.
place is less about a physical location
than a social, political and psychological
context. “I want my body of work to be
one world with many aspects: political,
social,” he says. “The work can’t be just
beautiful, or just ugly, or just skillful. It
must be all these things.”
In “Art of Awakening”, three men
appear to be taking part in a psychological
experiment. A voice off-screen asks “Do
you want to experience freedom of spirit?”
and directs them to poke an unidentifiable object repeatedly with a stick. At first
bored with this meaningless activity, the
men find it increasingly pleasant, even
sensual, until they become completely
caught up in it. Koizumi made this video
while living in the Netherlands, a society
he characterizes as a liberal and hedonistic, but highly controlled. His most recent
work, “Portrait of a Young Samurai” was
made in Japan and reflects his country’s
uneasy post-World War II relationship
with nationalism. An actor repeatedly performs a kamikaze pilot’s farewell speech,
expressing gratitude to his parents and his
country. As the director exhorts him from
off-screen, the actor’s emotional intensity
increases with each take until his hysteria
verges on physical pain.
While doing research for the Open
Satellite installation, Koizumi attended
a Seattle Mariners game. The singing of
the national anthem gave him a sudden
insight into the context of the developing work. In the U.S., mass displays of
patriotism are taken for granted, even
demanded; in Japan, they are suspect,
and the singing of the national anthem in
schools is controversial.
“The setting is the memorial, the video
is about today,” is how Koizumi describes
the Corner of Sweet and Bitter. Rows of
live strawberry plants in topsoil cover part
of the concrete floor, as if the corner of a
field had poked through the glass wall.
A wooden shed straddles the edge of the
field, half in the past, half in the present.
Inside the shed, a large monitor plays a
video shot in that exact spot, of a Latino
immigrant singing the “Star Spangled
Banner” encumbered by a strange collection of props: a hot dog taped over the
his nose and mouth like a mask; a tiny
American flag that flaps as he breathes; a
barbell. His words are muffled; only the
melody is recognizable. But he gamely
persists, singing the anthem several times
as off-screen, Koizumi exhorts him to sing
louder. The immigrant, like other characters in Koizumi’s work, struggles to meet
the expectations of a director, or a culture
that that can disorient even a native.
Meiro Koizumi / My Voice Would Reach
You at Lee Center for the Arts, Hedreen Gallery at Seattle University. (206) 296-2244.
www.seattleu.edu/artsci/finearts. The Corner of Sweet and Bitter at Open Satellite.
(425) 454-7355. www.opensatellite.org.
Both through January 9, 2010. A catalog
will be published covering both exhibits.
Promising young singer/songwriters hit
Seattle – Canadian singer/songwriter Justin
Nozuka, known for his refreshing blend
of blues and folk influences is touring the
country on behalf of his forthcoming second
album, “Gray” and plays Neumo’s in Seattle
on Dec. 3 at 7 p.m. Tickets at TicketWest or
call 1-800-992-TIXX. Malaysian-born singer/
songwriter Zee Avi makes her Seattle debut
on Dec. 10 at Seattle’s Crocodile. Her selftitled album on Jack Johnson’s record label
A new gallery installation of fifteen Chinese
artworks produced between 1629 and 2009
(many donated in honor of Director Emerita
Mimi Gates) opens Dec. 16 at Seattle Asian
Art Museum in Volunteer Park. Also on tap
for the Saturday University Lecture Series:
Asia in Focus is UW Art History Professor
Cynthea Bogel’s talk on “What’s Art and
What’s Not in the History of Japan” on Dec.
5 at 9:30 a.m. 1400 E. Prospect St. (206)
654-3100 or seattleartmuseum.org.
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4th Annual Christmas Food & Clothes Drive
Benefit Dinner for the Homeless!
Join us at our 4th Annual Christmas Food & Clothes Drive Benefit Dinner for the
Homeless on Friday, 8-11 p.m. on December 18, 2009 at O’Asian Kitchen & Lounge.
Produced by O’Asian Kitchen and Breathing Space Ministries, a Christian based, performance art organization dedicated in creating compelling, entertaining theatre for
its audience, and events to raise awareness and donations for the Seattle Homeless.
Half of the cover proceeds benefits The Union Gospel Mission in Pioneer Square,
Seattle, WA. They will be collecting donations at the benefit dinner and distributing
donations on 10 a.m. on December 25, 2009 at Hing Hay Park (Seattle, Chinatown).
For three years, Breathing Space, NAAAP Seattle, and The International Examiner
partnered to produce the Homeless Drive at Hing Hay Park. This year, aiming to
provide a fun event for our donors and volunteers, Breathing Space and O’Asian
partnered to host the Benefit Dinner.
The $25 cover includes Breathing Space’s theatre ministry premiere screening TRAILER of SECOND CHANCES FOR “GRACE”, EPISODE 1-BETRAYAL , a new episodic
play written by Kiki Yeung Johnson.
Donations Most Needed : Men’s & Women’s Winter Coats, Sweaters, Hats, Gloves,
Socks. Men’s Underwear (unworn), Sweaters, Dress Shirts, T-shirts,
Slacks, Pants. (All Sizes, XL, L, M), Women’s Hygiene Products, Canned Food.
O’Asian, 800 5th Avenue, Seattle, WA 98104.
Event Sponsored by O’Asian Kitchen & Lounge, AAT TV, International Examiner.
Contact: Kiki Yeung Johnson, (206) 913-7876 or e-mail: breathingspace.kiki@gmail.
com. To RSVP: Email: [email protected]
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Happy Holidays
How
Asians
Celebrate
the
Holidays
We tour the world
to see how Asian
cities celebrate the
yule-tide season.
Seoul, South Korea –
South Korea recognizes Christmas as a
public holiday, with 30 percent of the
population being Christians. Even nonChristian Koreans engage in gift-giving,
card-sending, and plastic tree-decorating at this time of year, and engaging
lights beautify the City Hall area for
people to enjoy. What’s surprising is the
locals treat the season to be a romantic
affair, much like Valentine’s Day.
Photo credit: Associated Press.
Manila, Philippines –
For the predominantly Catholic Filipinos,
Christmas is the highlight of the year. Department stores decorate their interiors
and play Christmas jingles as early as September. Entire buildings and subdivisions
are dressed in lights, and lantern makers
ply their beautiful creations on the city
streets. On the days approaching December 25, a popular activity is the Misa de
Gallo, when the faithful attend mass before the sun rises. Christmas Eve is marked
with a Midnight Mass and Noche Buena,
a feast that is commonly shared within the
family.
Saigon, Vietnam – despite the centuries of French-Catholic colonization of Vietnam, only a fraction of the population is Christian. Nevertheless, Christmas
here is a big public event. Banners are draped all over Saigon greeting everyone during the Yuletide season, and even street vendors can be seen wearing Santa hats.
Bangkok, Thailand –
Because Buddhism is the official religion
of Thailand, Christmas is not a popular
event here. Department stores and market places decorate their shops on the
onset of the season.
Reporting credit: Alex Tan, Asia Hotels.
Hong Kong –
Christmas coincides with the Ta Chiu, the Taoist festival of
peace and renewal which is observed on
December 27. The participants will call
on all the deities and spirits so that their
power will renew their lives. Priests will
read aloud the names of the residents in
the area from a list, then attach the list to a
paper horse before burning it, sending the
names on to heaven. In China, Christian
children decorate trees with colorful paper ornaments in shapes of flowers, chains
and lanterns. They hang muslin stockings
for the Christmas Old Man to keep gifts
and treats for them. There, Christmas trees
are called ‘Trees of Light’ and Santa Claus
is known as ‘Dun Che Lao Ren’, which
means ‘Christmas Old Man.’ Non-Christian Chinese celebrate holiday season as
the Spring Festival, paying respect to their
elders and enjoy festivities and feasts.
Children receive new clothes and toys,
eat delicious food and enjoy firework displays and crackers.
Tokyo, Japan –
less than 1
percent of Japan’s population are Christians, and December 25 is not a national
holiday here. Christmas is seen more as a
commercial season, a time for romance
between couples and for corporations to
deck their offices in lights. December is
also a time for oseibo (end-of-the-year
gift exchanges between companies)
and boukenkai (”forget the year”) parties, and Christmas-themed parties tend
to get mixed in with the celebrations.
Christians constitute only 1 percent of
Japanese population. Yet, most Japanese
people decorate their homes and shops
with evergreens during Christmas and
exchange gifts. A priest called Hoteiosha
acts like Santa Claus in Japan and distributes gifts and presents to all children,
going door to door.
Photo credit: AFP.
Singapore –
The Singapore
Tourism Board celebrates Christmas in
the Tropics, with the favorite activity being the Christmas Light-Up, when two of
the country’s busiest roads are bedecked
with chandeliers, lanterns, and lamps of
all colors. Mall after mall try to outdo
and outshine each other with their decors and lights.
Panaji, India –
Though the majority of the Indian populace is Hindu,
Christmas is much celebrated in the capital city of Indian state of Goa. Christians decorate mango or banana trees instead of fir trees, and a number of houses will light small
clay lamps and display it on top of walls. Christmas is an important festival of India. It
is celebrated differently in different parts of India.
Photo credit: S. Ramesh Kurup.

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