Trade Books for Courses :: Trade Books For Courses: Asian & Asian American Studies Asian & Asian American Studies Books

Trade Paperback : $19.00 Buy	Over the Moat Love Among the Ruins of Imperial Vietnam James Sullivan Picador In the fall of 1992, James Sullivan travels to Vietnam to bicycle from Saigon to Hanoi. He has just finished graduate school and has an assignment to write a...

Trade Paperback : $15.00 Buy	Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee Meera Syal Picador "Alternately hilarious and scathing, occasionally poignant, Syal's tale sheds much light on growing up in British Indian society . . . [Syal] manages to hold her reader's interest through her energetic prose and biting commentary about people and places."—Bharti Kirchner, The Seattle Times

Hardcover : $19.95 Buy	The Push Man and Other Stories Yoshihiro Tatsumi Drawn and Quarterly A collection of short stories from the grandfather of Japanese alternative comics. Legendary cartoonist Yoshihiro Tatsumi is the grandfather of alternative...

Hardcover : $19.95 Buy	Good-Bye Yoshihiro Tatsumi; Edited by Adrian Tomine Drawn and Quarterly “Prepare to be disturbed and blown away. The stuff is remarkable, amazing.”—Los Angeles Times Good-Bye is the third in a series of collected short stories...

Trade Paperback : $15.00 Buy	The Language of Blood Jane Jeong Trenka Graywolf Press Paper “A book that translates, and transcends, the eternal question of home, belonging, family, identity.” —Star Tribune (Minneapolis) My name...

Trade Paperback : $13.95 Buy	Night of Many Dreams A Novel Gail Tsukiyama St. Martin's Griffin As World War II threatens their comfortable life in Hong Kong, young Joan and Emma Lew escape with their family to spend the war years in Macao. When they...

Trade Paperback : $13.95 Buy	The Language of Threads A Novel Gail Tsukiyama St. Martin's Griffin Readers of Women of the Silk never forgot the moving, powerful story of Pei, brought to work in the silk house as a girl, grown into a quiet but determined...

Trade Paperback : $13.95 Buy	Women of the Silk A Novel Gail Tsukiyama St. Martin's Griffin In Women of the Silk Gail Tsukiyama takes her readers back to rural China in 1926, where a group of women forge a sisterhood amidst the reeling machines that...

Trade Paperback : $13.95 Buy	The Samurai's Garden A Novel Gail Tsukiyama St. Martin's Griffin The daughter of a Chinese mother and a Japanese father, Tsukiyama uses the Japanese invasion of China during the late 1930s as a somber backdrop for her...

Trade Paperback : $13.95 Buy	Dreaming Water A Novel Gail Tsukiyama St. Martin's Griffin Bestselling author Gail Tsukiyama is known for her poignant, subtle insights into the most complicated of relationships. Dreaming Water is an exploration of...

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Bombay Time

A Novel

Thrity Umrigar Picador

At the wedding of a young man from a middle-class apartment building in Bombay, the men and women of this unique community gather together and look back on...

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Trade Paperback : $15.99 Buy	Afterzen Experiences of a Zen Student Out on His Ear Janwillem van de Wetering St. Martin's Griffin In Afterzen, van de Wetering provides unorthodox solutions to a collection of classical koans found in Walter Nowick's The Wisteria Triangle. Van de Wetering...

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The Lady

Aung San Suu Kyi: Nobel Laureate and Burma's Prisoner

Barbara Victor; With a New Afterword by the Author Faber and Faber, Inc.

"Victor's portrait goes beyond capturing the poignancy of the Lady's struggle, particularly in its focus on how much she has been inspired by the legacy of her father, General Aung San, assassinated after negotiating Burma's independence from Britain. As affecting as Victor's analysis of Daw Suu Kyi is, her stinging account of the brutality and corruption of the SLORC, and of how harsh and desperate life is for most Burmese, is perhaps of more import."—Donna Seaman, Booklist

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Indian Summer

The Secret History of the End of an Empire

Alex von Tunzelmann Picador

At the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, the British Empire withdrew from India, inviting in all the exhilaration and turmoil of a newly free society. In...

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Hardcover : $12.00 Buy	Li Dynamic Form in Nature Wooden Books David Wade Walker & Company David Wade has spent a lifetime gathering and organizing the extraordinary families of surface patterns that nature throws up at every scale. The study of...

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The River at the Center of the World, Revised

A Journey Up the Yangtze, and Back in Chinese Time

Simon Winchester; With a New Afterword by the Author Picador

Rising in the mountains of the Tibetan border, the symbolic heart of China pierces 3,900 miles of rugged country before debouching into the oily swells of the...

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Hardcover : $24.95 Buy	China's First Emperor and His Terracotta Warriors Frances Wood St. Martin's Press Unifier or destroyer, law-maker or tyrant? China’s First Emperor (258-210 BC) has been the subject of debate for over 2,000 years. He gave us the name by which...

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A Case of Two Cities

An Inspector Chen Novel

Inspector Chen Cao (#4 of 6)

Qiu Xiaolong Minotaur Books

Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Police Department is assigned a high-profile anti-corruption case, one in which the principal figure has long since fled to...

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Trade Paperback : $15.00 Buy	Father of the Four Passages A Novel Lois-Ann Yamanaka Picador From "one of the most original voices on the American literary scene" (The Atlantic Monthly) comes the powerful tale of Sonia Kurisu, a young woman who grew up...

Trade Paperback : $15.00 Buy	Wild Meat and the Bully Burgers A Novel Lois-Ann Yamanaka Picador "A rare book—Exuberant, fresh-voiced, rich, crazy and stabbing, comic and as true-toned as a crystal glass taped with a knife."—Annie Proulx

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My Name Is Number 4

A True Story from the Cultural Revolution

Ting-xing Ye St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books

"The mounting set of obstacles called forth a courage and fortitude that are likely the intended lessons for this book's young adult audience, as is her persistence, which is highlighted when her determination to learn English became her path back into the world."—Jane Ciabattari, The Washington Post Book World

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Asian American Dreams

The Emergence of an American People

Helen Zia Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

"An ambitious blend of personal and cultural history, a primer on Asian America that covers everything from the history of Asian immigration to the turbulence of the past three decades as the community has gone from silent majority to demanding its place in American society."—Ferdinand M. de Leon, The Seattle Times

Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize - Nominee - Pacific Rim Nonfiction

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