Tsov tom, or tiger bite—an insult in Hmong culture—means you were stupid enough to approach a tiger and get bitten. In this remarkable new book, Hmong American women reclaim that phrase, showing in prose and...

A FRESH, FUNNY, UP-CLOSE LOOK AT HOW SOUTH KOREA REMADE ITSELF AS THE WORLD\'S POP CULTURE POWERHOUSE OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY\r\n\r\nBy now, everyone in the world knows the song \"Gangnam Style\" and Psy, an instantly recognizable...

A narrative history of the movement that turned "Orientals" into Asian Americans Until the political ferment of the Long Sixties, there were no Asian Americans. There were only isolated communities of mostly Chinese, Japanes...

"A thought-provoking and sensitive exploration of what Chineseness means." -Financial Times"Liu's ability to so neatly capture the complexities of cultural identity on both deeply personal and more global levels is what...

When Mai Neng Moua decides to get married, her mother, a widow, wants the groom to follow Hmong custom and pay a bride price, which both honors the work the bride's family has done in raising a daughter and offers a promise of love an...