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. ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

A New York Times Bestseller An Economist Book Of The Year Costa Book Award Winner For Biography Galaxy National Book Award Winner (new Writer Of The Year Aw...

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...

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...

Accompanied By A Chinese Journalist, Trudeau Talks To Chinese People From All Walks Of Life, Examining The Changes Taking Place Now And Looking At The Histo...

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...

Love, fame, war, and espionageCategories: Biographies & Memoirs Community & CultureAsian & Asian American

when China's Communist Party Detained Ji-li's Father, The 12-year-old Was Faced With The Most Difficult Choice Of Her Life. She Could Denounce Her Father A...

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...