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Dreaming in Chinese
Mandarin Lessons in Life, Love, and Language
Deborah Fallows
Walker & Company
"The eager student will learn a fair bit about the history of the language and how its array of characters and tones were systematized, all the while gathering insights into the country’s customs and culture. Rather than draw sweeping conclusions, Fallows sticks to her own experiences and observations, which makes her book all the more valuable. China hands will have many moments of recognition. For others,
Dreaming in Chinese
will be a fascinating introduction to a foreign culture."—
Lesley Downer,
The New York Times Book Review
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As China Goes, So Goes the World
How Chinese Consumers Are Transforming Everything
Karl Gerth
Hill and Wang
"Gerth author of
China Made: Consumer Culture and the Creation of the Nation
, does much to redress the imbalance and to point out the potential influence of Chinese consumerism, not only on China but on the rest of the world. The book is both informative and entertaining. Although supported by input from published sources, the text is largely the result of insightful observations of the author, who lived, studied, and traveled extensively in China. The book draws parallels between expanding consumerism in China and corresponding developments in other countries such as the US. However, Gerth is careful in identifying unique aspects of China's embrace of domestic consumption. The book contains extensive source notes, readings, and Web sites for further investigation. The writing style is reader friendly and can be appreciated by a broad spectrum of readers who have even a passing interest in understanding the growing importance of China as a world power. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readership levels."—
W. C. Struning, emeritus, Seton Hall University,
Choice
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Hotel Iris
A Novel
Yoko Ogawa
Picador
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Hotel Iris
is a striking achievement. Ogawa’s evocative, minimalist prose carries the story along at a luxurious pace and adds a quiet beauty to unsettling scenes. Dark and seductive, this book will stay with you long after the first page.”—
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Understanding China [3rd Edition]
A Guide to China's Economy, History, and Political Culture
John Bryan Starr; 3rd Edition
Hill and Wang
"An excellent introduction to China for anyone in search of solid but concise information about that complicated country. Packed with facts and figures, but enlivened with firsthand observations."—
Lucian W. Pye,
The New York Times
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Ilustrado
A Novel
Miguel Syjuco
Picador
“Ambitious . . . In a daring literary performance, Syjuco weaves the invented with the factual . . .
Ilustrado
is being presented as a tracing of 150 years of Philippine history, but it’s considerably more than that . . . Spiced with surprises and leavened with uproariously funny moments, it is punctuated with serious philosophical musings.” —
Raymond Bonner,
The New York Times Book Review
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Everything Asian
A Novel
Sung J. Woo
St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books
"In this charming tale of family, community and the struggle for understanding, young Korean immigrant David Kim learns to acculturate to a new American life. After five years on their own in Seoul, 12-year-old David, his big sister and mother reunite with his father in Oakbridge, N.J. Now known as Harry, David's father has a gift shop in a rundown strip mall called Peddlers Town . . . Woo eschews immigrant clichés to focus on complicated familial relationships and surprising, sympathetic characters; alternating between humor and melancholy, Woo's text strikes a true chord while drawing readers into its strange, strip-mall world."—
Publishers Weekly
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Madras on Rainy Days
A Novel
Samina Ali
Picador
A Finalist for the Northern California Book Award
"Ali explores cultural conditions with sensitivity, and mercifully does not over-exoticise. Her story is intriguing . . . She is one of a rare breed of writers who take us into the closed world behind a Muslim woman's veil . . . Carefully crafted [and] eminently readable."—
Mitali Saran,
Far Eastern Economic Review
"This book goes to a place where few, if any, of its predecessors have gone before. . . [This is] a deeply feminist novel with richly drawn and complicated characters."—
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Empire of Signs
Roland Barthes; Translated by Richard Howard
Hill and Wang
With this book, Barthes offers a broad-ranging meditation on the culture, society, art, literature, language, and iconography--in short, both the sign-oriented...
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Hungry Ghosts
Mao's Secret Famine
Jasper Becker
Holt Paperbacks
In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the Chinese people suffered what may have been the worst famine in history. Over thirty million perished in a grain shortage...
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Fieldwork
A Novel
Mischa Berlinski
Picador
“With its offbeat style, Berlinski's consummate fieldwork—fictional though it may be—produces an intricate whodunit, both disturbing and entertaining. Even as he confesses to feeling ‘like the baton in a relay race of faulty memories and distant recollections,’ Berlinski meticulously unearths Martiya's ‘good story,’ taking readers on an intoxicating journey filled with missing souls and vengeful spirits.”—
Terry Hong,
The Washington Post
National Book Awards - Finalist
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The Sly Company of People Who Care
A Novel
Rahul Bhattacharya
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
In flight from the tame familiarity of home in Bombay, a twenty-six-year-old cricket journalist chucks his job and arrives in Guyana, a forgotten colonial...
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Glory in a Line
A Life of Foujita--the Artist Caught Between East and West
Phyllis Birnbaum
Faber and Faber, Inc.
The first biography in English of the Japanese artist who was a central figure in the dazzling artistic milieu of 1920s Paris When we think of expatriates...
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Golden Boy
Memories of a Hong Kong Childhood
Martin Booth
Picador
At seven years old, Martin Booth found himself with all of Hong Kong at his feet when his father was posted there in 1952. This is his memoir of that youth, a...
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What We All Long For
Dionne Brand
St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books
Dionne Brand powerfully delves into uncharted aspects of urban life, the bittersweetness of youth, and secrets families try to hide. Tuyen is an aspiring...
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The Koreans
Who They Are, What They Want, Where Their Future Lies
Revised and Updated; Michael Breen
St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books
"Michael Breen gives readers an insight into the history and character of a complex people which helps us assess how they might deal with the current complex period in their development."—
Catherine Lee, Seoul correspondent,
The Economist
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Honolulu
Alan Brennert
St. Martin's Griffin
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Honolulu
is meticulously researched . . . [Brennert] intersperses cultural details—song lyrics, movies, popular books from the era—that add textured authenticity, and he incorporates major historic events . . . Brennert portrays the Aloha State's history as complicated and dynamic—not simply a melting pot, but a Hawaiian-style 'mixed plate' in which, as [protagonist] Jin sagely notes, 'many different tastes share the plate, but none of them loses its individual flavor, and together they make up a uniquely "local" cuisine.'"—
Krista Walton,
The Washington Post
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The Yoga Sutras of Patañjali
A New Edition, Translation, and Commentary
Edwin F. Bryant
North Point Press
“A superb contribution to the secondary literature on
yoga
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yoga
and the rich textual history of the tradition, Bryant nevertheless succeeds in transcending both the excessively technical approaches to
yoga
scholarship as well as much of the popular nonsense about
yoga
in the proliferating ‘schools’ in the New Age marketplace. Bryant impressively communicates the essentials of
yoga
philosophy and practice to the thoughtful but non-specialist general reader. His translations from the Sanskrit are precise and well-grounded, and his interpretations are provocative and persuasive. His book will surely be welcomed by both serious scholars and responsible practitioners.”—
Gerald James Larson, Rabindranath Tagore Professor Emeritus of Indian Cultures and Civilizations, Indiana University, Bloomington, and Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
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A Rumor of War
Philip Caputo
Holt Paperbacks
The classic Vietnam memoir, as relevant today as it was almost thirty years ago. In March of 1965, Marine Lieutenent Philip J. Caputo landed at Da Nang...
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The Girl from Purple Mountain
Love, Honor, War, and One Family's Journey from China to America
May-lee Chai and Winberg Chai
St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books
"This is an intricately orchestrated cross-generational memoir, and one that is particularly successful in linking the world of China in the first half of the twentieth century to the opportunities and ambiguities of those Chinese who grew up as Americans. It is a subtle book that resonates in the mind as well as being a true family history that spans moods and generations."—
Jonathan Spence, author of
The Search for Modern China
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Sterling Professor of History, Yale University
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The Island of Seven Cities
Where the Chinese Settled When They Discovered America
Paul Chiasson
St. Martin's Griffin
In 2003, Paul Chiasson climbed a mountain he never explored on the island where he grew up. Cape Breton, one of the oldest points of exploration in the...
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Meltdown
The Inside Story of the North Korean Nuclear Crisis
Mike Chinoy
St. Martin's Griffin
“A tour de force of reporting . . . Chinoy clearly sympathizes with administration officials who favored engagement with North Korea. But he lets officials who wanted to isolate Pyongyang make their case. More than 100 people granted him interviews, and the list is a who's who of both senior and junior U.S. players on North Korea policy.”—
Glenn Kessler,
The Washington Post
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Prisoners Without Trial
Japanese Americans in World War II
Roger Daniels; Revised Edition
Hill and Wang
"An outstanding resource that provides a clear and concise history of the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II."—
Alice Yang Murray, University of California, Santa Cruz
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The Beautiful and the Damned
A Portrait of the New India
Siddhartha Deb
Faber and Faber, Inc.
A Globe and Mail Best Books of the Year 2011 Title Siddhartha Deb grew up in a remote town in the northeastern hills of India and made his way to the...
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Shenzhen
A Travelogue from China
Guy Delisle
Drawn and Quarterly
The follow-up graphic novel to the acclaimed Pyongyang: A Journey to North Korea Shenzhen is entertainingly compact, with Guy Delisle’s observations of life...
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