Option 1: Mary Paik Lee’s Quiet Odyssey
In ‘Doing Gender with a Feminist Gaze: A Historical Reconstruction of Asian America’, Shirley Hune
states that “viewing Asian American women’s lives as gendered reveals how they have actively
negotiated and contested traditional hierarchical gender relations and flexed their gender roles to fulfill
personal goals and to pursue household and community interests” (427). Explain and define in your own
words what Hune’s quote specifically means as part of your thesis paragraph and thesis angle for this
paper.
Using and discussing specific examples from Mary Paik Lee’s Quiet Odyssey, “Chapter 6” of Sucheng
Chan’s Asian Americans: An Interpretive History, Hune pdf reading and a minimum of two external
sources, discuss one of the following topics:
• the issues and challenges that Korean American women faced as they fulfilled various roles in
their household and in their communities.
• the roles and activities of Korean American women in the transnational movement for Korean
independence.
Remember, you are writing a paper in an Asian American history course and you should be thinking
about how the above options are embedded/situated/contextualized in particular historical times and
spaces. In your opening thesis paragraph, the reader should know clearly and precisely which one of the
above options you picked.
Option 2: Fae Myenne Ng’s Bone
In Fae Myenne Ng’s Bone, Leon is a “paper son” (54). Use examples from Ng’s Bone, Sucheng Chan’s
Asian Americans: An Interpretive History, Ho pdf reading and a minimum of two external sources,
expand on one of the following questions:
• Explain clearly what “paper son” histories are, especially in the period after the SF Earthquake in
1906. What is the importance of “paper sons” to the development of kinship and kinship
communities in Asian American history?
• What is the significance of Ng’s quote: “For a paper son, paper is blood” (58)? Think about the
larger implications of buying papers—as not just a way to circumvent immigration/exclusion
laws, but as a means of political and social identification.
Remember, you are writing a paper in an Asian American history course and you should be thinking
about how the above options are embedded/situated/contextualized in particular historical times and
spaces. In your opening thesis paragraph, the reader should know clearly and precisely which one of the
above options you picked.
Option 3: Fae Myenne Ng’s Bone
From laundries to restaurants, to sweatshops and emergent merchant businesses in ethnic enclaves, we see
a wide range of labors and professions in Fae Myenne Ng’s Bone. Using examples from Bone, Sucheng
Chan’s Asian Americans: An Interpretive History, Ho pdf reading and a minimum of two external
sources, expand on one of the following questions:
• What does the diversity of labors and professions tell us about Asian labor and laborers in ethnic
enclave communities in the social-historical period of Ng’s Bone? In Asian American history?
• What are some major socio-economic challenges facing the immigrant Chinese laborer that stem
from larger political and social prejudices in U.S. society, culture and institutions?
• What is the specific historical importance of using SF Chinatown as the setting for Ng’s Bone?
How are space and geography helping to map out Chinese American/SF Chinatown history in this
book?
Remember, you are writing a paper in an Asian American history course and you should be thinking
about how the above options are embedded/situated/contextualized in particular historical times and
spaces. In your opening thesis paragraph, the reader should know clearly and precisely which one of the
above options you picked.
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