Chin: 207 books
Katie Chin's Everyday Chinese Cookbook
101 Delicious Recipes from My Mother's Kitchen
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
"Katie Chin has done us all a huge favor: she's provided us with recipes for so many of the Chinese dishes we always wanted to cook but have never had clear and easy instructions to prepare…Thank you, Katie Chin!" —Martha Stewart
Home chefs will enjoy preparing these Chinese home...
by Justin Chin
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2006
“At his most flippant, Chin is downright charming.”—Publishers Weekly
While trying to make sense of this ever-churning, terror-filled world, poet Justin Chin found himself traveling repeatedly home to Southeast Asia—a region unnerved and raging with SARS and the Avian Flu—to help...
Building Community, Chinatown Style
A Half Century of Leadership in San Francisco Chinatown
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2015
Gordon Chin, nationally recognized community leader and activist, tells the compelling story of the rise of civic and political power in San Francisco's Chinatown from the 1960s through the election of a Chinese American mayor in 2011. This grass roots community leadership has made San Francisco Chinatown...
by Marilyn Chin
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
A rich, illuminating compilation of selected and new poems from Marilyn Chin, "a poet of contradictions, poignant sentiment, beat-your-ass toughness, and unexpected humor" (Los Angeles Review of Books).
Spanning thirty years of dazzling work—from luminous early love lyrics to often-anthologized...
My Life with Things
The Consumer Diaries
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
Unconventional and provocative, My Life with Things is Elizabeth Chin's meditation on her relationship with consumer goods and a critical statement on the politics and method of anthropology. Chin centers the book on diary entries that focus on everyday items—kitchen cabinet knobs, shoes, a piano—and...
Lily Chin's Knitting Tips and Tricks
Shortcuts and Techniques Every Knitter Should Know
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2011
Toss Lily into your project bag and bring her stitching savvy, troubleshooting techniques, and no-frills know-how wherever your knitting takes you!
Are you one of the thousands of Lily Chin converts who swear by her legendary Tips & Tricks classes? Or are you an avid knitter in search of...
by Justin Chin
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2011
Justin Chin is the nationally-known author of 6 previous books.
Justin Chin's work has been reviewed nationally in Out magazine and The San Francisco Chronicle among other prubl;ications.
Justin Chin has won numerous awards, including the Publishing Triangle's Thom Gunn Award.
Chin...
by Justin Chin
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
The first collection by award-winning performance artist/poet Justin Chin. In Bite Hard, Chin explores his identity as an Asian, a gay man, an artist, and a lover. He rails against both his own life experiences and society's limitations and stereotypes with scathing humor, bare-bones honesty, and...
by Marilyn Chin
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2014
**Winner of the 2015 Anisfield-Wolf Prize for Poetry
From a poet of "dazzling longing" (Los Angeles Times), a stunning new collection of haunting elegies and playful quatrains.**
Marilyn Chin is a poet acclaimed by Adrienne Rich for her "powerful, uncompromised, and unerring"...
Lily Chin's Crochet Tips and Tricks
Shortcuts and Techniques Every Crocheter Should Know
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2011
Toss Lily into your project bag and bring her stitching savvy, troubleshooting techniques, and no-frills know-how wherever your crocheting takes you!
Every crocheter, from the newest beginner to the most versatile expert, needs an accessible technique guide. And who better to compile one than...
Eating Wildly
Foraging for Life, Love and the Perfect Meal
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
In this touching and informative memoir about foraging for food in New York City, Ava Chin finds sustenance…and so much more.
Urban foraging is the new frontier of foraging for foods, and it’s all about eating better, healthier, and more sustainably, no matter where you live. Time named...
Sewing Women
Immigrants and the New York City Garment Industry
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2005
Many Latino and Chinese women who immigrated to New York City over the past several decades found work in the garment industry-an industry well known for both hiring immigrants and its harsh working conditions. In the 1990s, the garment industry was one of the largest immigrant employers in New York...
The Authentic Confucius
A Life of Thought and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2007
For more than two thousand years, Confucius has been an inseparable part of China's history. Yet despite this fame,Confucius the man has been elusive. Now, in The Authentic Confucius, Annping Chin has worked through the most reliable Chinese texts in her quest to sort out what is really known about...
Four Sisters of Hofei
A History
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
Four Sisters of Hofei is an intimate encounter with Chinese history, told through the collective memory and stories of four sisters born between 1908 and 1924, and with the benefit of the extraordinary knowledge of Yale historian Annping Chin.
Now in their late eighties and early nineties,...