Asian & Asian American

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781479831920Author Judy Tzu-Chun WuFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint New York University PressPublisher New York University PressWeight(grams) 6g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789887554745Author David T K WongFormat PaperbackPage Count 522Imprint Blacksmith BooksPublisher Blacksmith BooksWeight(grams) 152g

Kavita Puri presents this postwar social history of British South Asians in their own words‘Epic and captivating’ The GuardianIn the 1950s, tens of thousands of migrants travelled to Britain from the Indian subcontinent. Many of them arrived with only £3...

In this stirring memoir, a preeminent politician and diplomat traces the transformation of the Republic of Singapore from a poor colony into an Asian powerhouseGrowing up in poverty in the 1950s, Kishore Mahbubani expected to become a common textile...

A memoiristic travelogue that illuminates the enduring legacy of the mass incarceration of Japanese immigrants and Japanese Americans during World War II. In a series of reflective, multi-layered, and sometimes multi-voiced essays, poet Brandon Shimoda...

A lingering, long-haul collection of writing about sailing for readers of Julietta Singh and Kyo Maclear.Humans have sailed for centuries, but as poet Phoebe Wang discovers, when you step on a boat for the first time, the learning curve is steep...

A touching, humorous account of the author's cultural reckoning with his Korean heritage and hidden family secrets.A surprising diagnosis of PTSD led Dave Gibbons to look to his past for clues to explain the unexpected result.Born to an American soldier...