Black candle: poems about women...
Divakaruni, Chitra Bannerjee
Asian American
This section includes literature by Asian American authors, as well as nonfiction works on related subjects, and the ephemera of Asian American political and cultural organizations. We stock many out-of-print Asian American immigrant publications in Asian languages.
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Trikone Magazine: lesbian, gay, bisexual & transgender South Asians vol. 17, no. 1, January 2002; Sexxx!
Palo Alto: Trikon, 2002. Magazine. 24p., 8.5x11 inches, illustrations, photos, features, reviews, very good semi-glossy LGBT magazine in stapled, pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 222263
Trikone Magazine: lesbian, gay, bisexual & transgender South Asians vol. 17, no. 3, July 2002; Indians in Smalltown USA
Palo Alto: Trikon, 2002. Magazine. 24p., 8.5x11 inches, illustrations, photos, features, reviews, very good semi-glossy LGBT magazine in stapled, pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 222264
Trikone Magazine: lesbian, gay, bisexual & transgender South Asians vol. 18, no. 1, March 2003; IEmerging from onscurity' youth issue
Palo Alto: Trikon, 2003. Magazine. 24p., 8.5x11 inches, illustrations, photos, features, reviews, very good semi-glossy LGBT magazine in stapled, pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 222265
Trikone: Lesbian & Gay South Asians [brochure]
San Jose: Trikone, n.d. Six-panel brochure, 3.75x8.5 inches, very good, introducing the group founded in 1986. Calls it "The oldest South Asian queer organization in the world." More
Cat.No: 186677
The twenty five year's history of Korean Canaan Presbyterian Church (1972-1997)
Bellflower CA: Published by Editorial Committee of Korean Canaan Presbyterian Church, 1997. 305p., high-gloss paperstock throughout with numerous vignette photoportraits in color of parishioners; some period interiors in b&w and color site photography; first issue cloth boards titled silver in glossy marigold dj, jacket spine panel slightly faded, a very..... More
Cat.No: 175089
[Two brochures for Maum Meditation]
n.p. Maum Meditation, 2008, 2009. Two staplebound booklets, both with the main title "Cleansing Mind and Body," with leaflets laid in announcing seminars in the San Francisco Bay Area. More
Cat.No: 223339
Unity is Strength / Tuanjie jiu shi liliang / Support GCA Workers / Zhichi Zhong Xi gongren [pinback button]
[East Bay]: [1974?]. 1.5 inch diameter pin, bilingual text and artwork depicting seamstresses with a sewing machine, orange background. Very good; manufactured by East Bay pinmaker Robert Rush (though not identified as such on the pin). GCA was the Great Chinese American Sewing Company, known in Cantonese as Jung Sai..... More
Cat.No: 204511
Vietnamese "orphans"? We don't believe the media's lies! The Vietnamese DO take care of their children! No more kidnapping! [gummed sticker]
n.p. [197-]. Gummed sheet, about 5.75x4.5 inches, intended to be moistened and put up in public places. Faint stain at bottom edge. Issued in response to a plan in April,1975 to airlift orphans out of South Vietnam; there was widespread belief among anti-war activists that the children were not really..... More
Cat.No: 237551
Vietnamese Directory USA. Northern California, 1989
San Jose: Vietnamese Chamber of Commerce, Northern California, 1989. 560p., telephone book, pages evenly toned, otherwise very good. More
Cat.No: 197043
Voices of the heart [program and personal letter/picture]
[San Francisco]: Jesus Christ is the Lord Church, [1991]. [16p.] including covers, 5.5x8.5 inches, photos, lightly-worn program for the Philippine-American Christian singing group in stapled blue covers, letter from the Philippines with envelope and color photo laid-in. More
Cat.No: 178373
Wahine o Hawaii; seaweeds & constructions, December 1977, no. 4
Honolulu: Elepaio Press, 1977. 87p., 8.5x11 inches, wraps. A poetry issue of the Honolulu literary magazine. More
Cat.No: 93590
Wang Tiwu xian sheng ji nian ji
[Taibei-?]: Lianhe bao xi chuang ban ren Wang Tiwu xian sheng ji nian ji bian ji wei yuan hui, 1997. 245, 320p., two hardcover volumes, very good in slipcase; text in Chinese. Biography of the publishing magnate and member of the Chinese Kuomintang Central Standing Committee, whose business empire included..... More
Cat.No: 160181
Watakushitachi no kiroku, Wanto Nikkei Shakai Hoshidan / East Bay Japanese for Action presents "Our recollections"
Berkeley: East Bay Japanese for Action, 1986. 335p., very good hardcover in dj with small price sticker scar, text in English and Japanese. Autobiographical pieces by members of the group, including discussions of immigration experiences, internment, work, religion and family life. More
Cat.No: 184815
Watakushitachi no kiroku, Wanto Nikkei Shakai Hoshidan / East Bay Japanese for Action presents "Our recollections"
Berkeley: East Bay Japanese for Action, 1986. 335p., very good hardcover in dj, text in English and Japanese, inscribed in Japanese by Kato Mizue, the group's instructor. Autobiographical pieces by members of the group, including discussions of immigration experiences, internment, work, religion and family life. More
Cat.No: 196952
We've been hearing a lot about the Saigon orphans in the news lately... but some facts didn't make the news
Cambridge, MA: Vietnam Resource Center, [1975]. Four-panel brochure, 8.5x11 inches, very good. Issued after Operation Babylift, which evacuated thousands of war orphans from South Vietnam before the fall of the Saigon government. Some critics claimed that many of the children were not actually orphans, but had been stolen away for..... More
Cat.No: 221383
What's Hapa'ning: the Hapa issues forum newsletter. Vol. 4 no. 2 (Fall 1996)
Berkeley: Hapa Issues Forum, 1996. 8p. newsletter wraps, 8.5x11 inches, very good. Published by UC Berkeley students, edited by Greg Mayeda and Jeff Yoshimi. More
Cat.No: 221109
Who's who of Sino-American / Mei Hua ming ren lu
Flushing, NY: Ko's Publishing, 1982. 299p., owner's address neatly stamped inside front cover, otherwise very good hardcover, 8.5x11 inches, biographical listings in English and Chinese. More
Cat.No: 188020
Wind Bell. Publication of Zen Center volume XIII , Nos. 1-2, 1974
[San Francisco]: the journal, 1974. 47p., photographic illustrations, 9 x 6 inch staplebound wraps; somewhat edgeworn. Doctrine, memorials, news, and a discussion of land purchase: Tassajara was paid off in 1972, the SF Center and Green Gulch still mortgaged. More
Cat.No: 233607
Xin Zhongguo yu hua qiao
Beijing: Zhongguo jian she za zhi she chu ban, 1984. 38p., staplebound booklet, very good. Jin ri shen zhou. On the significance of the overseas Chinese to New China. More
Cat.No: 230049
Yan huang tian di [12 issues]
Jiangmen: Jiangmen (Wuyi) yanhuang wenhua yanjiuhui, 1997-2002. Twelve issues of the quarterly journal on the history and culture of Jiangmen, a city in Guangdong Province which is the ancestral home of many overseas Chinese (hence occasional contributions by Chinese-American, Chinese-Canadian, Chinese-Australian and other authors). Standard length 48 pages; glossy covers..... More
Cat.No: 184151
The Yellow journal; volume 12 number 12 Spring 2001
San Francisco: SF State University Asian American Studies Dept. 2005. 100p., very good in original wraps. More
Cat.No: 108197
The Yellow journal; volume 13 number 13 Spring 2003
San Francisco: SF State University Asian American Studies Dept. 2003. 169p., very good in original wraps. Illustrated with comic strips and drawings. More
Cat.No: 112399
Zhang bei de sheng huo zhi hui
Milpitas: Bei jia zhou Taiwan zhang lao hu, 2002. 108p., slender paperback, very good. Text in Chinese. Fourth in a series of collections of short writings by Taiwanese-Americans in Northern California. More
Cat.No: 242194
Zhong hua lian yi hui tong xun. Nos. 39 and 40
San Francisco: Zhong hua lian yi hui / Chinese Culture Association, 2011, 2012. Two issues of the annual collection, 316 and 308 pages respectively, text in Chinese, very good. Poetry and essays by immigrant authors, as well as photos and articles about Association activities. More
Cat.No: 188124
Zhong hua lian yi hui tong xun. Nos. 39 and 40
San Francisco: Zhong hua lian yi hui / Chinese Culture Association, 2011, 2012. Two issues of the annual collection, 316 and 308 pages respectively, text in Chinese, very good. Handwritten personal note in Chinese from local painter and author Grace Paa-Chiang Hu is taped inside the front cover. Poetry and..... More
Cat.No: 188125
She sews in a sweatshop still dreaming of Gold Mountains / reliving her past through holiday rituals / patiently waiting for her house in the suburbs. / Helplessly I watch the years roll by / on the horizon no houses in sight, just mountains made of brass and sweat [screen print poster]
Hom, Nancy; Stephanie Lowe
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