AEMS News and Reviews: Spring 2008 (Issue #29)

Lee, Tanya S.

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Title

AEMS News and Reviews: Spring 2008 (Issue #29)

Author(s)

Lee, Tanya S.

Contributor(s)

• Fu, Poshek
• Meeker, Lauren
• Cho , Sue Jean
• Ginsburg, Tom
• Steinemann, Namji

Issue Date

2008-03-01

Keyword(s)

AEMS News and Reviews

Date of Ingest

2025-07-29T16:38:06-05:00

Geographic Coverage

• China
• United States
• Vietnam
• Korea
• Canada
• Australia
• Scotland

Abstract

For this issue of the AEMS newsletter, I decided to focus on Asians outside of Asia. Ordinarily, we consider Asians in diaspora to be a topic outside of AEMS’s purview, particularly if the concern is more with people’s adaptation to the new country than with their Asian origins. There are, however, a great many quality resources available on these topics. So this summer we explore a few films that balance the Asian and non-Asian sides of their stories particularly well. Golden Venture tells the story of an ill-fated group of illegal Chinese immigrants to the U.S.; in following their legal travails and eventual fates, filmmaker Peter Cohn gives us a window into the constant circulation of Chinese laborers to and from the U.S., showing both the attraction of sojourn in the U.S. and the sacrifice and risk it entails. Arirang tells another story of Asians who came to America for work, but on a broader historical scale. Made for broadcast as part of the celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of the first Koreans’ arrival in the U.S., this DVD is accompanied by extensive lesson plans and other teaching resources. Work is not the only reason for migration, nor is America the default destination. In All Points of the Compass, we meet the family of Charles Tran Van Lam, a key government official during the years of the Vietnam War. Scattered across the English-speaking world, his children reflect on the reasons for their exile and on what it means to be Vietnamese so far from home. Finally, The Last Ghost of War does not deal with diaspora, but rather with another significant way that continents intersect: through war. Vietnamese and Americans share, if unequally, the horrific legacy of the use of Agent Orange in the 1970s: who should be held responsible? The return of our “Teaching and Technology” column also touches on the movements of people to and from Asia, if only temporarily. Namji Steineman, director of the East-West Center’s AsiaPacificEd Program, reports on how various forms of Internet-based technology enhance and facilitate face-to-face learning between Asian and U.S. students and educators.

Publisher

Asian Educational Media Service

Series/Report Name or Number

Issue #29

Type of Resource

text

Genre of Resource

newsletter

Language

eng

Sponsor(s)/Grant Number(s)

Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies

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