DEC 111996 A young girl goes through a crisis of faith and a dawn of understanding during an earth­ quake in rural California, in a brilliant story by the extraordinary Hisaye Yamamoto.... A newlywed couple must deal with the ten­ sions of sex and Chinatown society in Louis Chu's acclaimed Eat a Bowl of Tea. ... A young Japanese American is victim of the conflict between two cultures in John Okada's brutally powerful No-No Boy. ... A superb surreal play hilariously dissects the Asian­ American experience in Frank Chin's The Chickencoop China,nan. ... This is just a sampling of the feast of fine V11riting and fierce truth offered in- A 111 EEEEE! 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To the Memory of John Okada and Louis Chu - m Contents PREFACE xi Aiiieeeeel Revisited: Preface to the Mentor Edition xxiii INTRODUCTION: Fifty Years of Our Whole Voice 1 ASIAN Al\1ERJCAN WRJTERS: We Are Not New Here 59 CARLOS BULOSAN From America is in the Heart, a novel 61 JEFFERY PAUL CRAN The Chinese in Haifa 70 DIANA CHANG From The Fr01itiers of Love, a novel 93 FRANK CHIN Act I of The Cliickencoop Chi11aman 115 LOUIS CHU From Eat a Bowl of Tea, a novel 148 MOMOKO IKO Act J of The Gold Watch 163 WALLACE LIN Rough Notes for Mantos 197 TOSHJO Moru Preface The Woman Who Makes Swell Doughnuts 206 JOHN OKADA From No-No Bay, a novel 211 OSCAR PENARANDA Dark Fiesta 227 ASIAN AMERJCANS are not one people but several­ SAM TAGATAC Chinese Amedcans, Japanese Americans, and Fili­ The New Anak pino Americans. Chinese and Japanese Americans 237 have been separated by geography, culture, and his­ SHAWN Hsu WONG tory fromChina and Japan for seven and four gen­ Each Year Grain 258 erations respectively. They have evolved cultures and sensibilities distinctly not Chinese or Japanese H1SAY1! YAMAMOTO and distinctly not white American. Even the Asian Yoneko's Earthquake 266 I languages as they exist today in America have been WAKAKO YAMAUCHI adjusted and developed to express a sensitivity cre­ And the Soul Shall Dance ated by a new experience. InAmerica, Chinese and 283 Japanese American culture and history have been inextricably linked by confusion, the populariza­ tion of their hatred for each other, and World War II. Filipino America differs greatly from Chinese and Japanese America in its history, the continuity of culture between the Philippines and America, and the influence of western European and Ameri­ can culture on the Philippines. The difference is definableonJy in its own terms, and therefore must be discussed separately. Our anthology is exclusively Asian American. That means Filipino, Chinese, and Japanese Ameri­ cans, American born and raised, who got their xii Preface Preface Xlll China and Japan from the radio, off the silver books, their race and that the figure was rising annually. screen, from television, out of comic from Available statistics indicate a similar trend among the pushers of white American culture that pic­ Chinese American women, though the 50 percent tured the yellow man as something that when mark may not have beentopped yet. Thesefi gures wounded, sad, or angry, or swearing, or wondering say something about our sensibility, our concept of whined, shouted, or screamed "aiiieeeee!" Asian Chinese America and Japanese America, our self­ America, so long ignored and forcibly excluded esteem, as does our partly real and partly mythical from creative participation in American culture, is silence in American culture.