Asian Studies
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Eat Bitter: A Story about Guts, and Food
$28.99 Read moreOne of the Must-Read Books To Have On Your Radar in 2026–Service95
From a dazzling new writer, a stirring memoir rooted in Hakka culture about the lesson to accept both bitterness and sweetness in lif
- Author: Pang, Lydia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 19 2026
- ISBN10: 0063487136
- Language: English
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The Japanese Way of Parenting: And What It Taught Me about Raising (Mostly) Calm, Caring, Capable Kids
$19.99 Read moreIn this fascinating half-memoir, half-parenting guide, Lisa Katayama shares her quest to raise her American kids using Japanese parenting principles which combine unconditional love with unwavering ru… [more below]
- Author: Katayama, Lisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 21 2026
- ISBN10: 1523531851
- Language: English
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Modern China: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
China is a country of huge economic influence, with ambitions to alter the balance of power between East and West. At the same time, many of its c- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Mitter, Rana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: December 29 2025
- ISBN10: 0198931107
- Language: English
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The Legends of Meosh?n’k?: An Illustrated Guide to Korean Monsters and Mythology Volume 1
$19.99 Add to cartSouth Korea’s bestselling illustrated guidebook, now available in English! Discover over 50 mythological creatures from East Asian folklore, meticulously researched and brought to life with stunning a… [more below]
- Series: Meosh?n’k?
- Author: Hwahwa Studio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 9798881602925
- Language: English
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Letter from Japan
$30.00 Add to cartIn her most personal book yet, the iconic star of the hit Netflix series Tidying Up with Marie Kondo and #1 bestselling author of The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up opens up about the cultural trad… [more below]
- Author: Kondo, Marie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 9798217088089
- Language: English
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Hegemony of Homogeneity: An Anthropological Analysis of Nihonjinron
$29.95 Add to cartMuch of the misunderstanding by foreigners about Japan arises out of their acceptance of certain stereotypes about the Japanese. Harumi Befu spearheaded the critique of the stereotypical and the essen… [more below]
- Series: Japanese Society
- Author: Befu, Harumi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 195
- Publish Date: May 01 2001
- ISBN10: 1876843055
- Language: English
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Scam: Inside Southeast Asia’s Cybercrime Compounds
$24.95 Add to cartA probing investigation of Southeast Asia’s online scam industry – told through the voices of survivors
Running the gamut from the infamous ‘pig butchering’ romance con to sophisticated online extorti- Author: Franceschini, Ivan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1804296902
- Language: English
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Cure
$17.95 Read moreKiyoshi Kurosawa’s 1997 psychological horror, Cure, follows a detective (played by Koji Yakusho) as he investigates a string of gruesome murders in Tokyo, where each victim has an ‘X’ carved into thei
- Series: BFI Film Classics
- Author: Lash, Dominic
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: October 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1839025948
- Language: English
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Unassimilable: An Asian Diasporic Manifesto for the Twenty-First Century
$29.99 Add to cartA scholar and activist’s brilliant socio-political examination of Asian Americans who refuse to assimilate and instead build their own belonging on their own terms outside of mainstream American insti
- Author: Mabute-Louie, Bianca
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 006327762X
- Language: English
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Fetishized: A Reckoning with Yellow Fever, Feminism, and Beauty
$30.00 Add to cartA deeply personal memoir-in-essays, reckoning with being an object of Asian fetish and how media, pop culture, and colonialism contributed to the oversexualization of Asian women–from Kaila Yu, forme… [more below]
- Author: Yu, Kaila
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 19 2025
- ISBN10: 0593728017
- Language: English
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In Blood, Flowers Bloom: A World War II Story of Valor and Forgiveness Across Generations
$30.00 Add to cartAn intergenerational story of war, forgiveness, and memory told through stolen and returned battlefield souvenirs.
How do we remember war? How do we forgive? In Blood, Flowers Bloom illuminates one- Author: Bresnahan, Samantha
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1541702573
- Language: English
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A Lamp Unto Yourself: A Beginner’s Guide to Asian Spiritual Practices, from Advaita and Buddhism to Yoga and Zen
$24.95 Add to cartFor “spiritual explorers” ready to travel beyond Western bounds, a beginner’s guide to Asian spiritual traditions spanning regions, cultures, and history
Asian spiritual practices, from yoga and tai c- Author: Salguero, C. Pierce
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: April 22 2025
- ISBN10: 0807020397
- Language: English
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Brown Women Have Everything: Essays on (Dis)comfort and Delight
$22.00 Add to cartAs a child growing up in New Delhi, Sayantani Dasgupta wanted to go on adventures involving shipwrecks and treasure chests. Her parents wanted her to stay in school instead. She satisfied her curiosit… [more below]
- Author: Dasgupta, Sayantani
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1469681773
- Language: English
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Louder Than the Lies: Asian American Identity, Solidarity, and Self-Love
$28.00 Add to cartA primer on racism that offers an intersectional, anti-racist, coalition-building view of Asian American identity.
“This is and will be a necessary and useful tool for generations to come.” —Jenny Wan
- Author: Camp, Ellie Yang
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1597146617
- Language: English
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You’ve Changed: Fake Accents, Feminism, and Other Comedies from Myanmar
$16.95 Read moreIn this electric debut essay collection, a Myanmar millennial playfully challenges us to examine the knots and complications of immigration status, eating habits, Western feminism in an Asian home, an… [more below]
- Author: War, Pyae Moe Thet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 08 2023
- ISBN10: 1646222008
- Language: English
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Brown Girl Like Me: The Essential Guidebook and Manifesto for South Asian Girls and Women
$18.99 Read moreYou might feel that this fight is too big for you. How on earth can you dismantle so many complex, long-standing systems of oppression? My answer: piece by piece.
Brown Girl Like Me is an inspiring me- Author: Kaur, Jaspreet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1529056357
- Language: English
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Kuni: A Japanese Vision and Practice for Urban-Rural Reconnection
$16.95 Read more“Reading Kuni makes me want to dive into rural Japan…this book reminds me that leaders emerge when and where you least expect it.”
— ALICE WATERS, founder of Chez Panisse restaurant, activist, and … [more below]- Author: Sekihara, Tsuyoshi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1623177316
- Language: English
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A Refugee’s American Dream: From the Killing Fields of Cambodia to the U.S. Secret Service
$30.00 Read more“I saw many killed. I almost starved. But I escaped to refugee camps in Thailand and eventually made it to the U.S.” Thus begins Leth Oun’s poignant and vivid memoir. A survivor of the Cambodian Killi
- Author: Oun, Leth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 292
- Publish Date: February 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1439923361
- Language: English
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They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us
$18.00 Read more“In this vulnerable and courageous memoir, Prachi Gupta takes the myth of the exceptional Indian American family to task.”–The Washington Post
“I read it in one sitting. Wow. It aims right at the ten… [more below]- Author: Gupta, Prachi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 20 2024
- ISBN10: 0593443004
- Language: English
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Modi’s India: Hindu Nationalism and the Rise of Ethnic Democracy
$58.33 Add to cartA riveting account of how a popularly elected leader has steered the world’s largest democracy toward authoritarianism and intolerance
Over the past two decades, thanks to Narendra Modi, Hindu nationa- Author: Jaffrelot, Christophe
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: August 03 2021
- ISBN10: 0691206805
- Language: English
