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Chinese America:
美洲華僑 :
History, Culture, Literature
歷史, 文化, 文學
A sampling of materials by and about the overseas Chinese community
in the Americas, including many publications in Chinese.
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1.
"A night in Chinatown." Benefit civilian Chinese war relief. Fresno's Chinatown. Present this ticket at gate;
Thursday, May 22nd, 1941. Rice Bowl festival at Fresno sponsored by Fresno, Hanford, Madera, Merced and Visalia.
Carnival - fun - music - entertainment. Grand Prize New Ford Coupe. Keep this stub no. 31651. [Fresno]: [charity],
1941. Admittance ticket with stub attached, 2x4 inch pink cardstock. Verso, rubberstamped information in characters. Very
nearly pristine condition. (#175319)
$22.00
A memento from one of many fundraising events to gather resources to help China during the Japanese occupation.
2.
A-A Chinese Kitchen. [menu card]. Oakland: [the restaurant], [195-]. Approximately 5.5x6.5 inch card lsting 20
items, plus special dinner ($15 for 8 people); reverse has a smaller ad for A-A Oriental Gift and Art at the same address, run
by Madeline Loe. Horizontal fold crease. Phone number OLympic 3-5115. (#183322)
$18.00
3.
Artful expressions California dining; treasured recipes from the world renown Silks restaurant at Mandarin
Oriental, San Francisco. San Francisco: Silks, [199-?]. [32]p., illus., 6x12 inches, spiral-bound wraps. (#93005) $12.00
4.
Bagui qiao shi 八 桂 僑 史 / Overseas Chinese History of Bagui [32 issues]; together with 37 issues of its
successor, Bagui qiao kan 八 桂 僑 刊 / Overseas Chinese Journal of Bagui. Nanning: Guangxi huaqiao lishi xuehui /
Bagui qiao shi zazhishe, 1987-2008. Thirty-two issues of the journal, including all issues from 1987 to 1992 bound in
hardcover volumes, later issues loose; the loose issues present include the following: 1993: 1, 2, 4; 1994: 1-4; 1995: 1-4;
1996: 1-4; 1997: 2. From 1987 to 1990 there were two issues per year, subsequently a quarterly and eventually a bimonthly.
For the successor journal, which continues the whole number series, the issues present are 2000: 1-4; 2001: 1-4; 2002: 1-4;
2003: 1-5; 2004-1-6; 2005: 1-5; 2006: 1-4; 2007: 1-3; 2008: 1, 2. Bound volumes have internal stamp of the Guangxi Society
of Overseas Chinese History. Text in Chinese, with table of contents in English in later issues. Weight of the entire group is
over 23 pounds; overseas postage will be substantial. (#184203)
$150.00
Scholarly articles on all facets of the emigrant experience and history, with much on Chinese Americans. With the change of
title came a more contemporary focus, much emphasis shifting to getting overseas compatriots with ancestral ties to the
region to invest or do business there.
5.
[Business card]: Wing Sang Co.: wholesale and retail butchers. Stockton: Wing Sang Co., no date. 4x2.25 inch
business card on semi-gloss card stock printed in green, creased and scuffed. (#98100)
$30.00
The telephone number states: Telephone 36. Address is 6 E. Main St., Cor. Center, Stockton, Calif. There is an image of a
cow on the front.
6.
Catalogue & Chinese-food recipes; 23rd issue, 1952-1953, over 14 years of service to the trade. Vancouver:
Kuo Seun Importers Co., 1952. 76p. illus., catalog, with 30 pages of recipes, mildly worn and soiled wraps. (#74414) $35.00
7.
China Town, San Francisco, California: [felt pennant]. San Francisco, [1950s?]. 7x17 inch triangular felt
pennant with yellow felt ties, blue, yellow and white design on a red field. Design depicts a Chinese woman and child in front
of a string of paper lanterns hanging over a street scene. (#96958)
$75.00
8.
Chinese Americans for Brown present a banquet dinner with Governor Edmund G. Brown, Jr. ...
Wednesday, March 11, 1981 ,,, Golden Dragon Restaurant, San Francisco California. San Francisco: Chinese
Americans for Brown, 1981. 4p., 7.5x10.25 inch program for the event, wraps. (#93248) $15.00
9.
Chinese and Japanese workers in California:; the pioneers; Labor Archives and Research Center San
Francisco State University May 10 - September 25, 1989. San Francisco : Labor Archives and Research Center , 1989.
21p. printed recto-only, 8.5x11 inches, introduction, bibliography, very good in original stapled pictorial wraps. (#116389)
$20.00
10.
Chinese business directory. San Francisco, East Bay Area, Southern Peninsula. 1980-1981. San Francisco:
Chinese Business Publishing Co., 1980. 610p., very good in wraps; personal phone listings as well as numerous bilingual ads.
(#186774)
$35.00
11.
The Chinese Cultural Mission presents An Evening in Cathay. Shanghai: Far Eastern Press, [193-?]. 10p.,
thread-bound wraps depict children playing around a coin of the Qing emperor Kangxi. Some edge chips to front cover, not
affecting design. (#185122)
$60.00
Program booklet introducing the Shanghai-based troupe on a visit to the United States. The show was produced by Averil
Tam, managed by James Zee-Min Lee (advisor to "The Good Earth" and long-time Hollywood liaison to the ChineseAmerican community), and included both Chinese and Chinese-American performers. Several versions of this program
booklet were produced; this is our first time encountering the version with a coin on the cover.
12.
The Chinese Cultural Theatre Group presents An Evening in Cathay. n.p.: Chinese Cultural Theatre Group,
[1939-?]. 8p., orange wraps bound with red thread in traditional Chinese format, picture of "Ja Kwan, God of the Theatre" on
cover; cover is orange paper with gold speckles. Mild toning, otherwise very good. Undated, but a similar program dated
1939 appears on OCLC. (#183962) $45.00
Program for a performance by the Shanghai-based troupe visiting the United States, sponsored by United Service to China,
Inc.. The show was produced by Averil Tam, managed by James Zee-Min Lee (advisor to "The Good Earth and long-time
Hollywood liaison to the Chinese-American community), and included both Chinese and Chinese-American performers. The
portrait of Ja Kwan on the cover has him holding a sign that says "Minguo wan sui" (Long live the Republic).
13.
Chinese General Peace Association: 100th anniversary 1913-2013 / Meizhou huaqiao heping zonghui. San
Francisco: Chinese General Peace Association, 2013. 175p., very good in wraps, 8.5x11 inches, numerous photos, text almost
entirely in Chinese. Includes many brief commemorative poems. (#183433)
$25.00
Booklet issued by the Chinatown-based civic association, which was originally founded as a peacekeeping organization to
mediate and suppress tong warfare.
14.
Chinese religious beliefs. Los Angeles: Quon Quon Company, 1944. 20p., wraps. (#42656)
$15.00
15.
Citizenship study guide / Ru ji shi ti zhi nan. San Francisco: Tong xin shiwu gongsi, [199-]. [16p.], mildly worn
wraps, bilingual text. (#168247)
$12.00
Overview of the material someone should know to prepare for the citizenship exam; names of local officials have been
changed in pen to reflect the results of the 1992 elections.
16.
Committee to Commemorate the 20th Anniversary of the International Hotel and Manilatown [handbill].
San Francisco: the Committee, 1997. Single 8.5x11 inch sheet printed both sides, Five paragraphs of text and a photomontage
by Leland Wong on one side, a calendar of events on the other. Very good. (#183043)
$12.00
17.
Dezhou fo jiao hui cheng li shi san zhou nian 德 州 佛 教 會 成 立 十 三 週 年 [Thirteenth anniversary of the
establishment of the Texas Buddhist Association]. Houston: Texas Buddhist Association, 1992. 71p., wraps; text in
English and Chinese. Numerous color photos of the Association's activities and the services of the Jade Buddha Temple.
OCLC lists only one holding in Virginia. (#165234) $20.00
18.
Don't buy Japanese goods / "Quarantine" the aggressor [pinback button]. Chicago: n.pub., [193-?]. Oval pin,
one inch lengthwise, very good condition, white and blue text. Union bug gives Chicago location. (#185548) $35
These pins were worn by labor activists as well as Chinese-Americans to protest Japan's invasion of China.
19.
Dulun chan shi shi ji 度 輪 禪 師 事 蹟 . San Francisco: San Francisco Buddhist Lecture Hall, 1958. 5, 58, 25 p.,
wraps, stamps of the San Francisco Buddhist Lecture Hall on cover. (#125056) $15.00
About the Zen Buddhist To-Lun, based largely in Hong Kong.
20.
East meets west; a source book for the study of Chinese immigrants and their descendants in Canada.
Vancouver: Tantalus Research Limited, 1975. 90p.. illus., 8.5x11 inches, wraps. Canadian culture series #5. (#80167) $25.00
21.
Economic market analysis and transient housing study: Chinatown NDP project area. San Francisco: Larry
Smith & Company; Urban Economics Division; Willis Research, 1973. 10, i, 46p. plus extensive appendices, 8.5x11 inches,
black plastic comb binding, very good. Laid in are two packets of related material. (#186242)
$40.00
Prepared for the Oakland Redevelopment Agency, analyzes plans for redevelopment within the broader context of the San
Francisco-Oakland housing market and economy.
22.
Education and Culture Foundation. Monterey Park, CA: the Foundation, [200-]. 18p. in English, 18p. in Chinese,
very good in wraps, 8.5x11 inches, many photos. (#182096) $20.00
On the charitable organization founded by Paul Szeto (Situ Chaozheng).
23.
Finding Family Roots: Youth of Chinese Descent from U.S.A. and Canada Visit Xinhui and Enping
Counties. A bilingual book. Beijing: China Reconstructs / Great Wall Books, 1983. 143p., extensive b&w snapshot section,
pocketsize 7x4.5 inch glossy wraps; a very good copy. (#137566)
$15.00
Bilingual English and Chinese booklet about descendents of Chinese emigrants visiting the rural locales where their ancestors
lived. Most of the children were from California. B&W photo illustrations.
24.
Flavors of China. Seattle: Chinese Parents Service Organization; Dotson Printing, 1976. 203p., spiralbound wraps
with plastic covers; second printing, several small dark spots to edge of textblock, bottom two rungs of binding are broken.
(#187731)
$22.00
25.
Fomen 佛 門 / Buddha Gate 2002. Lafayette, CA: Buddha Gate Monastery, 2002. 86p., very good in wraps, 8.5x11
inches; numerous photos. Text mostly in Chinese. (#182081) $25.00
Introduction to the Buddhist temple and those who work there.
26.
Four thousand years of Chinese art; 20th century b.c. - 20th century a.d., September 10th-18th,1949, 1:30
p.m. to 9:30 p.m. San Francisco: St. Mary's Chinese Mission, 1949. vi, 34p. including 16 black/white plates, bookmark for
the exhibit laid in, slightly browned wraps. (#87149) $20.00
Includes Chinese-language preface by Dr. Chu Chew Shong, principal of St. Mary's Chinese High School, the content of
which differs from the English foreword.
27.
The Fundamentals of Chinese floral painting / Zhongguo hua hui hua ji chu 中 國 花 卉 畫 基 : The book of the
plum / Mei pu 梅 譜 . Taibei: Yi shu tu shu gong si, 1979. ISBN: 9576721474. 80p., very good in wraps, text in both Chinese
and English. (#172248)
$15.00
First in a series of how-to books for traditional Chinese painting, written by Zhou Shixin, an immigrant in Los Angeles. This
volume is entirely devoted to painting plum branches, blossoms and fruit.
28.
H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III: a treasury of true Buddha-Dharma / Duojie Qiang fo di 3 shi: zheng fa bao
dian. San Gabriel, CA: World Dharma Voice, 2008. ISBN: 9781892727411. 557p., very good hardcover in dj, with color
photo of Master Wan Ko Yee in hairpiece that must be seen to be appreciated. Poster folded in envelope laid between pages.
(#154551)
$22.00
Collection of testimony in both English and Chinese of faith healings and other miracles performed by Master Wan Ko Yee,
who this book argues is the incarnation of H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III. Includes facsimiles of documents of support from
Congressman Tom Lantos, a San Francisco document proclaiming Master Wan Ko Yee Day, letters from other California
politicians, and various religious authorities.
29.
History of the Union Pacific coal mines, 1868 to 1940. Omaha: The Colonial Press, [197-?]. Unpaginated
preliminaries, 265p., xliii [appendices], sizeable folded chart in the back, illustrated with period photography throughout,
vignettes and plates; photo-reprint of 1940 original in cloth boards. Foredge is bumped with slight crumple and dust-soil to a
dozen leaves, former owner's presentation inscription, an else sound clean copy. (#153479)
$25.00
One chapter of about 22p. gives the company account of "Chinese riot and massacre of September 2, 1885;" this includes
many vignette photos of pre-"riot" personnel.
30.
The Hong Kong Association of Northern California; directory 1995. San Francisco: The Hong Kong
Association of Northern California, 1994. 152p., Board of Directors, alphabetical listing of names, listing by nature of
business, index, illustrated with ads and photos, very good in original wraps. (#132667) $20.00
31.
Hsi Lai University. Los Angeles, California, USA. Rosemead, CA: HLU, [199-?]. Six-panel glossy illustrated
brochure for the Buddhist university affiliated with Fo Guang Shan monastery; folded, it is an upright measuring 10x4
inches. Very good. (#182095)
$18.00
The university later changed its name to University of the West and received standard accreditation.
32.
Hu Jingnan wen ji 胡 景 南 文 集 . Hong Kong: Xiangjiang chu ban you xian gong si, 1991. 80, 735 p., [8] p. of
plates, very good in wraps, text in Chinese with an English essay, "Gilbert Woo, Chinese-American journalist" by Him Mark
Lai and Betty Lim. (#182205)
$25.00
Collection of works by the liberal journalist who worked at several San Francisco-based Chinese-language newspapers.
33.
Hua ren wu dao ju yi zu zhang cheng 華 人 舞 蹈 劇 藝 組 章 程 [Constitution of the Chinese Dance and Drama
Group]. San Francisco: the Group, 1960. Single 14x8.5 inch sheet, mimeographed one side from dense text in handwritten
Chinese, 46 lines of vertically-oriented text, very good. Originally dated only October 2, but the year 1960 has been neatly
penned next to it in Chinese. (#162880)
$35.00
Rules for the San Francisco Chinatown-based Club, which emerged from the longstanding tradition of the leftist Chinese
American Democratic Youth League and the Chinese American Youth Club to organize plays and other performances on
topical political themes. The Constitution provides the group's official English name, lists its headquarters, officers and their
duties, and the role of its members.
34.
Huaqiao Huaren lishi yanjiu 華 僑 華 人 歷 史 研 究 / Overseas Chinese history studies [33 issues]. Guangzhou:
Zhongguo Huaqiao lishi xuehui, 1988-2008. 33 issues of the quarterly journal, text in Chinese. Later issues have English
synopsis of some articles. Early issues average 64 pages, becoming slightly larger over time. Issues present are: 1988: 3.
1990: 1-4. 1991: 1-4. 1992: 1-4. 1993: 1-4. 1994: 1-4. 1995: 1-3. 1996: 1. 1999: 4. 2000: 1-4. 2007: 4. 2008: 2, 3. (#184144)
$150.00
Academic journal on Chinese expatriates around the world, much material on Chinese Americans and Southeast Asian
diaspora.
35.
Inland Riverside Chinese School / Nei lu Hebing Zhongwen xuexiao 內 陸 河 滨 中 文 學 校 . Riverside, CA: the
School, 2003. 80p., wraps, 8.5x11 inches, very good. Text mostly in Chinese. (#187845) $25.00
Annual publication of the school, with photos of students and examples of their work.
36.
[Interruption]: Heesok Chang, Jamelie Hassan, Larissa Lai, Kirsten Emiko McAllister, Marianne Nicolson,
and Henry Tsang. Vancouver: Or Gaery, 1992. ISBN: 1895005086. 67p.,illus., 8.5x11 inches, wraps. Exhibition catalog.
(#48764)
$15.00
37.
The Jeng Sen Buddhism and Taoism Association of San Francisco cordially invites you to attend a buffet
dinner in celebration of the birth of the Immortal God Lao Tsze [invitation card]. The Association, San Francisco. 1963,
Four panel card, taped shut for mailing (tape residue leaving browned strip at edge), address and postmark on front panel;
text in Chinese and English, lengthier text in Chinese only on back panel (somewhat yellowed). The event was held at 146
Waverly Place in Chinatown. (#173842) $12.00
38.
Jinshan zhou hui wen hui 金 山 粥 會 文 會 . San Francisco: Jinshan zhou hui [Party and Porridge Club], [2005].
146p., very good in wraps, 8.5x11 inches; text in Chinese, thoroughly illustrated. (#186662)
$35.00
Special publication for the tenth anniversary of the cultural group, which takes its name from Taiwan's oldest literary group.
Includes numerous press clippings, facsimiles of award certificates from local government, but notable for a vast trove of
black and white photos showing the city's Chinese immigrant literary and artistic circles in past decades.
39.
Linking our lives; Chinese American women of Los Angeles, a joint project of Asian American Studies
Center, University of California, Los Angeles and Chinese Historical Society of Southern California. Los Angeles:
Chinese Historical Society of Southern California, 1984. ISBN: 0930377001. xii, 115p., appended material, illustrated with
snapshot and institutional b&w photographs; first edition trade-size wraps. Has a mild cover crease and faint rubbing, a very
good copy. (#175633)
$15.00
40.
Long Live the International Hotel! March and rally Sunday - October 9. [poster]. San Francisco: International
Hotel Tenants Committee, International Hotel Support Committee, [1977]. 22.5x17.5 inch poster with black and white photo
of police on hoseback in a melee with demonstrators during the final eviction of tenants; banners in English and Chinese are
hung around the outside of the building. Pinholes at corners and margins, small closed edge tear. (#186924) $400.00
The I-Hotel, the last remnant of old Manilatown and home to many elderly immigrants, had been forcibly evicted in August.
This rally sought to return tenants to their apartments in the then-empty building.
Los Angeles Chinatown 50th year. The golden years, 1938-1988. Los Angeles: Chinese Chamber of
Commerce, 1988. 69p., very good in wraps, 8.5x11 inches, numerous illustrations, many ads. (#187896) $25.00
41.
42.
Lung Doo Benevolent Society of Hawaii 93 / Tanxiang shan Longdu cong shan tang hui kan 檀 香 山 隆 都 从
善 堂 會 刊 . Honolulu: the Society, 1993. 49p., 8.5x11 inches, very good in glossy wraps. Annual publication with text in
Chinese and English. Many color photos highlighting the history and activities of the social group for immigrants from
Longdu, a group of towns around Zhongshan City in Guangdong province. (#184099)
$30.00
43.
Member / Humanity Legion / Bowl of Rice / Feb. 9, 10, 11 1940 / SF Chinatown [pinback button]. San
Francisco: Humanity Legion, 1940. 1.25 inch diameter button, very good condition. (#185547)
$30.00
A series of similar pins were issued with various years of issue, as part of fundraising efforts to defend China from Japan's
invasion.
44.
Number: a magazine of modern poetry. Vol. I, numbers 1 and 2. San Francisco: Don R. Wobber, 1950. First
two issues of the magazine, each 32p., ex libris. The second issue, entitled Chinatown Issue, includes a 17p. article by
Nanying S. Wong, 'Nuptial Songs of a Chinese Village', a Chinese American artist who drew the cover and the illustrations
accompanying her article. Wong also contributed a poem to the first issue. The other featured poets are primarily from San
Francisco. (#93153)
$45.00
45.
Oakland Chinatown cookbook. Oakland: Oakland Chinatown Chamber of Commerce, 1988. iii, 138p., spiralbound wraps. Issued for Street Fest '88. (#91660)
$20.00
46.
Pao bao 炮 報 / Power news. January 1989. San Francisco: United Service Council, 1989. Single issue of the
Chinese-language newspaper, contents mostly devoted to San Francisco's local Chinatown news, but with a harsh editorial on
the Chiang "dynasty" of Taiwan on the cover page. (#182092) $15.00
The English title is a riff on the Chinese "Pao," which means cannon; the masthead shows a cannon exploding with the
slogan "Ma hou pao," "Cannon after the horses," similar to the English "Too little, too late."
47.
PINOTOH: a struggle for our home. An exhibition about the International Hotel. San Francisco: Jackson
Street Gallery, [197-]. 8.5x7 inch brochure unfolding to an 8.5x14 inch handbill introducing PINOTOH (People in Need of
Their Own Housing), the International Hotel Tenants Association, and the fight to save the housing of elderly Filipino and
Chinese residents. Address and contact number penned at bottom, otherwise very good. Cover illustration shows an AsianAmerican family lifting beams to create the frame of a house against a San Francisco skyline. (#183676)
$30.00
48.
Poyong. The Agra Gallery of Fine Arts. Washington, DC: the Gallery, 1966. Eight-panel fold-out work, Chinese
calligraphy and color motifs with discursive text in English on religious themes by the Taiwan-born artist. Bound in red
boards, edgeworn, now almost completely split along spine. (#140387) $45.00
Published for an exhibition that ran from Sept. 10 to 30, 1966.
49.
Proceedings of the West Coast Conference for Peace and Security. Saturday, July 1, 1939. Palace Hotel, San
Francisco. San Francisco: the Conference, 1939. 4p., 5.5x8.5 inches, very good. (#164223)
$95.00
Record of the conference by Blanche Singleton. The conference had been called by the San Francisco Committee Against
War Shipments to Japan and the American Friends of the Chinese People. Officers included Chinese-American activists.
50.
Qiao shi xue bao 僑 史 學 報 / Journal of overseas Chinese history. [23 issues]. Guangzhou: Guangdong Huaqiao
lishi xuehui, 1985-1994. 23 issues of the quarterly journal, the first ten issues bound together in wraps, the other issues loose;
mild wear to wraps, generally very good. Issues present are 1-20, 27/28, 29/30, 31/32, 33/34, and 35/36. Text in Chinese.
(#184142)
$150.00
Academic journal on Chinese expatriates around the world, much material on Chinese Americans and Southeast Asian
diaspora.
51.
Qiao xun 僑 訊 [nine issues]. Taibei: Huaqiao jiuguo lianhe zonghui, 1980-82. Nine issues of the Chineselanguage newspaper targeting overseas Chinese, with patriotic Taiwanese anti-communist articles and occasional selections
in English for younger people and others whose Chinese has grown rusty. Issues present are Oct. 21 (with a pictorial
supplement page that has been clipped) and Nov. 1 1980; Oct. 1 1981, Jan. 16, Feb. 16, March 16, April 1, and July 1 1982.
(#182093)
$25.00
52.
Qing hua wen yi 青華文藝 [nos. 15-20]. San Francisco: Association of Modern Chinese Literature and Arts of
North America, 2004-2009. Six issues of the annual publication, each in glossy-covered staplebound magazine format,
collecting writing and art by Chinese immigrants. Text in Chinese. (#186505)
$45.00
53.
Reflections: original writings by the 1977 Asian Writers' Project. Berkeley: Asian Writers Project, 1977.
Unpaginated, 8.5x11 inches, very good in wraps. Politically charged works by Asian American high school students in
Berkeley. (#184600)
$35.00
54.
Ren sheng man tan 人 生 漫 談 [Life mirror weekly magazine]. No. 83 (March 20, 1958). Vancouver: Zhonghua
wen hua shi ye gong si, 1958. Single issue of the Chinese-language magazine, 40p., 7.5x10.5 inches, color photo on cover,
interior on newsprint, moderate edgewear. (#142963) $20.00
In addition to the usual collection of articles, cartoons, snapshots of famous overseas Chinese, etc., this issue contains a black
and white photo section on an all-Huaqiao conference held in New York.
55.
The Republic of China. Taipei: Overseas Chinese Affairs Commission. Republic of China, 1991. 136p., profusely
illus., 8.5x11 inches, wraps. Includes 62p. on overseas (US) Chinese and their relationship to Taiwan. (#48413)
$18.00
56.
Round table on Chinese-American cultural relations. A summary report. College Park, MD: University of
Maryland and China Institute in America, 1955. 26p., mimeographed 8.5x11 inch sheets stapled at left, minor edgewear.
(#182115)
$25.00
The conference, with 150 participants, focused on "1. How to promote understanding of the values of Chinese culture in the
present crisis, 2. The need for providing democratic educational opportunities for Chinese students, and 3. Avoiding the
waste of trained Chinese talent in the United States."
57.
A selected list of references on the Chinese in California. San Francisco: Reference Dept., San Francisco Public
Library, [1963]. 5p., 8.5x11 inch sheets stapled at upper left, front cover is rumpled and torn with a chip. (#142538) $18
58.
Shanghai Cafe; open 3:00 p.m. to 3:00 a.m., high class Chinese restaurant ... Everett, Washington. Everett,
Washignton: the Cafe, [195-?]. 4p. menu, 6.5x10 inches, some penciling on front and tape remains on inside, wraps. An
example of small-town Chinese restaurant fare at mid-20th century. (#65785)
$18.00
59.
Sojourner IV. Berkeley: Asian Writers Project, 1974. 154p., 8.5x11 inches, very good in wraps. Politically charged
works by Asian American high school students in Berkeley. (#10051) $35.00
60.
Song Hee [menu]. Los Angeles: Song Hee, n.d.. 9x11 inch four-panel menu on stiff card for the restaurant on West
Pico Boulevard; several thumbtack holes, corners worn. Undated, but the 3.5% sales tax rate may provide a clue. Most
expensive item on the menu is $2.50, though the chef can make special dinners for $3 and up. (#182916)
$18.00
61.
Souvenir photograph from... Chinatown San Francisco; Andy Wong's Chinese Skyroom, Grant Avenue at
Pine Street, Chinatown. San Francisco: the Skyroom, [195-?]. 4p., 8x6 inch self-mailer with photograph of four gweilo
guests at the noted restaurant. (#77108)
$22.00
62.
Tiao Yü Tai We want justice! [pinback]. [New York], [1971]. 1.25 inch diameter button, printed with the same
slogan in English and Chinese, very good. Produced for a demonstration in New York City in 1971 (#152675)
$15.00
The Diaoyu Tai / Tiaoyu Tai / Senkaku islands are a disputed territory in the sea between Taiwan and Japan, claimed by both
China and Japan. In 1971, when the US was preparing to return control of Okinawa to Japan, Chinese and Taiwanese
students in the US (and elsewhere) argued that the Diaoyu Tai islands should not be handed back to Japan together with
Okinawa; the protesters held that Japan had taken control of the islands as part of its colonization of Taiwan, reversed by the
settlement of WW II, and had no prior claim on them. This was one of the few issues that brought together both left-wing and
right-wing Chinese in the US at the time.
63.
Wok with DVCCA. Recipes compiled by Diablo Valley Chinese Cultural Association of Contra Costa
County. Waseca, MN: Walter's Publishing, [1998]. viii, 234, 16p., very good in wraps with red plastic comb binding.
Paperback. (#185299)
$18.00
64.
The Woman Warrior. Performing Arts; June 1994, volume 7, number 6; Northern California Edition. Los
Angeles: Performing Arts Network, 1994. 54p., 8.5x11 inches, articles, essays, cast bios, program, photos, ads, lightly-worn
wraps. (#126837) $12.00
Magazine format program/playbill for the Berkeley Rep production of Maxine Hong Kingston's "The Woman Warrior."
adapted by Deborah Rogin.
65.
World peace gathering: a miscellany of articles and speeches occasioned by Bhiksu Heng Ju and Bhiksu
Heng Yo on their pilgrimage for world peace. San Francisco: Sino-American Buddhist Association, 1975. 125p., wraps,
edges foxed. (#164700)
$12.00
66.
Yan huang tian di 炎 黃 天 地 [12 issues]. Jiangmen: Jiangmen (Wuyi) yanhuang wenhua yanjiuhui, 1997-2002.
Twelve issues of the quarterly journal on the history and culture of Jiangmen, a city in Guangdong Province which is the
ancestral home of many overseas Chinese (hence occasional contributions by Chinese-American, Chinese-Canadian,
Chinese-Australian and other authors). Standard length 48 pages; glossy covers, text in Chinese. Issues present are 1997: 1-4;
1998: 1-3; 2000: 4; 2001: 3, 4; 2002: 1, 3. (#184151) $75.00
67.
Yardbird reader, volume 3. Berkeley: Yardbird Publishing Co., 1974. xvi, 294p., very good in wraps, signed by
Shawn Wong. An Asian American issue, with contributions by Frank Chin, Shawn Wong, Mei Berssenbrugge, and many
others, as well as Lesilie Marmon Silko. (#183884) $20.00
68.
Year of the dragon; first day of issue. San Francisco: United States Postal Service, 2000. Stamped first day cover
on printed envelope in decorated 11x5.5 inch folder. (#88066) $15.00
69.
YMCA Happenings: Newsletter of events at the Chinatown YMCA. October 1985. San Francisco: YMCA,
1985. Single issue of the newspaper, mildly toned. (#182094) $18.00
This issue contains substantial material on the restoration of the YMCA in China and a friendly visit to SF by Chinese
delegates. Also includes an obituary for William Toy.
70.
Zhongguo chukou shangpin jiaoyihui zhuan kan 中 國 出 口 商 品 交 易 會 专 刊 . New York: Meizhou huaqiao
ribao, 1978. 16p., tabloid newspaper format, brochure by the association of General Importers from the People's Republic of
China issued as a supplement to the Meizhou huaqiao ribao in May 1978; evenly toned, minor edgewear. Text in Chinese.
(#182117)
$20.00
Patriotic (Chinese) articles about international trade helping the motherland while also bringing profits to investors; a major
change of political and economic line from a year or two earlier. Includes numerous ads for San Francisco and New York
businesses involved in imports.
71.
Zhongshan ren zai Xiaweiyi 中 山 人 在 夏 威 夷 . Zhongshan, China: Zhongshan Shi Huaqiao lishi xuehui, 1995.
108p., very good in wraps, text in Chinese. (#187844)
$25.00
On Hawaiian residents who immigrated from the Zhongshan region of Guangdong province.
72.
Zhu yi [Attention] [card in Chinese warning IUD users of dangerous side-effects]. n.p.: n.pub., [197-]. 3x5 inch
card printed in facsimile of handwritten Chinese, listing possible warning signs of an IUD infection (abdominal pain,
abnormal bleeding, fever, etc) and urging the user to contact a hospital if they occur. The back of the card has a printed notice
about the availability of the book "Asian Women" from the Asian American Studies Center at UCLA and a rubberstamped
date in 1979. (#185205) $20.00
73.
Abeles, Schwartz, Haeckel & Silverblatt, Inc. The Chinatown Garment Industry Study submitted to Local 2325 International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, and New York Skirt and Sportswear Association. New York:
ILGW, June 1983. iv, 259p., standard leaves reproduced doublesided from key-board-set text, velo-bound with a clear acetate
cover leaf. Slight edgewear, acetate leaf has a two-inch split at the fold, back cover leaf is irregularly toned. A good clean
copy. (#176468) $35.00
74.
Alaniz, Yolanda and Nellie Wong, editors. Voices of color. Seattle: Red Letter Press, 1999. ISBN: 0932323057.
159p., introduction, contributors, index, photos, very good first edition in original pictorial wraps. This copy is briefly
inscribed on the titlepage by Nellie Wong, and signed as "Aunt Nell." A collection of essays and articles on minority and
feminist issues. (#181518) $15.00
75.
Asian American Political Alliance. AAPA Newspaper. Vol. 2 Issue 1 (November 1969). AAPA, Berkeley. 1969,
4p. tabloid format newspaper, masthead bearing image of dragon and photo of Black Panther Bobby Seale; evenly toned,
otherwise very good. Includes articles on cooperatives as an alternative to sweatshops for garment workers in Chinatown; a
piece by Mary Kochiyama on Robert F. Williams in China; the trial of the Chicago 8, and more. (#165616) $30.00
76.
Asian American Theater Company, Philip Kan Gotanda, David Henry Hwang, design by Helen Plenert & Tom
Wing. The dream of Kitamura written by Philip Kan Gotanda and directed by David Henry Hwang, June 19-July 25,
1982 [poster]. San Francisco: Asian American Theater Company, 1982. Single sheet poster 11x17 inches, illustration of two
masks on dark purple on a light blue thin paper stock. (#178393)
$25.00
Early collaboration by two of the most influential Asian American playwrights/directors of the 1970s-present. Poster from
the World Premier.
77.
Au, M. Sing, comp. The Chinese cook book; covering the entire field of Chinese cookery in the Chinese order
of serving, from nuts to soup, with decorations by Warren G. Troutman. Reading, PA: Culinary Arts Press, 1961. 47p.,
wraps, reprint of 1936 edition. Slogan on cover in English is "Variety is the spice of life," but the Chinese above it says "A
picture is worth ten thousand words" - unlear why, as the dishes are not illustrated! (#160157)
$17.00
78.
Bamford, Mary E. Ti: a story of San Francisco's Chinatown. Chicago: David C. Cook Publishing Company,
1899. 93p., pen and ink and wash illustrations throughout the double-column text; first edition 8.5x6.5 inch boards gilt, halfcloth over marbled paper. Rather edgeworn with card showing, hinges slightly wiggly, textblock bears scattered handling soil
and a short closed marginal tear at leaf 43/4, free endpaper has a crease, slightly torn, and a long presentation ("faithful
attendance during the year 1903"), a good-only copy. Chinese American culture through the eyes of a boy growing up in San
Francisco's Chinatown; he is taken to China for a period, finds Christianity. (#175863)
$40.00
79.
Bay Area Electronics Workers Organizing Committee; Rucker Strike Support Committee. Put the Electronic
Bosses on the Run! [with] Electronics workers on the move! [two handbills]. San Jose, CA: the Committees, 1974. Two
handbills, one 8.5x14 inches with depiction of multiethnic women on the picket line, the other 8.5x11 inches, text only; mild
fold crease, date penned at upper right corner of each leaflet, otherwise very good. (#187887)
$35.00
Leaflets citing the San Francisco Chinatown strike by workers at Lee Mah electronics and the strike at Ruckers Electronics in
Concord, summarizing the developments so far, urging the reader to join their picket lines, and announcing a demonstration
at the unemployment office in San Jose.
80.
Becker, Howard S., ed. Culture and civility in San Francisco. N. pl.: Transaction Books, 1971. xi, 164p. + 32p.
photos, worn dj. With considerable material on Chinatown, by Stanford M. Lyman ("Red Guard on Grant Avenue"), a great
deal on black-white relations, the Haight Ashbury, storefront lawyers. (#136639) $12.00
81.
Beggs, Jacqueline. The Chinese laborers of Lake Chabot; San Leandro, California, a history of their
contributions to the construction of Lake Chabot Dam, 1874-1892. Oakland: Alameda County Historical Society, 1997.
27p., map, photos and diagrams, staplebound 8.5x5.5 inch wraps. Very good copy. (#73499)
$25.00
82.
Berssenbrugge, Mei-mei. Empathy. Barrytown, NY: Station Hill Press, 1989. 76p., wraps, first edition, very good
condition, 8.5x8.5 inches. Poetry. (#36058) $17.00
83.
Bian, Baimei. Bian Baimei ri ji 卞 白 眉 日 记 . Tianjin: Tianjin guji chubanshe, 2008. ISBN: 9787806965269. Four
volumes, all very good in wraps, text in Chinese. (#165251) $95.00
Extensive and detailed journal of Bian, the first Chinese student to attend Brown University and later the manager of the
Tianjin branch of the Bank of China, whose career there is discussed in Brett Sheehan's Trust in Troubled Times. He sought
refuge in Hong Kong in 1948, as discussed in P.T. Lee's The Chinese Banker in Refuge: Bian Baimei in Hong Kong, 194849. The journal continues to 1968, by which time Bian had been living in California for many years.
84.
Blaine, James G. In memory of James G. Blaine; memorial services of the California Legislature (Thirtieth
session). Sacramento: State Printing Office, 1893. 30p., ownership bookplate on front endpaper, mild wear otherwise very
good in black buckram cloth decorated in gilt. (#161896)
$15.00
Tributes to the Republican Senator from Maine who was a staunch supporter of Kearney's anti-Chinese Exclusion Act.
California senator McGowan goes on record to say, "He stood like a giant, like an American knight, as he always was, to
battle back the hordes of Chinese" --for which see p.5
85.
Boggs, Grace Lee. Living for change, an autobiography. Foreword by Ossie Davis. Minneapolis: University of
Minnesota Press, 1998. ISBN: 0816629552. xvi, 301p., trade-size wraps, a very good copy. (#164914)
$12.00
Find quite a lot on family friend C. L. R. James.
86.
Breuer, Karin, curator. San Francisco's Old Chinatown; Photographs by Arnold Genthe, 19 December 1998
through 28 March 1999. San Francisco: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1998. Single large cardstock leaf folded to
make six 10.5x8.5 inch printed panels with five sharp vignette reproductions and one hazy large one. Faint edgewear, nearfine. Pamphlet. (#185585) $15.00
87.
Brown, Michael D. Views from Asian California, 1920-1965; an illustrated history. San Francisco: the author,
1992. ISBN: 0963396803. 71p., inscribed by author, profusely illus. with color reproductions of works by Chinese American,
Japanese American and Filipino American artists, 9x8 inches, wraps. (#72130) $20.00
88.
Brown, Tricia. Chinese new year; photographs by Fran Ortiz. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1987.
ISBN: 0805004971. Unpaginated, 8x10 inches, inscribed by Brown, very good first edition in boards and dj. On San
Francisco's celebration. (#75505) $15.00
89.
Browning, Robert H. [and] Pui-De Tsai, notes. Ancient Heritage, New Directions recent work by Chung-Hsiang
Chao [et alia] with music by Chou Wen-Chung. October 18 until November 18, 1978. New York: Alternative Center For
International Arts, 1978. 31p., coated paperstock with b&w exhibit photography, 8.5x7 inch staplebound wraps. Two title
pages, one in characters. Top staple has escaped the card cover, back wrap bears a severe crease; as is, a good-only copy.
Curator Geno Rodriguez observes that this "is the first time so many artist of Chinese descent have been included in single
show," which brings together "both major and younger artists." (#176655)
$25.00
Nineteen artists (painting, sculpture, photography, mixed media) and the award-winning professor of music.
90.
California Senate, Select Committee on Resolutions of Miner's Convention of Shasta County. Reports of the Select
Committee, to whom was referred Assembly bills no. 206, 207 & 208, with reference to foreign miners. Report of the
majority of Select Committee. Sacramento: B.B. Redding, state printer, 1855. 8p., of which 4 p. constitute the actual report.
Bound with brown paper tape, damp stain at top edge (not musty), penciled notes on front cover. Senate Session 1855. Doc.,
no. 19. (#142037) $75.00
The proposed legislation would bar any immigrant not eligible for citizenship from working in California mines; the intended
target was Chinese immigration. This majority report, chaired by J.E. Clayton, supports the proposal and outlines reasons for
excluding Chinese as well as other non-white laborers.
91.
California, State of. Board of Control. California and the oriental; Japanese, Chinese, and Hindus. Report of
the State Board of Control of California to Gov. Wm. D. Stephens, June 19, 1920, revised to January 1, 1922.
Sacramento: California State Printing Office, 1922. 250p., second (revised) edition blue-grey cloth boards titled black; mild
external edgewear, mild handling soil, a very good copy. (#14569)
$85.00
The report, with its demographic analysis of the three Asian American populations, was submitted to the federal government
because "[T]he people of California are determined to repress a developing Japanese community within our midst. They are
determined to exhaust every power in their keeping to maintain this state for its own people. This determination is based
fundamentally upon the ethnological impossibility of assimilating the Japanese people ..." -pp. 9-10
92.
Chai, May-Lee. My Lucky Face. New York: Soho Press, 1997. ISBN: 1569470944. 257p., very good hardcover in
dj, signed by the author with her red Chinese chopmark on title page. (#180805) $12.00
93.
Chan-Bernard, Mei-ling. Ching Ling's Chinese cuisine. Memphis: the author, 1980. 93p.,, spiral-bound wraps,
plastic spine is cracked at bottom, small stain on the foredge. (#93648) $15.00
94.
Chan, Marcia Jean and Candice Cynda Chan, eds. Going back. [San Francisco]: the editors, [1972]. 133p., illus.
with black/white photos, bilingual text, 8.25x10 inches, rather foxed wraps, interior clean. Account of a radical Chinese
American Bay Area-based group's trip to China in 1972. Contributors include Jack Chen and Jean Quan, later mayor of
Oakland (writing here as Quan Lai Jean / Jeanne) (#87979)
$45.00
95.
Chang, Diana. A woman of thirty. New York: Random House, 1959. 246p., first edition maroon cloth-backed
boards gilt with tinted top edge, in dust jacket. A very nice production; tint is slightly sunned at one end, the dj has a rubbed
back panel (where all the laudatory blurbs are) and a tiny closed tear, very good copy. (#177796) $25.00
96.
Chang, Lan Samantha. Hunger; a novella and stories. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1998. ISBN:
0393046648. 191p., first printing of the first book by the Chinese American author, dj. (#62171) $15.00
97.
Chang, Lee. Kung fu #1; the year of the tiger. New York: Manor Books, 1973. 219p., wraps. Paperback original,
Thriller, set in San Francisco. (#71467)
$20.00
98.
Chao, Evelina. Yeh Yeh's house. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2004. ISBN: 0312330774. 287p., very good first
edition personally inscribed and signed by the author, in dj. (#110112) $20.00
99.
Chen Chi. Chen Chi Exhibition. Watercolors; changing seasons. November 4th through 22nd, 1969. New
York: Grand Central Art Galleries, Inc., 1969. Unpaginated, [16]p., b&w reproductions of artist's paintings accompanied by
poetry; staplebound 8.5x5.5 inch wraps, faint handling- or dust-soil, a very good copy. Born and raised in Shanghai, came to
live in the US in 1947. (#178185) $17.00
100.
Chen, C.M. The merit of practice in a cemetery. Berkeley: Thorp Springs Press, n.d.. 26p., pocketbook format in
wraps. Chenian booklet series no. 87. (#164836)
$12.00
101.
Chen, C.M. The right attitude of a practitioner who believes Buddhism & non-Buddhism. Berkeley: Thorp
Springs Press, n.d.. 27p., pocketbook format in wraps. Chenian booklet series no. 89. (#164835) $12.00
102.
[Chen, Hon-Ming], writing as "All the Gods". [The Appearance of God and the Descending of the Kingdom of
God - Saving Human Beings by Means of God’s Space Aircrafts [in Chinese]. Lockport, NY: privately published,
[1998]. 47 p., spiral-bound with 11x8.5 inch plastic cover protectors, illustrations of airplane contrails described as UFOs
sent from the heavens by God. (#119297)
$35.00
Chen was a sociology professor who reported having visions of golden spheres of light for many years, eventually leading
him to join the Chen Tao sect, which he led at the time of publication. Chen had by this time settled in Garland, Texas, where
he and his followers predicted the apocalypse would arrive in 1999, because of Garland's phonetic similarity to "God's Land."
This is a Chinese-language version of this booklet, which is also extant in English. A (justifiably) scarce product of a
Taiwanese-American UFO cult, which received substantial media coverage in its heyday.
103.
Chen, Jack. China observed 1930-1970: drawings & paintings by Jack Chen, January 10 - March 10, 1980,
Chinese Culture Center, San Francisco. San Francisco: Chinese Culture Center, 1980. 6-panel brochure, 8.5x8.5 inches,
with single 2 panel illustration, biographical sketch, notes on Chen's works arranged by period, some text in Chinese, signed
by the artist on front panel. (#181249)
$75.00
Chen was born in Trinidad in 1908 to an associate of Sun Yat-Sen; he became one of the most prominent political artists of
the anti-Japanese war period and maintained connections with Diego Rivera, Robert Minor, William Gropper and numerous
Soviet artists. This exhibition showcased his work from the post-1949 period in particular; the featured image is "Spring
Festival" from 1956.
104.
Chen, Jianmin 陳健民. Zheng jue yu mi xin 正 覺 與 迷 信 . Forestville, CA: Vajra Press, 1980. 81p., very good in
wraps, plastic comb binding. Vajra Press was associated with the Chakpori-Ling Foundation in Louisiana. (#179474) $25.00
Chinese-American Buddhist discusses superstition and pseudoscience.
105.
Chen, Jianmin [C.M. Chen], Lin Yutang, et al. "Dai ye wang sheng" cha jing xiao zu bao gao shu "帶 業 往 生 "
查 經 小 組 報 告 書 . Berkeley: C.M. Chen, 1980. 48p., very good in staplebound wraps. Text reproduced from Chinese
manuscript. (#179476)
$25.00
106.
Chen, Zhongmei 陳中 美 . Zhongmei san wen ji 中 美 散 文 集 , 1946-2001. Taishan, Guangdong: Meizhou Taishan
Huaqiao shushe, 2002. 5, 245 p., green buckram boards, very good; errata slip laid in. (#186528) $45.00
Essays written by a native of Taishan (Toisan), in Guangdong province, who immigrated to the San Francisco Bay Area. The
author is also a prolific writer on the local history of Taishan, traditionally one of the main sources of emigrants to the US.
107.
Chen, Zhongmei. Zhongmei xiao wen xuan 中 美 小 文 选 . Walnut Creek, CA: Taishan huaqiao shu she, 1994.
358p., very good hardcover, text in Chinese; black and white frontispiece photo of author. (#181998)
$35.00
Collection of essays about immigration to California, life in Walnut Creek, the Toisanese community in the Bay Area, and
more. The Taishan huaqiao shu she published works by various Toisanese immigrants to the area.
108.
Chen, Zhongmei, editor. Ming yuan yu lou yong shi 明 园 玉 楼 咏 诗 (nos. 2, 3, 4, 5). Taishan: Taishan Huaqiao
shushe, 1995-98. Four volumes of the annual poetry collection by emigrants from the Taishan (Toisan) region, each a
staplebound booklet, text in Chinese; minor handling wear. Chen Zhongmei edited the series from his home in Walnut Creek,
CA. (#186521) $35.00
109.
Cheng, Baolin. The sharpness of paper. Chongqing: Chongqing chubanshe, 2003. 284p., very good in wraps,
inscribed by author; poetry and prose in both Chinese and English by the San Francisco-based immigrant author. (#170046)
$22.00
110.
Cheng, Chi-Yu. New China in verse. Berkeley: The Gillick Press, 1944. xxiv, 120p., openweave cloth spine, semidemi fine printing. Chinese American scholar. (#73470)
$25.00
111.
Cheng, Kuang-Yu 程光裕; Cheng Phek-Eng. Hsiang Shan Tsi 香 山 集 . Taibei: Shih Hsin University, 2001. ISBN:
9578462247. 598p., wraps, text in Chinese. (#154538)
$15.00
Collection of materials by and about the Taiwanese academic Kuang-yu Cheng, who had spent much of his later life in
California, especially Los Angeles. Includes facsimiles of letters and photographs.
112.
Cheng, Tiangu 程 天 固 . Cheng Tiangu hui yi lu 程 天 固 回 憶 錄 [Memoirs of Chen Tiangu]. Los Angeles:
Cheng Damin, dist. by Longmen shudian, 1978. 3, 3, 539 p., wraps, text in Chinese. (#145651)
$18.00
Chen (1889-1974) received his master's degree from the University of California and then returned to China in 1915, where
he played an important role in the modernization of Guangdong province. He writes extensively of comparisons between the
US and China, as well as the need for better understanding between China and Latin America (he spent substantial time in
Mexico).
113.
Cheo, Paul. The empire of green. New York: Vantage Press, 1991. ISBN: 0533087783. 202p., first edition, dj.
Utopian science fiction about a Green Tribe descended from humans that lives amid peace and plenty. Chinese American
author who graduated in agricultural biology, Nanking 1941, thence emigrating and continuing to work in plant pathology.
(#41801)
$12.00
114.
Chetin, Helen, illustrated by Jan Lee. Angel Island Prisoner 1922. Berkeley: New Seed Press, 1982. 24p. English,
31 p. Chinese, in stapled wraps. (#128112) $15.00
Bilingual book for children about medical quarantine on Angel Island.
115.
Chew, Caroline King Lan (The Last Orchid). Caroline King Lan (The Last Orchid) Chew; the only Chinese
woman dancer in America; Campus Theatre, Berkeley, Tuesday Evening, April 30 (program). Berkeley: Campus
Theatre, [1935-?]. 4 panel program with photos of the dancer on front and rear covers, later handbill-program for a Rockridge
Choral appearance printed both sides laid-in. This playbill is most likely pre-1937 as Ms. Chew appeared in the film of "The
Good Earth" that year and it is not mentioned in her bio here. April 30 fell on Tuesday in 1935. (#117418) $25.00
San Francisco-born and raised Chinese American dancer whose father founded the first Chinese newspaper in America and
who graduated from Mills College. The insert appears to be a much later, though pre-1960s, performance in Rockridge.
116.
Chew, Caroline King Lan (The Last Orchid). Caroline King Lan (The Last Orchid) Chew; the only Chinese
woman dancer in America. Berkeley; San Francisco: William E. Chamberlain, personal representative, 1930s. Handsome,
illustrated brochure, 6x9 inches, which folds out to 12x18 inches, ten black and white photos showing Chew in various
Chinese roles (including Mu-Lan, with sword) as well as Cambodian, Javanese, and Hindu attire. Back panel has a program;
centerfold lists her agent as William E. Chamberlain with offices in Berkeley and San Francisco. (#171762) $50.00
A search of newspaper reports about her performances suggests a mid-1930s date for this piece.
117.
Chin, Frank. Donald Duk. Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 1991. ISBN: 0918273838. 173p., signed by Chin, very
good in wraps. Novel. (#9539)
$15.00
118.
Chin, Frank, Jeffery Paul Chan, Lawson Fusao Inada, Shawn Hsu Wong, eds. Aiiieeeee! An anthology of AsianAmerican writers. Washington: Howard University Press, 1974. ISBN: 0882580086. lxiii, 200p., inscribed and signed by
Inada, Wong, Toshio Mori, Oscar Penaranda, and Sam Tagatac, all to Orvy (probably Orvy Jundis, the poet and activist);
very good hardcover in dj. (#178217)
$75.00
119.
Chin, Marilyn. Dwarf bamboo. Greenfield Center, NY: The Greenfield Review Press, 1987. ISBN: 0912678712.
77p., wraps. Poetry by a native of Hong Kong raised in Portland, Oregon. (#49875)
$15.00
120.
Chin, Marilyn. The phoenix gone, the terrace empty. Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 1994. ISBN: 0915943875.
97p., first edition, pictorial wraps. Poetry by Asian-American author. (#121386) $15.00
121.
[Chinatown Parade]. 1972 Chinese New Year's Parade [two ribbons]. San Francisco: [the Parade], 1972. Two
pinback buttons with ribbons attached, one marked "staff" in red with gold tassels, the other a simpler photographer's ribbon
in green. (#184578)
$18.00
122.
Chinatown Post No. 4618. Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States. 30th anniversary; Empress of China
Restaurant, November 29, 1975. San Francisco: the Post, 1975. 7.5x10 inch program, glossy stiff red cover with a Ding
cauldron pictured in color. (#68447)
$15.00
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.
123.
Chinese American Citizens Alliance. Chinese gourmet. Portland, OR: The Alliance, Portland Lodge, 1973. 172p.,
contents reproduced from typescript with a few b&w photographs and many nice dividers on colored paperstock. Later
printing, 8x7 inch comb-spine wraps, slight creasing to covers, a very good copy. (#175282)
$15.00
124.
[Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association of New York]. Niuyue zhonghua gongsuo zhangcheng 紐 約 中 華
公 所 章 程 . New York: the Association, 1949. 26p., wraps, slight scuffing to cover, very good; text in Chinese. (#175508)
$95.00
Rules of the Association, with a list of officers at the end.
125.
Chinese Democratic Constitutionalist Party, San Francisco Chapter. [Unused sheet of letterhead and an envelope
with printed return address]. San Francisco: Chinese Democratic Constitutionalist Party, [194-]. Standard 8.5x11 inch
sheet of stationery with name of the Party in both Chinese and English, giving a 738 Grant Avenue address; the envelope
bearing the same text but printed in smaller font. Very good. (#183977) $18.00
The Party, associated with Dai-Ming Lee, opposed both the Nationalists and the Communists, seeking to revitalize
Confucianism in a modern form.
126.
Chinese Historical Society of America. Finding Jake Lee: the paintings at Kan's. San Francisco: Chinese
Historical Society of America, [2011]. ISBN: 9781885864451. 31p., very good softcover. (#168578)
$15.00
On the re-discovery of a set of paintings depicting Chinese-American life, formerly displayed in a Chinatown restaurant.
Includes color photos of the paintings.
127.
Chinese Real Estate Association of America, Inc. Special Edition 2000. San Francisco: the Association, 2000. 88p.,
very good in wraps, 8.5x11 inches. (#184176)
$20.00
Collection of articles, letters of congratulations, greetings from officers of the Chinese-American business group, and
numerous ads by members.
128.
Chinese Theatre Group. An evening in Cathay. Produced by Averil Tam and presented in Los Angeles by
James Zee-Min Lee. Los Angeles: The Chinese Theatre Group, [193-?]. [16p.], very good in red wraps with dragon motif;
program for the performance with black and white photos, biographies, and ads for Chinese-American businesses. (#171761)
$60.00
129.
Chinese World. Niuyue Shijie ribao youxian gongsi zhao gu jian zhang 紐約世界日報有限公司招股簡章
[Basic prospectus for shares, The Chinese World of New York, Ltd.]. San Francisco: Chinese World, [196-]. 14x8.5 inch
sheet with perforated tab at left, still unused, outlining plans for a New York branch of the San Francisco-based Chineselanguage newspaper and soliciting investors for the planned expansion. Text in Chinese; very good. Also included is an
8.5x11 inch leaflet in English from the same period soliciting advertisers for the Bay Area branch of the newspaper.
(#187888)
$20.00
130.
Chinese World. [Booklet of fifty unused $6 gift certificates for subscriptions to the Chinatown newspaper]. San
Francisco: Chinese World, [196-]. 12x3.5 inch staplebound booklet containing fifty lithographed gift certificates, numerals
penned on front cover, interior very good. (#183475) $20.00 (Also available: booklet of $2 certificates, in different colors)
131.
Chinn, Lori, Mimi Fellores & Ruthanne Lum McCunn, comps. A bibliography of Chinese and Chinese American
resource materials. Berkeley: Babel Lau Center, 1979. 268p., 8.25x10.75 inches, very good in wraps. A compilation of
available educational materials, commercial and noncommercial, for use in various settings. (#148476)
$35.00
132.
Chinn, Thomas W., ed. A history of the Chinese in California; a syllabus. H. Mark Lai and Philip P. Choy,
Associate Editors. San Francisco: Chinese Historical Society of America, 1975. 81p., later printing, 8.5x11 inches, very
good in wraps. Printed by Lawton and Alfred Kennedy. (#120992)
$75.00
133.
Chiu, Alex. Taffy Colored Clouds. January 2011: Taco Comics, Hawaiian Gardens CA. 25p., zine, b&w drawings,
a doublespread in color xerox, and a mission statement. First edition staplebound 8.5x5.5 inch artpaper wraps decorated with
a stenciled design and the author's holograph name and statement of limitation (this is copy #29 of 50 copies). The name in
white chalk is mildly blurred, a very good copy. Gooshy animacules squished together into larger entities, plus a couple of
undead pirates. Mission: small apartment, wife, kids, dance and play. (#176440) $15.00
134.
Chiu, Mai Ling. Gone forever. Bethel: Rutledge Books, 1996. ISBN: 1887750363. 247p., very good first edition in
dj. (#99680)
$30.00
Autobiography of a woman born to wealth in China who had to flee to Hong Kong when the Japanese attacked. Mai Ling
eventually moved to New York City. Lengthy inscription, signed by the author.
135.
Chiu, Tony. Realm 7. New York: Bantam Books, 1984. 280p., erratum sheet laid in, uncorrected page proofs,
wraps. Thriller - and first book - by the Chinese American writer . (#76120)
$15.00
136.
Chock, Eric, et. al., eds. Talk story; an anthology of Hawaii's local writers, with a foreword by Maxine Hong
Kingston. N. pl.: Petronium Press, 1978. 174p., wraps. Other editors included Darrell H. Y. Lum, Gail Miyasaki and Kathy
Uchida. (#93584) $20.00
137.
Chong, Albert. Across the Void; January 18 - March 24, 2000. Contact Sheet 105. Syracuse: Light Work /
Robert B. Menschel Photography Center, Syracuse University, 2000. ISBN: ISBN: 0935445129 ISSN: 1064640x. 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. (#176426)
$20.00
138.
Chong, Albert. Ancestral dialogues; the photographs. San Francisco: The Friends of Photography, 1994. ISBN:
0933286635 . [64]p., profusely illus. with Chong's photos on themes related to his Chinese-Jamaican background, first
edition, 12 x 9 inch glossy black wraps. Untitled #57. (#48414)
$15.00
139.
Chow, Gin. Gin Chow's first annual almanac; with foreword by John Steven McGroarty, edited by Thomas F.
Collison, illustrations by Elizabeth Collison. Los Angeles: Wetzel Publishing Co., 1932. 112p., bookplate, slight spine wear,
first edition. (#25790)
$45.00 (Similar, seventh edition, $20)
Though a glance at the text rendered in insulting dialect might lead one to suppose that Chow was the creation of a humorist,
he was in fact a weather predictor and prognosticator well known at the time in Southern California, as well as the main
plaintiff in the California Supreme Court case Gin Chow v. City of Santa Barbara, an important water rights case.
140.
Chow, Juan. Oficios del caos. Managua: Editorial Nueva Nicaragua, 1986. 163p., wraps. (#142850)
Poetry with drawings, by the Nicaraguan writer of Chinese ancestry.
$18.00
141.
Choy, Jun Ke. My China years 1911-1945; practical politics in China after the 1911 revolution. Hong Kong and
San Francisco: Peninsula Press & East/West Pubishing Co., 1974. xix, 264p., signed by Choy, second printing, very good in
wraps. (#79629) $12.00
The Hawaiian-born author returned to China after 1911, returning to the US to matriculate at Columbia, then settling in
China from 1916 to 1945, when he returned permanently to the US, settling in San Francisco.
142.
Chu, Arthur T. S. We are going to make the lousiest chop suey in town; a novel. New York: Vantage Press, 1966.
112p., signed by the author, first edition, very good hardcover in dj. (#33525)
$20.00
Novel set in San Francisco's Chinatown, chockabloc with Saroyanesque bonhommie.Title is explained in chapter two.
143.
Chuang, Yoshi; Lam-Po Leong. Xin quan: Lin Xia shi ji 心 泉 : 林 霞 詩 集 / Journey of the heart. Chicago; Daly
City: Art Media Resources; Brushwork Gallery, 1994. ISBN: 1878529153. 73p., wraps, very good; poetry by the Taiwanese
immigrant Chuang (in Chinese), illustrated with paintings by Leong, who taught at San Francisco State; inscribed by both.
(#166494)
$25.00
144.
Chun, Pam. The money dragon; a novel. Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks Landmark, 2002. ISBN: 1570718660 . xiii,
333p., inscribed by Chun, first printing, very good hardcover in dj. First novel by the Chinese American author. (#82356)
$15.00
145.
Chung, Arthur W. Of rats, sparrows & flies: a lifetime in China. Stockton: Heritage West Books, 1995. ISBN:
0962304883. vi, 231p., very good hardcover in dj. (#184790) $15.00
Autobiography of the Los Angeles-born physician who gave up a career in the US to serve the Chinese people. His time there
included the Cultural Revolution, during which he was imprisoned for two years.
146.
Chung, Kun Ai. My seventy nine years in Hawaii. Hong Kong: The Cosmorama Pictorial Publisher, 1960. [xii],
430p. + 130p. appendix, front., 12p. photographs, first edition blue cloth boards gilt, all edges tinted red; spine ends lightly
rubbed, otherwise very good. (#20640)
$45.00
Autobiography of the Chinese immigrant, who engaged in various sorts of business in Hawaii and knew Sun Yat-sen.
147.
Chung, Lily. My special friend. San Francisco: Little Lights Music Ministry, [1980?]. 33 1/3 rpm record. Chinese
American gospel singer. (#61824) $15.00
148.
Chung, May Lee, Dorothy Jim Luke and Margaret Leong Lau, editors. Traditions for Living; a booklet of Chinese
customs and folk practices in Hawaii. With illustrations by Joslynn Yim, cover design by Grace Lew. Honolulu:
Associated Chinese University Women, 1979. 104p., square softback, 9x8 inches, first edition wraps; slight edgewear,
previous ownership legend, very good copy. (#177813)
$17.00
149.
Coolidge, Mary Roberts. Chinese immigration. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1909. x, 531p., first edition,
original blue cloth binding with minor edge wear and tiny tufts of fraying, spine gilt lettering only slightly dulled, minor edge
wear, front hinge repaired soundly and almost neatly, rear hinge cracked but holding. The endpapers (blanks) are very toned.
American public problems. Hardcover. (#140076)
$125.00
Much material on California and San Francisco specifically.
150.
De Bra, Lemuel. Ways that are wary. Edward J. Clode, New York. 1925, 320p., first edition. Novella and short
stories set in San Francisco's Chinatown, by a secret service agent hired to investigate the opium trade. (#82047) $35.00
151.
Devaux, Claudia and George Bernard Wong. Bamboo swaying in the wind; a survivor's story of faith and
imprisonment in Communist China. Chicago: Loyola Press, 2000. ISBN: 0829414584. xii, 206p., brief inscription by
Devaux, first printing. The Chinese American coauthor is the subject of the book. (#68464)
$15.00
152.
di Franco, Toni L. Chinese clothing & theatrical costumes in the San Joaquin County Historical Museum.
Stockton: The Museum; distributed by Heritage West Books, 1981. vi, 30p., glossy paperstock throughout with color and
b&w exhibit photography; 8.5x7 inch staplebound color wraps, slightest edgewear, a very good copy. (#175283)
$17.00
153.
Dillon, Richard H. The hatchet men; the story of the Tong wars in San Francisco's Chinatown. New York:
Coward-McCann, 1962. 375p. + 16p. photos, first edition, a bit soiled with handling and some foxing to edges. (#105656)
$18.00
154.
Elstob, Winston. Chinatown, a legend of old Cannery Row; introduction by Richard Dillon, illustrated by
Joyce Mary Alexander. Berkeley: The Turtle's Quill, 1965. xii, 26p., wraps. (#30893) $12.00
155.
Evans, Canice, text [Shu-Park Chan, art]. Watercolors by Shu-Park Chan. Santa Clara: Astronex Enterprises, Inc.,
1978. 29p., high-gloss paperstock throughout with color reproductions of 14 pieces, each faced with a short critical
meditation by Evans. First edition 8.5x8 inch laminated decorated boards (rather like certain early-reader children's books),
spine mildly sunned, a very good copy that is inscribed, signed and sealed by the artist on title page in inkstick. Pictorial
topics include scenes at Yosemite, coastal California, and generic natural subjects. Prof. Chan's day job was to teach
electrical engineering to University of Santa Clara students; he was born Canton 1929, moved to US 1951. (#176469) $25.00
156.
[Falun Gong]. Investigation Reports on the Persecution of Falun Gong (1). Hyde Park, MA: World Organization
to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong, 2004. ISBN: 1590680200. 444p., wraps. (#160148) $20.00
Overview of the imprisonment and torture of Falun Gong members in China, with numerous cases, and material on the
government's use of foreign media and economic organizations to pursure Falun Gong members outside China.
157.
[Fang, Frank]. Frank Fang. Taipei: Taiwan Gallery, 1994. 48p., profusely illus. with color reproductions of works
by the Chinese American artist, wraps. (#69213)
$25.00
158.
Far, Sui Sin. Mrs. Spring Fragrance and other writings, edited by Amy Ling and Annette White-Parks.
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1995. 296p., first wraps printing. Reissue of works by the turn-of-the century Chinese
American author. (#71931)
$15.00
159.
Farkas, Lani Ah Tye. Bury my bones in America; the saga of a Chinese family in California, 1852-1996, from
San Francisco to the Sierra Gold Mines. Nevada City, CA: Carl Mautz Publishing, 1998. ISBN: 1887694110. ix, 157p.,
illus., 8.5x11 inches, first edition, wraps. (#66717)
$20.00
160.
Fong Sui Hong, Louis. Inspiring deeds of dutiful children. New York: Acme Press, 1965. 105p., very good
hardcover. Promotional blurb by Robert F. Kennedy at head of introduction. (#187501) $17.00
Traditional morality stories from China.
161.
Fong-Torres, Ben. The rice room; growing up Chinese-American - from number two son to rock'n'roll. New
York: Hyperion, 1994. ISBN: 0786860022. x, 260p., first printing, dj, inscribed by author. (#94046)
$20.00
162.
Fong-Torres, Shirley. San Francisco Chinatown; a walking tour. San Francisco: China Books, 1991. ISBN:
0835124363. xxiv, 211p., inscribed by the author, wraps. (#70766)
$18.00
163.
Foo, Lora Jo. Earth Passages: Journeys Through Childhood. Castro Valley, CA: Earth Passages Nature
Photography, 2008. ISBN: 9780615182988. 95p., very good 8.5x8.5 inch hardcover in dj with a closed edge tear; signed by
the author/photographer. (#187499) $22.00
Nature photography interwoven with autobiographical passages about growing up in San Francisco's Chinatown and
awakening to sexism and other problems within and surrounding the community.
164.
Friday, Chris. Organizing Asian American labor, the Pacific Coast canned-salmon industry, 1870 - 1942.
Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1994. ISBN: 1566391393. viii, 276p., very good condition in like dj. Hardcover.
(#182605)
$15.00
165.
Gee, Emma, ed. Counterpoint; perspectives on Asian America. Los Angeles: Asian American Studies Center,
UCLA, 1976. xiv, 595p. including illus., 8.5x11 inches, slightly scuffed wraps, interior very good. A hefty collection of
articles on a vast range of topics, including Japanese-American internment, Korean workers in Hawaii and their support of
the exile government during Japan's occupation, early Issei socialists, labor organizing in various Asian American
communities, articles on literature and specific authors, etc. (#121852) $25.00
166.
Getting Together. Chinese-American workers: past and present - an anthology of Getting Together. [San
Francisco: Getting Together, 197-?]. 105p., wraps, illus. Very good condition. (#9798)
$25.00
Collected writings by members of the radical organization.
167.
Gong, Zhenqi 龔 振 祺 . Yan sheng shi ji 雁 聲 詩 集 . n.p.: the author, [preface dated 1969]. 42 double leaves, bound
with thread, black wraps, author's red seal stamped in several places. (#145670) $18.00
Collection of poetry with autobiographical snippets; the author notes that he fled the chaos of wartime China to Macau, then
Hong Kong, and finally North America. Text in Chinese.
168.
Griggs, Veta. Chinaman's chance; the life story of Elmer Wok Wai. New York: Exposition Press, 1969. 227p.,
first edition buff cloth boards titled in black. Ownership legend on ffep, slight external soil, lacks the dj, very good copy.
Born in San Francisco before the earthquake (and before Dupont Street was renamed Grant Avenue) Wai became a gunman
for the Hop Sing tong and eventually spent time for murder in San Quentin. After doing his twenty years he was hired into
the Griggs household, and Veta Griggs "followed him around with pad and pencil, asking questions above the hum of the
vacuum cleaner or the clatter of dishes. There was no particular empathy between us. He was an employee replying to an
employer and I believe he was always truthful-- to the best of his ability. His ego was certainly not enlarged by this perpetual
interview" --shrewd, lively stuff, with a lengthy account of childhood in Chinatown, transcribed with Wai's nonstandard
grammar intact. (#177034) $55.00
169.
Guerrero Rodriguez, Armando. El interminable viaje de John Chinaman. [Lima]: the author, [1987]. 63p.
including illus., 5.5x8 inch wraps. (#66665) $30.00
On early Chinese settlers in Peru; text in Spanish.
170.
Hanke, Ken. Charlie Chan at the movies; history, filmography , and criticism. Jefferson, NC: McFarland &
Company, 1989. ISBN: 0899504272. xvi, 270p., scattered production stills, first edition cloth boards gilt (issued without dust
jacket), clean and sound, a very good copy. (#148793)
$25.00
171.
Helly, Denise. Les Chinois à Montréal: 1877-1951. Quebec: Institut québécois de recherche sur la culture, 1987.
ISBN: 2892240840. 315p., very good in wraps, text in French. (#184789)
$25.00
172.
Heng Sure and Heng Chau. With one heart, bowing to the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas. San Francisco: SinoAmerican Buddhist Association, 1977. 173p., very good in wraps. First in a series of books recording the monks' pilgrimage
from Los Angeles to Ukiah. (#182001)
$20.00
173.
Ho, Man Keung, Ph.D. Building a successful intermarriage between religions, social classes, ethnic groups or
races; how to prepare for, get the most out of, and resolve problems in. St. Meinrad: St. Meinrad Archabbey, 1984.
ISBN: 0870291947. 143p., preface, appendixes, suggested readings, very good first edition trade paperback original in
pictorial wraps. Paperback. (#181058)
$20.00
174.
Hom, Gloria Sun, ed. Chinese argonauts; an anthology of the Chinese contributions to the historical
development of Santa Clara County. [San Mateo]: California History Center, 1971. ix, 219p., illus., wraps. (#9925)
$18.00
175.
Hon, Eugene, assisted and edited by Richard D. Hon. Nixon's Peking trip-- the road to China's Russian war. San
Francisco: Henson Co., 1972. xiii, 125p., illustrated with line-drawn maps, documents in facsimile and press photography
showing a militarized frontier. First edition trade-size wraps are a trifle rubbed with a small corner crease. (#128839) $20.00
Cover text continues, "included is the first publication of a February 1969 confidential document to the Nixon administration
which influenced the making of a new China policy." Author Hon was from "South China" and "worked as a government
financial officer in Chungking, Nanking, and many other places throughout China. As a young man, he was the head official
of China's second largest Internal Revenue District (Canton)." He left "just before the communist regime took power" and
went to Hong Kong. "He has been a world-wide businessman for a long time and has lived in the United States since 1967"
176.
Hong, Catherine. How I love thee; the testimony of a woman. [San Francisco]: Self-published, [2006]. 135p. +
135p., texts in English and Chinese (back-to-back) illustrated with photos, very good first edition in original pictorial wraps.
(#132040)
$25.00
Signed and dated by the Chinese-American Christian author who immigrated to San Francisco in the 1970s.
177.
Hoy, William, ed. Chinese Digest. Vol. 3 No. 5 (May 1937). San Francisco: Chinese Digest, 1937. 20p., very good
in wraps, 8x11 inches, many B&W photos. (#183513)
$25.00
Single issue of the Chinatown-based magazine, with articles on Portsmouth Square, the Chinatown Health Center, a piece by
Mills College graduate Jane Kwong Lee about being "A Chinese College Woman," and more, plus numerous ads for
Chinatown businesses.
178.
Hsu, Clara. Mystique; poems. Berkeley: Beatitude Press, 2006. ISBN: 0972515348. vi, 64p., first edition trade-size
wraps, inscribed and signed on the dedication page. A very good copy. Nicosia and Hirschman blurb the back cover.
(#175323)
$20.00
Vita says born in China, wanted then to be hermit and martial arts expert. Wound up selling exotic musical instruments in the
Bay Area, which is the identifiable setting for many of these poems.
179.
[Hsu, Kai-yu]. Our China trip: selection. Hong Kong: Hongkong Freeman Publishing Agency, [1978-?]. 162p.,
lightly worn wraps. (#177051)
$20.00
Significant excerpts from a travelogue, issued anonymously out of concern for relatives in China, by San Francisco State
University professor Kai-yu Hsu. He desribes conditions in various parts of China during a 1973 trip, during which he visited
various intellectuals and authors who had fallen out of grace with the Party. Police confiscated his notes and books out of
suspicion that he was conducting intelligence work for the US, in a series of Kafkaesque events described in detail.
180.
Hsuan Hua, Venerable Master. The ten dharmarealms are not beyond a single thought; gathas and
commentary, translated by Bhiksun Heng Ch'ih, with illustrations and tracings by Upasika Kuo ta Passage,
commemorative edition. San Francisco: The Sino-American Buddhist Association, 1973. xiii, 26p., wraps. The Chineseborn Buddhist teacher settled in the US in the 1960s. (#88161) $18.00
181.
Huang, Chungliang Al. Quantum soup. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1983. ISBN: 0525480706. 134p., illustrated,
calligraphy, foxing to pages otherwise very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. (#16009) $15.00
Chinese-American architect-calligrapher and founder of Living Tao Foundation.
182.
Huang, Evelyn, with Lawrence Jeffery. Voices from a community; Chinese Canadians. Vancouver: Douglas &
McIntyre, 1992. ISBN: 1550540343. ix, 277p., scattered photos, very good hardcover in dj. Interviews with 23 Chinese
Canadians. (#79981)
$17.00
Laid in is correspondence between the publisher and the director of the University of Washington Press discussing the
possibility of a co-edition.
183.
Huang, Joe and Sharon Quan Wong, editors. Chinese Americans: Realities and Myths. Secondary Curriculum
Kit. Anthology. San Francisco: Association of Chinese Teachers, 1977. 95p., wraps, 8.5x11 inches; mild wear and small
edge stain at upper right corner. (#184601) $20.00
Anthology of reprinted primary source documents and secondary works discussing the history of Chinese Americans,
including stereotypes and discrimination.
184.
Huang, Mingda. Meiguo jia ting chang yong xi yao shou ce / The medical manual for Chinese family. Allston,
MA: Boshidun Ya mei yin wu guan, 1992. xiii, 185p., lightly shelfworn wraps, text mostly in Chinese. (#151797)
$15.00
Medical information for Chinese immigrants, devoted almost entirely to explanations of the use and effects of medications.
185.
Huang, Quentin K. Y. Now I can tell; the story of a Christian bishop under Communist persecution. New York:
Morehouse-Gorham Co., 1954. xviii, 222p., inscribed by the Chinese American author, dj slightly worn at head of spine.
(#65514)
$20.00
186.
Huie, Crystal K. Dark Hollow. N. pl.: the author, [1972]. [44]p., photographer's address written in ink on verso of
front wrap, slightly soiled wraps. The Chinese American photographer documents the dwellers of this predominantly African
American Arkansas town where she grew up. (#113900)
$35.00
187.
Huo, Jiguang 霍 継 光 . Dan bo ning jing: Huo Jiguang xian sheng hui yi lu 澹 泊 寧 静 : 霍 継 光 先 生 回 憶 錄 .
San Jose, CA: Huo Jiguang xian sheng jiang xue ji jin hui, 1998. xxi, 291 p., very good in wraps, text in Chinese. (#172241)
$18.00
Autobiography of the Chinese calligrapher, who came to the US and founded the Chinese Cultural Center in Hyde Park and
the Chinese Cultural Academy in Evanston. Includes examples of his calligraphy.
188.
I Wor Kuen. I. W. K. journal; the political organ of I Wor Kuen. Number 1 (August 1974). San Francisco: I Wor
Kuen, 1974. 59p., 8.5x11 inches, very good in wraps. (#182525)
$45.00
IWK was a Marxist-Leninist group of mainly Asian American membership, influenced by the Black Panthers and Young
Lords. This issue includes articles on the National Question and Asian Americans, correspondence with the Revolutionary
Union, Black Workers Congress, and Puerto Rican Revolutionary Workers' Organization, and more.
189.
International Longshoremen & Warehousemen Union. Photograph of the 2nd annual convention of the
International Longshoremen - Warehousemen Union, April 11, 1939. [San Francisco]: ILWU, 1939. Large sepia
photograph, 13.5x10.75 inches, slight fading otherwise very good condition. Picture of convention delegates in the hall with a
speaker & decorated stage (flag, banners, stage prop of two half-naked longshoremen holding hands) and a visible thank you
banner from the Chinese Community. (Longshoremen had supported the community’s agitation to protest Japan’s invasion of
China, and some of their burlier members had helped to guard progressive meetings in Chinatown from KMT-hired thugs).
The convention was in the home turf of San Francisco Local 1-10 (#150036)
$250.00
190.
[James, Cyril Lionel Robert]. Facing reality by Grace C. Lee, Pierre Chaulieu and J. R. Johnson. Detroit:
Correspondence, 1958. 174p., first printing, 7 x 4.25 inch unglazed wraps. Cover is somewhat soiled with handling, dust, a
cup ring, several crayoned price emendations, and verso bears the comment "'Left' Marxist theory" in green pencil. Text is
unmarked. Johnson was James' pseudonym; Chaulieu was a pseudonym used by Cornelius Castoriadis. Lee is Chinese
American. (#177801)
$25.00
191.
Jang, Smith. Selected speeches of Smith Jang edited by [professor] Pui-Chee Leung. San Francisco: The Chinese
Education Publishing Co., 1996. 243p., several photoportraits reproduced in color, first edition openweave cream cloth titled
gilt and red, in glossy dust jacket. Place-keep ribbon bound in. Find a long inscription in characters opposite half-title; very
good copy. Third-generation Chinese-American living in San Francisco, educated in Canton with a degree in civil
engineering, further education at UC Berkeley. Editor Leung contributes an introduction in English (9p.) and describes three
catagories of Smith Jang's speeches: community service, Chinese language education, Christian ministry. Worked for Muni.
(#175007)
$25.00
192.
Jerome, William. Chinatown, my Chinatown; music by Jean Schwartz. New York: Remick Music Corp., 1910.
6p., 9x12 inches, wraps beginning to split on spine. Sheet music. (#75255)
$35.00
193.
Jin Wah Sing Musical Association. [Booklet for the Association's 70th anniversary]. Vancouver, BC: the
Association, 2004. Unpaginated booklet, very good in wraps, 8.5x11 inches, black and white photos. Text mostly in Chinese.
(#184180)
$25.00
Commemorative booklet for the Cantonese Opera group, with short biographies of performers, notes of congratulation, and
advertisements.
194.
Johnson, Dean. Illustrated historical map of San Francisco's Chinatown as it was one hundred years ago
[poster]. Fair Oaks, CA: the artist, 1992. 20.75x17 inch poster featuring colorful cartoon map based on the 1885 San
Francisco Municipal Reports, depicting businesses ranging from pawn shops and laundries to brothels and opium dens. Very
good. (#184615) $25.00
195.
Kang, Ciding 康慈定, editor. 911 qiao xiang le jing zhong 九 一 一 敲 響 了 警 鐘 [9/11 sounded the warning
bell]. Monrovia, CA: Taiwanese Buddhist ciji jijin hui, Meiguo zong hui, 2002. 361p., glossy photo wraps, very good. A
Buddhist perspective on 9/11, with eyewitness accounts and numerous articles about ways in which volunteer organizations
helped in the aftermath. A preface by Master Zheng Yan of the Ciji jijin hui is on the theme of "Using love to dissolve
hatred." Text in Chinese. (#121426)
$20.00
196.
[King, Su-Chin]. Jin Sujin nu shi wu tai shang huo 金素琴女士舞臺生活 [Madame Su-Chin King's life on
stage]. San Francisco: n.pub., [197-]. 17p., 8.5x11 inches in wraps, cover painting by Zhang Daqian (who is pictured with the
actress in an interior photo); numerous black and white photos; text in Chinese with an introduction in English by Hsin-nung
Yao. Not found in OCLC. (#165407)
$30.00
A celebration of the career of the Chinese opera actress, a member of the Mei Lan-Fang school.
197.
Kingston, Maxine Hong. Through the black curtain. Berkeley: The Friends of the Bancroft Library, 1987. 36p.,
rubricated title page & texts; illustrated with photos and a facsimile of corrected galley proofs page from "China Men,"
designed by the Arion Press, very good in wraps. Keepsake, #35. Paperback. (#6465)
$15.00
Includes prepublication excerpts from "Tripmaster Monkey."
198.
Kingston, Maxine Hong. To be the poet. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002. ISBN: 0674007913. 111p.,
5.5x7.5 inches, very good first edition in half-cloth over boards, unclipped dj. The William E. Massey Sr. Lectures in the
History of American Civilization. (#148707)
$95.00
This copy bears a personal inscription to the late California artist/poet Joe Brotherton and his wife, signed by Kingston dated
November 6, 2002. Also laid in are two more holograph items; a 3.75x5.285 inch card with Kingston's hand-inked symbol in
Chinese characters captioned in pencil "Peace/Harmony" and signed and dated 2/2/2002 with a short condolence note signed
on the back. Also a 5x7 inch 4 panel color photo greeting card with a lengthy handwritten letter inside in ink apologizing for
not responding sooner concerning Brotherton's poetry, with some interesting opinions stated about young poets, slams and
publishing poetry in general. Fills the whole interior of the card and concludes on the back also signed.
199.
Kingston, Maxine Hong. Tripmaster Monkey; his fake book. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. ISBN:
0394568311. 340p., inscribed by Kingston, first edition, very good hardcover in dj. (#64938)
$20.00
200.
Kinkead, Gwen. Chinatown; a portrait of a closed society. New York: Harper Collins, 1992. ISBN: 0060167769.
xii, 211p., first edition, dj. (#12660) $12.00
201.
Klemer, D. J., ed. Chinese love poems; illustrated by Seong Moy. New York: Doubleday & Company, 1959. 97p.,
slightly shelfworn dj. Includes eight tinted woodcuts by the Chinese American artist. (#11906)
$20.00
202.
Knight, George, editor, Dick Williams, manager, K. Chin illustrations. The 1940 Oregana; published by the
associated students University of Oregon at Eugene. Eugene: Associated Students University of Oregon, 1940. 400p.,
10.5x13.25 inches, 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. (#130066) $45.00
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.
K. Chin, during World War II, 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!]
203.
Konvitz, Milton R. The alien and the Asiatic in American law. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1946. xi, 299p.,
very good hardcover, dj with several small chips. (#25491)
$25.00
204.
Koon Woon. The truth in rented rooms; foreword by Russell Leong. New York: Kaya, 1998. ISBN:
1885030258. 97p., first edition 7x6 inch decorated trade wraps. A very good copy. Leong's introduction (datelined UCLA)
runs four pages. (#175324)
$15.00
b.Canton 1949, emmigrated US 1960, sometime looneybin inmate, sometimes homeless, now aging beatnik in Seattle.The
Steve Cannon backcover blurb compares him to Bob Kaufman.
205.
Kuang, Yaopu 鄺瑤普 [preface]. Xiang fa shu yao 相 法 述 要 [Essentials of physiognomy]. San Francisco: n.pub.,
1968. 113p., wraps, printed from handwritten text, several drawings of facial features and points on the hand used for reading
fortunes. Text entirely in Chinese. Preface by a Toisanese immigrant, Kuang Yaopu, states that it was composed in the
offices of the Shaonian Zhongguo chenbao (Young China Morning Paper) in San Francisco, though it is not clear whether the
book was also printed by that newspaper's facilities. (#141831)
$25.00
206.
Kuck, Loraine E., Richard C. Tongg. Hawaiian Flowers. Honolulu: Tongg Publishing Company, 1943. 109p.,
hardcover, no dj, color paintings used to illustrate flowers found in various parts of Hawaii. Former owner's name on flyleaf.
(#125775)
$15.00
Chinese-American gardening specialists introduce native flowers and where to find them growing.
207.
Kuo, Alexander. New letters from Hiroshima and other poems. N. pl.: the author, 1974. 77p., wraps. Chinese
American poet. (#56099) $25.00
208.
Kwan, Kim-Gaul. Kwan Kim-Gaul; art's golden thread from west to east, by the painter himself and his
critics, text in English and French. Rutland: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1957. 49p. + 41plates, 7x10 inches, first edition,
dj, in slipcase. Chinese American artist. (#65516)
$25.00
209.
Kwan, Michael David. Broken portraits; personal encounters with Chinese students. San Francisco: China
Books & Periodicals, 1990. ISBN: 0835123812. xvii, 198p., wraps. Chinese American author on his return to China in 1988,
where he was exposed to student discontent. (#62978)
$12.00
210.
Kwock, C. H. Dear Friends: The Chinese World's English edition is now under new management... [handbill].
San Francisco: Chinese World, [1962]. 8.5x11 inch sheet mimeographed on one side, very good. (#181834) $15
Six-paragraph statement by the new editor of the English edition, the Hong Kong-born and Hravard educated C.H. Kwock.
Notes that a far greater emphasis will be put on events in the local community, and solicits reports, photos, and other
information about cultural, social and other Chinese-American clubs and oganizations.
211.
Kwok, Crystal. Boys and bastards Anglo-Chinese version. Hong Kong, 1997. ISBN: 9623579268. 131p., 8.2x5.5
glossy decorated wraps, vignette photoportraits integrated with facing texts in Chinese and English. A very good copy. Cover
flap text: "Born in San Francisco, spent half of her childhood in Hong Kong and half in the States. She studied Theatre Arts
at UCLA and did her Master of Literary Studies at Hong Kong University" etc etc. Kwok in inadequately buttoned men's
suit. Kwok reading on the can (back cover). Kwok's opinion of and ratings of men ordinary and famous. (#175684) $20.00
212.
Kwong, Peter. Chinatown, New York; labor and politics, 1930-1950. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1979.
ISBN: 0853455090 . 178p., first printing, edgeworn dj. (#11608)
$18.00
213.
Kwong, Peter. Forbidden workers; illegal chinese immigrants and American labor. New York: The New Press,
1997. ISBN: 156584355X . xii, 273p., first printing, dj. (#88556)
$12.00
214.
Lai, Him Mark, Genny Lim, Judy Yung. Island; poetry and history of Chinese immigrants on Angel Island
1910-1940. San Francisco: HOC DOI, 1980. ISBN: 0936434007. 174p., illus., first paper edition in wraps. (#123587)
$15.00
215.
Lai, Him Mark, Joe Huang and Don Wong. The Chinese of America 1785 - 1980; an illustrated history and
catalog of the exhibition. San Francisco: Chinese Cultural Foundation, 1980. v+98p., 11x8.5 inches oblong, introduction,
bibliography, period photos and reproductions, text in English with a portion in Chinese, pictorial wraps are a little edgeworn.
(#107287)
$20.00
216.
[Lai, Him Mark]. [Transcript of testimony about the Chinese American Youth Club and Hansen J.T. Chang].
n.p., [1955]. 17p., 8.5x14 inch sheets mimeographed on both sides, horizontal fold crease, otherwise very good. These
mimeographed copies appear to have been made by Lai himself; provenance available upon request. (#162875)
$35.00
Testimony by Lai, who went on to become famous as the "Dean" of Chinese-American studies but was then the head of the
Chinese American Youth Club (formerly the Chinese American Democratic Youth League). He responds to questions from
an unspecified board of examiners about Hansen Chang, a private in the US Army suspected of being sympathetic to the
People's Republic of China, and various details about the day-to-day workings of the Youth Club. There is much discussion
of the perceived communistic inclinations of the Club, ardently denied by Lai. It is unclear whether Lai was aware at this
time that the group had been infiltrated by the FBI and its political leanings were actually quite clearly known through
translations of its Chinese-language newsletters provided to the FBI by interpreters.
217.
Laidler, Harry W. The Role of the Races in Our Future Civilization. New York: League for Industrial
Democracy, 1942. 112p., wraps. Symposium by Pearl S. Buck, Lin Yutang, Hon. Walter Nash, Sir Norman Angell, Hon.
Lawrence W. Cramer, Hon. T.T. Lew, Anup Singh, Walter White, etc. Discussion of racist barriers that must be overcome.
(#122796)
$20.00
218.
Larson, Louise Leung. Sweet bamboo; saga of a Chinese American family. Los Angeles: Chinese Historical
Society of Southern California, 1990. ISBN: 0930377028. viii, 215p., wraps. (#10155)
$15.00
219.
Lau, Alan Chong. Songs for Jadina; poems. New York: Greenfield Review Press, 1980. [92]p., wraps. Corners
bumped. GR Chapbook #43. (#38958)
$15.00
220.
Lau, Carolyn. Wode shuofa (my way of speaking). Santa Fe: Tooth of Time Books, 1988. 77p., first edition tradesize wraps, one of 750 copies. Mild external pressure-marks and edgewear, good condition. The page opposite author portrait
is inscribed and signed by the Chinese American poet in English with multi-color personal stamps, datelined 8.8.88. (#57859)
$30.00
221.
[Lau, Gordon]. Lau Supervisor, 1st [bumpersticker]. San Francisco: Union Offset, [1977]. Orange and black
bumpersticker, 10x4.5 inches. (#140582)
$15.00
Lau won the district election, becoming the first Chinese-American supervisor to be elected rather than appointed.
222.
Lausent-Herrera, Isabell. Sociedades y templos Chinos al Perú. Lima : Fondo Editorial del Congreso Perú, 2000.
ISBN: 9972755312. 244p., profusely illus. with both color and black/white photos, 11.5x8.5 inches, wraps. (#62270)
$75.00
223.
Leang, C.K. Description of a 15th-century Chinese rare vase. San Francisco, CA: the author, 1940. 4p. English,
12p. Chinese, wraps, 5x8 inches, illust. Aside from B&W illustrations, printed from handwritten text. (#130888)
$35.00
Booklet by a San Francisco antique specialist illustrating and describing a Ming vase and a Song-dynasty book written by
Ouyang Xiu. Leang was a prominent member of San Francisco Chinatown's classically educated "literati."
224.
Lee Mingwei. The Living Room. Jennifer R. Gross, Lewis Hyde [essays]. Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner
Museum, 2000. ISBN: 0914660136. vii, [50]p., coated paper, color exhibit photography and longish essays, first edition
10x10.2 inch glossy photodecorated frenchfold wraps, a very good copy. (#178266)
$25.00
Taiwan-born artist.
225.
Lee, C. Y. Madame Goldenflower. New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1960. 310p., first printing, very good
hardcover in foxed dj. (#62593)
$15.00
226.
Lee, C. Y. Cripple Mah and the new order; a novel. New York: Farrar, Straus and Cuhady, 1961. 233p., first
edition clothbacked boards in dj; faint sunning to margins, jacket somewhat worn, a good or better copy that is inscribed and
signed by C.Y. Lee in English and Chinese. Chinese American novelist. (#66714)
$25.00
227.
Lee, C. Y. Cripple Mah and the new order; a novel. New York: Farrar, Straus and Cuhady, 1961. 233p., first
edition clothbacked boards in dj; mild shelfwear, jacket is quite worn. Chinese American novelist. Hardcover. (#175118)
$12.00
228.
Lee, Evelyn. Ten principles on raising Chinese-American teens. San Francisco: Chinatown Youth Center, 1988.
69p., illus. by Angela Chu, 8.5x11 inches, wraps. (#177124) $18.00
229.
Lee, Gary, Sandra Dolliole and Aaron Jones. By abandoned roads. Berkeley: the authors, 1982. 60p., wraps. Three
poets: two Asian Americans, one African American. (#51156) $30.00
230.
Lee, Gus. Honor & duty. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994. ISBN: 0679412581. 425p., signed by Lee, first
printing, dj. Novel of a Chinese-American cadet at West Point. (#63509)
$15.00
231.
Lee, Li-Young. The city in which I love you. Brockport, NY: BOA Editions, 1990. ISBN: 0-918526-83-3 . 89p.,
signed by the Chinese American poet, previous owner's pen note, first printing, edgeworn wraps. (#55606) $12.00
232.
Lee, Li-Young. Rose. Brockport, NY: BOA Editions, 1986. ISBN: 0918526531. 71p., later printing. Chinese
American poet whose father was one of Chairman Mao's physicians. (#46470) $12.00
233.
Lee, Moonbeam Tong and Edwar Lee. Growing up in Chinatown . . . the life and work of Edwar Lee. no place:
Self-Published, 1987. 352p., foreword, preface, addendum, notesillustrated with photos, very good first edition in original
wraps. Signed by the author and her subject., her husband, an Asian-American Methodist minister from Oakland and
Berkeley. (#113973)
$18.00
234.
Lee, Priscilla. Wishbone. Berkeley: The Roundhouse Press/Heyday Books, 2000. ISBN: 0966669142. 78p., first
printing, wraps. First collection by the Chinese American poet living in San Francisco. (#70870) $12.00
235.
Lee, Robert. China journal; glimpses of a nation in transition, with the aid of the Lee family, photographs by
Matt Lee. San Francisco: East/West Publishing Company, 1980. ISBN: 0934788006. xi, 113p. + 8p. photos, first printing,
wraps. Chinese American author. (#53629) $15.00
236.
Lee, Shau Yan. China has a ten thousand mile spiritual wall; introduction by Dr. J. R. Saunders. Norfolk, VA:
the author, 1946. 82p. + 62p. text in Chinese, illus., later printing, wraps. The author was the minister at the Norfolk, VA
Chinese Baptist Church. (#38552) $45.00
237.
Lee, Virginia. The house that Tai Ming built. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1963. 246p., very good
hardcover in slightly chipped dj, inscribed by the author. Multigenerational story of Chinese immigrants, by the San
Franciscan fourth-generation Chinese American novelist. (#9649)
$25.00
238.
Lee, Wen Ho & Helen Zia. My country versus me: the first-hand account by the Los Alamos scientist who was
falsely accused of being a spy. New York: Hyperion, 2001. ISBN: 0786868031. xi, 332p., introduction, 8p glossy b&w
photo section, very good first edition, first printing in boards and unclipped dj, signed by both authors, Lee and Zia on title
page. Hardcover. (#180342)
$40.00
239.
Lee, William Poy. The eighth promise; an American son's tribute to his Toisanese mother. New York: Rodale,
2007. ISBN: 9781594864568. xx, 315p., very good first edition in boards and unclipped dj. Signed by the author. (#147892)
$15.00
Memoir of a Chinese American mother and son in San Francisco's Chinatown.
240.
Lee, Yan Phou. When I was a boy in China. Boston: D. Lothrop Company, 1887. 111p., frontispiece, very good
first edition in decorative cloth boards and gilt, slightly cocked and worn at head & tail of spine. Hardcover. (#37930)
$195.00
The author came to San Francisco in 1873
241.
Lee, Yu-Hwa. The last rite. San Francisco: Chinese Materials Center, 1979. ISBN: 0896445747. xvi, 303p. +
appendices, dj. A dozen short stories, focusing on her native China, by the Chinese American author. (#67278)
$35.00
242.
Leo, Jack, designer. 4th Annual Hop Jok Fair [poster]. San Francisco: Kearny Street Workshop, 1977. 11x17 inch
poster, worn with edge chipping, artwork by Jack Leo. Announces an event in Portsmouth Square sponsored by the
Neighborhood Arts Program, Chinatown Council for the Performing and Visual Arts, and the Summer Youth Project, with
martial arts, music, and other performances. (#184604)
$25.00
243.
Leong, George. A lone bamboo doesn't come from Jackson St.; history, poetry, short story. San Francisco:
Isthmus Press, 1977. 69p., 8.5x5.5 inch unprinted stiff wraps in dj decorated by Nancy Hom. Political poetry and prose; prose
re-creates a 19thC Sierra track-laying incident. (#32721)
$20.00
244.
Leong, Russell Charles. Phoenix eyes and other stories. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2000. ISBN:
0295979453 . 172p., signed by Leong, wraps. Scott and Laurie Oki series in Asian American studies. (#80157)
$15.00
245.
Leong, Russell, ed. Moving the image: independent Asian Pacific American media arts, with a preface by
Linda Mabalot. Los Angeles: UCLA Asian American Studies Center and Visual Communications, 1991. ISBN:
0934052131. xxi, profusely illus., 287p., wraps. Includes discussion of Asian-American exclusion from labor unions (Yoshio
Kishi), Gregg Araki on "the (sorry) state of (independent) things, Frank Chin on James Wong Howe, and many more short
pieces. (#49083) $15.00
246.
Lester, John Erastus. The Atlantic to the Pacific: what to see, and how to see it. Longmans, Green, and Co.,
Boston. 1873, xii, 293p., lightly edgeworn boards, folded map intact. Bookplate of Rev. Frederic Bamford. Narrative of a
cross-continental journey, with much on Yosemite and on California wine growing. The author notes the role of Chinese
workers in the viniculture of the time. San Francisco, including its Chinese population, earns note, as does Salt Lake City (the
author meets Brigham Young). (#179561) $25.00
247.
Leung, Peter C. Y. One day, one dollar; the Chinese farming experience in the Sacramento River Delta,
California. Taipei: The Liberal Arts Press, 1994. 100p. in English + 120p. in Chinese, second edition (with a new
introduction), wraps. (#53185)
$22.00
248.
Leung, Pui-Chee 梁 培 熾 , editor. Hua xiao wen cai 華 校 文 采 . Literary grace of a Chinese school. San
Francisco: Cumberland Chinese High School, 1990. 239p., very good in wraps. OCLC lists two holdings. (#141818) $25.00
Collected writing in Chinese by students of the school in San Francisco.
249.
Lew, Mabel Lum (Lum Suey Oi). Living, loving and forgiving; an autobiography. San Francisco: East/West
Publishing Company, 1983. 70p., b&w snapshot, publicity and newspaper photography, first edition 9x6 inch pink wraps
titled in red, with an identical dust jacket. The jacket is sunned and edgeworn. (#178186) $30.00
Chinese American author born in San Francisco. As a dancer and a self-confident child, Mabel got parts in The King and I
and four films starring Marlon Brando; a stroke put an end to her film career.
250.
Li , Hsu Ying. His favorite cookbook. Taipei: Valid Cultural Enterprise, 1974. 189p. including numerous plates
(both color and black/white), later edition, dj. Chinese American author. (#67840)
$15.00
251.
Li Mubai 李慕白; Pang Ka 庞卡. Ai qingjie, jiang weisheng 爱 清 洁 ,讲 卫 生 [Love cleanliness, discuss hygiene]
[poster]. Sichuan: Sichuan renmin chubanshe, 1981. 30x21 inch poster depicting a cherubic little girl washing apples in a
basin. The slogan, part of a national hygiene movement, is in tiny characters at lower left, so as not to distract too much from
the lovely portrait. Minor edgewear, one small chip at edge backed with a pasted slip of paper, otherwise very good.
(#174996)
$300.00
Li Mubai was one of the three most prominent calendar artists of the pre-revolutionary period; this is one of his latest works
(having been productive for more than 53 years by 1981); Pang Ka (known in English as Karl Bang) later came to the US and
has become known for his sensuous paintings of women.
252.
Li, Guohua 黎幗華 [Elizabeth Lau]. Jiao dao er tong xin fa 敎導兒童新法. [Six volumes]. Hong Kong: Sun Ya
Publications, 1980-1989. Six volumes, 99, 83, 95, 74, 89, and 80p., very good in wraps. (#146506) $35.00
Chinese-language work on child-rearing by the Hong Kong immigrant active in San Francisco Chinese-American media.
253.
Li, Guoxiong 李国雄. Jinshan shi ji 金 山 詩 集 . [Bay Area, California]: Meizhou Taishan huaqiao shu she, 2002.
175p., very good hardcover, text in Chinese, many color photos and facsimiles of the author's handwriting. (#181999) $35
Collection of poetry by the Toisanese immigrant to the Bay Area. The Taishan huaqiao shushe published works by various
Toisanese immigrants to the area.
254.
Li, Hongnian 黎鴻年; Zheng Haiyan 鄭海燕. Chong ran sheng ming de huo zhong: ji Meiguo Tiannaxi zhou jie
chu hua ren Li Yongjiang de gan ren gu shi 重燃生命的火種: 記美國田納西州傑出華人李永江的感人故事. Hong
Kong: Lu da wen hua chu ban gong si, 2008. 150p., wraps. (#142193) $22
Biography of Peter Wing Lee (Li Yongjiang), a Chinese-American Tennessee resident who struggled against leukemia to
become a champion bicyclist. Text in Chinese.
255.
Li, Hongzhi. Zhuan Falun (English version). New York: The Universe Publishing Company, 2000. ISBN:
158613101x. 399p., wraps. This version has tactfully removed the portions that stoked controversy in the US after the first
printing, including the part about how white people and Chinese come from different biospheres, so children of interracial
marriage are not complete humans. (#164815)
$12.00
256.
Li, Shengting. [Fund solicitation letter from the head of the Confucian Society in San Francisco's Chinatown].
San Francisco: Confucian Society, 1941. Printed form letter on a single 8.5x11 inch sheet, printed one side in formal
unpunctuated Chinese, with the organization's name and address in English. Unissued, very good. Has blank spots for filling
in the date, thus although it begins with year 30 of the Republic (1941) a digit could be added, making the letter usable in
following years. (#161573)
$12.00
The letter notes that every year on the 27th day of the 8th month on the Lunar calendar the society presents a performance to
celebrate Christmas and support the Confucian School in San Francisco. Closes with a wish for "Victory in the resistance to
Japan." The Confucian Society was established in 1929 by leaders of the Chinese Constitutionalist Democratic Party who had
fled chaos and political repression in China.
257.
Li, Veronica. Journey Across the Four Seas: A Chinese Woman's Search for Home. Paramus, NJ: Homa &
Sekey Books, 2006. ISBN: 9781931907439. xvii, 298p., very good in wraps, inscribed by the author. (#170559)
$12.00
258.
Lightfoot, Louis Eugene (1927-2011). Chinese Bible Church, Rev. Louis Lightfoot, pastor [4 unduplicated
items together]. Oakland: the church, 1968. Programs for three consecutive Sundays and an invitational handbill: dated 10,
17, 24 November 1968, the undated handbill from same lot. Programs are mimeo'd (rather faintly), each a standard leaf
folded once to 8.5x5.5 inches, title page plus doublespread describing services, item for the 24th adds a last page of text
warning of communism and god-is-dead notions. Handbill 5.5x4 inches, general information and a line map. Good copies;
the programs having been folded transversely are now flat. (#175722) $12.00
259.
Lim, Genny. Wings for Lai-Ho. San Francisco: East West Publishers, 1982. [44p.], very good in wraps, inscribed
by Lim on the front endpaper. Illustrations by Andrea Ja; Chinese translation by Gordon Lew. (#184597) $35.00
Children's book telling the story of a girl stuck at Angel Island who prays to Kuan Yin that her family be allowed to go to San
Francisco.
260.
Lim, Genny. Winter place; poems. San Francisco: Kearny Street Workshop Press, 1989. ISBN: 0960963049. 71p.,
previous owner's gift inscription relevant to the item, signed by the poet in English and Chinese, very good first edition in
original pictorial wraps. Lim's first book of poetry, following a nonfiction history of immigration on Angel Island, and a
bilingual children's book. (#10599) $15.00
261.
Lim, Genny, ed. The Chinese American experience: papers from the Second National Conference on Chinese
American Studies (1980). San Francisco: Chinese Historical Society of America and the Chinese Culture Foundation of San
Francisco, 1984. ISBN: 9997874129. iii, 342p., 8.5x11 inches, hardcover in dj, as new. (#19435) $15.00
262.
Lim, Shirley Geok-lin. Among the white moon faces; an Asian-American memoir of homelands. New York:
The Feminist Press, 1996. ISBN: 1558611444. 232p., signed by the poet, first edition, dj. Malaysian American author. Crosscultural memoir. (#59577) $20.00
263.
Lim, Shirley Geok-lin. What the fortune teller didn't say. Albuquerque: West End Press, 1998. ISBN:
0931122910. 82p., first edition, wraps, inscribed by author. Poetry. (#88323)
$12.00
264.
Lim, Sing. West Coast Chinese boy. Montreal: Tundra Books, 1979. 64p., first edition, very good hardcover in
lightly worn dj. Children's book set in Vancouver's Chinatown in the 1920s. (#12284)
$17.00
265.
[Lin Yutang]. Tales and parables of old China, translated by Lin Yutang. San Francisco: The Book Club of
California, 1943. Unpaginated, about a dozen pages of actual text with rubricated marginal notes on every leaf; Wallace
Kibbee presswork on mouldmade paper; 9.5x6.5 inch staplebound wraps, limited to 550 copies. The front cover has a
quarter-inch closed tear, otherwise faintest dustsoil and edgewear, an excellent copy of this catchpenny with, laid in, a printed
note about the booklet on BCC letterhead from Oscar Lewis, then secretary. Excerpts from Yutang's compendium of the
previous year, the notable collection "Wisdom of China and India." Features illustrations and Chinese calligraphy by
Goodman Loy. Guardians of the Pacific: number 2, China. (#162893) $35.00
266.
Lin, Hazel. House of orchids; a novel. New York: The Citadel Press, 1960. 186p., first edition clothbacked boards
in dj, jacket slightly worn, clean and sound, a very good copy. The Chinese American author/physician's novel of a brothel in
old China. Born in China, she trained there as an obstetrician and gynecologist, and continued her studies in these fields at the
University of Michigan. During WWII her medical work included inspection of Chinese houses of prostitution. At time of
writing she was practicing in Jersey City NJ. (#44574)
$45.00
267.
Lin, Hazel. Rachel Weeping for Her Children, Uncomforted. Boston: Branden Press, 1976. ISBN: 0828316198.
114p., first edition yellow boards in plain printed dj, jacket slightly worn, clean and sound, a very good copy signed and
inscribed by Lin to friends. The Chinese American author/physician's novel of young medicos in late-1930s Peking. Lin was
born in China and trained there as an obstetrician and gynecologist, continuing her studies at the University of Michigan.
During WWII her medical work included inspection of Chinese houses of prostitution. At time of writing she was practicing
in Jersey City NJ. (#178510)
$22.00
268.
Lin, Pearl Chen. Songs of another spring. Taipei: C. Y. Lin, [1983]. 200p., errata slip laid in, wraps lightly foxed,
otherwise very good. Reproduced from typescript. (#154617) $25.00
The Chinese American poet resided in San Francisco and writes about local figures and life.
269.
Lin, Tsuifeng and Hsiangju Lin. Secrets of Chinese cooking; with an essay by Lin Yutang, drawings by Siu Lan
Loh. Enlewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1960. xviii, 238p., shelfworn dj. Written by Lin Yutang's wife and daughter, with the
husband's essay, "The Art of Cooking and Dining in Chinese" (#93294) $15.00
270.
Lin, Xiangyang 林向陽 [Helen Man]. Qin qing, shi qing, xin zhong qing 親情，世情，心中情. Hong Kong:
China Alliance Press, 1996. ISBN: 9622444636. 199p., wraps; several B&W photos. (#142357) $18.00
Chinese-American Christian work; Helen Man later edited the Washington DC-area "Living Spring Quarterly."
271.
Lin, Yutang. Ch'an and pureland; lectures at Washington and Lee University. El Cerrito, CA: the author, 1992.
xi, 120p. + 4p. color photos, wraps. (#50559)
$22.00
272.
Liu Weisen, editor. Quan mei dang shi: shang ce : Zhongguo Guomindang li cheng yu Meiguo dang wu bai
nian fa zhan shi 全美黨史 : 上冊 : 中國國民黨歷程與美國黨務百年發展史 [Century of the Kuomintang of China and
party affairs in America]. San Francisco: Headquarters in America, Kuomingtang of China, 2004. 44, 18, 498, 73 p., very
good hardcover, text in Chinese. First volume of the three-part series. (#170856) $35.00
Includes republication of numerous early documents of the KMT movement in the US. A total of over 50 pages of photos.
273.
Liu, Aimee. Solitaire; a narrative. New York: Harper & Row, 1979. ISBN: 0060126523. viii, 215p., first printing,
dj with small chip. The first book by the Chinese American novelist (whose novels began to appear in the 1990s) details her
growing up in the US and her struggle with anorexia. (#76088) $15.00
274.
Liu, Aimee E. (Face). New York: Warner Books, 1994. ISBN: 0446518298. 356p., signed by Liu on the title page,
first printing, dj. Liu's novel centers on a Chinese American woman's search for identity. (#66713) $20.00
275.
[Liu, Henry]. Ji nian Jiang Nan 纪念 江 南 / In memory of Henry Liu. n.p.: Jiang nan shi jian wei yuan hui, 1986.
97p. in English, 647p., very good in wraps. (#187902)
$35.00
On the Chinese-American reporter who was shot at his home in Daly City, in what the authors state was a likely case of
retribution for his unflattering coverage of the Chiang family's rule in Taiwan.
276.
Liu, Hung. Hung Liu November 11 - December 11, 1993. San Francisco: Rena Bransten Gallery, 1993. 28p., highgloss paper throughout, 11x8.5 inch plain red wraps titled white; captioned color reproductions of the Chinese American
immigrant artist's paintings with a short essay. Very good copy. Hung Liu crafts her paintings around photographic stills,
here mostly portraits and propaganda cliches. (#175242)
$35.00
277.
Liu, James Yeh-Jau. The paintings of James Y. J. Liu. N. pl.: n. pub., [198-?]. 80p., profusely illus. with both
color and black/white reporductions of paintings by the Taiwanese American artist, some text in Chinese, some in English,
8x11.5 inches, inscribed by Liu in English on front blank end paper, unevenly faded dj. (#79550) $75.00
The Taiwanese artist emigrated to the US, taught at San Francisco State University, and settled in Tiburon.
278.
Liu, Pei Chi. A history of the Chinese in the United States of America 1848-1911 / Meiguo Huaqiao shi. Taipei:
Commission of Overseas Chinese Affairs, 1976. 646p., 28p. of photos; lightly worn wraps, text in Chinese. (#10470)
$35.00
279.
Liu, Timothy. Say goodnight. Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 1998. 100p., wraps. Poetry. (#82800)
$12.00
280.
Liu, Weihua; Zhang Xinwu. Hafo nühai Liu Yiting Zhi er. Liu Yiting de xue xi fang fa he pei yang xi jie 哈 佛
女 孩 刘 亦 婷 之 二 : 刘 亦 婷 的 学 习 方 法 和 培 养 细 节 . Beijing: Zuojia chubanshe, 2004. ISBN: 7506328917. 438p., very
good in wraps; text in Chinese. (#158550) $18.00
Sequel to "Harvard Student Liu Yiting," Liu's parents further discuss the lifetime of preparation that enabled their daughter to
get into Harvard.
281.
Liu, Zongren. Two years in the melting pot; introduction by Linda Yu. San Francisco: China Books, 1984. x,
205p., first edition, dj; inscribed by author in English and Chinese to John [Powell]; the English inscription states that "I feel
greatly honored knowing that an old friend of Epie is reading my humble book;" the Chinese wishes him good health. "Epie"
is Israel Epstein, widely known as Eppy. John W. Powell was tried for sedition in the 1950s for publishing allegations of US
germ warfare during the Korean War. (#177592)
$18.00
The Chinese journalist's observations on his two years in the US include material on Asian Americans.
282.
Logan, Lorna E. Ventures in mission; the Cameron House story. Castro Valley: the author, 1976. 200p., signed
by Logan, wraps. On Presbyterian mission activity in San Francisco's Chinatown. (#11160)
$20.00
283.
Loo, Koon-Lai 盧觀藜 [Lu Guanli]. Ying hai yin 瀛 海 吟 [Chants of the oceans and seas]. New York; Taichong:
Jinwen, 1969. [24], 92 p., bound with thread in traditional style; black and white photograph of author. Owner's name written
on bottom edge of textblock. (#158528)
$45.00
Collection of Chinese-language poetry occasioned by the New York-based author's return visit to Taiwan and his travels
through Europe.
284.
Loong Kong-Tien Yee Association. A Happy New Year [four-paneled Chinese New Year card with crossed US
and Chinese flags]. San Francisco: The Four Families National Headquarters, [192-?]. Single leaf of pink cardstock folded
once and printed to make a 4p. 5.5x3.5 inch greeting card; recto English and Chinese texts and decorative panel in gold with
blue, red and yellow spot color; verso Chinese printed black. Very good. (#175720)
$75.00
The Association has fictitious claims of ancient origins, but serves as a network in North America for mutual aid between
members of four clans (Lew, Quan, Chang, and Chew). The inside of the card lists the names of 30 members of these Four
Families. The address of 924 Grant Avenue was acquired by the Association in 1925, but the card must postdate 1928 when
the name was revised to Loong Kong-Tien Yee.
285.
Lorde, Audre. Apartheid U.S.A. [with] Our common enemy, our common cause, by Merle Woo: freedom
organizing in the eighties. New York: Kitchen Table, [1986]. 26p., second printing; the 'No to apartheid, no to racism'
button is attached, 8.5x5.5 inch wraps in very good shape (button has left a few rust marks), poet Nellie Wong's copy with
her ownership signature on the title page. (#180575) $25.00
286.
Los Angeles Committee for Protection of Foreign Born. Constitutional protection for the foreign born: 12th
Annual Conference journal, 1962. Los Angeles: Los Angeles Committee for Protection of Foreign Born, 1962. 38p.,
numerous unnumbered pages of paid statements and ads, edgeworn and lightly soiled paperback in wraps. Paperback.
(#132319)
$30.00
Includes sections on Mexican immigration and on "The Chinese confession program"
287.
Lou, Dennis. A bicentennial poem / Chung ch'iao feng. New York: the author, 1979. Four-panel brochure, with
explanatory text on front cover and typed name of noted Chinese-American historian Him Mark Lai as the recipient; very
good. (#182169) $20.00
Interior has the Chinese poem and its English translation, and back cover has a substantial biography of the author in tiny
type discussing SUNY-Oneonta's controversial decision to abolish many international studies programs, which cost Dr. Lou
his job. The last two paragraphs are an update as of 1979.
288.
Louie, David Wong. Pangs of love; stories. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. ISBN: 0394589572. 225p., first
edition, dj. Louie's first book. (#34210)
$15.00
289.
Louie, Emma Woo. Chinese American names; tradition and transition, with a foreword by Him Mark Lai.
Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Company, 1998. ISBN: 0786404183 . viii, 230p. (#59995) $17.00
290.
Low, Jeanie W. Chooey. China Connection: Finding Ancestral Roots for Chinese in America. San Francisco:
JWC Low Company, 1996. xi, 65p., very good in wraps, 8.5x11 inches. Revised second edition. (#186527) $30.00
Guide for research; laid in is the author_s business card for genealogical services.
291.
Low, Jennie. Chopsticks, cleaver and wok; homestyle Chinese cooking. Berkeley: the author, 1980. 178p., wraps,
later printing, 8x7 inches. (#55443) $17.00
292.
Low, Victor. The unimpressible race; a century of educational struggle by the Chinese in San Francisco. San
Francisco: East/West Publishing Company, 1982. xix, 236p., inscribed by the author, wraps. (#9949)
$15.00
293.
Lowe, C. H. Facing adversities with a smile; highlights of my 82-year odyssey from China to California. San
Francisco: Chinese Materials Center Publications, 1984. ISBN: 0896446638. xii, 352p. + 16p. photographs, two foldout
genealogical charts; trade-size wraps, back cover mildly crimped and spine a little sunned, very good copy. Asian library #41.
(#20000)
$22.00
294.
Lowe, C.H. The Chinese in Hawaii: a bibliographic survey. Taipei, Taiwan: China Printing, 1972. 142p., wraps,
folded map. (#6115)
$25.00
295.
Lowe, Stephen. Chinese watercolours. Victoria, BC: Stephen Lowe Art Gallery, [197-]. 19 leaves, reproductions of
Lowe's paintings of Hong Kong village scenes, rubberstamp of his gallery neatly applied to front endpaper with the artist's
signature in English and Chinese. (#184812) $18.00
296.
Lü Mei Zhongshan dedou deshan tang. [Booklet of receipts for donations to the benevolent society]. [San
Francisco]: Lü Mei Zhongshan dedou deshan tang, 1932. Booklet in plain brown wraps containing 25 receipts, still unused
with their tear-off stubs intact. The Society, comprised of people from the Zhongshan area, appears to still exist in some form
as of 2014. (#185410)
$35.00
297.
Lui, T.P. [Lu Tianbao]. Ming shi bao jian / World's Knowledge. Los Angeles: Ching Wah, 1958. 350p., very good
hardcover, greenish-blue boards titled in dulled gilt; text in Chinese with alternate English title; black and white illustrations.
(#166416)
$150.00
An almanac by the Los Angeles-based writer. The preface outlines his earlier publications and fields of interest. No copies
found in OCLC.
298.
Lum, Casey Man Kong. In Search of a Voice: karaoke and the construction of identity in Chinese America.
Mahwah NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers, 1996. ISBN: 0805819118. xiv, 128p., first edition laminated boards;
p.7 bears a bracketed comment in ink, an else clean copy, entirely sound. Everyday Communication: case studies of behavior
in context; other volumes expound the "Linguistic performance of auctioneers and sportscasters," and "Confrontation talk /
talk radio". (#176439)
$25.00
299.
Lum, Wing Tek. Expounding the doubtful points. Honolulu: Bamboo Ridge Press, 1987. ISBN: 0910043140 .
107p., inscribed by the Chinese American poet to Noriko Bridges (widow of the San Francisco labor leader Harry Bridges),
wraps. Special issue of BAMBOO Ridge (#s 34-5, Summer and Fall 1987) (#12897)
$20.00
300.
Lydon, Sandy. Chinese gold; the Chinese in the Monterey Bay region. Capitola: Capitola Book Company, 1985.
ISBN: 0932319009 . xv, 550p., illus., first printing, very good in dj. (#19187)
$18.00
301.
Ma, L. Eve Armentrouth, with Jeong Huei Ma. The Chinese of Oakland; unsung builders. Edited by Forrest
Gok. Oakland: Oakland Chinese History Research Committee, [1982]. viii, 112p., very good first edition in hardcover, dj
with a small piece of clear tape at the bottom of the spine. (#9985)
$25.00
302.
McCunn, Ruthanne Lum. An illustrated history of the Chinese in America. San Francisco: Design Enterprises,
1979. ISBN: 0932538029. 133p., profusely illustrated, signed by McCunn on the title page, very good in wraps. (#91072)
$20.00
303.
McCunn, Ruthanne Lum. The moon pearl. Boston: Beacon Press, 2000. ISBN: 0807083488. 316p., author's note,
very good first edition in dj. (#96241)
$18.00
Inscribed and signed by the author. A novel of China.
304.
McCunn, Ruthanne Lum. Sole survivor. San Francisco: Design Enterprises, 1985. ISBN: 0932538622. 235p., illus.,
signed and inscribed by McCunn, wraps. Story of Poon Lim, the sole survivor of a ship torpedoed in 1942, who drifted on a
wooden raft for 133 days. (#151173)
$18.00
305.
McCunn, Ruthanne Lum. Wooden fish songs. New York: Dutton, 1995. ISBN: 052593927x. 384p., short
inscription by McCunn, first printing, dj. Novel based on the Chinese American experience. (#91484)
$18.00
306.
McDonald, Douglas and Gina McDonald. The history of the Weaverville joss house and the Chinese of Trinity
County, California. Medford, OR: McDonald Publishing, 1986. ISBN: 0932151027. 32p., iilustrated from period and
contemporary photography, softbound in 9x6 inch stapled wraps. A small corner stain affects many leaves, find other (trivial)
signs of age and handling, a good copy. Paperback. (#44218) $20.00
307.
McLeod, Alexander. Pigtails and gold dust; a panorama of Chinese life in early California. Caldwell, ID: The
Caxton Printers, 1947. 326p., first edition cloth boards in dust jacket, nice bright copy with neat ownership signature on the
ffep, dj somewhat chipped and worn. (#23881)
$50.00
308.
Miller, Stuart Creighton. The unwelcome immigrant; the American image of the Chinese, 1785-1882. Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1969. x, 259p., dj somewhat worn. (#11172)
$15.00
309.
Minnick, Sylvia Sun. Samfow: the San Joaquin Chinese legacy, foreword by Thomas W. Chinn. Fresno:
Panorama West Publishing, 1988. ISBN: 0944194095. xviii, 322p. + [10]p. index, numerous b&w period photographs and
several maps, 10.5 x 7.5 inch first edition red cloth boards gilt in bright red dj. Jacket shows mild edgewear with a short
closed tear, now enclosed in an archival-grade brodart to size. A bright, clean, very good copy, inscribed and signed by
author Minnick on the title page. (#39890) $50.00
310.
Mock, Lonnie. Dim sum cookbook. Walnut Creek, CA: Alpha Gamma Arts, 1977. xiii, 182p., second printing,
wraps. Chinese American author. (#91905) $12.00
311.
Morgan, Jinx. Recipes from San Francisco's great Chinese restaurants. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1976.
ISBN: 0841504415. xix, 97p., inscribed to Wy Lum [Wong] and Leonard Wong (the former is mentinoed in the
acknowledgements; the two are brothers who operated the Sun Hung Heung restaurant), first printing, dj with small pieces of
tape (but no obvious tears or other marring) (#81973) $12.00
312.
Morton, James. In the sea of sterile mountains; the Chinese in British Columbia. Vancouver: J. J. Douglas Ltd.,
1974. ISBN: 0888940521. xiii, 280p. + 16p. photos, signed by Morton, dj. (#39226)
$35.00
313.
Mow, Lily Hong & Mary Hong Saunders. The Hong sisters microwave to the Orient. El Cerrito, CA: the authors,
1976. ix, 101p., cookbook inscribed by both sisters, second printing, spiral-bound wraps. (#76938) $22.00
314.
National Committee for Constructive Immigration Legislation [Sidney L. Gulick & Albert G. Lawson]. Our
immigration and naturalization laws. Amendments urgently needed to protect American standards of labor, to
safeguard our national institutions, to put right our relations with Asia. Revised edition. National Committee for
Constructive Immigration Legislation, New York. [1920], 11p., wraps slightly edge worn. For increased Asian immigration,
and for solutions to labor unrest & radicalism. (#175224) $35.00
315.
National Congress of Chinese Canadians. 10th anniversary 1991-2001. n.p.: the Congress, 2001. 94p., very good in
wraps, 8.5x11 inches. Text in both English and Chinese, including many advertisements for fraternal and business groups for
Chinese immigrants. (#182075)
$25.00
316.
National Organization for an American Revolution. [Nine brochures published by NOAR]. Philadelphia, Detroit:
NOAR, 1979-1984. Nine brochures on various topics, mostly four-page 7x8.5 inch pieces, all very good. Items present
include the following: 8-panel introduction to the NOAR, with San Francisco contact phone number penned in; 8-panel
announcement of the Manifesto for an American Revolutionary Party; "A challenge to every American" (1979, arguing that
Blacks must be willing to criticize fellow Blacks and not become defensive in cases like that of Congressman Charles Diggs,
convicted of fraud but re-elected by his Detroit constituency); "A job ain't the answer" (1981, arguing that a new economic
order needs to be built); "From racism to counter-revolution" (1981); "Inflation: are you part of the solution or part of the
problem?" (1980); "We reap what we sow" (1980, on Iran); "How shall we spend our holidays? Consume OR Care" (1980)
and "The significance of the Jesse Jackson campaign" (1984) (#168209)
$95.00
The group was founded by James and Grace Lee Boggs. They argued that, although a revolution would one day take place,
the immediate goal of activists should be to empower and cultivate leaders among their ranks "so that we can stop seeing
ourselves as victims and start exercising the power within us to control our own destiny."
317.
Nee, Victor G. and Brett de Bary Nee. Longtime Californ'; a documentary study of an American Chinatown.
New York : Pantheon Books, 1973. ISBN: 039446138X. xxvii,410p., first edition, slightly worn dj. On San Francisco's
Chinatown. (#40604)
$12.00
318.
Ng, Bai Ru 悟伯如 [Wu Boru]. Ng Bai Ru. Macau: Zhong Xi wenyi chubanshe, 2002. ISBN: 9993762989.
Unpaginated, very good oversize volume in pictorial boards, inscribed in bold calligraphy by the artist on the front flyleaf
with his red seal; 10.5x14.5 inches, thoroughly illustrated in color; captions in both Chinese and English, the Chinese
substantially more elegant. Not found in OCLC. (#153714)
$95.00
The Chinese-American artist with ties to southern China has exhibited widely in the San Francisco Bay Area and elsewhere
in California. His style reflects contemporary variations of traditional Chinese themes. Ng's name would be pronounced Wu
Boru in Mandarin.
319.
Ni, Hua-Ching. Tao; the subtle universal law and the integral way of life. Malibu: The Shrine of the Eternal
Breath of Tao, 1980. ISBN: 0937064017. 166p. corrected edition, edgeworn wraps. "[C]hosen to study with Taoist Masters
in the high mountains of mainland China... Master Ni lives West Los Angeles where he teaches Taoism ..." - rear wrap.
(#70816)
$12.00
320.
Olschki, Leonardo; Chen Shixiang. Lian xi qu 練習曲 [Songs for Exercise]. n.p.: the author, 1959. 50p. on double
leaves, beautifully printed and bound with thread in traditional style, very good in wraps; title label on cover bears the
calligraphy of Zhang Chonghe 張充和 [Chung-ho Chang Frankel]. (#166592)
$150.00
Poetry in classical Chinese, with English title page at end: "Songs for exercise; selected lyrics aud[sic] epigrams, by
Leonardo Olschki. With an introduction by Shih-hsiang Chen." Olschki taught at the University of Heidelberg until he fled
the Nazis, ending up in the Oriental Languages program at the University of California at Berkeley, where he refused to sign
a loyalty oath and left the university. (After five years he was invited to return, but refused; according to several sources he
quoted the Arabic proverb, "It is the washed dog that smells the worst"). Chen, who has contributed a preface introducing
Olschki, was a colleague of his who taught Chinese and comparative literature at Berkeley; he is remembered (as Ch'en Shihhsiang) as Gary Snyder's instructor in Tang poetry.
321.
On Lok Senior Health Services. On Lok's 20th Anniversary Celebration. San Francisco: On Lok, [1991]. [44p.],
staplebound program for a banquet and fashion show to benefit the organization. Includes brief biographies of speakers,
photos of On Lok participants, and many messages of congratulations. (#175731)
$20.00
322.
Ong, Han. Fixer Chao. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2001. ISBN: 0374155755. 377p., very good first
edition in boards, gilt and unclipped dj. Signed by the author on title page. (#151938)
$15.00
323.
Organization of Chinese Americans, Inc. National directory of Asian Pacific American organizations 1995. New
York: OCA, 1995. [140p.] some photos of leaders, very good in original wraps. (#105288)
$12.00
324.
Ou, Wen Wei. Pan Gu Mystical Qigong. Burbank, CA: Multimedia Books, 1999. ISBN: 1892515067. 103p.,
wraps. (#127592) $15.00
Introduction to a form of qigong practiced by Ou, a resident of San Francisco.
325.
Pacific Chinese Mission . A manual of Methodism. San Francisco; Shanghai: The Pacific Chinese Mission, 1910.
19 bilingual English/Chinese pages and 27 pages in Chinese only; staplebound wraps, 5.5x8 inches; lower left corner of one
cover torn away, affecting only the ornamental border; several pages fold-creased or with closed edge tears. English text
states San Francisco publication; Chinese text cites the Methodist Publishing House in Shanghai, year 2 of the Xuantong
reign of the Qing dynasty (ie, 1910). (#185656)
$95.00
Catechism with the Articles of religion translated into Chinese and translations of the rituals for baptism and the Lord's
supper.
326.
Pacific States Telephone and Telegraph Co. Rates for Long Distance Telephone Switching from San Francisco
to the following points see key on opposite page [caption of first remaining leaf following text loss]. San Francisco:
Pacific States T & T, May, 1905. iii-xii, 8, 284p., 9x6 inch textblock secured with heavy staples, paste-fastened into printed
grey wraps of which untitled spine panel and ad-bearing back cover remain. Following a single white leaf (rates, as above),
initial leaves (v-xii, 8) are devoted to the "Chinese Exchange" and are printed on yellow stock (just like the Yellow Pages!)
with first section in English alphabet, the rest in double-column Chinese characters. Dividers amongst the remaining 284p.
are ads on tinted cardstock. Front cover and missing leaf/leaves were torn away roughly; surviving text is mildly edgeworn
with some corner creasing and chipping. Quite navigable, and pretty clean; we see no inked or pencilled marks. As is, with
all faults. (#175460)
$45.00
327.
Palmer, Henry W. Chinese-Exclusion bill. Speech of Hon. Henry W. Palmer, of Pennsylvania, in the House of
Representatives, April 4, 1902. Washington DC: n.p., 1902. 7p., wraps, damp stain at bottom left, staples loose and rusting;
a reading copy. (#141779) $35.00
Palmer argues in favor of continuing the Chinese exclusion policy, making the 1882 law "permanent," to protect American
labor. "The moralist points with horror and dread to the unblushing vice of the Chinese Quarters in all cities where
considerable numbers are congregated; to their contaminating influence on the youth of other races; to their utter disregard of
all laws of health, cleanliness or morality, and fears, not without reason, that all possible benefits to be derived from Chinese
labor would be far overbalanced by the importation and dissemination among our youth of vice and disease."
328.
Peace and Freedom Party. Peace and Freedom Party short platform (March 2003) [Chinese and English].
Oakland, CA: Peace & Freedom Party, 2003. Single 8.5x11 inch sheet, in Chinese on one side with original English text on
the other. (#123278)
$12.00
Basic platform of this California-only socialist/environmental/feminist party, in Chinese translation. Intended for distribution
at events with high proportion of Chinese-literate attendees.
329.
[Pedroso, Regino]. Regino Pedroso; el autor y su obra. Havana: Instiuto Cubano del Libro, 1973. 61p., 7x10.5
inches, wraps. Cuban poet of Sino-African descent. (#68209) $25.00
330.
Pien, Lark. There, there. n.p.: the artist, 1999. [15p.], zine-like booklet featuring a nearly wordless dreamlike
sequence in which a child's car bumping on aquarium glass at a shoe sale cracks the tank and floods the room. (#184602)
$17.00
331.
Pillsbury, Warren H., Counsel for Defendant -in-Error. Quong Ham Wah Company, plaintiff-in-error, vs.
Industrial Accident Commission of the State of California, and A. J. Pillsbury, Will J. French and Meyer Lissner, as
member of and constituting said commission, Owe Ming, and Alaska Packers' Association, a corporation, defendantsin-error. Brief for defendant-in-error, Industrial Accident Commission of the State of California. San Francisco:
counsel, 1920. 98p., plain printed 9x6 inch grey wraps; small corner-tip torn from back cover, faint but pervasive dampstains
to margins of last leaves, general mild signs of age and handling, a good copy. No. 638 in the Supreme Court of the United
States, October term, 1920. (#175862)
$35.00
Owe Ming was injured in Alaska while under contract with a California company. Brief is over the constitutionality of the
law that covered Owe Ming while he worked in Cooks Inlet, Alaska in 1918 at a cannery.
332.
Postcard. Chinese women in holiday attire at the Sutro Heights, San Francisco, Cal. San Francisco: Britton and
Rey, [191-?]. Color postcard with five women in traditional silk robes standing in a garden. Undated, but we have had a
similar card published by the O. Newman Company postmarked in 1917 (#167435)
$15.00
333.
[Postcard]. Sing Chong Company, Inc. Leading Chinese Bazaar, California and Grant Avenue, San Francisco,
Cal. San Francisco: Sing Fat Co., [1910]. Postcard with picture of the bazaar, mailed to Oakland, postmark dated Jan. 6,
1910. Pre-revolutionary Qing Dynastic flags visible on the edifice. (#81792)
$15.00
334.
[Postcard]. Sing Fat Co., leading Oriental bazaar, S.W. cor. California and DuPont Sts., Chinatown San
Francisco, Cal. Los Angeles: Sanborn, Vail & Co., [191-?]. Postcard with picture of the bazaar. Portrays the US and Qing
flags flying atop the building, indicating that the image, if not the card, predates the establishment of the Republic of China.
(#81793)
$15.00
335.
Quan, José Luis. El dia menos pensado; presentación: Félix Ulloa h. San Salvador: Editorial Guayampopo, 1996.
305p., one of 1,000 copies, slightly creased wraps. Political essays by the Sino-Salvadorean philosopher, a founding member
of the FMLN, and a member of the ERP and FAPU during the period of armed struggle. (#82529) $35.00
336.
Reid, Bessie Yang. Daddy's concubines -and me! As told to Allan L. Reid (her honorable husband). N. pl.: 1st
Books Library, 2000. ISBN: 1587212722. x, 269p., wraps. The Chinese American author recounts her growing up in
Shanghai. She studied abroad, and worked for, a number of Catholic institutions before migrating to California, then New
York and Colorado, in 1959 (#90356)
$15.00
337.
Reinhardt, Richard, text, and Peter Perkins, photographs. Chinatown San Francisco. Berkeley: Lancaster-Miller
Pub., 1981. ISBN: 0895810387. unpaginated, 7.75x8.25 inches, map, color photographs, very good first edition in dj.
(#94991)
$12.00
338.
Repper, Charles. Chinese red. For piano. Boston: Charles Brashear, 1935. 4p., sheet music with cover art depicting
a Chinatown scene in red, mild uneven toning; copyright 1928 but small print in ad on back for other compositions is dated
1935. (#182915) $18.00
Brief poetic introduction, with music but no lyrics for the piece itself.
339.
Rescue Society. A bright spot in Chinatown. New York: the Society, [1918]. 4p. brochure (6.5x5.5" leaf folded in
half) on the mission/settlement house work done by the Society. Foldline slightly crooked, an old transverse crease now
flattened, indecipherable pencilling (name ?) on face, good copy. About 240 words, dated from contents: "114,781 persons
attended our midnight services in 1917. 33,208 requested prayers and 3,256 professed conversion during the same period.
Positions were obtained for 178." The Rescue Society was "located for twenty-five years in Doyers Street, Chinatown"
(#25481)
$35.00
340.
Revolutionary Communist Party. Geming gong ren bao 革 命 工 人 報 . Chicago: Revolutionary Worker, [1989].
Four page tabloid format newspaper, very good; an apparently one-off effort by the RCP's Revolutionary Worker to put out a
Chinese-language edition. (#181335)
$35.00
Issued after the Tiananmen Square massacre; cover depicts Mao shoveling dirt onto Deng Xiaoping. Main article is by
Raymond Lotta on why Mao was right.
341.
Rose, Tom; John Kinch. The San Francisco non-white population 1950-1960. San Francisco: Council for Civic
Unity, 1960. 16p., mimeographed 8.5x11 inch sheets stapled at left, pictorial cover, maps produced by the Sociology
department at SF State. Rubberstamp on cover of a race relations project at UC Berkeley. (#181763)
$15.00
342.
Sakolski, A.M. The finances of American trade unions [bound together with] J.M. Motley, "Apprenticeship in
American trade unions," E.R. Spedden, "The trade union label," and Frank T. Stockton, "The closed shop in
American trade unions" Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1906-1911. 152, 122, 100, 187p., original wraps bound in
plain blue buckram, no library markings. Johns Hopkins University studies in historical and political science. (#144899) $35
Spedden's article discusses the anti-Chinese origins of the union label movement in San Francisco.
343.
Sam Yup Benevolent Association History Editorial Committee. Lü Mei san yi zong hui guan shi lue 旅美三邑總
會館史略 1850-2000 / A history of the Sam Yup Benevolent Association in the United States 1850-2000. San Francisco:
Sam Yup Benevolent Association, 2000. 341p. in Chinese, 74p. in English, lightly scuffed wraps. (#175830) $75
344.
San Francisco Neighbor Alliance for Ed Lee for Mayor. The Ed Lee Story: An Unexpected Mayor. San
Francisco: the Alliance, 2011. 132p., very good in wraps. (#173780)
$12.00
"Aw shucks, average guy" hagiography for the campaign, which ended in Lee being elected San Francisco's first AsianAmerican mayor.
345.
San Francisco Unified School District. Bilingual Education Department. Chinese as a second language;
curriculum guide. San Francisco: the Department, 1993. 185p., 8.5x11 inches, slightly rubbed wraps. The Curruculum
Guide Committee that put this book together was composed of Chinese American educators. (#76323)
$22.00
346.
Schuyler, Robert L., ed. Archaeological perspectives on ethnicity in America; Afro-American and Asian
American culture history. Farmingdale, NY: Baywood Publishing Company, 1980. ISBN: 0895030187. x, 147p., illustrated
with maps and tables and figures, very good first edition trade paperback in printed wraps. Baywood Monographs in
Archaeology 1. Paperback. (#84733)
$25.00
The Asian American focus is on the Chinese in California.
347.
Self, Casey; Amy Chang. Chang zai wo xin 常在我心 / You are always in our hearts: a book for divorced
parents. San Francisco, CA: Asian Mental Health, n.d.. 25, 54p., wraps, 7x10 inches. Not found in OCLC. (#137553) $15
Bilingual Chinese/English edition of Self's 1996 guide for parents; this edition targeted at Chinese-Americans.
348.
Seuc, Napoleón. La colonia china de Cuba 1930-1960: antecedentes, memorias y vivencias. Miami, FL: the
author, 1998. 214p., wraps creased with a small stain, interior clean; signed by the author. (#187898)
$25.00
349.
Shen, Peter, with Joyce Wilson. Peter Shen's makeup for success. New York: Everst House, 1980. ISBN:
0896960757. 160p., black/white illus., first edition, edgeworn dj. Chinese American makeup artist. (#87694)
$20.00
350.
Sheng-yen Lu, master; living buddha Lian-sheng. Dharma talks by a living buddha; translated by Janny Chow.
San Bruno CA: Amitabha Enterprise, Inc., 1995. ISBN: 1881493059. ix, 209p., first edition decorated glossy pictorial wraps,
8.5x5.5 inches, a very good copy. (#166093) $12.00
"Originally a Christian, Master Lu was twenty six years old when a profound mystical experience led him to study Taoism,
Sutrayahna and Tantric Buddhism" (p.v).
351.
Sia, Beau. A night without armor II:; the revenge; poems. New York: Mouth Almighty Books, 1998. ISBN:
0966204298. x+115p., parody of Jewel's book of poetry by the Chinese-American slam-poet and comic, very good second
edition in original not-to-be-missed pictorial wraps. (#106399) $12.00
352.
Sih, Paul T. K. and Leonard B. Allen, eds. The Chinese in America. New York: St. John's University. Center of
Asian Studies, 1976. ix, 177p., first printing, wraps. Asia in the modern world, #16. (#44572)
$20.00
353.
Soohoo, Ronald F. Chinese roots and my American dream. Davis, CA: Self published, 2004. ix, 110p.,
appendixes (English-language section) ix, 100p., illustrated with photos, technical drawings, text in English and Chinese,
very good first edition in original wraps. (#150889) $22.00
Memoir of a Chinese-born scientist-technologist living in Davis, California. Illustrated with family and business photos.
Reprints technical articles written by the author from various sources.
354.
Square and Circle Club. Cooking with Square & Circle. San Francisco: the Club, 1977. 252p., first printing,
plastic comb binding, first several pages have a damp stain at bottom edge. Cookbook. The Club "was founded in 1924 by
seven young Chinese women who wanted to raise funds to help the flood and famine victims in China." - p. 3. (#71092)
$17.00
355.
Square and Circle Club. Cooking with Square & Circle; volume II. San Francisco: the Club, 1977. 272p., first
printing, 8.5x7 inch spiral-bound wraps. Cookbook. The Club "was founded in 1924 by seven young Chinese women who
wanted to raise funds to help the flood and famine victims in China." - vol. 1, p. 3. (#71093)
$20.00
356.
St. Pierre, Brian, Jennie Low. Flavor of Chinatown: a guide to restaurants, dim sum, food shops, and bakeries
of San Francisco's colorful Chinatown. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1982. ISBN: 087701261X. 129p., wraps.
(#125267)
$12.00
Introduction to Chinese foods and a survey of restaurants as of 1982
357.
Sun-Childers, Jaia and Douglas Childers. The white-haired girl; bittersweet adventures of a little red soldier.
New York: Picador, 1996. ISBN: 0312140932. xi, 320p., inscribed and signed by the two authors, fine first printing, dj. On
Sun-Childers' Chinese childhood amidst the Cultural Revolution. (#37902)
$15.00
358.
Sung, Betty Lee. The adjustment experience of Chinese immigrant children in New York City. New York:
Center for Migration Studies, 1990. ISBN: 091325696X. xii, 260p., first edition, wraps. (#88563) $12.00
359.
Sung, Betty Lee. Mountain of gold; the story of the Chinese in America. New York: The Macmillan Company,
1967. viii, 341p., introduction, appendix, bibliography, index, illlustrated with figures and tables, very good first edition in dj.
From the Gold Rush to the 1960s. (#9827) $15.00
360.
Sze, Arthur. Dazzled. Point Reyes Station, CA: Floating Island Publications, 1982. 53p., first edition 9x5.5 inch
decorated wraps, a very good copy which has been inscribed and signed on the first blank and datelined year of publication.
Chinese American poet. (#176443) $22.00
361.
Sze, Arthur. Two ravens translations from the Chinese and poems. Santa Fe: Tooth of Time Books, 1984. ISBN:
094051009x. 68p., illustrations, Chinese characters and English text, very good first edition thus limited to 750 copies, trade
paperback in slim blue pictorial wraps. Paperback. (#173950) $25.00
Second generation Chinese American poet. A new edition of his second book with added materials.
362.
Taiwan Center. Taiwan Center's special commemorative tenth anniversary edition: July 1986-July 1996.
Flushing, NY: the Association, 1996. 113p., very good in wraps, 8.5x11 inches, text mostly in Chinese. (#184178) $20.00
363.
Taiwan Hotel and Motel Association of Southern California. 23rd Annual Convention [Issue no. 86]. Rosemead,
CA: the Association, 1998. 96p., very good in wraps, 8.5x11 inches, text mostly in Chinese. (#184177)
$20.00
Special convention publication of the Association.
364.
Takaki, Ronald. A Larger Memory, A History of Our Diversity, with Voices. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1998.
ISBN: 0316831697. x, 371p., personal inscription to "Bob" (Robert Allen of Black Scholar) signed "Ron" by the author, fine
first edition in boards in and unclipped dj. Hardcover. (#181180)
$15.00
An anthology of "voices" from well-known and little-known authors (or interviewees); an anthology plainly close to
Takaki's heart.
365.
Takaki, Ronald. Spacious dreams, the first wave of Asian immigration. Adapted by Rebecca Stefoff. New
York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1994. ISBN: 9780791021767. 128p., period photography throughout, text adapted for
young adult readers from Takaki's "Strangers from a Different Shore." Laminated photo-decorated 9.5x7.5 inch boards, a fine
copy. The Asian American experience. (#174661)
$12.00
366.
Tan, Amy. The hundred secret senses. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1995. ISBN: 0399141154. 358p., fine
limited first edition #14/175 copies bound in cloth and gilt and matching slipcase signed by the author. (#133437)
$75.00
367.
Tan, Amy. The opposite of fate; a book of musings. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2003. ISBN: 0399150749.
398p., note to the reader, photos, very good first edition inscribed (by Tan on behalf of a 2nd party to a 3rd party) and signed
by the author, in dj. (#105631)
$20.00
368.
Tan, Amy. What the Library Means to Me. Berkeley: Berkeley Public Library Foundation, n.d., circa 2000.
Leaflet urging funding of Santa Rosa / Berkeley libraries, written when Tan was eight years old and living in Mendocino,
here published (for the first time) to address a Berkeley funding shortage. Single 8.5x5.5 inch leaf of alkaline stock with
library letterhead decorated with spot color, about 160 words of text. Has a neat transverse foldline, otherwise unblemished.
"My father takes me to the library every two weeks, and I check five or six books out each time. These books seem to open
many windows in my little room" (#178184) $17.00
369.
Tan, Jin and Patricia E. Roy. The Chinese in Canada. Ottawa: Canadian Historical Association, 1985. 23p., wraps.
(#67266)
$15.00
Canada's ethnic groups #9
370.
Tan, Thomas Tsu-wee. Your Chinese roots; the overseas Chinese story. Singapore: Times Books, 1989. ISBN:
9971653109. 262p., photos, very good in pictorial laminated boards. (#117474) $18.00
371.
Tang, May. The house of Chung. Baltimore: Noble Hosue , 2000. ISBN: 1561676179. 206p., stamped 'review
copy', otherwise very good in dj. Christian historical novel spanning the fall of the Manchus to the Communist victory of
1949, by a Chinese American author. (#91176)
$15.00
372.
Ting, Jan C. An American in China. A young American's eye-opening account of four thousand miles of
unguarded travel in the People's Republic of China. New York: Paperback Library, 1972. 190p., first printing, shelfworn
wraps. Asian American author. Paperback original. (#51619) $12.00
373.
Tong, Benson. Unsubmissive women; Chinese prostitutes in nineteenth-century San Francisco. Norman:
University of Oklahoma Press, 1994. ISBN: 0806126531 . xix, 300p., plates, very good in dj. (#17138)
$12.00
374.
Tong, Pat. Man Shorts. [Bay Area]: author, 2009. Unpaginated zine, 8p., b&w comix panels throughout.
Staplebound 5.5x4.3 inch sketch-decorated wraps, a very good copy, noted in pencil inside back cover to be no.75 of 100
copies. Tong has long worked on the Naiad Press staff as book and cover designer. Here she is an office worker in Walnut
Creek with no air conditioning. (#176662) $12.00
375.
[Tsai]. Tsai; cybernetic sculptures environment. Paris: Galerie Denise Rene, 1972. Unpaginated, about 30p., b&w
and color exhibit photography; several photos are on cardstock with reflective silver foil and light-spectrum qualities.
Extensive text in parallel columns of French and English. Softbound, 10x8 inch foil-covered wraps, a very good copy.
(#176656)
$35.00
b.Amoy, China, 1928, arrives US 1950 to study engineering, resigns engineering career in 1963 to pursue art career.
376.
Tsang, David. All that sizzles; easy oriental recipes. Belmont, CA: House of Tsang, 1988. ISBN: 0961999608.
160p., illus. in color, wraps. (#70267)
$12.00
377.
Tsing Hua Alumni Association. Tsing Hua in USA Alumni yearbook 1927-1928. n.p.: the Association, 1928.
108p., wraps, clerical edges mildly worn, otherwise very good; numerous black and white illustrations. Bookplate on title
page of Richard A. Bolt, who was formerly based at the university in Beijing. (#187899)
$195.00
Yearbook for alumni then based in the US; includes essays by members of the association on current events as well as
contributions by former faculty. Includes advertisements, such as "Ginseng for the folks back home" by a New York
distributor. OCLC lists a holding of a different issue.
378.
Tsui, David. The death of a Shenzhen angel. New York: Vantage Press, 2005. ISBN: 0533151481. ix+225p.,
author's note, very good first edition inscribed and signed by the San Francisco author, in pictorial wraps. Novel of love,
high-technology and murder set in modern China, and a better-than-average Vantage offering. "Despite the fictitious names,
characters, firms and organizations, over half of this story is true. This book would have been written as a memoir had I not
considered the risk of being blocked from entering my motherland again." (#109959)
$15.00
379.
Tsui, Kitty. The words of a woman who breathes fire. Argyle, NY and San Francisco: Spinsters Ink, 1983. 70p.,
inscribed and signed by Tsui, wraps. Poetry and prose by the lesbian writer. (#17487)
$25.00
380.
Tsung, L. C. The marginal man. New York: Pageant Press, Inc., 1963. 190p., first edition orange cloth boards,
slightly edgeworn, a bright clean copy lacking the jacket. This novel "describes the life of a group of Chinese intellectuals in
New York," intricately weaving the social, emotional and political lives, with glances at happenings in mainland China.
(#176424)
$35.00
381.
Tucker, Benjamin R. Liberty, vol. 14, no. 27. August, 1905, whole no. 389. New York: Benjamin R. Tucker, 1905.
8p., wraps, staples slightly rusted, 10.25x14 inches. Single issue of the anarchist periodical. (#145613)
$65.00
This issue includes Tucker's commentary on boycotts and the exclusion of Chinese from America, on the trial of Moses
Harmon and the suppression of Harmon's "Lucifer" publication, an article on the life of Josiah Warren, and more.
382.
Tung Sen Benevolent Association. Zhongshan Longdu Tongshantang nian bao 中山隆都同善堂年報 [Group of
four different annual reports from the Association]. San Francisco: the Association, 1998-2006. Four booklets, 8.5x11
inches, with glossy pictorial covers, text mostly in Chinese with some English; length ranges from 21 to 36 pages per report.
Years present are 1997, 2002, 2003, 2005. The first and last issues have a brief pen note on the cover, some sun-fading to
edges, otherwise very good. Includes photos of meetings and other activities; lists of participants, and short essays by
members. (#184098)
$35.00
The Tung Sen Benevolent Association is a social group for immigrants from Longdu, a group of towns around Zhongshan
City in Guangdong province. Among its duties is the maintenance of a cemetary for fellow countrymen in South San
Francisco. Some issues include descriptions by young people of the lessons they learned by caring for grave sites.
383.
Tung, William L. The Chinese in America; 1920-1973, a chronology & fact book. Dobbs Ferry, NY: Oceana
Publications, 1974. 150p, mildly worn red cloth boards. Ethnic chronology #14. (#54285) $15.00
384.
Tyau, Kathleen. Makai. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999. ISBN: 0374200009. 289p., very good first
edition in boards and unclipped dj. Hawaiian Chinese American 's second novel. (#76132)
$12.00
385.
Tzu Chi. 5th Anniversary Commemorative Catalogue. Monrovia, CA: Tzu Chi, 1994. 73p., wraps, 8.5x11 inches,
very good. Text in both English and Chinese. (#182072)
$20.00
Booklet advertising the work of the Buddhist charitable organization, with map showing its offices around the US.
386.
Tzu Chi USA. 7th Anniversary Commemorative Catalogue. 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.
(#182071)
$20.00
Booklet advertising the work of the Buddhist charitable organization.
387.
U. S. Human Resources Corporation. U. S. foundations and minority group interests; a report. San Antonio:
Mexican American Cultural Center, 1975. viii, 299p., 8.25x10.75 inches, introduction, summary, recommendations,
appendix, bibliography, index, tables, figures, very good in oversized trade paperback wraps. A detailed study of foundation
philanthrophy for black, Hispanic and Chinese American organizations. (#105877)
$35.00
388.
United States Court of Appeals. United States of America, appellant, v. Ben Yim Liu... Joey Tong Dong... Wong
Fung Lin Yee... Look Ying Sahm... Lee Woon, petitioner-appellees. Transcript of record on appeal from the United
States District Court for the Southern District of New York. n.p.: Record Press, 1951. 81p., lightly worn wraps, pencil
note on front cover. Not found in OCLC. (#178074) $75.00
Documents and court discussion about the status legitimacy of several naturalized American citizens of Chinese ancestry.
389.
United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit. United States of America, Plaintiff-appellee, v. China Daily
News, Inc., and Eugene Moy, defendants-appellants, and Chin You Gon, Tom Sung,and Chin Hong Ming,
Defendants-appellants. Argued June 14, 1955.Decided July 5, 1955. n.p.: the Court, 1955. Five 8.5x11 inch sheets stapled
at upper left, mild soiling of first page. (#165181)
$50.00
The defendants appealed their conviction in the famous China Daily News case, in which the Chinese-American newspaper
was found to have traded with the enemy by engaging in financial transactions with Mainland China-controlled banks in
Hong Kong during the Korean War. The court upheld their convictions.
390.
Uy, Bon-hui, introduction by Richard Meier. Architectural drawings & leisure sketches. Honolulu: Self-published
by the artist, 1978. 118p., 8.5x8.5 inches, texts in Chinese and English, illustrated with sketches, plans, neat ownership
signature and short closed tear on front cover otherwise a very good first limited editon of 2,600 copies, trade paperback in
pictorial white glossy wraps. Paperback. (#181047) $20.00
391.
Valdés Lakowsky, Vera. Vinculaciones Sino-Mexicanas, albores y testimonios (1874-1899). Mexico City:
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 1981. ISBN: 968580124X. 279p., first edition, wraps. On the Chinese in
Mexico, with historical text and 19 appended documents. (#72228)
$25.00
392.
Velasco, Milton and Eugene Lee. Winds of the four seasons; a novel of love and intrigue in the mysterious far
east. New York: Exposition Press, 1959. 159p., first edition, dj. The Philipine American and Chinese American authors
resided in Los Angeles. (#82053) $95.00
393.
Wah, Fred. Mountain. Buffalo: Audit East-West, 1967. 18p., one of 325 copies, 9x11 inch wraps, Chinese-style
binding with rough cord, cover titling overprinted on photoillustration, two Native American figures within. Ex libris with an
institutional bookplate inside the front cover, no other accession (or any) marks. Chinese Canadian poet; nature, mountains,
cold weather, animals in coitus, Snyderesque free verse. (#178481)
$35.00
394.
Wah, Lee Mun. River of jade. Berkeley: Abandoned Roads Publishers, 1988. [32]p., inscribed by the Chinese
American poet, very good in wraps. (#61589)
$22.00
395.
Wang Chi, Dr. Lois. Echoes of voices just won't go away; by an octogenarian immigrant. Pittsbirgh: Dorrance
Pub. Co., 2006. ISBN: 080597251X. x+96p., introduction, epilogue, photos, very good first edition in dj. Autobiography of a
Chinese immigrant to the US later Professor Emeritus of Biology at Cal State Dominguez Hills. Review copy with slips.
(#118430)
$15.00
396.
Wang Fangyu. Dancing Ink; pictorial calligraphy and calligraphic painting. An international traveling
exhibition 1985-1988 sponsored by Seton Hall University. South Orange NJ: self-published by artist, 1984. 166p., b&w
reproductions with spot color, several plates in color, one photo (of a dance production using author's characters as
background). First edition 11x11 inch white wraps are somewhat soiled and have a small lower-corner bump, a good copy
with (laid in) two items: a facsimile of a newsclip, and a 2-page ALs (Autograph Letter signed) from Wang Fangyu signing
as Fangyu Wang, to a friend in San Francisco; about 200 words: "I have been so lucky in this country. For these forty some
years, I have never had even one bad experience." (#178483) $50.00
Introductory encomiums from a Yale professor and other Asian art connoisseurs.
397.
Wang Tien-Shan 王天循. Liu Mei ji 留美集. [California]: privately published, 2009. 664p., very good hardcover,
mostly in Chinese with some selections in English. (#175328) $25.00
Collection of poetry and prose by the Chinese immigrant who settled in the San Francisco Bay Area. Wang was a friend of
the artist Chang Dai-chien and discusses their relationship.
398.
Wang, C. C., Arnold Chang. C. C. Wang; recent works. n.p.: Self published, 1993. 41p., 8.5x11 inches,
introduction in English and Chinese, illustrated throughout with color plates, several folding, biographical notes in English
and Chines, studies on Wang, fine in pictorial wraps. Personal inscription to San Francisco artist Joe Brotherton signed by the
NYC-based Chinese American artist. (#148328)
$75.00
399.
Wang, Charlotte D. The Mystery of Human Destiny. Oakland: the author, [196-?]. 168p., lightly shelfworn wraps,
inscribed by the author in English and Chinese. (#184817)
$45.00
The religious Bay Area Chinese American author's autobiography; she was the widow of a diplomat and discusses trips
around the world and her campaign to win US citizenship.Concludes in the late 1960s.
400.
Wang, David Rafael. The intercourse. Greefield Center, NY: The Greenfield Review Press, 1975. 41p., errata slip
laid in, very good in wraps. (#92785)
$25.00
401.
Wang, J[ackie]. Memoirs of a queer hapa: the joys and pitfalls of belonging nowhere. Sarasota FL: author,
2000s. 23p., zine, 5.5x4.2 inch decorated stapled wraps; economically stapled (1 staple), untrimmed, a clean sound very good
copy. Quotes Cornell West. Childhood confusion: "My mom was a white supremacist," p.5 (#175608)
$12.00
Radical Asian-American lesbian's statement of identity.
402.
Wang, Jennie, editor. Wen pu xi: Zhong Mei wen hua shi ye xia de Mei Hua wen xue yan jiu 问谱系: 中美文化
视野下的美华文学研究 / Querying the genealogy: comparative and transnational studies in Chinese American
literature. Shanghai: Yiwen chubanshe, 2006. ISBN: 7532741400. 557p., very good in wraps. Collection of papers from a
conference, mostly in Chinese with several English pieces. (#184805) $25.00
403.
Wang, Lun. Wang Lun wen ji 汪倫文集. Hong Kong: KF Publishing Company / World Chinese Weekly /
International Education Science Culture Press, 2009. 303p., very good in wraps, signed by the author in Chinese. (#154546)
$18.00
Collection of writings in Chinese by the San Francisco-based immigrant businessman, who settled in the US in 1976 and
went on to become a local Chinese-language television personality.
404.
Wang, Yun. The Carp. Jamaica VT: Bull Thistle Press, 1994. Unpaginated, about 20p. on calendared stock,
rubricated title page, a hand-sewn softbound in 9x6.5 inch maroon wraps decorated with a monochrome overlay print; one of
276 copies "printed in Scotch Roman and Italic on Bellbook Classic Laid Recycled Ivory." Slightest edgewear, a near-fine
copy. Chinese American poet, born in Guizhou Province; father and other relatives were caught up in Cultural Revolution
and imprisoned. Later a post-doc in astrophysics at Fermilab. (#176470)
$20.00
405.
Wei Min She. Wei min bao 為民報 / Chinese Community News. Vol. 1, no. 1-4 (October 1971-January 1972).
San Francisco, CA: Wei Min She, 1972. First four issues of the monthly tabloid-format newspaper, 24 pages (half in English,
half in Chinese)., minor foxing, generally very good. (#157153)
$75.00
One of the most important revolutionary Chinese-American publications from San Francisco, with extensive coverage of
local issues. Includes articles on establishment of a community school to resist busing, labor issues in Chinatown, historical
articles, and more (including many pro-PRC political articles). The title comes from the slogan "Wei min" (For the People).
406.
Wei Min She Labor Committee. Chinese working people in America; a pictorial history. San Francisco: United
Front Press, 1974. 71p., illus., 8.5x11 inches, wraps, very good condition. (#287)
$20.00
Compilation by the radical Chinese-American group based in San Francisco.
407.
Wei, Katherine and Terry Quinn. Second daughter; growing up in China 1930-1949. Boston: Little, Brown and
Company, 1984. ISBN: 0316928119. 243p. + 8p. photos, personally inscribed and signed first edition with Wei's red stamp,
very good in spine-faded dj. Wei moved the the US in 1949 (#11821) $20.00
408.
Wilcox, Cynthia Waiying Wu. The Love of Lotus. Redwood City, CA: Tyde House Books, 2007. ISBN:
0978613589. xi, 217p., wraps. (#134275)
$15.00
Autobiography of a Chinese Christian immigrant.
409.
Wilson, Carol Green. Chinatown quest; the life adventures of Donaldina Cameron. Stanford: Stanford
University Press, 1950. ix, 263p. + front., 7p. photos, inscribed by Wilson to Lucile Mohr, later printing, dj. (#96617) $25
Cameron spent her adult life combatting the traffic in immigrant Chinese slave girls, working in San Francisco's Presbyterian
Home.
410.
Wing Mar, project director and editor-in-chief. Portraits of Pride. Los Angeles: Chinese Historical Society of
Southern California, 2004. ISBN: 0930377982. xv, 227p., high-gloss paperstock throughout with a CD in rear pocket,
numerous period portrait photos in sepia, b&w and color, first edition 10.3x10.1 inch openweave cloth boards gilt in glossy
decorated dust jacket. A lower corner just perceptably turned, a fine copy. Lots of military veterans, retired physicians and so
forth, persons celebrated in conventional professions. (#178482)
$25.00
411.
Wing, Frank; Wylie Wong; Jack Chen. The San Francisco Fair's Pear Garden in the West. Fort Mason Center,
June 14-17, 1984. The first San Francisco Chinese American Performing Arts Festival. Souvenir program. San
Francisco: the Festival, 1984. 13p., pictorial wraps. Includes black and white photos and ads. (#183944)
$15.00
412.
Wing, Fred. New Chinese recipes. Using only ingredients easily obtainable in neighborhood stores. Tested by
Mabel Stegner, home economist. New York: Edelmuth Co., 1948. 100p., pictorial wraps moderately worn, plastic comb
binding. Seventh printing, a revised and enlarged edition. (#185030)
$15.00
413.
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom [Mercedes Randall & Pauli Murray]. To all who are
interested in interracial peace. This leaflet has been prepared by Mercedes Randall. Washington DC: National
Literature Department, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, [1945]. Six panel brochure, 6x9 inches, minor
browned on edges. Features two boxed quotes from the young Pauli Murray, and one each from Jane Addams and Paul
Robeson. (#171254)
$75.00
A plea for racial equality, including opposition to the Japanese Internment Camps and opposition to the Oriental Exclusion
Act, along with opposition to anti-Semitism, Jim Crow laws, etc.
414.
Wong, B. D. Following Foo; the electronic adventures of the chestnut man. New York: HarperEntertainment,
2003. ISBN: 0060529539. 387p., very good first edition in boards and unclipped dj. Hardcover. (#88181) $12.00
Gay parenting foibles by the Chinese American actor.
415.
Wong, Diana Shui-iu. Selected Works 1989-1994. National China Art Gallery, Beijing; July 23-31 1994. Santa
Monica: Merging One Press, 1994. ISBN: 9627287180. Unpaginated preliminaries in Chinese and English, 22p., vita, coated
paperstock with intense color exhibit and site photography, 11x9.8 inch frenchfold wraps, sound and clean, a very good copy.
(#178267)
$25.00
Hong Kong-born Los Angeles-based artist.
416.
Wong, Frederick. The complete calligrapher. New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 1980. ISBN: 0823007782.
184p., profusely illus., 8x11 inches, minor dampstain, first edition, edgeworn dj. Chinese American calligrapher. (#37585)
$12.00
417.
Wong, Jade Snow. Fifth Chinese daughter; with illustrations by Kathryn Uhl. New York: Harper & Brothers,
1950. vii, 246p., first edition, very good hardcover in edgeworn dj, inscribed by the author to the Mitaus with their bookplate
pasted to facing page. (#187596)
$25.00
418.
Wong, Jade Snow. No Chinese stranger; illustrated by Deng Ming-Dao. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1975.
vxi, 366p., hardcover in price-clipped but otherwise very good dj; lengthy personal inscription by the author, also signed by
the illustrator. (#36070)
$45.00
On the author's trip to China.
419.
Wong, Janet S. Good luck gold and other poems. New York: Margaret K. McElderry Books, 1994. ISBN:
0689506171. 42p., first edition clothbacked boards in dj; jacket bears some small pressure-marks and a label on the back with
cataloguing information, an else fine copy . Poems for children reflecting the author's California/Asian American heritage,
and children's insecurities in immigration. Author Wong "graduated from UCLA summa cum laude, then obtained a JD from
Yale Law School. After practicing law for a number of years she decided to devote her time to writing. She lives in Los
Angeles with her husband and son." (#27487)
$15.00
420.
Wong, Janet S. A suitcase of seaweed and other poems; decorations by the author. New York: Margaret K.
McElderry Books, 1996. ISBN: 0689807880. 40p., introduction, decorations, very good first edition in dj. (#102978)
$18.00
421.
Wong, Kat. Don’t put the vinegar in the copper. San Francisco: Children's Book Press, 1978. 23p., wraps mildly
worn and scuffed, top of back cover creased, stamp of an educational resource center inside front cover. Bilingual English
and Chinese text; thoroughly illustrated by Stephanie Lowe. Fifth World Tales. (#180703)
$12.00
Children’s story about a girl in San Francisco’s Chinatown who misunderstands her mom’s culinary instructions to comedic
effect.
422.
Wong, Kent, edited by Julie Monroe and Kathleen Yasuda. Voices for justice; Asian Pacific American organizers
and the new labor movement. Los Angeles: Center for Labor Research and Education, UCLA, 2001. ISBN: 0892151900.
112p., illus. with photos, 8.5x9 inches, wraps. (#87097)
$15.00
423.
Wong, Mrs. Tyrus, editor. Gourmet celestial. Los Angeles: The Los Angeles Chinese Women's Club, 1970. 197p.,
Mrs Wong's preface and recipes, text reproduced from typescript with rainbow-colored cardstock dividers decorated with
sumi sketches. First edition printed orange leaves under acetate sheets, 7x8.5 inch comb-bound wraps; traces of kitchen
smoke has dimmed the acetate and the untitled spine, a sound and otherwise clean and unmarked copy. Find contributions
from Asian American celebrities and business wives. (#176131)
$18.00
Fund raising cookbook for the Southern California Asian American organization.
424.
Wong, Nellie. The death of long steam lady. Los Angeles: West End Press, 1986. ISBN: 0931122422. 67p., signed
by the poet, first edition, wraps. (#15459)
$12.00
425.
Wong, Norman. Cultural revolution; stories. New York: Persea Press, 1994. ISBN: 0892551976. 174p., very good
first edition in cloth-backed boards and unclipped dj. Wong's first book. Hardcover. (#32192)
$12.00
"In eleven linked stories Norman Wong scrutizes the ... world of the Laus, an immigrant Chinese family in Honolulu, and
especially of their "number one son," Michael, who comes of age with the secret that he is homosexual."
426.
Wong, Paul and Larissa Lai. Chinaman's Peak: walking the mountain. Banff: Walter Phillips Gallery, 1993.
ISBN: 0920159702. 25p., 4.75x7.5 inches, illustrated with photos, Hell Bank Note tipped-in at rear, very good in original
pictorial wraps. One of three catalogues published in conjunction with the exhibition "As Public as Race." Chinese Canadian
artists and authors. (#115345)
$30.00
427.
Wong, Peter C. The blessed journey. Hong Kong; Cleveland, OH: Streams Press [agent: The Chinese Store,
Cleveland], 1962. 523p., wraps, front cover slightly splitting from spine at bottom. (#154558)
$15.00
Wong, a newspaper editor then working in Dihua (now Urumqi), Xinjiang, writes in great detail of his family's harrowing
escape across the Pamir range into Afghanistan in 1949, after which they spent 2 years in India before settling in New York.
428.
Wong, Shawn. American knees. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1995. ISBN: 0684803046. 240p., nice inscription
by Wong, first edition, dj. (#69378) $15.00
429.
Work Projects Administration. Northern Califronia Writers' Project. Festivals in San Francisco. Stanford: James
Ladd Delkin, 1939. 67p. + 4p. full-page color illus., one of 1,000 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press, bookplate (Zellerbach
family) boards slightly soiled. Includes seven Asian American and three Hispanic festivals. American guide series . (#23639)
$95.00
430.
Workers Committee to Fight for the International Hotel and Victory Building / Bao wei Guoji ludian, Shengli lou
gongren weiyuanhui 保衛國際旅店, 勝利樓工人委員會. Boycott Art's Trading Co!! Join the Fight for International
Hotel and Victory Building [handbill]. San Francisco: the Committee, [1977]. 8.5x11 inch handbill, text in both Chinese
and in English, minor wear. (#187100)
$30.00
Quotes Chan, identified as the owner of the Four Seas development company, as boasting that "I have the money, the courts.
I have all the power. I'll kick all of you out."
431.
”__. City Hall screams "Arrest International Hotel demonstrators!" / Fight for our homes! We won't back
down! [handbill]. San Francisco: the Committee, [1977]. 8.5x14 inch handbill, printed both sides, minor edgewear.
(#187107)
$30.00
Notes that city officials including supervisor Quentin Kopp have called for the arrests of I-Hotel demonstrators; calls on the
reader to join a protest on April 11 outside city hall. Urges the city to purchase the site and maintain the hotel as low-rent
housing.
432.
”__. Four Seas desperate - People stop bulldozer and force a citywide vote on I-Hotel! [handbill]. San
Francisco: the Committee, 1977. 8.5x14 inch handbill, mimeographed in English on one side and Chinese on the other;
horizontal fold crease, minor edge soiling. (#187085) $40.00
Dated Sept. 11, 1977, the leaflet announces that after the forced eviction of the I-Hotel, protesters managed to stop a
bulldozer and disassemble the scaffolding that had been erected to dismantle the building. Calls on readers to attend a rally to
re-open the building for low income and elderly residents. Four Seas was the development company that had purchased the
site (and ended up going bankrupt, not having foreseen the organized resistance to its plans).
433.
Wright, Richard Thomas. In a Strange Land; a pictorial record of the Chinese in Canada 1788-1923. Saskatoon:
Western Producer Prairie Books, 1988. ISBN: 0888332696. vii, 119p., semi-coated paper throughout with captioned b&w
reproductions in a running text; first edition boards in pictorial dj, slight edgewear, clean and sound, a very good copy.
(#177814)
$22.00
434.
Wu, John C. H. The science of love, a study in the teachings of Therese of Lisieux. Hong Kong: Catholic Truth
Society, 1941. x, 48p., verso and recto impressions printed accordioned-paperstock style; third English-language edition (first
issued May 1940), two old Hong Kong printers' fiches on the front pastedown. Bright red figured silk over boards and titled
gilt, the silk now quite ragged, trailing threads and showing card; ffep bears an intrusive owner's legend in ballpoint pen, else
clean within, with a sound textblock. (#161859)
$125.00
Author Wu "first studied law at the Comparative Law School of China at Shanghai, graduating with honours in 1921. Then
he entered the University of Michigan, U.S.A., receiving his J. D. degree in 1922. His work was rewarded by a travelling
fellowship in international law, given by the Carnegie Endowment. He resigned the presidency of the provisional Court to
prepare lectures to be delivered at Northwestern University Law School, Chicago, as a holder of the Rosentahl Foundation
Lectureship. He also accepted an invitation to join the faculty of the Harvard Law School as a lecturer on comparative law.
The illness of his wife prevented him from carrying it out and he returned to China in 1930." After realizing "the
inconsistence and confusion of [Protestantism's] vague theology, founded on the free interpretation of the Bible" &c &c he
converted to Catholicism in 1937.
435.
Wu, Junsheng 呉俊升. Jiang gao ji 江皋集. Hong Kong: Meida yinshua youxian gongsi , 1967. 39 leaves in
elaborate fabric wraps, bound in thread Chinese style, inscribed with brush by author on flyleaf. (#152062) $35.00
Poetry in classical Chinese, plus essays including one about efforts to promote Chinese-language literary efforts in New
York. Text entirely in Chinese.
436.
Wyman, Nona Mock. Chopstick childhood in a town of silver spoons; orphaned in Los Gatos at the Ming
Quong Home. Walnut Creek, CA: MQ Press, 1997. ISBN: 0835126455. 320p., very good in wraps, inscribed by author on
title page. (#180450)
$20.00
437.
Xiu, Tao 秀陶. Si yu mei 死與美. Alhambra, CA: Xin Da Lu, 2000. 186p., very good hardcover with decorated
boards and leather strip down spine; text in Chinese. Inscribed by the author. (#185409) $30.00
Collection of post-1985 essays by the California-based immigrant author. Title means "Death and beauty."
438.
Xuanhua 宣化 [Venerable Master Hsuan Hua]. Shui jing hui tian lu 水鏡回天錄. Talmage, CA: Dharma Realm
Bhuddist University, 1990. Two volumes, 392 and 330 p. respectively, very good hardcovers, text in Chinese. (#184800)
$30.00
Short essays and poems written by the Buddhist teacher.
439.
Xue Di. Flames; poems dedicated to Vincent Van Gogh, translated by Wang Ping, Iona Crook and Keith
Waldrop. Providence: Paradigm Press, 1995. [28]p., review copy with sheet laid in, wraps. The Chinese dissident poet
emigrated to the US after the Tiananmen Square massacre. (#62799)
$17.00
440.
Yan, Martin. Martin Yan's Chinatown Cooking. The companion cookbook to the Public Television Series.
New York: William Morrow, 2002. ISBN: 0060084758. xxxv, 364p., 9.5x8.5 inch boards in glossy dj, very good. Inscribed
by author. (#129688)
$22.00
200 recipes from 11 Chinatowns around the world.
441.
Yang Richao 楊日超. Ba shi ni zhao 八 十 泥 爪 . San Francisco: Tai Sing Tong, [199-?]. [110p.], very good in
wraps, text in Chinese. (#186506) $25.00
Treaise on herbs and traditional Chinese medicine, by the San Francisco-based practitioner. Includes biographical
information about Yang. First page is a facsimile of a birthday greeting from George Bush the First and Barbara.
442.
Yang, Belle. Baba; a return to China upon my father's shoulders. San Diego: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1996.
ISBN: 0151000638. xx, 211p., profusely illus. with Yang's drawings and signed by her, first printing, dj. (#92980) $18.00
443.
Yang, Belle. The odyssey of a Manchurian. New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1996. ISBN: 0151001758.
305p., profusely illus. with Yang's drawings, signed and dated by Yang on the title page, and with an elaborate full-page
combined inscription/drawing by the author on the f.e.p., first printing, dj. On the flight of the author's father from China
during the civil war. (#59582)
$50.00
444.
Yang, Gene Luen. American born Chinese; color by Lark Pien. New York: First Second, 2006. 233p. graphic
novel, signed and inscribed by Yang, a very good copy of the later wraps printing. (#153347)
$12.00
445.
Yang, Lingfu 楊令茀. Shui yuan shan chang ji 水遠山長集 / Boundless water and mountain. Taibei: Wenhai
chubanshe, 1975. Various pagination, bound in traditional Chinese style with thread, title label partly torn and sloppily reglued, otherwise very good; text mostly in Chinese with several poems and biographical information translated into English.
Black and white photos of the author teaching at the Monterey Army Language School and posing in furs in Inner Mongolia.
(#180043)
$35.00
Poetry collection by the China-born artist and writer who settled in California and taught at Stanford. Includes a poem
criticizing Hitler which she says accompanied a painting he had comissioned from her when she fled to Berlin to escape the
Japanese invasion of China.
446.
Yang, Lizheng 楊立正 [Beto Young]. Fen dou fei yang de nan jia zhou gong shang ren wu 奮 鬥 飛 揚 的 南 加
州 工 商 人 物 / Prominent American-Chinese Businessman in Southern Calif. Monterey Park, CA: Yang shi qi hua kai fa
gong si, 1982. 561p., wraps, front cover creased. Biographical sketches in Chinese of immigrant businessmen. (#187897)
$35.00
447.
Yau, Emily. Dandelion poems. Hong Kong: Poetry World, [1990 or '92]. ISBN: 9627348066. 58p., staplebound
8.5x5.5 inch tastefully decorated wraps; a crimp midway of the foredge has mildly affected cover and all leaves, an else very
good copy. Poems set mostly in Asia, author a Chinese American poet from San Francisco, who appears to have annotated
her vita page without autographing. Underneath each of the three instances of her printed name (cover, titlepage, vita) she has
handwritten "Hon. Litt.D."; and at vita lists in holograph her every last dignity (runs seven closely-written lines) including
"invitations," as "Invited to be listed in '5,000 Personalties of the World' and 'International Who's Who of Intellectuals.' There
is a poignant photoportrait. (#176644)
$15.00
448.
Yau, Emily. Water lily; for the first audience of my poetry readings, poems. Hong Kong: Poetry World, [199-?].
46p., inscribed and signed by the Chinese American poet from San Francisco, 8.5x5.5 inch wraps. (#93332) $18.00
449.
Ye, Lili 葉莉莉. Huo yue zai jin shan qiao she de ren wu 活躍在金山僑社的人物. Taibei: Jiujinshan zhongshan
bao, 1980. 333p., very good in wraps, inscribed by Ye inside front cover, minor external foxing; text in Chinese. (#185303)
$22.00
Personages active in San Francisco's Chinatown. First installment in what turned into a series.
450.
”__. Huo yue zai jin shan qiao she de ren wu [Fourth installment]. Taibei: Jiujinshan zhongshan bao, 2001.
421p., very good in wraps, text in Chinese. (#177930)
$22.00
Fourth installment in a series that began in 1980.
451.
Ye, Zhou 叶舟. Meiguo ai qing 美 國 爱 情 [American Love]. Nanjing: Jiangsu wenyi chubanshe, 2001. ISBN:
7539916338. 335p., shelfworn wraps, inscribed by author, text in Chinese. (#128329)
$25.00
Novel of a Chinese man's love affairs in the USA, written by a former employee of a Chinese-language TV station in San
Francisco.
452.
Yee, Albert H. A search for meaning; essays of a Chinese American. San Francisco: Chinese Historical Society
of America, 1983. vi, 311p. + three color photos, inscribed by the San Francisco-based author, first edition, wraps. (#30453)
$20.00
Includes sections on his years as an American soldier (1952-55), medicine in Chinese and Western cultures, his role as the
first Fulbright scholar to the People's Republic of China, and more.
453.
Yee, Chiang, writer and illustrator. China revisited after forty-two years. New York: W. W. Norton & Company,
1977. 180p. incl. illus., first printing, slighty worn dj. Chinese American author . (#51408)
$15.00
454.
Yee, Diane C. Gung hay fat choy. A Chinese cultural resource book for parents and teachers for use with
children. El Cerrito, CA: the author, 1981. 92p., very good in wraps, 8.5x11 inches; third printing. (#186526)
$20.00
Introduction to Chinese New Year traditions, including art projects, worksheets, and other materials for classroom use.
455.
Yee, Paul. The bone collector's son. Vancouver: Tradewind, 2004. ISBN: 1896580505. 175p., wraps, inscribed by
author. Teen hero, written for teens. (#138376)
$12.00
456.
”__. Saltwater city; an illustrated history of the Chinese in Vancouver. Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 1988.
ISBN: 0295967013. 174p., illus., 10x9.5 inches, first printing, dj. (#84930)
$15.00
457.
”__; illustrated by Harvey Chan. Ghost train. Vancouver: A Groundwood Book, Douglas & McIntyre, 1996. ISBN:
0888992572. unpaginated, 9.25x12.25 inches, color illustrations, very good first edition in pictorial boards and matching
unclipped dj. (#151933) $12.00
Children's ghost story of a Chinese immigrant in the 19th century.
458.
Yeh, Phil. Cazco in China. Los Alamitos, CA: Fragments West/The Valentine Press, 1980. [84]p., 8.5x11 inches,
wraps. Comic book novel by the Chinese American cartoonist. (#77899)
$25.00
459.
Yeh, Phil. Godiva: a non-sexist adult fantasy. Los Alamitos, CA: Fragments West/The Valentine Press, 1979.
[62]p., 8.5x11 inches, foxed wraps. Comic book novel by the California-native, Chinese American cartoonist. (#95599)
$15.00
460.
Yep, Laurence. Tongues of jade; illustrated by David Wiesner. New York: HarperCollins, 1991. ix, 194p., first
printing, dj. Retelling of legends brought by Chinese immigrants and collected in Oakland in the 1930s. (#69235)
$12.00
461.
Yinhai 印海. Fo shuo guan Mile pu sa shang sheng jing jiang ji 佛說觀彌勒菩薩上生經講記. New York:
Eastern Buddhist Association, 1992. 199p., very good in wraps; text in Chinese. (#142244)
$18.00
Talks by the Buddhist Master on Maitreya.
462.
[Yip Fong]. Selected poems of Yip Fong translated by Li MingXin [Oliver M Lee]. Hong Kong: The Milky Way
Publishing Co., 2001. ISBN: 9624752230. 76p., facing Chinese and English texts; first edition 7x5 inch coated wraps, clean
and sound, a very good copy. Author born in China, B.A. in Bus Admin from Univ. Hawaii. The World Contemporary
Poetry Series / Chinese-English Bilingual / Series Selected Short Poems. Fu Tianhong, chief editor. (#175589)
$15.00
463.
Yip, Wai-Lim. Between landscapes; poems, with an introduction by Jerome Rothenberg. Santa Fe:
Pennywhistle Press, 1994. ISBN: 0938631241. 32p., first edition, wraps. Poetry. (#48963)
$15.00
464.
Young, Mary E. Mules and dragons; popular culture images in the selected writings of African-American and
Chinese-American women writers. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1993. 157p., inscribed by Young, first printing.
Contributions in women's studies 136. (#98009)
$35.00
465.
Young, Nancy Foon. The Chinese in Hawaii; an annotated bibliography. Honolulu: Social Science Research
Institute. University of Hawaii, 1973. ISBN: 0824802659. xii, 149p., 8.5x11 inches, wraps. Hawaii 4. (#84961)
$30.00
466.
Yu, Connie Young. Profiles in excellence; Peninsula Chinese Americans. Palo Alto: Stanford Area Chinese Club,
1985. xii, 156p., vignette photos of the 37 persons profiled, wraps, very good copy signed and briefly inscribed by Yu on the
title page. (#25543)
$15.00
467.
Yu, Marlene Tseng. Forces of nature; 30 years creation. Date of exhibition: Nov. 2 - Dec. 22, 1996. Taichung:
Taiwan Museum of Art, 1996. Hardcover, 99p., profusely illus. with color reproductions of works by the Chinese American
artist, 10x10 inch exhibition catalog, text in English, Chinese and French. Fantasy landscapes, undersea rhapsodies, she sees
herself as part of the "Green" movement. (#61843)
$35.00
468.
Yu, Min [Ernest M. Yu]. Yu Min wen xuan 于 民 文 選 . San Francisco: Bay-Hi Publishing, 2003. ISBN:
0967457556. 509p., very good in wraps, signed by author. Text in Chinese. (#185211)
$22.00
Collection of writings by the San Francisco-based immigrant. He headed the Northern California Chinese Tea Culture
Association, a card for which is laid in.
469.
Yuan, Robin T. W. Cheer up . . . you're only half dead; reflections at mid-life. Amherst: Prometheus Books,
1996. ISBN: 1573920789. 157p., introduction, very good first edition in dj. Signed by the Harvard-educated Southern
California plastic surgeon. (#113465)
$18.00
470.
Yuan, Seldon. Morning afternoon evenings. Lake Hiawatha, NJ: Morning Afternoon Evenings, 2002. ISBN:
0971884404. 58p., wraps. Chinese American poet. (#86918) $15.00
471.
Zhang Huan. Zhang Huan: selected works 1995-2006, exhibition September 22-October 28, 2006. New York:
Max Lang, 2006. 59p., 11.5x11 inches, illustrated catalogue of the Chinese-American's photographs in color and b&w,
appreciation by Lilly Wei, very good oversized paperback in pictorial wraps. Paperback. (#175832)
$65.00
472.
Zhang, Wencan 張文燦 [Steve Jeong]. Lu shi ren zou chu lai de 路是人走出來的. Kaiping: the author, 2007.
120p., wraps, text in Chinese, very good but for crimp in middle of spine. Not found in OCLC. (#166509) $20.00
Collected essays and newspaper articles, many reprinted from San Francisco-based publications; includes a photo of him
with Ronald Reagan.
473.
Zhang, Wenzheng 張文政. Tian ya ci xuan 天涯詞選. Oakland, CA: the author, 2007. 90p., very good in wraps,
text in Chinese. Not yet in OCLC. (#162401)
$25.00
Collection of poetry and several short essays by the Chinese-American long-time revolutionary activist.
474.
Zhang, Xiangpu 張香譜. Jin shan yi jiu 金山憶舊. Taibei: Guangdong guomin daxue Taibei shi xiao you hui,
1972. 10, 6, 3, 175 p., very good wraps, in edgeworn plastic overwrap. (#141817)
$35.00
Memoir by the Taiwanese educator, written in retirement in San Francisco. Significant discussion of Chinese-American life
in San Francisco.
475.
Zhao, Ming 趙銘. Hua qi feng: Meiguo sheng huo xing tai 花旗風: 美國生活形態. Taibei: Xingdao chubanshe,
1979. 270p., very good hardcover, text in Chinese. (#160145) $25.00
Observations on American life by a former journalist who, according to the preface, had lived in the US for almost 40 years.
476.
[Zhao, Pop]. A memorial artwork by Pop Zhao dedicated to 9.11 victims; September 7, 2003. San Francisco:
Pop Zhao, 2003. unpaginated, 8.25x11.25 inches, illustrated with color photos, very good in original stiff illustrated blue
wraps. A program-brochure announcing Pop Zhao's new work to be performed/exhibited in NYC, illustrated with photos of
his works relating to 9/11 in 2002 and his wrapping of the new Asian Art Museum in SF 2003. (#108615) $35.00
477.
Zhao, Weiliang. Weiliang Zhao: selected works, 1986-2001, USA. [Chicago-?]: Zhao Studio, 2002. ISBN:
1888065257. 96p., very good in wraps, color reproductions of paintings by the Chicago-based immigrant artist. (#166906)
$65.00
478.
Zheng Yihong 鄭倚虹. Po fu chen zhou: san mu ju 破斧沉舟 : 三幕劇. Shanghai: Zhongwai chubanshe, 1946.
122p., wraps, front cover has several small chips around edge, interior has English marginalia on many pages from someone
using the text to practice Chinese or vice versa. Text in Chinese. First Shanghai edition. The play was originally titled
Guangyuan Lun. Includes facsimile reprints in miniature of some San Francisco newspaper items on the case. (#185213) $95
Three-act play about the Kwang Yuan, a Chinese-owned ship that had been chartered by a Japanese firm to take scrap iron
from San Francisco to Japan. The crew rioted in protest at the shipment, given Japan's use of iron for the war industry, and
the ship sat in harbor, fully loaded, while legal challenges mounted. One Chinese crew member remained on board as the
ship sat off Hunters Point until late 1940, when the ship was sold to an Australian firm.
479.
Zheng, Sheng Tian and Charles Liu, editors. Artists of Chinese origin in North America directory; first edition
1993, 1994. Westmont: Point Gallery/Artist Magazine/Int. Inst. for the Arts, 1993. 281p., 8.75x11.25 inches, biographies of
the artists, gallery listings, art groups, indexes, illustrated with b&w and color reproductions of artworks, slight dampstain at
bottom of last few pages, in publisher's original blue buckram and gilt. (#103952)
$30.00
480.
Zhu Xinliu 朱辛流. Meiguo Hua bu 美國華埠. New York: Zhong Mei Yanjiusuo / Chinese-American Research
Institute, 1985. 147p., very good in wraps, text in Chinese. (#178216) $25.00
On Chinese immigration to the US.
481.
Zi lian tang 紫蓮堂 / Purple Lotus Society. 2001 nian sui ci xinsi nian min li shu. San Bruno, CA: Zi lian
chubanshe, 2001. 128p., glossy wraps, text in Chinese. (#182082)
$25.00
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.