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  • Sparkles for Sunny

    A Lunar New Year Story

    by Sylvia Chen ...
    Illustrated by Thai My Phuong ...
    Lunar New Year is coming up, and Sunny is stuck wearing hand-me-downs to the party AGAIN.“This warm family story will resonate with youngest children everywhere, regardless of a particular holiday or season. Highly recommended.”–School Library JournalThe Lao family has four rules:Make what you can yourself.Get good deals.Share extras with others.Never waste anything....whic... ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Connecting the Dots

    Illusory Correlation and the Brain's Desperate Need for Patterns

    by Sylvia Chen ...
    Why are we absolutely convinced that a full moon causes emergency rooms to overflow, or that washing our car guarantees it will rain? Our brains are evolutionary pattern-recognition machines, designed to find connections in the wild to keep us alive. But in the complex modern world, this survival mechanism constantly misfires, causing us to link completely unrelated events together. This is the ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Tricky Chopsticks

    by Sylvia Chen ...
    Illustrated by Fanny Liem ...
    A young Chinese American girl uses creative STEAM-powered problem-solving to master chopsticks so she can pick up her dumplings and eat them, too, in this charming and laugh-out-loud picture book perfect for fans of the Amy Wu series.Jenny Chow struggles with chopsticks—aiya, those slippery, oh-so-tricky chopsticks! But cousin Victor’s birthday party is just around the corner, along with her ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Diasporic Chinese Voluntary Associations in Transition

    Ethnicity, Gender and Community (Re)making in the Asia Pacific

    Edited by Ningning Chen, Emily Hertzman, Sylvia Ang ...
    Recent studies of Chinese voluntary associations (CVAs) have attempted to highlight the theoretical significance of CVAs for understandings of community (re)making. However, the power dynamics inherent in community (re)making have rarely been expounded. In recognition of this, this book weaves together case studies across countries in the Asia Pacific to explore the complex power relations played ... Read more

    $107.99 CAD

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  • Sinicization and the Rise of China

    Civilizational Processes Beyond East and West

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  • Truly Human

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    The Sediq and Truku Indigenous peoples on the mountainous island of Formosa – today called Taiwan – say that their ancestors emerged in the beginning of time from Pusu Qhuni, a tree-covered boulder in the highlands. Living in the mountain forests, they observed the sacred law of Gaya, seeking equilibrium with other humans, the spirits, animals, and plants. They developed a politics in which each ... Read more

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  • Of Gods, Gifts and Ghosts

    Spiritual Places in Urban Spaces

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  • The Routledge Handbook of Nationalism in East and Southeast Asia

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  • Voices from the Chinese Century

    Public Intellectual Debate from Contemporary China

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  • Contesting Chineseness

    Ethnicity, Identity, and Nation in China and Southeast Asia

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    Combining a historical approach of Chineseness and a contemporary perspective on the social construction of Chineseness, this book provides comparative insights to understand the contingent complexities of ethnic and social formations in both China and among the Chinese diaspora in Southeast Asia. This book focuses on the experiences and practices of these people, who as mobile agents are free to ... Read more

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