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Multilingual Selves and Motivations for Learning Languages other than English in Asian Contexts

This book focuses on individuals learning languages other than English in a range of under-researched Asian contexts. The chapters explore learners' motivational trajectories, multilingual identities and …

Navigating East Asian Maritime Conflicts: Technological Change, Environmental Challenges, Global and Regional Responses

As technological development and diffusion have greatly increased the resources states can recover from maritime space, the stakes of these conflicts have grown. Nowhere is this clearer than in East Asia.…

Fumio Yasuda (geb. 1953)

Kammermusik - "Forest"

Akimuse (Gesang), Fumio Yasuda (Klavier), Joachim Badenhorst (Klarinette & Saxophon), Nobuyoshi Ino (Bass)

Mandarava & Miyagi: Ayurveda

Seth Rogovoy

Patterns That Remain

In Patterns That Remain, Stacey Diane Arañez Litam effortlessly blends history, storytelling, and culturally grounded techniques to provide readers with the tools needed to promote self-reflection, person…

Hansen Shi

The Expat

A fresh and vivid new voice brings a contemporary edge to the classic espionage novel. A New York Times "Best Thrillers of the Year (So Far)” At twenty-six, Princeton grad Michael Wang is trapped. Stifl…

Constance Wu

Making a Scene

“Illuminating.” —The Washington Post * “Candid and relatable.” —Time *“Riveting and personal.” —Mindy Kaling * “Captivatingly immediate.” —The Skimm * A “poignant, frank, and intimate” (The New York Time…

Jon M Chu, Jeremy McCarter

Viewfinder

"Long before he directed Wicked, In The Heights, or the groundbreaking film Crazy Rich Asians, Jon M. Chu was a movie-obsessed first-generation Chinese American, helping at his parents' Chinese restaurant…

Tania de Rozario

Dinner on Monster Island

"In this unusual, engaging, and intimate collection of personal essays, Lamba Literary Award finalist Tania De Rozario recalls growing up as a queer, brown, fat girl in Singapore, blending memoir with ele…

Tracy O'Neill

Woman of Interest

"A National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35 honoree delivers her first nonfiction work: a compulsively readable, genre-bending story of finding her birth mother and learning the power of self-knowledge"--

Ha Jin

Waiting

Winner of the 1999 National Book Award for Fiction! In Waiting, PEN/Hemingway Award-winning author Ha Jin draws on his intimate knowledge of contemporary China to create a novel of unexpected richness an…

Kevin Nguyen

My Documents

The paths of four family members diverge drastically when the U.S. government begins detaining Vietnamese Americans, in this sharp and touching novel about coming of age at the intersection of ambition an…

Matthew Salesses

The Sense of Wonder

From the author of PEN/Faulkner finalist Disappear Doppelgänger Disappear and Craft in the Real World comes a "a smart, very meta take" (Kirkus Reviews) on the ways Asian Americans navigate the thorny wor…

Jieun Kiaer

The Future of Syntax

Proposing a new approach to the study of language, this book argues for the need to consider syntax in context and to engage with a wider variety of perspectives that better reflect the modern world and t…

Tiffany Moon

Joy Prescriptions

Doctor by day and Bravo’s Real Housewife by night, Tiffany Moon has a prescription for releasing perfectionism and finding joy!   As a self-proclaimed “good girl,” Tiffany was a people pleaser and A-stu…

Susanna Kwan

Awake in the Floating City

An utterly transporting debut novel about the unexpected relationship between an artist and the 130-year-old woman she cares for—two of the last people living in a flooded San Francisco of the future, the…

Ed Park

Same Bed Different Dreams

PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • A wild, sweeping novel that imagines an alternate secret history of Korea and the traces it leaves on the present—loaded with assassins and mad poets, RPGs and slasher films, pop…

Lauren Kung Jessen

Red String Theory

"When it comes to love and art, Rooney Gao believes in signs. Most of all, she believes in the Chinese legend that everyone is tied to their one true love by the red string of fate. And that belief has in…

Kevin Chong

The Double Life of Benson Yu

In a Chinatown housing project lives twelve-year-old Benny, his ailing grandmother, and his strange neighbor Constantine, a man who believes he's a reincarnated medieval samurai. When his grandmother is h…