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THE DOWRY BRIDE tells the poignant and explosive story of a young bride victimized by India’s controversial Dowry System and Arranged Marriag

The FORBIDDEN DAUGHTER takes the reader into a world where the corrupt and covert practice of gender-selective abortion still thrives and femal

LIVING WITH PURPOSE IN A WORN-OUT BODY is an exploration of the inner life shared by many persons in nursing homes and retirement centers.

When Asian American journalist Earvin Ilokano recurrently experiences the consternation of his newspaper's publisher despite the plaudits of his editor, he deals with the situaion constructively by pe

"Stunning . . .This novel marks the debut of a major talent whose career will bear watching." - Starred review, Publisher's Weekly

A pioneer in the food world, Cecilia Chiang introduced Americans to authentic northern Chinese cuisine at her San Francisco restaurant, the Mandarin, in 1961, earning the adoration of generations of d

2006 is the Year of the Dog! Born on New Year's Day, the puppy Daniel explores the world with his parents and the girl Lin, and learns how to become "man's best friend."

2007 is the Year of the Pig! Born on New Year's Day, the piglet Patricia explores the farm with her parents and Farmer Wu.

When Julie takes a kung fu class, she thinks getting a black belt will be easy. But her bold teacher says guess again!

2008 is the Year of the Rat! With his parents' blessing, the baby rat Ralph investigates the village with his new friend, the boy Bing.

As a basketball player and international spokesman, 7'5" Yao Ming has quickly become the eighth wonder of the s ...

2009 is the Year of the Ox! Olivia is a young ox eager to make her mark in the world. But growing up is challenging, as Olivia learns that helping sometimes is harder than it looks.

A stingy fisherman always makes his three young helpers do all his work. One day he scolds the “lazy boys” for forgetting to provide lunch. “Don’t worry,” they say.

It's the Chinese New Year, and the Chang Family has only enough rice flour to make one nián-gão, a special New Year's rice cake, for the entire family to eat.

“This is an enchanti

Relevant to today’s war-torn world, The Palace of Illusions takes us back to the time of the Indian epic The Mahabharat—a time that is half-history, half-myth, and wholly magical.

Sister of My Heart is about how the lives of two women are changed by marriage, as one woman comes to California, and the other stays behind in India.

Hoshruba (www.hoshruba.com), the longest magical epic ever written, will commence publication in Spring 2009.

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Co-translation (with Brother Anthony of Taizé and Prof Young-moo Kim) of 165 selections from first ten volumes of magnum-opus work-in-progress by  celebrated Korean author Ko Un.  Extending now

Translated from Korean by Brother Anthony of Taizè, Young-moo Kim, and Gary Gach  

900+ translated haiku, all on the sea cucumber and most over a hundred years old, with a good me

17-syllabet Japanese poems about human foibles, sans season (i.e., not haiku), were introduced a half-century ago by RH Blyth i

Fly-ku!

3000 haiku about cherry trees, cherry blossoms, and blossom-viewing: the most haiku about a single theme ever found in one book.

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Daughter of a Manchu aristocrat, granddaughter of a Boston merchant, educated like a boy in the Confucian classics, a baptized Catholic blessed by the hand of Pope Leo XIII, a woman who donned chic We

Southern Fried Rice: Life in a Chinese Laundry in the Deep South is my memoir about my immigrant parents and their children and their social and cultural isolation running a laundry in the Deep Sou

A social history of the role of the Chinese laundry on the survival of early Chinese immigrants in the U.S.during the Chinese Exclusion law period, 1882-1943, and in Canada during the years of the Hea

The story of how a few Chinese immigrants found their way to the Mississippi River Delta in the late 1870s and earned their living with small family operated grocery stores in neighborhoods where most

A coming-of-age summer at a Peace Corps camp in the Blueridge Mountains, discovering new definitions of identity, friendship and love.

While waiting for her grown children to make a traditional New Year's Day visit, a Korean American mother struggles with difficulties of immigrant life, including dealing with ghosts from her past.

A boy comes of age when he sees his parents in a new light that tests his loyalties. 

When two friends’ mothers meet, a Korean-American and Chinese-American, a young girl discovers the complexity of prejudices and loyalties.

A journey of lasting lessons through a difficult first pregnancy that included surgery, eleven days in the Labor and Delivery wing and prematurity.

In the best-selling tradition of The Color of Water comes a beautifully written, evocative memoir of a relationship between a mother and son—and the Chinese-American experience

  How to Write a Suicide Note:  serial essays that saved a woman's life examines the life of a Chinese/Black woman who grew up passing for white, who grew up poor, who loves women but ha

In this debut Liu contemplates the interweavings of migration, love, memory and mourning in an autobiography of poems spanning four years.

Twelve stories from twenty-first century Tokyo and a novella. Debut collection from award-winning writer.

Unique Kanji Compendium for graphic design, tattooes, and Japanese language and cultural study. Categories include:

100 poems about the moon, inspired by the woodblock prints of Yoshitoshi and the author's 40th birthday. Foreword by Donald Richie ...

A thousand years ago, Japanese women court poets created a written aesthetic of unmatchcd elegance and technical skill.

Filmmaker and Film critic Donald Richie has been observing and writing about Japan from the moment he arrived in Tokyo on New Year's Day, 1947.

This collection, Volume 2 of the Stone Bridge Anthology  of Contemporary Japanese Women's Poetry, introduces the work of three dozen of Japan's finest women poets who specialize in free verse. Poet

MANOA: Silence to Light: Japan and the Shadows of War, anthology ofJapanese literature in translation, Volume

MANOA: Towards and Literature of the Periphery-anthology of Japaneseliterature in translation edited by Leza Lowitz, University of

In Japan, the line that divides myth from reality is not merely blurred, it is nonexistent. Superstitions, legends, and folk myths are passed down through generations and pervade daily living.

RUSSIAN TEXTILES reveals for the first time the beautiful, unusual, and quirky machine-printed cotton cloth that flooded the bazaars of Bukhara, Samarkand, Tashkent, Khiva, and Kokand under the Rus

Samar--a.k.a.

"Now we're supposed to be deciding what we wanna do with our lives and I realized that's what I want to do. Fight evil....It's a good fight, Buffy, and I want in."

Tofu Ling and the Carp Banner is the second book in the Tofu Ling Series.

This novel tells the story of the events that occurred in Shouhua Qi's hometown during the winter of 1937-38.

This collection features 120 short-short stories (from 100 to 300 words each), written by some of China's most dynamic and versatile authors.

A collection of essays that intertwine his personal experiences with the politics of China and the United States, his native culture and his adopted one.

 The 14 short stories collected in the book, all inspired by real-life

An unprecedented historical novel, Purple Mountain presents a riveting, profoundly intimate portrait of Nanjing and its people during the first six days after its fall to the Japanese army in 1937.

"Two half-Filipino brothers can pass for white, but their mother cannot; painful conflicts are in store for everybody in this complex exploration of racism in California, starting in 1993, a year

Sarojini Sahoo , the eminent south Asian feminist writer ,known for he

Shanghai resident Navjot Singh gives a lowdown on the city's hotspots.

Translations of Wang Wei and Taigu Ryokan by Larry Smith who reads them here with flute from Monte Page. Includes 15 page book and audio CD.

Eighteen poems depicting Indian life

From Publishers Weekly

It is 1875, and at Chai Mansion, two babies are born just months apart. ...

A young Chinese woman named Fusang is kidnapped and sold into prostitution in San Francisco during the Gold Rush.

See also separate blog entry on the film This Side of Heaven based on this work ...

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Books by Geling Yan in Mainland China in various editions, plus books to which she has contributed stories or essays and books that write about Geling Yan as one of their subjects.

Jiang and Ming, a loving Chinese couple with two kids, disappointed by their inadequate material life in China, decide

A young Japanese woman, Tatsuru, left behind after the Japanese defeat in Manchuria, is sold as a concubine to a Chinese couple to give birth to their children.   After the Communist takeover, Ta

In the period leading up to World War II, a young Chinese-American woman in Shanghai falls in love with a German Jewish refugee in the Shanghai Ghetto.  In San Francisco, she sees another young man w

A moving and uplifting tale of two children and their parents, and the beloved pet doves that help them to understand one another.

With Chinese-influenced paintings in jewel-like colors, Belle Yang tells an immigration tale that reflects one of the many facets of the American dream.

From Publishers Weekly

Wen Ho Lee, a patriotic American scientist born in Taiwan, had devoted almost his entire life to science and to helping improve U.S. defense capabilities.