Frances Kai-Hwa Wang
Frances Kai-Hwa Wang é uma sino-americana de segunda geração da Califórnia que agora divide seu tempo entre Michigan e a Ilha Grande do Havaí. Ela é colaboradora do Ethnoblog da New America Media , Chicagoistheworld.org , PacificCitizen.org e InCultureParent.com . Ela leciona história e direito da Ásia-Pacífico-Americana na Universidade de Michigan e na Universidade de Michigan em Dearborn. Ela também ensina redação e é uma palestrante popular sobre questões multiculturais e da Ásia-Pacífico-Americana.
Confira seu site em franceskaihwawang.com , seus blogs em franceskaihwawang.blogspot.com e Rememberingvincentchin.com , e ela pode ser contatada em fkwang888@gmail.com .
*Foto de Mark Bialek
Atualizado em outubro de 2012
Stories from This Author
Mochitsuki: Taking the (Rice) Cake
2 de Janeiro de 2013 • Frances Kai-Hwa Wang
As I walk with my four kids into the U-M Center for Japanese Studies, we are heartened by the thump thump thump of the kine hitting the rice in the usu. It reminds us of the burly farmhands with whom we used to celebrate Mochitsuki many years ago. The girls start giggling, though, when they see who’s grasping the wooden mallets: skinny little professors who seem unable to capture the rhythm of pounding in a large wooden mortar. Mochi is …
The Aunties at Temple
6 de Novembro de 2012 • Frances Kai-Hwa Wang
I see in the Hawaii Tribune-Herald newspaper that novelist Lois-Ann Yamanaka is reading at the Kinoole Farmer’s Market. “Jean Yamanaka” is the contact name, so she must be in town visiting her mom or other relatives. I love her work and plan to go, excitedly gathering up all her novels to ask her to sign. But instead, the books bake in my car as I let myself get caught up with the older Japanese American ladies at the Jodo Shinshu …
Oh! Oshogatsu! Missing Japanese New Year’s Day–Adventures in Multicultural Living
10 de Janeiro de 2012 • Frances Kai-Hwa Wang
The doorbell rings. The dog barks. I turn on the porch light, open the front door, and… No one is there. Then I look down. A package! Ooh, I was not expecting any more Christmas presents. I bend down to pick it up, and I hear the unmistakable sound of … Rice. A box of rice. A very big box of rice. Who would ship me a very big box of rice? I stagger into the house, the sound of …
