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Asian American Studies Now: A Critical Reader by Jean Yu-Wen Shen Wu
RRP: $97.50$85.08Asian American Studies Now truly represents the enormous changes occurring in Asian American communities and the world, changes that require a reconsideration of how the interdisciplinary field of Asian American studies is defined and taught. This... -
Little Manila Is in the Heart: The Making of the Filipina/o American Community in Stockton, California by Dawn Bohulano Mabalon
RRP: $54.58$49.43In the early twentieth century-not long after 1898, when the United States claimed the Philippines as an American colony-Filipinas/os became a vital part of the agricultural economy of California's fertile San Joaquin Delta. In downtown Stockton, they... -
Return Of The Dragon: China's Wounded Nationalism by Maria H Chang
RRP: $263.25$228.70As Maoism recedes, and especially after the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, Beijing has increasingly turned to patriotic nationalism for its ideological inspiration and legitimation. Return of the Dragon begins with a discussion of the definitions,... -
Trans-Pacific Mobilities: The Chinese and Canada by Lloyd L. Wong
RRP: $157.95$129.64This collection will appeal to scholars and students of sociology, social geography, anthropology, history, ethnic studies, and Asia-Pacific studies.Book InformationISBN 9780774833790Author Lloyd L. WongFormat HardbackPage Count 376Imprint University of... -
Ceylon by Lord Holden
RRP: $234.00$202.04Published in 1939, this book provides a comprehensive observation of Ceylon and the Ceylonese people. Covering topics including the rest-house; the Lord Buddha; the Lost cities; Sigiriya, Buddhist temples and the Jungle, the book considers the human... -
Corporate Links And Foreign Direct Investment In Asia And The Pacific by Eduard K.y. Chen
RRP: $169.63$147.30A major force in East Asia's remarkable economic growth and industrial transformation, foreign direct investment has been growing at 14?15 percent annually in Southeast Asia and China over the last decade. This timely volume examines the impact of... -
Japan Through American Eyes: The Journal Of Francis Hall, 1859-1866 by Fred G Notehelfer
RRP: $263.25$228.70This abridgement of the unique journal of Francis Hall, America's leading business pioneer in nineteenth-century Japan, offers a remarkable view of the period leading to the Meiji Restoration. An upstate New York book dealer, Hall went to Japan in 1859... -
Voices from the Camps: Vietnamese Children Seeking Asylum by James M. Freeman
$198.67Wave after wave of political and economic refugees poured out of Vietnam beginning in the late 1970s, overwhelming the resources available to receive them. Squalid conditions prevailed in detention centers and camps in Hong Kong and throughout Southeast... -
Contentious Journalism and the Internet: Towards Democratic Discourse in Malaysia and Singapore by Cherian George
RRP: $50.68$45.36The Internet has been used to democratize public discourse in Malaysia and Singapore, two countries in the zone between liberal democracies and authoritarian states. Web sites that have emerged on the margins of the political system engage in a... -
Power Interconnection in Southeast Asia by Anton Finenko
RRP: $38.98$34.50Providing an analysis of multilateral power markets, this book examines power interconnection in Southeast Asia, especially among the ASEAN countries. It uses evolutionary experience of electricity interconnection and trade in three international markets... -
Toward a Framework for Vietnamese American Studies: History, Community, and Memory by Linda Ho Peché
RRP: $243.75$206.86The large number of Vietnamese refugees that resettled in the United States since the fall of Saigon have become America’s fastest growing immigrant group. Toward a Framework for Vietnamese American Studies traces the ideologies, networks, and cultural... -
Cold War in the High Himalayas: The USA, China and South Asia in the 1950s by S. Mahmud Ali
RRP: $72.13$63.43This text examines elite-insecurity perceptions in India, Pakistan and the USA in the 1950s. The book highlights the consequent linkages in alliance-building efforts and the subsequent triangular covert collaboration against Communist China, especially... -
Beyond the City and the Bridge: East Asian Immigration in a New Jersey Suburb by Noriko Matsumoto
RRP: $261.30$223.33In recent decades, the American suburbs have become an important site for immigrant settlement. Beyond the City and the Bridge presents a case study of Fort Lee, Bergen County, on the west side of the George Washington Bridge connecting Manhattan and New... -
The Koreans: Contemporary Politics And Society, Third Edition by Donald S Macdonald
RRP: $263.25$228.70In this new edition, Donald Clark has thoroughly revised and updated Donald Macdonald's widely praised introduction to Korea, describing and assessing the volatile and dramatic developments on the peninsula over the last five years. Remaining true to... -
Civil Society, Social Change, and a New Popular Education in Russia by W. John Morgan
RRP: $77.98$68.37Civil Society, Social Change and a New Popular Education in Russia is a detailed account of contemporary issues that draws upon recent survey research conducted by the Institute of Sociology, Russian Academy of Sciences, as well as from secondary... -
Contemporary Asian American Communities: Intersections And Divergences by Linda Trinh Vo
RRP: $60.45$52.34Surveying the new contours of Asian AmericaBook InformationISBN 9781566399388Author Linda Trinh VoFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Temple University Press,U.S.Publisher Temple University Press,U.S. -
The Unsung Great: Stories of Extraordinary Japanese Americans by Greg Robinson
RRP: $183.30$156.20From a title-winning boxer in Louisiana to a Broadway baritone in New York, Japanese Americans have long belied their popular representation as “quiet Americans.” Showcasing the lives and achievements of relatively unknown but remarkable people in Nikkei... -
From Honolulu to Brooklyn: Running the American Empire's Base Paths with Buck Lai and the Travelers from Hawai'i by Joel S. Franks
RRP: $66.30$57.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781978829251Author Joel S. FranksFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint Rutgers University PressPublisher Rutgers University PressWeight(grams) 156g -
China's Quest for Innovation: Institutions and Ecosystems by Shuanping Dai
RRP: $77.98$68.37The transition from a catching-up style economy to an innovation-driven economy poses a major challenge for China. This book examines the major issues at stake, outlines developments in crucial business fields and industries, and discusses the roles of... -
Migrant Returns: Manila, Development, and Transnational Connectivity by Eric J. Pido
RRP: $44.83$38.22In Migrant Returns Eric J. Pido examines the complicated relationship among the Philippine economy, Manila's urban development, and balikbayans-Filipino migrants visiting or returning to their homeland-to reconceptualize migration as a process of... -
Emerging Adulthood in Hong Kong: Social Forces and Civic Engagement by Chau-kiu Cheung
RRP: $93.58$81.53How emerging adults, broadly referring to those aged from 18 to 29 years old, fare in civic engagement, as compared with other adults is the focus of the present work. The work takes civic engagement to comprise prosociality in civil society, sustaining... -
City States In The Global Economy: Industrial Restructuring In Hong Kong And Singapore by Stephen Wing-kai Chiu
RRP: $263.25$228.70This is the first serious comparative study of two dynamic Asian city-states that are emerging as key regional?indeed global?cities. Providing both historical comparisons and analyses of contemporary issues, the authors consider the patterns, strategies,... -
Micro Media Industries: Hmong American Media Innovation in the Diaspora by Lori Kido Lopez
RRP: $54.58$46.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781978823341Author Lori Kido LopezFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Rutgers University PressPublisher Rutgers University Press -
Religions of Old Korea by Charles Allen Clark
RRP: $58.48$51.95This book, first published in 1932, was written by a Western expert on Korea, and was the first to thoroughly investigate and document the old religious practices of Korea. No book like this could be written again from original sources, for all of the... -
Constitutional Remedies in Asia by Po Jen Yap
RRP: $77.98$68.37Many jurisdictions in Asia have vested their courts with the power of constitutional review. Traditionally, these courts would invalidate an impugned law to the extent of its inconsistency with the constitution. In common law systems, such an... -
Transnational Cultural Flow from Home: Korean Community in Greater New York by Pyong Gap Min
RRP: $74.10$63.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781978827141Author Pyong Gap MinFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint Rutgers University PressPublisher Rutgers University PressWeight(grams) 156g -
International Entrepreneurship: A Comparative Analysis by Susan Freeman
RRP: $263.25$228.70This book explores the importance of entrepreneurs in driving economic growth as the world economy grows and becomes more integrated and more challenging. It examines the situation in both advanced and developing countries and shows how the... -
Cultivating Connections: The Making of Chinese Prairie Canada by Alison R. Marshall
RRP: $173.55$148.02This book will interest Canadian historians, particularly those studying the Canadian Prairies or Chinese Canadian migration and settlement.Book InformationISBN 9780774828000Author Alison R. MarshallFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint University of... -
The Communist Road To Power In Vietnam: Second Edition by William J Duiker
RRP: $263.25$228.70In this new edition of his widely acclaimed study, William Duiker has revised and updated his analysis of the Communist movement in Vietnam from its formation in 1930 to the dilemmas facing its leadership in the post?Cold War era. Making use of newly... -
Postcolonial Configurations: Dictatorship, the Racial Cold War, and Filipino America by Josen Masangkay Diaz
RRP: $42.88$36.64In Postcolonial Configurations Josen Masangkay Diaz examines the making of Filipino America through the dynamics of dictatorship, coloniality, and subjectivity. Diaz explores how the Ferdinand Marcos dictatorship and US policies during the Cold War that... -
What's A Peasant To Do? Village Becoming Town In Southern China by Greg Guldin
RRP: $263.25$229.48Since China entered the post-Mao "Reform Era" in the late 1970s and early 1980s, the Chinese economy has taken off as few economies ever have. Labor migration, rural enterprises, rising production, and globalization have all combined to end the... -
Biotic Borders: Transpacific Plant and Insect Migration and the Rise of Anti-Asian Racism in America, 1890-1950 by Jeannie N Shinozuka
RRP: $46.80$44.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226817330Author Jeannie N ShinozukaFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint University of Chicago PressPublisher University of Chicago PressWeight(grams)... -
Lured by the American Dream: Filipino Servants in the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard, 1952-1970 by P. James Paligutan
RRP: $193.05$164.37Starting in 1952, the United States Navy and Coast Guard actively recruited Filipino men to serve as stewards--domestic servants for officers. Oral histories and detailed archival research inform P. James Paligutan's story of the critical role played by... -
Filipinx American Studies: Reckoning, Reclamation, Transformation by Rick Bonus
RRP: $58.48$50.68.Book InformationISBN 9780823299577Author Rick BonusFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Fordham University PressPublisher Fordham University PressWeight(grams) 152g -
Love Stories in China: The Politics of Intimacy in the Twenty-First Century by Wanning Sun
RRP: $77.98$68.37This book explores how political, economic, social, cultural and technological forces are (re)shaping the meanings of love and intimacy in China's public culture. It focuses on a range of cultural and media forms including literature, film, television,... -
Japanese Prostitutes in the North American West, 1887-1920 by Kazuhiro Oharazeki
RRP: $183.30$156.20This compelling study of a previously overlooked vice industry explores the larger structural forces that led to the growth of prostitution in Japan, the Pacific region, and the North American West at the turn of the twentieth century. Combining very... -
A Principled Stand: The Story of Hirabayashi v. United States by Gordon K. Hirabayashi
RRP: $58.48$26.93In 1943, University of Washington student Gordon Hirabayashi defied the curfew and mass removal of Japanese Americans on the West Coast, and was subsequently convicted and imprisoned as a result. In A Principled Stand, Gordon's brother James and nephew... -
The Interweaving of Rituals: Funerals in the Cultural Exchange between China and Europe by Nicolas Standaert
RRP: $54.58$46.14The death of the Italian Jesuit Matteo Ricci in China in 1610 was the occasion for demonstrations of European rituals appropriate for a Catholic priest and also of Chinese rituals appropriate to the country hosting the Jesuit community. Rather than... -
Phoenix Eyes and Other Stories by Russell Charles Leong
$45.05Russell Charles Leong shows an astonishing range in this new collection of stories. From struggling war refugees to monks, intellectuals to sex workers, his characters are both linked and separated by their experiences as modern Asians and Asian... -
Asian Diasporas: Wsq Vol 47, Numbers 1 & 2 by Yadira Perez Hazel
RRP: $35.08$29.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781936932580Author Yadira Perez HazelFormat PaperbackPage Count 350Imprint Feminist Press at The City University of New YorkPublisher Feminist Press at The...