Cloud Poetry

Excerpts from books by Korean philosopher Byung Chul Han

Book by city historian Jeremiah Moss

Poems by John Yau

Collected articles and essays on American racism

This tale of adventure interweaves history and legend to vibrantly present the fundamentals of Taoism. Written by an unknown author, Seven Taoist Masters is the story of six men, and one woman who overcome tremendous hardships on the journey to self-mastery. This novel brings to life the essentials of Taoist philosophy, and practice both through Wang’s instructions on such topics as the cultivatio...

The Holy in Art. An investigation of the relationship between the holy and the beautiful. Van der Leeuw undertakes to show that the holy has never been absent from the arts and the arts have never been unresponsive to the holy. Primitive creation in the arts was always directed toward the symbolization and interpretation of the holy. Gerardus Van der Leeuw, late professor of the history of religio...

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Dante’s Inferno, in no particular order

“Devouring the Other: Cannibalism, translation and the construction of cultural identity”, by Rainer Guldin, 2014

Some articles on the topic of Puritanism in American society

New writing by Asian American women, 1997

The daily goings-on of Yanyan Huang.

By Byung-Chul Han “The days of the other are over in this age of excessive communication information and consumption. What used to be the other as friend, as Eros, or as hell is now indistinguishable from the self and our narcissistic desire to assimilate everything and everyone until there are no boundaries left. The result is a terror of the same lives in which we no longer pursue knowledge, ins...

Reading the planets through Capital, Power, and Labor by Alice Sparkly Kat

Where in America can you visit another country without needing a passport? Chinatown USA: a world within a world and a state of mind. In American Chinatown, acclaimed travel writer Bonnie Tsui takes an affectionate and attentive look at the neighborhood that has bewitched her since childhood. Tsui visits the country’s five most famous China towns and focuses on the intriguing characters who live i...

Poetic culture from antiquity through the Tang, by Zong-qi Cai

Articles that unpack the harmful stereotypes of Asians in the collective Western consciousness.

“Digital women and the new technoculture: Zeros and ones is a provocative and inspiring manifesto on the relationship between women and machines not since “The Female Eunuch” has there been a book so radical in its scope so persuasive in its detail so exhilarating in its polemical energy.”

Hal Foster, 2022

A selection of articles and stories concerning East Asian countries in recent times.

A short introduction to the religions of ancient China, collected and compiled by Herbert A. Giles, Professor of Chinese at the University of Cambridge

Excerpts from Godzilla: Asian American Arts Network, an anthology of archival material documenting the wide ranging activities in contemporary art and social advocacy undertaken by the art collective known as Godzilla. Over the past two decades, interest in this group of Asian American artists curators and writers has grown among a new generation contending with the politics of representation and...

Compiled by Herbert Allen Giles, 1911

Short memoirs and accounts of my days. Welcome to banality.

Asian Topics in World History at Columbia University