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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Vietnamese Boat People, a cry to humanity: how a humanitarian effort turns into a tragedy / Les boat people Vietnamiens, un appel à l'humanité : comment une action humanitaire tourne à la tragédie
Orange County, California: Vietnamese Coordinating Council for Refugees, 1994. 21p., stapled glossy wraps, 8.5 x 11 inches, illus. with color and black and white photos, wraps lightly worn else very good condition. Text in English and French. Only 6 in OCLC as of 3/2020. More
Cat.No: 249858
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
Wai Ming
San Francisco: Swanson Art Galleries, 1980. 83p., brown cloth, gilt titles, very good hardcover in a slightly worn dj. The art of Wai Ming (Lo Hing Kwok), who walked into the San Francisco gallery one day offering his work for sale. Much of his work With an introduction by Jerry..... More
Cat.No: 48857
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
[Wanted poster for a gambler who killed a Chinese laundryman in Lorain, Ohio; together with eight other wanted posters]
Lorain, OH: 1908. 8.5x11 inch wanted poster, with portrait of the wanted Raymond S. Conner and his teenaged wife Maud Jacobs; pasted to a tattered scrapbook page; also present are eight other wanted posters from assorted police departments and agencies around the country, including Pinkerton's Detective Agency, for various other..... More
Cat.No: 255121
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 新中國與華僑
Beijing: Zhongguo jian she za zhi she 中國建設雜誌社, 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
The Yellow journal; volume 17 number 17 Spring 2010
San Francisco: SF State University Asian American Studies Dept. 2010. Paperback. 116p., very good in 8.5x5.5 inch wraps. Illustrated with b&w photography and a playful mix of fonts. More
Cat.No: 256036
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
Zhong yi yao nian jian 中醫藥年鑒
Hong Kong: Zhongguo yi yao chu ban she 中國醫藥出版社, 1957. 278, 93, 9 pages; paperback, covers mildly worn. This version may have been intended for export to the US, as it contains numerous advertisements for Chinese medicine shops in California. More
Cat.No: 223971
Zhongguo chugou shangpin jiaoyihui zhuan kan
New York: Meizhou huaqiao ribao, 1978. 16p., tabloid newspaper format, brochure by the association of General Importers from the People's Republic of China issued as a supplement to the Meizhou huaqiao ribao in May 1978; evenly toned, minor edgewear. Text in Chinese. Patriotic (Chinese) articles about international trade helping the..... More
Cat.No: 182117
Zhongguo sheng huo / The Life of China. No. 9
Shanghai: Zhongguo sheng huo hua bao, 1947. 36-page pictorial magazine, 10.25x15 inches, very good. Even toning. Profusely illustrated, mostly in black and white with some color. Text mostly in Chinese, with English captions to many photos. Covers domestic cultural and political events, as well as some international material. This issue..... More
Cat.No: 221177
Zhonghua Minguo ba shi si nian hai wai Hua yi qing nian shu qi fan guo yan xi tuan ji nian ce / 1995 overseas Chinese youth language training and study tour to the Republic of China
Taibei: Qiao wu wei yuan hui, 1995. 320p., yearbook-style 12x8.5 inch hardcover with photos of participants and social activities, text in Chinese and English, issued as a souvenir for the largely Chinese-American contingent; endpapers and several other papers bear personal inscriptions and drawings by fellow participants. More
Cat.No: 195166
Zhongshan ren zai Xiaweiyi
Zhongshan, China: Zhongshan Shi Huaqiao lishi xuehui, 1995. 108p., very good in wraps, text in Chinese. On Hawaiian residents who immigrated from the Zhongshan region of Guangdong province. More
Cat.No: 187844
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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