Libraries Multimedia Resources for Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month

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In celebration of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, the Multimedia Services Department in Mullins Library has compiled a list of streaming videos available to all students, staff and faculty. Physical items are also available on display in the Multimedia Services Room (MULN 463). 

Series
Asian Americans is a five-hour film series that will chronicle the contributions and challenges of Asian Americans, the fastest-growing ethnic group in America.  

The Fearless series tells the stories of four Asian women fighting for social justice. They are fighting for recognition of human rights in their countries — the Philippines, Bangladesh, India and Australia — and across the globe. 

Slaying the Dragon episodes look at media stereotypes of Asian and Asian American women since the silent era and investigate the past 25 years of representation of Asian and Asian American women in U.S. visual media. 

Movies 
A Girl from Hunan is a film about a 12-year-old girl named Xiao Xiao and her arranged marriage to 2-year-old Chun Guan. She is sent to a remote village where she is to live with her prospective in-laws and raise the boy mostly by herself. Four years later, Xiao Xiao succumbs to the charms of a farmhand, which puts her reputation and her life in danger.  

In Front Cover, a fashion stylist named Ryan living in New York City rejects his traditional Asian upbringing and lives openly gay. An unlikely romance leads Ryan to re-examine his roots and consider a new career path.  

The Bride is a film about a young woman who is courted and swept off her feet, only to realize a gothic conspiracy is afoot. 

Lilting is a chamber piece about unlikely connections and how loss can bring us together, even when cultures and generations set us far apart from one another. 

Documentaries  
Pacific Islanders serve in the U.S. military in disproportionally high numbers and have suffered the highest casualty rates in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Learn why the island of Guam's returning veterans say they can't get the healthcare they need in the documentary Island of Warriors. 

On the South Pacific Island group of Vava'u, traditional healer Emeline Lolohea treats people affected by spirits. One day away by ferry, Tongan psychiatrist Dr. Mapa Puloka has established a public practice. Although the two have never met in person, the film The Healer and the Psychiatrist creates a dialogue between them on the nature of mental illness and spiritual affliction - and the shared obstacles they face in providing their services to people in need.

Looking for China Girl tells the personal stories behind a modern demographic crisis in China. Since 1980, when China decreed that couples should have just one child, there has been an alarming disproportion of young men over young women. The film follows 24-year-old Xinhau Lu as he searches for a wife. 

Through personal stories and interviews, Nailed It charts the rise, struggle, stereotypes and steady hold Vietnamese Americans have on today's multiethnic $8 billion nail economy. 

Far East Deep South sheds light on the history of Chinese immigrants living in the American South during the late 1800s to mid-1900s through the journey of Charles Chiu and his family as they travel from California to Mississippi to find answers about his father. 

On Display 
Documentaries on display include China's Lost Girls, Tea Based on Tea-Opera and Abacus: Small Enough to Jail. The movies Minari, Memoirs of a Geisha, The Flowers of War, Slumdog Millionaire, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and The Namesake are also on display, as are the books Claiming Diaspora, The Life of Music in North India, Music of Death and New Creation: Experiences in the World of Balinese Gamelan Beleganjur and Sounds of the Silk Road. Musical scores include 学唱中国歌:Chinese Songs, Modern Japanese Marimba Pieces and Japanese folk-songs = Nihon minʼyō kyoku shū. All displayed materials are available for immediate checkout.