University Of Washington Press: 541 books
The Sichuan Frontier and Tibet
Imperial Strategy in the Early Qing
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
During China's last dynasty, the Qing (1644-1911), the empire's remote, bleak, and politically insignificant Southwest rose to become a strategically vital area. This study of the imperial government's handling of the southwestern frontier illuminates issues of considerable importance in Chinese history...
North Pacific Temperate Rainforests
Ecology and Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
The North Pacific temperate rainforest, stretching from southern Alaska to northern California, is the largest temperate rainforest on earth. This book provides a multidisciplinary overview of key issues important for the management and conservation of the northern portion of this rainforest, located...
Pumpkin
The Curious History of an American Icon
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Why do so many Americans drive for miles each autumn to buy a vegetable that they are unlikely to eat? While most people around the world eat pumpkin throughout the year, North Americans reserve it for holiday pies and other desserts that celebrate the harvest season and the rural past. They decorate...
Black Women in Sequence
Re-inking Comics, Graphic Novels, and Anime
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
Black Women in Sequence takes readers on a search for women of African descent in comics subculture. From the 1971 appearance of the Skywald Publications character “the Butterfly” - the first Black female superheroine in a comic book - to contemporary comic books, graphic novels, film, manga,...
Four Thousand Hooks
A True Story of Fishing and Coming of Age on the High Seas of Alaska
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
As Four Thousand Hooks opens, an Alaskan fishing schooner is sinking. It is the summer of 1972, and the sixteen-year-old narrator is at the helm. Backtracking from the gripping prologue, Dean Adams describes how he came to be a crew member on the Grant and weaves a tale of adventure that reads like...
Daughter of Good Fortune
A Twentieth-Century Chinese Peasant Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Daughter of Good Fortune tells the story of Chen Huiqin and her family through the tumultuous 20th century in China. She witnessed the Japanese occupation during World War II, the Communist Revolution in 1949 and its ensuing Land Reform, the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution, and the Reform...
In the Circle of White Stones
Moving through Seasons with Nomads of Eastern Tibet
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
This narrative of subsistence on the Tibetan plateau describes the life-worlds of people in a region traditionally known as Kham who move with their yaks from pasture to pasture, depending on the milk production of their herd for sustenance. Gillian Tan�s story, based on her own experience of living...
Heaven in Conflict
Franciscans and the Boxer Uprising in Shanxi
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2015
One of the most violent episodes of China’s Boxer Uprising was the Taiyuan Massacre of 1900, in which rebels killed foreign missionaries and thousands of Chinese Christians. This first sustained scholarly account of the uprising to focus on Shanxi Province illuminates the religious and cultural...
The Rebirth of Bodh Gaya
Buddhism and the Making of a World Heritage Site
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
This multilayered historical ethnography of Bodh Gaya � the place of Buddha�s enlightenment in the north Indian state of Bihar � explores the spatial politics surrounding the transformation of the Mahabodhi Temple Complex into a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2002. The rapid change from a small...
The Adventures of Eddie Fung
Chinatown Kid, Texas Cowboy, Prisoner of War
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Eddie Fung has the distinction of being the only Chinese American soldier to be captured by the Japanese during World War II. He was then put to work on the Burma-Siam railroad, made famous by the film The Bridge on the River Kwai. In this moving and unforgettable memoir, Eddie recalls how he, a second-generation...
by John Okada, Frank Chin
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
"No-No Boy has the honor of being among the first of what has become an entire literary canon of Asian American literature,” writes novelist Ruth Ozeki in her new foreword. First published in 1957, No-No Boy was virtually ignored by a public eager to put World War II and the Japanese internment...
Scent of Apples
A Collection of Stories
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
Winner of the Before Columbus Foundation's American Book Award
This collection of sixteen stories brings the work of a distinguished Filipino writer to an American audience. Scent of Apples contains work from the 1940s to the 1970s. Although many of Santos's writings have been published in...
Dance Lest We All Fall Down
Breaking Cycles of Poverty in Brazil and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
An unexpected detour can change the course of our lives forever, and, for white American anthropologist Margaret Willson, a stopover in Brazil led to immersion in a kaleidoscopic world of street urchins, capoeiristas, drug dealers, and wise teachers. She and African Brazilian activist Rita Conceicao...
by James Masao Mitsui
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
From a Three-Cornered World presents 60 poems by James Mitsui, 25 of them new. His poetry has, over two decades� time and three previous volumes, asserted a strong and significant voice within the growing tradition of Asian American literature.
Mitsui�s poems contain a family history of...