Sansei and Sensibility

Sansei and SensibilityGenerations of Japanese Americans merge with Jane Austens characters in these lively stories, pairing uniquely American histories with reimagined classics. In these buoyant and inventive stories, Karen Tei Yamashita transfers classic tales across boundaries and questions what an inheritancefamilial, cultural, emotional, artisticreally means. In a California of the sixties and seventies, characters examine the contents of deceased relatives' freezers,

gardenia or rose

For this Thai soup cooking kit

or collect a community's gossip while cleaning the teeth of its inhabitants

in myriad media—bronze

Paper-Wood is a new plywood made by laminating colored recycled paper sandwiched in-between each veneer layer

or steam room to help detoxify and relax the body

take the chance to reconnect through these thought provoking bilingual playing cards

and collectors

Tsinghua University

Jiangnan yijie: Qing ren bixia de Zhuangshi shi’an 江南一劫：清人笔下的庄氏史案

shaped by the weather at its sea-side perch

13 x 8 x 4 inches