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Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
RRP: £9.99£6.87'A beautiful, intimate and hunger-inducing portrait of grief, race, heritage and coming to know yourself through what you eat.' - Stylist 'Books of the Year''As good as everyone says it is and, yes, it will have you in tears. An essential read for... -
Stay True: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Memoir by Hua Hsu 9781035036370
RRP: £10.99£7.51A deeply moving memoir about growing up in the 90s, written in the wake of the senseless killing of a beloved friend.Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Memoir.'A quiet, occasionally hilarious, ultimately devastating book . . . the most moving and memorable... -
Where the Ashes Are: The Odyssey of a Vietnamese Family by Nguyen Qui Duc 9780803226982
RRP: £15.99£13.14In 1968 Nguyen Qui Duc was nine years old, his father was a high-ranking civil servant in the South Vietnamese government, and his mother was a school principal. Then the Viet Cong launched their Tet offensive, and the Nguyen family's comfortable life... -
The Book of Tea by Okakura Kakuzo 9780983610601
RRP: £20.99£13.27The original 1906 edition of The Book of Tea is one of the classic texts found on the desks of artists, poets, teaists and Zen Buddhists around the world. The book has been re-designed and expanded for a contemporary audience.You will discover the... -
Minor Feelings: A Reckoning on Race and the Asian Condition by Cathy Park Hong
RRP: £9.99£7.11WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR AUTOBIOGRAPHY 2021 FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NON-FICTION 2021 A New York Times Top Book of 2020 Chosen as a Guardian Book of 2020 A BBC Culture Best Books of 2020 Nominated... -
Surface Relations: Queer Forms of Asian American Inscrutability by Vivian L. Huang
RRP: £19.99£17.54In Surface Relations Vivian L. Huang traces how Asian and Asian American artists have strategically reworked the pernicious stereotype of inscrutability as a dynamic antiracist, feminist, and queer form of resistance. Following inscrutability in... -
Here, There, and Elsewhere: The Making of Immigrant Identities in a Globalized World by Tahseen Shams
RRP: £21.99£19.19Challenging the commonly held perception that immigrants' lives are shaped exclusively by their sending and receiving countries, Here, There, and Elsewhere breaks new ground by showing how immigrants are vectors of globalization who both produce and... -
Korea: The Impossible Country: South Korea's Amazing Rise from the Ashes: The Inside Story of an Economic, Political and Cultural Phenomenon Daniel Tudor 9780804846394
RRP: £14.99£9.80Daniel Tudor covers all the important issues, yet does not simply tell the more familiar stories, but looks deeper and wider to give the full story of Korea today. Martin Uden, Former British Ambassador to South Korea. In just fifty years, South Korea... -
Starry Field: A Memoir of Lost History by Margaret Juhae Lee 9781685890933
RRP: £30.00£19.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781685890933Author Margaret Juhae LeeFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House Publishing -
The Japanese Mind: Understanding Contemporary Japanese Culture Roger J. Davies 9780804832953
RRP: £14.99£9.80In The Japanese Mind, Roger Davies offers Westerners an invaluable key to the unique aspects of Japanese culture.Readers of this book will gain a clear understanding of what makes the Japanese, and their society, tick. Among the topics explored: aimai... -
Reading Romans with Eastern Eyes: Honor and Shame in Paul's Message and Mission by Jackson W. 9780830852239
RRP: £22.99£19.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830852239Author Jackson W.Format PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint IVP AcademicPublisher IVP AcademicWeight(grams) 342gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 153mm * 18mm -
Outside the Paint: When Basketball Ruled at the Chinese Playground by Kathleen S. Yep
RRP: £20.99£18.37Breaking out of Chinatown by shooting and dribblingBreaking out of Chinatown by shooting and dribblingAbout the AuthorKathleen S. Yep is Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies and Sociology at Pitzer College of the Claremont Colleges.Reviews"This... -
North Korea Confidential: Private Markets, Fashion Trends, Prison Camps, Dissenters and Defectors Daniel Tudor 9780804852265
RRP: £13.99£9.20What is life in North Korea really like?This fascinating book by celebrated journalists Daniel Tudor and James Pearson explores that very question. The authors interview experts and tap a broad variety of sources to provide a startling insider's view of... -
The Other One Percent: Indians in America by Sanjoy Chakravorty 9780190050771
RRP: £25.99£21.99One of the most remarkable stories of immigration in the last half century is that of Indians to the United States. People of Indian origin make up a little over one percent of the American population now, up from barely half a percent at the turn of the... -
Politics of East Asian Free Trade Agreements: Unveiling the Asymmetry between Korea and Japan by Byung-il Choi
RRP: £37.99£21.31This textbook explains the politics of free trade agreements in Japan and South Korea.Examining free trade agreements in Japan and South Korea since the late 1990s, Choi and Oh analyze the role of institutions, political leaders, sectoral interests, and... -
Servitors of Empire: Studies in the Dark Side of Asian America by Darrell Y. Hamamoto 9781937584863
RRP: £17.95£13.01Forcing a fundamental rethinking of the Asian American elite, many of whom have attained top positions in business, government, academia, sciences, and the arts, this book will be certain to generate a good deal of controversy and honest discussion... -
Lived Refuge: Gratitude, Resentment, Resilience by Vinh Nguyen 9780520397262
RRP: £30.00£23.29A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In a world increasingly shaped by displacement and migration, refuge is both a... -
Framed by War: Korean Children and Women at the Crossroads of US Empire by Susie Woo
RRP: £24.99£21.67An intimate portrait of the postwar lives of Korean children and women Korean children and women are the forgotten population of a forgotten war. Yet during and after the Korean War, they were central to the projection of US military, cultural, and... -
Sea Change: An Atlas of Islands in a Rising Ocean by Christina Gerhardt
RRP: £30.00£24.29"A stunning atlas of the present and future."—Rebecca Solnit, author of several books including Infinite Cities: A Trilogy of Atlases—San Francisco, New Orleans, New York "An impassioned plea to save what remains of these remarkable island communities... -
The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010 by Lucille Clifton 9781934414903
RRP: £24.99£17.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Hurston/Wright LEGACY Award (Poetry) 2013.Book InformationISBN 9781934414903Author Lucille CliftonFormat HardbackPage Count 720Imprint BOA Editions,... -
The Culture Trap: Ethnic Expectations and Unequal Schooling for Black Youth by Derron Wallace 9780197531471
RRP: £20.99£17.94In The Culture Trap, Derron Wallace argues that the overreliance on culture to explain Black students' achievement and behavior in schools is a trap that undermines the historical factors and institutional processes that shape how Black students... -
Fashion History: A Global View Linda Welters (University of Rhode Island, USA) 9781350105690
RRP: £26.99£22.00Fashion History: A Global View proposes a new perspective on fashion history. Arguing that fashion has occurred in cultures beyond the West throughout history, this groundbreaking book explores the geographic places and historical spaces that have been... -
Refashioning Race: How Global Cosmetic Surgery Crafts New Beauty Standards by Alka Vaid Menon 9780520386723
RRP: £25.00£19.59Cosmetic surgery was once associated with a one-size-fits-all approach, modifying patients to conform to a single standard of beauty. As this surgery has become more accessible worldwide, changing beauty trends have led to a proliferation of beauty... -
Korean Mind: Understanding Contemporary Korean Culture Boye Lafayette De Mente 9780804848152
RRP: £13.99£9.20Today, South Korea as an economic, technological, and entertainment superpower. How, as a country, did they rebound from war, poverty and political unrest? And how can that success be replicated in other cultures? These answers can in fact be found in... -
Asian American Sexual Politics: The Construction of Race, Gender, and Sexuality by Rosalind S. Chou 9781442209251
RRP: £35.00£30.95Asian American Sexual Politics explores the topics of beauty, self-esteem, and sexual attraction among Asian Americans. The book draws on sixty in-depth interviews to show how constructions of Asian American gender and sexuality tend to reinforce the... -
Lord Salisbury and Nationality in the East: Viewing Imperialism in its Proper Perspective Shih-tsung Wang 9781032092218
RRP: £39.99£35.06This study explains how Salisbury viewed cultural conflicts between the East and the West, how he treated Oriental nationality and nationalist aspirations in British dominions in the East, and how he directed British policy in the Eastern world in a time... -
Asian Girls are Going Places: How to Navigate the World as an Asian Woman Today Michelle Law 9781741177121
RRP: £14.99£10.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781741177121Author Michelle LawFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Hardie Grant ExplorePublisher Hardie Grant Explore -
Techno-Orientalism: Imagining Asia in Speculative Fiction, History, and Media by Betsy Huang 9780813570631
RRP: £36.00£28.34What will the future look like? To judge from many speculative fiction films and books, from Blade Runner to Cloud Atlas, the future will be full of cities that resemble Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Shanghai, and it will be populated mainly by cold, unfeeling... -
Ornamentalism by Anne Anlin Cheng
RRP: £20.99£17.94Focusing on the cultural and philosophic conflation between the "oriental" and the "ornamental," Ornamentalism offers an original and sustained theory about Asiatic femininity in western culture. This study pushes our vocabulary about the woman of color... -
Social Sciences: The Big Issues Kath Woodward (The Open University, UK) 9780415824095
£40.09The social sciences are about people and the relationships between individuals and the social and material world we live in. They are about the social structures which shape - and are shaped by - social forces such as ethnicity, race, gender, sexuality... -
The Making of Asian America: A History by Erika Lee
RRP: £16.99£14.49A "comprehensive...fascinating" (The New York Times Book Review) history of Asian Americans and their role in American life, by one of the nation's preeminent scholars on the subject, with a new afterword about the recent hate crimes against Asian... -
Tastes Like War: A Memoir by Grace M Cho
RRP: £12.99£8.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for National Book Awards (Nonfiction) 2021.Book InformationISBN 9781952177941Author Grace M. ChoFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Feminist Press at The City... -
North Korea Confidential: Private Markets, Fashion Trends, Prison Camps, Dissenters and Defectors by Daniel Tudor 9780804844581
RRP: £16.99£13.79**Named one of the best books of 2015 by The Economist** Private Markets, Fashion Trends, Prison Camps, Dissenters and Defectors.North Korea is one of the most troubled societies on earth. The country's 24 million people live under a violent... -
Asian American Histories of the United States by Catherine Ceniza Choy
RRP: £25.00£16.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807050798Author Catherine Ceniza ChoyFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press -
Impounded: Dorothea Lange and the Censored Images of Japanese American Internment by Dorothea Lange
RRP: £15.99£14.22Censored by the U.S. Army, Dorothea Lange's unseen photographs are the extraordinary photographic record of the Japanese American internment saga. This indelible work of visual and social history confirms Dorothea Lange's stature as one of the twentieth... -
My Life with Things: The Consumer Diaries by Elizabeth Chin 9780822361367
RRP: £20.99£18.37Unconventional and provocative, My Life with Things is Elizabeth Chin's meditation on her relationship with consumer goods and a critical statement on the politics and method of anthropology. Chin centers the book on diary entries that focus on everyday... -
Unsettled: Cambodian Refugees in the New York City Hyperghetto by Eric Tang
RRP: £19.99£17.54After surviving the Khmer Rouge genocide, followed by years of confinement to international refugee camps, as many as 10,000 Southeast Asian refugees arrived in the Bronx during the 1980s and '90s. Unsettled chronicles the unfinished odyssey of Bronx... -
The Paradox of Myanmar's Regime Change Roger Huang 9781032400112
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book analyzes Myanmar's contemporary political history, arguing that Myanmar's so-called "democratization" has always been a calculated regime transition, planned by the military, with every intention that the military to remain the key permanent... -
Stay True: A Memoir by Hua Hsu 9780385547772
RRP: £26.00£15.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Pulitzer Prize 2023 and The National Book Critics Circle Award - Autobiography 2022. Long-listed for Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction 2023.Book... -
Wives, Husbands, and Lovers: Marriage and Sexuality in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Urban China by Deborah S. Davis
RRP: £23.99£20.84What is the state of intimate romantic relationships and marriage in urban China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan? Since the 1980's, the character of intimate life in these urban settings has changed dramatically. While many speculate about the 21st century as...