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Reading List

This reading list has been compiled in collaboration with the artists & curators of Phantom Limb, and the Asia Art Activism network. Through an open call we have compiled pivotal and important Asian diaspora related readings that have informed our art practices, research and personal politics. We see this list as open ended and just a small selection of readings that are out there.

If you have any reading suggestions, questions, or comments, please feel free to contact us.

Books

Ang, Ien. On Not Speaking Chinese: Living Between Asia and the West. 2001. [link]
^{Tags: Asian diaspora, language, 'Chineseness', global identity}

Boggs, Grace Lee. Living for Change. 1998. [link]
^{Tags: Korean diaspora, autobiography, activism, Asian-American}
Brah, Avtar. Diaspora, border and transnational identities. 1996. p178-208.
^{Tags: Asian diaspora, global identity}

Cha, Theresa Hak Kyung. Dictee. 1982. [link]
^{Tags: Korean American, autobiography, poetry, art}
Chee, Alexander. Edinburgh. 2018. [link]
^{Tags: Korean American, fiction, Asian American, coming of age}

Cheng, Anne Anlin. The Melancholy of Race: Psychoanalysis, Assimilation and Hidden Grief. 2001. [link]
^{Tags: Asian diaspora, race, generational trauma, affect}

Cho, Grace M. Haunting the Korean Diaspora. 2008. [link]
^{Tags: Korean diaspora, feminisms, historical, Korean War, affect, memoir}
Eng, David L. The Feeling of Kinship: Queer Liberalism and the Racialization of Intimacy. 2010. [link]
^{Tags: Asian diaspora, gender, queer, psychoanalysis, race, intimacy, affect}
Lee, Min Jin. Pachinko. 2017. [link]
^{Tags: Korean diaspora, fiction, Japan, historical, family}
Lee, Rachel C. The Exquisite Corpse of Asian America. 2014. [link]
^{Tags: Asian diaspora, feminisms, gender, queer, biopolitics, Asian-American, affect}
Lowe, Lisa. The Intimacies of Four Continents. 2015. [link]
^{Tags: Asian diaspora, interdisciplinary, race}
Min, Anchee. Red Azalea. 2012. [link]
^{Tags: Asian diaspora, autobiography, Shanghai}
Minh-Ha, Trinh T. Framer Framed: Film Scripts and Interviews. 1992. [link]
^{Tags: Asian diaspora, feminisms, film, script writing, Vietnam}
Minh-Ha, Trinh T. Women, Native, Other. 2009. [link]
^{Tags: Asian diaspora, feminisms, gender, queer, writing, postcoloniality}
Takaki, Ronald. A Different Mirror for Young People. 1993. [link]
^{Tags: Asian diaspora, young people, Asian-American, non-fiction, history}
Zhang, Jenny. Sour Heart. 2018. [link]
^{Tags: Asian diaspora, fiction, Asian-American, short stories}

Articles

Cheng, Anne Anlin. Ornamentalism: A Feminist Theory for the Yellow Woman. 2018. [link]
^{Tags: Asian diaspora, feminisms, gender, race, embodiment}

Chun, Allen. Fuck Chineseness: On the Ambiguities of Ethnicity as Culture as Identity. 1996. p111-138. [link]
^{Tags: Asian diaspora, global identity, 'Chineseness'}
Lee, Jaeah J. The Forgotten Zine of 1960s Asian-American Radicals. 2018. [link]
^{Tags: Asian diaspora, activism, Asian-American, zines, historical}
Sakai, Naoki. “You Asians”: On the Historical Role of the West and Asia Binary. 2000. [link]
^{Tags: Asian diaspora, essay, global identity, Japan}
Voices that Shake. Resources for non-Black Asians on Anti-Blackness. Ongoing. [link]
^{Tags: Asian diaspora, race, anti-blackness, living resource}

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