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In An Ethics of Betrayal, Crystal Parikh investigates the theme and tropes of betrayal and treason in Asian American and Chicano/Latino literary and cultural narratives. In considering betrayal from an ethical perspective, one grounded in the theories of Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida, Parikh argues that the minority subject is obligated in a primary, preontological, and irrecusable relation of responsibility to the Other. Episodes of betrayal...
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This entertaining compendium is a celebration of Japanese American history and heritage. While detailing favorite foods, customs, words, games, and holidays, it explores the painful history of immigration and WWII internment, with suggestions for connecting to your Japanese American community and passing on traditions across generations and into intermarried families. This revised edition has fresh interviews with Japanese Americans about their life...
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Chinese food first became popular in America under the shadow of violence against Chinese aliens, a despised racial minority ineligible for United States citizenship. The founding of late-nineteenth-century "chop suey" restaurants that pitched an altered version of Cantonese cuisine to white patrons despite a virulently anti-Chinese climate is one of several pivotal events in Anne Mendelson's thoughtful history of American Chinese food. Chow Chop...
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Roots of the Issei presents a complex and nuanced picture of the Japanese American community in the early twentieth century: a people challenged by racial prejudice and anti-Japanese immigration laws trying to gain a foothold in a new land while remaining connected to Japan. Against this backdrop, Andrew Way Leong examines the emergence of generational terms that have long been used to organize Japanese American narratives: issei (first generation),...
745) Reenactments
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In Reenactments, poet Hai-Dang Phan explores the history, memory, and legacy of the Vietnam War from his vantage point as a second-generation Vietnamese American. Woven throughout the poems is a narrative of his family's exodus from Vietnam that beautifully elucidates the American record of immigration, dislocation, inheritance, and ultimately hope. The poems are persuasively varied in their approach. The past and present, the remembered and imagined,...
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Starting with Salman Rushdie's assertion that even though something is always lost in translation, something can always be gained, Martha Cutter examines the trope of translation in twenty English-language novels and autobiographies by contemporary ethnic American writers. She argues that these works advocate a politics of language diversity--a literary and social agenda that validates the multiplicity of ethnic cultures and tongues in the United...
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Set in rural Japan as the height of the bubble economy, Distant Thunder tells of a farming village gradually effaced by urbanization, corruption, and greed. After Matsuzo Wada has sold off the family's land and left his wife for another woman, his son Mitsuo is determined to support himself and his mother in the traditional manner, farming. All that remains of his ancestors' lands is a hothouse, in which he grows tomatoes to sell to the housewives...
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True stories of glamour, drama, and tragedy told through five generations of a Shanghai family, from the last days of imperial rule to the Cultural Revolution.
A high position bestowed by China's empress dowager grants power and wealth to the Sun family. For Isabel, growing up in glamorous 1930s and '40s Shanghai, it is a life of utmost privilege. But while, her scholar father and fashionable mother shelter her from civil war and Japanese occupation,...
749) The Walking Boy
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The Walking Boy is a quest novel set in early eighth-century Tang Dynasty China, in the final days of the rule of the first Female Emperor Wu Zhao. The ailing hermit monk Harelip sends his disciple Baoshi on a pilgrimage from Mount Hua to Chang'an, the Western capital; Baoshi is the "walking boy" charged with locating Harelip's missing former lover Ardhanari. Baoshi lives with a secret only his Master knows, and he is filled with fears of being discovered....
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À la découverte des traditions et de la culture de la Malaisie.
Puissance économique d'Asie du Sud-Est, parmi les premières à se développer depuis son indépendance de l'Empire britannique en 1957 et la formation, en 1965, d'une nation telle qu'on la connaît aujourd'hui, avec la péninsule malaise d'un cté et le nord de l'île de Bornéo de l'autre, la Malaisie fait désormais entendre sa voix sur la scène internationale.
Dynamique et...
751) Underworld Lit
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Simultaneously funny and frightful, Srikanth Reddy's Underworld Lit is a multiverse quest through various cultures' realms of the dead. Couched in a literature professor's daily mishaps with family life and his sudden reckoning with mortality, this adventurous serial prose poem moves from the college classroom to the oncologist's office to the mythic underworlds of Mayan civilization, the ancient Egyptian place of judgment and rebirth, the infernal...
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Boy Wonder by Day. Boy Toy by Night.
A child TV personality from a prominent Filipino family and the son of an accomplished academic, Jobert Abueva was a high achiever at his all-boys Catholic international school in Tokyo, Japan. Whatever Jobert did, he had to be the best, racking up achievements. He was a favorite among his fellow students, who elected him three times to the Student Council as class president, vice president, and president. Jobert...
754) The China Connection
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It's a year after Hong Kong's reversion to China. Aaron and Kellie's dual purpose Hong Kong trip for business and pleasure descends into chaos when Kellie fails to deliver the blueprint Chinese entrepreneurs seek in hopes of greater riches in the U.S. market. After a day-long meeting, she awakes the next morning across the border in southern China without her travel documents. Aaron, while waiting for Kellie's return, is attacked in his hotel room....
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This world super-exclusive book continues on the journey of Satya Nadella as Microsoft Chairman and CEO revealing explosive secrets for the first time ever. This book for the first time reveals about the precursor to Nadella's current prime time obsession about AI - Microsoft AI Networks for Education, Agriculture, Healthcare and Skilling – and his Microsoft Digital India team in Hyderabad tasked with using Artificial Intelligence to build solutions...
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Cursed and exiled, Hirayama Sosuke is the only person who can free Zheng Zixin from his dark past. They must put aside their differences in order to uncover the Dark Court's schemes. The Sins of the Serpent is a standalone spin-off that follows Zixin and Sosuke's tumultuous adventures through the pixie nation, Iniguthia, as they navigate through their forbidden romance. After Zixin's affairs with various men are brought to light, his parents arrange...
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A deeply personal collection of poetry and art by the award-winning actor, comedian, and composer.
With a poetic voice that is by turns lyrical and plainspoken, Charlyne Yi writes about the uncertainty of relationships, the absurdity of societal expectations, family trauma, and identity. In this intimate collection, you'll find poems and accompanying line illustrations that are playful and profound, sometimes darkly funny, and often acutely moving....
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An anthology of memoirs written by Senior Asian American participants in the senior Asian American writing workshop conducted by Genny Lim at the Japanese Community and Cultural Center of Northern California, San Francisco Japantown, in collaboration with Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center. Narratives include accounts of Japanese American Internment and post-internment by former detainees, Florence Dobashi, Harumi Serata and Michi Tashiro, an...
759) Tula: Poems
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A debut poetry collection exploring themes of family and identity while examining the experiences of a second-generation Filipino immigrant in America.
Tula: a ruined Toltec capital; a Russian city known for its accordions; Tagalog for "poem."
Prismatic, startling, rich with meaning yet sparely composed, Chris Santiago's debut collection of poems-selected by A. Van Jordan as the winner of the 2016 Lindquist & Vennum Prize for Poetry-begins with...
760) Kamilean 5 Star
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Kamilean was written in 2018 during the time KazeLoon moved back to his old neighborhood East San Gabriel he grew up in as a kid. This book was written in a 5 Star Mead and is part one there is at least one other book finished the part 2. This book is a Poetry Book or a book of bars written while Jason was high off of a lot of weed, hash oil, alcohol, and OTC pills that help him relax & sleep. This book has a lot of positive insight and good advice...
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