Nonfiction - Asian Reads
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Kinbaku: The Art of Rope Bondage
HardcoverOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Kinbaku is the Japanese word for rope bondage: In the west it is often referred to as Shibari. Although it originated in Japan as a means of rest...
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Forms of Japan: Michael Kenna
HardcoverOriginal price $55.00Original price $55.00 - Original price $55.00Original price $55.00Current price $47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /Now available in a beautiful new edition, this book presents a meditative, arresting and dazzling collection of 240 black-and-white images of Jap...
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Corky Lee's Asian America: Fifty Years of Photographic Justice
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 collection of over 200 breathtaking photos celebrating the history and cultural impact of the Asian American social justice movement, from a be...
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Fantasy Worlds Behind Shop Doors: Gateway to Another World Next Level
PaperbackOriginal price $34.99Original price $34.99 - Original price $34.99Original price $34.99Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Another world unfolds beyond each door. An ex-resident of the online game world shoots the actual shops that lead to fantasy RPGs.In his previous t...
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Tommy Kha: Half, Full, Quarter
HardcoverOriginal price $60.00Original price $60.00 - Original price $60.00Original price $60.00Current price $50.99$50.99 - $50.99Current price $50.99| /Tommy Kha: Half, Full, Quarter weaves together self-portraits and classically bucolic landscapes punctuated by the traces of East Asian stories emb...
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Japan
HardcoverOriginal price $43.99 - Original price $43.99Original price $43.99$52.99$52.99 - $52.99Current price $52.99| /This book explores the fascinating country of Japan. It highlights the remarkable cities, the natural beauty, and above all, the warmth of its peop...
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China Adorned: Ritual and Custom of Ancient Cultures
HardcoverOriginal price $70.00Original price $70.00 - Original price $70.00Original price $70.00Current price $57.99$57.99 - $57.99Current price $57.99| /Aesthetic influences drawn from China have long resonated throughout Western art, design, and philosophy. China Adorned challenges the monolithic i...
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The Walters Art Museum Collection of Tsuba Volume 1
HardcoverOriginal price $99.41Original price $99.41 - Original price $99.41Original price $99.41Current price $77.99$77.99 - $77.99Current price $77.99| /This and a following volume aim to capture the entire collection of tsuba making up the Walters Art Museum. One of the worlds great collections of ...
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The Walters Art Museum Collection of Tsuba Volume 2
HardcoverOriginal price $100.12Original price $100.12 - Original price $100.12Original price $100.12Current price $78.99$78.99 - $78.99Current price $78.99| /This volume continues the collection of Sword-guards (known as "Tsuba") within the Walters Art Museum, including those guards (where available) fro...
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The Diary of Connie Shakespear: The Naga Hills 1900-1902
PaperbackOriginal price $16.00 - Original price $16.00Original price $16.00$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /Connie Shakespear's 'Diary' is a record of her travels as she accompanied her husband (a Captain in the Naga Hills Military Police) through the Nag...
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Anastasia Samoylova: Image Cities
HardcoverOriginal price $65.00Original price $65.00 - Original price $65.00Original price $65.00Current price $53.99$53.99 - $53.99Current price $53.99| /A brilliant, perceptive visual study of the increasing integration of the photographic image and the built environment In the latest series from An...
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Being & Becoming: Asian in America: Aperture 251
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /This summer, Aperture magazine presents "Being & Becoming: Asian in America," a landmark issue that considers how artists use the medium of pho...
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Photography in Japan 1853-1912: Second Edition
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 must-have classic work on early Japanese photography! "Writer Bennett crafted this beautiful and educational book from a collection of 350 old ...
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A Window Suddenly Opens: Contemporary Photography in China
HardcoverOriginal price $60.00Original price $60.00 - Original price $60.00Original price $60.00Current price $50.99$50.99 - $50.99Current price $50.99| /A lively tour through experimental Chinese photography from the early 1990s to today The past thirty years were dynamic, transformative decades in...
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Masahisa Fukase: Private Scenes
HardcoverOriginal price $50.00Original price $50.00 - Original price $50.00Original price $50.00Current price $43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Published for the first time in book form, this startling and intimate collection of late images by the great twentieth-century photographer compri...
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K Culture: K-Pop, Cuisine, on Screen, and More - Celebrating the Korean Wave
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00Original price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00Current price $40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Celebrate Korean culture whilst learning about its past and present in this comprehensive and fascinating guide. In recent years, Korean popular c...
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Koreatown Dreaming: Stories & Portraits of Korean Immigrant Life
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Explore and celebrate Korean culture in America through photographs and interviews by award-winning photographer Emanuel Hahn. "Photographer Hahn'...
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China's Dilemma: Between Growth and Reform: Does the Chinese leadership have a choice?
PaperbackOriginal price $54.63 - Original price $54.63Original price $54.63$59.99$59.99 - $59.99Current price $59.99| /Originally titled "What is Left When Everyone Has Left", the book presents facts and observations alongside a selection from my archive of over 5,0...
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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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A Danger Shared: A Journalist's Glimpses of a Continent at War
HardcoverOriginal price $36.95Original price $36.95 - Original price $36.95Original price $36.95Current price $30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /A Danger Shared: A Journalist's Glimpses of a Continent at War provides a searing visual history of wartime Asia as seen by foreign correspondent M...
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Japan on a Glass Plate: The Adventure of Photography in Yokohama and Beyond, 1853-1912
HardcoverOriginal price $50.00Original price $50.00 - Original price $50.00Original price $50.00Current price $43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /- Unique glimpse into a pivotal moment in Japanese cultural history and the history of photography- Unique selection of 19th-century photographs of...
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Tokyo Gay Underground: A Photography Book by Phil Mcqueen
HardcoverOriginal price $51.32 - Original price $51.32Original price $51.32$59.99$59.99 - $59.99Current price $59.99| /Have you ever wondered what the Gay Scene is like in the biggest city on earth? Or have you traveled there and want a reminder of this amazing plac...
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Colors of Confinement: Rare Kodachrome Photographs of Japanese American Incarceration in World War II
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /In 1942, Bill Manbo (1908-1992) and his family were forced from their Hollywood home into the Japanese American internment camp at Heart Mountain...
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Daido Moriyama
HardcoverOriginal price $60.00Original price $60.00 - Original price $60.00Original price $60.00Current price $50.99$50.99 - $50.99Current price $50.99| /Widely considered Japan's most influential and prolific photographer, Daido Moriyama has been challenging conventions of the art form for more than...
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