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Reimagining Nation and Nationalism in Multicultural East Asia by Sungmoon Kim 9780367272951
RRP: $88.18$77.18Since the late 1980s, many East Asian countries have become more multicultural, a process marked by increased democracy and pluralism despite the continuing influence of nationalism, which has forced these countries in the region to re-envision their... -
The Hungry Season: A Journey of War, Love, and Survival by Lisa M Hamilton 9780316415897
RRP: $63.00$48.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316415897Author Lisa M HamiltonFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Little Brown and CompanyPublisher Little Brown and CompanyWeight(grams)... -
Unbecoming Modern: Colonialism, Modernity, Colonial Modernities Saurabh Dube 9781032653709
RRP: $83.98$73.63In this volume well-known scholars from India and Latin America - Enrique Dussel, Madhu Dubey, Walter D. Mignolo, and Sudipta Sen, to name a few - discuss the concepts of modernity and colonialism and describe how the two relate to each other. This... -
Whiter: Asian American Women on Skin Color and Colorism by Nikki Khanna
RRP: $41.98$36.83Heartfelt personal accounts from Asian American women on their experiences with skin color bias, from being labeled "too dark" to becoming empowered to challenge beauty standards "I have a vivid memory of standing in my grandmother's kitchen, where, by... -
Asian Americans and the Spirit of Racial Capitalism by Jonathan Tran
RRP: $58.78$49.58Any serious consideration of Asian American life forces us to reframe the way we talk about racism and antiracism. There are two contemporary approaches to antiracist theory and practice. The first emphasizes racial identity to the exclusion of political... -
Civil Unrest and Governance in Hong Kong: Law and Order from Historical and Cultural Perspectives by Michael H.K. Ng
RRP: $92.38$80.72This book examines important social movements in Hong Kong from the perspectives of historical and cultural studies. Conventionally regarded as one of the most politically stable cities in Asia, Hong Kong has yet witnessed many demonstrations and... -
Japanese Culture Through Videogames by Rachael Hutchinson
RRP: $88.18$80.14Examining a wide range of Japanese videogames, including arcade fighting games, PC-based strategy games and console JRPGs, this book assesses their cultural significance and shows how gameplay and context can be analyzed together to understand videogames... -
Archipelago of Resettlement: Vietnamese Refugee Settlers and Decolonization across Guam and Israel-Palestine by Evyn Le Espiritu Gandhi
RRP: $63.00$48.91A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. What happens when refugees encounter Indigenous sovereignty struggles in the countries of their resettlement? From April to November 1975, the US military processed... -
Guest People: Hakka Identity in China and Abroad by Nicole Constable 9780295984872
RRP: $58.78$50.69Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295805450The essays in this volume analyze and compare what it means to be Hakka in a variety of sociocultural, political, geographical, and historical contexts including Malaysia, Hong Kong, Calcutta, Taiwan, and... -
Transpacific, Undisciplined by Lily Wong 9780295752754
$58.07Remaps the scope and methods of the transpacific approachAntinuclear coalitions centering Native survivance from Okinawa to the Dakotas to Micronesia, refugee figures and automated empathy in virtual reality, cross-strait erotic intimacy in Taiwanese... -
Korean Wild Geese Families: Gender, Family, Social, and Legal Dynamics of Middle-Class Asian Transnational Families in North America by Se Hwa Lee 9781498583497
RRP: $63.00$56.03Korean Wild Geese Families: Gender, Family, Social, and Legal Dynamics of Middle-Class Asian Transnational Families in North America explores the experiences of middle-class Korean transnational families, whose mothers and children migrate abroad for... -
Asian Tragedies in the Americas: Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Stories by Won K. Yoon 9781793628558
RRP: $63.00$56.03Asian Tragedies in the Americas: Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Stories explores the stories of nineteenth-century East Asian migrants throughout the Americas, tracing the asymmetrical international conditions which shaped migrants' experiences. Won K... -
Boat People, Swimmers and Refugees: Narratives of Asian Immigrants by Eleanor Herz Swent 9780786463398
$71.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780786463398Author Eleanor Herz SwentFormat PaperbackPage Count 233Imprint McFarland & Co IncPublisher McFarland & Co Inc -
Chinatown, Honolulu: Place, Race, and Empire by Nancy E. Riley 9780231196796
RRP: $63.00$57.52The Chinese experience in Hawai‘i has long been told as a story of inclusion and success. During the Cold War, the United States touted the Chinese community in Hawai‘i as an example of racial harmony and American opportunity, claiming that all ethnic... -
Intersectionality in the Muslim South Asian-American Middle Class: Lifestyle Consumption beyond Halal and Hijab by Farha Bano Ternikar 9781793649416
RRP: $63.00$56.03This book uses everyday consumption as a lens to analyze how South Asian Muslim American women negotiate racial, religious, gendered, classed, and often political identities. In particular, Ternikar examines the use of food and clothing as well as social... -
Asian American Women and Men: Labor, Laws, and Love by Yen Le Espiritu 9780742560611
RRP: $63.00$56.03Labor, laws, and love. Yen Le Espiritu explores how racist and gendered labor conditions and immigration laws have affected relations between and among Asian American women and men. Asian American Men and Women documents how the historical and... -
Younger-Generation Korean Experiences in the United States: Personal Narratives on Ethnic and Racial Identities by Pyong Gap Min 9780739195468
RRP: $96.60$84.74Younger-Generation Korean Experiences in the United States: Personal Narratives on Ethnic and Racial Identities compares the formation of the ethnic identities of two distinct cohorts of Korean Americans. Through personal essays, the book explores four... -
Koreans in North America: Their Experiences in the Twenty-First Century by Pyong Gap Min 9780739178133
RRP: $214.20$188.03This is the only anthology that covers several different topics related to Koreans' experiences in the U.S. and Canada. The topics covered are Koreans' immigration and settlement patterns, changes in Korean immigrants' business patterns, Korean immigrant... -
Uncle Swami: South Asians in America Today by Vijay Prashad 9781595589408
RRP: $35.60$22.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781595589408Author Vijay PrashadFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint The New PressPublisher The New PressWeight(grams) 209g -
Cebu by Peter Bacho 9780295971322
RRP: $33.58$29.90This remarkable first novel follows the struggle of Ben Lucero, a young Filipino American priest who must come to terms with his bifurcated notion of home as well as his own religious commitment. Ben's first visit to the city of Cebu in the Philippines,... -
Japanese American Internment during World War II: A History and Reference Guide by Wendy Ng 9780313313752
RRP: $94.50$94.46The internment of thousands of Japanese Americans during World War II is one of the most shameful episodes in American history. This history and reference guide will help students and other interested readers to understand the history of this action and... -
Surviving Twice: Amerasian Children of the Vietnam War by Trin Yarborough 9781574888645
RRP: $41.98$37.67Surviving Twice is the story of five Vietnamese Amerasians born during the Vietnam War to American soldiers and Vietnamese mothers. Unfortunately, they were not among the few thousand Amerasian children who came to the United States before the war's end... -
LA Rising: Korean Relations with Blacks and Latinos after Civil Unrest by Kyeyoung Park 9781498577076
RRP: $79.80$70.37In LA Rising: Korean Relations with Blacks and Latinos after Civil Unrest, Kyeyoung Park revisits the Los Angeles unrest of 1992 and the interethnic and racial tensions that emerged. She examines how structural inequality impacted relations among... -
Chinese Americans in the Heartland: Migration, Work, and Community by Huping Ling 9781978826281
RRP: $71.40$62.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781978826281Author Huping LingFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Rutgers University PressPublisher Rutgers University PressWeight(grams) 156g -
Staring Down the Tiger: Stories of Hmong American Women by Pa Der Vang 9781681341507
RRP: $37.70$23.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681341507Author Pa Der VangFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Minnesota Historical Society PressPublisher Minnesota Historical Society... -
Out of Place: The Lives of Korean Adoptee Immigrants by SunAh M Laybourn 9781479814770
RRP: $155.40$135.35How Korean adoptees went from being adoptable orphans to deportable immigrants Since the early 1950s, over 125,000 Korean children have been adopted in the United States, primarily by white families. Korean adoptees figure in twenty-five percent of US... -
Legacies of Struggle: Conflict and Cooperation in Korean American Politics by Angie Y. Chung 9780804756570
$197.40Since the 1992 Los Angeles riots, Koreatown has become increasingly fractured by intergenerational conflict, class polarization, and suburban flight. In the face of these struggles, community organizations can provide centralized resources and... -
Asian Diasporas: New Formations, New Conceptions by Rhacel Salazar Parrenas 9780804752435
$206.45Asian migrants are inextricably linked to contemporary debates concerning the nation-state, neoliberalism, globalization, and transnationalism. This volume brings together these streams of inquiry and proposes a synthetic approach to examine various... -
Asian America: Chinese and Japanese in the United States since 1850 by Roger Daniels 9780295998725
RRP: $182.70$166.57In this important and masterful synthesis of the Chinese and Japanese experience in America, historian Roger Daniels provides a new perspective on the significance of Asian immigration to the United States. Examining the period from the mid-nineteenth... -
On the Margins of Tibet: Cultural Survival on the Sino-Tibetan Frontier by Ashild Kolas 9780295996059
RRP: $191.10$165.73Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295804101 The state of Tibetan culture within contemporary China is a highly politicized topic on which reliable information is rare. But what is Tibetan culture and how should it be developed or preserved? The... -
Writing against Racial Injury: The Politics of Asian American Student Rhetoric by Haivan V. Hoang 9780822963622
$85.32Writing against Racial Injury recalls the story of Asian American student rhetoric at the site of language and literacy education in post-1960s California. What emerged in the Asian American movement was a recurrent theme in U.S. history: conflicts over... -
Imperial Citizens: Koreans and Race from Seoul to LA by Nadia Y. Kim 9780804758864
$225.10Asians and Latinos comprise the vast majority of contemporary immigrants to the United States, and their growing presence has complicated America's prevailing White-Black race hierarchy. Imperial Citizens uses a global framework to investigate how Asians... -
Consuming Citizenship: Children of Asian Immigrant Entrepreneurs by Lisa Sun-Hee Park 9780804752473
$196.54Consuming Citizenship investigates how Korean American and Chinese American children of entrepreneurial immigrants demonstrate their social citizenship as Americans through conspicuous consumption. The American immigrant entrepreneur has played a... -
Sweet Cakes, Long Journey: The Chinatowns of Portland, Oregon by Marie Rose Wong 9780295983837
$58.25Around the turn of the twentieth century, and for decades thereafter, Oregon had the second largest Chinese population in the United States. In terms of geographical coverage, Portland's two Chinatowns (one an urban area of brick commercial structures,... -
American Knees by Shawn Wong 9780295984964
RRP: $35.68$33.98Read about the movie, Americanese, based on Shawn Wong's book, at: http://www.americanesethemovie.comBook InformationISBN 9780295984964Author Shawn WongFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint University of Washington PressPublisher University of Washington... -
Asian Tragedies in the Americas: Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Stories by Won K. Yoon 9781793628534
RRP: $189.00$166.34Asian Tragedies in the Americas: Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Stories explores the stories of nineteenth-century East Asian migrants throughout the Americas, tracing the asymmetrical international conditions which shaped migrants' experiences. Won K... -
Korean Wild Geese Families: The Dynamics of Gender, Family, and Legality in Middle-Class Asian Transnational Families in North America by Seung Hyok Lee 9781498583473
RRP: $197.40$173.59Who are wild geese families? They are middle-class Korean transnational families whose mothers and children migrate abroad for children's education while fathers remain in Korea and economically support their families. While their transnational... -
LA Rising: Korean Relations with Blacks and Latinos after Civil Unrest by Kyeyoung Park 9781498577052
RRP: $226.80$198.89The Los Angeles unrest in 1992 proved devastating for the Korean community and the city. More significantly, the beating of Rodney King and the subsequent acquittal of the officers involved in the incident have become a touchstone for discussing race... -
Traditional Chinese Medicine in the United States: In Search of Spiritual Meaning and Ultimate Health by Emily S. Wu 9781498515108
RRP: $94.50$82.93Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) originated from the traditional medical system in the Chinese civilization, with influences from the Daoist and Chinese folk traditions in bodily cultivation and longevity techniques. In the past few decades, TCM has... -
Being Japanese American: A JA Sourcebook for Nikkei, Hapa . . . & Their Friends by Gil Asakawa 9781611720228
RRP: $29.38$27.57This entertaining compendium is a celebration of Japanese American history and heritage. While detailing favorite foods, customs, words, games, and holidays, it explores the painful history of immigration and WWII internment, with suggestions for...