As a student at Beijing University in the 1980s, Diane Wei Liang took part in and witnessed one of the truly momentous political events of the decade: the Tiananmen Square massacre. In the same year that saw the collapse of the Soviet Bloc, the world stood by in horror as the full might of the Chinese military state fell on thousands of defenceless students demonstrating for freedom and democracy. Part historical and political document; part love story; part remembrance of a loving family and ch...
"A ... journalist's memoir in the spirit of Richard Rodriguez's Hunger of memory and Nathan McCall's Makes me wanna holler: an intimate look at the mythology, experience, and psyche of the Asian American male"--
Eastern Cherokee by Blood 1906-1910, Volume XIII, Exceptions Filed to His Report of May 28, 1909 and Submitted January 10, 1910; From the U.S. Court of Claims 1906-1910, Cherokee-Related Records of Special Commissioner Guion Miller (Eastern Cherokee by Blood 1906 - 1910, XIII)
This heart-wrenching story immerses readers in the dramatic survival of one outspoken man who illuminates the souls of a billion ordinary Chinese citizens. An Wei, a stubborn, hardworking peasant who has lived by his values and stood up for his convictions, has succeeded against all odds in the authoritarian environment of China. Despite grinding poverty, hunger, reeducation campaigns, and attacks from jealous peers, Wei continues to inspire with his daring achievements, such as launching a demo...
Originally published in 1957, The Flower Drum Song was a groundbreaking work of popular literature. An immediate bestseller, it inspired the classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical. This charming, bittersweet tale of romance and the powerful bonds of family tells the story of Wang Ta, who wants what every young American man wants: a great career and a woman to love. Living in San Francisco's Chinatown-with his widowed father, Old Master Wang, who misses the old way of life in China, and his youn...
My Teaching and Research Career at U.S. Naval Academy and the Johns Hopkins University (Part Six)
by Chih Wu and
In the Shelter of the Pine
In the early eighteenth century, the noblewoman Ogimachi Machiko composed a memoir of Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu, the powerful samurai she had served as a concubine for twenty years. Machiko assisted Yoshiyasu in his ascent to the rank of chief adjutant to the Tokugawa shogun. She kept him in good graces with the imperial court, enabled him to study poetry with aristocratic teachers and have his compositions read by the retired emperor, and gave birth to two of his sons. Writing after Yoshiyasu's reti...
My Teaching and Research Career at U.S. Naval Academy and the Johns Hopkins University (Part Seven)
by Chih Wu
The United States is generally considered to have entered the war against Japan after the Japanese empire's attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Yet, did this conflict actually originate decades earlier? Author Claude Morita spent his career in military history and intelligence, working in programs of the US Air Force in Vietnam and with US naval intelligence operations in Japan. His research of declassified materials in the National Archives in Washington, DC, convinced him that US plann...
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER One of NPR's "Books We Love" of 2021 Longlisted for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography Winner of the Christopher Award "Masterly. An epic story of four Japanese-American families and their sons who volunteered for military service and displayed uncommon heroism... Propulsive and gripping, in part because of Mr. Brown's ability to make us care deeply about the fates of these individual soldiers...a page-turner." - Wall Street Journal From the #1...
Ambedkar: India’s Crusader for Human Rights (Campfire Graphic Novels)
by Kieron Moore
It is rare in human history when one man's life changes the destiny of millions. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar was one such remarkable leader. An untiring crusader for human rights for the oppressed untouchables of India, Babasaheb, as he was fondly known, strove throughout his life to purge from society the evil of prejudice and injustice against his fellow brethren. Having suffered humiliation in his early years purely on the circumstance of his birth in a lower caste, Babasaheb Ambedkar became the...
Japanthem: Counter-Cultural Experiences, Cross-Cultural Remixes
by Jillian Marshall
My Life in China and America (Primary Sources, Historical Collections)
by Joseph Hopkins Twichell and Yung Wing
This book, first published in 1909, in the autobiography of a man who witnessed and played a key role in 19th century China. Remarkably, the book was written in English - Yung Wing, born in 1828, was the first Chinese person ever to graduate from a major US college. He then returned to his own world, seeing it now with outsiders' eyes. He brokered the purchase of China's first arms factory from the US, and proposed widespread financial and social changes, which were the inspiration for the chang...
A strike pattern is a signature of violence carved into the land-bomb craters or fragments of explosives left behind, forgotten. In Strike Patterns, poet and anthropologist Leah Zani journeys to a Lao river community where people live alongside such relics of a secret war. With sensitive and arresting prose, Zani reveals the layered realities that settle atop one another in Laos-from its French colonial history to today's authoritarian state-all blown open by the war. This excavation of postwar...