Why this work matters? Your stories will make the world better in 100 years. Aninclusive and empathetic worldis our gift to the next generation of storytellers. 10% or so curriculum books for K-12 are from diverse authors. Over 70% children’s and young adult books published in the United...
All of Southeast Asia except Siam/Thailand was under Western colonial control from 1900 to 1941 and was ruled by the Japanese for nearly four turbulent years (1942–45) thereafter. The sudden Japanese surrender in August 1945 inaugurated a period of revolutionary struggles in the successor states,...
Nina Davuluri, Crystal Lee, Rebecca Yeh Make Miss America History Nina Davuluri faced two other Asian American women in the final five before being crowned Miss America. Michelle Phan Reveals Ugly Struggles Before Beauty Stardom A beauty guru surprises millions of fans by revealing her abject s...
Asian Books to read in 2025 to broaden your knowledge in History. User verified book suggestions such as 'Tombstone' and 'War Without Mercy' by top notch authors like Yang Jisheng and John W. Dower.
Marx substantiated upon Hegel’s higher German ideals and philosophized into the concrete, materialist struggles between the bourgeois, the proletariat, and the owners of “the means of the productions”, which, so he predicts, will eventually culminate in the reification of the ancient ideals of...
Hisako was a woman with no formal scientific training – also a survivor of the 1945 US air raid of Tokyo, the deadliest bombing in history – who managed to rise to the stature of Galileo. She did so by drawing the sun in painstaking detail every day for 40 years, a landmark ...
and struggles of Chinese-Americans, particularly the female identity of Chinese-American women. Rather than taking a rigid stance against a repressive Chinese tradition,The Woman Warriorconsiders examples of misogyny in Chinese culture while reflecting on the racism in the U.S. against Chinese-...
as in French Indochina (Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia) and FrenchNorth Africa(Tunisia, Algeria).Communismrecruited supporters from within the ranks of the new nationalist movements in Asia and Africa, first by helping them in their struggles against Western capitalist powers and later, after independence...
Asian Americans have improved the lives of fellow Americans in countless ways. But some of the biggest contributions don’t end up in history books. Here’s how five Asian Americans of different ethnicities helped shape America: Larry Itliong bolstered farm workers’ rights and working conditions...
deep concentration. These amazing women don’t fitany of the stereotypesof Asian Buddhists. I have known Asian American nuns ordained in the Tibetan, Mahayana and Theravada traditions—women who have had unthinkable struggles, incredible stories and strong opinions on the role of women in Buddhism....