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East eats West : writing in two hemispheres / Andrew Lam.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lam, Andrew
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lam, Andrew.
- Vietnamese Americans--Biography.
- Vietnamese Americans.
- Vietnamese Americans--Social life and customs.
- Culture diffusion--United States.
- Culture diffusion.
- Culture diffusion--Vietnam.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vi, 169 pages.)
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley, Calif. : Heyday Books, ©2010.
- Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction.
- Ode to the bay
- Wild, wild east
- My teacher, my friend
- Waterloo
- One Asian writer's lesson: love your immigrant parents, follow your bliss
- From rice fields to microchips: the Vietnamese story in California
- Who will light incense?
- Mourning the loss of the tiger
- Singing in the family
- California cuisine of the world
- In search of Hermes' belt
- Stress, Vietnamese-style
- Too much self-esteem can be bad for your child
- From Mao to Yao Ming
- Tragedy and the new American childhood
- Our man Obama: the post-imperial presidency
- Ph(o)netics
- Letter to a young Iraqi refugee to America
- Can ghosts cross the ocean?
- Buddha and ancestral spirits in suburbia
- Letters from a younger brother.
- About the author.
- Notes:
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781597144964 (electronic bk.)
- 1597144967 (electronic bk.)
- Publisher Number:
- 99994076523
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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