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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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
Positive magnets [two issues, 1 and 4]
n.p. 2016, 2017. Two issues of the staplebound poetry journal founded and edited by Collin Schuster, 8.5x11 inches, very good. Number 4 is a women's issue, with Women's March cover theme, including works by Eileen Tabios, Joanna Fuhrman, Lydia Cortes, Yoko Onomo, Ruth Lepson, and others. More
Cat.No: 245133
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
[Program for the 1980 visit of a Peking Opera troupe to San Francisco]
San Francisco: Milton Meyer & Co., sponsored by Japan Air Lines, 1980. [8 leaves], staplebound program booklet, 8.5 x 11 inches, bilingual text, very good. Dianne Feinstein's introductory letter notes that it was the troupe's first visit to the US since normalization. More
Cat.No: 247920
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
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
Qing hua wen yi [nos. 15-21]
San Francisco: Association of Modern Chinese Literature and Arts of North America, 2004-2010. Seven issues of the annual publication, each in glossy-covered staplebound magazine format, collecting writing and art by Chinese immigrants. Text in Chinese. More
Cat.No: 186505
Qing zhu Zhao Yuanren xian sheng liu shi wu sui lun wen ji / Studies presented to Yuen Ren Chao on his sixty-fifth birthday. Bulletin of the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, v. 29, pt. 1-2
Taipei: Academia Sinica, 1957, 1958. Two volumes in wraps, evenly toned, covers mildly foxed and worn, text in Chinese with a few English articles, table of contents in English. Papers in honor of Chao (Zhao Yuanren), the Chinese American linguist who helped to develop pinyin. Topics include philology, dialect studies..... More
Cat.No: 189570
RAMS: Richmond Area Multi-Services, Inc.
San Francisco: RAMS, [2000s]. Six 8.5x11 inch sheets stapled upper-left corner and printed one-side-only with detailed information about the Asian American service organization, short ink note on page 1 otherwise good informational handout on cream stock. The organization formed in the Richmond District of San Francisco in 1974 by the..... More
Cat.No: 230317
Report of the San Francisco Chinese Community Citizens' Survey and Fact Finding Committee (abridged edition). Co-chairmen: Lim P. Lee, Albert Lim, H. K. Wong. Project Coordinator: Alessandro Baccari
San Francisco: The Committee, 1969. iii, 227p., very good in wraps. More
Cat.No: 10018
Report of the San Francisco Chinese Community Citizens' Survey and Fact Finding Committee (abridged edition). Co-chairmen: Lim P. Lee, Albert Lim, H. K. Wong. Project Coordinator: Alessandro Baccari
San Francisco: The Committee, 1969. iii, 227p., mildly worn wraps. More
Cat.No: 184818
Resource booklet of services for Chinatown residents
San Francisco: Chinatown Housing and Health Research Project, 1980. 107p., very good in wraps, 11x8.5 inches oblong. Second edition. Bilingual text. More
Cat.No: 191188
Rodan; Northern California Asian American community. Vol. 1, no. 2 (August 1970)
San Francisco: Rodan, 1970. 8p. newspaper, 11x17.5 inches, fold crease. The radical paper served primarily the Japanese American and Chinese American communities in San Francisco. Rear cover has a poem by Foo Gwah on Hiroshima. More
Cat.No: 248390
Rodan; Northern California Asian American community. Vol. 1, no. 3 (Sept. 1970)
San Francisco: Rodan, 1970. 8p. newspaper, 11x17.5 inches, fold crease, edgewear. The radical paper served primarily the Japanese American and Chinese American communities in San Francisco. Centerfold piece on Los Siete de la Raza; cover has poem by Foo Gwah and Jim Hamano artwork. More
Cat.No: 248387
Rodan; Northern California Asian American community. Vol. 1, no. 5 (Nov. 1970)
San Francisco: Rodan, 1970. 12p. newspaper, 11x17.5 inches, fold crease, pen notation in margin of front cover. Dittoed leaflet laid in soliciting subscriptions. The radical paper served primarily the Japanese American and Chinese American communities in San Francisco. Includes a piece by Pat Simi on her recent trip to North..... More
Cat.No: 248388
Sadakas and beyond: connecting the past to inspire the future
Honolulu: Filipino American National Historical Society, 2006. Folder containing materials from the 11th biennial conference of the Society, including a 52-page program, a 32-page program supplement, and fliers from related events and organizations. More
Cat.No: 207084
Saigon Houston Directory / Nien giam Saigon Houston. 2006
Houston, TX: the directory, 2006. 578p., wraps. Directory for the Vietnamese-American community in the Houston area. More
Cat.No: 163534
San Francisco 1984 Ethnic Dance Festival at the historic Herbst Theatre, May 31 & June 1-3
San Francisco: Presented by City Celebration Inc., and the SF Hotel Tax Fund, 1984. Magazine. 28p., 8.5x11 inches, illustrations, photos, schedule, advertising, credits, lightly-worn event program in stapled pictorial black wraps. More
Cat.No: 209040
San Francisco Nichi Bei Times; Japanese American Daily number 6869 Saturday, October 18, 1975
San Francisco: Nichi Bei Times, 1975. 4p. in English, 4p. folded in in Japanese, 11.5x17 inches folded in half, tabloid newsprint with articles, advertising, photos etc. Ex-library copy. More
Cat.No: 113824
San Furanshisuko oyobi kita Kariforunia kanko annai
San Francisco, CA: Nichi Bei Times, 1964. 64p., wraps; B&W photos. Travel guide published by the SF-based Japanese-language newspaper, covering San Francisco and Northern California. Text in Japanese. More
Cat.No: 142249
The Scooper: an Asian American publication. Vol. 2 no. 2 (October 1975)
Los Angeles: Asian American Studies Center, UCLA, 1975. 20p., staplebound wraps, very good. Student publication, with an article celebrating the 26th anniversary of the communist revolution in China, a piece on a child care center in LA, poetry, and coverage of local activism. More
Cat.No: 218459
Self-realization magazine (Sept.-Oct. 1956)
Los Angeles: Self-Realization Fellowship, 1956. Single issue of the staplebound digest-size magazine published by Paramahansa Yogananda's group, which was instrumental in bringing Yoga to the USA. 54 pages, very good. More
Cat.No: 243774
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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