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Asian Culture Food - HOME   Asian Culture Food Food and Culture FOOD AND CULTURE provides information on the health, culture, food, and nutrition habits of the most common ethnic and racial groups living in the United States. It is designed to help health professionals, chefs, and others in the food service industry learn to work effectively with members of different ethnic and religious groups in a culturally sensitive manner. Authors Pamela Goyan Kittler and Katherine P. Sucher include comprehensive coverage of key ethnic, religious, and regional groups, including Native Americans, Europeans, Africans, Mexicans and Central Americans, Caribbean ...

Asian Classics Companion Guide Oriental Study - HOME   Asian Classics Companion Guide Oriental Study Asian Art: Great Works from Japan, China and India by Berenice Geoffrey-Schneiter, A visually stunning tour of the artistic achievements of Asian civilization, Asian Art highlights the greatest works of the Orient. Spanning an eclectic range of imagery, from the aesthetically classic to the intrinsically modern, Asian Art introduces the reader to the subtle beauty of Japanese screen painting, the elegance of Chinese calligraphy and the sensuality of Indian goddesses. The author, an archaeologist, historian and writer, has studied and traveled throughout the Far East. ...

Indian Health Services - HOME   Indian Health Services Food and Culture FOOD AND CULTURE provides information on the health, culture, food, and nutrition habits of the most common ethnic and racial groups living in the United States. It is designed to help health professionals, chefs, and others in the food service industry learn to work effectively with members of different ethnic and religious groups in a culturally sensitive manner. Authors Pamela Goyan Kittler and Katherine P. Sucher include comprehensive coverage of key ethnic, religious, and regional groups, including Native Americans, Europeans, Africans, Mexicans and Central Americans, Caribbean Islanders, South Americans, Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, Southeast Asians, Pacific ...

Asian Furniture Modern - HOME   Asian Furniture Modern The Outdoor Living Room: Stylish Ideas for Porches, Patios, and Pools by Martha Baker, In the summer months and year-round in warmer climates, Americans love spending time outdoors. More and more, people are treating the outdoor spaces on their properties as true extensions of their homes, turning porches, pools, patios, decks, and gardens into outdoor living spaces that serve the same functions as indoor rooms. In The Outdoor Living Room: Stylish Ideas for Porches, Patios, and Pools, acclaimed author Martha Baker offers more than forty-five striking examples ...

Asian Furniture Modern - HOME   Asian Furniture Modern The Outdoor Living Room: Stylish Ideas for Porches, Patios, and Pools by Martha Baker, In the summer months and year-round in warmer climates, Americans love spending time outdoors. More and more, people are treating the outdoor spaces on their properties as true extensions of their homes, turning porches, pools, patios, decks, and gardens into outdoor living spaces that serve the same functions as indoor rooms. In The Outdoor Living Room: Stylish Ideas for Porches, Patios, and Pools, acclaimed author Martha Baker offers more than forty-five striking examples ...

Asian Furniture Modern - HOME   Asian Furniture Modern The Outdoor Living Room: Stylish Ideas for Porches, Patios, and Pools by Martha Baker, In the summer months and year-round in warmer climates, Americans love spending time outdoors. More and more, people are treating the outdoor spaces on their properties as true extensions of their homes, turning porches, pools, patios, decks, and gardens into outdoor living spaces that serve the same functions as indoor rooms. In The Outdoor Living Room: Stylish Ideas for Porches, Patios, and Pools, acclaimed author Martha Baker offers more than forty-five striking examples ...

Hawaiian Food Recipe - ... a particular Local Food, an encounter that puzzled her and eventually led to tracing its origins and influence in Hawaii. Representative recipes follow. Like pidgin, the creole language created by Hawaii's early immigrants, Local Food is a creole cuisine created by three distinct culinary influences: Pacific, American and European, and Asian. In her attempt "to decipher Hawaii's culinary Babel", Laudan examines the contributions of each, including the introduction of new ingredients and the adaptation of traditional dishes to Hawaii's way of life. More than 150 recipes, photographs, a bibliography of Hawaii's cookbooks, and ...

Taiwanese Culture - HOME   Taiwanese Culture Culture and Customs of Taiwan by Gary Marvin Davison, Taiwanese society is in the midst of an immense, exciting effort to define itself, seeking to erect a contemporary identity upon the foundation of a highly distinctive history. This book provides a thorough overview of Taiwanese cultural life. The introduction familiarizes students and interested readers with the island's key geographical and demographic features, and provides a chronological summary of Taiwanese history. In the following seven chapters, readers gain insight into Taiwanese customs and culture through its thought and religion; kinship and marriage systems; literature and art; architecture; festivals and leisure activities; music and dance; cuisine and fashion. The final chapter presents the most recent information regarding children and education, and explores ...

China Chinese Culture Family - ... life stories of individuals ranging from ancient court diviners to late imperial merchants to women in various periods, this engaging anthology highlights aspects of Chinese social, political and intellectual history not usually addressed. Additionally, The Human Tradition in Premodern China broadens the common image and understanding of society based on the dominant elite male discourse. Rich in new perspective and new scholarship, The Human Tradition in Premodern China is an ideal introduction to Chinese history, East Asian history, and world history. Culture of Communist China - The Culture of Communist China is a blend of traditional Chinese culture with strong communist influences, and lately, Western consumer culture. Chinese tea culture - Chinese tea culture refers to the methods of preparation of tea, the equipment ...

Mapquest Europe - ... areas of Europe and East Asia? As Ken Pomeranz shows, as recently as 1750, parallels between these two parts of the world were very high in life expectancy, consumption, product and factor markets, and the strategies of households. Perhaps most surprisingly, Pomeranz demonstrates that the Chinese and Japanese cores were no worse off ecologically than Western Europe. Core areas throughout the eighteenth-century Old World faced comparable local shortages of land-intensive products, shortages that were only partly resolved by trade. Pomeranz argues that Europe's nineteenth-century divergence from the Old World owes ... s failure to use its land intensively much less of a problem, while allowing growth in energy-intensive industries. Another crucial difference that he notes has to do with trade. Fortuitous global conjunctures made the Americas a greater source of needed primary products for Europe than any Asian periphery. This allowed Northwest Europe to grow dramatically in population, specialize further in manufactures, and remove labor from the land, using increased imports rather than maximizing yields. Together, coal and the New World allowed Europe to grow along resource-intensive, labor-saving paths. Meanwhile, Asia ...

Culture Dictionary Food Ingredient Japanese - HOME   Culture Dictionary Food Ingredient Japanese International Dictionary of Food and Nutrition by Kenneth N. Anderson, A London chef has overnight access to Louisiana crayfish. A Nebraska housewife finds the complex spices key to a proper Indian curry in her area supermarket. Big Macs are all the rage in Moscow. In the 1990s, the hallmarks of the Global Village - advances in telecommunications and transportation - have made food, dining, and cooking truly international. And The International Dictionary of Food and Nutrition is an invaluable handbook for anyone intent on keeping up with the latest in ... as words and terms used in food production, processing, and preparation. In more than 7,600 entries, The International Dictionary of Food and Nutrition translates into layman's English the common and esoteric terms used to identify food ingredients, entrees, and supplementary items. It also identifies the ethnic or cultural origin of the terms used in the production, processing and preparation of food items in a professional lexicographic manner. From traditional entries on classic ingredients and entrees to the words and phrases that reflect a growing worldwide interest in ethnic dining, the Dictionary ...

Asian Boob - HOME   Asian Boob Asian American Culture on Stage: The History of the East West Players by Yuko Kurahashi, This book captures the 30-year history of the East West Players (EWP), tracing the company's representation of Asian Americans through the complex social and cultural changes of the past three decades. The EWP was founded in 1965 by Asian American actors, including Mako Iwamatsu, James Hong, Beulah Quo, Pat Li, June Kim, and Yet Lock. Struggling against stereotypical representations of Asians in mainstream American culture and a scarcity of acting opportunities in the ...

Mapquest Europe - ... areas of Europe and East Asia? As Ken Pomeranz shows, as recently as 1750, parallels between these two parts of the world were very high in life expectancy, consumption, product and factor markets, and the strategies of households. Perhaps most surprisingly, Pomeranz demonstrates that the Chinese and Japanese cores were no worse off ecologically than Western Europe. Core areas throughout the eighteenth-century Old World faced comparable local shortages of land-intensive products, shortages that were only partly resolved by trade. Pomeranz argues that Europe's nineteenth-century divergence from the Old World owes ... s failure to use its land intensively much less of a problem, while allowing growth in energy-intensive industries. Another crucial difference that he notes has to do with trade. Fortuitous global conjunctures made the Americas a greater source of needed primary products for Europe than any Asian periphery. This allowed Northwest Europe to grow dramatically in population, specialize further in manufactures, and remove labor from the land, using increased imports rather than maximizing yields. Together, coal and the New World allowed Europe to grow along resource-intensive, labor-saving paths. Meanwhile, Asia ...

Learn Japanese Language - HOME   Learn Japanese Language Learning Japanese in the Network Society by Kazuko Nakajima, X Japanese is one of the most difficult languages to learn for English-speaking students, but emerging technologies are making revolutionary changes that are easing the learning curve. Learning Japanese in the Network Society addresses current issues of computer-assisted language learning (CALL) shared by language-teaching professionals in the new global network society, focusing on teaching and learning Japanese as a second language. This book is a comprehensive resource on the current status of CALL and is essential reference ...

Asian Fusion Food - HOME   Asian Fusion Food The Food of Paradise: Exploring Hawaii's Culinary Heritage by Rachel Laudan, Hawaii has one of the richest culinary heritages in the United States. Where else would you find competitions for the best saimin, sushi, Portuguese sausage, laulau, plate lunch, kim chee, dim sum, shave ice, and hamburgers? Hawaii's contemporary regional cuisine (affectionately known as "Local Food" by residents) is a truly amazing fusion of diverse culinary influences. In The Food of Paradise: Exploring Hawaii's Culinary Heritage, Rachel Laudan takes readers on a thoughtful, wide-ranging tour of ... a particular Local Food, an encounter that puzzled her and eventually led to tracing its origins and influence in Hawaii. Representative recipes follow. Like pidgin, the creole language created by Hawaii's early immigrants, Local Food is a creole cuisine created by three distinct culinary influences: Pacific, American and European, and Asian. In her attempt "to decipher Hawaii's culinary Babel", Laudan examines the contributions of each, including the introduction of new ingredients and the adaptation of traditional dishes to Hawaii's way of life. More than 150 recipes, photographs, a bibliography of ...

Japanese Language Support - HOME   Japanese Language Support The Imperial Screen: A Cultural History of Japanese Cinema in the Fifteen Years War of 1931-1945 by Peter B. High, From the late 1920s through World War II, film became a crucial tool in the state of Japan. Detailing the way Japanese directors, scriptwriters, company officials, and bureaucrats colluded to produce films that supported the war effort, Imperial Screen is a highly readable account of the realities of cultural life in wartime Japan. High's treatment of the Japanese film world as a microcosm of the entire sphere ...

Asian Avenue - HOME   Asian Avenue Migration, Transnationalization, and Race in a Changing New York by Hector R. Cordero-Guzman, When you think of American immigration, what images come to mind? Ellis Island. East Side tenements. Pushcarts on Eighth Avenue. Little Italy. Chinatown. El Barrio. New York City has always been central to the immigrant experience in the United States. In the last three decades, the volume of immigration has increased as has the diversity of immigrant origins and experiences. Contemporary immigration conjures up old images but also some new ones: The sweatshops and ethnic neighborhoods ...

Asian Variety Show - HOME   Asian Variety Show Dynamics of Ethnic Identity: Three Asian American Communities in Philadelphia by Jae-Hyup Lee, This comparative study of the Chinese, Korean, and Vietnamese American communities in Philadelphia shows that each Asian American community maintains its own internal cultural boundaries. These cultural boundaries are used to cultivate differences which become institutionalized over time. Socially constructed boundaries, such as ethnicity, gender, class and generation, intersect within and among ethnic groups. Based on a social anthropological framework, this study describes the mechanism of ethnic and class identity formations, and shows how identities ...

Asian American Food - HOME   Asian American Food Food and Culture FOOD AND CULTURE provides information on the health, culture, food, and nutrition habits of the most common ethnic and racial groups living in the United States. It is designed to help health professionals, chefs, and others in the food service industry learn to work effectively with members of different ethnic and religious groups in a culturally sensitive manner. Authors Pamela Goyan Kittler and Katherine P. Sucher include comprehensive coverage of key ethnic, religious, and regional groups, including Native Americans, Europeans, Africans, Mexicans and Central Americans, Caribbean ...

Mapquest Europe - ... areas of Europe and East Asia? As Ken Pomeranz shows, as recently as 1750, parallels between these two parts of the world were very high in life expectancy, consumption, product and factor markets, and the strategies of households. Perhaps most surprisingly, Pomeranz demonstrates that the Chinese and Japanese cores were no worse off ecologically than Western Europe. Core areas throughout the eighteenth-century Old World faced comparable local shortages of land-intensive products, shortages that were only partly resolved by trade. Pomeranz argues that Europe's nineteenth-century divergence from the Old World owes ... s failure to use its land intensively much less of a problem, while allowing growth in energy-intensive industries. Another crucial difference that he notes has to do with trade. Fortuitous global conjunctures made the Americas a greater source of needed primary products for Europe than any Asian periphery. This allowed Northwest Europe to grow dramatically in population, specialize further in manufactures, and remove labor from the land, using increased imports rather than maximizing yields. Together, coal and the New World allowed Europe to grow along resource-intensive, labor-saving paths. Meanwhile, Asia ...

Mapquest Europe - ... areas of Europe and East Asia? As Ken Pomeranz shows, as recently as 1750, parallels between these two parts of the world were very high in life expectancy, consumption, product and factor markets, and the strategies of households. Perhaps most surprisingly, Pomeranz demonstrates that the Chinese and Japanese cores were no worse off ecologically than Western Europe. Core areas throughout the eighteenth-century Old World faced comparable local shortages of land-intensive products, shortages that were only partly resolved by trade. Pomeranz argues that Europe's nineteenth-century divergence from the Old World owes ... s failure to use its land intensively much less of a problem, while allowing growth in energy-intensive industries. Another crucial difference that he notes has to do with trade. Fortuitous global conjunctures made the Americas a greater source of needed primary products for Europe than any Asian periphery. This allowed Northwest Europe to grow dramatically in population, specialize further in manufactures, and remove labor from the land, using increased imports rather than maximizing yields. Together, coal and the New World allowed Europe to grow along resource-intensive, labor-saving paths. Meanwhile, Asia ...

Asian Avenue - HOME   Asian Avenue Migration, Transnationalization, and Race in a Changing New York by Hector R. Cordero-Guzman, When you think of American immigration, what images come to mind? Ellis Island. East Side tenements. Pushcarts on Eighth Avenue. Little Italy. Chinatown. El Barrio. New York City has always been central to the immigrant experience in the United States. In the last three decades, the volume of immigration has increased as has the diversity of immigrant origins and experiences. Contemporary immigration conjures up old images but also some new ones: The sweatshops and ethnic neighborhoods ...

South Asian Food - HOME   South Asian Food Thai and South-East Asian Food & Cooking This book takes readers ona journey through Thailand and South-east Asia, discovering the region's culture and food, illustrated by over 1400 beautiful photographs. Food and Culture FOOD AND CULTURE provides information on the health, culture, food, and nutrition habits of the most common ethnic and racial groups living in the United States. It is designed to help health professionals, chefs, and others in the food service industry learn to work effectively with members of different ethnic and religious groups in ...

American Shopping - HOME   American Shopping Sheila's Shop: Working-Class African American Women Talk about Life, Love, Race, and Hair Sheila's Shop invites us into a Southern beauty parlor to meet working-class African American women. Kimberly Battle-Walters spent over sixteen months interviewing and listening to women at Sheila's Shop while researching this valuable ethnographic work. Literature and the media tend to report either on the lives of upwardly mobile, middle-class African Americans or on the poor, ignoring working-class women. Sheila's Shop focuses on these women, introducing a conceptual ...

Japanese Translation Service - HOME   Japanese Translation Service Adios to Tears: The Memoirs of a Japanese-Peruvian Internee in U.S. Concnetration Camps by Seiichi Higashide, Adios to Tears is the very personal story of Seiichi Higashide (1909-97), whose life in three countries was shaped by a bizarre and little-known episode in the history of World War II. Born in Hokkaido, Higashide emigrated to Peru in 1931. By the late 1930s he was a shop keeper and community leader in the provincial town of Ica, but following the outbreak of World War II, he -- along ...

Japanese Food Health - HOME   Japanese Food Health Japanese Homestyle Cooking: Traditional Everyday Recipes by Tokiko Suzuki, Japanese Homestyle Cooking makes use of each season's most plentiful ingredients for preparing delicious meals. Including over 135 recipes, this comprehensive cookbook brings the most popular meals in Japanese homes to your home. The menu variety is stunning, with foods that are simmered, broiled, pan-fried, deep-fried, steamed, and dressed with vinegar. Recipes include Sashimi, one-pot meals, rice, noodles, soups and more. Since Japanese cuisine is world renowned for using healthful ingredients it is no surprise that ...

Japanese Language School in Japan - HOME   Japanese Language School in Japan Business Japanese by Shoji Azuma, X Written for intermediate to advanced students of Japanese, this book focuses on the language used in real-life business situations, giving students both the linguistic skills and the practical information they need to conduct business in Japan. More than a guide to language and vocabulary, Business Japanese emphasizes critical thinking and cultural awareness. The book covers Internet and other technical terminology, numbers, and the phrasing of corporate documents. In addition to language elements, the authors provide a short course in the ...

Japanese Culture and Society - HOME   Japanese Culture and Society An Introduction to Japanese Society by Yoshio Sugimoto, In a second edition of his book which has become essential reading for students of Japanese society, Yoshio Sugimoto uses both English and Japanese sources to update and expand upon his original narrative. In so doing he challenges the traditional notion that Japan comprises a uniform culture, and draws attention to its subcultural diversity and class competition. The author also examines what he calls 'friendly authoritarianism' - the force behind the Japanese tendency to be ostensibly faithful to particular groups and ...

Chinese Food French Gary,Gary Japanese Kosher - HOME   Chinese Food French Gary,Gary Japanese Kosher Encyclopedia of the Japanese in the Americas: An Illustrated History by Akemi Kikumura-Yano, The Encyclopedia is the first comprehensive guide to the history of Japanese immigrants in the western hemisphere. It is the story of the Nikkei (people of Japanese descent and their descendants) from early immigration to the present, as they settled in the countries of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, and the United States. Each chapter provides four primary areas of information: an historical overview, a bibliographic essay, an ...

Asian Japanese - HOME   Asian Japanese Pacific Pioneers: Japanese Journeys to Hawaii and America, 1850-80 by John E. Van Sant, Shipwrecked sailors, samurai seeking a material and sometimes spiritual education, and laborers seeking to better their economic situation: these early Japanese travelers to the West occupy a little-known corner of Asian American studies. Pacific Pioneers profiles the first Japanese who resided in the United States or the Kingdom of Hawaii for a substantial period of time and the Westerners who influenced their experiences. Although Japanese immigrants did not start arriving in substantial numbers in ...

Antique Asian Chinese Japanese Oriental Vietnamese - HOME   Antique Asian Chinese Japanese Oriental Vietnamese Complete Idiot's Guide to Asian Cooking: The Latest is Fresh, New Cooking for the Home Cook Who Wants to Learn a New Style! by Annie Wong, -- Fresher, more modern approach than a Chinese cookbook -- better than the competition with more recipes at a lower price. The competitor's book has only 110 recipes and only covers Chinese. We have 150! -- Sixteen pages of professional color photos of selected dishes show readers what the recipes should look like! Pan-Asian cooking takes the best ingredients and ...

Asian Tableware - HOME   Asian Tableware Asian American Culture on Stage: The History of the East West Players by Yuko Kurahashi, This book captures the 30-year history of the East West Players (EWP), tracing the company's representation of Asian Americans through the complex social and cultural changes of the past three decades. The EWP was founded in 1965 by Asian American actors, including Mako Iwamatsu, James Hong, Beulah Quo, Pat Li, June Kim, and Yet Lock. Struggling against stereotypical representations of Asians in mainstream American culture and a scarcity of acting opportunities in the ...

Rice Epicurean Market - ... Your Soul: Experiencing Bulgarian Music by Timothy Rice, In this vivid musical ethnography, Timothy Rice documents and interprets the history of folk music, song, and dance in Bulgaria over a seventy-year period of dramatic change. From 1920 to 1989, Bulgaria changed from a nearly medieval village society to a Stalinist planned industrial economy to a chaotic mix of capitalist and socialist markets and cultures.In the context of this history, Rice brings Bulgarian folk music to life by focusing on the biography of the Varimezov family, including the musician Kostadin and his wife ... with industrialization brought under Communism, and finally, how it flourished and evolved in the recent, unstable political climate.This work--complete with a compact disc and numerous illustrations and musical examples--contributes not only to ethnomusicological theory and method, but also to our understanding of Slavic folklore, Eastern European anthropology, and cultural processes in Socialist states. To Market, to Market (M*A*S*H episode) - ==Overview== Black rice - Black rice is one of several black-colored heirloom plants producing rice variants such as Indonesian Black Rice, forbidden rice, or wild rice. High in ...

Taiwanese Playmate - HOME   Taiwanese Playmate The Taiwanese Americans by Franklin Ng, Despite the relatively short history of the Taiwanese in the United States, they have been a significant presence in America. Since 1965, immigration law changes have led to a dramatic increase in the Asian population in the United States. Taiwanese Americans, the immigrants from Taiwan and their descendants, are a prominent group in this increasing Asian population. This is the first book-length study about the Taiwanese American community in the United States. While most articles have discussed the economic impact of their immigration, ...

Teaching English South East Asia - HOME   Teaching English South East Asia Language and Social Identity by John J. Gumperz, Throughout Western society there are now strong pressures for social and racial integration but, in spite of these, recent experience has shown that greater intergroup contact can actually reinforce social distinctions and ethnic stereotypes. The studies collected here examine, from a broad sociological perspective, the sorts of face-to-face verbal exchange that are characteristic of industrial societies, and the volume as a whole pointedly demonstrates the role played by communicative phenomena in establishing and reinforcing social identity. The ...

Fahrenheit Taiwanese - HOME   Fahrenheit Taiwanese The Taiwanese Americans by Franklin Ng, Despite the relatively short history of the Taiwanese in the United States, they have been a significant presence in America. Since 1965, immigration law changes have led to a dramatic increase in the Asian population in the United States. Taiwanese Americans, the immigrants from Taiwan and their descendants, are a prominent group in this increasing Asian population. This is the first book-length study about the Taiwanese American community in the United States. While most articles have discussed the economic impact of their immigration, ...

Japanese Translation Service - HOME   Japanese Translation Service Adios to Tears: The Memoirs of a Japanese-Peruvian Internee in U.S. Concnetration Camps by Seiichi Higashide, Adios to Tears is the very personal story of Seiichi Higashide (1909-97), whose life in three countries was shaped by a bizarre and little-known episode in the history of World War II. Born in Hokkaido, Higashide emigrated to Peru in 1931. By the late 1930s he was a shop keeper and community leader in the provincial town of Ica, but following the outbreak of World War II, he -- along ...

Ethnic Japanese Regional - HOME   Ethnic Japanese Regional Food and Culture FOOD AND CULTURE provides information on the health, culture, food, and nutrition habits of the most common ethnic and racial groups living in the United States. It is designed to help health professionals, chefs, and others in the food service industry learn to work effectively with members of different ethnic and religious groups in a culturally sensitive manner. Authors Pamela Goyan Kittler and Katherine P. Sucher include comprehensive coverage of key ethnic, religious, and regional groups, including Native Americans, Europeans, Africans, Mexicans and Central Americans, Caribbean ...

Literature New World - ... New World, including threats to humanity, such as overpopulation, propaganda, and chemical persuasion. World Systems Theory - Unlike former sociological theories, which presented general models of social change with particular focus at the societal level, world-systems theory (or world system perspective) explores the role and relationships between societies (and the subsequent changes produced by them). A theory primarily developed by Immanuel Wallerstein and his colleagues in response to the many new activities in the capitalist world-economy during the mid 1970s, world-systems theory is derived from two key intellectual sources, the neo-Marxist literature on development ... World literature - World literature refers to literature from all over the world, including American literature, European literature, Asian literature, African literature, Arabic literature and so on. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe introduced the concept of Weltliteratur in 1827 to describe the growing availability of texts from other nations. New York World Building - The New York World Building was a skyscraper ...

Asian Tgp - HOME   Asian Tgp Asian American Culture on Stage: The History of the East West Players by Yuko Kurahashi, This book captures the 30-year history of the East West Players (EWP), tracing the company's representation of Asian Americans through the complex social and cultural changes of the past three decades. The EWP was founded in 1965 by Asian American actors, including Mako Iwamatsu, James Hong, Beulah Quo, Pat Li, June Kim, and Yet Lock. Struggling against stereotypical representations of Asians in mainstream American culture and a scarcity of acting opportunities in the ...

Only What We Could Carry: The Japanese American Internment Experience (Paperback) : Personal documents, art, propoganda, and stories express the Japanese American experience in internment camp...

Power and Ideology in American Sport - 2nd Edition Book (Copyright 1998, 352 pages) : This popular, widely acclaimed analysis of sport in America is now completely updated, with expanded treatme...

Japanese Cooking: A Simple Art : Since its release twenty-five years ago, Shizuo Tsuji's encyclopedic and authoritative work has been the ack...

Encyclopedia Of Japanese American History: An A-To-Z Reference From 1868 To The Present (Paperback) : Chronicles the history of Japanese Americans with entries that reveal their culture, religion, accomplishmen...

MILL CREEK ENTERTAINMENT GREAT BATTLES ON THE EASTERN FRONT MOVIE : The war against Japan fought on the far side of the world is vividly brought to life in this compelling seri...

TOPICS INSTANT IMMERSION JAPANESE V2.0 - 5CDS : Meetings in Mito? Holiday on Hokkaido? - From Kitami to Kyoto, now you can join the conversation with Instan...

Harumi's Japanese Cooking : More than 75 Authentic and : A major new cookbook from Japan's phenomenally popular answer to Martha Stewart Cooking expert and lifestyl...

Japanese Americans (Immigrants In America) (Library) : Looks at the history of Japanese immigration to America, including the reasons for emigration, how Japanese ...

Japanese Home Cooking: The Essential Asian Kitchen Series : Salmon rice soup, Tempura vegetables, Shrimp with wasabi mayonnaise. Fried tofu, beef sashimi, green tea ic...

Nobu : The Cookbook : Nobu Matsuhisa needs little introduction. With his multinational and ever expanding empire of 13 restaurant...