Asian Heritage Month

Join the Library to celebrate Asian Heritage Month with online puzzles, library-suggested reads and viewings, and weekly book recommendations. If you love to colour, check out this free printable poster from the Government of Canada.

Online puzzles

All images for the puzzles come from the public health education in China lecture slides from the Breithaupt Hewetson Clark Collection, in the Waterloo Digital Library.

Reads and viewings

East Asia: China, Hong Kong S.A.R., Japan, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, Taiwan

*Items available in physical format when the Library reopens

• Obasan by Joy Kowaga
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• Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
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• The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See 
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• Shanghai Girls by Lisa See 
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• Asian Cookbooks: A Common Table
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South Asia: Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka 

• A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry 
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• The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri 
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• The Storm by Arif Anwar 
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• The Boat People by Sharon Bala 
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• On Sal Mal Lane by Ru Freeman 
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• Slumdog Millionaire
  • Visit Criterion-On-Demand to watch the film online. (Use your WatIAM credentials to access.)
• Lion
  • Visit Criterion-On-Demand to watch the film online. (Use your WatIAM credentials to access.)

Central Asia: Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan 

• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini 
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• A House Without Widows by Nadia Hashimi 
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• The Breadwinner
  • Visit Criterion-On-Demand to watch the film online. (Use your WatIAM credentials to access.)

Southeast Asia: Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam 

• The Map of Lost Memories by Kim Fay 
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• Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan 
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• Dear Girls by Ali Wong 
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• Mysterious Fragrance of the Yellow Mountains by Yasuko Thanh 
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• The Beauty of Humanity Movement by Camilla Gibb 
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