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Asian
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Illus. from http://www.r6.fws.gov/.../Asian/Asian%20History.htm |
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Listed below are some vital links to vibrant communities, their histories and literatures. Included are immigrants and descendants from the Asian sub continent along with Pacific Asians. |
Books in the Library - Extensive list of books at BMS
History:
CET Resources (for Asian History and Media)
Asian-Nation: the Landscape of Asian America
Ask Asia
Echoes of Freedom: South Asian Pioneers in California, 1899-1965
Literature:
AsianBib This bibliography represents primarily fiction written by Asian American writers and is divided into two parts: pre 1950 and post 1950 literature.
Children's and YA Books With Asian American Themes
South Asian Diaspora Literature in English
Reference:
Asian and Pacific Islander Population in the United States (as of 1999)
Map of Oceania
Interactive Map of Asia
Movies:
The Movies, Race and Ethnicity: Asian-Americans
Art:
Preliminary Guide to Resources on Asian Pacific American Artists at the Achives of American Art (Smithsonian)
Asian American resources in the Edith Hamilton Library
| Ref 810.9 A |
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Asian American literature: reviews and criticism of works by American writers of Asian descent. |
| Ref 895.6 M |
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Modern Japanese writers. |
| Ref 952.04 S |
Schilling, Mark |
The Encyclopedia of Japanese pop culture. |
| 301.29 A |
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The American image of China. |
| 303.48 M |
Miyoshi, Masao. |
As we saw them: the first Japanese Embassy to the United States |
| 303.482 H |
Henning, Joseph |
Outposts of civilization: race, religion, and the formative years of American-Japanese relations |
| 305.42 C |
Chang, Pang-Mei Natasha |
Bound feet & Western dress |
| 305.42 L |
LeBlanc, Robin |
Bicycle citizen: the political world of the Japanese housewife |
| 305.48 M |
Mah, Adeline Yen
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Falling leaves: a true story of an unwanted Chinese daughter. |
| 1998305.8 L |
Liu, Eric |
The accidental Asian: notes of a native speaker |
| 305.895 L |
Lee, Robert G |
Orientals: Asian Americans in popular culture |
| 306.74 D |
Dalby, Liza Crihfield |
Geisha |
| 306.74 U |
Underwood, Eleanor |
The life of a Geisha |
| 323.0951 W |
Wei, Jingsheng |
The courage to stand alone: letters from prison and other writings |
| 327.51 I |
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In the eyes of the dragon: China views the world. |
| 327.52 B |
Beasley, W. G |
Japan encounters the barbarian: Japanese travellers in America and Europe |
| 327.52 I |
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The Iwakura mission in America and Europe: a new assessment |
| 327.7 D |
Deane, Hugh |
Good deeds & gunboats: two centuries of American-Chinese encounters |
| 327.7 L |
LaFeber, Walter |
The clash: U.S.-Japanese relations throughout history |
| 338.7 G |
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Golden arches east: McDonald's in East Asia. |
| 364.1092 W |
Whiting, Robert |
Tokyo underworld: the fast times and hard life of an American gangster in Japan |
| 382.0951 F |
Fairbank, John King |
Trade and diplomacy on the China coast: the opening of the treaty ports, 1842-1854 |
| 391.00952 K |
Kennedy, Alan |
Japanese costume: history and tradition |
| 618.92 Y |
Yamazaki, James N. |
Children of the atomic bomb: an American physician's memoir of Nagasaki, Hiroshima, and the Marshall Islands |
| 641.595 F |
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The food of Asia: authentic recipes from China, India,Indonesia, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam |
| 641.5952 O |
Ochi, Hirotomo |
East meets West: super nutrition from Japan.. |
| 709.5 Y |
Yang, Alice |
Why Asia?: contemporary Asian and Asian American art |
| 709.51 C |
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The Chinese exhibition: an illustrated handlist of the exhibition of archaeological finds of the People's Republic of China. |
| 709.51 C |
Cohen, Warren I. |
East Asian art and American culture: a study in international relations |
| 709.52 G |
Guth, Christine |
Art of Edo Japan: the artist and the city, 1615-1868 |
| 709.52 S |
Singer, Robert T. |
Edo, art in Japan 1615-1868 |
| 709.59 A |
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Art of Southeast Asia |
| 759.952 T |
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Twelve centuries of Japanese art from the Imperial collections |
| 769.952 S |
Stewart, Basil |
A guide to Japanese prints and their subject matter |
| 796.357 W |
Whiting, Robert |
You gotta have wa |
| 810.8 F |
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Food for our grandmothers: writings by Arab-American and Arab-Canadian feminists |
| 810.8 M |
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Making more waves: new writing by Asian American women |
| 810.9 W |
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Watermark: Vietnamese American poetry & prose. c1998. |
| 811.54 L |
Lee, Li-Young. |
The city in which I love you: poems. |
| F 811.54 C |
Cha, Theresa Hak Kyung |
Dictee |
| 812.08 M |
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Multicultural theatre II: contemporary Hispanic, Asian, and African-American plays |
| 812.5 A |
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Asian American drama |
| 895 M |
Merwin, W. S |
East window: the Asian translations |
| 895.625 E |
Endo, Shusaku |
The golden country |
| 909.7 S |
Spence, Jonathan D |
The question of Hu. |
| 915.1 O |
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Over China |
| 920 I |
Ishizuka, Kathy |
Asian-American authors |
| 921 Aquino |
Nadel, Laurie |
Corazon Aquino: journey to power |
| 921 Kim |
Kim, Elizabeth |
Ten thousand sorrows: the extraordinary journey of a Korean war orphan |
| 921 Lee |
Lee, Li-Young |
The winged seed: a remembrance |
| 921 Mura |
Mura, David |
Turning Japanese: memoirs of a sansei. |
| 921 Senoo |
Senoo, Kappa |
A boy called H: a childhood in wartime |
| 921 Vautrin |
Hu, Hua-ling |
American goddess at the rape of Nanking: the courage of Minnie Vautrin |
| 940.53 K |
Knaefler, Tomi Kaizawa. |
Our house divided: seven Japanese American families in World War II. |
| 940.531 Y |
Yancey, Diane. |
Life in a Japanese American internment camp |
| 940.54 H |
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Hiroshima's shadow |
| 951 B |
Blunden, Caroline |
Cultural atlas of China |
| 951 M |
Mungello, David E |
The great encounter of China and the West, 1500-1800 |
| 951 M |
Mackerras, Colin |
Western images of China |
| 951 S |
Spence, Jonathan D |
Chinese roundabout: essays in history and culture |
| 951 W |
Waley-Cohen, Joanna. |
The sextants of Beijing: global currents in Chinese history |
| 951.03 C |
Carr, Caleb |
The devil soldier: the American soldier of fortune who became god in China |
| 951.03 P |
Preston, Diana |
The boxer rebellion: the dramatic story of China's war on foreigners that shook the world in the summer of 1900 |
| 951.03 S |
Sharf, Frederic Alan |
The Boxer Rebellion: China, 1900 the artists' perspective |
| 951.04 J |
Jespersen, T. Christopher |
American images of China, 1931-1949. |
| 951.05 S |
Schell, Orville |
Mandate of heaven: the legacy of Tiananmen Square and the next generation of China's leaders |
| 951.056 J |
Jiang, Ji-li. |
Red scarf girl: a memoir of the Cultural Revolution |
| 951.057 W |
Wang, James C. F |
Contemporary Chinese politics: an introduction |
| 951.5 F |
Feigon, Lee |
Demystifying Tibet: unlocking the secrets of the land of the snows |
| 951.9 C |
Covell, Jon Etta Hastings Carter |
Korea's cultural roots |
| 951.9 H |
Han, U-gun |
The history of Korea |
| 952 C |
Condon, John C |
With respect to the Japanese: a guide for Americans |
| 952 J |
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Japan: a documentary history |
| 952 L |
Livingston, Jon |
Imperial Japan, 1800-1945 |
| 952 R |
Roberson, John R |
Japan meets the world: the birth of a super power |
| 952.03 H |
Hearn, Lafcadio |
Lafcadio Hearn's Japan: an anthology of his writings on the country and its people |
| 952.03 H |
Hane, Mikiso |
Modern Japan: a historical survey |
| 952.03 S |
Saga, Jun'ichi |
Memories of silk and straw: a self-portrait of small-town Japan. |
| 952.04 F |
Fields, George |
From bonsai to Levi's: when West meets East, an insider's surprising account of how the Japanese live. |
| 952.04 I |
Iyer, Pico |
The lady and the monk: four seasons in Kyoto |
| 952.04 K |
Kawai, Kazuo |
Japan's American interlude |
| 952.04 R |
Reid, T. R |
Confucius lives next door: what living in the East teaches us about living in the West |
| 954 S |
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Sources of Indian tradition. |
| 954.03 R |
Read, Anthony |
The proudest day: India's long road to independence |
| 954.04 K |
Khilnani, Sunil |
The idea of India. |
| 958.1 M |
Marsden, Peter |
The Taliban: war, religion and the new order in Afghanistan. |
| 959.704 C |
Clifford, Geoffrey |
Vietnam: the land we never knew |
| 973.04 T |
Takaki, Ronald T |
A different mirror: a history of multicultural America |
| 973.0495 T |
Takaki, Ronald T. |
Strangers from a different shore: a history of Asian Americans. |
| 973.04954 C |
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Contours of the heart: South Asians map North America. |
| 973.04956 K |
Kitano, Harry H. L. |
The Japanese Americans |
| 973.04956 K |
Kiyama, Henry Yoshitaka |
The four immigrants manga: A Japanese experience in San Francisco, 1904-1924 |
| 973.6 L |
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Land without ghosts: Chinese impressions of America from the mid-nineteenth century to the present |
| FIC Bac |
Backer, Sara. |
American Fuji: a novel. |
| FIC Cha |
Chai, May-Lee. |
My lucky face: a novel |
| FIC Cho |
Choi, Susan Malka. |
The foreign student: a novel |
| FIC Chu |
Chu, Louis |
Eat a bowl of tea |
| FIC Dal |
Dalkey, Kara |
The heavenward path. |
| FIC Dal |
Dalby, Liza Crihfield |
The tale of Murasaki: a novel |
| FIC End |
Endo, Shusaku |
Silence |
| FIC Gan |
Ganesan, Indira |
Inheritance |
| FIC Ibu |
Ibuse, Masuji |
Black rain |
| FIC Ish |
Ishiguro, Kazuo |
When we were orphans. |
| FIC Ish |
Ishiguro, Kazuo |
An artist of the floating world |
| FIC Jin |
Jin, Ha |
Waiting |
| FIC Kir |
Kirchner, Bharti |
Shiva dancing |
| FIC Lee |
Lee, Chang-rae |
A gesture life |
| FIC Lo |
Lo, Steven C. |
The incorporation of Eric Chung: a novel |
| FIC Mur |
Murasaki Shikibu |
The tale of Genji |
| FIC Na |
Na, An |
A step from heaven |
| FIC Ng |
Ng, Mei |
Eating Chinese food naked: a novel. |
| FIC Oe |
Oe, Kenzaburo |
A personal matter |
| FIC Oze |
Ozeki, Ruth L |
My year of meats |
| FIC Par |
Park, Linda Sue |
When my name was Keoko |
| FIC Row |
Rowland, Laura Joh |
Shinju |
| FIC See |
See, Lisa. |
The interior |
| FIC Siv |
Sivanandan, A |
When memory dies |
| FIC Sle |
Sledge, Linda Ching. |
A map of paradise. |
| FIC Tan |
Tan, Amy |
The bonesetter's daughter |
| FIC Tsu |
Tsukiyama, Gail |
Women of the silk |
| FIC Wan |
Wang, Shuo |
Playing for thrills |
| FIC Yan |
Yamanaka, Lois-Ann |
Blu's hanging |
| SC Ame |
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American dragons: twenty-five Asian American voices |
| SC Bam |
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Bamboo shoots after the rain : contemporary stories by women writers of Taiwan.. |
| SC Gro |
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Growing up ethnic in America: contemporary fiction about learning to be American. |
| SC Jen |
Jen, Gish |
Who's Irish?: stories. |
| SC Jin |
Jin, Ha. |
The bridegroom: stories. |
| SC Kaw |
Kawabata, Yasunari |
First snow on Fuji. |
| SC Kri |
Krishnaswami, Uma |
Shower of gold: girls and women in the stories of India |
| SC Sha |
Sharat Chandra, G. S. |
Sari of the gods: stories |
| SC Tra |
Tran, Vu |
The dragon hunt: five stories |
| AC 921 Min |
Min, Anchee |
Red azalea (AudioCassette) |
| CD-ROM 051 |
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The Asian-American experience. (Located at Circ. Desk) |
| CD-ROM 070 |
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Kuo li ku kung po wu yüan. Splendors of imperial China: treasures from the National Palace Museum (Located at Circ. Desk) |
| VC 291 W |
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The world, a television history: the world religions, 600 BC-AD 500. Located History Dept |
| VC 305.4 D |
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Dadi's family. Located Hist.Dept. |
| VC 305.8 C |
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The color of fear |
| VC 305.8 S |
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Stolen ground |
| VC 382.0951 A |
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Along the Silk Road : people, interaction, and cultural exchange Located History Dept. |
| VC 709.5 G |
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Great tales in Asian art. Located History Dept. |
| VC 709.52 L |
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Living treasures of Japan. |
| VC 738.2 P |
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Porcelain for emperors: traditional porcelain production in Jingdezhen, China. |
| VC 780.952 D |
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Discovering the music of Japan. |
| VC 791.43 C |
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The Secret service. |
| VC 791.43 G |
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A great wall. |
| VC 791.43 P |
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A Passage to India.1993 |
| VC 791.457 N |
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The News hour with Jim Lehrer 12/24/96. |
| VC 792.0952 A |
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The art of Kabuki |
| VC 909.07 W |
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The World, a television history: the Mongol onslaught, 850-1500., 1985. Located History Dept. |
| VC 915.195 D |
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Family and home. Located History Dept. |
| VC 915.195 D |
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School and community |
| VC 921 Attila |
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Attila : scourge of God. |
| VC 921 |
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Dong Sewing woman. Located History Dept. |
| VC 921 Hirohito |
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Hirohito. |
| VC 921 Pei |
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First person singular: I. M. Pei. |
| VC 940.54 H |
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Hiroshima: why the bomb was dropped: ABC News, 1995. |
| VC 951 C |
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China rising |
| VC 951 W |
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The World, a television history: China and Japan, 1279-1600 |
| VC 951 W |
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The World, a television history : China in transition, 581-1279. Located History Dept. |
| VC 952 J |
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Japan |
VC 952 J |
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The Japanese version |
| VC 956 W |
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The World, a television history : the Ottoman Empire, 1280-1683. Located History Dept. |
Last Updated: November, 2009 |
