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I feel a close kinship with this remarkable book by Michael R. Jin. In 2013, I was privileged to re…

Arthur A. Hansen +1 • Aug. 1, 2023

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Bridging Historical Traditions

In recent years historians have increasingly moved away from writing about the history of a single …

Arthur A. Hansen +1 • Oct. 12, 2020

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Unearthing one family's history

The volume under review, the most recent of many documentary books by award-winning veteran indep…

Arthur A. Hansen +1 • Sept. 16, 2019

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My Transnational, Hapa Identity in Question

I like to say that I have a transnational, multicultural, multiethnic identity. I am hapa, haafu, I…

Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu • Feb. 22, 2013

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Caring for Transnational Grandparents

When I walk in the park near my house in Palo Alto, California some of the elderly Chinese and Indi…

Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu • Jan. 30, 2013

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An Inquiry into the Kibei-Nisei ‘Diasporic Experiences’

Bridging Historical Traditions

Unearthing one family's history

My Transnational, Hapa Identity in Question

Caring for Transnational Grandparents