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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Pacific Horizons: Pacific Friends - South Bay newsletter #47, December 1989
San Jose: Pacific Friends - South Bay, 1989. 3p., 8.5x11 inches, news, articles, services and resources, event calenders, very good newsletter on pink stock stapled upper-left corner. LGBTQ Asians and others organization. More
Cat.No: 234389
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
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
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 / 2nd annual San Diego [leaflet]
National City: Philippine National Day Committee, [1979]. 5.5x8.5 inch leaflet, printd both sides, very good. One side has "Unity is strength" in English and two Filipino dialects. The other side has map and list of endorsers. More
Cat.No: 242172
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
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
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
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
Project Manong
Oakland, CA: Project Manong, n.d. Single 8.5x11 inch sheet folded in thirds to make a mailer, very good. Brochure introducing the organization, described as "a community effort to meet the needs of Filipino Senior Citizens." More
Cat.No: 207731
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
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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