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From the deepest heart of the Moghul palace, her face hidden by veils, Nur Jahan came to rule all of Mogul India.

The last empress of China, Cixi fought ruthlessly to isolate her country from the West while cloistered inside her lavish Forbidden City and ignoring the needs of her people. Her extravagant lifestyle, bouts of bad temper, and brutal punishments…

In China, at a time when few girls are taught to read or write, Ruby dreams of going to the university with her brothers and male cousins.

Information and advice for preserving American Indian cultural objects.

The first new edition in a decade of this famous "bible of the museum registrar," rewritten, expanded and fully updated. MRM5 encompasses all that needs to be known and done when a museum accessions, measures, marks, moves, displays or stores an…

Exploring contributions, trials, and daily lives of the Chinese living in the Pacific Northwest and adjoining Canadian provinces between 1788 and 1911.

Original compositions by Paul Kikuchi. Ispired by the memoir and 78rpm record collection of Zenkichi Kikuchi.

In 1969, the Burkes stumbled on a derelict hall which had a glorious past but was all but forgetten. This book presents the story of the community which built the hall, the exciting heyday of its formative years, its' forced abandonment in 1942, its'…

Traces three generations of a Chinese-American family from its patriarch's self-invention as an immigration broker in post-gold rush San Francisco to the family's intimate involvement in the 1904 World's Fair.