Nonfiction - Asian Reads
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The Mekong: Turbulent Past, Uncertain Future
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /A compelling, lively narrative history of the peoples and cultures of the great river of Southeast Asia, The Mekong spans two thousand years—from...
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Chinese Characteristics
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99$25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Arthur Smith was one of the top Sinologists of the late 19th century and early 20th century, and Chinese Characteristics is the book which best s...
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When the Korean World in Hawaii Was Young, 1903-1940
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /When the Korean World in Hawaii Was Young tells the stories of some "1.5" and second-generation Koreans who experienced life in Hawaii or on the ...
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The Chinese and the Iron Road: Building the Transcontinental Railroad
PaperbackOriginal price $32.00Original price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /The completion of the transcontinental railroad in May 1869 is usually told as a story of national triumph and a key moment for American Manifest...
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The Ming Dynasty: Its Origins and Evolving Institutions
PaperbackOriginal price $10.00 - Original price $10.00Original price $10.00$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /In the latter half of the fourteenth century, at one end of the Eurasian continent, the stage was not yet set for the emergence of modern nation-...
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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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Chinese Civilization: A Sourcebook, 2nd Ed / Edition 2
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00$29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /This updated version of a fantastic account of Chinese culture and civilization provides analysis of notable historical documents, social records...
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Tales from the Expat Harem: Foreign Women in Modern Turkey
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99$27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /As the Western world struggles to comprehend the paradoxes of modern Turkey, Tales from the Expat Harem reveals its most personal nuances. This i...
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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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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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Records of the Grand Historian: Qin Dynasty / Edition 3
PaperbackOriginal price $38.00 - Original price $38.00Original price $38.00$52.99$52.99 - $52.99Current price $52.99| /Sima Qian (145?-90? BCE) was the first major Chinese historian. His Shiji, or Records of the Grand Historian, documents the history of China and ...
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Records of the Grand Historian: Han Dynasty, Volume 2 / Edition 2
PaperbackOriginal price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00$60.99$60.99 - $60.99Current price $60.99| /This second volume of the history of the Han dynasty consists of chapters dealing principally with the reign of Emperor Wu, one of the most energ...
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Stay True: A Memoir
HardcoverOriginal price $26.00Original price $26.00 - Original price $26.00Original price $26.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /PULITZER PRIZE WINNER - NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A gripping memoir on friendship, grief, the search for self, and the solace that can be found ...
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Out of Place: The Lives of Korean Adoptee Immigrants
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /How Korean adoptees went from being adoptable orphans to deportable immigrantsSince the early 1950s, over 125,000 Korean children have been adopt...
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The Poet and the Silk Girl: A Memoir of Love, Imprisonment, and Protest
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /A compelling and prismatic love story of one family's defiance in the face of injustice—and how their story echoes across generations. In 1942 ne...
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The Art of Fate Calculation: Practicing Divination in Taipei, Beijing, and Kaifeng
HardcoverOriginal price $145.00 - Original price $145.00Original price $145.00$167.99$167.99 - $167.99Current price $167.99| /From housewives to students and high-ranking officials, people from all social backgrounds in China and Taiwan visit fate calculation masters to l...
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Asian Political Cartoons
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /In Asian Political Cartoons, scholar John A. Lent explores the history and contemporary status of political cartooning in Asia, including East Asia...
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Rats, Cats, Rogues, and Heroes: Glimpses of China's Hidden Past
PaperbackOriginal price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /History has many untold stories. In Rats, Cats, Rogues, and Heroes the author provides glimpses into China's hidden past through the native's point...
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Asian Political Cartoons
HardcoverOriginal price $99.00 - Original price $99.00Original price $99.00$122.99$122.99 - $122.99Current price $122.99| /In Asian Political Cartoons, scholar John A. Lent explores the history and contemporary status of political cartooning in Asia, including East Asia...
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Crossing Boundaries and Confounding Identity: Chinese Women in Literature, Art, and Film
HardcoverOriginal price $99.00 - Original price $99.00Original price $99.00$117.99$117.99 - $117.99Current price $117.99| /Examines literary, historical, and cultural portrayals of Chinese women, across centuries and continents.Product DetailsISBN-13: 9781438492155 Medi...
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The Camphor Tree and the Elephant: Religion and Ecological Change in Maritime Southeast Asia
PaperbackOriginal price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00$44.99$44.99 - $44.99Current price $44.99| /What is the role of religion in shaping interactions and relations between the human and nonhuman in nature? Why are Muslim and Christian organizat...
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Toward a Framework for Vietnamese American Studies: History, Community, and Memory
PaperbackOriginal price $44.95 - Original price $44.95Original price $44.95$50.99$50.99 - $50.99Current price $50.99| /The large number of Vietnamese refugees that resettled in the United States since the fall of Saigon have become America's fastest growing immigran...
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Unquiet Spirits: Essays by Asian Women in Horror
HardcoverOriginal price $22.95Original price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /From hungry ghosts, vampiric babies, and shapeshifting fox spirits to the avenging White Lady of urban legend, for generations, Asian women's roles...
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Unquiet Spirits: Essays by Asian Women in Horror
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /From hungry ghosts, vampiric babies, and shapeshifting fox spirits to the avenging White Lady of urban legend, for generations, Asian women's roles...
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