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BKLYN BookMatch Lives of Asian and Native American Women Pre-1945

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The diary of Lady Murasaki
translated and introduced by Richard Bowring.
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The ink dark Moon
by Ono no Komachi & Izumi Shikibu ; translated by Jane Hirshfield with Mariko Aratani.
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Li, Ch'ing-chao, complete poems.
Translated and edited by Kenneth Rexroth and Ling Chung.
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Tangled hair;
Translated from the Japanese by Sanford Goldstein and Seishi Shinoda.
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Mirabai
versions by Robert Bly and Jane Hirshfield.
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The broken wing;
by Sarojini Naidu.
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Citizen 13660
drawings & text by Minâe Okubo.
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Undaunted Women of Nanking: The Wartime Diaries of Minnie Vautrin and Tsen Shui-fang

Hu, H. & Lian-hong, Z..The Undaunted Women of Nanking: The Wartime Diaries of Minnie Vautrin and Tsen Shui-fang. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2010. Project MUSE. Web. 21 Apr. 2016. <https://muse.jhu.edu/>.

Cherokee Sister: The Collected Writings of Catharine Brown

Gaul, T. S. & Brown, C..Cherokee Sister: The Collected Writings of Catharine Brown, 1818-1823. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2014. Project MUSE. Web. 21 Apr. 2016. <https://muse.jhu.edu/>.