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Book Review: Tales of Judge Dee by Zhu Xiao Di |
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Reading Recommendations from the Japan America Society A list of fiction and non-fiction about Japan, including a collection of short stories, the inner workings of a Japanese family, the exotic world of a geisha, and the Japanese economy. |
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Sadako and the Thousand Cranes The true and courageous story of a Japanese girl called Sadako. She developed leukemia from the effects of radiation after the atom bombing of Hiroshima. After she remembers the Japanese legend saying that anyone folding a thousand paper cranes is granted a wish, she sets out to accomplish this task. |
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Novels by Asian-American Writers A new crop of Chinese-American fiction writers has emerged onto the literary scene. We give you a sample of some of their works, most are available at your local library. |
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In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson Set in 1947, the story of Shirley Temple Wong who, with her family, leaves her native, ancestral home in China and sails off to a new life in Brooklyn. Making friends in this strange new world is very difficult for Shirley, until she discovers baseball, the Brooklyn Dodgers and a wonderful hero and role model in Jackie Robinson. |
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Japan America Society Authors' Series A collection of books from the Japan America Society of Southern California Authors' Series. |
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Shou The mystery suspense novel, Shou, by authors Deborah and Joel Shlian that takes readers to locales they might not ordinarily get to see, including the Far East, China, Korea, and Hong Kong. |
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Sun Tzu's The Art of War: The Classic Book for All Seasons The Art of War, a 2500-years old Chinese handbook of strategy and tactics, provides thought-provoking, turn-of-the millennium guidelines for those competing in the speed-driven global marketplace. |
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Samurai History and Culture: Featured Books by Romulus Hillsborough The founder of Japan's first modern corporation was a swaggering swordsman who packed a Smith and Wesson, an outlaw who led a band of stalwart samurai to overthrow the shogun and one of the most colorful figures in Japanese history. |
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