Wuhu Diary
On Taking My Adopted Daughter Back to Her Hometown in China
Written by Emily Prager

Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: October 15, 2002
Price: $13.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-72199-8 (0-385-72199-4)

In 1994 an American writer named Emily Prager met her new daughter LuLu. All she knew about her was that the baby had been born in Wuhu, a city in southern China, and left near a police station in her first three days of life. Her birth mother had left a... Read more >

Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting
Afro-Asian Connections and the Myth of Cultural Purity
Written by Vijay Prashad

Format: Trade Paperback, 232 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: November 18, 2002
Price: $20.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-5011-8 (0-8070-5011-3)

Selected as One of the Village Voice’s Favorite 25 Books of 2001

In this landmark work, historian Vijay Prashad refuses to engage the typical racial discussion that matches people of color against each other while institutionalizing the primacy of the white majority. Instead he examines more than five centuries of remarkable historical... Read more >

Me, Chi, and Bruce Lee
Adventures in Martial Arts from the Shaolin Temple to the Ultimate Fighting Championship
Written by Brian Preston

Format: Trade Paperback, 312 pages
Publisher: Blue Snake Books
On Sale: January 6, 2009
Price: $17.95
ISBN: 978-1-58394-268-0 (1-58394-268-8)

What happens when a self-styled wuss sets out to earn a black belt? Why have Eastern martial arts become so popular worldwide? Is the Ultimate Fighting Championship a beautiful fusion of East-meets-West martial technique, or shameless commercialization? These questions and more find answers in Me, Chi, and Bruce Lee, a rollicking... Read more >

To Uphold the World
A Call for a New Global Ethic from Ancient India
Written by Bruce Rich

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: March 1, 2010
Price: $23.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-0613-9 (0-8070-0613-0)

In 1991, Bruce Rich traveled to Orissa and gazed upon the rock edicts erected by the Indian emperor Ashoka over 2,200 years ago. Intrigued by the stone inscriptions that declared religious tolerance, conservation, nonviolence, species protection, and human rights, Rich was drawn into Ashoka’s world. Ashoka was a powerful conqueror who... Read more >

Japanese Masterworks from the Price Collection

Edited by Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
Publisher: Smithsonian Books
On Sale: May 1, 2007
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 978-1-58834-258-4 (1-58834-258-1)

This lavishly illustrated volume of Japanese masterpieces from the Etsuko and Joe Price Collection, widely recognized as one of the finest private collections of Edo-period art in the world, features 225 full-color and 114 black-and-white images representing the rich aesthetic diversity that characterized the Edo period. At the collection’s core are... Read more >

The Hope Factory
A Novel
Written by Lavanya Sankaran

Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
Publisher: The Dial Press
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $26.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-33819-6 (0-385-33819-8)

With humor, intelligence, and masterly prose, Lavanya Sankaran’s debut novel brilliantly captures the vitality and danger of a newly industrialized city and how it shapes the dreams and aspirations of two very different families.

Anand is a Bangalore success story: successful, well married, rich. At least, that’s how he appears. But if... Read more >

The Honda Myth: The Genius and His Wake

Written by Masaaki Sato

Format: Hardcover, 480 pages
Publisher: Vertical
On Sale: December 19, 2006
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-1-932234-26-8 (1-932234-26-8)

Winner of the Ohya Award

From the top Japanese auto-industry journalist comes this inimatably informed account of Honda Motor Company's birth out of the ashes of World War II and subsequent rise.

Honda was the brainchild of two very different men. One, a genius engineer who never went to college but became... Read more >

Encyclopedia Japanese Pop Culture

Written by Mark Schilling

Format: Trade Paperback, 344 pages
Publisher: Weatherhill
On Sale: May 1, 1997
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 978-0-8348-0380-0 (0-8348-0380-1)

In the West, Japanese culture comes in the form of Power Rangers, Godzilla movies, and Sanrio products, but of course the indigenous pop culture is much richer. Rather than focus on what the rest of the world has already encountered, Mark Schilling provides an encyclopedic compendium of books, movies, music, comedians... Read more >

The Yamato Dynasty
The Secret History of Japan's Imperial Family
Written by Sterling Seagrave and Peggy Seagrave

Format: Trade Paperback, 424 pages
Publisher: Broadway
On Sale: August 14, 2001
Price: $23.00
ISBN: 978-0-7679-0497-1 (0-7679-0497-4)

The history of the world’s longest-reigning dynasty is revealed in this exposé of the Yamato Dynasty of Japan. Past events of the imperial rule, Japan’s relationship with the United States, and the modern role of the Dynasty are examined in this comprehensive look at the workings of the Japanese elite. The... Read more >

Shanghai Girls
A Novel
Written by Lisa See

Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: February 2, 2010
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-8053-0 (0-8129-8053-0)

HONOR BOOK, ASIAN/PACIFIC AMERICAN LIBRARIANS ASSOCIATION (APALA)
LITERATURE AWARD - FICTION


In 1937, Shanghai is the Paris of Asia, a city of great wealth and glamour, the home of millionaires and beggars, gangsters and gamblers, patriots and revolutionaries, artists and warlords. Thanks to the financial security and material comforts provided by their father’s... Read more >

Shanghai Girls
A Novel
Written by Lisa See

Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
Publisher: Random House
On Sale: May 26, 2009
Price: $25.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-6711-4 (1-4000-6711-1)

In 1937, Shanghai is the Paris of Asia, a city of great wealth and glamour, the home of millionaires and beggars, gangsters and gamblers, patriots and revolutionaries, artists and warlords. Thanks to the financial security and material comforts provided by their father’s prosperous rickshaw business, twenty-one-year-old Pearl Chin and her younger... Read more >

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
A Novel
Written by Lisa See

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: February 21, 2006
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-6806-4 (0-8129-6806-9)

"A nuanced exploration of women's friendship and women's writing in a remote corner of Imperial China."
—Kirkus Reviews

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan is a brilliantly realistic journey back to an era of Chinese history that is as deeply moving as it is sorrowful. With the period detail and deep resonance of... Read more >

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
A Novel
Written by Lisa See

Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
Publisher: Random House
On Sale: June 28, 2005
Price: $26.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-6028-3 (1-4000-6028-1)

Lily is haunted by memories–of who she once was, and of a person, long gone, who defined her existence. She has nothing but time now, as she recounts the tale of Snow Flower, and asks the gods for forgiveness.

In nineteenth-century China, when wives and daughters were foot-bound and lived in almost... Read more >

Tiger's Heart
The Story of a Modern Chinese Woman
Written by Aisling Juanjuan Shen

Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Soho Press
On Sale: July 1, 2010
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-1-56947-648-2 (1-56947-648-9)

Born to illiterate peasants, Aisling Juanjuan Shen was the first in her village to go to college. Assigned to a low-paying government job, she left for southern China to find success. Her story embodies the changes in China in recent decades.

“Heart-rending.”–Boston Herald

“Riveting. . . . All readers interested in... Read more >

Orthodox Chinese Buddhism
A Contemporary Chan Master's Answers to Common Questions
Written by Chan Master Sheng Yen
Translated by Otto Chang and Douglas Gildow

Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
On Sale: August 7, 2007
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-1-55643-657-4 (1-55643-657-2)

As a well-known scholar and meditation master–His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama called him “extremely modest, a true spiritual practitioner of deep and broad learning”–Sheng Yen is uniquely qualified to guide Western seekers into the world of contemporary Chinese Buddhism. Written while the author was secluded in solitary retreat in southern... Read more >

Everything Is the Way
Ordinary Mind Zen
Written by Elihu Genmyo Smith

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Shambhala
On Sale: June 12, 2012
Price: $17.95
ISBN: 978-1-59030-972-8 (1-59030-972-3)

These days, when Zen has become a kind of shorthand for anything that’s enigmatic or aesthetically spare, it’s refreshing be reminded that Zen is at heart a practice for waking up from the dream we inhabit—in order to free ourselves from the suffering the dream imposes on us. Elihu Genmyo Smith’s... Read more >

The Unfettered Mind
Writings from a Zen Master to a Master Swordsman
Written by Takuan Soho
Translated by William Scott Wilson

Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
Publisher: Shambhala
On Sale: June 12, 2012
Price: $18.95
ISBN: 978-1-59030-986-5 (1-59030-986-3)

This classic samurai-era text fused Japanese swordsmanship with Zen and influenced the direction that the art has taken ever since. Written by the seventeenth-century Zen master Takuan Soho (1573—1645), The Unfettered Mind is a book of advice on swordsmanship and the cultivation of right mind and intention. It was written as... Read more >

Zen Bow, Zen Arrow
The Life and Teachings of Awa Kenzo, the Archery Master from "Zen in the Art of Archery"
Written by John Stevens

Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
Publisher: Shambhala
On Sale: February 20, 2007
Price: $12.95
ISBN: 978-1-59030-442-6 (1-59030-442-X)

ZEN BOW, ZEN ARROW contains the inspirational life and teachings of Awa Kenzo (1880–1939), the Zen and kyudo (archery) master who gained worldwide renown after the publication of Eugen Herrigel's cult classic ZEN IN THE ART OF ARCHERY in 1953. Kenzo lived and taught at a pivotal time in Japan's history... Read more >

Enlightenment through Aikido

Written by Kanshu Sunadomari

Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Blue Snake Books
On Sale: April 23, 2004
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-1-55643-487-7 (1-55643-487-1)

Enlightenment through Aikido focuses on Aikido's spiritual teachings, drawing on Sunadomari's experiences as a direct student of Morihei Ueshiba. Quotes from the founder and the author's interpretations show how Aikido can develop inner strength and tranquility. This book is an excellent companion for those practitioners who aspire to go beyond the... Read more >

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind

Written by Shunryu Suzuki

Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
Publisher: Shambhala
On Sale: October 10, 2006
Price: $18.95
ISBN: 978-1-59030-267-5 (1-59030-267-2)

"In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's there are few." So begins this most beloved of all American Zen books. Seldom has such a small handful of words provided a teaching as rich as has this famous opening line of Shunryu Suzuki's classic. In a single... Read more >

Last Night I Dreamed of Peace
The Diary of Dang Thuy Tram
Written by Dang Thuy Tram

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Broadway
On Sale: October 7, 2008
Price: $13.99
ISBN: 978-0-307-34738-1 (0-307-34738-9)

“Remarkable. . . . A gift from a heroine who was killed at twenty-seven but whose voice has survived to remind us of the humanity and decency that endure amid—and despite—the horror and chaos of war.”
—Francine Prose, O, The Oprah Magazine

Brutally honest and rich in detail, this posthumously published diary of... Read more >

Vietnamerica
A Family's Journey
Written by GB Tran

Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
Publisher: Villard
On Sale: January 25, 2011
Price: $30.00
ISBN: 978-0-345-50872-0 (0-345-50872-6)

A TIME Magazine Top Ten Graphic Memoir of All Time
A 2011 School Library Journal "Best Adult Book 4 Teens"
A 2011 Library Journal Best Graphic Novel

Selected for common reading at Davidson College

A superb new graphic memoir in which an inspired artist/storyteller reveals the road that brought his family to where they are... Read more >

Tao Te Ching
Text Only Edition
Written by Lao Tsu
Translated by Gia-Fu Feng, Jane English and Toinette Lippe
Introduction by Jacob Needleman

Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 28, 1989
Price: $12.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-72434-6 (0-679-72434-6)

Available for the first time in a handy, easy-to-use size, here is the most accessible and authoritative modern English translation of the ancient Chinese classic. This new Vintage edition includes an introduction and notes by the well-known writer and scholar of philosophy and comparative religion, Jacob Needleman. Read more >

Warriors of Medieval Japan

Written by Stephen Turnbull

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Osprey Publishing
On Sale: May 22, 2007
Price: $18.95
ISBN: 978-1-84603-220-2 (1-84603-220-2)

The fearless, elite warriors of medieval Japan were loyal comrades but deadly foes. Whether foot soldier, samurai or trained assassin, these men were driven by strict codes of honor and bound by deep allegiances of rank, family or religion.

This book examines the military lives of four formidable warrior types, covering the... Read more >

Tao Te Ching
A New Translation
Written by Lao Tzu
Translated by William Scott Wilson

Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
Publisher: Shambhala
On Sale: June 12, 2012
Price: $19.95
ISBN: 978-1-59030-991-9 (1-59030-991-X)

Renowned translator William Scott Wilson has rendered Lao Tzu's classic in the most authentic way possible, using both the ancient text and the even older Great Seal script used during Lao Tzu's time. The result is a new and nuanced translation, accompanied by Chinese ink paintings and ancillary material. Wilson includes... Read more >