Multicultural Reading : Asia

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297.095 Naipaul

Naipaul, V. S. (Vidiadhar Surajprasad), 1932-. Among the

believers : an Islamic journey. 1st ed. New York : Knopf,

1981. The author describes four countries (Iran, Pakistan,

Malaysia and Indonesia) now in the throes of "Islamization"

- countries that in their ardor to build new societies based

entirely on the fundamental laws of Islam, have violently

rejected the "materialism" of the technologically advanced

nations.

305.48 As

Aseel, Maryam Qudrat, 1974-. Torn between two cultures : an

Afghan-American woman speaks out. 1st ed. Sterling, Va. :

Capital Books, c2003. The author shares her experiences and

perspectives on life in the United States as a Muslim.

325.21 Townsend

Townsend, Peter, 1914-. The girl in the white ship. 1st

American ed. New York : Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1983,

c1981. A true story of the escape of a Vietnamese refugee

on a decrepit wooden riverboat and of her survival as the

fifty other refugees with her each died one by one until

only she was left.

327.73 Harrison

Harrison, Selig S. The widening gulf : Asian nationalism and

American policy. New York : Free Press, c1978. The meaning

of nationalism. The limits of Asian Communism. Nationalism

and Maoism. Vietnam: nationalism ascendant. Korea:

nationalism neutralized. After Vietnam: Asia alienated.

After Korea: the stresses of division. Nationalism and the

American military presence. Nationalism and the American

economic presence. The future of U.S. military policy in

Asia. The future of U.S. economic policy in Asia. The

meaning of regionalism.

362.4 Mehta

Mehta, Ved, 1934-. The ledge between the streams. 1st ed. New

York : Norton, c1984. Mr. Mehta writes about the decade

1940-1949, a crucial time in his life and the life of India.

He recounts the day-to-day joys and sorrows of a large,

affectionate well-to-do Hindu family in the Punjab.

398.2 Be

Bedard, Michael, 1949-. The painted wall and other strange tales

: selected and adapted from the Liao-chai of Pu Sung-ling.

Toronto, Ont. ; Plattsburgh, N.Y. : Tundra Books of Northern

New York, c2003. A collection of Chinese folk tales which

reflects both fantasy and reality.

398.2 Burmese

Brockett, Eleanor, 1913-. Burmese and Thai fairy tales,.

Chicago, : Follett Pub. Co., [1967, c1965]. A collection of

humorous folk tales in which good luck is often more valued

than intelligence and virtue is not always rewarded.

398.2 Ca

Casanova, Mary. The hunter : a Chinese folktale. New York :

Atheneum Books for Young Reader, c2000. After learning to

understand the language of animals, Hai Li Bu the hunter

sacrifices himself to save his village.

398.2 Carpenter

Carpenter, Frances, 1890-1972. Tales of a Chinese grandmother.

Rutland, Vt., : C. E. Tuttle Co., [1973]. An aged Chinese

grandmother tells some Chinese folk tales and legends to her

grandchildren.

398.2 Christie

Christie, Anthony. Chinese mythology. London, : Hamlyn, 1968.

Discusses the myths and gods of ancient China and their

sources.

398.2 Dorson

Dorson, Richard Mercer, 1916-. Folk legends of Japan. Tuttle,

1962. Legends of priests, temples and shrines; monsters,

spirits and transformations; heroes and strong men; Chojas,

knaves and places.

398.2 Eberhard

Eberhard, Wolfram, 1909- ed. and tr. Folktales of China. [Rev.

ed. Chicago] : University of Chicago Press, [1965]. Origin

of humans, animals and plants. Luck and good fortune. Tales

of love. Supernatural marriages. People with magic powers.

Help from deities and spirits. Kindness rewarded and evil

punished. Cleverness and stupidity.

398.2 Gaer

Gaer, Joseph, 1897-. The fables of India. [1st ed.]. Boston, :

Little, Brown, [1955]. Collection of "beast fables,"

stories about animals who have human emotions and human

failings, which poke fun and point out morals. The Hindus

were the earliest and greatest of the fablers, and some of

these tales may have inspired Aesop, the Greek "father of

fables.".

398.2 Japanese

Japanese tales. 1st ed. New York : Pantheon Books, c1987.

Contains over 200 tales from medieval Japan.

398.2 Krueger

Krueger, Kermit. The serpent prince; : folk tales from

Northeastern Thailand. New York, : World Pub. Co., [1969].

A collection of nineteen folk tales which reflect the

ancient and diverse cultural backgrounds of the people of

the Mekhong plateau of Thailand.

398.2 McApline

McAlpine, Helen. Japanese tales and legends. New York : Henry

Z. Walck, 1958. Epics and legends, folk and fairy tales of

Japan.

398.2 Piggott

Piggott, Juliet. Japanese mythology. New rev. ed. New York,

N.Y. : P. Bedrick Books : Distributed in the USA by Harper &

Row, 1983, c1982. Discusses the mythology of Japan, its

origins in Shintoism and Buddhism, and the gods, spirits,

men, and animals that appear in the many legends and

stories.

398.2 Sasaki

Sasaki, Tazu, 1932-. The golden thread; : Japanese stories for

children. [1st ed.]. Rutland, Vt., : C. E. Tuttle Co.,

[1968]. Seven original stories set in Japan, including one

about a little man who blows soap bubble dreams and one

about a man who mends clothes with a ray of golden sunlight.

398.2 Seki

Seki, Keigo, 1899- ed. Folktales of Japan. [Chicago] :

University of Chicago Press, [1963]. Includes animal tales,

ogres, supernatural husbands or wives, kindness rewarded and

evil punished, good fortune, cleverness and stupidity.

398.2 Sun

Sun, Ruth Q., comp. Land of seagull and fox; : folk tales of

Vietnam,. [1st U.S. ed.]. Rutland, Vt., : C. E. Tuttle

Co., [1967, c1966]. A collection of poetic legends which

reveal the basic beliefs and quality of the Vietnamese

people.

398.2 Yep

Yep, Laurence. The rainbow people. 1st ed. New York : Harper &

Row, c1989. A collection of twenty Chinese folk tales that

were passed on by word of mouth for generations, as told by

some oldtimers newly settled in the United States.

700 Hamanaka

Hamanaka, Sheila. In search of the spirit : the living national

treasures of Japan. New York : Morrow Junior Books, c1999.

Describes the creations of some of Japan's Living National

Treasures, artists who are involved in various Japanese

arts, including Yuzen dyeing, bamboo basket weaving, Bunraku

puppetmaking, swordmaking, Noh theater, and neriage

ceramics.

741.5 Chesneaux

[Chesneaux, Jean] comp. The people's comic book; : Red women's

detachment, Hot on the trail and other Chinese comics.

Garden City, N.Y., : Anchor Press, 1973. San-yuan-li.--Red

women's detachment.--Bravery on the deep blue seas.--Li

Shuangshuang.--Hot on the trail.--Letters from the

south.--Lei Feng.

741.5 Herge

Hergé, 1907-. Tintin in Tibet. 1st American ed. Boston :

Little, Brown, [1975], c1962. Tintin searches the mountains

of Nepal and Tibet for his friend, victim of an airplane

crash.

781.796 Malm

Malm, William P. Music cultures of the Pacific, the Near East,

and Asia. 2d ed. Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall,

c1977.

811.54 Kaminsky

Kaminsky, Marc, 1943-. The road from Hiroshima. New York :

Simon and Schuster, c1984. Bibliography: p. 121-122. A

volume of poetry based on the testimony of survivors of the

Hiroshima bombing.

824.914 Ch

Chatwin, Bruce, 1940-1989. What am I doing here. 1st American

ed. New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Viking, 1989. A selection of

stories, profiles, and travelogues of a man fascinated with

the beautiful and bizarre. He searches for the Yeti in

Nepal, his mentor in Afghanistan, the authenticity of a

wolf-boy, philosophy in an Algerian quarter of Marseilles,

and other unusual places.

828 Kipling

Kipling, Rudyard 1865-1936. Under the Deodars. New York :

Collier, n.d.

828 Kipling

Kipling, Rudyard 1865-1936. The Phantom rickshaw and other

stories. New York : Collier, n.d.

828 Kipling

Kipling, Rudyard 1865-1936. City of the dreadful night. New

York : Colliers, n.d.

828 Kipling

Kipling, Rudyard 1865-1936. Plain tales from the hills. New

York : Collier, n.d. A volume of short stories of life in

India, first published in Calcutta. It contains the first

story about the famous trio of Ortheris, Learoyd, and

Mulvaney.

828 Kipling

Kipling, Rudyard 1865-1936. Soldiers three and other stories.

New York : Collier, n.d. A volume of short stories of life

in India. The soldiers three are Ortheris, Learoyd, and

Mulvaney.

828 Kipling

Kipling, Rudyard 1865-1936. Story of the Gadsbys; and In Black

and White. New York : Collier, n.d. A play and a short

novel, both published in 1888.

828 Kipling

Kipling, Rudyard 1865-1936. Mine own people : and other stories.

New York : Collier, n.d. Stories of the British life in

India.

828 Kipling

Kipling, Rudyard 1865-1936. Letters of Marque. New York :

Collier, n.d. Stories of life in British India.

833.914 Matsubara

Matsubara, Hisako. Cranes at dusk. Garden City, N.Y. : Dial

Press, 1985. The changes that occur in Japan in 1945 with

the entrance of the first American as told through the eyes

of a ten-year-old girl, Saya.

895 Yohannan

Yohannan, John D., ed. A treasury of Asian literature. New

York, : Day, [1956]. Selections from the literatures of

Arabia, Iran, India, China and Japan: The Koran, Moallakat,

The thousand and one nights.-- Selections from the Rubaiyat

of Omar Khayyam, Gulistan of Sadi, Mathnawi of Rumi, Divan

of Hafiz.--Selections from the Mahabharata, Bhagavad Gita,

Dhammapada, Panchatantra.-- Shakuntala by Kalidasa.--Gita

Govinda, by Jayadeva.--Selections from the Analects of

Confucius and the Tao Teh Ching. Selections from the Tale of

Genji and Atsumori by Seami.

895.08 Shimer

Shimer, Dorothy Blair, comp. The Mentor book of modern Asian

literature from the Khyber Pass to Fuji,. New York, : New

American Library, [1969]. Contains poetry, drama, novels,

short stories of India, Pakistan and Nepal, Thailand,

Indonesia, Philippines, China, Korea, Japan, Ceylon and

Burma.

895.1 Meserve

Meserve, Walter J., comp. Modern drama from Communist China.

New York, : New York University Press, 1970. Snow in

midsummer, by Kuan Han-ching.--The passer-by, by Lu

Hsun.--Dragon beard ditch, by Lao Sheh.--The white-haired

girl, by Ting Yi and Ho Ching-chih.--The women's

representative, by Sun Yu.--Yesterday, by Chang Pao-hua and

Chung Yi-ping.--Magic aster, by Jen Teh-yao.--Letters from

the South, by Sha Seh, and others.--The red lantern, by Wong

Ou-hung and Ah Chia.

895.108 Giles

Gems of Chinese literature. New York : Paragon, 1965.

Selections of prose and verse of China from the 6th century

B.C. to the 1900's.

895.6 Co

Corman, Cid. One man's moon : poems by Basho & other Japanese

poets. Expanded ed. Frankfort, KY : Gnomon Press, c2003.

Saigyo -- Sokan -- Basho -- Sodo -- Ransetsu -- Hakuin --

Taigi -- Buson -- Sengai -- Ryokan -- Issa -- Shiki --

Santoka -- Hosai. Provides a collection of haiku poetry by

a variety of Japanese artists and includes poems by Basho,

Shiki, and Issa.

895.6 Hatano

Hatano, Isoko. Mother and son : the wartime correspondence of

Isoko and Ichiro Hatano. Houghton, 1962.

895.6 Ho

Hong, Ying, 1962-. Daughter of the river. 1st Grove Press pbk.

ed. New York : Grove Press, c1998. A memoir that follows a

woman born at the bottom of Chinese society from the Great

Famine through the Cultural Revolution to Tiananmen Square.

895.6 Kawabata

Kawabata, Yasunari, 1899-1972. Beauty and sadness. 1st American

ed. New York : Knopf : distributed by Random House, [1975].

A successful novelist in his middle years journeys to Kyoto

to hear the temple bells ring in the New Year -- and to see

Otoko, his mistress of twenty-four years before, now a

painter. Her protegee Keiko is an utterly passionate and

amoral girl who is the chief agent of destruction in a

curious widening drama of revenge.

895.6 Kawabata

Kawabata, Yasunari, 1899-1972. Snow country. New York : Berkley

Medallion, 1956. A young geisha falls in love with and

becomes the mistress of a rich Tokyo dilettante unable to

return her love.

895.6 Waley

Waley, Arthur. The no plays of Japan. New York, : Grove Press,

[1957].

Atsumori.--Ikuta.--Tsunemasa.--Kumasaka.--Eboshi-ori.--Benkei

on the bridge.--Kagekiyo.--Hachi No Ki.--Sotoba

komachi.--Ukai.--Aya No Tsuzumi.--Aoi No Uye.--Kantan.--The

Hoka

priests.--Hagoromo.--Taniko.--Ikeniye.--Hatsuyuki.--Haku

Rakuten.--Kyogen.

895.6 Yo

Yoshimoto, Banana, 1964-. Kitchen. New York : Grove Press,

1993. Two tales about mothers, transsexuality, kitchens,

love, tragedy and the terms they all come to in the minds of

a pair of free-spirited young women in contemporary Japan.

895.6 Yoshikawa

Yoshikawa, Eiji, 1892-1962. The Heike story. Tuttle, 1956.

Tells of the wars, feuds, intrigues, scandals and love

affairs of the decadent Imperial Court in Kyoto in the

twelfth century. It was at time of corruption, of the

disintegration of the aristocracy, of brawling samurai.

910 Ka

Kaplan, Robert D., 1952-. The ends of the earth : from Togo to

Turkmenistan, from Iran to Cambodia-- a journey to the

frontiers of anarchy. 1st Vintage Departures ed. New York

: Vintage Departures, 1997. Political journalist Robert D.

Kaplan travels from West Africa to Southeast Asia to write

about the crumbling nation-states, expanding populations,

shrinking resources, and more.

910.4 Schwartz

Schwartz, Brian. A world of villages. 1st ed. New York : Crown

Publishers, c1986. Africa : overture.--Across Africa.--A

hostage in Amin's Uganda.--India and Nepal.--From Burma to

Bali.--New Guinea.--Indonesia.--India.--The North-West

frontier.--Kashmir, Ladakh, and the Tribal

zone.--Afghanistan.--Iran, Syria, and Egypt, 1978.--The

Sudan.--Zaire : villages and pygmies.--Across the Congo

Basin.--Central African empire, Cameroun, and

Nigeria.--Nomads.--Ghana: 1979.--From Togo to

Timbuctu.--Liberia and Sierra

Leone.--Guinea.--Abidjan.--Downtown Nairobi.--Return to

Sudan.--Convoys to Karamoja.--Life in Namalu.--Village in

India.--Nepal, Thailand, and Burma revisited.--China off the

beaten track.--Tibet, 1982. The story of the author's

six-year journey along the back roads of Africa and Asia.

915.04 Theroux

Theroux, Paul. The great railway bazaar : by train through Asia.

Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1975. Theroux sets out from

London, taking every eastbound train for Asia, through

Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, India, Southeast Asia and Japan,

then returning on the Trans-Siberian express. He writes of

the passengers, people in the towns he passes through, the

perils and the life on Asian trains.

915.1 Lord

Lord, Bette Bao. Legacies : a Chinese mosaic. New York : Knopf,

1990. Reminiscences of men and women who have experienced

the tumultuous Chinese experiences of the last half century.

915.1 Romualdez

Romualdez, Daniel. China : a personal encounter with the

People's Republic. Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice Hall,

c1977. Sons of the Philippine ambassador to China travel

through China during the cultural revolution and describe in

text and color photographs aspects of the final years of

China under Chairman Mao T'se Tung.

915.1 Ryckmans

Leys, Simon, 1935-. Chinese shadows. New York : Viking Press,

1977. The author presents his observations on life in the

People's Republic of China, based on a six-month visit in

1972.

915.1 Sansan

Sansan. Eighth moon; : the true story of a young girl's life in

Communist China. Harper and Row, 1964. In 1946, Sansan's

family accepted an assignment in the United States, leaving

her behind in China as she was an infant at the time. Sansan

describes her life with foster parents, chopping fuel wood,

cleaning clothes, getting food during the Communist

Revolution. At school, future success depended on political

acceptability. The curriculum included volunteer labor on

farms, raising mushrooms and smelting scrap iron. In 1962,

Sansan was reunited with her family in the U.S.

915.1 Topping

Topping, Audrey. Dawn wakes in the East. [1st ed.]. New York,

: Harper & Row, [1973]. Photographs of China during the

time of Chairman Mao Tse Tung and the cultural revolution of

the 1960's and 1970's.

915.104 Ma

Ma, Jian, 1953-. Red dust : a path through China. 1st Anchor

Books ed. New York : Anchor Books, 2002. When his attempts

at love and fatherhood fail, the author begins a three-year

journey across China to find his identity.

915.2 Landy

Landy, Pierre. The Japan I love. Tudor, 1966. Describes Japan

during the sixties in beautiful photographs.

915.4 Herzog

Herzog, Maurice, 1919-. Annapurna, first conquest of an

8000-meter peak (26,493 feet). [1st American ed.]. New

York, : Dutton, 1953 [c1952]. The leader of the French

Himalayan Expedition tells of the fascinating challenge of

the mountain climbing expedition.

915.4 Rama Rau

Rama Rau, Santha, 1923-. Home to India. New York : Harper,

1945. An upper-class Indian girl, daughter of a diplomat,

returns to India after her British schooling and views her

country with new eyes.

915.95 Hansen

Hansen, Eric. Stranger in the forest : on foot across Borneo.

Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1988. The rain forest of Borneo

is one of the last places on earth still largely untouched

by Western civilization. Eric Hansen walked into this forest

in 1982, meeting tribes, hunting wild pig, gathering roots,

and learning to live with fear and uncertainty and to

respond to the demands of the moment. A gripping adventure

and travel story with a rare and intimate look at a

vanishing way of life of the nomadic Penan, one of the last

surviving groups of rain-forest dwellers in the world.

931 Im

Immell, Myra. The Han dynasty. San Diego : Lucent Books, c2003.

Presents a history of China's Han Dynasty covering the

four-hundred-year period from 206 B.C. to approximately A.D.

220.

940.54 Nagai

Nagai, Takashi. We of Nagasaki; the story of survivors in an

atomic wasteland. Duell, 1951. Eight survivors of the

bomb, five adults and three children relatives and neighbors

of the author, recount their individual experiences of the

explosion, its aftermath, and its sequel on their own lives.

951 Human

Children of the dragon : the story of Tiananmen Square. New York

: London : Collier Books ; Collier Macmillan Publishers,

c1990. Contains photos of the Tiananmen Square massacre and

provides an oral history of the incident.

951 Le

Levathes, Louise. When China ruled the seas : the treasure fleet

of the Dragon Throne, 1405-1433. New York : Oxford

University Press, 1996, c1994. Traces China's rise and

eventual decline as a naval power in the early fifteenth

century and examines the treasure ship voyages of explorer

Zheng He.

951 Sis

Sis, Peter. Tibet : through the red box. New York : Farrar

Straus Giroux, 1998. The author recreates pieces of the

diary his father kept when he was lost in Tibet in the

mid-1950s.

951.025 Ru

Rugoff, Milton, 1913-. Marco Polo's adventures in China,. 1st

ed. New York, : American Heritage Pub. Co.; book trade and

institutional distribution by Harper & Row, 1964. Recounts

the adventures of Marco Polo who, with his father and uncle,

journeyed to the court of Kublai Khan in China from 1271 to

1295.

951.04 Tung

Tun, Chi-ping. The Thought revolution : by Tung Chi-ping and

Humphrey Evans. Coward-McCann, 1966. A young Chinese

student describes education and university life in Communist

China under Mao Tse-Tung during the fifties (1950's) and

sixties (1960's). The suppression of sex, love and

individual thought, and urging of students to inform on each

other created a world of oppression that typified Mao's

communist state.

951.042 Frillmann

Frillmann, Paul. China : the remembered life. Boston : Houghton

Mifflin, 1968.

951.05 Chang

Chang, Jung, 1952-. Wild swans : three daughters of China. 1st

Anchor Books ed. New York : Anchor Books, 1992. A family

of strong, beautiful Chinese women share their grim and

appealing story about the survival through a century of

disaster.

951.05 Ji

Jiang, Ji-li. Red scarf girl : a memoir of the Cultural

Revolution. New York : HarperCollins, 1997. In 1966, Ji-li

Jiang turned twelve. An outstanding student and leader, she

had everything: brains, the admiration of her peers, and a

bright future in China's Communist Party. But that year, Mao

Tse-tung launched the Cultural Revolution and everything

changed.

951.05 Mi

Min, Anchee, 1957-. Red azalea. Berkley ed. New York : Berkley

Books, 1995. Offers a personal account of life lived under

China's Mao, and focuses on brutality, human alienation, the

communist revolution, and a young woman's "coming of age.".

951.05 Salzman

Salzman, Mark. Iron & silk : [T'ieh yü ssu]. 1st ed. New York

: Random House, c1986. A young American teaching English in

China encounters swordsmen, bureaucrats and other citizens

of contemporary China.

951.05 Terrill

Terrill, Ross. Mao : a biography. 1st ed. New York : Harper &

Row, c1980. A biography of the Chinese revolutionary who

became the leader of the communist People's Republic of

China.

951.504 Harrer

Harrer, Heinrich, 1912-. Seven years in Tibet. New York :

Tarcher/Putnam, [1996]. An account of an Austrian mountain

climber's escape from a British internment camp in India

during World War II and his twenty-one-month journey through

the Himalayas to safety in the Forbidden City of Lhasa in

Tibet.

951.9 Kim

Kim, Richard E., 1932-. Lost names; : scenes from a Korean

boyhood. New York, : Praeger, [1970]. A Korean-American

boy recalls his life as a child during the Japanese

occupation of Korea in the 1930's, when Koreans were force