Asian & Asian American

A Chinese American woman tells of the Chinese myths, family stories and events of her California childhood that have shaped her identity. ...

The Author Tells Of Her Solitary Confinement And Torture As A Wealthy Chinese Woman During The Cultural Revolution. The Wind Of Revolution -- Witch-hunt -- ...

Blending the intimacy of memoir and the panoramic sweep of eyewitness history, Wild Swans has become a bestselling classic in thirty languages, with more t...

Alistair Urquhart was a soldier in the Gordon Highlanders, captured by the Japanese in Singapore. Forced into manual labor as a POW, he survived 750 days i...

From One Of Our Most Astute Observers Of Human Nature, A Far-reaching Exploration Of Japanese History And Culture And A Moving Meditation On Impermanence, M...

Genghis Khan is one of history's immortals, alive in memory as a scourge, hero, military genius and demi-god. To Muslims, Russians and westerners, he is a ...

In The Pink Pagoda, Dr. James Garrow tells two stories: his personal involvement in helping rescue more than 36,000 Chinese baby girls from death, and the t...

Thirty years after the epic journey chronicled in his classic work The Great Railway Bazaar, the world’s most acclaimed travel writer re-creates his 25,00...

For seven years, Xinran Xue hosted a daily radio phone-in programme for Radio Nanjing during which she discussed women's lives, and invited women to call in...

At the height of her career in journalism, Jan Wong's world came crashing down. A story she wrote on a school shooting sparked a violent backlash, includin...

In The Pink Pagoda, Dr. James Garrow tells two stories: his personal involvement in helping rescue more than 36,000 Chinese baby girls from death, and the t...

As a youngster, Johnny Bowers father told him if he worked hard every day and put passion into his profession, it would pay off in the long run. It was good...

Jan Wong, a Canadian of Chinese descent, went to China as a starry-eyed Maoist in 1972 at the height of the Cultural Revolution. A true believer—and one o...

An Exhilarating, Anti-colonial Reclamation Of Nature Writing And Memoir, Rooted In The Forests And Flatlands Of Taiwan From The Winner Of The Rbc Taylor Pri...

a Riveting Memoir Of A Girl's Painful Coming-of-age In A Wealthy Chinese Family During The 1940s. a Chinese Proverb Says, Falling Leaves Return To Their Ro...

Product Description Tokyo Junkie is a memoir that plays out over the dramatic 60-year growth of the megacity Tokyo, once a dark, fetid backwater and no...

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