The Book History of East Goes West: The Makings of an Oriental Yankee

I already did a blog post a few months ago about how much I enjoyed Younghill Kang’s East Goes West: The Makings of an Oriental Yankee, but I thought I would share information about its book history. I wrote this as an assignment last semester and since all the grading is finished for that class IContinue reading “The Book History of East Goes West: The Makings of an Oriental Yankee”

Asian Freaks in Nineteenth Century American Freak Shows

It seems my New Year’s resolution to write blog posts more often has been quite quickly abandoned (but is it really a New Year’s resolution if you don’t actually fail to follow through, and realize there is no magical self-motivation that appears with the change of a number on a calendar?) I’m already well intoContinue reading “Asian Freaks in Nineteenth Century American Freak Shows”

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