Asian American Books


Cold Literature: Selected Works by Gao Xingjian (Bilingual Series on Modern Chinese Literature)Cold Literature: Selected Works by Gao Xingjian (Bilingual Series on Modern Chinese Literature)
Best Price: $32.00
Gao Xingjian is the first Chinese Nobel Laureate in Literature. The Swedish Academy summarized...
Kristi Yamaguchi (Asian-American Biographies)Kristi Yamaguchi (Asian-American Biographies)
Best Price: $3.93
I Myself Am WomanI Myself Am Woman
Best Price: $10.78
Selected writings by the revolutionary writer, feminist, and literary dissident Ding Ling...
The Princeton Handbook of Multicultural PoetriesThe Princeton Handbook of Multicultural Poetries
Best Price: $1.84
Drawn from the acclaimed New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, the articles in this...
Kids Explore America's Japanese American Heritage (Kids Explore America'sheritage)Kids Explore America's Japanese American Heritage (Kids Explore America'sheritage)
Best Price: $8.12


A Long Stay in a Distant Land: A NovelA Long Stay in a Distant Land: A Novel
Best Price: $1.90
If you are used to reading Tan and Jen, Chieng will seem short on character development and...
American Eyes : New Asian-American Short Stories for Young Adults (Edge Books)American Eyes : New Asian-American Short Stories for Young Adults (Edge Books)
American Eyes is a great book. It tells the whole world how it's like for us...
When the Rainbow Goddess WeptWhen the Rainbow Goddess Wept
Best Price: $11.00
As I have said in the title, this is a great book. The language is fluently written by an...
From Both Sides Now: The Poetry of the Vietnam War and Its AftermathFrom Both Sides Now: The Poetry of the Vietnam War and Its Aftermath
Mahony has done what no one before him was able to do--get a "big publisher" in this...
Before Starting Over (Reconstruction S.)Before Starting Over (Reconstruction S.)
Best Price: $24.95
Before Starting Over is an informal chronicle of several important developments in...


Filipino Americans (The New Immigrants)Filipino Americans (The New Immigrants)
Best Price: $27.70
Un Lugar Llamado Nada / Saving Fish from DrowningUn Lugar Llamado Nada / Saving Fish from Drowning
Best Price: $20.45
The Uses of Literature : Life in the Socialist Chinese Literary SystemThe Uses of Literature : Life in the Socialist Chinese Literary System
Best Price: $1.73
Why do people in socialist China read and write literary works? Earlier studies in Western...
Chinese Modern: The Heroic and the Quotidian (Post-Contemporary Interventions)Chinese Modern: The Heroic and the Quotidian (Post-Contemporary Interventions)
Best Price: $24.70
Personally I find Zhang Xudong's book on Chinese modernism more helpful than Tang's to put...
Kitchen God's Wife, the (Flamingo)Kitchen God's Wife, the (Flamingo)
Best Price: $26.32

Under Western Eyes: India from Milton to Macaulay (Post-Contemporary Interventions)Under Western Eyes: India from Milton to Macaulay (Post-Contemporary Interventions)
Best Price: $79.14
Spanning nearly two and a half centuries of English literature about India, Under Western Eyes ...
Chinese Lanterns from the Blue ChildChinese Lanterns from the Blue Child
Best Price: $16.96
This collection won the 1995 Jamaican National Literary Award just before the author’s...
Tiger's TailTiger's Tail
Best Price: $63.16
Having read mysteries for 30 years I quickly get bored with most of the genre these days and now...
Home to Stay: Asian American Women's FictionHome to Stay: Asian American Women's Fiction
Best Price: $14.95
I read this book in college and thought it was a great sample of asian american women's writing....
Maya Lin (Asian Americans of Achievement)Maya Lin (Asian Americans of Achievement)
Best Price: $29.89

Treadmill: A Documentary NovelTreadmill: A Documentary Novel
Best Price: $14.95
Treadmill is a unique novel in many respects. Foremost is the fact that it is the only one which...
So Much Trouble in the World: Believe It or Not!So Much Trouble in the World: Believe It or Not!
Best Price: $14.00
This is the latest of American contemporary artist Fred Wilson's views on art and its sheltering...
JojofuJojofu
I got this book the same day we brought home our Shiba puppy, and read it to my daughter and...
American KneesAmerican KneesNative SpeakerNative Speaker

Buried Caesars, And Other Secrets of Italian American Writing (Suny Series in Italian/American Studies)Buried Caesars, And Other Secrets of Italian American Writing (Suny Series in Italian/American Studies)
Best Price: $12.13
Robert Viscusi's Buried Caesars is a collection of penetrating essays on Italian American...
The Tao and the Logos: Literary Hermeneutics, East and West (Post-Contemporary Interventions)The Tao and the Logos: Literary Hermeneutics, East and West (Post-Contemporary Interventions)
Best Price: $19.50
Questions of the nature of understanding and interpretation???hermeneutics???are fundamental in...
Legend of Mu Lan: A Heroine of Ancient ChinaLegend of Mu Lan: A Heroine of Ancient China
Best Price: $7.95
This is one of the most beautiful books I've seen in a long time. Just a children's story but...
Religions of Tibet in Practice: Abridged EditionReligions of Tibet in Practice: Abridged Edition
Best Price: $3.45
Originally published in 1997, Religions of Tibet in Practice is a landmark work--the first...
Minor Re/Visions: Asian American Literacy Narratives as a Rhetoric of Citizenship (Studies in Writing and Rhetoric)Minor Re/Visions: Asian American Literacy Narratives as a Rhetoric of Citizenship (Studies in Writing and Rhetoric)
Best Price: $29.85
Through a blend of personal narrative, cultural and literary analysis, and discussions about...

Pakistanis in America (In America)Pakistanis in America (In America)
Best Price: $14.99
Korean War Reference Library - Almanac and Primary Sources (Korean War Reference Library)Korean War Reference Library - Almanac and Primary Sources (Korean War Reference Library)
Best Price: $15.00
Korean War: Almanac and Primary Sources covers the background of and issues related to the...
A Little Tiger in the Chinese Night: An Autobiography in ArtA Little Tiger in the Chinese Night: An Autobiography in Art
In 1944, when Song Nan Zhang was not yet three, he saw a baby tiger outside the hut in the...
FalloutFallout
Best Price: $7.91
I like Kyoko Mori's poetry! Some I don't quite understand, and so I like it because of that...
The Perfumed Sleeve: A Novel (Sano Ichiro Novels)The Perfumed Sleeve: A Novel (Sano Ichiro Novels)
Best Price: $17.86
Rowland has delivered another wonderfully crafted mystery set in the fascinating world of...

Into the Fire: Asian American ProseInto the Fire: Asian American Prose
Best Price: $12.99
stories, essays, interviews; 32 writers, plus bios
What the Fortune Teller Didn't SayWhat the Fortune Teller Didn't Say
Best Price: $5.24
Written over the last decade, these poems include memories of the author's early childhood in...
When Justice Failed: The Fred Korematsu Story (Stories of America)When Justice Failed: The Fred Korematsu Story (Stories of America)
Best Price: $28.00
1941, four months before Pearl Habor, Curtis Munson was asked by President Roosevelt to secretly...
Lost and Found in Translation: Contemporary Ethnic American Writing and the Politics of Language DiversityLost and Found in Translation: Contemporary Ethnic American Writing and the Politics of Language Diversity
Best Price: $21.45
Starting with Salman Rushdie's assertion that even though something is always lost in...
A Cab Called Reliable: A NovelA Cab Called Reliable: A Novel
Best Price: $1.10
My favorite part of the novel is the last chapter, which is the most mature on all levels. Ahn...

Honor And DutyHonor And Duty
Best Price: $3.57
So China Boy goes to West Point. Yes, there's a lot about that here, but this book is much more...
Masculinity Besieged?: Issues of Modernity and Male Subjectivity in Chinese Literature of the Late Twentieth CenturyMasculinity Besieged?: Issues of Modernity and Male Subjectivity in Chinese Literature of the Late Twentieth Century
Best Price: $21.95
This book makes a fatal mistake. It discusses Wang Shuo's novella ANIMAL VICIOUS and Jian Wen's...
Long Road to Freedom: Journey of the Hmong (High Five Reading)Long Road to Freedom: Journey of the Hmong (High Five Reading)
Best Price: $5.08
Asian Mythology: Myths and Legends of China, Japan, Thailand, Malaysia and IndonesiaAsian Mythology: Myths and Legends of China, Japan, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia
Best Price: $45.00
AN Authoratative a-z guide to the mythologies and legends of China, Japan, Thailand, Malaysia...
Asian Diaspora Poetry in North America (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory)Asian Diaspora Poetry in North America (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory)
Best Price: $72.20
Presenting a new way of reading that helps us discern some previously unnoticed or unnoticeable...

This Other SaltThis Other Salt
Best Price: $29.90
In this long-awaited second collection from Aamer Hussein, he continues and deepens his oblique,...
Stone Field, True Arrow: A NovelStone Field, True Arrow: A Novel
Best Price: $0.99
It is fitting that the protagonist, Maya, is a weaver, for this book felt deftly...
Fiction by Filipinos in AmericaFiction by Filipinos in America
Best Price: $13.00
I use this collection of fiction in my class and I am my students enjoy them a lot. I highly...
World History Series - The Internment of the Japanese (World History Series)World History Series - The Internment of the Japanese (World History Series)
From March 1942 to December 1944, thousands of innocent American citizens were incarcerated by...
Malaysia (Ask About Asia)Malaysia (Ask About Asia)
Best Price: $16.36

River of HeavenRiver of Heaven
Best Price: $3.96
Garrett Hongo, The River of Heaven (Knopf, 1988) Hongo's second book of poetry was the Lamont...
A Timely Encounter: Nineteenth-Century Photographs of JapanA Timely Encounter: Nineteenth-Century Photographs of Japan
Best Price: $512.71
Ezra Pound and Confucianism: Remaking Humanism in the Face of ModernityEzra Pound and Confucianism: Remaking Humanism in the Face of Modernity
Best Price: $54.00
In Ezra Pound and Confucianism , Feng Lan offers the first study of Ezra Pound's project of...
AloftAloft
Best Price: $1.20
A work of fiction about suburban life and middle class men.
No Physical EvidenceNo Physical Evidence
Best Price: $0.01
This has been the most compelling crime drama I have listened to in along while. The author...

Women's Issues in Amy Tan's the Joy Luck Club (Social Issues in Literature)Women's Issues in Amy Tan's the Joy Luck Club (Social Issues in Literature)
Best Price: $22.43
Chinese Storytellers: Life and Art in the Yangzhou Tradition (C & T Asian Literature Series) (C & T Asian Literature Series)Chinese Storytellers: Life and Art in the Yangzhou Tradition (C & T Asian Literature Series) (C & T Asian Literature Series)
Best Price: $73.95
The collaborative production of Vibeke Bordahl (Senior Researcher, Danish Institute for Advanced...
Transports of Delight: An Aromatic Journey in Verse from East to West on the Wings of PerfumeTransports of Delight: An Aromatic Journey in Verse from East to West on the Wings of Perfume
Best Price: $23.75
  
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