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  • Ornamentalism

    by Anne Anlin Cheng ...
    Focusing on the cultural and philosophic conflation between the "oriental" and the "ornamental," Ornamentalism offers an original and sustained theory about Asiatic femininity in western culture. This study pushes our vocabulary about the woman of color past the usual platitudes about objectification and past the critique of Orientalism in order to formulate a fresher and sharper understanding of ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • Ordinary Disasters

    How I Stopped Being a Model Minority

    by Anne Anlin Cheng ...
    ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: THE WASHINGTON INDEPENDENT REVIEW OF BOOKS • HYPERALLERGIC • The most personal writing yet to come from a noted scholar of race: a bold and moving look at race, gender, aging, and immigration that examines, through lenses both intimate and political, what it means to be an Asian American woman living in America today.Part memoir, part cultural criticism, part ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Second Skin

    Josephine Baker & the Modern Surface

    by Anne Anlin Cheng ...
    Through the figure of Josephine Baker, Second Skin tells the story of an unexpected yet enduring intimacy between the invention of a modernist style and the theatricalization of black skin at the turn of the twentieth century. Stepping outside of the platitudes surrounding this iconic figure, Anne A. Cheng argues that Baker's famous nakedness must be understood within larger philosophic and ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • Can China Think?

    Inaugural lecture delivered on Thursday 11 December 2008

    by Anne Cheng ...
    Series series Leçons inaugurales
    Since the Age of Enlightenment in Europe, much scholarly work has been done on “thinking China”. A result has been the most contradictory representations which attempt to reconcile “philosophical China” with “Oriental despotism”, or an eternal aesthetic and consensual China with a more unpredictable and disturbing vision of the country. To break free of these tenacious clichés, Anne Cheng proposes ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Stacey and the Missing Ring: A Graphic Novel (The Baby-sitters Club Mystery #1)

    by Cynthia Yuan Cheng, Ann M. Martin ...
    Illustrated by Cynthia Yuan Cheng ...
    New York Times bestselling cartoonist Cynthia Yuan Cheng returns to The Baby-sitters Club for a new spin-off graphic novel series!Stacey's in trouble! She baby-sits for a new family, the Gardellas, and she is devastated when they accuse her of stealing a valuable ring. Stacey is not a thief. Even worse, the Gardellas threaten to tell The Baby-sitters Club's other clients about the missing ring ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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    Ordinary Disasters

    How I Stopped Being a Model Minority

    by Anne Anlin Cheng ...
    Narrated by Anne Anlin Cheng ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 18 min

    ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: THE WASHINGTON INDEPENDENT REVIEW OF BOOKS • HYPERALLERGIC • The most personal writing yet to come from a noted scholar of race: a bold and moving look at race, gender, aging, and immigration that examines, through lenses both intimate and political, what it means to be an Asian American woman living in America today.Part memoir, part cultural criticism, part ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Law, Cinema, and the Ill City

    Imagining Justice and Order in Real and Fictional Cities

    Edited by Anne Wagner, Le Cheng ...
    Series series Law, Language and Communication
    This book uses film and television as a resource for addressing the social and legal ills of the city. It presents a range of approaches to view the ill city through cinematic and televisual characterization in urban frameworks, political contexts, and cultural settings. Each chapter deconstructs the meaning of urban space as public space while critically generating a focus on order and justice, ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Second Skin

    Josephine Baker and the Modern Surface

    by Anne Anlin Cheng ...
    Through the figure of Josephine Baker, Second Skin tells the story of an unexpected yet enduring intimacy between the invention of a modernist style and the theatricalization of black skin at the turn of the twentieth century. Stepping outside of the platitudes surrounding this iconic figure, Anne A. Cheng argues that Baker's famous nakedness must be understood within larger philosophic and ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Mary Anne's Bad Luck Mystery: A Graphic Novel (The Baby-Sitters Club #13)

    by Ann M. Martin, Cynthia Yuan Cheng ...
    Illustrated by Cynthia Yuan Cheng ...
    Series Book 13 - The Baby-Sitters Club Graphix
    A brand-new Baby-sitters Club graphic novel adapted by newcomer Cynthia Yuan Cheng!Mary Anne should never have thrown away that chain letter she got in the mail. Ever since she did, bad things have been happening to everyone in The Baby-sitters Club. With Halloween coming up, Mary Anne's even more worried -- what kind of spooky thing will happen next?Then Mary Anne finds a new note in her mailbox: ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Second Skin

    Josephine Baker & the Modern Surface

    by Anne Anlin Cheng ...
    Through the figure of Josephine Baker, Second Skin tells the story of an unexpected yet enduring intimacy between the invention of a modernist style and the theatricalization of black skin at the turn of the twentieth century. Stepping outside of the platitudes surrounding this iconic figure, Anne A. Cheng argues that Baker's famous nakedness must be understood within larger philosophic and ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • The Melancholy of Race

    Psychoanalysis, Assimilation, and Hidden Grief

    by Anne Anlin Cheng ...
    Series series Race and American Culture
    In this groundbreaking, interdisciplinary study Anne Anlin Cheng argues that we have to understand racial grief not only as the result of racism but also as a foundation for racial identity. The Melancholy of Race proposes that racial identification is itself already a melancholic act--a social category that is imaginatively supported through a dynamic of loss and compensation, by which the racial ... Read more

    $57.59 USD

  • The TAF Omnibus Vol. IV

    The TAF Omnibus, #4

    by Triangle Association of Freelancers, Arlene S. Bice, Don Vaughan, LaVerne St. George, Erika V. Hoffman, Stephanie Bass, K Ann Pennington, M. Beatryce Shaw, Cheng Wang, Terri DeGezelle Michels, Mike Rumble, Anne Glasser Brennan, Margaret Toman, Cherie Ann Vick, Marvis Henderson Daye, Lisa Tomey-Zonneveld, Dorothy La Motta, Marcia Edwina Herman-Giddens, Cindy Brookshire, Lois T. Bartholomew, Irma McClaurin, Gloria Schraud, Stacy Lynn, Lauren Clemmons, Sarah Merritt Ryan, Vicki L. Smith, Susan Chapek, S. L. Hollister, Ann M. Goebel, Renee Filippucci-Kotz, Nancy Lee Badger, Sue Anger, Karen Sleeth ...
    Series Book 4 - The TAF Omnibus
    It was a dream job – until I got hit in the head with a pickle. . . My dress-up shoes are pinching my toes. . . Mississippi Mamaw muscadine jelly biscuits for breakfast, and the fried bologna on the white wonder for lunch. . . Life can be this frightening sometimes. . . "Where are we?" she asks with anxious uncertainty. . . The queen called. . . Sir John FitzAlan drew a slow breath against the ... Read more

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