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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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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 美華名人錄
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 publication of zen center
[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
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Yan huang tian di 炎黄天地 [12 issues] 12期
Jiangmen: Jiangmen (Wuyi) yanhuang wenhua yanjiuhui 江门（五邑）炎黄文化研究会, 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..... 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 長輩的生活智慧
Milpitas: Bei jia zhou Taiwan zhang bei hui 北加州台灣長輩會, 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 中華聯誼會通訊 Nos. 39 and 40 第卅九、四十期
San Francisco: Zhong hua lian yi hui / Chinese Culture Association 中華聯誼會, 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 中華聯誼會通訊 Nos. 39 and 40 第卅九、四十期
San Francisco: Zhong hua lian yi hui / Chinese Culture Association 中華聯誼會, 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..... 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 chukou shangpin jiaoyihui zhuan kan 中國出口商品交易会專刊
New York: Meizhou huaqiao ribao 美洲華僑日報, 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..... More
Cat.No: 182117
Zhongguo sheng huo / The Life of China. No. 9 中國生活，9
Shanghai: Zhongguo sheng huo hua bao 中國生活畫報, 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..... 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 中華民國八十四年海外華裔青年暑期返國研習團紀念冊
Taibei: Qiao wu wei yuan hui 僑務委員會, 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 中山人在夏威夷
Zhongshan, China: Zhongshan Shi Huaqiao lishi xuehui 中山市华侨历史学会, 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
Asian American Sourcebook. Stanford University
Stanford, CA: Asian American New Student Orientation Committee, [199-]. 47p., very good in wraps, 8.5x11 inches. Undated, but mid-1990s. Guide to resources and campus life for Asian American students. More
Cat.No: 191471
Caregivers under siege!! A caregiver's self defense manual
San Francisco: TBJA Publishing, 2001. xx, 155p., 8.5x11 inches, wraps. Filipino American's story of how Merrill Lynch Trust Management screwed him out the trust from his mother's estate. "This is the story of sexism, racism, anti-semitism and abuse of judicial power!" - rear wrap. More
Cat.No: 87196
Seeds of Heaven
San Francisco: TPJA Publishing/Trafford, 2005. Paperback. 279p., 8.5x11 inches, illustrations, very good second printing trade paperback in original pictorial wraps showing a comix-style fantasy scene. Philippine-American author's self-published scifi about Arcturean aliens fraternizing with their creations in Atlantis. More
Cat.No: 133504
Harmony and individualism: changing Chinese psychosocial functioning in Taipei and San Francisco
Taipei: Orient Cultural Service, 1970. Hardcover. xiv, 374p., preface, Chinese characters and English text, abstract, maps, charts, intorduction, appendices, bibliography, good ex-library copy in red buckram cloth and gilt with de-accession stamps, pocket on rear inner board. Asian Folklore & Social Life monographs vol. 12, Professor Lou Tsu-k'uang, editor in..... More
Cat.No: 209835
Echoes of the Past, Epics of Dissent; A South Korean Social Movement.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. Paperback. xviii, 306p., illustrated with b&w photos, some line maps and tables; softbound in 9x6 inch decorated wraps, mild signs of age and handling: paperstock is slightly toned, covers show a slight curl, a nice copy, quite sound, clean and unmarked. More
Cat.No: 250094
Gay Parent Magazine: vol. 7, #38, Jan-Feb, 2005; Bay Area Asian & Pacific Queer Activism
Forest Hills: Gay Parent Mag, 2005. Magazine. 16p., 8.25x10.75 inches, articles, news, services and resources, illustrations, very good magazines on cheap newsprint, stapled color pictorial wraps. Inexpensively-produced magazine to accompany the Gay Parent web site. More
Cat.No: 255076
The saffron veil
Nyack, NY: Prana Press, 1953. 198p., metallic bronze wraps discolored with small cigarette burn at the base (affecting four leaves including title page), first edition. Laid into this copy is a staplebound booklet of 8p., Acharya's long poem "Birth of Woman" More
Cat.No: 51578
Our response to the report of October 31, 1978 on the investigation of Korean-American relations regarding reverend Sun Myung Moon and member of the Unification Church
New York: The Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity, 1979. viii, 271p., numerous documents in facsimile, 9x6 inch plain printed buff wraps; unobtrusive accession label on the front cover (letterhead cover text laid in). More
Cat.No: 150020
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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