Pacific Asia Museum

AUTHORS ON ASIA

Authors on Asia is Pacific Asia Museum popular series that gives visitors a chance to interact with authors of both current fiction and non-fiction publications that feature Asian and Asian-American topics. All programs are incuded with museum admission unless otherwise indicated.

Books always available for purchase and signing.

For reservations, please call the Museum Store at (626) 449-2742 ext. 20.

"Radio Shangri-La: What I Learned in Bhutan, the Happiest Kingdom on Earth" by Lisa Napoli

Sunday, April 29, 2:00 pm

Author journalist Lisa Napoli volunteered to help start the first youth-oriented radio station in the Himalayan nation of Bhutan and chronicles her experiences in her book, Radio Shangri-La: What I Discovered on my Accidental Journey to the Happiest Kingdom on Earth. Books will be available for purchase and signing. Light refreshments. RSVP to the Museum Store at (626) 449-2742, ext. 20.

Poets on Site

Sunday, May 20, 2:00 pm

Poets on Site Book Publication Celebration in honor of Pacific Asia Museum’s 40th Anniversary exhibition.
The program includes a musical presentation of flutes of the world, a slide show of artworks, and readings by more than a dozen poets. Rick Wilson, who recorded and played flutes of the world for the Pacific Asia Museum Audio Tour, performs with flutes from China, Japan, Tibet, Korea, Thailand, New Guinea and Indonesia and provides musical accompaniment for the poetry readings, in this lively audio, visual, musical performance.
The slide show includes drawings of Pacific Asian objects in the exhibition by artists and poets from the book.
The book is edited, and the event created and hosted by Kathabela Wilson, for Poets on Site.

Illustrated Talk "Yoshitoshi's Heirs and the Grandparents of Manga: Popular Illustrations in Japan, 1890-1925" with Dr. Kendall Brown

Sunday, June 24, 2:00 pm

Dr. Brown, Professor of Asian Art History at CSU Long Beach, presents an overview of Japanese book and magazine illustration from the late Meiji and Taisho periods, utilizing his recent books Japanese Warriors, Rogues and Beauties: Woodblocks from Adventure Stories and Dangerous Beauties and Dutiful Wives: Popular Portraits of Women in
Japan, 1905-1925. These images form a little-studied link between woodblock print designers like Yoshitoshi in the mid-19th century and the manga comics that found mass popularity after World War II.