Asian Reads
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Daughter of the Dragon: Anna May Wong's Rendezvous with American History
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Born into the steam and starch of a Chinese laundry, Anna May Wong (1905-1961) emerged from turn-of-the-century Los Angeles to become Old Hollywood...
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Listening with a Feminist Ear: Soundwork in Bombay Cinema
HardcoverOriginal price $75.00 - Original price $75.00Original price $75.00$95.99$95.99 - $95.99Current price $95.99| /Listening with a Feminist Ear is a study of the cultural politics and possibilities of sound in cinema. Eschewing ocularcentric and siloed discipli...
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Anna May Wong: From Laundryman's Daughter to Hollywood Legend
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Anna May Wong was the best known Chinese American actress during Hollywood’s golden age, a free spirit and embodiment of the flapper era much lik...
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Yu-Gi-Oh! The Art of the Cards
HardcoverOriginal price $39.99Original price $39.99 - Original price $39.99Original price $39.99Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /The Yu-Gi-Oh! TRADING CARD GAME allows kids, teenagers, and adults to relive the exciting duels that take place in the animated Yu-Gi-Oh! series....
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Japanese No Masks: With 300 Illustrations of Authentic Historical Examples
PaperbackOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /Combining elements of dance, drama, music and poetry, the performances of Japanese No theater are a highly stylized form of entertainment. Accomp...
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The Noh Theatre of Japan: With Complete Texts of 15 Classic Plays
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /This outstanding, scholarly work by an American-born authority on Chinese and Japanese art and literature, edited and translated by one of the mo...
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Hitchcock Annual: Volume 20
PaperbackOriginal price $26.00 - Original price $26.00Original price $26.00$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /Hitchcock Annual: Volume 20 contains essays on Hitchcock and C. A. Lejeune; Easy Virtue in context; the West coast setting of and cultural anxiety ...
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Our Laundry, Our Town: My Chinese American Life from Flushing to the Downtown Stage and Beyond
HardcoverOriginal price $66.00 - Original price $66.00Original price $66.00$81.99$81.99 - $81.99Current price $81.99| /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 proces...
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Making Asian American Film and Video: History, Institutions, Movements
PaperbackOriginal price $40.95 - Original price $40.95Original price $40.95$53.99$53.99 - $53.99Current price $53.99| /The words "Asian American film" might evoke a painfully earnest, low-budget documentary or family drama, destined to be seen only in small film fes...
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Transpacific Convergences: Race, Migration, and Japanese American Film Culture Before World War II
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /Despite the rise of the Hollywood system and hostility to Asian migrant communities in the early twentieth-century United States, Japanese American...
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Masked: The Life of Anna Leonowens, Schoolmistress at the Court of Siam
HardcoverOriginal price $28.95 - Original price $28.95Original price $28.95$35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /A brave British widow goes to Siam and--by dint of her principled and indomitable character--inspires that despotic nation to abolish slavery and a...
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Lilly: The First Latina Rockette
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /"When I stepped to the center mark and that spotlight hit me, I thought, Aqui estoy mami, aqui estoy!""When I stepped to the center mark and that s...
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Miyazakiworld: A Life in Art
PaperbackOriginal price $20.95Original price $20.95 - Original price $20.95Original price $20.95Current price $19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /The story of filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki's life and work, including his significant impact on Japan and the world--"an essential work in anime scholar...
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Our Laundry, Our Town: My Chinese American Life from Flushing to the Downtown Stage and Beyond
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /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 proces...
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Otaku Food!: Japanese Soul Food Inspired by Anime and Pop Culture
PaperbackOriginal price $22.95Original price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Experience the World of Japanese Pop Culture Through a Whole New Medium--Japanese Food!#1 New Release in Animated Humor & EntertainmentWith dis...
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Cinematic Guerrillas: Propaganda, Projectionists, and Audiences in Socialist China
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /How might cinema make revolution and mobilize the masses? In socialist China, the film exhibition network expanded from fewer than six hundred movi...
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Hidetaka Tenjin's Artistry of Macross: Macross Frontier Films, Macross Delta & Archives
HardcoverOriginal price $49.99Original price $49.99 - Original price $49.99Original price $49.99Current price $43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Since its small screen debut in 1982, Macross has remained one of most influential mecha anime of all time. Longtime franchise illustrator Hidetaka...
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The Last Emperor Revisited
HardcoverOriginal price $50.00Original price $50.00 - Original price $50.00Original price $50.00Current price $43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /A behind-the-scenes look into the filming of The Last Emperor through the photographs of Basil Pao. The Last Emperor Revisited is a true behind-the...
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Boys Love Media in Thailand: Celebrity, Fans, and Transnational Asian Queer Popular Culture
HardcoverOriginal price $115.00 - Original price $115.00Original price $115.00$141.99$141.99 - $141.99Current price $141.99| /Over the past several years, the Thai popular culture landscape has radically transformed due to the emergence of "Boys Love" (BL) soap operas whic...
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Political Moods: Film Melodrama and the Cold War in the Two Koreas Volume 4
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminos...
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Anime Through the Looking Glass: Treasures of Japanese Animation
HardcoverOriginal price $39.99Original price $39.99 - Original price $39.99Original price $39.99Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /The magic and mastery of anime springs to life in this gorgeous celebration of the genre that features more than 150 full-color frames. ANIME GOES ...
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Korean Film and History
HardcoverOriginal price $170.00 - Original price $170.00Original price $170.00$204.99$204.99 - $204.99Current price $204.99| /Cinema has become a battleground upon which history is made--a major mass medium of the twentieth century dealing with history. The re-enactments o...
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Balinese Dance, Drama & Music: A Beginner's Guide to the Performing Arts of Bali (Bonus Online Content)
HardcoverOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Discover the richness and beauty of Bali's many performing art forms. This book is a lavishly illustrated introduction to the most popular forms of...
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Cinema of Discontent: Representations of Japan's High-Speed Growth
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /Tomoyuki Sasaki is Associate Professor of Japanese Studies at the College of William & Mary. He is the author of Japan's Postwar Military and C...
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