2014 Columbia Asian Studies Catalogue by Columbia University Press

ASIAN STUDIES New & Noteworthy Titles 2014

CONTENTS

JAPANESE LITERATURE Forthcoming September

Japanese Literature......................................... 2 Japanese Tradition & Culture......................... 7 Japanese History & Politics.......................... 10 Chinese Literature.........................................13 Chinese History & Politics........................... 19 Chinese Religion & Philosophy.....................31 Himalayas & Tibet........................................ 34 East Asian Tradition & Culture..................... 37 Asian Cinema................................................ 41 South/Southast Asian History & Politics....46 Indian Tradition & Culture...........................48 Korean Literature, Politics & Culture............51 Asian American Studies............................... 54 Pan-Asian Studies......................................... 56 Buddhism.................................................... 60 Asian Languages........................................... 65 Order Form...................................................66 Manuscript queries and proposals can be sent to the Asian Studies editor, Jennifer Crewe at jc373@ columbia.edu For a complete listing of Columbia’s titles or for more information about any book in this catalog, visit our web site: www.cup.columbia.edu Most titles in this catalog pulished by Columbia University Press are available worldwide from the Press. If no UK price appears, it is most likely from Columbia only in the United States, its possessions, and Canada

The Columbia Anthology of Japanese Essays Zuihitsu from the Tenth to the TwentyFirst Century Edited and translated by Steven D. Carter This anthology presents a representative selection of more than one hundred zuihitsu from a range of historical periods written by close to fifty authors—from well-known figures, such as Matsuo Bashō, Natsume Sōseki, and Kōda Aya, to such writers as Tachibana Nankei and Dekune Tatsurō, whose names appear here for the first time in English. Writers speak on the experience of coming down with a cold, the aesthetics of tea, the physiology and psychology of laughter, the demands of old age, standards of morality, childrearing, the Great Kantō Earthquake of 1923, sleeplessness, undergoing surgery, and training a parrot to say “thank you.” Varying in length from paragraphs to pages, these works also provide moving descriptions of snowy landscapes, foggy London, Ueno Park’s famous cherry blossoms, and the appeal of rainy vistas, and relate the joys and troubles of everyone from desperate samurai to filial children and ailing cats. $40.00 / £27.50 paper 978-0-231-16771-0 $120.00 / £83.00 cloth 978-0-231-16770-3 September 2014 512 pages

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LIGHT DAR K •AND•

• A NOVEL •

NATSUME

SO–SEKI TRANSLATED,

WITH AN INTRODUCTION,

JOHN NATHAN

The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Drama

Light and Dark

Edited by J. Thomas Rimer, Mitsuya Mori,

Natsume Sōseki

A Novel

and M. Cody Poulton

“Unusual, in several respects, Light and Dark

“Affords rich and detailed insights into the

is nevertheless an accomplished work of art

development of modern drama and provides

and a fascinating example of Japanese fiction

an intimate sense of how theater contrib-

of its time.” — Complete Review

utes to Japan’s modern history, culture and

“Sōseki’s Light and Dark is one of the most

self-identity. Thoroughly researched and

gripping novels in modern Japanese litera-

beautifully presented, it will be an essential

ture. It represents a historical turning point

companion to the study of theater in Japan

in the development of Japanese fiction. John

in the last century.” — Peter Eckersall, City

Nathan, a distinguished translator, has pro-

University of New York

duced a masterful rendition that captures the

“This anthology provides an excellent rep-

subtle nuances of the original.”

resentative sampling of modern Japanese

— Haruo Shirane, Columbia University,

drama and makes a substantial contribution

author of Japan and the Culture of the Four

not only to Japanese literature in translation,

Seasons

but also to the body of Japanese scripts avail-

$35.00 / £24.00 cloth 978-0-231-16142-8

able in English for western theatre artists.”

2013 464 pages / 188 illus.

— Kevin J. Wetmore Jr., Loyola Marymount

Weatherhead Books on Asia

University $75.00 / £52.00 cloth 978-0-231-12830-8 2014 736 pages / 26 illus.

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JAPANESE LITERATURE

Wondrous Brutal Fictions

Kiku’s Prayer

Eight Buddhist Tales from the Early Japanese Puppet Theater

A Novel

Translated with an Introduction by R. Keller

Translated by Van C. Gessel

Endō Shūsaku;

Kimbrough

“Deftly plotted and well researched, the novel

”R. Keller Kimbrough offers us a key missing

is tinged with affection for Nagasaki.”

link between medieval Japanese popular

— The Japan Times

culture before 1600 and the early modern era.

“A wonderful, poignant and beautiful work of

Buddhist tales were the core of the itinerant storytelling tradition, which joined with puppet troupes to perform in newly-established urban theaters in the early 17th century. The eight works he translates were the bedrock upon which Jôruri (Bunraku) developed. The

historical fiction – highly recommended!” — Historical Novels Review $29.50 / £20.50 cloth 978-0-231-16282-1 2012 328 pages / 16 illus. Weatherhead Books on Asia

archetypes in these tales reverberated in later theater. Kimbrough’s previous work on medieval popular Buddhist culture prepared him effectively to analyze how the stories were transmitted and transformed into the new urban theater context, and to present us with accurate and enjoyable translations.” — C. Andrew Gerstle, SOAS, University of London $55.00 / £38.00 cloth 978-0-231-14658-6 2013 288 pages / 53 illus.

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The Tale of Genji

Traditional Japanese Literature

Translation, Canonization, and World Literature

An Anthology, Beginnings to 1600,

Michael Emmerich

Edited by Haruo Shirane

“A stunning tour de force, The Tale of Genji reveals the manner in which the work was ‘replaced’ by various texts and how it was made from the late-nineteenth century into a world classic both in and outside of Japan. Throughout, Michael Emmerich engages with translation studies, reception theory, and current notions of world literature, writing in a transnational, trans-lingual context. This book makes us profoundly aware of the transformation of the material Tale of Genji and reading practices in Japan from the late, early-modern through the postwar period, thus bridging the gap between early-modern and modern literary studies as well as that between Japanese literary studies and contemporary translation studies.”

Abridged Edition

“An invaluable compilation of and guide to pre-modern Japanese literature.” — Times Literary Supplement “The field has been waiting for a comprehensive anthology like this. It provides not only a representative but a generous sampling of the best of Japanese prose and poetry.” —Sonja Arntzen, University of Toronto $35.00 / £24.00 paper 978-0-231-15731-5 $105.00 / £72.50 cloth 978-0-231-15730-8 2012 600 pages/ 8 illus. Transalations From the Asian Classics

— Haruo Shirane, Columbia University, author of Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons $60.00 / £41.50 cloth 978-0-231-16272-2 2013 512 pages / 129 illus.

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JAPANESE LITERATURE

Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons

Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Literature

Nature, Literature, and the Arts

Abridged Edition

Haruo Shirane

Edited by J. Thomas Rimer and Van C. Gessel

Choice Outstanding Academic Title

Praise for the Columbia Anthology of Modern

“A comprehensive view of the subject, replete with fascinating detail, and full scholarly apparatus.” — Japan Times “As accessible as it is erudite, this volume will appeal to those with interest in any aspect of the arts...Highly recommended.” — Choice “Shirane’s wide-ranging study tracks the culture of nature in Japan, and especially waka’s central role in constructing a vision of nature that impacted all the arts. In its breadth, depth, and accessibility, the book is of great value not only to scholars and students of Japan, but anyone interested in the intersections of art and nature.”

Japanese Literature: “The most comprehensive overview of modern Japanese literature available in translation.” — Bloomsbury Review $45.00 / £30.95 paper 978-0-231-15723-0 $135.00 / £93.00 cloth 978-0-231-15722-3 2011 896 pages Modern Asian Literature Series

— Andrew M. Watsky, Princeton University $25.00 / £17.50 paper 978-0-231-15281-5 $75.00 / £52.00 cloth 978-0-231-15280-8 2012 336 pages/ 33 illus.

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JAPANESE TRADITION & CULTURE

An Encouragement of Learning

The Winter Sun Shines In

Yukichi Fukuzawa; Introduction by Shunsaku

A Life of Masaoka Shiki

Nishikawa, Translated by David A. Dilworth

Donald Keene

“In An Encouragement of Learning, Yukichi

“In this new biography of Masaoka Shiki,

Fukuzawa wrote that freedom and equality

Donald Keene tells Shiki’s story with a won-

are inherent in man’s nature, and presented

derful blend of brio and depth. Meticulously

ideas that John Locke or Thomas Jefferson

researched and beautifully written, the work

would immediately have recognized. His logic

delves into hitherto slighted aspects of

justified the move from a highly stratified,

Shiki’s oeuvre and personality. Readers of

four-class society to one in which any person

Japanese and world literature will welcome

could aspire to any occupation. He deliber-

this book for its rich portrait of one of mod-

ated on the obligations between humans in

ern Japan’s most important writers.”

society and generalized from these to rela-

— Janine Beichman, author of Masaoka

tions between nations. Reading his book, you can just imagine life in a society that has suddenly become free, in which all of the

Shiki: His Life and Works “This biography excels.” — Japan Times

trammels of caste and class have been dis-

$35.00 / £24.00 cloth 978-0-231-16488-7

solved. How might have Fukuzawa’s words

2013 240 pages / 14 illus.

of encouragement helped late nineteenth-

Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture

century Japanese as they faced their future?” — Albert M. Craig, Harvard University $55.00 / £38.00 cloth 978-0-231-16714-7 2013 192 pages Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture

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JAPANESE TRADITION & CULTURE

The Frontier Within Essays by Abe Kōbō

Record of Miraculous Events in Japan

Abe Kōbō; Edited, translated, and with an intro-

The Nihon ryõiki

duction by Richard F. Calichman

Translated by Burton Watson

“The Frontier Within redresses the lopsided

“Compiled by a low-ranking monk active in

and biased understanding of Abe Kōbō as

the capital, the Nihon ryõiki is the earliest

solely a writer of fiction. First and foremost

example of setsuwa (explanatory tale) litera-

a thinker, he was extremely conscious of the

ture in Japan and, as such, is a foundational

fundamental conditions in which language

work. Burton Watson’s turns of phrase are

operated and human existence was formed.

really delightful, very smooth, and very accu-

The essays in this volume provide wonder-

rate” — Charlotte Eubanks, Pennsylvania State University

ful insight into Abe Kōbō’s engagement with imperialism, border creation, postwar ‘democracy,’ U.S.–Japan relations, and postwar Japanese Marxism.” — Atsuko Ueda, Princeton University, coeditor of Theory of Literature and Other Critical Writings $40.00 / £27.50 cloth 978-0-231-16386-6 2013 224 pages Weatherhead Books on Asia

This collection of setsuwa, or “explanatory tale” literature, compiled by a monk in eighth- or ninth-century Japan, records the spread of Buddhist ideas in Japan and ways in which Buddhism’s principles were adapted to the conditions of Japanese society. Beginning its survey in the time before the introduction of Buddhism to Japan, the text captures the effects of the nation’s initial contact with Buddhism—introduced by the king of the Korean state of Paekche—and the subsequent adoption and dissemination of these new teachings among towns and cities. $24.50 / £17.00 paper 978-0-231-16421-4 $74.50 / £51.50 cloth 978-0-231-16420-7 2013 224 pages Translations from the Asian Classics

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Contact Moments

Sayonara Amerika, Sayonara Nippon

The Politics of Intercultural Desire in

A Geopolitical Prehistory of J-Pop

Japanese Male-Queer Cultures

Michael Bourdaghs

Katsuhiko Suganuma

“For music, history, or cultural fans of con-

“This book forces readers to think—not just about fetishized ‘Japan’ but also about themselves, about the power and politics involved in what passes for knowledge about other cultures, and their own investment and involvement in those politics.”

temporary Japan, this book is a chart-topper.” — Japan Times $27.50 / £19.00 paper 978-0-231-15875-6 $89.50 / £62.00 cloth 978-0-231-15874-9 2012 304 pages/ 13 illus. Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture

— J. Keith Vincent, Boston University Focusing on a range of Japanese as well as English male-queer materials including magazines, memoirs and cybertexts, Suganuma shows how the interactions of the two cultures affected the subject formation process of queer selves.

Structure, Audience, and Soft Power in East Asian Pop Culture Beng Huat Chua "In this excellent introductory text, Chua Beng Huat captures East Asia's cultural and capi-

$25.00 / £17.50 paper 978-988-808-371-8

talist vibrancy. The book's regional in scope

$50.00 / £34.50 cloth 978-988-808-370-1

and conceptual clarity make it a welcome

2012 293 pages/ 6 illus.

tool for teaching students who are captivated

Hong Kong University Press

by the topic and informing scholars seeking expert guidance in an emerging field of scholarship." — Peter J. Katzenstein, Cornell University $25.00 / £17.50 paper 978-988-813-904-0 $50.00 / £34.50 cloth 978-988-813-903-3 2012 224 pages Hong Kong University Press

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JAPANESE HISTORY & POLITICS Forthcoming July

The Sarashina Diary

Lust, Commerce, and Corruption

A Woman's Life in Eleventh-Century Japan Sugawara no Takasue no Musume

An Account of What I Have Seen and Heard, by an Edo Samurai

Translated, with an introduction, by Sonja Arntzen

Translated by Mark Teeuwen, Kate Wildman

and Moriyuki Itō

Nakai, Miyazaki Fumiko, Anne Walthall, and John Breen

"As the first translation to do justice to the complexity of the Sarashina nikki, Arntzen’s work offers a fresh perspective into pre-

“This translation of Seiji kenbunroku is a wonderful and invaluable addition to our view of nineteenth-century Japan, and covers

modern Japanese diary literature as well

an amazing range of social groups and pro-

as an accessible yet scholarly window into

fessions, with detailed accounts of the back-

Heian culture, the life of one woman, and

side of everyday lives. His unadulterated

the transformation of a life into literature."

views and his vivid vignettes defy the text-

— Christina Laffin, University of British Columbia, author of Rewriting Medieval

book stereotypes. It will change forever what

Japanese Women

you thought Japan was like at the beginning of the nineteenth century.”

This translation and its introduction draw attention to the poetry in the Sarashina Diary and the juxtaposition of poetic passages and narrative prose, which brings meta-meanings into play. The translators commentary offers insight into the author’s family and world, as well as the fascinating textual legacy of her work.

— Haruo Shirane, Columbia University $50.00 / £34.50 cloth 978-0-231-16644-7 2014 496 pages / 3 illus. Translations from the Asian Classics

$40.00 / £27.50 cloth 978-0-231-16718-5 July 2014 272 pages / 20 illus. Translations from the Asian Classics

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Tomohito Shinoda

The Great Kantō Earthquake and the Chimera of National Reconstruction in Japan

"Changes in Japan's political environment

J. Charles Schencking

Contemporary Japanese Politics Institutional Changes and Power Shifts

over the last decade make for a unique and

“In vivid detail this timely book explores the

important study. Shinoda analyzes how these

many ways the Japanese responded to the

reforms introduced new power dynamics

earthquake of 1923 – from debates about the

within Japanese governance and correctly

meaning of the disaster, through representa-

notes that ‘institutions do not produce

tions of the event in popular culture, to the

leadership, they only enable it.’ An excel-

rough-and-tumble politics of reconstruction.

lent reference of Japan’s political environ-

Deeply researched and well written, it is a

ment, governance, and leadership today."

major contribution to the urban history of

— Richard L. Armitage, Former Deputy

modern Japan as well as to the burgeoning

Secretary of State

field of disaster studies.”

$27.50 / £19.00 paper 978-0-231-15853-4 $82.50 / £57.00 cloth 978-0-231-15852-7 2013 352 pages / 14 illus. Contemporary Asia in the World

— Peter Duus, Stanford University $50.00 / £34.50 cloth 978-0-231-16218-0 2013 400 pages / 61 illus. Contemporary Asia in the World

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JAPANESE HISTORY & POLITICS

The Company and the Shogun

An Imperial Concubine’s Tale

The Dutch Encounter with Tokugawa Japan

Scandal, Shipwreck, and Salvation in Seventeenth-Century Japan

Adam Clulow “In this original and penetrating study, Adam

G. G. Rowley

Clulow brilliantly dissects the process

“G. G. Rowley tells the extraordinary story

through which Dutch merchants and their

of an aristocratic woman whose sexual

sponsors became subordinates rather than

escapades brought her unexpected notori-

colonizers in Japan. The book masterfully

ety. The cast of characters includes every-

weaves together storytelling and analysis

one from the emperor and the founder of

while impressively mining both Dutch and

the Tokugawa military regime to servants,

Japanese sources. The result is not only the

nuns, and farmers. Of particular note is

best available account of the Dutch East

the amazing array of documents germane

India Company in Japan but also an impor-

to this account, from poetry and court

tant contribution to the history of empire,

documents to a temple diary and a fic-

piracy, law, and diplomacy in the early mod-

tional narrative that purports to tell the

ern world. A remarkable achievement.”

‘true story.’ In Rowley’s skillful hands, they

— Lauren Benton, New York University

are all brought to bear in portraying life as it was lived in the early seventeenth

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century.” — Anne Walthall, University of

2013 352 pages / 11 illus

California, Irvine

The Columbia Studies in International and Global History

$40.00 / £27.50 cloth 978-0-231-15854-1 2012 280 pages, 15 illus.

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CHINESE LITERATURE

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The Columbia Anthology of Modern Chinese Drama

The Columbia Anthology of Yuan Drama

Abridged Edition

Edited by C. T. Hsia, Wai-yee Li, and George Kao

Edited, with a critical introduction, by

“A landmark in the translation of Chinese liter-

Xiaomei Chen

ature. Not only are the renditions exception-

“The Columbia Anthology of Modern Chinese

ally lively, engaging, and beautifully crafted,

Drama is a great piece of historical and

but the thematic range of the ten plays—

analytical scholarship, evincing a breadth of

each accompanied by an informative introduc-

history and depth of ideological critique hard

tion— illustrates the richness of the early

to find in critics preoccupied with body and

corpus of Chinese song-drama. Meticulously

performance. The plays are not simply mate-

annotated and responsive to the complexi-

rial for historical survey; their line-up forms

ties of the textual history, the translations

an argument on China’s pursuit of modernity,

will enchant scholars, undergraduates, and

social justice, and equality.”

general readers alike."

— Ban Wang, Stanford University

— Patricia Sieber, Ohio State University

$45.00 / £30.95 paper 978-0-231-16503-7

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2014 656 pages

2014 432 pages

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Translations from the Asian Classics

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CHINESE LITERATURE andrea Bachner

Beyond Sinology chineSe writing and the ScriptS of culture

From the Old Country

Beyond Sinology

Stories and Sketches of China and Taiwan

Chinese Writing and the Scripts of Culture

Zhong Lihe

Andrea Bachner

“Zhong Lihe has a well-deserved major repu-

“The story of Chinese writing as told by

tation in Taiwan as a writer of “homeland

Andrea Bachner is traversed by necrophilia,

literature” and was an inspiration to many

hallucination, fetishism, patriotism, identity/

later Taiwanese writers. Here he presents

alterity politics, new age mediality, and mul-

one of the most vivid depictions of rural life

tiple other passions; it is also one in which

in Taiwan in the 1940s and 1950s.”

the controversial protagonist, the sinograph,

— Edward Gunn, Cornell University

has resiliently stood its ground. No other contemporary study I know of showcases

$35.00 / £24.00 cloth 978-0-231-16630-0

sino(graph)philia with as much verve and

2014 336pages / 16 illus.

aplomb. This is an impressively ambitious

Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan

and innovative book.” — Rey Chow, Duke University, author of Sentimental Fabulations, Contemporary Chinese Films $50.00 / £34.50 cloth 978-0-231-16452-8 2014 296 pages / 8 illus. Global Chinese Culture

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Sinophone Studies A Critical Reader

The Matchmaker, the Apprentice, and the Football Fan

Edited by Shu-mei Shih, Chien-hsin Tsai, and

More Stories of China

Brian Bernards

Zhu Wen

“The emergence of Sinophone studies within the last decade has been one of the most

Translated by Julia Lovell

“Zhu’s quirky rogue’s gallery is both enter-

interesting developments. Most exciting is

taining and revealing, as murderers (”The

that nearly all of the very foundations and

Football Fan”) and apostates (all the rest)

earliest adumbrations of this novel concept

illuminate the volatile period that preceded

are to be found in Sinophone Studies, which

contemporary China’s espousal of capitalist

makes it a unique resource for introducing this fresh field to student and scholar alike.” — Victor H. Mair, University of Pennsylvania “This pathbreaking anthology maps out a bold and heterogeneous terrain for the field of Sinophone studies. China is one of the oldest extant empires as well as one of

enterprise—if not democratic reform.” — Publishers Weekly “A fascinating, often bleakly amusing, snapshot of China’s urban anomie.” — The Wall Street Journal “Sly humor . . . suffuses these stories, which,

the most powerful countries in the world

unlike some of the lives [Zhu Wen] describes,

today, yet the term ‘Sinophone’ is not part

are never dreary.”

of our vocabulary the way ‘Anglophone’ and ‘Francophone’ are. This expansive collection

— The New York Times Book Review $26.95 / £18.95 cloth 978-0-231-16090-2

will change that. Postcolonial, diaspora, area,

2013 184 pages / 6 illus.

immigration, and ethnic studies will never be

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the same.” — David L. Eng, University of Pennsylvania $40.00 / £27.50 paper 978-0-231-15751-3 $120.00 / £83.00 cloth 978-0-231-15750-6 2013 472 pages / 3 illus. Global Chinese Culture

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CHINESE LITERATURE

Trees Without Wind

Atlas

A Novel

The Archaeology of an Imaginary City

Li Rui

Dung Kai-cheung

Translated by John Balcom

Best Translated Book Award Fiction, long

“Elegant and spare, Trees Without Wind is a valuable, authentic work that lays bare the

form category “Seamless, yet eccentric...a playful yet

corruption of the Cultural Revolution.” — Washington Independent Review of Books “Li Rui is one of China’s boldest literary

poignant invitation to begin layering new symbols and projections over the city’s landscape.” — South China Morning Post

voices, and after several decades, he continues to push the envelope. His bold literary

“Readers pleased by cliff-hanging, nail-biting, page-turning adventure will not be satisfied

experiments with dialect and tense, combined with his honest expose of the brutalities of modern Chinese history, have set him apart from his peers and crafted one of the most fascinating and unique literary land-

with “Atlas.” Devotees of writers as curious as Borges, Calvino and Eco, will love this map of maps of an imaginary city.” — Japan Times $24.50 / £17.00 cloth 978-0-231-16100-8

scapes in modern Chinese literature.”

2012 192 pages

— Michael Berry, author of A History of

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Pain: Trauma in Modern Chinese Literature and Film $22.50 / £15.50 paper 978-0-231-16275-3 $69.50 / £48.00 cloth 978-0-231-16274-6 2012 208 pages Weatherhead Books on Asia

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Scribes of Gastronomy

Mu Shiying

Representations of Food and Drink in Imperial Chinese Literature

China’s Lost Modernist: New Translations and an Appreciation

Edited by Isaac Yue and Siu-fu Tang

Andrew David Field

The culture of food and drink occupies a central role in the development of Chinese civilization, and the language of gastronomy has been a vital theme in literary productions through many different eras and genres. From stanzas on food and wine in the Book of Odes to the articulation of refined dining in The Dream of the Red Chamber and Su Shi's literary recipe for attaining culinary perfection, lavish textual representations help explain the unique appeal of food and its overwhelming cultural significance within Chinese society. These eight essays offer a colorful tour of Chinese gourmands whose work exemplifies the interrelationships of social and literary history surrounding food, with careful explication of such topics as the importance of tea in poetry, "the morality of drunkenness", and food's role in the objectification of women in cer-

"Better than that of any other writer, Mu Shiying's fiction encapsulates the cosmopolitan life of 1930s Shanghai (with its foreign concessions, cinemas, cafés and cabarets) that underlay modernist Chinese writing. Andrew Field's book is exciting not only because it is a new appreciation of this writer but because, through its translations of Mu's stories, it reveals the extent to which Shanghai-based writing was inspired by the styles of international modernism." – Lynn Pan, author of Shanghai Style and Old Shanghai: Gangsters in Paradise $18.00 / £12.50 paper 978-988-8208-14-2 2014 160 pages Hong Kong University Press

tain classic texts. $25.00 / £17.50 paper 978-988-8139-98-9 $50.00 / £34.50 cloth 978-988-8139-97-2 2013 176 pages Hong Kong University Press

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CHINESE LITERATURE Forthcoming July

Real Life in China at the Height of Empire

Mirage

Revealed by the Ghosts of Ji Xiaolan

Translated by Patrick Hanan

Edited and Translated by David E. Pollard Toward the end of the eighteenth century, the scholar and wit Ji Xiaolan published five collections of anecdotes and discourses on the interaction between the mundane and the spirit worlds, incorporating earthly life stories and happenings. Containing Ji’s thoughts and others’ experiences, these tales concern peasants, servants, merchants, governors, and ministers; take place throughout the Qing empire; and recount comedy and tragedy, cruelty and kindness, corruption and integrity, and erudition and ignorance. Some stories use ghosts to satirize men and manners; others straightforwardly examine beliefs and practices. Altogether, they draw a portrait of the time unmatched in scope and variety. Selections are organized thematically and include a contextualizing preface. An introduction appraises Ji’s own career and the atmosphere in which he lived.

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The young son of the Chinese traders’ association head, who dealt with foreign merchants in the port of Guangzhou, is suddenly burdened with the responsibility of his powerful family. A latter-day Baoyu, but with far stronger sexual impulses, this son must learn to tame his libido while conducting himself prudently in Guangzhou society. This little-known novel, titled Shenlou zhi, is translated here for the first time. Published in 1804, it is the earliest novel to deal with the opium trade and is closely connected to events that occurred in Guangzhou and Huizhou just before its publication: the arrival of a new superintendent of customs in Guangzhou and the outbreak of rebellion in Huizhou. This strikingly original work advances the culture of adolescence first depicted in Honglou meng and showcases, in its account of the rebellion, the romantic $55.00 cloth 978-962-996-581-5

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Security and Profit in China’s Energy Policy

Breaking with the Past

Hedging Against Risk

The Maritime Customs Service and the Global Origins of Modernity in China

Øystein Tunsjø

Hans van de Ven

“Øystein Tunsjø offers a comprehensive

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important development in both Chinese

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security and twenty-first-century international

the subject of “China and the West.”

politics." — Robert Ross, Boston College

— Timothy Brook, University of British Columbia

“Øystein Tunsjø has scored an important coup with his book. His work clearly demonstrates the interaction of strategic and market elements in Beijing’s thirsty search for energy reserves. Tunsjø presents a realistic analysis of China’s strategic maritime and economic situation. His book is a valuable resource for academics and security policy makers." — Bernard D. Cole, National War College $45.00 / £30.95 cloth 978-0-231-16508-2 2013 336 pages / 5 illus.

“This is the story of China’s economic internationalization in the century before the Communist conquest.... The eminent Cambridge historian, Hans van de Ven, has written this history in full for the first time, using an extraordinary array of Chinese and international sources. Today, as China looks to its pre-Communist past as a guide to its future, this is an important book.” — William C. Kirby, Harvard University $50.00 / £34.50 cloth 978-0-231-13738-6 2014 432 pages / 34 illus.

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Early Medieval China

Return of the Dragon

A Sourcebook

Rising China and Regional Security

Edited by Wendy Swartz, Robert Ford

Denny Roy

Campany, Yang Lu, and Jessey J. C. Choo

“Denny Roy has contributed a thoughtful,

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tance to the study of early medieval Chinese

security environment, policies, and activities.

history, literature, thought, and religion.

It covers a lot of ground in an informative

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manner for both unitiated and well-versed

grown exponentially in recent years, this

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sourcebook presents up-to-date scholarship

more assertive as its power increases, and

at the highest level. Wide-ranging in scope,

his study helps to undestand why this may

rich in detail, and thoroughly interdisciplinary,

be the case.” — David Shambaugh, George

it serves as the principal guide to the world

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of early medieval China and as a wonderful inspiration to students.”

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Poseidon

The Birth of Chinese Feminism

China’s Secret Salvage of Britain’s Lost Submarine

Essential Texts in Transnational Theory

Steven R. Schwankert

Dorothy Ko

“Schwankert’s tale of a lost submarine, its discovery and secret salvage by the Chinese is a compelling, real-life exposé. Exciting, suspenseful, filled with intrigue, Poseidon is a must-read to set lost history on the track to truth." — Clive Cussler, author of Raise the Titanic and Poseidon’s Arrow

Edited by Lydia H. Liu, Rebecca E. Karl, and

“He–Yin Zhen was one of the most original—yet today least well-known—feminist theorists of the late Qing era. Her intellectual/political project, which she approached via a wide-ranging (and uncompromising) critique of patriarchy, capitalism, liberalism, and imperialism, was to link gendered

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history."

modern Chinese history.” — Amy Dooling,

— Paul French, author of Midnight in Peking

Connecticut College

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CHINESE HISTORY & POLITICS

CHINA A New Cultural History

Cho-yun Hsu

China

China’s Uncertain Future

A New Cultural History

Jean-Luc Domenach

Cho-yun Hsu

Translated by George Holoch Jr.

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other grand narratives of Chinese history.

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Impeccably researched and consistently

books are suddenly among the most down-

insightful, this is precisely the sort of book

to-earth. The latest is Jean-Luc Domenach’s

that every serious scholar of China should keep within arm’s reach.” — China Journal

excellent La Chine m’inquiète, written after his stay in the country from 2002 to

“An important and original book on a perma-

2007. Through a hailstorm of statistics, an

nently important topic by one of the world’s

outline of contemporary China appears. . . .

leading historians of China. The writing is

Domenach has a sharp nose for Chinese

lucid, often elegant, and has been beautifully

paradoxes.” — Times Literary Supplement

translated into English.” — William C. Kirby, director of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University

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CHINA’ S SEARCH FOR SECURITY

Andrew J. Nathan and Andrew Scobell

The Formation of the Chinese Communist Party

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China’s Search for Security

China’s Search for Security offers a fresh look.”

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Translated by Joshua A. Fogel

account of the international aspects of the founding of the CCP is built on vivid detail and impeccable archival research. It is an important new contribution to Englishlanguage scholarship and an invitation to comparative scholars of modern Chinese history, Sino-Japanese relations, and world Marxism.” — Timothy Cheek, University of British Columbia $55.00 / £38.00 cloth 978-0-231-15808-4 2012 520 pages / 11 illus.

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CHINESE HISTORY & POLITICS

Discovering History in China

Protest with Chinese Characteristics Demonstrations, Riots, and Petitions in the Mid-Qing Dynasty

American Historical Writing on the Recent Chinese Past Paul A. Cohen With new introduction by the author

Ho-fung Hung

Winner of the President’s Book Award, Social Science History Association

“Every historian of China should read this book. For what Paul A. Cohen has done here

“Ambitious, informative, and stimulating, this study deserves to be widely read. Summing up: Essential.” — Choice

is lay bare the hidden assumptions that have informed and skewed much American research on 19th- and 20th-century China. He shows that the questions most American

“Hung’s clear articulation of protest cycles

historians have asked about the Chinese

in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century China

past, and consequently the kind of histories

demands the attention of scholars interested

they have written, have been determined

in specific episodes of rebellion and resis-

as much by their own cultural biases as by

tance in this period as well as scholars of

the historical realities of China itself. . . . A

Qing political economy.”

consciousness-raising experience.”

— Journal of Asian Studies

— American Historical Review

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Shanghai Lalas

Never Forget National Humiliation

Female Tongzhi Communities and Politics in Urban China

Historical Memory in Chinese Politics and Foreign Relations

Lucetta Y. L. Kam

Zheng Wang Yale H. Ferguson Award from the

“Weaving between her own queer biography

International Studies Association - Northeast

and extensive ethnographic data of twenty-

“Wang gives us a critically important book

five lala women, Lucetta Yip Lo Kam pres-

that provides a solid blueprint for under-

ents the up-to-date lesbian communities

standing contemporary China.”

and politics in urban China which contribute to the international debates of same-sex

“A future world where the Chinese are at

intimacies, coming out politics, and the nature of homophobia.” — Travis S. K. Kong, University of Hong Kong $25.00 / £17.50 paper 978-988-8139-46-0 $50.00 / £34.50 cloth 978-988-8139-45-3 2013 152 pages Hong Kong University Press

— Virginia Review of Asian Studies peace with their own past seems a long way away. But that is the place, as this useful study of such a difficult area, where we need to get to.” — Asian Review of Books “A powerful, convincing, and timely discussion about one of the most important and sustaining factors shaping China’s modern history and its tortuous course of integration into the international community. ” — Chen Jian, Cornell University $25.00 / £17.50 paper 978-0-231-14891-7 $32.50 / £22.50 cloth 978-0-231-14890-0 2012 (cloth) 312 pages / 23 illus. Contemporary Asia in the World

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CHINESE HISTORY & POLITICS New in paper

New in paper

The China Threat

Green Innovation in China

Memories, Myths, and Realities in the 1950s

China’s Wind Power Industry and the

Nancy Bernkopf Tucker

Global Transition to a Low-Carbon Economy

“Any collection strong in China culture and

Joanna I. Lewis

politics or U.S. political history will find this a winning addition.” — Midwest Book Review

“Lewis's work is a lucid look at the development of a key green-tech sector, and the

“A crisply written, judicious, and comprehen-

larger lessons it holds for China's innovative capacity." — Asian Review of Books

sive appraisal of the Eisenhower administration’s policy towards China. It will be of

"Essential reading for everyone interested in

greatest use to undergraduates and laymen.”

the Chinese wind energy industry, providing

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a compelling and well-researched overview,

“Highly recommended for students of U.S.-

including the industry’s history and pros-

China relations in general and U.S.-China

pects for its future." — International Affairs

policy during the 1950s in particular.”

"By taking us deep into the competitive

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world of wind power—from research and development to the cutthroat global market-

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place—Joanna Lewis provides fascinating

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insights into China’s broader clean tech

2012 312 pages / 12 illus.

innovation strategy.” — Elizabeth Economy Council on Foreign

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Poverty in the Midst of Affluence

HKU Memories from the Archives

How Hong Kong Mismanaged Its Pro

Stacy Belcher Gould and Tina Yee-wan Pang

Leo F. Goodstadt

In 2011, the University of Hong Kong cel-

"In this latest volume in his series on Hong

ebrated its centenary as the first and for

Kong’s economic, social, and political devel-

many years only university in Hong Kong

opment, Goodstadt has again given us a

providing a Western, English-language edu-

most timely intervention in policy discussion

cation for the region. An exhibition entitled

and public debate. This is a critical reflection

“HKU Memories from the Archives,” held at

on Hong Kong’s path of social development

the University Museum and Art Gallery from

and a most discerning analysis of the Third

December 2011 to March 2012, featured

World mentality espoused by the government

more than two hundred artifacts from the

and the business community in the area of

collections of the university archives and loans from private collections. This richly

social welfare." — Lui Tai-lok, The University of Hong Kong "This well-argued, well-documented and pas-

illustrated publication presents a selection of documents and artifacts primarily from the first fifty years of the university’s history.

sionate book should be required reading for anyone that wishes to comment on Hong

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Kong politics, economics or society."

2014 288 pages / color illustrations throughout

— Asian Review of Books

University Museum and Art Gallery, Hong Kong University

$38.00 / £26.00 cloth 978-988-8208-21-0 2014 276 pages Hong Kong University Press

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CHINESE HISTORY & POLITICS

My First Trip to China

China in Revolution

Scholars, Diplomats, and Journalists Reflect on their First Encounters with China

The Road to 1911

Edited by Kin-ming Liu

Heung Shing Liu ”This book is simply superb. Liu Heungshing travelled the world to secure the rare collec-

“An absorbing and entertaining volume. It is

tion of photographs that present the last 100

also an illuminating one....My First Trip to

years of China’s tumultuous history in the

China invites readers to relive those voyages

most vivid, searing light yet achieved in a

of discovery and to reflect on the complexi-

single volume.” — James Kynge, author of

ties of modern-day China, whose new open-

China Shakes the World

ness, material progress and limited freedoms

The 1911 Revolution ended dynastic rule in China and paved the way for the founding of Asia’s first republic. Triggered by an accidental bomb explosion in Wuchang (modernday Wuhan), the revolution marked the culminating point of decades of internal rebellion, foreign aggression and political decline; its leaders drew on a ferment of reformist and revolutionary ideas produced by some of China’s greatest modern thinkers. China in Revolution assembles a remarkable survey of historical photographs from leading collec-

were unimaginable just a generation ago.” — Wall Street Journal “My First Trip to China offers an engaging array of first encounters.” — Asian Review of Books “[A] wonderful book that manages to be a great read for the China novice, the China expert, and everyone in between.” — Asia Unbound

tions around the world.

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Democracy on Trial

The Great Difference

Social Movements and Cultural Politics in Post-authoritarian Taiwan

Hong Kong’s New Territories and Its People 1898-2004

Ya-Chung Chuang

James Hayes

Writing “an ethnography of democracy,” Ya-Chung Chuang masterfully describes and analyzes a multifaceted Taiwanese society. Contradicting mainstream research on political cultures, which relies heavily on survey data and statistical analysis, Ya-Chung Chuang produces an anthropologically inspired, contextually rich study using original source materials. He traces a genealogy of pivotal concepts, such as sovereignty, identity, and locality, at the heart of Taiwan’s democratic discourse and relates the experience of democracy as “a way of life” from the viewpoints of a variety of subjects, including social movement participants, urban community members, and ethnic activists. His book explores the loaded meaning of democracy.

“A richly textured account of this fascinating

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region.” — The China Journal In 1898, Great Britain added to its colony at Hong Kong a 368-square-mile expanse of mountainous countryside and islands, leased from China for a term of 99 years, which became known as the New Territories. The colonial official, James Stewart Lockhart, after an inspection of the newly acquired extension, called it “the great difference,” describing the gulf between the people of the New Territories and their counterparts in the existing, largely urban, British colony. In this book, First published in 2006, and now appearing in this paperback edition with a new preface, The Great Difference covers the whole period of the lease and embodies the fruits of its author’s studies of the territory and indigenous population over several decades. $30.00 / £20.50 paper 978-988-8139-75-0 2013 340 pages Hong Kong University Press

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CHINESE HISTORY & POLITICS

China at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century

Europe and China

Edited by Łukasz Gacek and Ewa Trojnar

Roland Vogt

Strategic Partners or Rivals?

China at the beginning of the 21st century intrigues many researchers around the world. No different was the enthusiasm widely shared among the participants of the students’ conference China at the beginning of the 21st century organized by the Institute of Middle and Far East Studies of Jagiellonian University in Kraków in April 2010. Research enthusiasm and inquisitive attitude of presenters and discussants observed during the conference inspired to go beyond the university walls and put this publication together. The problems discussed within this volume provide the readers with a background of most vital issues in modern China. They are related to the challenges of the Chinese society and state’s international skirmishes. Each article is separately concluded by the author’s findings, which is highly admirable, since the authors are young, but promising adepts in the field. At the same time, being open for criticism, the authors invite us to take a long hard look at China’s modern challenges.

"This volume makes an important contribution to the literature on EU-China relations, particularly with its emphasis on how rhetoric and lack of incentives on both sides create major obstacles to upgrading the relationship. Bringing together ten contributions by leading scholars and new voices, the book offers both solid scholarship and fresh insights." — Ingrid d'Hooghe, The Netherlands Institute of International Relations $30.00/ £20.50 paper 978-988-808-388-6 $50.00 / £34.50 cloth 978-988-808-387-9 2012 276 pages / 3 illus. Hong Kong University Press

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CHINESE RELIGION & PHILOSOPHY

Unearthing the Changes

The Complete Works of Zhuangzi

Recently Discovered Manuscripts of the Yi Jing (I Ching) and Related Texts

Translated by Burton Watson

Edward L. Shaughnessy

"Burton Watson...possesses all the qualities which distinguish a master translator. As a

“This deeply researched book breaks new ground for the study of Chinese manuscripts and China’s methods of divination, with penetrating contributions to the scholarly handling of fragments, the recovery of lost literature and the problems of textual criticism.” — Michael Loewe, University of Cambridge

craftsman and as a poet, he has inspired and challenged two generations." — Asian Affairs "Translation of any of the classics...from the hand of Burton Watson is an event to be welcomed with gratitude." — Journal of Asian Studies

“Shaughnessy has written the definitive account of these materials. Nothing like it

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exists, in any language. Closely argued, and

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drawing on impeccable control of the litera-

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ture, this study re-forms our understanding of how and what the Yijing might have been.” — Kidder Smith, Bowdoin College $40.00 / £27.50 cloth 978-0-231-16184-8 2014 200 pages Translations from the Asian Classics

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CHINESE RELIGION & PHILOSOPHY Forthcoming June

The Resurrected Skeleton

The Essential Huainanzi

From Zhuangzi to Lu Xun

Translated and edited by John S. Major, Sarah

Wilt L. Idema

A. Queen, Andrew Seth Meyer, and Harold D. Roth

“Idema’s translations trace the legend of an

“The Essential Huainanzi is highly multifac-

ancient Chinese philosopher’s encounter

eted, dealing with an astonishing variety of

with a skeleton over two millennia of devel-

topics ranging from the mundane to the

opment, from its treatment in a great ancient

cosmic. Major and his collaborators have

philosophical text to the religious retellings

produced an English version that is both

that incorporated Daoism’s views on life,

readable and reliable.”

death, and social values. This is yet another example of Idema’s superior scholarly work." — Shuen-fu Lin, University of Michigan

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The Huainanzi A Guide to the Theory and Practice of Government in Early Han China, by Liu An, King of Huainan Translated and edited by John S. Major, Sarah A. Queen, Andrew Seth Meyer, and Harold D. Roth “An excellent and richly annotated translation.” — Journal of the American Oriental Society “Users of this magnificent contribution to the study of Chinese thought will find here almost everything imaginable.” — Religious Studies Review $80.00/ £55.00 cloth 978-0-231-14204-5 2010 1016 pages Translations from the Asian Classics

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t r a n s l at e d a n d e d i t e d b y pa u l F i s c h e r

shizi c h i n a’ s F i r s t s y n c r e t i s t

The Dao of the Military

Shizi

Liu An’s Art of War

China’s First Syncretist

Translated, with an Introduction, by Andrew

Shizi

Seth Meyer; Foreword by John S. Major

Translated by Paul Fischer

“The Dao of the Military is a valuable addition to the body of early China’s military texts

“Paul Fischer’s translation of Shizi shows us that the world of thought in ancient China

available in English. Meyer’s learned intro-

is a vast space, like a starry sky, and the

duction and admirably readable translation

famous thinkers such as Kongzi, Mozi, and

provide new and fascinating insights into the

Laozi are only the brightest of so many stars.

intellectual world and the military thinking of

Fischer provides a way to find many forgot-

ancient Chinese philosophers. It is an essen-

ten thinkers that should be reexamined, as

tial read for everyone interested in how the

in fact they are treasure boxes of knowledge.”

Chinese tradition has understood warfare.”

— Li Ling, Peking University

—Nicola Di Cosmo, Princeton University

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2012 256 pages

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An Introduction to Daoist Philosophies Steve Coutinho “Steve Coutinho presents...an insightful and comprehensive overview of the plurality of approaches within this tradition and succeeds in making the Daoist texts philosophically relevant and significant.” —Hans-Georg Moeller, University College Cork $19.50 / £13.50 paper 978-0-231-15333-1 $60.00 / £41.50 cloth 978-0-231-15332-4 2012 176 pages Translations from the Asian Classics for more information , visit :

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HIMALAYAS & TIBET New in paper

The Yogin and the Madman

Memories of Life in Lhasa Under Chinese Rule

Reading the Biographical Corpus of Tibet's Great Saint Milarepa

Tubten Khétsun

Andrew Quintman

"A powerful indictment of the physical and

"The most important study yet published

psychological exploitation of the Tibetan

about the literary tradition surrounding the greatest single work in Tibetan literature. It does more than any previous study to give

people and natural environment in the service of building a “new” China." — The Journal of Asian Studies

historical access to the life (and lives) of Tibet’s most revered and influential yogin

“A welcome and informative addition on

and poet."

this little-understood and highly polemicized

— Roger R. Jackson, Carleton College

subject." — Times Literary Supplement "This book provides an important piece of

"This book studies the making of perhaps

the puzzle for those seeking to understand

the greatest masterpiece in Tibetan history.

the experience of ordinary Tibetans since

Quintman shows how a bare account of

1959." — Far Eastern Economic Review

events is transformed into a human story that touches the lives of both its author and

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its avid readers, making a signal contribu-

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tion to the study of literature and its place in religion."

2007 (cloth) 344 pages / 16 illus.

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Sources of Tibetan Tradition

The Tibetan History Reader

Edited by Kurtis R. Schaeffer, Matthew

Edited by Gray Tuttle and Kurtis R. Schaeffer

T. Kapstein, and Gray Tuttle

“[A] superb collection...give[s] an extraordi-

“Represents a mammoth and long-overdue contribution to the field, both as a basic reference tool for scholars and as a keystone of

nary sense of perspective.” — Asian Review of Books

undergraduate and graduate education.”

“This single volume offers a thorough edu-

—Annabella Pitkin, Barnard College

cation in Tibetan history from the founding of the Tibetan empire in the seventh century

“The editors have done a remarkable job of

through 1951. In thirty-three topical and

selecting sources from a 1,500-year-old civili-

absorbing essays, leading historians of Asia,

zation for a single volume. They provide not

Europe, and North America explain exactly

only representative texts on Tibetan religion

what the original documents say and why

from all eras but also significant sources on

historians of Tibet interpret them in such

history, politics, society, law, medicine, art,

dramatically different ways. Anyone who

architecture, and literature.”

wants to learn more about Tibetan history

— Roger R. Jackson, editor of The Crystal

should begin here.”

Mirror of Philosophical Systems: A Tibetan

— Valerie Hansen, Yale University

Study of Asian Religious Thought $40.00 / £27.50 paper 978-0-231-13599-3 $120.00 / £83.00 cloth 978-0-231-13598-6 2013 856 pages / 2 illus

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HIMALAYAS & TIBET Forthcoming in paper October

New in paper

The Culture of the Book in Tibet

When a Woman Becomes a Religious Dynasty

Kurtis R. Schaeffer

The Samding Dorje Phagmo of Tibet

"[A] brilliant study."

Hildegard Diemberger

— The Journal of Asian Studies

"Exhibits that rare combination of meticu-

"This elegant, readable work portrays the considerable traditional Tibetan enterprise of book production."

lous historical research and lively prose in recounting a tale that is sure to intrigue readers." — Buddhadharma

— Religious Studies Review

"A significant contribution to Tibetan cul-

"Written by one of the leading scholars of

tural history and gender studies."

Tibet and Tibetan Buddhism in the coun-

— Journal of the American Academy of Religion

try, The Culture of the Book in Tibet is very timely, contributing to a lively field while drawing attention to the distinctive historical contribution of Tibetan texts and writ-

"A fascinating account of the women who constituted the most famous of all female incarnation lineages in Tibet, perhaps the most intriguing series of women in recent

ing."

Tibetan history."

— Cynthia Brokaw, Ohio State University

— Robert Barnett, Columbia University, and author of Lhasa: Streets with Memories

$26.00 / £18.000 paper 978-0231-14717-0 $50.00 / £34.00 cloth 978-0-231-14716-3

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2009 (cloth) 264 pages / 2 illus.

$60.00 / £41.50 cloth 978-0-231-14320-2 2007 (cloth) 416 pages / 64 illus.

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EAST ASIAN TRADITION & CULTURE

ExEmplary WomEn of Early China The Lienü zhuan of Liu Xiang

annE BEhnkE kinnEy T r a n s L aTo r a n d e d i To r

Exemplary Women of Early China

The Land of the Five Flavors

The Lienü zhuan of Liu Xiang

A Cultural History of Chinese Cuisine

Translated and edited by Anne Behnke Kinney

Thomas O. Höllmann

“Exemplary Women of Early China is essential for understanding China’s premodern gender

“Photos, posters, paintings and sketches

regime, Confucian ideology, and women’s

alternate with recipes in this fascinating book,

sense of self. The Lienü zhuan provided

which takes ingredients from several types

later authors and artists with an endlessly

of available sources: part cookbook, part

rich source of moral exemplars to reveal

cultural history of China through its kitchen."

behavioral norms for both genders. Kinney’s

— William H. Nienhauser, University of

elegant and erudite translation brings to life

Wisconsin-Madison

the words and deeds of these remarkable

"Höllmann deftly blends descriptive text and

women. A wonderfully inspiring read.”

illustrations together with dozens of brief,

— Robin D. S. Yates, McGill University

amusing tidbits from an amazing spectrum of

$35.00 / £24.00 paper 978-0-231-16309-5

Chinese historical sources. The book’s great attraction is the presentation of many com-

$105.00 / £72.50 cloth 978-0-231-16308-8

plex, extremely disparate materials in nimbly

2014 384 pages

condensed, accessible form. Höllmann makes

Translations from the Asian Classics

it look easy." — Anne Mendelson, author of Milk: The Surprising Story of Milk Through the Ages $35.00 / £24.00 cloth 978-0-231-16186-2 2013 216 pages / 48 illus. Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History

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EAST ASIAN TRADITION & CULTURE

Chinese Opera

Finding Wisdom in East Asian Classics

The Actor’s Craft

Edited by Wm. Theodore de Bary

Siu Wang-Ngai with Peter Lovrick

“This collection of essays about East Asian great books, by outstanding scholars in the field, addresses the issue of why these books are classics. Wm. Theodore de Bary’s essays offer approaches to reading these books that are essential to understanding them.” —Patricia Greer, St. John’s College, Santa Fe $29.50 / £20.50

paper 978-0-231-15397-3

$89.50 / £62.00 cloth 978-0-231-15396-6 2011 432 pages / 1 illus.

The Great Civilized Conversation Education for a World Community Wm. Theodore de Bary “Wm. Theodore de Bary has been a tremendous influence on western understanding of Neo-Confucianism and late Ming thought, as well as a seminal figure in the creation and implementation of Asian studies programs

Chinese opera embraces over 360 different styles of theatre that make one of the richest performance arts in the world. It combines music, speech, poetry, mime, acrobatics, stage fighting, vivid face-painting and exquisite costumes. First experiences of Chinese opera can be baffling because its vocabulary of stagecraft is familiar only to the seasoned aficionado. Chinese Opera: The Actor’s Craft makes the experience more accessible for everyone. This book uses breath-taking images of Chinese opera in performance by Hong Kong photographer Siu Wang-Ngai to illustrate and explain Chinese opera stage technique. The book explores costumes, gestures, mime, acrobatics, props and stage techniques. Each explanation is accompanied by an example of its use in an opera and is illustrated by in-performance photographs. $45.00 / £30.95 cloth 978-988-8208-26-5 2014 232 page / 227 illus.

and other related curriculums throughout the

Hong Kong University Press

United States. This book is... the culmination of his illustrious career.” — Charles Lindholm, Boston University $35.00 / £24.00 cloth 978-0-231-16276-0 2013 432 pages

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Rethinking Visual Narratives from Asia

Visualizing Beauty

Intercultural and Comparative Perspectives

Edited by Aida Yuen Wong

Gender and Ideology in Modern East Asia

Edited by Alexandra Green

"A fascinating collection....Every essay is theoreti-

Rethinking Visual Narratives covers topics from the first millennium B.C.E. through the present day, testifying to the enduring significance of visual stories in shaping and affirming cultural practices in Asia. Contributors analyze how visual narratives function in different Asian cultures and reveal the multiplicity of ways that images can be narrated beyond temporal progression through a particular space. The study of local art forms advances our knowledge of regional iterations and theoretical boundaries, illustrating the enduring importance of pictorial stories to the cultural traditions of Asia. $35.00 / £24.00 paper 978-988-8139-10-1 2013 352 pages / 122 illus. Hong Kong University Press

cally informed and well-researched." — Woman's Art Journal Visualizing Beauty examines the intersections between feminine ideals and changing socio-political circumstances in China, Japan, and Korea during the first half of the twentieth century. Eight essays present a broad range of visual products that informed concepts of beauty and womanhood, including fashion, interior design magazines, newspaper illustrations, and paintings of and by women. Studying “Traditional Woman” and “New Woman” as historical categories, this anthology contemplates the complex relations between feminine subjectivity and the promotion of modernity, commerce, and colonialism. $25.00 / £17.50 paper 978-988-8083-90-9 $50.00 / £34.50 cloth 978-988-8083-89-3 2012 196 page / 68 illus. Hong Kong University Press

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EAST ASIAN TRADITION & CULTURE

A Perpetual Fire

Media in China, China in the Media

John C. Ferguson and His Quest for

Processes, Strategies, Images, Identities

Chinese Art and Culture

Edited by Adina Zemanek

Lara Jaishree Netting

This volume brings together eleven essays that offer a complex approach to both media in the PRC and the way China and the Chinese are presented in the media of other countries. Individual chapters discuss images constructed, persuasive techniques employed, political undertakings and official stances reflected, as well as popular feeling expressed in the Chinese official and popular press, information websites, Internet forums, and more.

"Art collectors continuously shape and reshape our view of the artistic past, determining what later generations are able to see and how they see it. Between 1912 and 1943, the CanadianAmerican John C. Ferguson led a public career in Republican China that would have made a Chinese scholar proud, serving as a major government advisor and influential academician. From deep inside of the Beijing and Nanjing cultural circles, as a private collector and buyer for American museums (the Metropolitan Museum and Cleveland Museum of Art among others), he helped to dramatically redirect American interests in Chinese art from the taste of Japanese aficionados to that of the Chinese literati. Lara Netting's thorough study brings

$42.00 / £29.00 paper 978-83-233-3621-1 2014 208 pages Jagiellonian University Press

Humour in Chinese Life and Letters Classical and Traditional Approaches Edited by Jessica Milner Davis and Jocelyn Chey “This volume highlights how well humor works as an ‘entry point’ into Chinese culture:

the remarkable and complex John Ferguson

making visible both deeply rooted cultural

back to life. She restores to him the credit he has long deserved, while at the same time using his example to demonstrate how our definition of ‘art’ is an ever-changing construct."

patterns, as well as novel developments as a result of economic progress, technological changes, and increasing cultural exchange.” — Giselinde Kuipers, University

— Jerome Silbergeld, Princeton University

of Amsterdam

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$25.00 / £17.50 paper 978-988-8139-24-8

2013 304 pages / 120 illus.

$75.00 / £52.00 cloth 978-988-8139-23-1

Hong Kong University Press

2013 312 pages, 13 illus. Hong Kong University Press

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ASIAN CINEMA

Satyajit Ray on Cinema

Cut-Pieces

Satyajit Ray; Edited by Sandip Ray; Foreword by Shyam Benegal

Celluloid Obscenity and Popular Cinema in Bangladesh

“The work of Satyajit Ray presents a remark-

Lotte Hoek

ably insightful understanding of the relations

“Hoek’s journeys to towns with consider-

between cultures, and his ideas remain perti-

able distance from Dhaka are a thrill to read;

nent to the great cultural debates in the con-

viewings of Mintu the Murderer are vivid in

temporary world, not least in India.”

no small terms, and the local color of hang-

— The New Republic

ing out at tea stalls and backrooms were

“Satyajit Ray is among the world’s greatest

page-turners. This is an inspired book, show-

directors, and has influenced so many other

ing the life of a film from its conception to

film makers in all parts of the world.”

exhibition, or in this case to its ban.”

— James Ivory

— Lalitha Gopalan, University of Texas at

“A joy to read...highly recommended” — Choice $19.50 paper 978-0-231-16495-5 $69.50 cloth 978-0-231-16494-8 2013 184 pages / 24 page insert

Austin Imagine watching an action film in a smalltown cinema hall in Bangladesh, and in between the gun battles and fistfights, a short pornographic clip appears. This is known as a cut-piece, a strip of locally made celluloid pornography surreptitiously spliced into the reels of action films in Bangladesh. Exploring the shadowy world of these clips and their place in South Asian film culture, Lotte Hoek builds a rare, detailed portrait of the production, consumption, and cinematic pleasures of stray celluloid $27.50 / £19.00 paper 978-0-231-16289-0 $82.50 / £57.00 cloth 978-0-231-16288-3 2013 272 pages / 11 illlus. South Asia Across the Disciplines

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ASIAN CINEMA

The Cinema of Aki Kaurismäki

The Cinema of Takeshi Kitano

Contrarian Stories

Flowering Blood

Andrew Nestingen

Sean Redmond “An imaginatively written self-reflexive academic’s journey through the films of Kitano

"In this engaging investigation of the aesthetics and the interpretive frames of Aki

Takeshi.” — Isolde Standish, School of

Kaurismäki’s films, Andrew Nestingen

Oriental and African Studies

scrutinizes the conventional readings of Kaurismäki as a romantic outsider, an

“A bold and provocative attempt at pinning

idiosyncratic Finn and a social critic – and

down this most mercurial and misunder-

goes beyond them. Nestingen discusses Kaurismäki’s filmmaking at the intersection of national film culture and politics, transnational festival circuits and world cinema

stood of Japanese directors.” — Midnight Eye $25.00 / £17.50 paper 978-0-231-16333-0

market, offering it not as a case of Finnish or

$80.00 / £55.00 cloth 978-0-231-16332-3

European cinema but as an illustrative case

2013 256 pages / 20 Illus.

of the multi-local and multinational composi-

Wallflower Press

tion of all national cinemas. In Nestingen’s account, Kaurismäki stands out as an auteur of contemporary world cinema, a director whose films trade in contradictions, engage with multiple times and places and speak in several registers." — Anu Koivunen, Stockholm University $25.00 / £17.50 paper 978-0-231-16559-4 $75.00 / £52.00 cloth 978-0-231-16558-7 2013 224 page / 24 Illus. Wallflower Press

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Eastwood’s Iwo-Jima

Rising Sun, Divided Land

Critical Engagements With Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima

Japanese and South Korean Filmmakers

Edited by Anne Gjelsvik and Rikke Schubart

Rising Sun and Divided Land provides a comprehensive, scholarly examination of the historical background, films, and careers of selected Korean and Japanese film directors. It examines eight directors: Fukasaku Kinji, Im Kwon-teak, Kawase Naomi, Miike Takashi, Lee Chang-dong, Kitano Takeshi, Park Chanwook, and Kim Ki-duk and considers their work as reflections of personal visions and as films that engage with globalization, colonialism, nationalism, race, gender, history, and the contemporary state of Japan and South Korea. Each chapter is followed by a short analysis of a selected film, and the volume as a whole includes a cinematic overview of Japan and South Korea and a list of suggestions for further reading and viewing.

With Flags of Our Fathers (2006) and Letters from Iwo Jima (2006), Clint Eastwood made a unique contribution to film history, being the first director to make two films about the same event. Eastwood’s films examine the battle over Iwo Jima from two nations’ perspectives, in two languages, and embody a passionate view on conflict, enemies, and heroes. In this volume, international scholars in political science and film, literary, and cultural studies undertake multifaceted investigations into how Eastwood’s diptych reflects war today. $28.00 / £19.50 paper 978-0-231-16565-5 $85.00 / £58.50 cloth 978-0-231-16564-8 2013 256 pages / 15 illus Wallflower Press

Kate E. Taylor-Jones

$28.00 / £19.50 paper 978-0-231-16585-3 $85.00 / £58.50 cloth 978-0-231-16586-0 2013 224 pages / 16 illus. Wallflower Press

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ASIAN CINEMA

Beyond Bruce Lee

Wang Renmei

Chasing the Dragon Through Film, Philosophy, and Popular Culture

The Wildcat of Shanghai (With DVD of Wild Rose)

Paul Bowman

Richard J. Meyer "Wang Renmei is one of the most dynamic

“No one writing today has a keener eye for delineating the logic of contemporary cultural politics than Paul Bowman. In Beyond Bruce Lee he powerfully demonstrates how and why Bruce Lee matters to a whole host of fields (cinema studies, cultural studies, politics, philosophy, sociology) without ever limiting himself to writing from the narrow perspective of any one of those disciplines. Regardless of where you position yourself in or out of any of those fields...you still must read this book.” — Samuel Chambers, Johns Hopkins

full of tensions and self-contradictions that revealed in part the violence and turmoil of her times and the political complexity of the film industry. This fine book on one of China’s most exciting film artists will appeal to both scholars and general readers interested in early Chinese cinema." — Poshek Fu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Wang’s life is emblematic of the experiences of many left-wing and Communist Party members from the Shanghai film community who were viewed with suspicion and enmity by the Yan’an clique headed by Mao and later the Gang of Four. Wang’s performances in World War II for the Nationalist troops as well as her work with the US forces in China had a dire effect on her career after 1949. Yet today, her films are being discovered again.

University $28.00 / £19.50 paper 978-0-231-16529-7 $85.00 / £58.50 cloth 978-0-231-16528-0 2013

and talented film actors in Chinese history,

224 page / 18 illus

Wallflower Press

$30.00 / £20.50 paper 978-988-8139-96-5 2013 204 pages / 44 illus. Hong Kong University Press

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The Cinema of China and South East Asia

Southeast Asian Independent Cinema

Edited by Ian Hadyn Smith

Edited by Tilman Baumgärtel

Over the past three decades, films from China and South East Asia have become a major component of international festivals. The Chinese Fifth and Sixth Generations, Taiwanese New Wave, and many other movements not only highlight the rise of new and exciting filmmakers, but they also draw attention to the region’s rich cinematic past. China and South East Asia is the latest in Wallflower Press’s 24 Frames series on national and regional cinemas, considering, through the prism of twenty-four compelling films, the changing face of the region’s output over the past eighty years. $29.50 / £20.50 paper 978-190-666-007-9 $90.00 / £62.00 cloth 978-190-666-008-6 2013 288 pages Wallflower Press

“That there is a vibrant independent cinema in Southeast Asia is now known thanks to the awards won by Brillante Mendoza, Apichatpong and others. But what is the sociopolitico-cultural context within which they are working? How do these iconoclastic, cutting-edge, independent filmmakers view the cinema and how are they forging their own highly original paths? This book provides revealing glimpses into their worlds through insightful essays and lively interviews with the directors.” — Aruna Vasudev, Founder-Editor of Cinemaya, The Asian Film Quarterly $30.00 / £20.50 paper 978-988-808-361-9 $50.00 / £34.50 cloth 978-988-808-360-2 2012 304 pages / 47 illus. Hong Kong University Press

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SOUTH & SOUTHEAST ASIAN HISTORY & POLITICS Forthcoming in paper, June

Democracy and Islam in Indonesia

The Millennial Sovereign

Edited by Mirjam Künkler and Alfred Stepan

Sacred Kingship and Sainthood in Islam A. Azfar Moin

“Democratization literature in political science has few in-depth studies of democratic transitions in Muslim-majority societies. The abundant literature on Islam and politics in Indonesia has largely neglected to compare

Best First Book in the History of Religions from the American Academy of Religion “Moin deserves the highest praise for venturing into this contested terrain and writing a

Indonesia’s transition with those in other parts of the world. In this well-written and

most interesting book about it.”

theoretically engaging volume, Künkler and

— American Historical Review

Stepan bring together leading figures from

“[Moin] has thrown an entirely new light

political science and Indonesian studies to address both of these intellectual shortcomings. The result is the best volume currently available on the role of Islam and Muslims in Indonesia’s democratic transition.”

on how early monarchs of India’s greatest dynastic house asserted their claims to royal authority. His book should be read not just by historians of South Asia but equally by those of Central Asia and Iran, as well as by

— Robert W. Hefner, Boston University

specialists in Islamic studies.”

$30.00 / £20.50 paper 978-0-231-16191-6

-Journal of Interdisciplinary History

$90.00 / £62.00 cloth 978-0-231-16190-9 2013 272 pages / 3 illus.

$28.00 / £19.50 paper 978-0-231-16037-7

Religion, Culture, and Public Life

$55.00 / £38.00 cloth 978-0-231-16036-0 2012 368 pages South Asia Across the Disciplines

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Mahatma Gandhi

Sources of Vietnamese Tradition

Nonviolent Power in Action

George Dutton, Jayne Werner, and John K.

Dennis Dalton; With a New Afterword by the

Whitmore

Author

A Choice Outstanding Academic Title

“The product of seasoned research and of several decades of teaching, reading, thinking, and acting on Gandhi’s ideas. It is a rich stew, and a feast for those who appreciate careful scholarship and the continuing power of Gandhian thought.”

“This is more than a biography or a political history. We are offered a penetrating analysis of Gandhian philosophy as revealed in his most individual operations.”

$28.00 / £19.50 paper 978-0-231-15959-3 $84.50 / £58.50 cloth 978-0-231-15958-6 2012 336 pages

indispensable for students interested in Vietnamese society and political theory. . . . Essential." — Choice "This addition to the venerable Introduction

— Journal of Asian Studies

— English Historical Review

"[Sources of Vietnamese Tradition] will be

to Asian Civilizations series marks a major step in the maturation of Vietnam Studies in the American academy." — Foreign Affairs “An essential research tool for anyone interested in Vietnamese history. The editors have done a marvelous job of locating, interpreting, and translating key documents written in a variety of languages.” — Hue-Tam Ho Tai, Harvard University $35.00 / £24.00 paper 978-0-231-13863-5 $105.00 / £72.50 cloth 978-0-231-13862-8 2012 664 pages Introduction to Asian Civilizations

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INDIAN TRADITION & CULTURE Forthcoming June w rit

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The Rhetorical Imagination of Hindi Dalit Literature

ta n c e

Writing Resistance

Sources of Indian Traditions

The Rhetorical Imagination of Hindi Dalit Literature

Modern India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh Vol. 2 third edition

Laura R. Brueck

Edited by Rachel Fell McDermott, Leonard

"An original and timely contribution to scholarship on Hindi literature, modern Indian

A. Gordon, Ainslie T. Embree, Frances W. Pritchett, and Dennis Dalton

literature and Dalit studies. The work is well

“The third edition of Sources of Indian

researched, using a judicious combination of

Traditions is fascinating, easy to read, pro-

Hindi and English sources and provides, for

vocative, and relevant to the present. Two

the first time in English, an overview of the

narrative lines flow, like an underground river,

central concerns of Hindi Dalit literature as

through the book: colonialism and the search

both a political and aesthetic movement."

for independence and the struggle with the

— Allison Busch, Columbia University

ever-changing questions of nationalism. An excellent expansion of the second edition,

“In a wide-ranging investigation of origins,

this anthology is masterly organized, making

motivations and genres, Laura Brueck

it a unique teaching text on South Asia.”

addresses the fundamental questions of what

— Owen M. Lynch, New York University

makes this literature Dalit, and what makes it literary; her fine book offers a sympathetic

$75.00 / £52.00 cloth 978-0-231-13830-7

and yet penetrating guide to a vivacious new

2014 1024 pages / 11 illus

canon of Hindi prose." — Rupert Snell, University of Texas at Austin

Introduction to Asian Civilizations

$30.00 / £20.50 paper 978-0-231-16605-8 $90.00 / £62.00 cloth 978-0-231-16604-1 June 2014 288 pages South Asia Across the Disciplines

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The Bhāgavata Purāna Sacred Text and Living Tradition

Text to Tradition The Naisadhīyacarita and Literary Community in South Asia

Edited by Ravi M. Gupta and Kenneth R. Valpey

Deven M. Patel

group of contemporary scholars who bring

"The Bhāgavata Purāna gathers a superb

“Deven M. Patel builds a nuanced, complex,

a new dimension of appreciation for this

and compelling picture of the cultural roles

religious masterpiece of Vaisnava Hinduism.

the Naisadhīyacarita fulfilled over a period of

Their essays plumb the breadth and depth of

some 700 years. The result is a fascinating

the influence of one of the world’s religious

case study of the ways the Sanskrit tradition

masterpieces with its unique devotional inten-

sought to come to grips with a major work."

sity and metaphysical subtlety. The Bhāgavata

— David Shulman, Hebrew University of

"Text to Tradition is the first reception history of any classical Indian text. It is studded with brilliant insights and thoughtful readings of sometimes very difficult, and often unpublished, materials."

2014 280 pages South Asia Across the Disciplines

theological discourse. Hinduism in all its varieties cannot be understood without first understanding The Bhāgavata Purāna. Ravi M. Gupta and Kenneth R. Valpey are to be thanked for gathering these important contributions to its scholarship.”

— Sheldon Pollock, Columbia University $50.00 / £34.50 9 cloth 978-0-231-16680-5

Purāna’s special genius heightens devotional intensity to Krishna while presenting profound

Jerusalem

— Daniel P. Sheridan, Saint Joseph’s College of Maine $34.50 / £24.00 paper 978-0-231-14999-0 $105.00 / £72.50 cloth 978-0-231-14998-3 2013 296 pages / 2 illus.

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INDIAN TRADITION & CULTURE New in paper

Unifying Hinduism

Tamil Love Poetry

Philosophy and Identity in Indian Intellectual History

The Five Hundred Short Poems of the Ainkurunuru

Andrew J. Nicholson

Translated and edited by Martha Ann Selby

Best First Book in the History of Religions from the American Academy of Religion

“In Selby’s exquisite translation, the Ainkurunuru can finally speak to an Englishlanguage audience. In these brief, densely packed verses, all the varieties of desire, erotic longing, jealousy, anger, infidelity, and domestic romance find their own natural landscapes. By rendering the entire anthology, Selby enables an appreciation of both the evocative individual poems and the subtle gathering architecture of the whole.”

“This path-breaking work is very helpful and a must read for scholars of Indian history, Hinduism and south Asian religious traditions.” — Metapsychology “Nicholson has created a tour-de-force that puts India’s premodern thinkers in conversation with its postmodern intellectuals.” — Journal of the American Academy of Religion

— Richard Davis, Bard College $28.00 / £19.50

paper 978-0-231-15065-1

$85.00 / £58.50

cloth 978-0-231-15064-4

$28.00 / £19.50 paper 978-0-231-14987-7

2011 256 pages

$50.00 / £34.50 cloth 978-0-231-14986-0

Translations from the Asian Classics

2010 (cloth) 280 pages South Asia Across the Disciplines

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KOREAN LITERATURE, POLITICS & CULTURE

Contentious Activism and InterKorean Relations Danielle L. Chubb

DMZ Crossing Performing Emotional Citizenship Along the Korean Border Suk-Young Kim

"In this meticulously researched book, Danielle L. Chubb reveals that South Korean

"Expertly braiding testimony from witnesses

policies toward the North are about far more

on both sides of the Korean border, Kim

than strategic considerations. Reaching

reminds us that political and ideological divi-

beyond prevailing state-centric foreign policy

sions are often no match for the intensity and

accounts, she convincingly argues that inter-

duration of emotional ties. This book is an

Korean relations have been significantly

important contribution to performance stud-

shaped by the legacy that several decades

ies, postcolonial theory, and affect theory. It

of contentious political activism have left on

should be read by all scholars interested in

South Korean society and politics."

Korean life and culture on both sides of the

— Roland Bleiker, University of Queensland

DMZ." — Peggy Phelan, Stanford University

"A comprehensive and penetrating analysis of the dynamic interplay of democracy, unifica-

"DMZ Crossing will have a profound impact

tion, and inter-Korean relations. The book is

not only on the ways we approach the histori-

original and innovative in theory and method-

cal significance of the Korean demilitarized

ology, rigorous in empirical investigation, and

zone, the multilayered meanings produced

rich in policy implications. A must read for

by acts of border crossing, and the issue of

students of Korean politics and East Asia stud-

national division in Korea but also on our

ies." — Chung-in Moon, Yonsei University

understanding of border crossing as sociocul-

$55.00 / £38.00 cloth 978-0-231-16136-7 2014 296 pages Contemporary Asia in the World

tural performance and its relation to the idea of affective and statist citizenship globally." — Theodore Hughes, Columbia University $50.00 / £34.50 cloth 978-0-231-16482-5 2014 224 pages / 29 illus.

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KOREAN LITERATURE, POLITICS & CULTURE New in paper

River of Fire and Other Stories O Chong-hui

Literature and Film in Cold War South Korea

Translated by Bruce Fulton and Ju-Chan Fulton

Freedom's Frontier Theodore Hughes

“River of Fire and Other Stories tracks the career of one of South Korea’s most consummate writers, subtly suggesting the violent

Choice Outstanding Academic Title “Hughes delivers a postcolonial study of

undertones of life under military dictatorship

Korea’s modern literary and cinematic his-

and the malaise of urban life, and coming to

tory that no East Asian collection can be

a close with a moving meditation upon aging.

without. . . . Highly recommended.”

The themes here are universal, yet their

— Choice

expression is unique to the controlled precision and delicate interior description that are so characteristic of O Chŏnghŭi’s style. A

“Head and shoulders above its competition.” — Cross Currents $27.00/ / £18.50 paper 978-0-231-15749-0

highly enjoyable read.”

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Mongolia and the United States

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A Diplomatic History

Tibet Yoga, and American Religious Life

Jonathan Addleton

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History and Popular Memory

Thai Stick

The Power of Story in Moments of Crisis

Surfers, Scammers, and the Untold Story

Paul A. Cohen

of the Marijuana Trade

"A remarkable and fascinating foray by a distinguished Chinese historian into the realms

Peter Maguire and Mike Ritter; Foreword by David Farber

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anthropology, detached sociology, cultural

help us understand and instill meaning into

history, remarkable example of oral history,

the present, even at the cost of distorting

series of smuggling stories, and many other

the past. Analyzing several celebrated cases

things to boot.”

of refashioned distant historical moments,

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“From the dank highlands of Siam to the

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Africa, India, and the Afrasian

Liberating Traditions

Imagination

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Gaurav Desai

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ways not just about this particular geography

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migration, trade, decolonization, national-

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will, and subjectivity. A must read." — Linda Martín Alcoff, Hunter College $35.00 / £24.00 paper 978-0-231-16625-6 $105.00 / £72.50 cloth 978-0-231-16624-9 2014 336 pages

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Aid Dependence in Cambodia

How Finance Is Shaping the Economies of China, Japan, and Korea

How Foreign Assistance Undermines Democracy

Edited by Yung Chul Park and Hugh Patrick

Sophal Ear “Using cross-national statistical evidence

"In juxtaposing the financial systems of

and his immense knowledge of Cambodian

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society, Sophal Ear has produced an impor-

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contrasts in their evolution and responses to the Asian financial crisis of 1997-98 and the U.S.-induced crisis of 2007-09. It raises important issues about countries’ interaction with a global financial system largely beyond their control."

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and nowhere are they more controversial

makers working on Cambodia but also for

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2012 240 pages / 8 illus.

Japan, and Korea specialists, and general readers alike." — Barry Eichengreen, University of California, Berkeley $60.00 / £41.50 cloth 978-0-231-16526-6 2013 376 pages Columbia Business School Publishing

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Burma Redux

Bonded Labor

Global Justice and the Quest for Political Reform in Myanmar

Tackling the System of Slavery in South Asia

Ian Holliday

Siddharth Kara

[An] astute book.” — Publishers Weekly

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chains in developing countries.” — Asia Literary Review $22.00 / £15.00 paper 978-0-231-15849-7 $29.50 / £20.50 cloth 978-0-231-15848-0 2012 336 pages / 26 illus.

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Sex Trafficking

2012 304 pages

Inside the Business of Modern Slavery Siddharth Kara

Co-winner of the Frederick Douglass Book Prize from Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History $18.95 / £12.95 paper 978-0-231-13961-8 $29.95 / £19.95 cloth 978-0-231-13960-1 2008 320 pages/ 26 illus.

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Great Treatise on the Stages of Mantra: Chapters XI–XII (The Creation Stage)

A Catalogue of the Comparative Kangyur (bka' 'gyur dpe bsdur ma)

Tsong Khapa Losang Drakpa. Translated and

Paul G. Hackett

Introduced by Thomas F. Yarnall

This is the first volume of a two volume set

Tsong Khapa’s Great Treatise on the Stages of Mantra (Sngags rim chen mo)—considered by the present Dalai Lama to be one of Tsong Khapa’s two most important books (along with his Lam rim chen mo)—is his masterful synthesis of the principles and practices of all four classes of Tantra, which formed the basis of his innovation in creat ing the esoteric “Tantric College” institution and curriculum in the early fifteenth century. With detailed reference to hundreds of works from the Tibetan Kangyur and Tengyur, the chapters presented and studied in this volume concern his treatment of the creation stage (bskyed rim) meditations of Unexcelled Yoga Tantra. This includes a detailed analysis emphasizing how and why such creation stage practices—utilizing deity yoga to transform death, the between, and life into the three bodies of buddhahood— are indispensible to creating a foundation for successfully entering the culminal yogic practices of the perfection stage. (A subsequent volume will present the perfection stage chapters of this essential masterwork.)

providing detailed cataloging information for the recently published Comparative (dpe bsdur ma) recension of the Tibetan Tripitaka. The catalogue includes cross-references to seven other Kangyur recensions used in the compilation of the Comparative Kangyur, including the previously uncataloged “Litang” (li thang) Kangyur. In addition, errors found in the “tables of contents” (dkar chag) and “cross-reference tables” (re’u mig) to the published edition have been corrected and verified against the published volumes and original blockprints. Indices to Tibetan and Sanskrit titles, translators, and revisers have been added, along with concordance tables aligning catalog numbers between the various recensions. $56.00 / £38.50 cloth 978-1-935011-14-9 2013 414 pages American Institute of Buddhist Studies

$56.00 / £38.50 cloth 978-1-935011-01-9 June 2014 408 pages American Institute of Buddhist Studies

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Spells, Images, and Mandalas

Brains, Buddhas, and Believing

Tracing the Evolution of Esoteric Buddhist Rituals

The Problem of Intentionality in Classical Buddhist and CognitiveScientific Philosophy of Mind

Koichi Shinohara “This book will transform the scholarly discourse concerning the relationship between Dharaṇi scriptures and esoteric Buddhism in the late Mahayana. In an area rife with confusing and competing theories concerning Dharaṇi scriptures and their relationship to the rise of the tantras, Shinohara has waded in and done the nitty-gritty textual work necessary to advance a coherent thesis

Dan Arnold

Winner of the Toshihide Numata Book Prize “Strong both philosophically and philologically, with Arnold’s characteristic erudition, analytic rigor, interpretive sensitivity, and enthusiasm evident throughout.” — H-Buddhism "The book admirably shows how the

on the evolution of the use of images and

philosophical views of Dharmakīrti and

the emergence of practices of visualization."

others are not just exhibits in the Indian

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Wing of the Museum of the History of Ideas, but positions that are of considerable importance in our attempts of addressing contemporary philosophical problems." — Religions of South Asia $27.00 / £18.50 paper 978-0-231-14547-3 $50.00 / £34.50 cloth 978-0-231-14546-6 2012 328 pages

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BUDDHISM New in paper

The Awakened Ones

Meditations of a Buddhist Skeptic

Phenomenology of Visionary Experience

A Manifesto for the Mind Sciences and Contemplative Practice

Gananath Obeyesekere

B. Alan Wallace

“In a world subjugated by the reification, if

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“The Awakened Ones is the most sustained

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and his linking of this knowledge to the prac-

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tices and views of science is nearly unique.”

— Akeel Bilgrami, Columbia University

— Arthur Zajonc, professor of physics, Amherst College

$55.00 / £38.00 cloth 978-0-231-15362-1 2012 644 pages/11 illus.

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Making Sense of Tantric Buddhism

The Lovelorn Ghost and the Magical Monk

History, Semiology, and Transgression in the Indian Traditions

Practicing Buddhism in Modern Thailand

Christian K. Wedemeyer

Justin Thomas McDaniel

Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion: Historical Studies from the American Academy of Religion

George McT. Kahin Book Prize on Southeast Asia, Association for Asian Studies

An important new work in Buddhology"

“This book informs, entertains, and provokes...

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anyone interested in Thailand today, in Buddhism, in ghosts, or in why CentralWorld

"Highly recommended" — South Asia

was burned down should read this brilliant

“A milestone in the field....Christian K. Wedemeyer’s methodological precision sheds light on traditional and modern historiography alike and makes a critical intervention in the scholarship that will have a major impact for generations to come.” — Janet Gyatso, Harvard University

book.” — Bangkok Post “Will likely serve for years to come as a benchmark in the study of Thai Buddhism, and McDaniel’s arguments, claims and interpretations will be advanced, debated and critiqued by future scholars seeking to

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and insight he has displayed.”

2012 336 pages South Asia Across the Disciplines

— New Mandala Blog $28.00 / £19.50 paper 978-0-231-15377-5 $60.00 / £41.50 cloth 978-0-231-15376-8 2011 (cloth) 384 pages / 20 illus.

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Buddhism in America, Revised and Expanded

Readings of the Platform Sutra

Richard Hughes Seager

Reading through these essays, one gains

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both a sense of how Bodhidharma’s lineage

Edited by Morten Schlütter and Stephen F. Teiser

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U.S. . . . [Its] strength, apart from being a

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mine of information, is Seager’s insistence on taking a historically informed and comparative perspective.”—Religious Studies Review

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“This book cries out for use as a textbook for classes on Buddhism in America.”

The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch

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Philip Yampolsky

This edition updates existing text and adds three new essays on contemporary developments in American Buddhism, particularly the aging of the baby boom population and its effect on American Buddhism’s modern character. New material includes revised information on the full range of communities profiled in the first edition; an added study of a second generation of young, Euro-American leaders and teachers; and an accessible look at the increasing importance of meditation and neurobiological research.

with a new foreward and updated glossary

“[Yampolsky] has...has given us the most comprehensive and most scholarly account of the subject in English.” —Journal of the American Oriental Society Remarkable....Yampolsky’s study is characterized by a clarity of presentation and a thoroughness of exploration of Chinese and Japanese sources.” —Philosophy East and West $34.00 / £23.50 paper 978-0-231-15957-9 $105.00 / £72.50 cloth 978-0-231-15956-2

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2012 276 pages

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Translations From The Asian Classics

2012 384 pages Columbia Contemporary American Religion Series

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How to Read Chinese Poetry Workbook Zong-qi Cai and Jie Cui ”This is, by far, the most comprehensive and useful collection of traditional Chinese poems that will serve a broad range of readers and purposes for many years to come. .... Teachers won’t have to pore through numerous anthologies of Chinese poetry for course material any more. The impressive breadth and depth, the thoughtful design and organization, of this workbook, meets all of their pedagogical and intellectual needs.” — Michelle Yeh, University of California, Davis. $25.00 / £17.50 paper 978-0-231-15658-5

Chaoyue: Advancing in Chinese A Textbook for Intermediate & Pre-Advanced Students Yea-Fen Chen, Meng Yeh, Frances Yufen Lee Mehta, Mei-Ju Hwang, Yuanchao Meng, and Natasha Pierce Illustrated by Amanda Wood $42.00 / £29.00 paper 978-0-231-14529-9 $125.00 / £86.50 cloth 978-0-231-145282010 464 pages

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2012 232 pages

How to Read Chinese Poetry A Guided Anthology

$26.00 / £18.00 paper 978--231-15623-3 2010 216 pages / 140 illus.

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