Asian Reads
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Chinese in Napa Valley: The Forgotten Community That Built Wine Country
PaperbackOriginal price $23.99Original price $23.99 - Original price $23.99Original price $23.99Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /Unearth the origins of Napa Valley's prosperity. Chinese laborers were once the backbone of Napa Valley. Throughout the late 1800s, they toiled in...
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Sigh, Gone: A Misfit's Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit In
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /For anyone who has ever felt like they don't belong, Sigh, Gone shares an irreverent, funny, and moving tale of displacement and assimilation wov...
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Beyond the Shadow of Camptown: Korean Military Brides in America / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Explores the experiences of Korean military brides in the United StatesSince the beginning of the Korean War in 1950, nearly 100,000 Korean women...
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Redefining Japaneseness: Japanese Americans in the Ancestral Homeland
PaperbackOriginal price $38.95 - Original price $38.95Original price $38.95$51.99$51.99 - $51.99Current price $51.99| /There is a rich body of literature on the experience of Japanese immigrants in the United States, and there are also numerous accounts of the cul...
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Concepcion: Conquest, Colonialism, and an Immigrant Family's Fate
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /"Absolutely extraordinary...A landmark in the contemporary literature of the diaspora." --Jia Tolentino, author of Trick Mirror "If Concepcion were...
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Little Saigons: Staying Vietnamese in America
PaperbackOriginal price $25.50 - Original price $25.50Original price $25.50$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /Karin Aguilar-San Juan examines the contradictions of Vietnamese American community and identity in two emblematic yet different locales: Little Sa...
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Life of A Concubine's Granddaughter: A Baby Boomer's Story
PaperbackOriginal price $15.99 - Original price $15.99Original price $15.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /"Like a cat, I feel that I have lived through many lives-none of them sheltered. I've never had iteasy, but then, I am not one to take the easy way...
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Life of A Concubine's Granddaughter: A Baby Boomer's Story
HardcoverOriginal price $33.99Original price $33.99 - Original price $33.99Original price $33.99Current price $28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /"Like a cat, I feel that I have lived through many lives-none of them sheltered. I've never had iteasy, but then, I am not one to take the easy way...
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Chinaman's Chance: One Family's Journey and the Chinese American Dream
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /From Tony Hsieh to Amy Chua to Jeremy Lin, Chinese Americans are now arriving at the highest levels of American business, civic life, and culture. ...
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Soldier on: My Father, His General, and the Long Road from Vietnam
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95Original price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /As the Vietnam War was beginning to turn towards its bitter end, Le Quan fought under beloved general Tran Ba Di in the army of South Vietnam. An u...
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Escape from Taiwan: Legacy of Oppression
PaperbackOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /During the late 1960s through the early and mid-1970s, Chinese immigration into the United States came almost exclusively from Taiwan. They arrived...
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As the Bamboo Shoots
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99$26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /As the Bamboo Shoots reveals the author's deep roots, the life and family stories of five generations, and more than a century of Chinese history. ...
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Salted Plums: A Memoir of Culture and Identity
PaperbackOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Salted Plums is a moving coming-of-age tale for anyone who has ever felt as if they don't belong. Alison Hong Nguyen Lihalakha was just a small chi...
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The Force of Domesticity: Filipina Migrants and Globalization
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Taking as her subjects migrant Filipina domestic workers in Rome and Los Angeles, transnational migrant families in the Philippines, and Filipina...
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Transnational Generations in the Arab Gulf States and Beyond
HardcoverOriginal price $139.99 - Original price $139.99Original price $139.99$153.99$153.99 - $153.99Current price $153.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9789819951826 Media Type: Hardcover Publisher: Springer Publication Date: 12-02-2023 Pages: 247 Product Dimensions: 9.21h x...
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Vietnam's Modern Day Boat People: Bridging Borders for Freedom
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /In 2016, a newspaper published an article about four childrendue to be sent to an orphanage after their parents were punished for attempting to fl...
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Borderland Dreams: The Transnational Lives of Korean Chinese Workers
HardcoverOriginal price $102.95 - Original price $102.95Original price $102.95$121.99$121.99 - $121.99Current price $121.99| /In Borderland Dreams June Hee Kwon explores the trajectory of the "Korean dream" that has fueled the massive migration of Korean Chinese workers fr...
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Borderland Dreams: The Transnational Lives of Korean Chinese Workers
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /In Borderland Dreams June Hee Kwon explores the trajectory of the "Korean dream" that has fueled the massive migration of Korean Chinese workers fr...
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Intimate Strangers: Shin Issei Women and Contemporary Japanese American Community, 1980-2020
HardcoverOriginal price $110.50 - Original price $110.50Original price $110.50$110.99$110.99 - $110.99Current price $110.99| /At the end of the twentieth century, many twenty-something Japanese women migrated to places like Southern California with few skills and an overal...
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Intimate Strangers: Shin Issei Women and Contemporary Japanese American Community, 1980-2020
PaperbackOriginal price $32.95 - Original price $32.95Original price $32.95$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /At the end of the twentieth century, many twenty-something Japanese women migrated to places like Southern California with few skills and an overal...
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Cross-Border Interactions and Encounters Between Germany and Korea
HardcoverOriginal price $105.00 - Original price $105.00Original price $105.00$129.99$129.99 - $129.99Current price $129.99| /Cross-Border Interactions and Encounters between Germany and Korea undertakes an interdisciplinary, comprehensive exploration of the multifaceted d...
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Temple Tracks: Labour, Piety and Railway Construction in Asia
HardcoverOriginal price $145.00 - Original price $145.00Original price $145.00$167.99$167.99 - $167.99Current price $167.99| /The notions of labour, mobility and piety have a complex and intertwined relationship. Using ethnographic methods and a historical perspective, Te...
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Transforming the Politics of Mobility and Migration in Aotearoa New Zealand
HardcoverOriginal price $110.00 - Original price $110.00Original price $110.00$129.99$129.99 - $129.99Current price $129.99| /Transforming the Politics of Mobility and Migration in Aotearoa New Zealand is a future-focused book that formulates alternative paradigms timely a...
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Outsiders: Memories of Migration to and from North Korea
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /In this unique and insightful book, Markus Bell explores the hidden histories of the men, women, and children who traveled from Japan to the world...
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