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  • Asian Americans in Michigan

    Voices from the Midwest

    by Bich Minh Nguyen ...
    Series series Great Lakes Books
    Explores a neglected cultural and social history from a variety of perspectives.While the number of Asians in Michigan was small for a good portion of the state's history, many Asian-derived communities have settled in the area and grown significantly over time. In Asian Americans in Michigan: Voices from the Midwest, editors Sook Wilkinson and Victor Jew have assembled forty-one contributors to ... Read more

    $24.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 100 Questions and Answers About East Asian Cultures

    An introductory cultural competence guide for Americans about the customs, history, politics and languages background of people from China, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan and Hong Kong

    by Michigan State University School of Journalism, Helen Zia, Jane Hyun, Sook Wilkinson ...
    This basic, introductory guide answers 100 of the questions people ask in everyday conversation. It informs Americans about workers, students and guests from East Asia including China, Taiwan, Macau, Hong Kong, South and North Korea, Japan and Mongolia. Find answers about culture, customs, holidays, identity, language, religion, social norms, politics, education, work, families and food. This ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Why Black Men Love White Women

    Going Beyond Sexual Politics to the Heart of the Matter

    by Rajen Persaud, Karen Hunter ...
    Rajen Persaud brings a refreshingly honest voice to the highly controversial topic of interracial dating as he explores the stereotypes and perceptions associated with it.Why do so many high-profile black men date and marry the most ordinary white women? Why do so many other black men desire and covet the company of white women? And why does this subject deeply touch so many people of both races? ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Changing Face of Anti-Semitism

    From Ancient Times to the Present Day

    by Walter Laqueur ...
    For thirty years the director of the Wiener Library in London--the leading institute for the study of anti-Semitism--Walter Laqueur here offers both a comprehensive history of anti-Semitism as well as an illuminating look at the newest wave of this phenomenon. Laqueur begins with an invaluable historical account of this pernicious problem, tracing the evolution from a predominantly religious anti ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Korea and Her Neighbours - A Narrative of Travel, with an Account of the Recent Vicissitudes and Present Position of the Country

    by Isabella Bird Bishop ...
    This antiquarian volume contains a vivid description of nineteenth century Korea written by Isabella Bird Bishop. This account comprises an interesting and insightful narrative of travel, with an account of the vicissitudes and contemporary state of society in the country. This text is as much of an exploration of Victorian mindsets as it is an exploration of foreign lands, and will be of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Dragon's Head and a Serpent's Tail

    Ming China and the First Great East Asian War, 1592–1598

    by Dr. Kenneth M. Swope, Ph.D ...
    Series series Campaigns and Commanders Series
    The invasion of Korea by Japanese troops in May of 1592 was no ordinary military expedition: it was one of the decisive events in Asian history and the most tragic for the Korean peninsula until the mid-twentieth century. Japanese overlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi envisioned conquering Korea, Ming China, and eventually all of Asia; but Korea’s appeal to China’s Emperor Wanli for assistance triggered a ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The First Emperor

    Selections from the Historical Records

    by Sima Qian, K. E. Brashier ...
    Translated by Raymond Dawson ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'The following year Qin unified all under Heaven and the title of August Emperor was immediately adopted.' The short-lived Qin dynasty unified China in 221 BC and created an imperial legacy that lasted until 1911. The extraordinary story of the First Emperor, founder of the dynasty, is told in the Historical Records of Sima Qian, the Grand Historiographer and the most famous Chinese historian. He ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • East Asia Beyond the History Wars

    Confronting the Ghosts of Violence

    by Tessa Morris-Suzuki, Morris Low, Leonid Petrov, Timothy Y. Tsu ...
    Series series Asia's Transformations
    East Asia is now the world’s economic powerhouse, but ghosts of history continue to trouble relations between the key countries of the region, particularly between Japan, China and the two Koreas. Unhappy legacies of Japan’s military expansion in pre-war Asia prompt on-going calls for apologies, while conflicts over ownership of cultural heritage cause friction between China and Korea, and no ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Brotherhood in Combat

    How African Americans Found Equality in Korea and Vietnam

    by Jeremy P. Maxwell ...
    African American leaders such as Frederick Douglass long advocated military service as an avenue to equal citizenship for black Americans. Yet segregation in the U.S. armed forces did not officially end until President Harry Truman issued an executive order in 1948. What followed, at home and in the field, is the subject of Brotherhood in Combat, the first full-length, interdisciplinary study of ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • To the Diamond Mountains

    A Hundred-Year Journey through China and Korea

    by Tessa Morris-Suzuki ...
    Series series Asia/Pacific/Perspectives
    This compelling and engaging book takes readers on a unique journey through China and North and South Korea. Tessa Morris-Suzuki travels from Harbin in the north to Busan in the south, and on to the mysterious Diamond Mountains, which lie at the heart of the Korean Peninsula's crisis. As she follows in the footsteps of a remarkable writer, artist, and feminist who traced the route a century ago-in ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

  • Gender, Power, and Military Occupations

    Asia Pacific and the Middle East since 1945

    Edited by Christine De Matos, Rowena Ward ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Gender and History
    Military occupations and interventions have a gendered impact on both those engaged in occupying, and those whose lands have been occupied. Yet little is known about this gendered impact, in terms of both masculinities and femininities, either historically or in contemporary times. While research in this area has begun to grow since events in Iraq and Afghanistan, this collection helps redress the ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Winning the Third World

    Sino-American Rivalry during the Cold War

    by Gregg A. Brazinsky ...
    Series series New Cold War History
    Winning the Third World examines afresh the intense and enduring rivalry between the United States and China during the Cold War. Gregg A. Brazinsky shows how both nations fought vigorously to establish their influence in newly independent African and Asian countries. By playing a leadership role in Asia and Africa, China hoped to regain its status in world affairs, but Americans feared that China ... Read more

    $28.49 USD