Asian American Identities and Practices

Jonathan H. X. Lee is associate professor of Asian American studies at San Francisco State University. He is the editor of Cambodian American Experiences: Histories, Communities, Cultures, and Identities and co-editor with Kathleen M. Nadeau of the Encyclopedia of Asian American Folklore and Folklife. Kathleen Nadeau is a professor of anthropology at California State University, San Bernardino. She is the author of Liberation Theology in the Philippines: Faith in a Revolution, The History of the Philippines, and co-editor with Jonathan H. X. Lee of the Encyclopedia of Asian American Folklore and Folklife.

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Disciplines and Discourses in Asian American Folklore and Folklife: Prospects, Patterns, Practices, and Problems in an Emerging Landscape
Jonathan H. X. Lee and Kathleen Nadeau

1: Folklore and Asian American Humor: Stereotypes, Politics, and Self
Ayako Yoshimura

2: Folklore and the Visual Culture of Burmese America: Immigrant Buddhism and the Dhammananda Monastery
Winston Kyan

3: The “Movement” as Folklore: Asian American College Youth and Vernacular Expressions of Asian Pacific American Heritage
Dawn Lee Tu

4: Once Upon a Time in Chinese America: Literary Folktales in American Picture Books
Lorraine Dong

5: Things Matter: Chinese American Culture Work and the Gods of Marysville
Jonathan H. X. Lee and Vivian-Lee Nyitray

6: Finding the Missing Pieces: Korean American Adoptees and the Production of Ritual
SooJin Pate

7: Filipino Folklore, Space, and Performance
Francis Tanglao-Aguas

8: Forging Transnational Folklore: Cambodian American Hip Hop
Cathy J. Schlund-Vials

9: Japanese American Artistic Appropriation of Folkloric Symbols through Origami and Hip Hop
Brett Esaki

10: Igorot American Folk Dance: Performance, Identity, and the Paradox of Decolonization
Mark Sabas Leo and Jonathan H. X. Lee

11: Guangong: The Chinese God of War and Literature in America – From Celestial Stranger to Common Culture (1850-2012 C.E.)
Jonathan H. X. Lee

12: Folklore as a Sacred Heritage: Vietnamese Indigenous Religions in California
Janet Hoskins

13: Of Flying Brooms and Sorcerers: Spell-castings, Love Potions, and Supernatural Plants
Rossina Zamora Liu

14: Korean Folklore in the Lives of Korean American Christian Women
Christine J. Hong

15: Late life, Mortuary and Memorial Rituals in Japanese American Community
Ronald Y. Nakasone

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