Asian & Asian American

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639362684Author Teresa LimFormat HardbackPage Count 356Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 161mm * 30mm

A mold-breaking memoir of Asian American identity, political activism, community, and purpose. Not Yo' Butterfly is the intimate and unflinching life story of Nobuko Miyamoto-artist, activist, and mother. Beginning with the harrowing early years of her...

Through family interviews, original photographs, and national records, Beatrice Loftus McKenzie traces the many lives of a resilient multigenerational family whose experiences parallel the complicated relationship between America and China in the...

A mold-breaking memoir of Asian American identity, political activism, community, and purpose. Not Yo' Butterfly is the intimate and unflinching life story of Nobuko Miyamoto-artist, activist, and mother. Beginning with the harrowing early years of her...

William Gee Wong was born in Oakland, California’s Chinatown in 1941, the only son of his father, known as Pop. Pop was born in Guangdong Province, China and emigrated to Oakland as a teenager during the Chinese Exclusion era in 1912. He entered the U.S...

Not long after the attack on Pearl Harbor that drew the United States into World War II, the federal government rounded up more than a hundred thousand people of Japanese descent-both immigrants and native-born citizens-and began one of the most horrific...

As Equals: The Oei Women of Java is the story of Hui-Lan, Ida and Lucy, daughters and wife of Java's Sugar King and Asia's richest man at the turn of the 20th century — Oei Tiong Ham. Born at the height of Sinophobic fears, Western imperialism and the...

An informative and well-researched book, The King's Chinese provides a superb account of the Straits British Chinese, a distinct migrant society from various districts of South China in the late 19th Century. Daryl Yeap gives us a fascinating story of...

NEW IN PAPERBACK! With humor and grace, the memoir of a first-generation Chinese American in New York City. Our Laundry, Our Town is a memoir that decodes and processes the fractured urban oracle bones of Alvin Eng’s upbringing in Flushing, Queens, in...

The only script you can really write in life is your own. What if achieving your professional dreams comes at too high a personal cost? That’s what screenwriter Patty Lin started to ask herself after years in the cutthroat TV industry. One minute she...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781773860749Author Lily ChowFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint Caitlin PressPublisher Caitlin PressWeight(grams) 336gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 13mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953103154Author Jillian MarshallFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Three Rooms PressPublisher Three Rooms Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781531500368Author Alvin EngFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Fordham University PressPublisher Fordham University PressWeight(grams) 127g

V.S. Srinivasa Sastri was a celebrated Indian politician and diplomat in the early twentieth century. Despite being hailed as the ‘very voice of international conscience’, he is now a largely forgotten figure. This book rehabilitates Sastri and offers a...

Born in South China before 1949, brought up and educated in Southeast Asia and Australia, and worked in Southeast, Australia and Hong Kong, Professor Yen has a unique personal experience in telling the fascinating stories of the encounter and clashes of...

From the 1950s through the 1970s, blue-collar Filipino Americans, or Pinoys, lived a hardscrabble existence. Immigrant parents endured blatant racism, sporadic violence, and poverty while their US-born children faced more subtle forms of racism, such as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984820389Author Cathy Park HongFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint One World BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 187gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

V.S. Srinivasa Sastri was a celebrated Indian politician and diplomat in the early twentieth century. Despite being hailed as the 'very voice of international conscience', he is now a largely forgotten figure. This book rehabilitates Sastri and offers...

2023 Mary Nickliss Prize in U.S. Women's and/or Gender History Winner The first biography of trailblazing legislator Patsy Takemoto Mink, best known as the legislative champion of Title IX "Every girl in Little League, every woman playing college...

In this wonderfully detailed narrative, Daryl Yeap brings us the fascinating story of Hui-lan, Ida and Lucy, daughters and wife of Asia's richest man at the turn of the 20th century - Oei Tiong-ham. Flying planes, managing Asia's richest estate and...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806542829Author Susan Tate AnkenyFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Citadel Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Citadel Press Inc.,U.S.

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No other Vietnamese family in modern time had such an intense involvement in high politics and public affairs as the Ngo-Dinhs. Through the tenure of President Ngo-Dinh Diem of the Republic of Vietnam (1955-1963), this family helped shape Vietnamese...

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The early 1900s introduced many European men to life in Siam and Malaya - what implications arose for local women? On reading Elephants, Tigers and Tappers, set in colonial Malaya, Jean Brewster was struck by Michael Thorp's words on the local women many...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635425437Author Marc PetitjeanFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Other Press LLCPublisher Other Press LLC

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645472230Author Benjamin BroseFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250886231Author Giaae KwonFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Castle Point BooksPublisher Castle Point BooksWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

A warm and poignant narrative about finding one's self amidst the grind of restaurant life, the cross-generational immigrant experience, and a daughter's attempts to connect with parents who have always been just out of reach.When she was three years...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807016770Author Jaclyn MoyerFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

Celebrating the Legacy of Strong Asian WomenThe Book of Awesome Asian Women illuminates the stories of powerful Asian women who have shaped history, providing inspiration and recognition to their incredible contributions across the globe.A Crucial...

A collection of poetry and prose that offers comfort, community, and belonging through stories of love, loss, change, and rebirth."I want to share the stories I kept silent, in the hope that I and those who read my book will feel freer from me doing so...

This book tells the story of Japanese Canadian activist Mary Kitagawa. In the aftermath of the Pearl Harbor bombing, Mary was one of roughly 22,000 Nikkei uprooted from their homes on the Pacific coast and forbidden to return to western British Columbia...

This book tells the story of Japanese Canadian activist Mary Kitagawa. In the aftermath of the Pearl Harbor bombing, Mary was one of roughly 22,000 Nikkei uprooted from their homes on the Pacific coast and forbidden to return to western British Columbia...

A haunting and beautiful memoir from a Cambodian refugee who lost her country and her family during Pol Pot's genocide in the 1970s but who finds hope by reclaiming the recipes she tasted in her mother's kitchen. With over 20 Khmer recipes included, Slow...