List: AAPI Heritage | Curated by Aimee Liu

Aug 15, 2024
22 stories
AAPI HeritageStories about my biracial family's Chinese-American heritage
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Asian American Book Club
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Aimee Liu
This Annotation Will Teach You to Read Like a Writer!Decoding E.J. Koh’s memoir ‘The Magical Language of Others’
Aug 13
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Aug 13
3
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Screenwriting & Storytelling
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Aimee Liu
Every Tale is a Tale of Two StoriesHow Maegan Houang embedded the macro story of China’s history with the U.S. inside her micro film about the first Chinese woman in America
Jun 25
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Jun 25
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ZORA
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Aimee Liu
Crossing Cultures in Marriage & LifeAn interview with memoirist Susan Blumberg-Kason about the ‘Good Chinese Wife’
May 22
May 22
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Books Are Our Superpower
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Aimee Liu
Bernardine in Old ShanghaiAn interview with biographer Susan Blumberg-Kason about ‘Bernardine’s Shanghai Salon’
May 11
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May 11
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NOT YOUR CHINA DOLLA conversation about Anna May Wong and the history of Asians in Hollywood
Aug 3, 2023
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Aug 3, 2023
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The Last Days of Sun Yat-senA rare view into the chaos of China’s Warlord Era
Jul 7, 2023
Jul 7, 2023
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Human Parts
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Aimee Liu
Snapshots of the Migration Estrangement That Tore My Asian-American Family ApartTwo consolation letters, two fathers lost across the Pacific divide
May 27, 2023
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May 27, 2023
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#StopAsianHate
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Aimee Liu
When Anti-Miscegenation Laws Reflected the Worst Kind of Bigotry
Jan 3, 2022
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Jan 3, 2022
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Human Parts
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Aimee Liu
Family Photos Can Change You
May 28, 2021
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May 28, 2021
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Human Parts
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Aimee Liu
The Foster Sister I Never KnewWhy did my parents really let her go?
Nov 3, 2021
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Nov 3, 2021
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ZORA
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Aimee Liu
Yellowface in the FamilyWhy my father never wanted to talk about his Hollywood years
Nov 22, 2021
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Nov 22, 2021
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Innovating ‘Legacy & Lore’ — an author’s newsletter on SubstackJoin in the hunt for my father’s mysterious treasure box
Jan 9, 2022
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Jan 9, 2022
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Human Parts
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Aimee Liu
How My Chinese Uncle Became an All-American HeroFighting to be an American in World War II
Feb 25, 2022
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Feb 25, 2022
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When Family Myths and Research CollideSurprise! Not everything you think you know about your relatives is true
Apr 23, 2022
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Apr 23, 2022
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Aimee Liu
Genealogical Research Reveals More Than AncestryAnswers to long-buried family questions can provide new clues into inter-generational trauma
May 22, 2022
May 22, 2022
Aimee Liu
Did the Allies Cover Up Japan’s WWII War Crimes?The saga of Alfred Bird and the Singapore War Crimes Trials suggests they did
Jun 12, 2022
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Jun 12, 2022
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Perspective from China’s First Pro-Democracy ActivistsYung Wing, my grandfather, and the seeds of revolution against the China’s last empire
Oct 29, 2022
Oct 29, 2022
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ZORA
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Aimee Liu
When Worlds CollideWit, irony, and the imperial minister’s poignant gesture that helped forge my family
Mar 19, 2023
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Mar 19, 2023
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About Me Stories
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Aimee Liu
About Me — Aimee LiuAuthor of East-West novels and all sorts of nonfiction, ghostwriter, MFA advisor, former painter… and current photopainter!
Jan 26, 2021
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Jan 26, 2021
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