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The Grass Roof
Younghill Kang (June 5, 1898 — December 2, 1972, Korean name 강용흘) was an important early Asian American writer. He is best known for his 1931 novel ''The Grass Roof'' (the first Korean American novel) and its sequel, the 1937 fictionalized memoir ''East Goes West: The Making of an Oriental Yankee.'' He also wrote an unpublished play, ''Murder in the Royal Palace'', which was performed both in the US and in Korea. He has been called "the father of Korean American literature."Seiwoong Oh. "Younghill Kang (1903-1972)." in ''Asian American Autobiographers: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook'' pp.149-158. Life and work As a child in Korea, Kang was educated in both Confucian and Christian missionary schools.Bio at ''The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Fifth Edition'' In 1921, he fled ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hongwon
Hongwŏn County is a county in South Hamgyŏng province, North Korea. It is flanked by the Sea of Japan (East Sea of Korea) to the south, and by the Hamgyŏng Mountains to the north. Physical features The northwest region is particularly mountainous. The highest peak is Palbong. The chief streams are the Tongdaech'ŏn (동대천) and Sŏdaech'ŏn (서대천). The coastal region is level. The temperature differs greatly from the coastline to the plains to the mountains. The mountains contribute to giving the county a mild climate. Administrative divisions Hongwŏn county is divided into 1 '' ŭp'' (town), 4 '' rodongjagu'' (workers' districts) and 27 '' ri'' (villages): Economy Agriculture and fishery The chief local occupation is agriculture. Local crops include rice, soybeans, millet, oats, and potatoes. However, fisheries are also developed, particularly along the coast. Mining There is a small amount of mining, exploiting local deposits of gold, silver, limestone, f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Multicultural
The term multiculturalism has a range of meanings within the contexts of sociology, political philosophy, and colloquial use. In sociology and in everyday usage, it is a synonym for "Pluralism (political theory), ethnic pluralism", with the two terms often used interchangeably, and for cultural pluralism in which various ethnic groups collaborate and enter into a dialogue with one another without having to sacrifice their particular identities. It can describe a mixed ethnic community area where multiple cultural traditions exist (such as New York City or London) or a single country within which they do (such as Switzerland, Belgium or Russia). Groups associated with an Indigenous peoples, indigenous, aboriginal or wikt:autochthonous, autochthonous ethnic group and settler-descended ethnic groups are often the focus. In reference to sociology, multiculturalism is the end-state of either a natural or artificial process (for example: legally-controlled immigration) and occurs on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Asian American Writers
This is a list of Asian American writers, authors, and poets who have Wikipedia pages. Their works are considered part of Asian American literature. A-D * Ai * Shaila Abdullah * Aria Aber * George Abraham * Jessica Abughattas * Dilruba Ahmed, poet * Maya Ajmera * Meena Alexander * Agha Shahid Ali * Kazim Ali * Noel Alumit * Mia Alvar * Hala Alyan * Ryka Aoki * Fatimah Asghar * Aziz Ansari * Gina Apostol * Gaiutra Bahadur * Shauna Singh Baldwin * Peter Bacho, American Book Award winner for the novel ''Cebu'' * Ravi Batra * Cathy Bao Bean (包圭漪) * Susham Bedi * Bette Bao Lord (包柏漪) * Rick Barot * Mei-mei Berssenbrugge (白萱华), poet listed in Amy Ling's bibliography, "Asian American Literature," in Redefining American Literary History, A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff and Jerry W. Ward, eds., MLA, 1990. * Cecilia Manguerra Brainard * Sujata Bhatt * Jaswinder Bolina * Jenny Boully * Carlos Bulosan * Regie Cabico * Lan Cao * Celso Al Carunungan * Linda Ty Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Korean Novelists
This is a partial list of Korean novelists. A *Ahn Jung-hyo * Ahn Soo-kil B * Bae Su-ah * Baek Minseok *Bang Hyun-seok * Bang Young-ung * Bok Koh-il C *Jeong Chan (author) * Cheon Myeong-kwan * Cho Hae-il *Choi In-ho *Choi Il-nam * Choi In-hun *Choi Soo-cheol *Chae Man-shik *Cho Se-hui * Cho Seon-jak *Cho Sung-ki * Choe Yun *Chun Woon-young G *Gong Ji-young *Gong Sun-ok * Gu Hyo-seo H *Ha Geun-chan *Ha Seong-nan *Hailji *Han Chang-hun *Han Kang * Hyun Kil-Un *Han Mahlsook * Han Moo-sook *Han Sorya * Han Su-san *Heo Gyun * Hong Sung-won *Hwang Suk-young *Hwang Sun-mi *Hwang Sun-won *Hyun Jin-geon I * Im Chul-woo J *Jang Eun-jin *Jang Jeong-il *Jeon Gyeong-rin * Jeon Sang-guk *Jeong Do-sang *Jo Jung-rae *Jo Kyung-ran *Jung Eun-gwol *Jung Ihyun * Jung Hansuk * Jung Mi-kyung * Jung Young-moon K *Kang Kyeong-ae *Kang Sok-Kyong * Kang Younghill *Kang Young-sook * Kim Ae-ran * Kim Byeol-ah * Kim Chae-won *Kim Chi-won * Kim Dong-in *Kim Dong-ni * Kim Gu-yong * Kim G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chang-Rae Lee
Chang-rae Lee (born July 29, 1965) is a Korean-American novelist and a professor of creative writing at Stanford University. He was previously Professor of Creative Writing at Princeton and director of Princeton's Program in Creative Writing. Early life Lee was born in South Korea in 1965 to Young Yong and Inja Hong Lee. He immigrated to the United States with his family when he was 3 years old to join his father, who was then a psychiatric resident and later established a successful practice in Westchester County, New York.Wu, Yung-Hsing. "Chang-rae Lee." Asian- American Writers. Ed. Deborah L. Madsen. Detroit: Gale, 2005. Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 312. Literature Resource Center. Web. 19 Apr. 2014. In a 1999 interview with Ferdinand M. De Leon, Lee described his childhood as "a standard suburban American upbringing," in which he attended Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire, before earning a B.A. in English at Yale University in 1987. After working as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
African-American
African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans and Afro-Americans) are an Race and ethnicity in the United States, ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from sub-Saharan Africa. The term "African American" generally denotes descendants of Slavery in the United States, enslaved Africans who are from the United States. While some Black immigrants or their children may also come to identify as African-American, the majority of first generation immigrants do not, preferring to identify with their nation of origin. African Americans constitute the second largest racial group in the U.S. after White Americans, as well as the third largest ethnic group after Hispanic and Latino Americans. Most African Americans are descendants of enslaved people within the boundaries of the present United States. On average, African Americans are of West Africa, West/Central Africa, Central African with some European descent; some also have Native Americans in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dictee
''Dictee'' is a 1982 book by Korean American author Theresa Hak Kyung Cha. Considered to be Cha's magnum opus, the book, a genre-bending poetry collection, focuses on several women: the Korean revolutionary Yu Guan Soon, Joan of Arc, Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, Demeter and Persephone, Cha's mother Hyun Soon Huo, and Cha herself. All these women are linked by their struggles and the way that nations have affected and twisted their lives. Publication history The book was first published in 1982, the year Cha was murdered. The book was out of print for a while, but due in part to the publication of an edited collection on her novel, ''Writing Self, Writing Nation (1994)'', Cha's work began to receive critical attention. In 1997, with the resurgence of Asian American studies and Third-wave feminism, the book was brought back into print by Norma Alarcón and Third Woman Press. * * * * Genre Critics contend that ''Dictee'', though considered a novel, is difficult to define by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nora Okja Keller
Nora Okja Keller (born 22 December 1966, in Seoul, South Korea) is a Korean American author. Her 1997 breakthrough work of fiction, ''Comfort Woman'', and her second book (2002), ''Fox Girl'', focus on multigenerational trauma resulting from Korean women's experiences as sex slaves, euphemistically called comfort women, for Japanese and American troops during World War II and the ongoing Korean War. Critical acclaim Keller’s first novel was highly praised by critics, including Michiko Kakutani in ''The New York Times'', who said that in ''Comfort Woman'', "Keller has written a powerful book about mothers and daughters and the passions that bind generations." Kakutani called it "a lyrical and haunting novel" and "an impressive debut." ''Comfort Woman'' won the American Book Award in 1998 and the 1999 Elliot Cades Award; previously, in 1995, Keller won the Pushcart Prize for a short story, "Mother-Tongue", which became the second chapter of ''Comfort Woman''. In 2003, she won t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Paik Lee
Mary Paik Lee (August 17, 1900 – February 14, 1995"California Death Index, 1940-1997," database, ''FamilySearch'' (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VP3M-MY4 : 26 November 2014), Mary Paik Lee, 14 Feb 1995; Department of Public Health Services, Sacramento.) was a Korean American writer most known for her autobiography, ''Quiet Odyssey: A Pioneer Korean Woman in America''. She was born in the Korean Empire and moved to the United States in 1905, eventually settling in Riverside, California in 1906. Over the course of her life, Lee, her parents, and her husband would suffer many hardships. Her memoir, ''Quiet Odyssey'', was published in 1990. It is noted for being one of the few memoirs by an Asian American woman, and the only memoir by a Korean American woman that covers the majority of the twentieth century. She provides an important cultural viewpoint on the last century, from the perspective of one of America's first Korean pioneers. Biography Lee was born Pae ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Korea University
Korea University (KU, ) is a private research university in Seoul, South Korea, established in 1905. The university is included as one of the SKY universities, a popular acronym referring to Korea's three most prestigious universities. The student body consists of over 20,000 undergraduate students and over 10,000 graduate students. The university has 81 departments in 19 colleges and divisions, as well as 18 graduate schools. It has over 1,500 full-time faculty members with over 95% of them holding Ph.D. or equivalent qualification in their field. The Korea University Alumni Association consists of more than 280,000 university graduates. Korea University is a large research institution, notable in South Korean history for being the first educational institution to offer academic programs in Korea in various disciplines, such as law, economics and journalism. It is particularly well known for its College of Law. Korea University also has auxiliary educational facilities suc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Honorary Doctorate
An honorary degree is an academic degree for which a university (or other degree-awarding institution) has waived all of the usual requirements. It is also known by the Latin phrases ''honoris causa'' ("for the sake of the honour") or ''ad honorem '' ("to the honour"). The degree is typically a doctorate or, less commonly, a master's degree, and may be awarded to someone who has no prior connection with the academic institution or no previous postsecondary education. An example of identifying a recipient of this award is as follows: Doctorate in Business Administration (''Hon. Causa''). The degree is often conferred as a way of honouring a distinguished visitor's contributions to a specific field or to society in general. It is sometimes recommended that such degrees be listed in one's curriculum vitae (CV) as an award, and not in the education section. With regard to the use of this honorific, the policies of institutions of higher education generally ask that recipients ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis S , names sometimes translated to English as "Louis"
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Louis may refer to: * Louis (coin) * Louis (given name), origin and several individuals with this name * Louis (surname) * Louis (singer), Serbian singer * HMS ''Louis'', two ships of the Royal Navy See also Derived or associated terms * Lewis (other) * Louie (other) * Luis (other) * Louise (other) * Louisville (other) * Louis Cruise Lines * Louis dressing, for salad * Louis Quinze, design style Associated names * * Chlodwig, the origin of the name Ludwig, which is translated to English as "Louis" * Ladislav and László - names sometimes erroneously associated with "Louis" * Ludovic, Ludwig, Ludwick, Ludwik Ludwik () is a Polish given name. Notable people with the name include: * Ludwik Czyżewski, Polish WWII general * Ludwik Fleck (1896–1961), Polish medical doctor and biologist * Ludwik Gintel (1899–1973), Polish-Israeli Olympic soccer player ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
