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Robert Chow Han Ong
  • Language: en

Robert Chow Han Ong

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: Unknown
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Fixer Chao
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 388

Fixer Chao

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2002
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  • Publisher: Macmillan

A novel about love, revenge, art, and feng shui, as a Filipino street hustler assumes the persona of Master Chao, a revered feng shui practitioner from Hong Kong. "Fixer Chao" raises questions of race and privilege, character and identity, and of what it means to be Asian at the turn of the 21st century.

The Disinherited
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 369

The Disinherited

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2005-08-16
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  • Publisher: Picador USA

Returning to his birthplace after nearly three decades in the United States to bury his estranged father, the corrupt and charismatic head of the family sugar dynasty, a man discovers that he has inherited a fortune that he promptly decides to give away to some needy Filipino, only to discover that his generosity could have unexpected consequences. Reprint.

Fixer Chao
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 377

Fixer Chao

When Filipino street hustler William Narciso Pulinha meets a disreputable and embittered writer, the two distort the Eastern concept of Feng Shui and embark on the scam of the century as they peddle their peculiar brand of the holistic philosophy among New York City's elite.

The Disinherited
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 369

The Disinherited

Returning to his birthplace after nearly three decades in the United States to bury his estranged father, a man discovers that he has inherited a fortune that he promptly decides to give away to some needy Filipino, only to discover that his generosity co

The History of Buddhism in Vietnam
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 368

The History of Buddhism in Vietnam

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2008
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  • Publisher: CRVP

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The Advocate
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 96

The Advocate

  • Type: Magazine
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  • Published: 2001-08-14
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  • Publisher: Unknown

The Advocate is a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) monthly newsmagazine. Established in 1967, it is the oldest continuing LGBT publication in the United States.

Education at Large
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 308

Education at Large

The first part of the book contains documentation of a groundbreaking exhibition held in 2007 on student activities and societal engagements during post-war Singapore 1945OCo1965 and transcripts of forums held in conjunction with it. The second half centres on oral history accounts of mostly former Chinese school students who shared about their social, cultural and political activities in complex but exciting times.Education-at-large broadens our understanding of Singapore''s educational history in the transitional period between the end of the Second World War and the country''s independence; examines the ways in which student activities and activism resonated with, and contributed to, the country''s wider social, political and cultural life, as well as the decolonisation process; and stimulates debates about Chinese education and student activism in Singapore.

Klezmer America
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 403

Klezmer America

Klezmer is a continually evolving musical tradition that grows out of Eastern European Jewish culture, and its changes reflect Jews' interaction with other groups as well as their shifting relations to their own history. But what happens when, in the klezmer spirit, the performances that go into the making of Jewishness come into contact with those that build different forms of cultural identity? Jonathan Freedman argues that terms central to the Jewish experience in America, notions like "the immigrant," the "ethnic," and even the "model minority," have worked and continue to intertwine the Jewish-American with the experiences, histories, and imaginative productions of Latinos, Asians, Afri...

Your Impossible Voice
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 140

Your Impossible Voice

Our summer 2016 issue brings brash and velvety new work from Laura Legge, Timothy DeLizza, Emile DeWeaver, Elena V. Molina, Michelle Lewis, Steve Davenport, Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, and more.