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Orchid Flower Love Poetry
Orchid Flower Love Poetry: Amorous Moods of Sensuous Passion is the romantic gems of eclectic poetry by Raymond Douglas Chong. His moody love poetry amorously covers ecstasy, angst, and caprice. His lyrical verses sensitively describe love in an authentic way, with idiosyncratic reality and ingenious creativity. They are in the context of an orchid flower, a traditional Chinese motif for delicate beauty. The poems are passionate yearnings with vibrant and vivid lyrical imagery of love. Their scope includes the peaks and the valleys of the amorphous art of love. In sensuous passion, they will intimately connect his heart as poet with your heart as a reader.
Plum Blossom Love Poetry
Plum Blossom Love Poetry: Between Dragon Village and Gold Mountain is made up of romantic gems in eclectic poetry by Raymond Douglas Chong (aka Zhang Weiming). His lyrical verses sensitively bridge America and China, a fusion of two dynamic worlds. His moody poetry covers themes about China, ancestors, and love, in the context of plum blossom, a traditional Chinese symbol of winter. The poems are passionate yearnings with vibrant and vivid lyrical imagery of love. They will uniquely connect the heart of the poet with the heart of the reader. Plum Blossom Love Poetry: Between Dragon Village and Gold Mountain is richly illustrated with watercolors, calligraphy, photos, and graphics.
Peony Amour
My Best Love, is as a lyrical ode to a one true love that changes as it grows more and more with its fervent flight. Passionate romantic feelings from deep inside Raymond Douglas Chong's longing heart for a faraway love sensually arise, pulsate, and erotically flow from every poem. Sensually splendored poetic beauty blissfully unites lovers across place and time.
Chisland
Volume 1 - Travelling to Chisland is the first book of a set of magical novels, Chisland, which tells Alice's adventure in Chisland for a dragon pearl to help disabled kids to be healthy in the orphanage. Alice learns Chislandish language and culture during her magical adventure. The book begins with a magic book, which has the power of introducing her to Chisland. On her journey, Alice has experienced famous events in Chislandish history, made many Chisland friends, and learned remarkably interesting Chislandish culture.
Chop Suey and Sushi from Sea to Shining Sea
The essays in Chop Suey and Sushi from Sea to Shining Sea fill gaps in the existing food studies by revealing and contextualizing the hidden, local histories of Chinese and Japanese restaurants in the United States. The writer of these essays show how the taste and presentation of Chinese and Japanese dishes have evolved in sweat and hardship over generations of immigrants who became restaurant owners, chefs, and laborers in the small towns and large cities of America. These vivid, detailed, and sometimes emotional portrayals reveal the survival strategies deployed in Asian restaurant kitchens over the past 150 years and the impact these restaurants have had on the culture, politics, and foo...
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Historical Dictionary of Asian American Literature and Theater
A Library Journal Best Reference Book of 2022 This book represents the culmination of over 150 years of literary achievement by the most diverse ethnic group in the United States. Diverse because this group of ethnic Americans includes those whose ancestral roots branch out to East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, and Western Asia. Even within each of these regions, there exist vast differences in languages, cultures, religions, political systems, and colonial histories. From the earliest publication in 1887 to the latest in 2021, this dictionary celebrates the incredibly rich body of fiction, poetry, memoirs, plays, and children’s literature. Historical Dictionary of Asian American Literature and Theater, Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 700 cross-referenced entries on genres, major terms, and authors. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about this topic.
The Global Japanese Restaurant
With more than 150,000 Japanese restaurants around the world, Japanese cuisine has become truly global. Through the transnational culinary mobilities of migrant entrepreneurs, workers, ideas and capital, Japanese cuisine spread and adapted to international tastes. But this expansion is also entangled in culinary politics, ranging from authenticity claims and status competition among restaurateurs and consumers to societal racism, immigration policies, and soft power politics that have shaped the transmission and transformation of Japanese cuisine. Such politics has involved appropriation, oppression, but also cooperation across ethnic lines. Ultimately, the restaurant is a continually reinve...
A Chinese American Odyssey
This memoir describes the discoveries, many unexpected, when a Chinese American psychology professor retires and reinvents himself as a public historian of Chinese in America. Author of four books on the social history of Chinese family-run businesses, he has given dozens of lectures around the country. A Chinese American Odyssey provides a fascinating and insightful behind-the-scenes look at the processes involved in researching, writing, publishing, and promoting books. Writers of books on any topic will find useful information.
Global East Asia
"Drawing on work in a range of disciplines-including history, anthropology, demography, development, environmental studies, political studies, health, sociology and the arts-this work approaches East Asia from new perspectives.The book looks at contemporary Japan and Korea and focuses on many facets of Chinese culture, artistic production, economic development, digital issues, education and international collaboration" -
