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Smithsonian Asian Pacific American History, Art, and Culture in 101 Objects

A rich and compelling introduction to the history of Asian Pacific American communities as told through 101 objects, from a fortune cookie baking mold to the debut Ms. Marvel comic featuring Kamala Khan …

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Nature Unfurled

"As immigrants and laborers, gardeners and artists, activists and vacationers, Asian Americans have played, worked, and worshipped in nature for almost two centuries, forging enduring relationships with d…

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Gordon H Chang
War, Race, and Culture

"Writing history, the systematic effort to understand the human past, is a demanding intellectual endeavor. For historian Gordon H. Chang, it has also been a personal and moral enterprise intimately conne…

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Phil Tajitsu Nash
Our Place in History

A long overdue counternarrative to the story of Asian Americans as passive participants in the American story Interest in Asian American issues and the place of Asian Americans in U.S. history has surged…

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Steven Schwankert
The Six

"When RMS Titanic sank on a cold night in 1912, barely seven hundred people escaped with their lives. Among them were six Chinese men. Arriving in New York, these six were met with suspicion and slander. …

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Kishore Mahbubani
Living the Asian Century

"Growing up in poverty in the 1950s, Kishore Mahbubani expected to become a common textile salesman after finishing high school. Instead, a government scholarship sent him to the University of Singapore, …

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Brandon Shimoda
The Afterlife Is Letting Go

"A memoiristic travelogue that illuminates the enduring legacy of the mass incarceration of Japanese immigrants and Japanese Americans during World War II"--

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Gregg Jones
Most Honorable Son

The first comprehensive biography of unjustly forgotten war hero Ben Kuroki, a Japanese American farm boy from Nebraska who flew 58 combat missions, fighting the Axis Powers during World War II and battle…

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Karen M Inouye
Mary Kitagawa

This book tells the story of Japanese Canadian activist Mary Kitagawa. In the aftermath of the Pearl Harbor bombing, Mary was one of roughly 22,000 Nikkei uprooted from their homes on the Pacific coast an…

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Karen M Inouye
Mary Kitagawa

This book tells the story of Japanese Canadian activist Mary Kitagawa. In the aftermath of the Pearl Harbor bombing, Mary was one of roughly 22,000 Nikkei uprooted from their homes on the Pacific coast an…

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Marc Petitjean,
A Remarkable Man

"A poignant, eye-opening portrait of a witness to the atomic bomb who dedicated his life to treating and advocating for radiation survivors. As a young doctor, Shuntaro Hida (1917-2017) played an essentia…

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Chantha Nguon
Slow Noodles

A haunting and beautiful memoir from a Cambodian refugee who lost her country and her family during Pol Pot's genocide in the 1970s but who finds hope by reclaiming the recipes she tasted in her mother's …

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K Ian Shin
Imperial Stewards

"From the Gilded Age to World War II, elite collectors and museums in the United States transformed from owning a smattering of Chinese porcelain as curios to possessing some of the world's largest and mo…

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K Ian Shin
Imperial Stewards

"From the Gilded Age to World War II, elite collectors and museums in the United States transformed from owning a smattering of Chinese porcelain as curios to possessing some of the world's largest and mo…

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Gulbahar Haitiwaji, Rozenn Morgat,
How I Survived a Chinese Reeducation Camp

"China's brutal repression of Uyghurs, a Turkish-speaking Muslim ethnic group, has been denounced as genocide and reported widely in media around the world. The Chinese government denies that these are co…

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Scott Miller
Let My Country Awake

The true story of an audacious international movement to liberate India from colonial rule during World War I. WANTED: Brave Soldiers to Stir Up Ghadar in India PAY: Death PRIZE: Martyrdom PENSION: Liber…

lieferbar ab 28.10.2025.

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Song Woohye, Woohye Song,
Yun Dong-Ju

Chronicling the life of Korea’s “National Poet,” Yun Dong-ju (1917-1945), Song WooHye explores the historical and political backgrounds that influenced Yun’s development as a poet and a patriot. Universal…

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Song Woohye, Woohye Song,
Yun Dong-Ju

Chronicling the life of Korea’s “National Poet,” Yun Dong-ju (1917-1945), Song WooHye explores the historical and political backgrounds that influenced Yun’s development as a poet and a patriot. Universal…

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Susan Tate Ankeny
American Flygirl

One of WWII’s most uniquely hidden figures, Hazel Ying Lee was the first Asian American woman to earn a pilot’s license, join the WASPs, and fly for the United States military amid widespread anti-Asian s…

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Helen Raleigh
Not Outsiders

Asian Americans' political activism from the 19th century to today

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