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Series: Glorious QingDecorative Arts in China, 1644-1911Hardcover
Claudia Brown9780295751917
$95.00ART Grade (US) from 17
Feb 20, 2024
With over 250 color illustrations, this companion volume to Claudia Brown's Great Qing: Painting in China, 1644?1911 covers an array of superbly crafted objects of art produced during China's last dynasty. It features ceramics, metalwork, textiles, lacquer, glass, jade, and works of bamboo selected from collections in North America, Europe, China, and Taiwan. Art historian Brown probes the materials, motivations, technologies, and skills of Qing period artists, along with trends in art patronage and collecting. She considers objects of private ... + Read More
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Series: Taiwan and the WorldTaiwan LivesA Social and Political HistoryPaperback
Niki J. P. Alsford9780295752167
$44.00SOCIAL SCIENCE Grade (US) from 17
Feb 13, 2024
From a cradle of Austronesian expansion to the dynamic economic powerhouse and successful democracy it is today, Taiwan is layered in colonial histories. In Taiwan Lives, Niki J. P. Alsford presents a comprehensive examination of the island nation?s rich and complex past, told through the life stories of those who have lived it.A merchant, an exile, an activist, a pop star, a doctor, and a president are just some of the twenty-four individuals whose lives populate this people's history of Taiwan. Ranging across time, social strata, ethnicity, a... + Read More
South Korea's rapid industrialization occurred with the rise of powerful chaeb?l (family-owned business conglomerates) that controlled vast swaths of the nation's economy. Leader Park Chung Hee's sense of backwardness and urgency led him to rely on familial, school, and regional ties to expedite the economic transformation. Late Industrialization, Tradition, and Social Change in South Korea elucidates how a country can progress economically while relying on traditional social structures that usually fragment political and economic vitality. The... + Read More
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Series: Full Light and Perfect ShadowThe Photography of Chao-Chen YangHardcover
David F. Martin9780998911250
$41.00PHOTOGRAPHY Grade (US) from 17
Oct 24, 2023
This is the first study of the work of Chao-Chen Yang (1909?1969), an important Seattle photographer who gained national prominence in the mid-twentieth century. Born in Hangzhou, China, Yang received his art training at the University of Hsin-Hwa in Shanghai. After graduating, he became art director for the Government Institute of Nanking. In 1933 he moved to Chicago as chancellor of the Chinese Consulate and attended the Art Institute of Chicago. Initially trained as a painter, he later used photography as his main medium for artistic express... + Read More
Keiko Honda is living a successful, busy life as a scientist of cancer epidemiology at Columbia University in New York City when one morning she abruptly loses all strength in her legs. She phones a friend to care for her twenty-month-old daughter and rushes to the hospital. Within hours, she can barely breathe. She soon discovers she is permanently paralyzed from the chest down due to a rare autoimmune disease with a frequency of approximately one case per million per year. Suddenly, she’s that one. As Keiko struggles for life, she learns thro... + Read More
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Series: 40 Men and 12 RiflesIndochina 1954Paperback
Marcelino Truong9781551529233
$32.95COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS
Oct 03, 2023
By the author of Such a Lovely Little War and Saigon Calling, a stirring graphic novel about love, beauty, and war in 1950s Indochina. 40 Men and 12 Rifles is an expansive, gripping graphic novel set in Indochina in the year leading up to 1954, when the French-held garrison at Dien Bien Phu fell after a four-month battle, leading to the end of the first Indochina war between French forces and Ho Chi Minh's nationalist rebels. Minh (no relation to Ho) is a young man from Hanoi, an aspiring painter who dreams of experiencing la vie boheme in Par... + Read More
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Series: Obaasan's BootsPaperback
Janis Bridger9781772603484
$12.95JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 9 - 12
Oct 03, 2023
Cousins Lou and Charlotte don’t know a lot about their grandmother’s life. When their Obaasan invites them to spend the day in her garden, she also invites them into their family’s secrets. Grandma shares her experience as a Japanese Canadian during WWII, revealing the painful story of Japanese internment. Her family was forced apart. Whole communities were uprooted, moved into camps, their belongings stolen. Lou and Charlotte struggle with the injustice, even as they marvel at their grandmother’s strength. They begin to understand how their id... + Read More
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Series: One Sunny DayA Child's Memories of Hiroshima2nd editionPaperback
Hideko Tamura Snider9780870712333
$36.95BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Oct 30, 2023
“Every year when the days begin to stretch and the penetrating heat of summer rises to a scorching point, I am brought back to one sunny day in a faraway land. I was a young child waiting for my mother to come home. On that day, however, the sun and the earth melted together. My mother would not come home. . . .” Hideko was ten years old when the atomic bomb devastated her home in Hiroshima. In this eloquent and moving narrative, she recalls her life before the bomb, the explosion itself, and the influence of that trauma upon her subsequent lif... + Read More
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Series: Wondrous TransformationsA Maverick Physician, the Science of Hormones, and the Birth of the Transgender RevolutionHardcover
Alison Li9781469674858
$40.95SOCIAL SCIENCE
Sep 26, 2023
Harry Benjamin (1885–1986), a German-born endocrinologist, was a pivotal figure in the development of transgender medicine. He was physician to transgender pioneers such as Christine Jorgensen, the 1950s "Ex-GI" turned "Blonde Beauty" media sensation, and in turn, she and other collaborators helped to shape Benjamin's influential 1966 book, The Transsexual Phenomenon. Alison Li's much-needed biography of Benjamin chronicles his passion for hormones and his lifelong interest in sexology. Drawing from extensive research in archival documents, sec... + Read More
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Series: Gaman – PerseveranceMy Journey as a Japanese CanadianPaperback
Art Miki9781772015416
$29.95BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Sep 26, 2023
This timely memoir by Art Miki, former president of the National Association of Japanese Canadians and central player in the Japanese Canadian Redress Campaign, describes the journey to find resolution to the historic event that deprived Japanese Canadians of their basic human rights during and after World War II. The book explores the intense negotiations that took place in the 1980s between the Government of Canada and the National Association of Japanese Canadians, which finally resulted in the historic Japanese Canadian Redress Agreement on... + Read More
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Series: When My Ghost SingsA Memoir of Stroke, Recovery & TransformationPaperback
Tara Sidhoo Fraser9781551529271
$22.95BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 19, 2023
A lucid exploration of amnesia, selfhood, and who is left behind when the past is obliterated. Tara Sidhoo Fraser is thirty-two years old when a rare mutation in her brain causes a stroke. Awakening after surgery with no memory of her previous life, she attempts to piece it all back together through a haze of amnesia. Yet, as memories do begin to surface, they are seen through someone else's eyes - the person whose body she stole, whom she calls Ghost. Fighting to stabilize her existence, Tara struggles with the gulf between who she was and w... + Read More
Inspired by the work of Souvankham Thammavongsa, Catherine Hernandez and Wayson Choy, this unforgettable novel follows the reunification of Filipino caregiver families over one Canadian winter—and the mysterious progress of Monolith, who appears and disappears in their lives. When five-year-old Monolith is taken from the Philippines to live with his mother in Canada, he immediately lashes out. Unable or unwilling to speak, he attacks her and destroys his new home.Everyone wants to know why—and everyone has a theory. But unlike the solid certain... + Read More
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Series: Human Rights and Social Justice SeriesLaughing Back at EmpireThe Grassroots Activism of The Asianadian Magazine, 1978–1985Paperback
Angie Wong9781772840292
$27.95SOCIAL SCIENCE
Sep 01, 2023
Asian Canadian activism, resistance, and art of the 1970s and 80sLaughing Back at Empire is a groundbreaking examination of The Asianadian, one of Canada’s first anti-racist, anti-sexist, and anti-homophobic magazines. Over the course of its seven-year run, the small but mighty magazine led a nation-wide dialogue for all Canadians on the struggles and social issues that concerned Asians in Canada.The Asianadian established a national platform for then-emerging Asian-Canadian writers, artists, musicians, activists, and s... + Read More
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Series: New Generation KoreanAdvanced LevelPaperback
Mihyon Jeon9781487546168
$59.00FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY
Aug 31, 2023
Expanding on lessons taught in the intermediate-level textbook, New Generation Korean 3 covers the essential content for advanced-level Korean language learning.Attractive and easy to navigate, New Generation Korean 3 is a full-colour and engaging textbook designed for Korean language learners at the secondary and post-secondary education levels, as well as for independent self-study learners. Building on the content in the intermediate textbook, the advanced volume presents learning goals and best practice lessons developed by professors with ... + Read More
Often considered an exotic garment of “traditional Japan,” the kimono is in fact a vibrant part of Japanese modernity, playing an integral role in literature and film throughout the twentieth century. Reading the Kimono is the first extended study to offer new ways of interpreting textual and visual narratives through “kimono language”—what these garments communicate within their literary, historical, and cultural contexts. Kimonos on the page and screen do much more than create verisimilitude or function as one-dimensional symbols. They go bey... + Read More
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Series: New Generation Korean WorkbookAdvanced LevelPaperback
Mihyon Jeon9781487546533
$32.95FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY
Aug 15, 2023
Designed by instructors with long-standing experience in teaching Korean, this workbook helps advanced-level students practice their Korean language skills.New Generation Korean Workbook 3 is a student-friendly resource for acquiring advanced Korean language skills, including reading, writing, and comprehension. It is designed to accompany the textbook, New Generation Korean 3 Each chapter in the workbook includes extensive practice questions with cues that prompt students to either choose, match, or fill in the blanks. Throughout the book, QR ... + Read More
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Series: Impressions of NewfoundlandThe Art of Ting Ting ChenPaperback
Ting Ting Chen9781550819830
$39.95PHOTOGRAPHY
Aug 15, 2023
Impressions of Newfoundland showcases the island’s landscape and people through fine art and reveals the stories behind the images. Impressions of Newfoundland showcases the selected works of photographer Ting Ting Chen’s landscape photos and fine art portraits. As a newcomer to Newfoundland, she uses her unique perspective in photography to show her impressions of this province, to reveal the bonds between people and places, and to tell the story of how she found her home and muse in Newfoundland.
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Series: The First FiveA New Collection of Southeast Asian WritingPaperback
Chan Wai Han9786162151422
$33.99LITERARY COLLECTIONS Grade (US) from 17
Aug 01, 2023
Southeast Asia's literature is a rich mine of creativity, and stories and poems are readily accessible to readers who wish to take a quick dip into the literature of their neighbors. This anthology is a regional collaboration between authors and publishers from Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand, all nations that were founding members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), established in 1967. Together, the insightful and timely prose and poetry in this collection, a mix of original English-language an... + Read More
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Series: Asia Pop!Alice in Japanese WonderlandsTranslation, Adaptation, MediationPaperback
Amanda Kennell9780824895600
$34.95SOCIAL SCIENCE
Jul 31, 2023
Since the first translations of Lewis Carroll’s Alice books appeared in Japan in 1899, Alice has found her way into nearly every facet of Japanese life and popular culture. The books have been translated into Japanese more than 500 times, resulting in more editions of these works in Japanese than any other language except English. Generations of Japanese children learned English from textbooks containing Alice excerpts. Japan’s internationally famous fashion vogue, Lolita, merges Alice with French Rococo style. In Japan Alice is everywhere—in m... + Read More
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Series: Women’s Voices from Gaza SeriesCome My ChildrenPaperback
Hekmat Al-Taweel9781772126761
$24.99BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Jun 05, 2023
Hekmat Al-Taweel (1922–2008) was a native Palestinian Christian from Gaza City whose narrative unearths a version of history long excluded from mainstream discourse and provides an unfamiliar perspective on Muslim–Christian relationships. Her stories about life in Gaza highlight shared history, vibrant culture, and cherished traditions. Al-Taweel continued her education after marriage, sought community volunteer work, worked as a teacher and supervisor, and committed to activism throughout her life, all of which contradicts widespread Western o... + Read More
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One Sunny Day A Child's Memories of Hiroshima 2nd edition Paperback 9780870712333 $36.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 30, 2023Sep 19, 2023
Reading the Kimono in Twentieth-Century Japanese Literature and Film Paperback 9780824892951 $34.95 LITERARY CRITICISM Aug 31, 2023
Series: Asia Pop! Alice in Japanese Wonderlands Translation, Adaptation, Mediation Paperback 9780824895600 $34.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Jul 31, 2023