Reading List – August 2023

Our monthly newsletter shares notices of new book publications that our members email us about. If you or someone whose permission you have has had a book published within the past 12 months, please share the title, subject or (inter)disciplinary area(s), and link in this form, and we will share it with members. 

Title	Author	Field / topic
The First Amerasians: Mixed Race Koreans from Camptowns to America	Yuri W. Doolan	History
Out of Place: The Lives of Korean Adoptee Immigrants	SunAh Laybourn	sociology; adoption; sociology of race and ethnicity; critical adoption studies
Becoming Global Asia: Contemporary Genres of Postcolonial Capitalism in Singapore	Cheryl Narumi Naruse	Transpacific studies, Southeast Asia studies, Postcolonial Theory, History of Capitalism
Nimrods: a fake-punk self-hurt anti-memoir	Kawika Guillermo	Prose, poetry, memoir
Made in Asia/America: Why Video Games Were Never (Really) about Us	Christopher B Patterson and Tara Fickle (editors)	Game studies, media studies
Transpacific Reform and Revolution: The Chinese in North America, 1898-1918	Zhongping Chen	Asian American history and Asian Canadian history