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Han in the Upper Left: A Brief History of Korean Americans in the Pacific Northwest by Korean American Historical Society 9781634059541
RRP: £8.99£7.70This in-depth look at one of the fastest-growing immigrant groups in the Pacific Northwest provides a much-needed overview of the Korean American experience as well as moving personal anecdotes. Graphs offer information about Korean immigration patterns... -
Four Gandhari Samyuktagama Sutras: Senior Kharosthi Fragment 5 by Andrew Glass 9780295987729
RRP: £82.00£71.66Four Gandhari Samyuktagama Sutras continues the study of Gandharan Buddhist texts and is the first investigation of a scroll from the Senior Collection of Kharosthi manuscripts. The Senior Collection, which is named after its owner, Robert Senior... -
Biotic Borders: Transpacific Plant and Insect Migration and the Rise of Anti-Asian Racism in America, 1890-1950 by Jeannie N. Shinozuka 9780226817293
RRP: £76.00£72.86A rich and eye-opening history of the mutual constitution of race and species in modern America. In the late nineteenth century, increasing traffic of transpacific plants, insects, and peoples raised fears of a "biological yellow peril" when... -
Nikkei in the Pacific Northwest: Japanese Americans and Japanese Canadians in the Twentieth Century by Louis Fiset 9780295984612
£27.68Challenging the notion that Nikkei individuals before and during World War II were helpless pawns manipulated by forces beyond their control, the diverse essays in this rich collection focus on the theme of resistance within Japanese American and... -
Stories Old and New: A Ming Dynasty Collection by Feng Menglong
RRP: £91.00£79.92Stories Old and New is the first complete translation of Feng Menglong’s Gujin xiaoshuo (also known as Yushi mingyan, Illustrious Words to Instruct the World), a collection of 40 short stories first published in 1620 in China. This is considered the best... -
Imagining Asia in the Americas by Zelideth María Rivas
RRP: £31.00£27.36For centuries, Asian immigrants have been making vital contributions to the cultures of North and South America. Yet in many of these countries, Asians are commonly viewed as undifferentiated racial “others,” lumped together as chinos regardless of... -
New Cosmopolitanisms: South Asians in the US by Gita Rajan
£58.39This book offers an in-depth look at the ways in which technology, travel, and globalization have altered traditional patterns of immigration for South Asians who live and work in the United States, and explains how their popular cultural practices and... -
Doing What Had To Be Done by Soo-Young Chin
RRP: £26.99£23.32The first biography of an American-born Korean woman, Doing What Had to Be Done is, on the surface, the life story of Dora Yum Kim. But telling more than one woman's story, author Soo-Young Chin offers more than an unusual glimpse at the shaping of a... -
Eat a Bowl of Tea by Louis Chu
RRP: £19.99£13.84At the close of the Second World War, racist immigration laws trapped enclaves of old men in Chinatowns across the United States, preventing their wives or families from joining them. They took refuge from loneliness in the repartee and rivalries... -
Shopping at Giant Foods: Chinese American Supermarkets in Northern California by Alfred Yee
RRP: £23.99£20.84From the 1930s through the 1970s, Chinese American owned supermarkets located outside of Chinatown, catering to a non-Chinese clientele, and featuring mainstream American foods and other products and services rose to prominence and phenomenal success in... -
Hip Hop Desis: South Asian Americans, Blackness, and a Global Race Consciousness by Nitasha Tamar Sharma
RRP: £23.99£20.84Hip Hop Desis explores the aesthetics and politics of South Asian American (desi) hip hop artists. Nitasha Tamar Sharma argues that through their lives and lyrics, young "hip hop desis" express a global race consciousness that reflects both their sense... -
Chinese-Ness: The Meanings of Identity and the Nature of Belonging by Wing Young Huie
RRP: £29.95£20.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681340425Author Wing Young HuieFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Minnesota Historical Society PressPublisher Minnesota Historical Society... -
Imperial Citizens: Koreans and Race from Seoul to LA by Nadia Y. Kim
RRP: £23.99£20.84Asians 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... -
Unsettled Visions: Contemporary Asian American Artists and the Social Imaginary by Margo Machida
RRP: £23.99£21.84In Unsettled Visions, the activist, curator, and scholar Margo Machida presents a pioneering, in-depth exploration of contemporary Asian American visual art. Machida focuses on works produced during the watershed 1990s, when surging Asian immigration had... -
Managing Multicultural Lives: Asian American Professionals and the Challenge of Multiple Identities by Pawan Dhingra
£98.55How do people handle contrasting self-conceptions? Do they necessarily compartmentalize their personal lives from their professional lives? Do minority and immigrant groups, in particular, act "ethnic" at home, "American" at work,... -
The Force of Domesticity: Filipina Migrants and Globalization by Rhacel Salazar Parrenas
£89.88Taking as her subjects migrant Filipina domestic workers in Rome and Los Angeles, transnational migrant families in the Philippines, and Filipina migrant entertainers in Tokyo, Parrenas documents the social, cultural, and political pressures that... -
The Four Immigrants Manga: A Japanese Experience in San Francisco, 1904-1924 by Henry Kiyama 9781880656334
RRP: £14.99£11.66* Translator is well known Japan expert, with over 50K sales, incl. Manga! Manga! (Kodansha, 0870117521, 30,000 cps), America and the Four Japans (1-880656-06-X, 3,500 cps), and Dreamland Japan (1-880656-23-X, 9,000+ cps) both Stone Bridge Press *... -
Asian American History: A Very Short Introduction by Madeline Y. Hsu
RRP: £8.99£6.45Asians have migrated to North America for centuries, in search of opportunities and conveyed by increasingly dense, international circuits of trade, labor markets, and family networks. Drawn by the riches promised by the relatively undeveloped, but not... -
High-Tech Housewives: Indian IT Workers, Gendered Labor, and Transmigration by Amy Bhatt 9780295743554
RRP: £27.99£24.14Tech companies such as Google, Amazon, and Microsoft promote the free flow of data worldwide, while relying on foreign temporary IT workers to build, deliver, and support their products. However, even as IT companies use technology and commerce to... -
The Making Of A Premier: Zhao Ziyang's Provincial Career by David L Shambaugh
RRP: £39.99£35.06How did Zhao Ziyang rise through the provincial apparatus of the Chinese Communist Party to become premier in 1980? How did he develop the policies of economic reform in the provinces that have now become national policy? What does Zhao Ziyang's... -
Like Water: A Cultural History of Bruce Lee by Daryl Joji Maeda
RRP: £54.00£24.56Highlights Bruce Lee's influence beyond martial arts and film An Asian and Asian American icon of unimaginable stature and influence, Bruce Lee revolutionized the martial arts by combining influences drawn from around the world. Uncommonly determined,... -
Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation: On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans by David L. Eng 9781478001607
RRP: £20.99£18.37In Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation critic David L. Eng and psychotherapist Shinhee Han draw on case histories from the mid-1990s to the present to explore the social and psychic predicaments of Asian American young adults from Generation X to... -
Fashion and Beauty in the Time of Asia by S. Heijin Lee
RRP: £24.99£21.67How transnational modernity is taking shape in and in relation to Asia Fashion and Beauty in the Time of Asia considers the role of bodily aesthetics in the shaping of Asian modernities and the formation of the so-called "Asian Century." S. Heijin Lee,... -
Kokoro: An Intimate Portrait of Japanese Inner Life by Lafcadio Hearn
RRP: £12.99£9.10"The papers composing this volume treat of the inner rather than of the outer life of Japan, for which reason they have been grouped under the title Kokoro (heart). [This] word signifies also mind, in the emotional sense; spirit; courage; resolve;... -
Asian America: Chinese and Japanese in the United States since 1850 by Roger Daniels
RRP: £23.99£21.24In 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... -
The Chickencoop Chinaman and The Year of the Dragon: Two Plays by Frank Chin
RRP: £19.99£17.54When first produced in 1972 and 1974, these two plays created an enormous stir. Some critics condemned the playwright, others praised him. In susequent years his work has had a profound impact on a generation of young Asian American writers. With the... -
The Hypersexuality of Race: Performing Asian/American Women on Screen and Scene by Celine Parrenas Shimizu
RRP: £23.99£20.84In The Hypersexuality of Race, Celine Parrenas Shimizu urges a shift in thinking about sexualized depictions of Asian/American women in film, video, and theatrical productions. Shimizu advocates moving beyond denunciations of sexualized representations... -
The Chinese in America: A Narrative History by Iris Chang
RRP: £20.00£12.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142004173Author Iris ChangFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 437gDimensions(mm) 202mm * 133mm *... -
Ahmadiyya Islam and the Muslim Diaspora: Living at the End of Days Marzia Balzani (New York University, Abu Dhabi) 9781032400730
RRP: £39.99£32.77This book is a study of the UK-based Ahmadiyya Muslim community in the context of the twentieth-century South Asian diaspora. Originating in late nineteenth-century Punjab, the Ahmadis are today a vibrant international religious movement; they are also a... -
Screening China's Soft Power by Paola Voci 9780367877552
RRP: £41.99£36.75Promoting China's cultural soft power by disseminating modern Chinese values is one of the policies of President Xi Jinping. Although, it is usually understood as a top-down initiative, implemented willingly or unwillingly by writers, filmmakers,... -
The Tropics and the Traveling Gaze: India, Landscape, and Science, 1800-1856 by David John Arnold
RRP: £27.99£24.14Offers a new interpretation of the history of colonial India and a critical contribution to the understanding of environmental history and the tropical world. Arnold considers the ways in which India's material environment became increasingly subject to... -
Chop Suey, USA: The Story of Chinese Food in America by Yong Chen 9780231168939
RRP: £20.00£15.29American diners began to flock to Chinese restaurants more than a century ago, making Chinese food the first mass-consumed cuisine in the United States. By 1980, it had become the country's most popular ethnic cuisine. Chop Suey, USA offers the first... -
Island X: Taiwanese Student Migrants, Campus Spies, and Cold War Activism by Wendy Cheng 9780295752051
RRP: £23.99£20.84Island X delves into the compelling political lives of Taiwanese migrants who came to the United States as students from the 1960s through the 1980s. Often depicted as compliant model minorities, many were in fact deeply political, shaped by Taiwan's... -
The Grave on the Wall by Brandon Shimoda
RRP: £12.99£8.63Winner of the 2020 PEN Open Book AwardBest of 2019: Nonfiction - Entropy MagazineA memoir and book of mourning, a grandson's attempt to reconcile his own uncontested citizenship with his grandfather's lifelong struggle.Award-winning poet Brandon Shimoda... -
Citizen 13660 by Mine Okubo
RRP: £15.99£15.02Mine Okubo was one of over one hundred thousand people of Japanese descent - nearly two-thirds of whom were American citizens - who were forced into "protective custody" shortly after Pearl Harbor. Citizen 13660, Okubo's graphic memoir of life in... -
Stories Old and New: A Ming Dynasty Collection by Menglong Feng
RRP: £39.00£35.12Stories Old and New is the first complete translation of Feng Menglong's Gujin xiaoshuo (also known as Yushi mingyan, Illustrious Words to Instruct the World), a collection of 40 short stories first published in 1620 in China. This is considered the best... -
Shanghai Love: Courtesans, Intellectuals, and Entertainment Culture, 1850-1910 by Catherine Yeh
RRP: £62.00£54.56In this fascinating book, Catherine Yeh explores the Shanghai entertainment world at the close of the Qing dynasty. Established in the 1850s outside of the old walled city, the Shanghai Foreign Settlements were administered by Westerners and so were not... -
American Chinatown by Bonnie Tsui 9781416557241
RRP: £15.00£10.36Synopsis coming soon.......Book InformationISBN 9781416557241Author Bonnie TsuiFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Simon Spotlight EntertainmentPublisher Simon & Schuster -
Advanced Reader of Contemporary Chinese Short Stories: Reflections on Humanity by Ying Wang
RRP: £32.00£28.07This reader for advanced students of Chinese presents ten post-1990 short stories by prominent writers such as Su Tong and Yu Hua, whose novels Raise the Red Lantern and To Live served as the basis for internationally acclaimed films. With its... -
The Pacific Muse: Exotic Femininity and the Colonial Pacific by Patty O'Brien 9780295987651
RRP: £24.99£24.54The Pacific Muse offers a fresh perspective on a seductively familiar topic: the colonial stereotype of the exotic Pacific island woman. By tracing the evolution of female primitivism from Western antiquity to twentieth-century Hollywood images, the book...