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New York: Avenel Books, 1963. Hardcover. xi, 140p., sketch illustrations (of sites in China), an inexpensive reprint of the Crown/Crowell first issue. Hardbound in 8x5.5 inch plastikoid blue boards and enclosed in the dust jacket. This copy has been used, find mild foodstain to fore edge, holograph recipe inscribed (neatly) on front pastedown, asterisk to index (for a variety of soup), a sound if slightly homely volume, with dust jacket bearing a couple of short tears, one of which reinforced verso with clear tape. A fair to good copy. Per dust jacket flap text: "the greatest classical recipes of China, many of them for the first time in English. All five major 'schools' of Chinese cooking are represented." Author Yu Wen Mei is daughter to Yu Lin Chuan, one of Old China's most renowned restauranteurs; she is translator while Adams is "a gourmet's gourmet" who has done some adapting to the American kitchen.
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100 Most Honorable Chinese Recipes. Chinese Regional Cooking - The Classic Recipes of Canton, Shanghai, Peking, Yang Chow, Szechuan
by Yu Wen Mei and Charlotte Adams
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The 1940 Oregana; published by the associated students University of Oregon at Eugene
by Knight, George, editor, Dick Williams, manager, K. Chin illustrations
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Eugene: Associated Students University of Oregon, 1940. Hardcover. 400p., massive 10.5x13.25 inch hardbound, illustrated with b&w photos, color plates, artworks by K. Chin and others, mild dampstain to the bottom edge of the last 50 pages into the margins, otherwise very good in original pictorial cloth with color photo affixed to the front cover. K. Chin, of Chinese ancestry, was born in Portland, Oregon in 1920, where he received his initial art training at the Portland Museum School of Art and the University of Oregon. During World War II Chin served as a mechanical draftsman with the US Air Corps, at which time he sharpened his skill at rendering detailed images. He served for 4-1/2 years. He illustrated magazine covers for US Army, American Legion, and later, Cue Magazine and Newsweek. [John Stokes of Custom Puzzle Craft!].
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[1966 calendar booklet for Chinese customers]
by Wells Fargo Bank
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[San Francisco]: the Bank, 1965. Calendar. 5x6 inch card with images of Chinese art from the Avery Brundage collection, containing fourteen loose leaves, one for each month plus two listing holidays, much text in Chinese, but descriptions of the artwork in English, very good.
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2001 nian sui ci xinsi nian min li shu
by Zi lian tang / Purple Lotus Society
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San Bruno, CA: Zi lian chubanshe, 2001. 128p., glossy wraps, text in Chinese. Lunar calendar for the year, with numerous ads for Chinese-American Buddhist religious and social organizations and articles about Buddhism. A charm printed on red paper is laid in. Inside the front cover is a feature titled "Yesu ye laile!" (Jesus also came!) with photos where Jesus can allegedly be seen in diffracted sunlight. Highights the ecumenical character of Chinese folk religion.
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2003 AACP Catalog: Asian American Books for All Ages
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San Mateo: Asian American Curriculum Project, Inc, 2003. Staplebound. 58p., staplebound, 8.5x11 inches, very good. Sorted into categories including elementary, intermediate, literature, language, and reference, among others. Lists works on the Cambodian, Chinese, Filipino, Hawaiian, Hmong, Iu Mien, Japanese, Korean, Laotian, Samoan, South Asian, and Vietnamese diasporic people. The Asian American Curriculum Project was founded in 1969 by teachers in San Mateo, and originally was known as the Japanese American Curriculum Project.
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2010 Summer Conference on Chinese language instruction 夏季教學研習會暨行政人員研討會
by Southern California Council of Chinese Schools 南加州中文學校聯合會
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n.p.: the Council 南加州中文學校聯合會, 2010. 141p., paperback, 8.5x11 inches, presentation inscription in Chinese on cover, occasional marginalia, handling wear. Text mostly in Chinese.
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2010 nian geng yin zi lian nong min li
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San Bruno, CA: Purple Lotus Society, 2009. 136p., slender paperback, very good. Booklet containing a traditional Chinese calendar for the year and short essays on contemporary life from a Buddhist perspective, distributed by the Purple Lotus Temple.
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30th anniversary: Empress of China Restaurant, November 29, 1975
by Chinatown Post No. 4618. Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States
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San Francisco: the Post, 1975. Pamphlet. 7.5x10 inch program, glossy stiff red cover with a Ding cauldron pictured in color, very good condition. Thirtieth anniversary of the inauguration of the post, here VFW [Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States] Chinatown post no. 4618. Text lists VF W officers for 1975-76, names of planning committee members, announces presentation of colors, guest speakers, list of sponsoring individuals.
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5th Anniversary Commemorative Catalogue
by Tzu Chi
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Monrovia, CA: Tzu Chi, 1994. 73p., wraps, 8.5x11 inches, very good. Text in both English and Chinese. Booklet advertising the work of the Buddhist charitable organization, with map showing its offices around the US.
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7th Anniversary Commemorative Catalogue
by Tzu Chi USA
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n.p.: Tzu Chi USA, 1996. 52p., wraps, 8.5x11 inches, very good but for rubberstamp of the organization's Honolulu office on front cover. Text in both English and Chinese. Brochure advertising the work of the Buddhist charitable organization.
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9 of 1; a window to the world
by Chin, Oliver
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Berkeley: Frog, 2003. Paperback. 111p., foreword by Phoebe Gloeckner, prologue, introduction, epilogue, reading questions, recommended reading, b&w comic-strip illustrations throughout, very good first edition in original pictorial wraps. Edu-comix set in Fremont California as students react to 9/11.
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97 nian 10 yue 22 ri "Quan guo kang yi ri" [Handbill in Chinese announcing the October 22, 1997 National Day of Protest against police violence]
by October 22 Coalition to Stop Police Brutality, Repression and the Criminalization of a Generation
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[Berkeley]: the Coalition; Bay Area branch, 1997. Handbill. 8.5x11 inch leaflet, printed both sides in Chinese, from the Bay Area chapter of the October 22 Coalition (an RCP affiliate). Very good. Text discusses instances of police violence and asks the reader to attend a demonstration at Mission and 24th in San Francisco, wearing black, as part of a nationwide chain of protests. Gives contact info for the national Coalition office, with solicitation for donations.
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AAPA Newspaper. Vol. 1 no. 3
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Berkeley: Asian American Political Alliance, 1969. Newspaper. 4p. tabloid format newspaper, horizontal fold, evenly toned, otherwise very good. Single issue of the radical paper, including photos of Asian American student demonstrators.
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AAPA Newspaper. Vol. 2 Issue 2. December-January-February New Year Edition
by Asian American Political Alliance
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Berkeley: AAPA, 1970. Newspaper. 8p. tabloid format newspaper, horizontal fold, some notes in pencil and pen on front cover. Slogan in Chinese at top means "Return power to the people." Includes an early piece on the International Hotel, a brief item on a pilgrimage to Manzanar, a page on Asian legal defense with tips if stopped by the police, and more.
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AM OSPREY [signed broadside]
by Wah, Fred
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[Vancouver]: n.p., 1977. Broadside. single sheet, poem printed landscape, 8.5x10 inches, very good. Signed by Wah. Only two copies found in OCLC as of June 2022. Wah is a poet of mixed Chinese and Canadian heritage who was appointed Canada's Parliamentary Poet Laureate in 2011, and is the author of more than 17 chapbooks and poetry collections.
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Aaron's Guide to Getting Girls
by Mew, Aaron
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n.p.: Self-published by the author, 2000. Staplebound. [14p.], staplebound zine, 5.5x8.5 inches, very good. Collection of mini-comics from an Asian American comic book artist from Hawai'i. No copies found in the OCLC as of July 2022.
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Across the Void: January 18 - March 24, 2000. Contact Sheet 105
by Chong, Albert
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Syracuse: Light Work / Robert B. Menschel Photography Center, Syracuse University, 2000. Paperback. 32p., coated paperstock throughout, with captioned b&w and color reproductions, a longish vita, and 2p. of information by Jeffrey Hoone, director of Light Works. Softcover, 10x9 inch photographic cardstock wraps, a very good copy. Chong's photos on themes related to his Chinese-Jamaican background.
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Aiiieeeee! An anthology of Asian-American writers
by Chin, Frank, Jeffery Paul Chan, Lawson Fusao Inada, Shawn Hsu Wong, eds
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Washington: Howard University Press, 1974. Hardcover. lxiii, 200p., very good hardcover in unclipped dust jacket with minor edgewear; inscribed by Chin. A pathbreaking anthology, with excerpts from "America is in the Heart," "Chickencoop Chinaman," "No-No Boy" and others.
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All American Boy [large photo print of a Chinese-American boy eating on the stairs]
by Stacks, Richard; photographer
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Baltimore: The Sunpapers, [195-]. 11x18 inch black and white print, very good mounted on a slightly worn board, title penned at lower left, the photographer's rubberstamp on the reverse. Photo depicts a boy wearing a traditional Chinese outfit but sitting in such a way that his western shoes and socks are visible. Richard Stacks was a renowned photographer for the Baltimore Sun.
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American knees
by Wong, Shawn
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New York: Simon and Schuster, 1995. Hardcover. 240p., first edition, very good condition in like dust jacket; signed by Wong on the title page.
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