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| TITLE: |
Extraordinary Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders / Susan Sinnott. |
| AUTHOR: |
Sinnott, Susan. |
| SERIES: |
Extraordinary people |
| PUBLISHED: |
New York : Children's Press, c2003. |
| DESCRIPTION: |
288 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| EDITION: |
Rev. ed. |
| NOTES: |
Rev ed. of: Extraordinary Asian Pacific Americans. 1993. |
| NOTES: |
Biographical sketches of notable Asian Americans and Pacific Islander Americans, from the nineteenth century up to the present. |
| NOTES: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-274) and index. |
| NOTES: |
Davida Malo.--Yung Wing.-- Queen Lydia Liliuokalani.--Travelers to Gold Mountain, 1848--Polly Bemis (Lalu Nathoy).--Chinese laundry workers, 1850s.--Chinese railroad workers.--Sugarcane workers in Hawaii, 1870s--Prisoners of Angel Island.--D.T. Suzuki.--Mary Kawena Pukui.--Chiura Obata.--"Sessue" Kintaro Hayakawa.--Pablo Manlapit.--James Wong Howe.--Dalip Singh Saund.--Isamu Noguchi.--Philip Vera Cruz.--Anna May Wong.--S.I. Hayakawa.--Hiram Leong Fong.--Toshio Mori.--Bienvenido Santos.--Carlos Bulosan.--Ahn Chang-Ho.--Philip Ahn.--Chien-Shiung Wu.--Minoru Yamasaki.--Spark Masayuki Matsunaga.--I.M. Pei.--Joyce Chen.--An Wang.--Sammy Lee.--Yoshiko Uchida.--Jade Snow Wong.--Daniel K. Inouye.--Tsung Dao Lee.--Chen Ning Yang.--Patsy Takemoto Mink.--K.W. Lee.--Gerard Tsai Jr.--Toshiko Akiyoshi.--Chang-Lin Tien.--Norman Mineta.--Nam June Paik.--Yoko Ono.--Seiji Ozawa.--Zubin Mehta.--Allen Say.--Betta Bao Lord.--Maxine Hong Kingston.--Bruce Lee.--Dith Pran.--Internment camp inmates, 1942-1945.--Gordon Hirabayashi, Fred Korematsu, and Minoru Yasui, Internment resistance fighters.--Ellison S. Onizuka.--Connie Chung.--Lawrence Yep.--June Kuramoto.--Wayne Wang.--Vera Wang, --Gary Locke.--Eugene H. Trinh, --Amy Tan.--Myung-Whun Chung--Elaine Chao.-- Ang Lee.--Yo-Yo Ma.-- Gish Jen.--David Henry Hwang.--Maya Ying Lin.--Greg Louganis.--Jerry Yang.--Midori.--Kristi Yamaguchi.--Tiger Woods.--Michael Chang.--Michelle Kwan.--Vietnamese boat people, 1970s.--Anoushka Shankar. |
| SUBJECT: |
Asian Americans--Biography. |
| SUBJECT: |
Pacific Islander Americans--Biography. |
| SUBJECT: |
Asian Americans. |
| SUBJECT: |
Pacific Islander Americans. |
| ADDED ENTRY: |
Sinnott, Susan. Extraordinary Asian Pacific Americans. |
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