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The best of the 8th Deaf History International Conference, members of international Deaf communities around the world relate their own autobiographies as well as the biographies of historical Deaf individuals in this engrossing collection.

Stories From Tohoku examines stories of inner strength and resilience, grace and acceptance, differences between East and West, and the enduring bonds between the people of Japan and Americans of Japanese ancestry. Set against the backdrop of Japan's…

The author describes being caught between the Japanese culture of her childhood and the American ways of her adulthood in the Midwest.

A novel about Japan and the aftermath of the American Occupation

Twenty stories by India's most distinguished writers -- Rabindranath Tagore, Sarat Chandra Chatterjee, C. Rajagopalachari, Prem Chand, Mulk Raj Anand, R.K. Narayan, Raja Rao, P.B. Bhave, Krishan Chandar, Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai, Khushwant Singh,…

Set in rural Japan at the time of the bubble economy, the book tells of a farming village affected by corruption, greed and urbanization.

An intimate look at the life of an ordinary Japanese woman at the close of the twentieth century.

"Miss Sophie's Diary", by one of China's best-known writers, created a sensation when first published in 1928 for the frank portrayal of a young woman's ideals and emotions in conflict. Other stories in this book by the same author deal with Shanghai…

These words to a simple child's game brought from Japan and made local, the property of all of Hawaii's people, symbolize the cultural transformation experienced by Hawaii's Japanese. It is the story of this experience that Dennis Ogawa tells so well…

The story of a middle-class family in Calcutta.