Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Floating World of Ukiyo-E Floating World of Ukiyo-E Sandy Kita,Dr. Sandy Kita,Lawrence E. Marceau,Katherine L. Blood,James Douglas Farquhar The Library of Congress presents a gorgeous exhibition catalog that pulls from its collection of over 2000 Ukiyo-e prints and pre-19th-century Japanese art books one of the largest such collections o… OL15750156W
Subjectivity in Asian children's literature and film Subjectivity in Asian children's literature and film Stephens, John "This volume establishes a dialogue between East and West in children's literature scholarship. In all cultures, children's literature shows a concern to depict identity and individual development, s… OL16637656W
Homoeroticism in Imperial China Homoeroticism in Imperial China Mark Stevenson,Cuncun Wu "Bringing together over sixty pre-modern Chinese primary sources on same-sex desire in English translation, Homoeroticism in Imperial China is an important addition to the growing field of the compar… OL16688620W
Berso de Berza Berso de Berza April Mae M. Berza Poetry by April Mae M. Berza OL16798597W
The woman warrior The woman warrior Maxine Hong Kingston The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts is Kingston's disturbing and fiercely beautiful account of growing up Chinese-American in California. The young Kingston lives in two worlds: the… OL1822441W
Taishō chic Taishō chic Sharon Minichiello,Kendall H. Brown,Sharon A. Minichiello "Catalogue entries on popular songbooks, kimono, and decorative arts further investigate the potent relations between styles and ideologies imported from the West and those newly established as Japan… OL18312098W
The art of silver jewellery The art of silver jewellery Rene Van Der Star,Ien Rappold,Hugo Krijger,John Beringen,Michiel Elsevier Stokmans "In thirty years of travel and passionate research, Rene van der Star has collected and catalogued with philological rigor an exceptional collection of silver jewellery from the most remote villages … OL18455529W
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon Where the Mountain Meets the Moon Grace Lin,Grace Lin,Janet Song Where the Mountain Meets the Moon is a fantasy-adventure children's novel inspired by Chinese folklore. It was written and illustrated by Grace Lin and published in 2009. The novel received a 2010 Ne… OL1913873W
Asia in Amsterdam Asia in Amsterdam Jan van Campen,Femke Diercks,Karina Corrigan,Janet C. Blyberg "This lavishly illustrated catalogue discusses the Asian luxury goods that were imported into the Netherlands during the 17th century and demonstrates the overwhelming impact these works of art had o… OL19668284W
End of an era End of an era Carl Minzner "China's reform era is ending. Core factors that characterized it-political stability, ideological openness, and rapid economic growth-are unraveling. Since the 1990s, Beijing's leaders have firmly r… OL19739498W
Fierce enigmas Fierce enigmas Srinath Raghavan "South Asia looms large in American foreign policy. Over the past two decades, we have spent billions of dollars and thousands of human lives in the region, to seemingly little effect. As Srinath Rag… OL19763406W
Three-legged horse Three-legged horse Zheng, Qingwen An anthology by a Taiwanese writer. The title story is on a man's atonement for collaborating with the Japanese during World War II, Autumn Night is a conflict between a wife and her mother-in-law, w… OL19907028W
Everything under the heavens Everything under the heavens Howard W. French For many years after its reform and opening in 1978, China maintained an attitude of false modesty about its ambitions. That role, reports Howard French, has been set aside. China has asserted its pl… OL20049816W
Taste Taste Sylvia Tan Taste is a compilation of Sylvia Tan's lively accounts of her adventures and exploits in the kitchen, first published in her popular Eat to Live column in The Straits Times' Mind Your Body supplement… OL27060200W
Empire of Emptiness Empire of Emptiness Patricia Ann Berger "Imperial Manchu support and patronage of Buddhism, particulary in Mongolia and Tibet, has often been dismissed as cynical political manipulation. Empire of Emptiness questions this generalization by… OL2913768W
Ramayana, a Holy Bible of India Ramayana, a Holy Bible of India Robert P. Goldman,Sheldon I. Pollock,Vālmīki,Rosalind Lefeber राहुल मौर्य " पब्लिकेशन अथॉरिटी भारतीय प्रोड्यूसर द्वारा संचालित भारत ,सरकार यूपी" OL308980W
Island Island Genny Lim,Judy Yung,Him Mark Lai In this revised edition sixty-nine poems in the main text have been combined with the sixty-six poems in the appendix into one section. Chinese poems that have been found on the walls of the immigrat… OL4077897W
Hokusai and Hiroshige Hokusai and Hiroshige Hokusai Katsushika,Julia M. White,Yoko Woodson,Reiko Mochinaga Brandon By the 1800s, when the artists Katsushika Hokusai and Utagawa Hiroshige lived and worked, commoners enjoyed the numerous amenities of Edo (Tokyo), the world's largest city (pop. ca. 800,000). They la… OL4986002W
陰翳礼讃 (In'ei raisan) 陰翳礼讃 (In'ei raisan) 谷崎潤一郎 "This is a powerfully anti-modernist book, yet contains the most beautiful evocation of the traditional Japanese aesthetic, which cast such a spell on Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Frank Lloyd Wright.… OL668670W