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- ↑ Ling, Amy (1999). Yellow Light: The Flowering of Asian American Arts. Temple University Press. ISBN 978-1-56639-817-6.
- ↑ Huang, Guiyou (2008-12-30). The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Asian American Literature [3 volumes]. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 978-1-56720-736-1.
- ↑ Liu, Miles Xian (2002). Asian American Playwrights: A Bio-bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-313-31455-1.
