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About Face: Asian Accounts of Australiaby Alison BroinowskiISBN 0908011962 (0-908011-96-2)
Softcover, Scribe Pubns Pty Ltd
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Adventures of Monkey Kingby R.L. Gao, Cheng'En Wu, Marlys Johnson-BartonISBN 0962076511 (0-9620765-1-1)
Softcover, Victory Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Adventures of Monkey King'Book summary:Follow the adventures of the magical Monkey King and the gluttonous Piggy as they accompany Monk Tang on a journey from China to India to gather Buddhist scriptures.
The story of Monkey King has been read and loved by Chinese children for hundreds of years. Now it is available in an easy-to-read English translation.
A light-hearted look at the true story of the Chinese pilgrim Tang Xuan Zang who is often credited with bringing Buddhism from India to China. [via]
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Asian Art in the Birmingham Museum of Artby Birmingham Museum of Art (Birmingham, Ala.), Donald Alan Wood, Alan G. AtkinsonISBN 0931394465 (0-931394-46-5)
Softcover, Birmingham Museum of Art
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Asian Cultural Traditionsby Carolyn HeinzISBN 1577660439 (1-57766-043-9)
Softcover, Waveland Pr Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Asian Cultural Traditions'Book summary:Lucid. Magisterial. Subtle. Engaging. This remarkable book has pretty much everything going for it. "If ever there was a time when Asia could be ignored, that time is not the present." Thus begins the opening chapter of this important contribution to our understanding of the bewildering diversity that has existed and continues to exist in the cultures of South Asia, East Asia, and Southeast Asia. The first survey of its kind ever published, this volume reflects a great deal of knowledge, thought, curiosity and style. Heinz, in a single, brief book, pulls together some of the major cultural strands by which people in Asian societies have organized their collective life and made their lives meaningful. Heinz effectively brings a range of disciplines into her account, drawing from anthropology, history, geography, linguistics, religious studies, art history, world literature, and political science. Title of related interest also available from Waveland Press: Pa Chin, Family (ISBN 9780881333732). [via]
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Beyond the Sky and the Earth: A Journey into Bhutanby Jamie ZeppaISBN 157322118X (1-57322-118-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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The Binding Chairby Kathryn HarrisonISBN 1568951396 (1-56895-139-6)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman: Library Editionby Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin, Philip GabrielISBN 1400096081 (1-4000-9608-1)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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Blood & Silkby Bruce Baugh, Geoffrey Grabowski, James Kiley, Ellen P. KileyISBN 1565042425 (1-56504-242-5)
Softcover, Psi
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The Book of Teaby K. Okakura, Sam HamillISBN 1570628289 (1-57062-828-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Book of Tea'Book summary:That a nation should construct one of its most resonant national ceremonies round a cup of tea will surely strike a chord of sympathy with at least some readers of this review. To many foreigners, nothing is so quintessentially Japanese as the tea ceremony--more properly, "the way of tea"--with its austerity, its extravagantly minimalist stylization, and its concentration of extreme subtleties of meaning into the simplest of actions. The Book of Tea is something of a curiosity: written in English by a Japanese scholar (and issued here in bilingual form), it was first published in 1906, in the wake of the naval victory over Russia with which Japan asserted its rapidly acquired status as a world-class military power. It was a peak moment of Westernization within Japan. Clearly, behind the publication was an agenda, or at least a mission to explain. Around its account of the ceremony, The Book of Tea folds an explication of the philosophy, first Taoist, later Zen Buddhist, that informs its oblique celebration of simplicity and directness--what Okakura calls, in a telling phrase, "moral geometry." And the ceremony itself? Its greatest practitioners have always been philosophers, but also artists, connoisseurs, collectors, gardeners, calligraphers, gourmets, flower arrangers. The greatest of them, Sen Rikyu, left a teasingly, maddeningly simple set of rules:
Make a delicious bowl of tea; lay the charcoal so that it heats the water; arrange the flowers as they are in the field; in summer suggest coolness; in winter, warmth; do everything ahead of time; prepare for rain; and give those with whom you find yourself every consideration.
A disciple remarked that this seemed elementary. Rikyu replied, "Then if you can host a tea gathering without deviating from any of the rules I have just stated, I will become your disciple." A Zen reply. Fascinating. --Robin Davidson, Amazon.co.uk [via] 
The City of Light : The Hidden Journal of the Man Who Entered China Four Years Before Marco Poloby Jacob D'Ancona, David SelbourneISBN 1559725230 (1-55972-523-0)
Hardcover, Citadel Press
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Elephantsby John WexoISBN 0937934003 (0-937934-00-3)
Softcover, Zoobooks/Wildlife Education
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The Essential Asian CookbookISBN 1551107937 (1-55110-793-7)
Softcover, Firefly Books Ltd
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Fine Balanceby Rohinton MistryISBN 140003065X (1-4000-3065-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fine Balance'Book summary:With a compassionate realism and narrative sweep that recall the work of Charles Dickens, this magnificent novel captures all the cruelty and corruption, dignity and heroism, of India. The time is 1975. The place is an unnamed city by the sea. The government has just declared a State of Emergency, in whose upheavals four strangers--a spirited widow, a young student uprooted from his idyllic hill station, and two tailors who have fled the caste violence of their native village--will be thrust together, forced to share one cramped apartment and an uncertain future. As the characters move from distrust to friendship and from friendship to love, A Fine Balance creates an enduring panorama of the human spirit in an inhuman state. [via]
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Fragments Of Grace: My Search For Meaning In The Strife Of South Asiaby Pamela ConstableISBN 1574886193 (1-57488-619-3)
Softcover, Potomac Books Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fragments Of Grace: My Search For Meaning In The Strife Of South Asia'Book summary:For four and a half years, Pamela Constable, a veteran foreign correspondent and award-winning author, has traveled through South Asia on assignment for the Washington Post. Following religious conflicts, political crises, and natural disasters, she also searched for signs of humanity and dignity in societies rife with violence, poverty, prejudice, and greed.
In Afghanistan, she made numerous visits while the country suffered under the hostile rule of the Taliban, attempted to reach the capital in a convoy that was ambushed and saw four journalists killed. She finally moved to Kabul in late 2001 to chronicle the countrys post-Taliban rebirth. In Pakistan, she covered a military coup in 1999, immersed herself in the mys-terious world of Muslim mosques and academies, and discovered both the extremist and tolerant faces of Islam. In India, she attended one of the largest spiritual gatherings of Hindu pilgrims in history and then rushed to the horrific aftermath of a devastating earthquake. She repeatedly visited the Kashmir Valley, where Pakistani-backed Muslim guerrillas are waging a seemingly endless war with Indian security forces. In Nepal, she covered the crown princes massacre of the royal family and journeyed to remote villages where communist rebels brought rigid moral order to life. In Sri Lanka, she explored a tropical paradise where reclusive insurgents trained children to become suicide bombers in pursuit of a utopian ethnic homeland.
Between extended sojourns in South Asia, Constable returned to the West to reflect on the risks and rewards of her profession, revisit her roots, and compare her experiences with Islam, Hinduism, and Christianity. Her book is a uniquely personal exploration of the rich but solitary life of a foreign correspondent, set against a regional backdrop of extraordinary political and religious tumult. [via]More editions of Fragments Of Grace: My Search For Meaning In The Strife Of South Asia:
The Gentleman in the Parlour: A Record of a Journey from Rangoon to Haiphongby W. Somerset MaughamISBN 1417910682 (1-4179-1068-2)
Softcover, Kessinger Publishing, LLC
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Girl Who Played Goby Adriana Hunter, Shan Sa, Sa ShanISBN 1400032288 (1-4000-3228-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Girl Who Played Go'Book summary:As the Japanese military invades 1930s Manchuria, a young girl approaches her own sexual coming of age. Drawn into a complex triangle with two boys, she distracts herself from the onslaught of adulthood by playing the game of go with strangers in a public square--and yet the force of desire, like the occupation, proves inevitable. Unbeknownst to the girl who plays go, her most worthy and frequent opponent is a Japanese soldier in disguise. Captivated by her beauty as much as by her bold, unpredictable approach to the strategy game, the soldier finds his loyalties challenged. Is there room on the path to war for that most revolutionary of acts: falling in love? [via]
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The Girl Who Played Goby Shan SaISBN 1400040256 (1-4000-4025-6)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Girl Who Played Go'Book summary:In war-torn Manchuria of the 1930s, two lives briefly find peace over a game of go in Shan Sa's third novel, The Girl Who Played Go (translated by Adriana Hunter). The unnamed characters, a Japanese soldier stationed in China and a 16-year-old Manchurian girl, narrate their stories in alternating first-person chapters. For the girl, the struggles of Independent Manchuria take a back seat to her discovery of love and the awakening of her sexuality. For the soldier, his idealized dreams of samurai honor and imperial conquest are slowly displaced by homesickness, troubled recollections of his earthquake-torn youth, and remorse over a lost love. But the solitary concerns of each character are eventually submerged by the tides of war. The girl's first lover, Min, is a revolutionary. His ardor for his virgin conquest is matched by a doomed patriotism. Simultaneously, the soldier comes to relish the girl's home town, Thousand Winds, in Southern Manchuria, and becomes distrustful of his own nationalism. His daily games of go with the young female stranger awaken a new passion in him that becomes entwined with admiration for her aggressive play.
As they hardly speak, the soldier and the girl's views of each other remain clouded in Sa's technically facile narrative maneuvers. Where the soldier sees love, the girls sees escape. By maintaining the first person, Sa (winner of the French Prix Goncourt du Premier) leads the reader not only to experience the Japanese and Manchurian perspectives of the occupation, but also she offers glimpses into the deep failure inherent in cross-cultural and cross-generational communication. Couple with the rich historical detail, Sa's narrative games reward close reading amidst the briskly paced spiral into tragedy. --Patrick O'Kelley [via]
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The Good Women of China: Hidden Voicesby Xinran Xue, Esther TyldesleyISBN 1400030803 (1-4000-3080-3)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices'Book summary:When Deng Xiaopings efforts to open up China took root in the late 1980s, Xinran recognized an invaluable opportunity. As an employee for the state radio system, she had long wanted to help improve the lives of Chinese women. But when she was given clearance to host a radio call-in show, she barely anticipated the enthusiasm it would quickly generate. Operating within the constraints imposed by government censors, Words on the Night Breeze sparked a tremendous outpouring, and the hours of tape on her answering machines were soon filled every night. Whether angry or muted, posing questions or simply relating experiences, these anonymous women bore witness to decades of civil strife, and of halting attempts at self-understanding in a painfully restrictive society. In this collection, by turns heartrending and inspiring, Xinran brings us the stories that affected her most, and offers a graphically detailed, altogether unprecedented work of oral history. [via]
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Gulag: A Historyby Anne ApplebaumISBN 1400034094 (1-4000-3409-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gulag: A History'Book summary:Gulag: A History, by Washington Post columnist Anne Applebaum, is a cogent, meticulously researched exposé of the Soviet system of institutionalized terror, repression, and punishment that, over the course of the 20th century, turned the world's largest nation into a vast concentration camp and mass grave. Applebaum investigates the gulag from its origins just after the Russian Revolution through its expansion under Stalin's reign to its collapse during the period of glasnost and the fall of communism. She draws on original research, as well as recently released archival material and memoirs by both "ordinary" survivors and those who would become literary giants, like Alexander Solzhenitsyn, author of The Gulag Archipelago and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, and Polish novelist Gustav Herling-Grudzinski, who wrote A World Apart based on his experiences in the camps. She describes the categories of prisoner--an estimated 18 million between 1929 and 1953, the year Stalin died--who from "the very earliest days of the new Soviet state&were to be sentenced not for what they had done, but for who they were": old Bolsheviks, deportees from Soviet-occupied Eastern Europe during World War II, repatriated Soviet POWs, foreign communists, dissidents, the man, woman or child on the street--political prisoners mixed with common criminals. Anyone who could be perceived as a threat or traitor or simply a needed body was arrested, tortured, and used as slave labor to extract natural resources from remote corners of Siberia, work on absurdly ambitious transportation and energy projects, and build the Soviet economy. The reasons for incarceration; the journeys to the outposts; the strategies for survival of prisoners subjected to cold, starvation, rape; the types of heavy labor; the conditions for women and children; the political structure within the camp--these are just some of the broad themes that Applebaum tackles.
Deftly melding generality with specificity, Applebaum allows the individual to speak for the many and, in the process, paints a horrifying portrait of a nation forged from paranoia and the terror invoked by the arbitrary exercise of power that tore apart families and enslaved, brutalized, and murdered millions. By giving voice to the millions who disappeared into unmarked graves in an eight-decade-long episode in human history that rivaled the atrocities committed during the Holocaust, Applebaum makes an invaluable contribution to a growing body of re-evaluative literature that will, hopefully, inspire a thoughtful consideration of our collective past, and a more critical awareness our present. --Diana Kuprel [via]
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The Harmony Silk Factoryby TASH AWISBN 157322300X (1-57322-300-X)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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High Tartaryby Owen Lattimore, Orville SchellISBN 1568360541 (1-56836-054-1)
Softcover, Kodansha Amer Inc
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Hindoo Holiday: An Indian Journalby Ackerley, Eliot WeinbergerISBN 0940322250 (0-940322-25-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Hiroshimaby John HerseyISBN 155504154X (1-55504-154-X)
Softcover, John Curley & Assoc
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His Third, Her Secondby Paul EstaverISBN 0939149257 (0-939149-25-7)
Hardcover, Soho Press, Incorporated
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A History of Christianity in Asia: Beginnings to 1500by Samuel Hugh MoffettISBN 1570751625 (1-57075-162-5)
Softcover, Orbis Books
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A History of the Arab Peoplesby Albert HouraniISBN 1567312160 (1-56731-216-0)
Hardcover, Fine Communications
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A History of the Arab Peoples'Book summary:Hourani, the distinguished historian and interpreter, has written a masterwork--a panoramic view encompassing twelve centuries of Arab history and culture. He looks at all sides of this rich civilization: the education, the science, the mosques, the Alhambra, as well as the conflicts, poverty, and role of women. 40 halftones; 13 maps. [via]
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Imperial Womanby Pearl S. BuckISBN 1559210354 (1-55921-035-4)
Softcover, Moyer Bell Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Imperial Woman'Book summary:Imperial Woman is the fictionalized biography of the last Empress in China, Ci-xi, who began as a concubine of the Xianfeng Emperor and on his death became the de facto head of the Qing Dynasty until her death in 1908.Buck recreates the life of one of the most intriguing rulers during a time of intense turbulence.Tzu Hsi was born into one of the lowly ranks of the Imperial dynasty. According to custom, she moved to the Forbidden City at the age of seventeen to become one of hundreds of concubines. But her singular beauty and powers of manipulation quickly moved her into the position of Second Consort.Tzu Hsi was feared and hated by many in the court, but adored by the people. The Empress's rise to power (even during her husband's life) parallels the story of China's transition from the ancient to the modern way. [via]
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In Praise of Shadowsby Junichiro TanizakISBN 0918172020 (0-918172-02-0)
Softcover, Leete's Island Books
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In the Empire of Genghis Khan: A Journey Among Nomadsby Stanley StewartISBN 1585747033 (1-58574-703-3)
Hardcover, Globe Pequot Pr
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In the Pondby Ha JinISBN 0944072925 (0-944072-92-5)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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India: From Midnight to the Millenniumby Shashi TharoorISBN 1559703849 (1-55970-384-9)
Hardcover, Arcade Publishing, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'India: From Midnight to the Millennium'Book summary:Author Shashi Tharoor has spent half of his life outside of India, yet his position as a "NRI" (Non-resident Indian) has given him the distance and perspective necessary to produce India: From Midnight to the Millennium, an in-depth critique of the country's first fifty years of independence. Tharoor, currently executive assistant to the secretary general of the United Nations, is known for both his fiction (The Great Indian Novel, Show Business) and his journalism; in this effort, he blends fine prose with a reporter's talent for analysis, resulting in a skillful examination of some of the greatest challenges India has faced over the past five decades, as well as what lies ahead for the nation.
In chapters devoted to such diverse topics as caste, the free-for-all nature of Indian democracy, the troubled legacy of Indira Gandhi, and the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947, Tharoor both explicates the history of India since independence and attempts to define what makes India one country and Indians of various ethnic, religious, and cultural backgrounds one nationality. He is forthright in his discussion of the sectarian violence that has ripped through the country, the corruption that is rife throughout the ranks of the Indian civil service, and the difficulties that face a nation in which 48 percent of the population remains illiterate. Yet Shashi Tharoor writes of these problems with a sense of optimism about the future, confident in the ability of his countrymen to find solutions within a democratic political system. [via]
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India: From Midnight To The Millennium and Beyondby Shashi TharoorISBN 1559708034 (1-55970-803-4)
Softcover, Arcade Pub
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Inspector Imanishi Investigatesby Seicho MatsumotoISBN 1569470197 (1-56947-019-7)
Softcover, Soho Pr Inc
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Iron and Silkby Mark SalzmanISBN 1560004568 (1-56000-456-8)
Hardcover, Transaction Large Print
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Iron and Silk'Book summary:In Iron & Silk Mark Salzman captures post-cultural revolution China through his adventures as a young American English teacher in China and his shifu-tudi (master-student) relationship with China's foremost martial arts teacher.
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Japan and the United States in the Developing Worldby Economic Growth Center at Yale University, Research Institute for Economics and Business at Kobe University, Gustav RanisISBN 0965693015 (0-9656930-1-5)
Hardcover, Intl Center for Economic Growth
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Joseph Conrad's Lord Jimby Harold BloomISBN 155546016X (1-55546-016-X)
Hardcover, Facts on File
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Journey into Russiaby Laurens Van Der PostISBN 0933280254 (0-933280-25-4)
Softcover, Island Pr
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Kimby Rudyard KiplingISBN 1404368361 (1-4043-6836-1)
Softcover, IndyPublish.com
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kim'Book summary:1901. Kipling, English short-story writer, novelist and poet, who celebrated the heroism of British colonial soldiers in India and Burma, was the first Englishman to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907. Kim is his picaresque novel of India and is considered to be a masterpiece. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. [via]
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Kimby Maire Fhlathuin, Marie Ni FhlathuinISBN 1551115212 (1-55111-521-2)
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Though he was burned black as any native; though he spoke the vernacular by preference, and his mother-tongue in a clipped uncertain sing-song; though he consorted on terms of perfect equality with the small boys of the bazar; Kim was white--a poor white of the very poorest.
From his father and the woman who raised him, Kim has come to believe that a great destiny awaits him. The details, however, are a bit fuzzy, consisting as they do of the woman's addled prophecies of "'a great Red Bull on a green field, and the Colonel riding on his tall horse, yes, and'--dropping into English--'nine hundred devils.'"In the meantime, Kim amuses himself with intrigues, executing "commissions by night on the crowded housetops for sleek and shiny young men of fashion." His peculiar heritage as a white child gone native, combined with his "love of the game for its own sake," makes him uniquely suited for a bigger game. And when, at last, the long-awaited colonel comes along, Kim is recruited as a spy in Britain's struggle to maintain its colonial grip on India. Kipling was, first and foremost, a man of his time; born and raised in India in the 19th century, he was a fervid supporter of the Raj. Nevertheless, his portrait of India and its people is remarkably sympathetic. Yes, there is the stereotypical Westernized Indian Babu Huree Chander with his atrocious English, but there is also Kim's friend and mentor, the Afghani horse trader Mahub Ali, and the gentle Tibetan lama with whom Kim travels along the Grand Trunk Road. The humanity of his characters consistently belies Kipling's private prejudices, and raises Kim above the mere ripping good yarn to the level of a timeless classic. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Life Interrupted: The Unfinished Monologueby Spalding GrayISBN 1400048613 (1-4000-4861-3)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Like Hidden Fire: The Plot to Bring Down the British Empireby Peter HopkirkISBN 1568361270 (1-56836-127-0)
Softcover, Kodansha Amer Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Like Hidden Fire: The Plot to Bring Down the British Empire'Book summary:A GRIPPING STORY OF IMPERIAL AMBITION, SWASHBUCKLING ADVENTURE, AND THE KAISER'S OWN JIHAD.
An acclaimed historian tells, for the first time, the full story of the conspiracy between the Germans and the Turks to unleash a Muslim holy war against the British in India and the Russians in the Caucasus. Drawing on recently opened intelligence files and rare personal accounts, Peter Hopkirk skillfully reconstructs the Kaiser's bold plan and describes the exploits of the secret agents on both sides-disguised variously as archaeologists, traders, and circus performers-as they sought to foment or foil the uprising and determine the outcome of World War I. [via]More editions of Like Hidden Fire: The Plot to Bring Down the British Empire:
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The Long Walkby Slavomir RawiczISBN 1558216847 (1-55821-684-7)
Softcover, Globe Pequot Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Long Walk'Book summary:Cavalry officer Slavomir Rawicz was captured by the Red Army in 1939 during the German-Soviet partition of Poland and was sent to the Siberian Gulag along with other captive Poles, Finns, Ukranians, Czechs, Greeks, and even a few English, French, and American unfortunates who had been caught up in the fighting. A year later, he and six comrades from various countries escaped from a labor camp in Yakutsk and made their way, on foot, thousands of miles south to British India, where Rawicz reenlisted in the Polish army and fought against the Germans. The Long Walk recounts that adventure, which is surely one of the most curious treks in history. [via]
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Lord Jimby Joseph ConradISBN 1419131214 (1-4191-3121-4)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lord Jim'Book summary:One of Joseph Conrad's greatest novels, Lord Jim brilliantly combines adventure and analysis. Haunted by the memory of a moment of lost nerve during a disastrous voyage, Jim submits to condemnation by a Court of Inquiry. In the wake of his disgrace he travels to the exotic region of Patusan, and as the agent at this remote trading post comes to be revered as 'Tuan Jim.' Here he finds a measure of serenity and respect within himself. However, when a gang of thieves arrives on the island, the memory of his earlier disgrace comes again to the fore, and his relationship with the people of the island is jeopardized. This new Broadview edition is based on the first British edition of 1900, which provides the historical basis for the accompanying critical and contextual discussions. The appendices include a wide variety of Conrad's source material, documents concerning the scandal of the Jeddah, along with other materials such as a substantial selection of early critical comments. [via]
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Low City, High City: Tokyo from Edo to the Earthquakeby Edward SeidenstickerISBN 091687088X (0-916870-88-X)
Softcover, D. S. Ellis
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Man-Eaters of Kumaonby Jim CorbettISBN 0899665748 (0-89966-574-8)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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Mandalaby Pearl S. BuckISBN 1559210370 (1-55921-037-0)
Softcover, Moyer Bell Ltd
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Mangoes & Curry Leaves: Culinary Travels through the Great Subcontinentby Jeffrey Alford, Naomi Duguid, Richard JungISBN 1579652522 (1-57965-252-2)
Hardcover, Artisan
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Masterworks of Ming and Qing Painting from the Forbidden Cityby Sherman E. Lee, Howard Rogers, Kuo Li Pei-Ping Ku Kung Po Wu YuanISBN 0962106119 (0-9621061-1-9)
Softcover, Intl Arts Council
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Menciusby David HintonISBN 1582430209 (1-58243-020-9)
Softcover, Counterpoint
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The Mongolsby David MorganISBN 1405135395 (1-4051-3539-5)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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Monkeyby David Kherdian, Wu Ch'En-EnISBN 1570625816 (1-57062-581-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Monkey'Book summary:Part historical epic, part social satire, and part spiritual allegory, the folk novel Journey to the West, which came to be known as Monkey, is probably the most popular book in all of East Asia. David Kherdian's retelling brings this classic of Chinese literature to life for the first time in a way that is true to the scope and depth of the original. [via]
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Monkey: Folk Novel Of Chinaby Eleanor Hazard, Cheng'En WuISBN 0914676148 (0-914676-14-8)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster Merchandise &
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Mr. Muo's Travelling Couchby Dai SijieISBN 1400077141 (1-4000-7714-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mr. Muo's Travelling Couch'Book summary:Following his runaway best seller, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, Dai Sijie gives us a delightful new tale of East meets West: an adventure both wry and uplifting about a love of dreams and the dream of love, and the power of reading to sustain and inspire the spirit.
After years of studying Freud in Paris, Mr. Muo returns home to introduce the blessings of psychoanalysis to twenty-first-century China. But it is his hidden purposeto liberate his university sweetheart, now a political prisonerthat leads him to the sadistic local magistrate, Judge Di. The price of the Communist bureaucrats clemency? A virgin maiden. And so our middle-aged hero Muo, a Westernized romantic and sexual innocent himself, sets off on his bicycle in search of a suitable girl.
Muos quest will take him from a Chengdu mortuary to a rural panda habitat, from an insane asylum to the haunts of the marauding Lolo people. Along the way, he will lose a tooth, his virginity, and his once unshakable faith in psychoanalytic insight. But his quixotic idealism will not waver, even as he comes to see that the chivalrous heart may have room for more than one true love.
Dai Sijies exuberant, touchingand most unlikelyromance is a triumph of unbridled imagination, a celebration of the yearning spirit. [via]More editions of Mr. Muo's Travelling Couch:
Nehru: The Invention Of Indiaby Shashi TharoorISBN 1559707372 (1-55970-737-2)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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Of Cats and Kingsby Clare De VriesISBN 1582342075 (1-58234-207-5)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Peace Childby Don RichardsonISBN 1576582892 (1-57658-289-2)
Softcover, Y W A M Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Peace Child'Book summary:Among the headhunting Sawi of Irian Jaya, treachery was an ideal that generations of their people had perfected. The heroes of Sawi legend weren't those who took the greatest number of heads in battle or ambush, but those who were the most deceitful in befriending their victims before they took their heads.
When missionaries Don and Carol Richardson searched for the key that would open the gospel to the Sawi, God moved in a stunning way. He revealed His true Peace Child--the ideal fulfillment of the Sawi's own redemptive analogy. "Peace Child" chronicles the agony--and the triumph--of the Richardsons' unforgettable sojourn among this people loved by God. [via]More editions of Peace Child:
The Pearl Diverby Jeff TalarigoISBN 1400034914 (1-4000-3491-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Piano Tunerby Daniel MasonISBN 1400030382 (1-4000-3038-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Piano Tuner'Book summary:Daniel Mason's debut novel, The Piano Tuner, is the mesmerizing story of Edgar Drake, commissioned by the British War Office in 1886 to travel to hostile Burma to repair a rare Erard grand piano vital to the Crown's strategic interests. Eccentric Surgeon-Major Anthony Carroll has brokered peace with local warlords primarily through music, a free medical clinic, and the "powers" of common scientific instruments, much to the dismay of warmongering officers suspect of such unorthodox methods. Drake is an introspective, well-mannered soul who, once there, falls in love with Burma and stays long past the piano-fixing to aid Carroll's political agenda. Drake's arduous journey to reach the outpost, however, takes far too long (nearly half the book) and the plotting is rather heavy-handed at times (one night, Drake learns of a mysterious "Man with One Story" who rarely speaks, and the very next morning the Man tells all to Drake). The story is ambitious, the language florid and sure to please, but the dialogue and melodrama are sometimes tedious. While out on the town with Carroll's love interest, Khin Myo (who enchants Drake), Mason offers the townspersons' view of Drake:
It is only natural that a guest be treated with hospitality, the quiet man who has come to mend the singing elephant is shy, and walks with the posture of one who is unsure of the world, we too would keep him company to make him feel welcome, but we do not speak English.... They say he is one of the kind of men who has dreams, but tells no one.
Drake's complexity is thin; perhaps the beauty of Burma takes over any real need for introspection. Despite these quibbles, The Piano Tuner is a memorable achievement. --Michael Ferch [via]More editions of The Piano Tuner:
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Power Politicsby Arundhati RoyISBN 0896086682 (0-89608-668-2)
Softcover, South End Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Power Politics'Book summary:Arundhati Roy, the internationally acclaimed author of The God of Small Things, explores the politics of writing and the human and environmental price of "development" in her latest work, Power Politics. In a clear and compelling voice, Roy challenges the idea that only "experts" can speak out on such urgent matters as nuclear war, the tolls of privatization of India's power supply by U.S.-based energy companies, and the construction of monumental dams in India, which promises the dislocation of hundreds of thousands of people.
Roy describes the challenges she has faced in speaking out on contemporary politics after the tremendous international success of her novel The God of Small Things, winner of the prestigious Booker Prize. Here, Roy updates The Cost of Living, described by Salman Rushdie as "brilliant reportage with a passionate, no-holds-barred commentary." In Power Politics, she takes us to the frontlines of struggle for social justice and a humane, democratic future in India.
In this latest work, Roy writes of "the politics of joining hands across the world and preventing certain destruction...in the present circumstances, I'd say that the only thing worth globalizing is dissent."
Born in 1961 in Bengal, Arundhati Roy grew up in Kerala and trained as an architect at the Delhi School of Architecture. Writing in the New York Times, John Updike observed, "The quality of Ms. Roy's narration is so extraordinary-at once so morally strenuous and so imaginatively supple-that the reader remains enthralled all the way through." She is the author of The God of Small Things (HarperCollins) and The Cost of Living (Modern Library).
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Red Azaleaby Anchee MinISBN 1400096987 (1-4000-9698-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Setting the East Ablaze: Lenin's Dream of an Empire in Asiaby Peter HopkirkISBN 1568361025 (1-56836-102-5)
Softcover, Kodansha Amer Inc
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Silk Road Cooking: A Vegetarian Journeyby Najmieh BatmanglijISBN 0934211965 (0-934211-96-5)
Softcover, Mage Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Silk Road Cooking: A Vegetarian Journey'Book summary:This book is at once an exploration, a celebration, and a little-known tale of unity. It presents 150 delicious vegetarian dishes that together trace a fascinating story of culinary linkage. As renowned cookbook writer and teacher Najmieh Batmanglij explains, all have their origins along the ancient network of trade routes known as the Silk Road, stretching from China in the east to the Mediterranean in the west. On this highway moved not just trade goods but also ideas, customs, tastes and such basics of life as cooking ingredients. The result was the connecting and enrichment of dozens of cuisines. In Silk Road Cooking: A Vegetarian Journey, Najmieh Batmanglij recounts that process and brings it into the modern kitchen in the form of recipes that are venturesome and yet within reach of any cook. They are intended for vegetarian, partial-vegetarian and non-vegetarian alike-anyone who is looking for balanced, unusual and exceptionally tasty dishes. [via]
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Sons of the Yellow Emperor: A History of the Chinese Diasporaby Lynn PanISBN 1568360320 (1-56836-032-0)
Softcover, Kodansha Amer Inc
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The Sorrow of Warby Frank Palmos, Bao Ninh, Phan Thanh HaoISBN 1573225436 (1-57322-543-6)
Softcover, Riverhead Books
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Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-1945by Barbara TuchmanISBN 1568496044 (1-56849-604-4)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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Swimming To Cambodiaby Spalding GrayISBN 1559362545 (1-55936-254-5)
Softcover, Theatre Communications Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Swimming To Cambodia'Book summary:[via]It took courage to do what Spalding didcourage to make theatre so naked and unadorned, to expose himself in this way and fight the demons in public. In doing so, he entered our heartsmy heartbecause he made his struggle my struggle. His life became my life. Eric Bogosian
Virtuosic. A master writer, reporter, comic and playwright. Spalding Gray is a sit-down monologist with the soul of a stand-up comedian. A contemporary Gulliver, he travels the globe in search of experience and finds the ridiculous. The New York Times
In 2004, we mourned the loss of one of Americas true theatrical innovators. Spalding Gray took his own life by jumping from the Staten Island ferry into the waters of New York Harbor, finally succumbing to the impossible notion that he could in fact swim to Cambodia. At a memorial gathering for family, friends and fans at Lincoln Center in New York, his widow expressed the need to honor Grays legacy as an artist and writer for his children, as well as for future generations of fans and readers. Originally published in 1985, Swimming to Cambodia is reissued here 20 years later in a new edition as a tribute to Grays singular artistry.
Writer, actor and performer, Spalding Gray is the author of Sex and Death to the Age 14; Monster in a Box; Its a Slippery Slope; Grays Anatomy and Morning, Noon and Night, among other works. His appearance in The Killing Fields was the inspiration for his Swimming to Cambodia, which was also filmed by Jonathan Demme.
Szechwan Style Chinese Cuisineby WeichuanISBN 0941676315 (0-941676-31-5)
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Trespassers on the Roof of the World: The Secret Exploration of Tibetby Peter HopkirkISBN 1568360509 (1-56836-050-9)
Softcover, Kodansha Amer Inc
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In this riveting narrative, Peter Hopkirk turns his storytelling skills on the fortune hunters, mystics, mountaineers, and missionaries who tried storming the roof of the world. He also examines how China sought to maintain a presence in Tibet, so that whenever the Great Game ended, Chinese influence would reign supreme. This presence culminated in the Chinese invasion of Tibet in the 1950s, and in a brief afterword, Hopkirk updates his compelling account of "the gatecrashers of Tibet" with a discussion of Tibet today-as a property still claimed and annexed by the Chinese. [via]More editions of Trespassers on the Roof of the World: The Secret Exploration of Tibet:
War Trashby Ha JinISBN 1400075793 (1-4000-7579-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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When Red Is Blackby Qiu XiaolongISBN 156947396X (1-56947-396-X)
Softcover, Soho Pr Inc
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When Red Is Blackby Xiaolong QiuISBN 1569473692 (1-56947-369-2)
Hardcover, Soho Pr Inc
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The World of the Shining Prince: Court Life in Ancient Japanby Ivan MorrisISBN 1568360290 (1-56836-029-0)
Softcover, Kodansha Amer Inc
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The Year of Living Dangerouslyby Christopher J. KochISBN 094707225X (0-947072-25-X)
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