This book review originally appeared on the Asian Review of Books website (8/20/2018) "https://asianreviewofbooks.com/content/the-chinese-must-go-violence-exclusion-and-the-making-of-the-alien-in-america-by-beth-lew-williams/"  A photo labeled “A Chinese Slave Girl, Chinatown. San Francisco.” ca. 1905 Oakland Museum of California In her skillful retelling of the history of white workers’ violence against Chinese immigrants and the formulation of laws to first restrict, and then exclude, Chinese laborers from … Continue reading The Chinese Must Go: Violence, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America” by Beth Lew-Williams”

First published in Asian Review of Books (8/11/2018) https://asianreviewofbooks.com/content/the-chilli-bean-paste-clan-by-yan-ge/ The Chilli Bean Paste Clan, Yan Ge, Nicky Harman (trans) (Balestier, May 2018) Yan Ge’s The Chilli Bean Paste Clan should come with a warning on the cover: “contents may cause readers to break into a sweat and consume unhealthy amounts of Laoganma spicy chilli crisp.” The setting for … Continue reading “The Chilli Bean Paste Clan” by Yan Ge