'The tension is palpable,' noted a Kirkus Reviews contributor, and, as Jennifer M. immigration authorities will not catch them working illegally before their green cards arrive. Although Hannah enjoys her new life in San Francisco, her par-ents's days are far more stressful: they wait to receive their permanent residency and hope the U.S. In this book Na-Lin's family moves from Taiwan to San Francisco in 1967, whereupon the girl-also the story's narrator-is renamed Hannah. Yang tells her family's story from her own perspective, in a somewhat fictionalized manner, in Hannah Is My Name. 'The story has the appeal of a fairytale hero's travails-as do the illustrations by the author,' concluded a Publishers Weekly contributor. The formerly prosperous Yang family loses nearly everything in the civil war that follows World War II in China, and Baba, then seventeen years old, heads from northern China to the south, and eventually to Taiwan, seeking safety. Yang continues her father's story in The Odyssey of a Manchurian. 'Beguiled by the musical cadence and bold strokes,' Pam Lambert wrote in a review for People, readers 'only slowly become aware of the underlying seriousness of Yang's dual story,' which also encompasses the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in the early days of World War II and the atrocities that followed. The narrative opens with simple, fairy-tale-like stories about life in rural China that reveal the region's religious beliefs, holidays, and Confucian philosophy. In her first book, Baba: A Return to China upon My Father's Shoulders, she retells the tales her father, Baba, told to her about his life in Manchuria, China in the early twentieth century. Taiwanese-American author and painter Belle Yang is the author of a number of self-illustrated books, several of which relate stories about Yang and her family. Hannah Is My Name, Candlewick Press (Cambridge, MA), 2004.

The Odyssey of a Manchurian, Harcourt Brace (New York, NY), 1996.Ĭhili-Chili-Chin-Chin, Harcourt Brace (San Diego, CA), 1999. Writings SELF-ILLUSTRATEDīaba: A Return to China upon My Father's Shoulders, preface by Amy Tan, Harcourt (New York, NY), 1994. Exhibitions: Works exhibited at Monterey Museum of Art, 1996 Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, 1997 and Orange County Museum of Art, 1997. Agent-Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency, 1155 Camino Del Mar, PMB 515, Del Mar, CA 92014.

Hannah is my name by belle yang