Chin Music Press Inc : 17 books

Cover of The Sun Gods
by Jay Rubin
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2015

Arriving in Seattle on the eve of World War II, Japanese-born Mitsuko falls for Tom, a widowed pastor, and becomes surrogate mother to his fair-haired American toddler, Bill. But the bombing of Pearl Harbor strains the newly formed family as U.S. government mandates and Tom’s growing discomfort...
Cover of A Commonplace Book of Pie
by Kate Lebo, Jessica Bonin
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2013

This is the book version of Lebo's popular zine of the same name (2,000 copies sold). The zine has proven especially popular at Elliott Bay Books and Prairie Lights. Lebo won the Joan Grayston Prize for new poets and a Nelson Bentley Fellowship at the University of Washington in 2012. Poet...
Cover of Yellow River Odyssey
by Bill Porter
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2014

The Chinese version of this book quickly became a bestseller after its release in May 2012. It started with an initial run of 20,000 and is now in a second printing. The New York Review of Books covered the book launch in Beijing. Bill Porter is one of the most respected authorities on Chinese...
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Yurei

The Japanese Ghost

by Zack Davisson
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2015

Arriving just in time for Halloween, this collection of true stories and facts about yurei--the iconic Japanese ghosts--spans the genres of history, folklore, paranormal activity, and real-life horror. Zack Davisson blends his expert knowledge of Japanese folklore with ancient tales and firsthand...
Cover of Cute Grit
by Enfu
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2014

Bright, brazen color and unique lines rescue familiar images from the background of American and Japanese culture. A treasure trove of Japanese and American iconography rendered in Enfu's style that is perfect for the pop culture fan. Social and cultural intersections between east and...
Cover of Subduction
by Todd Shimoda
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012

Shimoda's best novel to date, and his first psychological thriller Todd Shimoda was the winner of the 2010 Elliot Cades Award for Literature, given to Hawaii's top writer. Past winners include Paul Theroux & Ian MacMillan. Shimoda's 2009 novel Oh! was picked as a summer best read...
Cover of White Elephant
by Mako Idemitsu
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2017

• Mako Idemitsu is an established and internationally acclaimed feminist artist and pioneer in the medium of experimental film. Her work has been featured in exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, The National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo, The Los Angeles Institute for Contemporary...
Cover of King of the Worlds
by M. Thomas Gammarino
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016

This dark comedy explores the lost universes of disgraced idol Dylan Greenyears. Dylan had always wanted to live as many lives as he could—that was the appeal of being an actor. But at the end of a brief stint as a Hollywood heartthrob, Dylan loses the lead in Titanic and exiles himself and his...
Cover of Goodbye Madame Butterfly

Goodbye Madame Butterfly

Sex, Marriage and the Modern Japanese Woman

by Sumie Kawakami
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012

Sumie Kawakami is an experienced and intelligent reporter who manages to get her subjects to bare their souls and share their anxieties in a book I found hard to put down. ” -Jeff Kingston, The Japan Times "Kawakami presents a frank portrait of Japanese women today, via these compulsively...
Cover of Yokohama Yankee

Yokohama Yankee

My Family's Five Generations as Outsiders in Japan

by Leslie Helm
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013

Leslie D. Helm's decision to adopt Japanese children launches him on a personal journey through his family's 140 years in Japan, beginning with his great-grandfather, who worked as a military advisor in 1870 and defied custom to marry his Japanese mistress. The family's poignant experiences of love...
Cover of The Human Jungle
by Cho Chongnae
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2016

Cho Chongnae is one of South Korea's greatest living writers, and yet much of his work remains untranslated. This is the most ambitious project yet to bring his work to an English-speaking audience. Cho's novels have sold more than 16 million copies in South Korea thus far, a record in Korean...
Cover of Why Ghosts Appear
by Todd Shimoda, L.J.C. Shimoda
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015

A fortuneteller hires a detective to find her missing son in this existential noir mystery. A startling clue leads the detective into the underground worlds of fortunetelling and "pleasure" tours. The missing son reminds him of an old case which ended badly, one he is compelled to reopen....
Cover of Meet Me at the Bamboo Table

Meet Me at the Bamboo Table

Everyday Meals Everywhere

by A.V. Crofts
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016

In our ever-more-globalized world, how better to connect than with food, and who better to connect than a chowhound communications professor? Crofts concocts a multimedia feast of photos, “sketchnotes,” and vignettes, inviting us to everything from Thanksgiving in Germany to a Lunar New Year dumpling party in Seattle. The result is a truly beautiful meditation on how food nourishes community.
Cover of Big in Japan

Big in Japan

A (Hungry) Ghost Story

by M. Thomas Gammarino
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015

“From Susie Wong to Madame Butterfly to Miss Saigon: you might think that we've had enough of American men adventuring, scoring, and coming undone in the Far East. But you'd be wrong. Gammarino's Big in Japan is a shrewd and lively book, sharp-eyed and unsparing in its account of a young American's...
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