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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We Were Dreamers: An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story
HardcoverOriginal price $27.99Original price $27.99 - Original price $27.99Original price $27.99Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The star of Marvel’s first Asian superhero film, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, tells his own origi...
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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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Polishing the Dragons: Making EPCOT's Wonders of China
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95$23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Why would anyone feel the need to polish a dragon? Well, you might, if you were making a 360-degree film about China and insisted that every shot o...
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Mariko Marie Marina: My Life through Three Cultures A Memoir
HardcoverOriginal price $26.99 - Original price $26.99Original price $26.99$29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /In Japan I was Mariko, in Germany I was Marie, and now I am Marina. A child of three lands, proud of each, unable to say where each began and ended...
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Love Found and Lost: The Kim Vui Story
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95Original price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /War has a way of annihilating not just individual combatants and civilians caught in the maelstrom, but also the cultural memories of the defeated....
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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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Put it in the Chicken - LARGE PRINT: A Cambodian memoir
HardcoverOriginal price $25.99 - Original price $25.99Original price $25.99$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /Despite being blown up in a TV building in Sarajevo and handed over to rebels in Sierra Leone, Glen Felgate is unprepared for the challenge of sett...
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Ching Ling Foo: America's First Chinese Superstar
PaperbackOriginal price $25.95Original price $25.95 - Original price $25.95Original price $25.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /Ching Ling Foo: America's First Chinese Superstar tells the incredible story of the iconic Chinese magician Ching Ling Foo's obstacle laden rise to...
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End Credits: How I Broke Up with Hollywood
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /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 ...
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Big Bhishma in Madras: In Search of the Mahabharata with Peter Brook
PaperbackOriginal price $11.99 - Original price $11.99Original price $11.99$13.99$13.99 - $13.99Current price $13.99| /'Where can one find the Mahabharata? The facile answer is "India".'A chance comment in 1974 fired Peter Brook and Jean-Claude Carri re with the ide...
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Dancing in the Family: The Extraordinary Story of the First Family of Indian Classical Dance
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /' This book] deserves to be read, not merely because it is about extraordinary women set against the changing historical backdrop of Indian classic...
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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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End Credits: How I Broke Up with Hollywood
HardcoverOriginal price $27.99Original price $27.99 - Original price $27.99Original price $27.99Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /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...
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We Were Dreamers: An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The star of Marvel’s first Asian superhero film, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, tells his own origi...
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The Legend of Tessie Agana Beloved Child Star of the Philippines: An Intimate Portrait of My Mother
PaperbackOriginal price $15.99 - Original price $15.99Original price $15.99$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /As the daughter and granddaughter of world-famous entertainers from the Philippines' Golden Age of cinema, Mylene Agana Jao Richardson was born int...
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The Legend of Tessie Agana Beloved Child Star of the Philippines: An Intimate Portrait of My Mother
HardcoverOriginal price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /As the daughter and granddaughter of world-famous entertainers from the Philippines' Golden Age of cinema, Mylene Agana Jao Richardson was born int...
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Making a Scene
HardcoverOriginal price $29.00Original price $29.00 - Original price $29.00Original price $29.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /"Illuminating." --The Washington Post * "Candid and relatable." --Time *"Riveting and personal." --Mindy Kaling * "Captivatingly immediate." --The ...
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