{"id":52344,"date":"2015-05-23T09:58:55","date_gmt":"2015-05-23T13:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=52344"},"modified":"2015-04-13T11:34:58","modified_gmt":"2015-04-13T15:34:58","slug":"chinese-archipelagos-taiwan-hawaii-with-julie-wu-and-cecily-wong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=52344","title":{"rendered":"CHINESE ARCHIPELAGOS &#8211; TAIWAN &amp; HAWAII with Julie Wu and Cecily Wong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>05\/23\/2015 3pm<br \/>\n110-112 W 27th Street, Suite 600, New York, New York 10001<br \/>\n<!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/11136777_10153276685551189_709054642151102082_n.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[52344]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-52345\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/11136777_10153276685551189_709054642151102082_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"346\" height=\"232\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nCome hear debut novelists Julie Wu and Cecily Wong tell stories about two islands that have proven central to the overseas Chinese experience: Taiwan and Hawaii. Travel back in time to 1940s Taiwan. The loveless but plucky hero of Julie Wu\u2019s Dickensian novel The Third Son is Saburo, the family scapegoat and the third (read: least favorite) son of a local bigwig. He\u2019s got a crush on Yoshiko, but he\u2019s got other problems to deal with&#8211;such as malnutrition, the Japanese occupation of Taiwan, the handover to the equally autocratic Chinese National Army, and worst of all, his family. As Marie Myung-Ok Lee, author of Somebody\u2019s Daughter and a co-founder of AAWW, writes: \u201cThis novel has it all: mystery, family, the sweep of history, humor. Once you begin to read the story of Saburo Tong, you won\u2019t be able to put it down.\u201d Cecily Wong\u2019s ambitious novel Diamond Head tells the story of six decades of women in the Leong family. Following the turbulence of the Boxer Rebellion, the Leongs migrate out of China and end up in the island of Oahu&#8211;where they find themselves entangled by both family secrets and the ensnaring lines of love and fate. Part murder mystery, part Chinese Hawaiian history, \u201cDiamond Head takes the family saga to a new and very high place. We are given an intimate glimpse of two cultures: The Chinese and the Hawaiian, and we accompany our characters from the Boxer Rebellion, to the Second World War, to the changing days of the early sixties. Diamond Head offers many revelations; the reader follows the fortunes of this family, breathlessly, hungry for more\u201d (Mary Gordon, author of The Liar&#8217;s Wife).<\/p>\n<p>For more information, please visit<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/963079483716591\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/963079483716591\/<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>05\/23\/2015 3pm 110-112 W 27th Street, Suite 600, New York, New York 10001<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stay-connected-to-the-latest-local-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52344"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52359,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52344\/revisions\/52359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}