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| Welcome to AsiaBookCenter! Your source for Asian American literature, Asian studies, Ethnic Studies, language learning, traditional Chinese medicine and martial arts books. This online website is operated by Eastwind Books of Berkeley which has been serving the reading public since 1982. Individual and institutional special orders are welcomed. If you cannot locate a title on our database, please fill out the contact form on the left and let us know what titles you need. Store Hours: 11am-6pm, Monday through Friday, Saturdays 12noon-6pm. Pacific Time. Graphic on left: Ox by artist Double D. |
New release available at Eastwind: STAND UP! | | STAND UP: An Archive Collection of the Bay Area Asian American Movement, 1968-1974 Asian Community Center Archive Group
Stand Up chronicles the beginning of the Bay Area Asian American movement through an unprecedented collection of period newspaper articles, documents, and photographs. From the Third World Liberation Front student strikes at San Francisco State College and University of California Berkeley campuses, to the formation of the Asian American Political Alliance, this book traces the origins of student concerns and follows the movement into the Asian American communities, by focusing on the International Hotel tenants fight against eviction and the formation of the Asian Community Center in San Francisco Chinatown-Manilatown.
"The Asian American Movement of the 1960s-70s has been largely ignored by those who have researched and written about the civil rights and social justice movements of those turbulent decades. Asian Community Center Archive Group has done an excellent job of compiling the key documents that give us a historical overview of the issues and organizations that contributed to the emergence of the Asian American Movement. Most importantly, it will be an important organizational tool for today's activists in their efforts to educate youth in their communities about the historic role Asian Americans have played in our nation's history of struggles for racial/ethnic and social justice." (Carlos Muñoz, Jr., author of "Youth, Identity, Power: The Chicano Movement")
ISBN 978-0-615-27903-9 Price $20. 222 pages. 8.5 x11 inches. Trade paperback. Publisher: Eastwind Books of Berkeley.
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Celebrate the beginning of Spring with these Author Events! | | Home to 33,000 Filipino American residents, Daly City, California, has been dubbed “the Pinoy Capital of the United States.” In this fascinating ethnographic study of the lives of Daly City residents, Benito Vergara Jr. shows how Daly City has become a magnet for the growing Filipino American community. In Pinoy Capital: The Filipino Nation in Daly City, Vergara challenges the rooted notions of colonialism. Using the lens of transnationalism, he looks at the “double lives” of both recent and established Filipino Americans. Vergara probes into the complicated, ambivalent feelings these immigrants have toward the Philippines and the United States and the conflicting obligations they have presented by belonging to a thriving community and yet possessing nostalgia for the homeland and people they left behind.
About the author: Benito M. Vergara, Jr. is also the author of Displaying Filipinos: Photography and Colonialism in Early 20th-Century Philippines. Vergara was also an assistant professor in Asian American Studies department at San Francisco State University. He lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area.
| | April 4th, Saturday at 7pm: Tetched: A Novel in Fractals. Author event with Thaddeus Rutkowski at Eastwind Books of Berkeley. Tetched is a coming-of-age novel from the first-person perspective of a biracial narrator, who grows up in rural America yet escapes the repetition of country life for new experiences in the city, pursuing a college career. Far from his father's floundering struggles with alcoholism and unfulfilled art career, and his mother's confusing brand of Eastern wisdom, the protagonist struggles to live life on his own terms, a difficult task indeed - until he learns how to put the past in perspective. A vibrant story of self- discovery and learning what it means to become a well- adjusted adult. About the author: Thaddeus Rutkowski grew up in central Pennsylvania and is a graduate of Cornell University and The Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of the novels, Tetched and Roughhouse; both books were finalists for the Asian American Literary Award. His stories and poems have been nominated four times for a Pushcart Prize.
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| June 20th , Saturday at 3:30pm: Oh! A Mystery of Mono no Aware. Author event with Todd Shimoda at Eastwind Books of Berkeley. Oh! A Mystery of Mono no Aware is a new novel by Todd Shimoda, with artwork by Linda Shimoda. This ambitious book combines art and fiction where the art actually weaves its way into the plot and into the reader's understanding of the obscure Japanese concept of "mono no aware," the beautiful sadness in things. The main storyline of Oh!, follows Zack Hara, a young Japanese American who is devoid of emotions in his busy LA city life. Hara travels to Japan to trace his roots in hope that he will find answers to his situation. This novel is not only a story of Zack Hara's self-discovery, but it is also a story that illustrates the mysterious tension between material things, attachments, and the realm of feelings.
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| October 2009, to be announced: Nothing Left in My Hands. Author event with Kazuko Nakane at Eastwind Books of Berkeley.
Nothing Left in My Hands is a moving portrait of the lives of early Japanese immigrants in Pajaro Valley, California. Regarded as highly skilled berry growers, the Isseifirst-generation Japanese immigrantswere instrumental in the development of strawberry farming in the region. Kazuko Nakane interviewed those still living in the area in the early 1980s and, in Nothing Left in My Hands, used their own words to narrate their progress in America, from their lives as farmers to the trying periods of anti-immigrant legislation and banishment to internment camps during World War II, and finally to the resumption of their lives after the war.
| Health & Traditional Chinese Medicine. We often come across individuals seeking assistance for health problems but do not have their own health insurance, a sad fact in today's world. Our titles cannot replace professional medical care but they can help individuals make intelligent decisions. They can also provide guidance in advising people to make the right choices to maintain body stamina and qi. Our section on traditional Chinese medicine is a great source for both individuals seeking self-knowledge and practitioners who have dedicated their lives to healing. | Integrated Chinese and New Practical Chinese Reader Series are our two most popular Chinese Mandarin learning series. If you want a thorough understanding of Chinese Mandarin and can afford to put in 30 minutes per day for up to several years, this is the way to go. Each series includes textbooks, workbooks and character exercise books. Audio cds, computer cdroms and dvd's are also available for the Integrated Chinese Series. The New Practical Chinese Reader Series includes audio cds only.
| | Asian American & Ethnic Studies. We have been involved in the promotion of Asian American Studies and Ethnic Studies since the 1970s. Our operation is the best source for early and recent titles covering the diversity of Asian ethnic groups in the United States from the Gold Rush to the present. We are also interested in promoting books that discuss improvement of race relations between Asian Americans and all race and ethnic groups in this country. |
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