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A Galaxy of Immortal Women: The Yin Side of Chinese Civilization

by Brian Griffith

The goddess tradition remakes China and the world.


The Waiting Land: A Spell in Nepal

by Dervla Murphy

The Waiting Land is an exploration of Nepal by a feisty, generous-hearted young Irish woman in the spring of 1965. The third in a series of books tracing Dervla's involvement with the self-sufficient mountain...


The Japanese Way of the Artist: Living the Japanese Arts & Ways, Brush Meditation, The Japanese Way of the Flower

by H. E. E. Davey

Now in a single volume, three essential works on Japanese aesthetics, spirituality, and meditation


Imperial Designs: Italians in China 1900-1947

by Shirley Ann Smith

Imperial Designs is the first text in English dealing comprehensively with the Italian colonial experience in China. It confirms imperial policy and the rhetoric of conquest.


Mulberry and Peach: Two Women of China

by Hualing Nieh & Sau-ling Wong

A brilliantly crafted picaresque novel, sensual, harrowing and even comic, of an Asian-American woman's exile


Japanese Portraits: Pictures of Different People

by Donald Richie

The private collections of longtime Japan resident Donald Richie capture the personalities of certain Japanese people—some famous, some unknown—with insight and humor. Richie, who considers himself a foreigner...


Island of Java

by John Joseph Joseph Stockdale & John Bastin

Originally published in 1811, Island of Java was the first popular work in English to describe what for many centuries was the most important island in the vast Indonesian archipelago. The book enjoyed a great...


The Japan Journals: 1947-2004

by Donald Richie & Leza Lowitz

"Wonderfully evocative and full of humor, but also honest, introspective, and often poignant."--The New York Times


The Kojiki: Records of Ancient Matters

by Basil Hall Hall Chamberlain

Written by imperial command in the eighth century, The Kojiki is the oldest surviving Japanese book. This compendium of early Japanese life provides a panorama of Japan during its formation.


Bound to Emancipate: Working Women and Urban Citizenship in Early Twentieth-Century China and Hong Kong

by Angelina Chin

Emancipation, a defining feature of twentieth-century Chinese society, is explored in detail in this compelling study. Angelina Chin expands and reinterprets the meaning of women’s emancipation by examining...


The Lotus Unleashed

by Robert J. Topmiller

During the Vietnam War, Vietnamese Buddhist peace activists made extraordinary sacrifices -- including self-immolation -- to try to end the fighting. They hoped to establish a neutralist government that would...


Historical Dictionary of the Philippines

by Artemio R. Guillermo

The Historical Dictionary of the Philippines, Third Edition contains a chronology, an introductory essay, an extensive bibliography, and several hundred cross-referenced dictionary entries.


The China Threat: Memories, Myths, and Realities in the 1950s

by Nancy Bernkopf Bernkopf Tucker

Nancy Bernkopf Tucker confronts the coldest period of the cold war—the moment in which personality, American political culture, public opinion, and high politics came together to define the Eisenhower Administration’s...


China: A New Cultural History

by Cho-yun Hsu

An internationally recognized authority on Chinese history and a leading innovator in its telling, Cho-yun Hsu constructs an original portrait of Chinese culture. Unlike most historians, Hsu resists centering...


The Headless State: Aristocratic Orders, Kinship Society, and Misrepresentations of Nomadic Inner Asia

by David Sneath

In this groundbreaking work, social anthropologist David Sneath aggressively dispels the myths surrounding the history of steppe societies and proposes a new understanding of the nature and formation of the...


Song and Silence: Ethnic Revival on China's Southwest Borders

by Sara L. M. L. M. Davis

In the sunny, subtropical Sipsongpanna region, Tai Lues perform flirtatious, exoticized dances for an increasingly growing tourist trade. Endorsed by Chinese officials, who view the Tai Lues as a “model minority,”...


The Emergence of a New Urban China: Insiders' Perspectives

by Zai Liang, Steven Messner & Cheng Chen

This book provides first-hand, insiders’ perspectives on urban issues in China, aiming to provide a theoretically informed and empirically rich discussion of the new social landscape of contemporary urban...


Growing Up Jewish in China

by Dolly Beil

A colourful and compelling memoir of Jewish life in China during the first half of the twentieth century. Dolly Beil spent the first part of her life in the Chinese cities of Tsingtao (Qingdao), Mukden (Shenyang),...


Mountain of Fame: Portraits in Chinese History (New in Paper)

by John E. E., Jr. Wills

Through biographies of China's most colorful and famous personalities, John Wills displays the five-thousand-year sweep of Chinese history from the legendary sage emperors to the tragedy of Tiananmen Square....


The Great Famine in China, 1958-1962: A Documentary History

by Xun Zhou

Beginning soon after the implementation of the policies of the Great Leap Forward of 1958-1961, when the drive to collectivize and industrialize undermined the livelihoods of the vast majority of peasant workers,...