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Series: Contemporary Asian American Activism Building Movements for Liberation Paperback Diane C. Fujino 9780295749808 $45.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE US school grade range from 17 Jan 21, 2022

In the struggles for prison abolition, global anti-imperialism, immigrant rights, affordable housing, environmental justice, fair labor, and more, twenty-first-century Asian American activists are speaking out and standing up to systems of oppression. Creating emancipatory futures requires collective action and reciprocal relationships that are nurtured over time and forged through cross-racial solidarity and intergenerational connections, leading to a range of on-the-ground experiences.Bringing together grassroots organizers and scholar-activi... + Read More
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Series: Classics of Chinese Thought Garden of Eloquence / Shuoyuan 說苑 Hardcover Liu Xiang 9780295995199 $187.50 LITERARY COLLECTIONS US school grade range from 17 Jan 16, 2022

In 17 BCE the Han dynasty archivist Liu Xiang presented to the throne a collection of some seven hundred items of varying length, mostly quasi-historical anecdotes and narratives, that he deemed essential reading for wise leadership. Garden of Eloquence (Shuoyuan), divided into twenty books grouped by theme, follows a tradition of narrative writing on historical and philosophical themes that began seven centuries earlier. Long popular in China as a source of allusions and quotations, it preserves late Western Han views concerning history, polit... + Read More
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Series: Able to Lead Disablement, Radicalism, and the Political Life of E.T. Kingsley Paperback Ravi Malhotra 9780774865777 $34.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Dec 01, 2021

Eugene T. Kingsley led an extraordinary life: he was once described as “one of the most dangerous men in Canada.” In 1890, Kingsley was working as a railway brakeman in Montana when an accident left him a double amputee, and politically radicalized. Ravi Malhotra and Benjamin Isitt trace Kingsley’s political journey from soapbox speaker in San Francisco to prominence in the Socialist Party of Canada. They examine Kingsley’s endeavours for justice against the Northern Pacific Railway, and how his life intersected with immigration law and free-sp... + Read More
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Series: Listen to the Mourners The Essential Poems of Nazik Al-Mala'ika Paperback Nazik Al-Mala’ika 9780268200947 $37.95 POETRY Nov 15, 2021

This is one of the first book-length English translations of Nazik Al-Mala’ika’s Arabic poetry.One of the most influential Iraqi poets of the twentieth century, Nazik Al-Mala’ika pioneered the modern Arabic verse movement when she broke away from the formalistic classical modes of Arabic poetry that had prevailed for more than fifteen centuries. Along with ?Abdulwahhab Al-Bayyati and Badre Shakir Al-Sayyab, she paved the way for the birth of a new modernist poetic movement in the Arab world.Until now, very little of Al-Mala’ika’s poetry has bee... + Read More
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Series: Mass Capture Chinese Head Tax and the Making of Non-citizens Hardcover Lily Cho 9780228008163 $39.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Nov 15, 2021

Under the terms of the Chinese Immigration Act of 1885, Canada implemented a vast protocol for acquiring detailed personal information about Chinese migrants. Among the bewildering array of state documents used in this effort were CI 9s: issued from 1885 to 1953, they included date of birth, place of residence, occupation, identifying marks, known associates, and, significantly, identification photographs. The originals were transferred to microfilm and destroyed in 1963; more than 41,000 grainy reproductions of CI 9s remain.Lily Cho explores h... + Read More
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Series: Twice Migrated, Twice Displaced Indian and Pakistani Transnational Households in Canada Hardcover Tania Das Gupta 9780774865661 $89.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Nov 25, 2021

Twice Migrated, Twice Displaced explores the lives of Gulf South Asians who arrived in Canada from India and Pakistan via Persian Gulf countries. Tania Das Gupta reveals the multiple migration patterns of this group, analyzing themes such as gender, racial, and religious discrimination; class mobility; the formation of transnational families; and identities in a post-9/11 context. This perceptive study demonstrates the effect of neoliberal labour markets and transnationalism on community building, diaspora, citizenship, and a sense of belonging... + Read More
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Series: People Want to Live Hardcover Farah Ali 9781952119293 $30.95 FICTION Oct 26, 2021

Set primarily in Pakistan, these award-winning stories follow people living on the brink of abandonment – in their personal relationships and their place in the world. A mother, coping with the sudden death of her son, uncovers long buried secrets in his absence. An anguished girl grabs a chance for a life beyond the orphanage walls where she lives and discovers the price of freedom. A young couple tries to keep their fraught relationship steady as a heat wave engulfs their city. A son returns to visit his ageing parents while beset with memori... + Read More
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Series: World War Sikh Memoirs of an Indian Cavalryman 1913-45 Hardcover Rana Chhina 9781911271154 $32.95 HISTORY Oct 21, 2021

Remarkably, among the many personal accounts of the Great War published over the past century, the experiences of the ordinary Indian soldier, one of the hundreds of thousands of men who played a key role in one of the defining events of the 20th century, have never come to light - until now. Translated from a recently discovered unpublished memoir, World War Sikh recounts the insightful and poignant story of Harnam Singh, a young man hailing from a military family in Punjab who joined the Indian Army's 30th Lancers (Gordon's Horse) as a troop... + Read More
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Series: Love Your Asian Body AIDS Activism in Los Angeles Paperback Eric C. Wat 9780295749334 $44.90 SOCIAL SCIENCE US school grade range from 17 Oct 19, 2021

The AIDS crisis reshaped life in Los Angeles in the 1980s and 90s and radicalized a new generation of queer Asian Americans with a broad vision of health equity and sexual freedom. Even amid the fear and grief, Asian American AIDS activists created an infrastructure of care that centered the most stigmatized and provided diverse immigrant communities with the health resources and information they needed. Without a formal blueprint, these young organizers often had to be creative and agitational, and together they reclaimed the pleasure in sex a... + Read More
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Series: China Unbound A New World Disorder Paperback Joanna Chiu 9781487007676 $24.99 POLITICAL SCIENCE Sep 28, 2021

While the United States stumbles, an award-winning foreign correspondent chronicles China’s dramatic moves to become a dominant power. As the world’s second-largest economy, China is extending its influence across the globe with the complicity of democratic nations. Joanna Chiu has spent a decade tracking China’s propulsive rise, from the political aspects of the multi-billion-dollar “New Silk Road” global investment project to a growing sway on foreign countries and multilateral institutions through “United Front” efforts. Chiu offers readers ... + Read More
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Series: Surviving Samsara A Memoir of Breakdowns, Breakthroughs, and Mental Illness Paperback Kagan Goh 9781773860329 $22.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 14, 2021

A frank and touching memoir celebrating the resiliency of the spirit in the face of mental illness, psychotic breakdowns and stigma in society.“Samsara is defined as the ‘round of rebirth’ or ‘perpetual wandering’ … a continuous process of ever again and again being born, growing old, suffering and dying.” —Buddhist Dictionary by Nyanatiloka MahatheraIn Kagan Goh’s debut memoir, he recounts his struggles with manic depression, breaking the silence around mental illness. From an honest and personal perspective, Surviving Samsara traces Goh’... + Read More
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Series: Advancing Studies in Religion Relation and Resistance Racialized Women, Religion, and Diaspora Paperback Sailaja Krishnamurti 9780228008538 $37.95 RELIGION Sep 30, 2021

In Canada, women’s bodies are often at the centre of debates about religious pluralism, multiculturalism, and secularism. Women have long played a critical role in building and maintaining diasporic religious communities and networks, and they have also been catalysts for change and transformation within religious groups and the wider community.Relation and Resistance explores the stories and lives of racialized women connected with religious diaspora communities in Canada. Contributors from across disciplines show how women are conceptualizing... + Read More
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Series: AI Superpowers China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order Paperback Kai-Fu Lee 9780358105589 $24.99 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Sep 14, 2021

Dr. Kai-Fu Lee—one of the world’s most respected experts on AI and China—reveals that China has suddenly caught up to the US at an astonishingly rapid and unexpected pace. Kai-Fu Lee argues powerfully that because of these unprecedented developments in AI, dramatic changes will be happening much sooner than many of us expected. Indeed, as the US-Sino AI competition begins to heat up, Lee urges the US and China to both accept and to embrace the great responsibilities that come with significant technological power. Most experts already say that... + Read More
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Series: The Domestic Crusaders Paperback Wajahat Ali 9781952119279 $12.95 DRAMA Sep 07, 2021

Special updated tenth aniversary edition, featuring a new forward by Hasan Minaj and an introduction by Ishmael ReedThe Domestic Crusaders focuses on a day in the life of a modern Muslim Pakistani-American family of six eclectic, unique members, who convene at the family house to celebrate the twenty-first birthday of the youngest child.With a background of 9/11 and the scapegoating of Muslim Americans, the tensions and sparks fly among the three generations, culminating in an intense family battle as each "crusader" struggles to assert and imp... + Read More
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Series: The City That Is Leaving Forever Kashmiri Letters 1st edition Paperback Rahat Kurd 9781772013573 $19.95 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Aug 10, 2021

The City That Is Leaving Forever is a unique twenty-first-century time capsule: an instant-message exchange between Kashmir and British Columbia spanning more than five years in the lives of two Muslim Kashmiri women poets. In 2016, as India’s military carries out extrajudicial killings and imposes a lengthy curfew in Srinagar, Kurd is forced to cancel her family trip to Kashmir. Syed and Kurd confide in each other as the weeks and months pass, working through drafts of new poems, reading each other’s work, discussing multilingual poetics, the ... + Read More
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Series: Laurier Poetry Current, Climate The Poetry of Rita Wong Paperback Rita Wong 9781771124430 $19.99 POETRY Aug 31, 2021

Current, Climate is an introduction to the environmental and social-justice poetry of Rita Wong. Selections from her poetic oeuvre show how Wong has responded to local and global inequities with outrage, linguistic inventiveness, and sometimes humour. Wong’s poetry explores the meeting places of life, language, and land—from downtown Vancouver to the headwaters of the Columbia River. Her poems are deeply attentive to places and their names, and especially to the imposition of foreign words on the unceded Indigenous lands of what is otherwise k... + Read More
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Series: Arranged Companions Marriage and Intimacy in Qing China Paperback Weijing Lu 9780295749129 $45.00 HISTORY US school grade range from 17 Jul 22, 2021

Although commonly associated with patriarchal oppression, arranged marriages have adapted over the centuries to changing cultural norms and the lived experiences of men and women. In Arranged Companions, historian Weijing Lu chronicles how marital behaviors during the early and High Qing (mid-seventeenth through mid-nineteenth centuries) were informed by rich and complex traditions and mediated by the historical conditions of the period, during which marital affection was celebrated as a basic ingredient of an ideal marriage.Lu finds public rep... + Read More
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Series: Chinese Science Fiction during the Post-Mao Cultural Thaw Hardcover Hua Li 9781487508234 $65.00 LITERARY CRITICISM Jun 22, 2021

This is the first book in English to focus on the transitional period of Chinese science fiction – a key prelude to the increasingly global stature of Chinese science fiction in the twenty-first century. The late 1970s to the mid-1980s, a period commonly referred to as the post-Mao cultural thaw, was a key transitional phase in the evolution of Chinese science fiction. This period served as a bridge between science-popularization science fiction of the 1950s and 1960s and New Wave Chinese science fiction from the 1990s into the twenty-firs... + Read More
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Series: Culture, Place, and Nature Timber and Forestry in Qing China Sustaining the Market Paperback Meng Zhang 9780295748870 $45.00 HISTORY US school grade range from 17 Jun 30, 2021

In the Qing period (1644?1912), China's population tripled, and the flurry of new development generated unprecedented demand for timber. Standard environmental histories have often depicted this as an era of reckless deforestation, akin to the resource misuse that devastated European forests at the same time. This comprehensive new study shows that the reality was more complex: as old-growth forests were cut down, new economic arrangements emerged to develop renewable timber resources.Historian Meng Zhang traces the trade routes that connected ... + Read More
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Series: Healing with Poisons Potent Medicines in Medieval China Paperback Yan Liu 9780295748993 $45.00 HISTORY US school grade range from 17 Jun 27, 2021

Open access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295749013At first glance, medicine and poison might seem to be opposites. But in China?s formative era of pharmacy (200?800 CE), poisons were strategically deployed as healing agents to cure everything from chills to pains to epidemics. Healing with Poisons explores the ways physicians, religious devotees, court officials, and laypeople used powerful substances to both treat intractable illnesses and enhance life. It illustrates how the Chinese concept of du?a word carrying a core meaning of ?potency??led pr... + Read More
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Series: Able to Lead Disablement, Radicalism, and the Political Life of E.T. Kingsley Hardcover Ravi Malhotra 9780774865760 $89.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE May 15, 2021

Eugene T. Kingsley led an extraordinary life: he was once described as “one of the most dangerous men in Canada.” In 1890, Kingsley was working as a railway brakeman in Montana when an accident left him a double amputee, and politically radicalized. Ravi Malhotra and Benjamin Isitt trace Kingsley’s political journey from soapbox speaker in San Francisco to prominence in the Socialist Party of Canada. They examine Kingsley’s endeavours for justice against the Northern Pacific Railway, and how his life intersected with immigration law and free-sp... + Read More
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Series: The Empress in the Pepper Chamber Zhao Feiyan in History and Fiction Paperback Olivia Milburn 9780295748757 $45.00 HISTORY US school grade range from 17 May 13, 2021

Zhao Feiyan (45?1 BCE), the second empress appointed by Emperor Cheng of the Han dynasty (207 BCE?220 CE), was born in slavery and trained in the performing arts, a background that made her appointment as empress highly controversial. Subsequent persecution by her political enemies eventually led to her being forced to commit suicide. After her death, her reputation was marred by accusations of vicious scheming, murder of other consorts and their offspring, and relentless promiscuity, punctuated by bouts of extravagant shopping.This first book-... + Read More
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Series: The Sniper Paperback Kuo-Li Chang 9781487008574 $19.95 FICTION May 04, 2021

Jason Bourne meets John McClane in this electrifying thriller about a special-forces sniper and a seasoned homicide detective who get caught up in a criminal conspiracy that involves the highest levels of power. Twelve days before retirement, Taipei police detective Wu is handed a curious case: a naval officer has been found dead in his hotel room. While it is immediately apparent to Wu that the officer has been murdered, the military insist it was suicide and want the case closed with no questions asked. Soon, however, more high-ranking offi... + Read More
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Series: The Doll Hardcover Nhung N. Tran-Davies 9781772601657 $19.95 JUVENILE FICTION Interest age, years from 5 - 9 Apr 20, 2021

A young girl and her family arrive in an airport in a new country. They are refugees, migrants who have travelled across the world to find safety. Strangers greet them, and one of them gives the little girl a doll. Decades later, that little girl is grown up and she has the chance to welcome a group of refugees who are newly arrived in her adopted country. To the youngest of them, a little girl, she gives a doll, knowing it will help make her feel welcome. Inspired by real events.
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Series: THAO A Picture Book Hardcover Thao Lam 9781771474320 $19.95 JUVENILE NONFICTION Interest age, years from 4 - 8 Apr 15, 2021

An honest #OwnVoices story about growing up with a name that is unfamiliar to the kids around you, told with humor and heart by critically acclaimed author/illustrator Thao Lam Even though it’s only four simple, familiar letters long, nobody can ever pronounce Thao’s name. She’s been called Theo, Tail, even Towel! But the teasing names—Tofu, Tiny, China Girl—are worse. Maybe it’s time to be someone else? Thao decides to try on a different name, something easy, like Jennifer. It works, but only until she opens her lunchbox to find her mother... + Read More
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