Russell C Leong
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 4974151 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Russell C Leong |
| NOMBRES | Russell C |
| APELLIDO | Leong |
| FIRMA | LEONG R C |
| AFILIACIONES | Amerasia Journal |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 61 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 35 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 61 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1978 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Amerasia Journal
The voices of those who inhabit places
Amerasia Journal at 50
Tribute to David Wong Louie (1954–2018)
Interview by Robert B. Ito
MothSutra
This essay examines Mothsutra: For Bicycle Delivery Men, a visual composite poetic work in English with illustrations by Chinese American writer, Russell C. Leong, translated into Chinese by Xinqiu Xie. Leong and Xie describe and critique the nature of cross-cultural translation that embodies three dimensions: that of nation (US and China), culture (immigrant working class), and language (English and Chinese)
Asian American Sexualities
Asian American Sexualities works to dispel the stereotype of oriental sexual decadence, as well as the "model minority" heterosexual Asian sterotype in the US. Writing from an impressive array of interdisciplinary perspectives, the contributors discuss a variety of topics, including sexuality and identity politics; community activism and gay activism; transnational aspects of love between women in Thailand; queer South Asian culture in the US; ga…
Forging a Third Chinese Literature of the Americas
The genesis of this Amerasia Journal edition entitled “Towards a Third Literature: Chinese Writing in the Americas” is from July 2009 symposium at Nanjing University, “The International Conference on Chinese American Literature,” which was co-sponsored by Cheng Aimin, School of Foreign Studies, Nanjing University, and Jinqui Ling, Departments of English and Asian American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
Fire in My Heart
(For restless thieves and anxious liberators on the 20th of the LA riots) / Where there's smoke, there's fire, they say. / Me, an Asian dude drivin’ East down Sunset / in my beat-up Corolla. Saw the Latina maids, huddled by the Beverly Hills bus stops / Waiting to go back to East LA
For Alexander Saxton
Cover
Legacies
Interview with Tsai Ming Liang
Russell Leong (L): Tsai Ming Liang, when I watched your film I Don't Want to Sleep Alone yesterday, I was very moved. You, the director, seem to be having a conversation with the society at large. Are you a director who represents Taiwan? In fact, you are an Overseas Chinese (hua quiao) originally from Malaysia
Tian Qiao /Sky Bridge—Taipei & Los Angeles
Here I am standing at the edge of the dark lashes under your eyes in that zone that misses radar altogether
Poetry within Earshot
Taijiquan
Records of the Historian
I.Moon and tide thread the Pacific Thus begins the journey of a man Who walks between two continents To gather materials for his records
Bie You Dong Tian Another World Lies Beyond
(from a carved lintel in the Huntington Liu Fang Yuan Chinese Garden)I.Through This gate you enter the Garden.Dawn The garden is not finished, but the feeling is already here. Each step damp with dew descended from the Arroyo Seco.Steel Girders peep from under the wood columns of the tea pavilion. An orange tractor rigs its taciturn arm, waiting. A Latino security guard leans against the carved railing. Chinese workmen from Suzhou have not yet ar…
GlobaLinks
As Asian American Studies enters its fourth decade in 2011, Amerasia Journal publishes vital scholarship that links across nations. GlobaLinks: Community Institutions and Practices across Nations recognizes that Asian and Pacific American communities are no longer limited by their institutional identities within local boundaries or defined by their political, cultural, or economic activities within national borders alone
The Migrant with a Thousand Faces”
As a student educated in an American school, like many thousands of others, I had read Joseph Campbell's The Hero with a Thousand Faces first published in 1949 and translated into many languages and editions since that time. Though his book was roughly based on Freudian concepts, Jungian archetypes and other symbolic patterns of analysis, at the time, I read it narrowly, believing that its ideas applied only to western heroes—and mainly male at t…
Amerasia Journal
Passages
In 2009, Amerasia Journal remembers the writers and activists, scholars and poets, Him Mark Lai, Ron Takaki, and Al Robles, who were long connected with the journal as editors, contributors, and intellectual giants who formed and fueled the field of Asian American Studies. Their passages in life—what they thought and wrote—literally encompasses thousands of pages, not only in English, but also in Chinese, Tagalog, Japanese, and in other languages…
How Do Asian Americans Create Places? From Background to Foreground
In this Amerasia issue, we explore the following set of research questions. First, how do Asian Americans create places? Asian Americans are not merely inhabitants of places. Second, we should conceptualize space to be a site of action and agency, with shifting boundaries. Here, Asian Americans can assert some kind of control over space. Places comprise concrete physical dimensions of the community, provide an identity to a community, and make it…
Majority World
As this thirty-seventh year edition of Amerasia Journal moves onto press, we also commemorate and reflect upon the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, who was assassinated on April 4, 1968, exactly forty years ago. By the time of his death in Memphis, where he had gone to support striking sanitation workers, Doctor King had already laid out three arenas of struggle for the American people: racism, materialism, and militarism. Forty years later, Amera…
Word Travels
To make sense of this literary phenomenon—Amerasia Journal features an international array of scholars from Europe, Asia, and the U.S. who write on Asian American literature. In essays, they survey the ways in which writing by some Asian American writers has been read, sampled, collected, critiqued, taught, translated, and published in places outside of the U.S. At the same time, a number of essays in this volume also focus on the immigrant langu…
Asian American Sexualities
Asian American Sexualities works to dispel the stereotype of oriental sexual decadence, as well as the "model minority" heterosexual Asian sterotype in the US. Writing from an impressive array of interdisciplinary perspectives, the contributors discuss a variety of topics, including sexuality and identity politics; community activism and gay activism; transnational aspects of love between women in Thailand; queer South Asian culture in the US; ga…
In the Country of Dreams and Dust
This long-awaited collection of poetry includesAerogrammes, an account of the author's journeyto the Chinese homeland; In the Country ofDreams and Dust, featuring male and femalevoices in sixteen sections; and Unfolding Flowers, Matchless Flames, meditation on the L.A. riots from Buddhist perspective.Jessica Hagedorn characterizes Leong's work as eloquent and mystical; Ishmael Reed has called it a breakthrough for the poetry of Diaspora
Before and After Orientalism
For many Asian Americans the lived experience of being classified, represented and marked as an Oriental occurred at least a century before the appearance of Edward Said's book, Orientalism, in 1978. The process of becoming orientalized was far from an abstraction, but rather involved exclusionary immigration, land and education laws, local lynchings, state violence, imprisonment and internment behind barbed wire, and cultural, linguistic, and po…
Amerasia Journal at 50
Parallel Pacifics
Chaos, Sars, Yellow Peril
As I write from Hong Kong, the World Health Organization on March 28 lifted its travel advisory against only one Asian country-Viet Nam, the first in the region to contain the SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) Virus. At the same time, UC Berkeley made a move to rescind its summer program for students from SARS-infected areas, including China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore. It is the first American university to do so. My mother calls me…
A Pioneer Chinatown Teacher
Toward the Second Decade
A Pioneer Chinatown Teacher
Toward the Second Decade
The Bitter Society
(1981). The Bitter Society: Ku Shehui A translation, Chapters 37–46. Amerasia Journal: Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 33-67
Book and Resource Notes
The Middleman and Other Stories
Other| August 01 1989 The Middleman and Other Stories The Middleman and Other Stories by Bharati Mukherjee, Grove Press, New York, 192 pp. Cloth. $15.94. 1988. Russell Leong Russell Leong Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1989) 9 (2): 85–86. https://doi.org/10.1215/07323867-9-2-85 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Sea…
Poetry within Earshot
In the process of finding out what one has learned, one learns once more.—Bertolt Brecht2Poetry is practical, so I have learned.Because I wanted to relearn—and relive—the stirrings of an Asian American generation, I sought out its poetry.3 For poetry, like a hammer, can nail down the times.Contrary to what is taught, poetry has its practical side. Poems are portable. They are easily held, to a paper or between the brows. They do not need leather …
Opening” History to Hear New Voices
A Report on “American Generations
Oxide
In the Country of Dreams and Dust
This long-awaited collection of poetry includesAerogrammes, an account of the author's journeyto the Chinese homeland; In the Country ofDreams and Dust, featuring male and femalevoices in sixteen sections; and Unfolding Flowers, Matchless Flames, meditation on the L.A. riots from Buddhist perspective.Jessica Hagedorn characterizes Leong's work as eloquent and mystical; Ishmael Reed has called it a breakthrough for the poetry of Diaspora
Los Angeles struggles toward multiethnic community
Myths and theories of the American melting pot, of assimilation, and of pluralistic society were shattered as racial violence during the 1992 Los Angeles uprising vividly exposed the inadequacy of our prior assumptions. uprising revealed that radical approaches are needed to address structural issues of economic and political inequality, and issues of race and representation. Los Angeles has emerged as a focal point for social scientists as they …
N.V.M. Gonzalez from the Heart
"N.V.M. Gonzalez from the Heart: A Tribute to His Life and Work." Amerasia Journal, 26(1), pp. 237–238
September 11, 2001
When I was awakened by early-morning news of the attack on the Trade Center, I groggily thought to myself—didn't we just publish an article about it in Amerasia Journal? And, ironically, we had, together with a postcard-sized reproduction of the Manhattan skyline dominated by that structure. In volume 26:3 2000-2001, Bert Winther-Tamaki had written an article entitled: Yamasaki: Contradictions of Scale in the Career of the Nisei Architect of the …
Today
Today, it's another city They say. Another New York. Another L.A. Another America changed forever. Newscasters, generals, and presidents say.Today, it's another city They say. Bring third world terrorists to justice. Look for someone slightly darker (than even me) Maybe a guy not so slant-eyed, taller, Who speaks Arabic, Not Chinese or English
Today
After Words
After Words: Who Speaks on War, Justice, and Peace? is a special edition of Amerasia Journal. This edition continues our thirty-year mission of activist work in shaping the critical dialogue around Asians in the Americas. As the longest-standing independent scholarly journal in Asian American Studies, we seek to provide a forum for critical expression on justice and peace in relation to the global violence of our times.The essays, analyses, memoi…
Act, Memory, Voice
The articles contained within this issue Act, Memory, Voice: Critical Encounters 2001 explore, describe, and probe, to varying degrees, encounters between local identities and changes across nations, ranging from essays on pre-1950 South Asian and Japanese immigrants to commentaries on the performance of contemporary South Asian dance, to the formation of Pacific resistance in Guam to U.S. Empire. All of the articles demonstrate how Asian America…
After Words
One Decade Later
During the past ten years, Asian American scholars have employed concepts around local and global, transnational, and diaspora with varying degrees of clarity and urgency. In the wake of the Gulf War and the war in Afghanistan, the continuing conflict between Israelis and Palestinians, and between Indians and Pakistanis, we need to better explain the linkages between Asians in the Americas and the rest of the world in two ways:1. How do Asians in…
Friendship Across the Sea
As I sit in my office at Hong Kong University, an ocean away from the city, Los Angeles, where I worked with Yuji for over twentyfive years, I recall the first time I met him, in the early 70s. It was at a poetry reading, The New Asian Nation, at UC Berkeley's Zellerbach Hall. Bill Wu, a Chinese art historian, introduced me to Emma and Yuji. Then, I was young and self-absorbed, and I did not actually come to know them both until two years later, …
Under the Skin
In 1996, the aging photographer Cartier-Bresson wrote: If, in making a portrait, you hope to grasp the interior silence of a willing victim, it's very difficult, but you must somehow position the camera between his shirt and his skin. Today's Asian Americans are neither willing victims nor heroes, yet in order to understand them more deeply, one must somehow position a mental camera closer to her or his mentality and community. This is what our c…
Chaos, Sars, Yellow Peril
As I write from Hong Kong, the World Health Organization on March 28 lifted its travel advisory against only one Asian country-Viet Nam, the first in the region to contain the SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) Virus. At the same time, UC Berkeley made a move to rescind its summer program for students from SARS-infected areas, including China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore. It is the first American university to do so. My mother calls me…
Amerasia Journal at the Frontiers of Korean American Studies
Between 1971 and 2002, Amerasia published approximately 100 articles, essays, and creative works (not including book reviews) on all aspects of Korean American history and life, by Korean American, Korean, and American scholars, by community activists, by creative writers, and by students. Authors were not limited to Korean Americans but included African American, Latino, and Asian American writers. This is in addition to UCLA Asian American Stud…
From “an Ambiguous Existence” to Art by Necessity
During more than three decades of publishing, Amerasia Journal has never devoted an entire issue to the non-literary arts: be they visual, theatrical, media, film and video, or musical. Yet, within the journal we have published many issues on poetry, on literature, and on prose. To be fair, the Press has published other books: on film and video; and on paintings. Within Amerasia, we had also published a number of pioneering articles by art histor…
Crossing Borders
I.In 1969, I was a student at Yale, and my classmate Lowell Chun-Hoon and I co-founded Amerasia Journal, which remains the premier interdisciplinary scholarly journal of Asian American Studies. Exactly thirty-five years later, on October 21, 2004, I found myself thanking the more than 300 students, alumni, staff, faculty, and community supporters who attended a free community reception in Los Angeles Chinatown on the occasion of the new UCLA Depa…
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