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The Illustrators
LELAND WONG’S prints and photography have been widely published and exhibited both nationally and in the California region. During the 1970s he became involved with the Kearny Street Workshop and remains active in San Francisco’s Asian American community as an artist, screen printer, and photographer.
Illustrations for all chapter frontispieces and karate poses (pages 267, 270, 273, and 276).
SINA GRACE is the author of Cedric Hollows in Dial M for Magic, and the comic book series Books with Pictures. He also provided illustrations for Amber Benson’s Among the Ghosts, a children’s book for Simon and Schuster. He lives in Los Angeles.
Illustrations for “Chiquita Banana” (pages 262-264) and “War & Peace” (pages 244-250).
Permissions Acknowledgments
Anonymous: [#35 “Leaving behind my writing brush and removing my sword, / I came to America”] and [“Ox”] from Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants of Angel Island, 1910-1940, translated by Him Mark Lai, Genny Lim, and Judy Yung. Copyright © 1980 by the History of Chinese Detained on Island Project. Reprinted with the permission of the University of Washington Press.
Frank Chin, excerpts from Act I from “Chickencoop Chinaman” from Chickencoop Chinaman & The Year of the Dragon. Copyright © 1973, 1974 by Frank Chin. Reprinted with the permission of the University of Washington Press.
Kahlil Gibran, “On Friendship” from The Prophet. Copyright 1923 by Kahlil Gibran, renewed 1951 by Administrators C. T. A. of Kahlil Gibran Estate and Mary G. Gibran. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc.
V.I. Lenin, excerpts from What Is to Be Done? Reprinted with the permission of Foreign Languages Press.
“Si hablo del hambre . . .” (“If I speak of hunger . . .”), translated by Lourdes Echazabel-Martinez. Reprinted by permission of the translator.
Mao Tse-tung, excerpt from “Changsha,” translated by Willis Barnstone, from The Poems of Mao Tse-tung (New York: Harper &Row, 1972). Translation copyright © 1972 by Willis Barnstone. Reprinted with the permission of the translator.
Paul Valéry, excerpt from “The Graveyard by the Seal,” translated by C. Day Lewis, from Selected Writings of Paul Valéry. Copyright 1950 by New Directions Publishing Corp. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
Funder Acknowledgments
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