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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![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]](http://www.bolerium.com/pictures/thumb/196947.jpg?v=1484087302)
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Otagiri [trade catalog for the importer of Japanese decorative goods]
South San Francisco: Otagiri, 1986. 117p., paperback, 8.5x11.75 inches, front cover curled at corners, otherwise very good. Thoroughly illustrated with color photos of porcelain dishes, lacquer wares, notebooks, and all manner of other items. More
Cat.No: 219708
Our Buddhist reader
Denver: Tri-State Buddhist Church, 1960. 65p., blue buckram boards, sun-fading along left side of front cover, glue marks inside front cover from former bookplate; OCLC shows one holding in Denver. More
Cat.No: 180880
Pacific and Asian Americans: emerging models for ministry
Berkeley: Pacific and Asian American Center for Theology and Strategies (PACTS), 1981. 71p., staplebound wraps, 8.5x11 inches. Cover gives date as 1980, but a slip laid in corrects this typo. More
Cat.No: 204827
Pacific and Asian women, resources for ministry: Proceedings from the Conference, Pacific and Asian women in ministry, sisters long before the struggle, May 15-17, 1981, Berkeley, California
Berkeley: Pacific and Asian American Center for Theology and Strategies (PACTS), 1981. 88p., staplebound wraps, 11x8.5 inches. More
Cat.No: 204803
Pacific ties: UCLA's Asian/Pacific newsmagazine: March 1982
Los Angeles: ASUCLA Communication Board, 1982. 20p., 11.25x17.5 inch tabloid newspaper folded down to 11.25x8.75 inches. Cover article by Andrea Akita "The Trials of Asian American Women." Vietnamese refugees. The Tongan immigrants. More
Cat.No: 99928
"Paghawi ng ulap, lilitaw ang liwanag." Mental health and Other Helpful Services in the Community
San Francisco: Consultation, Education and Information Unit, Division of Mental Health, Substance Abuse and Forensic Services, n.d. 16p., very good in staplebound wraps, circa 1990s. More
Cat.No: 178507
Pangaea. The first issue
Berkeley: United People of Color, 1990. 43p., staplebound journal, very good, 8.5x11 inches. Contributions by students activists at UC Berkeley. More
Cat.No: 221104
Pao bao / Power news. January 1989
San Francisco: United Service Council, 1989. Single issue of the Chinese-language newspaper, contents mostly devoted to San Francisco's local Chinatown news, but with a harsh editorial on the Chiang "dynasty" of Taiwan on the cover page. The English title is a riff on the Chinese "Pao," which means cannon; the... More
Cat.No: 182092
Pembela Pemau Jilid 3 bilangan 3
[Baton Rouge-?]: the newsletter, [1975]. 27p., 8.5x11 inch sheets stapled at upper left, very good. OCLC lists only one incomplete run at Northern Illinois University, missing this issue. Text in Malay and English. No place of publication stated, but a poem includes the line "Let's examine the roots / of... More
Cat.No: 167350
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Perspective [four issues]
Berkeley: Iranian Students Cultural Organization, 1996-2003. Four issues of the Iranian-American student publication from UC Berkeley. The first two are photoreproduced, the third a copyshop production with clear plastic covers, the last one a glossy magazine. Issues present are Nov/Dec. 1996 (the first), March 1998, June 2000, and Fall 2003. More
Cat.No: 224023
Philippine National Day (June 12). 2nd annual event. Kimball Park
National City: Philippine National Day Committee, 1979. 16p., wraps, 8.5x11 inches; some names added in pencil to list in the front; program for the event with historical essays, advertisements and a revolutionary poem. More
Cat.No: 163277
Philippine Resource Center
Berkeley: the Center, [198-]. Eight-panel brochure, 3.5x8.5 inches, very good; black and white photos. Introduction to the purpose and activities of the informational organization founded by Philippine dissidents and their supporters in the US. Most likely issued 1985, as it mentions events in that year but still contains references to... More
Cat.No: 180056
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The Philippine Revolution Advances: Benefit for the New People's Army [leaflet]
Chicago: [International Association of Filipino Patriots], 1978. 8.5x11 inch leaflet reproducing a sketch of Commander Dante by the Chicano artist Rupert Garcia. Very good. Fundraiser for the guerrilla group. "Ours is an Army that Multiplies in Ambushes and Open Encounters - For the Greed of the Ruling Class Has Plowed... More
Cat.No: 230847
Philippine Solidarity Network
San Francisco: Philippine Solidarity Network, 1981. 6-panel brochure, folded, printed two sides, xeroxed. Outreach for membership in the radical organization opposed to Marcos and seeking the release of political prisoners in the Philippines. More
Cat.No: 67048
Philippines information bulletin. Vol. I, no. 3 (June 1973)
Cambridge, MA: the Bulletin, 1973. 23p., 8.5x11 inches, mildly worn wraps. Cover reproduces 1901 photo of US soldiers subjecting a captured Philippine guerrilla to water torture in an eerie premonition of the next century's waterboarding. Includes articles on women's equality, land reform, the Marcos regime's blacklisting of exiled Filipinos in... More
Cat.No: 175964
Pocket Guide to Minority Health Resources
Rockville, MD: US Dept. of Health & Human resources, Public Healthe Service, Office of Minority Health, 1995. Paperback. 102p., 3.75x6.5 inches, services and resources listings, very good pocketbook paperback in green wraps. State contacts, clearinghouses, organizations, materials, colleges etc. More
Cat.No: 230021
Political detainees in the Philippines; documentation report of SIGNS OF THE TIMES, a publication of the Association of Major Religious Superiors in the Philippines, Manila, March 31, 1976
Los Angeles: Anti-Martial Law Coalition (Philippines), [1976]. vi, 58p., 8.5x11 inches, staplebound wraps, very good. More
Cat.No: 25820
Portraits of Pride II. Chinese-American Legacies - First 160 Years in America
Los Angeles: Chinese Historical Society of Southern California, 2011. xiii, 288p., high-gloss paperstock throughout with a CD in rear pocket, numerous photos. Very good 10.2x 10x2 inch hardcover in dj. More
Cat.No: 190711
Portraits of pride; Chinese Historical Society of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, 2005
Los Angeles: Wing Mar, 2005. 227p., 10.25x10.25 inches, prologue, epilogue, appendix, index, illustrated with photos, very good first edition in dj. Includes the interactive CD rom at rear of book. More
Cat.No: 122681
Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique, volume 5, number 1, Spring. Special issue: The Comfort Women: Colonialism, War, and Sex
Durham: Duke University Press, 1997. 323p., lightly worn wraps. This issue edited by Chungmoo Choi. More
Cat.No: 130488
Proceedings of the second national research symposium of limited English proficient student issues: focus on evaluation and measurement, Washington, D.C., September 1991
Washigton: United States Department of Education. Office of Bilingual Education and Minority Languages Affairs, 1992. Paperback. Two volumes, xv, 457p. and xvi, 477p., tables, figures, footnotes, references, very good paperbacks in white printed wraps. Focuses on Spanish speakers, with consideration of Asian Americans and others. More
Cat.No: 79448
The prophet of Tabuse.
Tabuse, Japan: Tensho Kotai Jingu-kyo, 1954. 183p., very good in slightly scuffed stiff wraps, frontispiece portrait of the sect's founder Sayo Kitamura, known as Ogamisama. "She is the Savior sent by God to pass final judgment on this degenerate world." One of the "New Religions" of postwar Japan, this sect... More
Cat.No: 177050
Pui Ying Alumni General Association. 1985
Hong Kong: Pui Ying Alumni General Association, 1985. 444p., paperback, light shelfwear, very good. Directory of alumni, including many pages of listings for alumni in the United States. More
Cat.No: 220034
Pulcha yegyongjip
Hayward: Bohyunsah, 2001. 240p., the soft plastic cover is spine- and cover-titled gilt; top rim of spine has been torn away leaving a small ragged gap, otherwise a fine copy. Texts for recitation and hymns with music, presented in both Hangul script and Chinese characters. The Bohyunsah, which is no... More
Cat.No: 163800
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Qiao xun [nine issues]
Taibei: Huaqiao jiuguo lianhe zonghui, 1980-82. Nine issues of the Chinese-language newspaper targeting overseas Chinese, with patriotic Taiwanese anti-communist articles and occasional selections in English for younger people and others whose Chinese has grown rusty. Issues present are Oct. 21 (with a pictorial supplement page that has been clipped) and... More
Cat.No: 182093
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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