Nonfiction - Asian Reads
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Queer Marxism in Two Chinas
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /In Queer Marxism in Two Chinas Petrus Liu rethinks the relationship between Marxism and queer cultures in mainland China and Taiwan. Whereas many...
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From the Soil: The Foundations of Chinese Society / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /This classic text by Fei Xiaotong, China's finest social scientist, was first published in 1947 and is Fei's chief theoretical statement about th...
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The Doctor and the Saint: Caste, Race, and Annihilation of Caste, the Debate Between B.R. Ambedkar and M.K. Gandhi
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Arundhati Roy examines the persistent inequality in India through an extensive critique of Gandhi's views on race, caste and imperialism. Product...
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Fukushima: The Story of a Nuclear Disaster
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /“A gripping, suspenseful page-turner” (Kirkus Reviews) with a “fast-paced, detailed narrative that moves like a thriller” (International Business...
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Anna May Wong: Performing the Modern
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /Finalist for the 2020 Organization of American Historians Mary Nickliss Prize Pioneering Chinese American actress Anna May Wong made more than s...
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The Book of Tea
HardcoverOriginal price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /In 1906 in turn-of-the century Boston, a small, esoteric book about tea was written with the intention of being read aloud in the famous salon o...
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The Beautiful and the Damned: A Portrait of the New India
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /The Beautiful and the Damned presents an affecting, incisive portrait of the vast, fascinating, and incongruent country that is globalized India....
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Spirit Power: Politics and Religion in Korea's American Century
PaperbackOriginal price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00$44.99$44.99 - $44.99Current price $44.99| /Spirit Power explores the manifestation of the American Century in Korean history with a focus on religious culture. It looks back on the encount...
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Capitalism: A Ghost Story
PaperbackOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /From the poisoned rivers, barren wells, and clear-cut forests, to the hundreds of thousands of farmers who have committed suicide to escape punis...
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North Korea Confidential: Private Markets, Fashion Trends, Prison Camps, Dissenters and Defectors
PaperbackOriginal price $15.99 - Original price $15.99Original price $15.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /What is life in North Korea really like?This fascinating book by celebrated journalists Daniel Tudor and James Pearson explores that very questio...
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Taiko Boom: Japanese Drumming in Place and Motion
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /With its thunderous sounds and dazzling choreography, Japanese taiko drumming has captivated audiences in Japan and across the world, making it o...
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The Book of Tea Classic Edition
HardcoverOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Now available in a gorgeous hardcover slipcase edition, this "object d'art" will be sure to add grace and elegance to tea shelves, coffee tables ...
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The Classic of Mountains and Seas
PaperbackOriginal price $19.00Original price $19.00 - Original price $19.00Original price $19.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /This major source of Chinese mythology (third century BC to second century AD) contains a treasure trove of rare data and colorful fiction about ...
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Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture
PaperbackOriginal price $23.00 - Original price $23.00Original price $23.00$35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /In 1903, a young woman sailed from India to Guiana as a “coolie”—the British name for indentured laborers who replaced the newly emancipated slav...
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The Book of Yokai: Mysterious Creatures of Japanese Folklore
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /A lively excursion into Japanese folklore and its ever-expanding influence on global popular culture through the concept of yokai. Monsters, ghos...
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Framed by War: Korean Children and Women at the Crossroads of US Empire
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /An intimate portrait of the postwar lives of Korean children and women Korean children and women are the forgotten population of a forgotten war....
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Hungering for America: Italian, Irish, and Jewish Foodways in the Age of Migration
PaperbackOriginal price $34.00 - Original price $34.00Original price $34.00$48.99$48.99 - $48.99Current price $48.99| /Millions of immigrants were drawn to American shores, not by the mythic streets paved with gold, but rather by its tables heaped with food. How t...
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In the Beginning, Woman Was the Sun: The Autobiography of a Japanese Feminist
PaperbackOriginal price $34.00 - Original price $34.00Original price $34.00$48.99$48.99 - $48.99Current price $48.99| /"In the beginning, woman was truly the sun. An authentic person. Now she is the moon, a wan and sickly moon, dependent on another, reflecting ano...
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In the Circle of the Dance: Notes of an Outsider in Nepal
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Feeling initially aimless and out of place in rural Nepal where she accompanied her anthropologist husband for a year of fieldwork, Katharine Bjo...
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Queer Southeast Asia
PaperbackOriginal price $44.95 - Original price $44.95Original price $44.95$60.99$60.99 - $60.99Current price $60.99| /Tang and Wijaya present a range of new and established scholarly voices, including local activists directly involved in developments in Southeast...
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Dictatorship of Sex: Lifestyle Advice for the Soviet Masses
PaperbackOriginal price $45.95 - Original price $45.95Original price $45.95$61.99$61.99 - $61.99Current price $61.99| /The Dictatorship of Sex explores the attempts to define and control sexual behavior in the years following the Russian Revolution. It is the firs...
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Sources of Japanese Tradition: From Earliest Times to 1600 / Edition 2
PaperbackOriginal price $50.00 - Original price $50.00Original price $50.00$66.99$66.99 - $66.99Current price $66.99| /Sources of Japanese Tradition is a best-selling classic, unrivaled for its wide selection of source readings on history, society, politics, educa...
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A Trip of One's Own: Hope, Heartbreak, and Why Traveling Solo Could Change Your Life
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Are you ready to embark on a life-altering adventure that will redefine your perspectives and open your heart to boundless possibilities? In this c...
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International Relations of Asia, Third Edition
PaperbackOriginal price $49.00 - Original price $49.00Original price $49.00$65.99$65.99 - $65.99Current price $65.99| /A 2023 Choice Reviews Outstanding Academic Title This is the most up-to-date and comprehensive volume on the international relations of Asia and th...
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