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Asian American literature is one of the most recent forms of ethnic
literature and is already becoming one of the most prominent, given
the large number of writers, the growing ethnic population from the
region, the general receptivity of this body of work, and the
quality of the authors. In recent decades, there has been an
exponential growth in their output and much Asian American
literature has now achieved new levels of popular success and
critical acclaim. Nurtured by rich and long literary traditions
from the vast continent of Asia, this literature is poised between
the ancient and the modern, between the East and West, and between
the oral and the written. The Historical Dictionary of Asian
American Literature and Theater covers the activities in this
burgeoning field. First, its history is traced year by year from
1887 to the present, in a chronology, and the introduction provides
a good overview. The most important section is the dictionary, with
over 600 substantial and cross-referenced entries on authors,
books, and genres as well as more general ones describing the
historical background, cultural features, techniques and major
theatres and clubs. More reading can be found through an extensive
bibliography with general works and those on specific authors. The
book is thus a good place to get started, or to expanded one s
horizons, about a branch of American literature that can only grow
in importance."
This book represents the culmination of over 150 years of literary
achievement by the most diverse ethnic group in the United States.
Diverse because this group of ethnic Americans includes those whose
ancestral roots branch out to East Asia, Southeast Asia, South
Asia, and Western Asia. Even within each of these regions, there
exist vast differences in languages, cultures, religions, political
systems, and colonial histories. From the earliest publication in
1887 to the latest in 2021, this dictionary celebrates the
incredibly rich body of fiction, poetry, memoirs, plays, and
children's literature. Historical Dictionary of Asian American
Literature and Theater, Second Edition contains a chronology, an
introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section
has more than 700 cross-referenced entries on genres, major terms,
and authors. This book is an excellent resource for students,
researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about this topic.
This book is a collection of stories and reflections that represent
Chinese American leaders and depict their tortuous journeys in U.S.
higher education that comes at a critical point in time. Many
books have been devoted to academic leadership, but this volume
uniquely focuses on subjects most relevant to Chinese Americans. We
live at a time that not only witnesses an increase in Chinese
American leaders on U.S. campuses but also mounting incidents of
discriminatory treatment of this group. This book showcases 36
stories and reflections from past, present, and future leaders,
including the five previously published stories. They represent
leaders holding different ideological values in various academic
fields, positions, stages of careers, professional trajectories,
generations, and geographical locations. The Rise of Chinese
American Leaders in U.S. Higher Education makes a valuable
contribution to the body of literature that has assisted countless
academic leaders in navigating their careers, bringing to the
forefront a distinct group of academic leaders who have been
underrepresented.
The book provides a systematic and in-depth introduction to
distributed event-triggered cooperative control for multi-agent
systems from a theoretical perspective, which will be of particular
interest to the readers. The included major research topics
include: a unified design and analysis framework for centralized,
clustered and distributed event-triggered schemes; fully
distributed design for event/self-triggered schemes; resilient
event-triggered control under malicious attacks; and various
methods to aovid Zeno behavior. The comprehensive and systematic
treatment of event-triggered communication and control in
multi-agent system is one of the major features of the book, which
is particularly suited for readers who are interested in learning
principles and methods to deal with communication constraints in
multi-agent systems and to design energy-saving control protocols.
The book can benefit researchers, engineers, and graduate students
in the fields of complex networks, smart grids, applied
mathematics, electrical and electronic engineering, and computer
engineering, etc.
The French epicure and gastronome Brillat-Savarin declared, "Tell
me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are." Wenying Xu
infuses this notion with cultural-political energy by extending it
to an ethnic group known for its cuisines: Asian Americans. She
begins with the general argument that eating is a means of
becoming-not simply in the sense of nourishment but more
importantly of what we choose to eat, what we can afford to eat,
what we secretly crave but are ashamed to eat in front of others,
and how we eat. Food, as the most significant medium of traffic
between the inside and outside of our bodies, organizes, signifies,
and legitimates our sense of self and distinguishes us from others,
who practice different foodways. Narrowing her scope, Xu reveals
how cooking, eating, and food fashion Asian American identities in
terms of race/ethnicity, gender, class, diaspora, and sexuality.
She provides lucid and informed interpretations of seven Asian
American writers (John Okada, Joy Kogawa, Frank Chin, Li-Young Lee,
David Wong Louie, Mei Ng, and Monique Truong) and places these
identity issues in the fascinating spaces of food, hunger,
consumption, appetite, desire, and orality. Most literary critics
perceive alimentary references as narrative strategies or part of
the background; Xu takes food as the central site of cultural and
political struggles waged in the seemingly private domain of desire
in the lives of Asian Americans.
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