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The Diary of Dukesang Wong

Edited by David McIlwraith
Translated by Wanda Joy Hoe
By (author) Dukesang Wong
Categories: Asian history

Here is the only known first-person account from a Chinese worker on the famously treacherous parts of transcontinental railways that spanned the North American continent in the nineteenth century. Dukesang ...

Quest for Coomaraswamy

Text by Pratapaditya Pal
Categories: History of art

A biography of one of the pioneers in Asian art by the world’s foremost specialist in the arts of India, the Himalayas and South East Asia.

An intimate biography by Dr. Pratapaditya Pal, viewed by many ...

The Mongolian Chronicles

By (author) Allen Smutylo
Categories: Asian history

In the shadows of the Altai Mountains live the Kazakh nomads of western Mongolia. These hard-living nomads survive on windswept steppes, grazing their herds and keeping an ancient practice alive: hunting ...

Inside Chinatown

By (author) Robert Amos & Kileasa Wong
Categories: Asian history

Victoria’s Chinatown is Canada’s oldest Chinese neighbourhood and has a lineage unbroken since 1858. With large-format colour photos and photocollages, Robert Amos and Kileasa Wong take you behind ...

East Timor: Testimony

By (author) Elaine Briere
Contributions by Noam Chomsky
Categories: Photographs: collections

The People of East Timor endured the brutality of colonization and invasion, to emerge into the uncertain light of nationhood. At this point of transition, through stunning images and insightful texts, ...