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Asian Literature
Asian literature is the literature produced by writers in Asia. Or by Asian American writers.
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Asian men could be socially inept and incompetent and ridiculous, like a Long Duk Dong, or at best unthreatening and slightly buffoonish, like a Jackie Chan. They were not allowed to be angry and articulate and powerful. And possibly right, Mr. Richardson thought uneasily.
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― Little Fires Everywhere
― Little Fires Everywhere
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The only difference between having an affair here and having an affair there was that the American men would always ended up losing half of his estates over a woman he was infatuated just as much as the next tramp who would come his way, while Japanese men would only earn more respect from their subordinates through the possession of much younger women, as a sign of prowess and affluence, while their wives at home, as if there were rule books distributed nationally on the “proper” marriage etiqu
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― The White Man and the Pachinko Girl
― The White Man and the Pachinko Girl
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