Nonfiction - Asian Reads
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Out of the Gobi: My Story of China and America
PaperbackOriginal price $21.95Original price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Foreword by Janet Yellen Weijian Shan's Out of the Gobi is a powerful memoir and commentary that will be one of the most important books on China o...
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The King's Chinese: From Barber to Banker, the story of Yeap Chor Ee and the Straits Chinese
PaperbackOriginal price $26.00 - Original price $26.00Original price $26.00$35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /An informative and well-researched book, The King's Chinese provides a superb account of the Straits British Chinese, a distinct migrant society fr...
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The King's Chinese: From Barber to Banker, the story of Yeap Chor Ee and the Straits Chinese
HardcoverOriginal price $46.00 - Original price $46.00Original price $46.00$56.99$56.99 - $56.99Current price $56.99| /An informative and well-researched book, The King's Chinese provides a superb account of the Straits British Chinese, a distinct migrant society fr...
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Confi-Dance: Memoirs of an Asian Businesswoman's Journey from a Traditional Upbringing into Unconditional Love
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /"As an Asian woman, I can particularly relate well to May's growing path from a traditional Chinese family and its expectation of a girl. People of...
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Undeterred: How One Determined Vietnamese Orphan Carved Out a Place for Himself in America
HardcoverOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /It's a twenty-foot drop off Flower Bridge... With tanks approaching and bombs exploding mere yards away, five-year-old Long has only moments to dec...
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Undeterred: How One Determined Vietnamese Orphan Carved Out a Place for Himself in America
PaperbackOriginal price $9.95 - Original price $9.95Original price $9.95$11.99$11.99 - $11.99Current price $11.99| /It's a twenty-foot drop off Flower Bridge...With tanks approaching and bombs exploding mere yards away, five-year-old Long has only moments to deci...
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The Ideal Man: The Tragedy of Jim Thompson and the American Way of War
PaperbackOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /How the West's greatest spy in Asia tried to stop the new American way of war--and the steep price he paid for failingJim Thompson landed in Thaila...
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Tea and Empire: James Taylor in Victorian Ceylon
HardcoverOriginal price $36.95 - Original price $36.95Original price $36.95$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /This book brings to life for the first time the remarkable story of James Taylor, 'father of the Ceylon tea enterprise' in the nineteenth century, ...
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Prisoner #1056: How I Survived War and Found Peace
HardcoverOriginal price $27.00Original price $27.00 - Original price $27.00Original price $27.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER An incredible immigrant story from a prominent Canadian Tamil who fled torture and imprisonment, arrived in Canada with $50 ...
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31 Months in Japan: The Building of a Theme Park
HardcoverOriginal price $28.95Original price $28.95 - Original price $28.95Original price $28.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /31 Months in Japan--the Building of a Theme Park is the story of two Southern Californians embarking on the adventure of a lifetime--moving to Japa...
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The Ideal Man: The Tragedy of Jim Thompson and the American Way of War
HardcoverOriginal price $25.95Original price $25.95 - Original price $25.95Original price $25.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /How the West's greatest spy in Asia tried to stop the new American way of war--and the steep price he paid for failingJim Thompson landed in Thaila...
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Polished: How Nail Salons Saved Vietnamese-Americans
PaperbackOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /After the fall of Saigon in 1975, during a campaign for the repatriation of 130,000 refugees in the United States, actress Tippi Hedren, known best...
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Out of the Gobi: My Story of China and America
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Foreword by Janet Yellen Weijian Shan's Out of the Gobi is a powerful memoir and commentary that will be one of the most important books on China o...
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