5.
Series:
Arranged Companions
Marriage and Intimacy in Qing China
Paperback
Weijing Lu
9780295749129
$45.00
HISTORY
Grade (US) 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...
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Series:
Chinese Science Fiction during the Post-Mao Cultural Thaw
Hardcover
Hua Li
9781487508234
$65.00
LITERARY CRITICISM
Jul 08, 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...
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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
Grade (US) 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 ...
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Series: Laurier Poetry
Current, Climate
The Poetry of Rita Wong
Paperback
Rita Wong
9781771124430
$18.99
POETRY
Jun 29, 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 kn...
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Series:
Healing with Poisons
Potent Medicines in Medieval China
Paperback
Yan Liu
9780295748993
$45.00
HISTORY
Grade (US) 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...
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Series:
The Empress in the Pepper Chamber
Zhao Feiyan in History and Fiction
Paperback
Olivia Milburn
9780295748757
$45.00
HISTORY
Grade (US) 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-...
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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...
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Series:
The Doll
Hardcover
Nhung N. Tran-Davies
9781772601657
$19.95
JUVENILE FICTION
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.
24.
Series:
THAO
A Picture Book
Hardcover
Thao Lam
9781771474320
$19.95
JUVENILE NONFICTION
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...
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Series: Georgia Review Books Ser.
Hong Kong without Us
A People's Poetry
Paperback
The Bauhinia Project
9780820360041
$30.95
POETRY
Apr 01, 2021
Hong Kong without Us is a decentralized book of revolutionary poetry. Drawn directly from the voices of Hong Kong during its anti-extradition protests, the poems consist of submitted testimonies and found materials—and are all anonymous from end to end, from first speech to translated curation. This collected poetic documentation of protest is thus an authorless work that brings together many voices. The editors themselves are anonymous poets acting through the Bauhinia Project, an organization created to bring Hong Kong’s struggles to the stag...
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Series: Wild Sun
Unbound
Paperback
Ehsan Ahmad
9781949671131
$16.95
FICTION
Apr 01, 2021
In this old-school interplanetary epic, the flames of hope cannot easily be extinguished. After three years of forced labor in the mines, Cerrin is free at last. Now she leads a band of escaped slaves on a deadly race for freedom across an endless, ancient forest. At her heels are soldiers of the most powerful, most advanced, most ruthless empire the galaxy has ever known. Leading the pursuit is Count Talazeer himself, a vicious nobleman driven by a personal vendetta again Cerrin??and a desperate need for redemption in the eyes of his family an...
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Series:
Surviving Samsara
A Memoir of Breakdowns, Breakthroughs, and Mental Illness
Paperback
Kagan Goh
9781773860329
$24.95
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Sep 24, 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’...
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Series:
Chiru Sakura—Falling Cherry Blossoms
A Mother & Daughter’s Journey through Racism, Internment and Oppression
Paperback
Grace Eiko Thomson
9781773860411
$24.95
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Mar 11, 2021
A vital memoir by two Japanese Canadian women reflecting on their family history, cultural heritage, generational trauma, and the meaning of home.At eight years old, Grace Eiko Nishikihama was forcibly removed from her Vancouver home and interned with her parents and siblings in the BC Interior. Chiru Sakura—Falling Cherry Blossoms is a moving and politically outspoken memoir written by Grace, now a grandmother, with passages from a journal kept by her late mother, Sawae Nishikihama. An educated woman, Sawae married a naturalized Canadian man a...
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Series:
Is This Panama?
A Migration Story
Paperback
Jan Thornhill
9781771474474
$11.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 5 - 8
Mar 15, 2021
A STEM introduction to migration through one bird's quest to find its winter home When Sammy, a young Wilson's warbler, wakes up one frosty August morning near the Arctic Circle, he instinctively knows that it's time to make his first migratory journey south to Panama. But there's one problem — where is Panama? All the other warblers having left without him, Sammy sets off on the journey by himself, stopping to ask the same question of each of the different animals that he meets along the way: "Is this Panama?" From the caribou heading to h...
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Series:
The Social Life of Inkstones
Artisans and Scholars in Early Qing China
Paperback
Dorothy Ko
9780295749174
$52.50
HISTORY
Grade (US) from 17
Feb 28, 2021
An inkstone, a piece of polished stone no bigger than an outstretched hand, is an instrument for grinding ink, an object of art, a token of exchange between friends or sovereign states, and a surface on which texts and images are carved. As such, the inkstone has been entangled with elite masculinity and the values of wen (culture, literature, civility) in China, Korea, and Japan for more than a millennium. However, for such a ubiquitous object in East Asia, it is virtually unknown in the Western world.Examining imperial workshops in the Forbid...
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Series:
Somewhere in the Unknown World
A Collective Refugee Memoir
Paperback
Kao Kalia Yang
9781250296856
$24.50
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Nov 10, 2020
From “an exceptional storyteller,”Somewhere in the Unknown World is a collection of powerful stories of refugees who have found new lives in Minnesota’s Twin Cities, told by the award-winning author ofThe Latehomecomer andThe Song Poet.All over this country, there are refugees. But beyond the headlines, few know who they are, how they live, or what they have lost. Although Minnesota is not known for its diversity, the state has welcomed more refugees per capita than any other, from Syria to Bosnia, Thailand to Liberia. Now, with nativism on the...
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Series:
Yara's Spring
Paperback
Jamal Saeed
9781773214399
$12.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 10 - 14
Oct 13, 2020
Coming of age against all odds in the midst of the Arab Spring. Growing up in Aleppo, Yara’s childhood has long been shadowed by the coming revolution. But when the Arab Spring finally arrives at Yara’s doorstep, it is worse than even her Nana imagined: sudden, violent, and deadly. When rescuers dig Yara out from under the rubble that was once her family’s home, she emerges to a changed world. Her parents and Nana are gone, and her brother, Saad, can’t speak—struck silent by everything he’s seen. Now, with her friend Shireen and Shireen’s chari...
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Series:
Yara's Spring
Hardcover
Jamal Saeed
9781773214405
$18.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 10 - 14
Oct 13, 2020
Coming of age against all odds in the midst of the Arab Spring. Growing up in Aleppo, Yara’s childhood has long been shadowed by the coming revolution. But when the Arab Spring finally arrives at Yara’s doorstep, it is worse than even her Nana imagined: sudden, violent, and deadly. When rescuers dig Yara out from under the rubble that was once her family’s home, she emerges to a changed world. Her parents and Nana are gone, and her brother, Saad, can’t speak—struck silent by everything he’s seen. Now, with her friend Shireen and Shireen’s chari...
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Series:
The Old Woman
Hardcover
Joanne Schwartz
9781773062112
$18.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 4 - 8
Sep 29, 2020
The Old Woman is a beautiful portrait of an old woman who lives contentedly with her dog, from award-winning author Joanne Schwartz and illustrator Nahid Kazemi.An old woman shares her home with a scruffy old dog, her best friend and constant companion.One fall day, they go for a walk and the woman throws sticks for the dog. She loves hearing the autumn leaves under her feet and the wind in the trees. She looks up at a crow in the sky and imagines what it might feel like to fly. As the wind comes up and the light begins to fade, she remembers p...
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Series:
The Paper Boat
A Refugee Story
Hardcover
Thao Lam
9781771473637
$19.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 6 - 9
Sep 15, 2020
Named a best picture book of 2020 by Kirkus, School Library Journal, Booklist, New York Public Library, the Globe and Mail, CBC, and the Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books — a heartfelt and personal immigration story by critically acclaimed author Thao Lam New from Thao Lam, the award-winning author of picture books My Cat Looks Like My Dad, Wallpaper, and Skunk on a String, comes a personal story inspired by her family’s refugee journey. In The Paper Boat, Thao’s signature collage art tells the wordless story of one family’s escap...
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Series:
My Day with Gong Gong
Hardcover
Sennah Yee
9781773214290
$21.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 4 - 7
Sep 08, 2020
A day in Chinatown takes an unexpected turn when a bored little girl makes a connection with her grandpa. May isn't having fun on her trip through Chinatown with her grandfather. Gong Gong doesn't speak much English, and May can't understand Chinese. She's hungry, and bored with Gong Gong's errands. Plus, it seems like Gong Gong's friends are making fun of her! But just when May can’t take any more, Gong Gong surprises her with a gift that reveals he’s been paying more attention than she thought. With lighthearted, expressive illustrations by E...
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Series:
We Two Alone
Paperback
Jack Wang
9781487007461
$19.95
FICTION
Sep 01, 2020
A masterful collection of stories that dramatizes the Chinese diaspora across the globe over the past hundred years, We Two Alone is Jack Wang’s astonishing debut work of fiction.Set on five continents and spanning nearly a century, We Two Alone traces the long arc and evolution of the Chinese immigrant experience. A young laundry boy risks his life to play organized hockey in Canada in the 1920s. A Canadian couple gets caught in the outbreak of violence in Shanghai during the Second Sino-Japanese War. The consul general of China attempts to sa...
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Series:
Maggie’s Treasure
Hardcover
Jon-Erik Lappano
9781773062372
$19.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 3 - 7
Sep 01, 2020
When Maggie’s treasure collection grows too big to manage, she finds a creative solution.Maggie finds treasure wherever she goes. Whether it’s a button, a feather or a shiny stone, she picks it up and takes it home. At first the neighbors and city workers are grateful to Maggie for cleaning up; the mayor even gives her an award. But over time Maggie’s collection grows bigger and bigger, until it spills out of her house and garden in an unsightly mess. Her parents tell her “Enough treasure!” and eventually even Maggie realizes that something mus...
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Series:
Our Little Kitchen
Hardcover
Jillian Tamaki
9781773062624
$19.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 4 - 8
Sep 01, 2020
A picture book about a lively evening in a community kitchen from Governor General’s Award–winning author and illustrator Jillian Tamaki.Tie on your apron!Roll up your sleeves!Pans are out, oven is hot.The kitchen’s all ready,Where do we start?In this lively, rousing picture book from Caldecott Honoree Jillian Tamaki, a crew of resourceful neighbours come together to prepare a meal for their community. With a garden full of produce, a joyfully chaotic kitchen and a friendly meal shared at the table, Our Little Kitchen is a celebration of full b...
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