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Letters of Consolation and Estrangement
My belated post in honor of AAPI Heritage month!
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How About a Writing Retreat in the French Alps This September?
A quick announcement/invitation for fiction & nonfiction writers!
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Behind the Elation Over Asian-American Oscars
It's been a long hard trip to overcome the insult of yellowface
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How About a Writing Retreat in the French Alps This September?
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Memoir, Autofiction, and What Lies Between
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Why Does "Front Matter" Matter?
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Dreams After Death
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New Year, New 'Legacy & Lore'
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Yellowface in the Family
Why my father never wanted to talk about his Hollywood years
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A Chinese Revolutionary at UC Berkeley, 1905
Putting the Lore back in Legacy & Lore
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Through China's Looking Glass
Yung Wing, my grandfather, and the seeds of China's never-ending pro-democracy movement
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Memoir, Autofiction, and What Lies Between
If I'm making up the framework, does that fictionalize the facts?
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A Smoking Gun Behind the Screen of Migration
My father kept his family secrets, with consequences he could never admit
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When Legacy Lore and Research Collide
Surprise! Not everything our family tells us is true
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From One War to Another
The terms of heroism and brutality remain the same
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Aimee Liu's Legacy & Lore
Veteran author Aimee Liu, on the art of writing fiction and memoir steeped in Asian-American heritage
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