San Antonio College Library

Almost fifty years after the end of the Vietnam War, a group of American and Vietnamese veterans talk of their mutual respect as fighter pilots despite their training, aerial combat encounters, getting shot down, and how they came to be friends.

Xinjiang province is a vast area of deserts and mountains where the ancient Silk Road once ran. Today its Uyghur population is being systematically rounded up with estimates of as many as a million citizens being held in detention.

"With 600 signed, alphabetically organized articles covering the entirety of folklore in South Asia, this new resource includes countries and regions, ethnic groups, religious concepts and practices, artistic genres, holidays and traditions, and many other concepts." "A preface introduces the material, while a comprehensive index, cross-references, and black and white illustrations round out the work. The focus on south Asia includes Afghanistan,...

A novice drug mule and hapless taxi driver find themselves teamed up and on the run with a large quantity of top notch heroin when a delivery goes shockingly, violently wrong. Winner of Best Chinese Language Film at the **Hong Kong Film Awards**. Official Selection at the **Toronto International Film Festival**. *"Godspeed demonstrates Chung's cinematographic chops, with a typically dazzling sense of color and provocative off-kilter compositions."...

"This is the first extended study of black and Asian writing in Britain over the last 250 years. Beginning with authors who arrived as immigrants or slaves in the mid eighteenth century, Lyn Innes includes a detailed discussion of works that were often enormously popular in their own time but are almost unknown to contemporary readers. Innes' fascinating study reveals a history of vigorous and fertile interaction between black, Asian, and white intellectuals...

"The definitive history of Asian Americans by one of the nation's preeminent scholars on the subject. In the past fifty years, Asian Americans have helped change the face of America and are now the fastest growing group in the United States. But as award-winning historian Erika Lee reminds us, Asian Americans also have deep roots in the country. The Making of Asian America tells the little-known history of Asian Americans and their role in American...

By the end of the twentieth century some nine million people of South Asian descent had left India, Bangladesh or Pakistan and settled in different parts of the world, forming a diverse and significant modern diaspora. In the early nineteenth century, many left reluctantly to seek economic opportunities which were lacking at home. This is the story of their often painful experiences in the diaspora, how they constructed new social communities overseas...

"Travel writing is a genre monopolized by Westerners. For centuries the preserve of Europeans who reported on the "exotic," it sought to make sense of other landscapes and cultures, but almost exclusively through a European prism of references." "This anthology, stretching from the fifth to the nineteenth centuries, introduces an entirely different tradition of travel writing-the work of travelers from the world beyond Europe. Other Routes collects...

"Lydia is dead. But they don't know this yet. So begins the story of this exquisite debut novel, about a Chinese American family living in 1970s small-town Ohio. Lydia is the favorite child of Marilyn and James Lee; their middle daughter, a girl who inherited her mother's bright blue eyes and her father's jet-black hair. Her parents are determined that Lydia will fulfill the dreams they were unable to pursue-in Marilyn's case that her daughter become...