Asian History

Spring and Autumn Historiography

Form and Hierarchy in Ancient Chinese Annals Newell Ann Van Auken

The Spring and Autumn is an annals text composed of brief records covering the period 722–479 BCE. Newell Ann Van Auken argues that record-keepers from the ancient Chinese state of Lu—not a later editor—produced the formally regular core of the text.

$65.00 / £50.00 cloth 978-0-231-20650-1 March 2023 352 pages

TANG CENTER SERIES IN EARLY CHINA

Kingly Crafts

The Archaeology of Craft Production in Late Shang China Yung-ti Li

Through a systematic analysis of the archaeological materials available in both mainland China and Taiwan, Kingly Crafts provides a detailed picture of craft production in Anyang and paves the way for a new understanding of how the Shang capital functioned as a metropolis.

$60.00 / £50.00 cloth 978-0-231-19204-0 2022 280 pages 100 illus.

TANG CENTER SERIES IN EARLY CHINA

To Raise a Fallen People

The Nineteenth-Century Origins of Indian Views on International Politics Edited by Rahul Sagar

To Raise a Fallen People brings to light pioneering writing on international politics from nineteenth-century India. Drawing on extensive archival research, it unearths essays, speeches, and pamphlets that address fundamental questions about India’s place in the world.

$35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-20645-7 $140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-20644-0 2022 312 pages Learning to Rule

Court Education and the Remaking of the Qing State, 1861–1912 Daniel Barish

Daniel Barish explores debates surrounding the education of the final three Qing emperors, showing how imperial curricula became proxy battles for divergent visions of how to restabilize the country. Through the lens of the education of young emperors, Learning to Rule develops a new understanding of the late Qing era.

$35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-20329-6 $140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-20328-9 2022 280 pages

STUDIES OF THE WEATHERHEAD EAST ASIAN INSTITUTE, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

In the Land of Tigers and Snakes

Living with Animals in Medieval Chinese Religions Huaiyu Chen

Huaiyu Chen examines how Buddhist ideas about animals changed and were changed by medieval Chinese culture. He explores the entangled relations among animals, religions, the state, and local communities, considering both the multivalent meanings associated with animals and the daily experience of living with the natural world.

$35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-20261-9 $140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-20260-2 March 2023 288 pages 8 illus.

THE SHENG YEN SERIES IN CHINESE BUDDHIST STUDIES

Zhu Xi

Basic Teachings Translated by Daniel K. Gardner

Zhu Xi (1130–1200) was the preeminent Confucian thinker of the Song dynasty. This book presents the essential teachings of the new Confucian (“Neo-Confucian”) philosophical system that he forged. Daniel K. Gardner’s translation renders these discussions and sayings in an accessible, conversational style.

$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-20633-4 $120.00 / £94.00 cloth 978-0-231-20632-7 2022 184 pages

Buddhist Historiography in China

John Kieschnick

John Kieschnick provides an innovative, expansive account of how Chinese Buddhists have sought to understand their history through a Buddhist lens. Exploring a series of themes in mainstream Buddhist historiographical works from the fifth to the twentieth century, he looks for what they tell us about their compilers’ understanding of history.

$35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-20563-4 $140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-20562-7 2022 296 pages

THE SHENG YEN SERIES IN CHINESE BUDDHIST STUDIES

Common Ground

Tibetan Buddhist Expansion and Qing China’s Inner Asia Lan Wu

Lan Wu analyzes how Tibetan Buddhists and the Qing imperial rulers interacted and negotiated as both sought strategies to extend their influence in eighteenth-century Inner Asia. Revealing the interdependency of two expanding powers, Common Ground recasts the entangled histories of political, social, and cultural ties between Tibet and China.

$35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-20617-4 $140.00 /£108.00 cloth 978-0-231-20616-7 2022 248 pages

STUDIES OF THE WEATHERHEAD EAST ASIAN INSTITUTE, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

The Dalai Lama's Special Envoy

Memoirs of a Lifetime in Pursuit of a Reunited Tibet Lodi Gyaltsen Gyari

Lodi Gyaltsen Gyari spent decades striving for resolution of the Tibetan-Chinese conflict. He was the Dalai Lama’s special envoy and chief negotiator with the People’s Republic of China in the formal negotiations over the status of Tibet. In this revealing memoir, Gyari chronicles his lifetime of service to the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan cause.

$40.00 / £30.00 cloth 978-0-231-20648-8 2022 800 pages The Precious Summary

A History of the Mongols from Chinggis Khan to the Qing Dynasty Sagang Sechen Translated by Johan Elverskog

The Precious Summary is the most important work of Mongolian history on the threehundred-year period before the rise of the Manchu Qing dynasty. Written by Sagang Sechen in 1662, shortly after the Mongols’ submission to the Qing, it spans Buddhist cosmology, Chinggis Khan, the post-Yuan Mongols, and the Mongols’ conversion to Buddhism.

$35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-20695-2 $140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-20694-5 March 2023 376 pages

In the Forest of the Blind

The Eurasian Journey of Faxian’ s Record of Buddhist Kingdoms Matthew W. King

Matthew W. King offers a groundbreaking account of the literary, social, and political history of the circulation, translation, and interpretation of Faxian’s The Record of Buddhist Kingdoms. He reads its many journeys at multiple levels, contrasting the textual and interpretative traditions of the European academy and the Inner Asian monastery.

$40.00 / £35.00 paper 978-0-231-20361-6 $160.00 / £125.00 cloth 978-0-231-20360-9 2022 312 pages 30 illus. Assignment China

An Oral History of American Journalists in the People's Republic Mike Chinoy

This book tells the story of how American journalists have covered China—from the civil war of the 1940s through the COVID-19 pandemic—in their own words. Mike Chinoy assembles a remarkable collection of personal accounts from eminent journalists.

$35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-20799-7 $140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-20798-0 March 2023 520 pages

Mediation of Legitimacy in Early China

A Study of the Neglected Zhou Scriptures and the Grand Duke Traditions Yegor Grebnev

Yegor Grebnev examines crucial noncanonical texts preserved in the Yi Zhou shu (Neglected Zhou Scriptures) and the Grand Duke traditions. He develops an innovative framework for the study and interpretation of these texts, focusing on their role in the mediation of royal legitimacy and their formative impact on early Daoism.

$65.00 / £50.00 cloth 978-0-231-20340-1 2022 368 pages 5 illus.

TANG CENTER SERIES IN EARLY CHINA

The Culture of Language in Ming China

Sound, Script, and the Redefinition of Boundaries of Knowledge Nathan Vedal

The scholarly culture of Ming-dynasty China is often seen as prioritizing philosophy over concrete textual study. Nathan Vedal uncovers the preoccupation among Ming thinkers with specialized linguistic learning, a field typically associated with the intellectual revolution of the eighteenth century.

$35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-20075-2 $140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-20074-5 2022 336 pages 19 illus.

Finding a Path for China's Rise

The "Socialist" State and the World Economy, 1970-1978 Philippe Lionnet

Often, emphasis is given to the Chinese economic reforms under Deng Xiaoping from the end of 1978 onwards. In contrast, little attention has been given to the prehistory of these "reforms." Philippe Lionnet elaborates on the histories of China's agricultural, industrial and foreign trade policies.

$65.00 paper 978-3-8376-6422-5 2022 440 pages 26 illus.

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The Wuhan Lockdown

Guobin Yang

This book tells the dramatic story of the Wuhan lockdown in the voices of the city’s own people. Using a vast archive of more than 6,000 diaries, sociologist Guobin Yang vividly depicts how the city coped during the crisis.

$28.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-20047-9 $115.00 / £90.00 cloth 978-0-231-20046-2 2022 328 pages 6 illus.

Waiting for Dignity

Legitimacy and Authority in Afghanistan Florian Weigand

Florian Weigand investigates legitimacy and its absence in Afghanistan. He shows that what matters in conflict zones is dignity: people judge authorities on the basis of their day-today experiences with them. This book offers timely new insights into recent developments in Afghanistan and into the challenges facing conflict-torn areas more widely.

$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-20049-3 $140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-20048-6 2022 384 pages 3 illus. The Musha Incident

A Reader on the Indigenous Uprising in Colonial Taiwan Edited by Michael Berry

This book brings together leading scholars to provide new perspectives on one of the most traumatic episodes in Taiwan’s modern history— as well as the incident's fraught legacies. Contributors from a variety of disciplines revisit the Musha Incident and its afterlife in history, literature, film, art, and popular culture.

$35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-19747-2 $140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-19746-5 2022 312 pages 16 illus.

GLOBAL CHINESE CULTURE

Line of Advantage

Japan’s Grand Strategy in the Era of Abe Shinzō Michael J. Green

Michael J. Green provides a groundbreaking and comprehensive account of Japan’s strategic thinking under Prime Minister Abe Shinzō. Green explains the foundational logic and the worldview behind Shinzō's approach, from key precedents in Japanese history to the specific economic, defense, and diplomatic priorities shaping contemporary policy.

$35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-20467-5 $140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-20466-8 2022 328 pages

CONTEMPORARY ASIA IN THE WORLD

Japanese Government and Politics

Lauren McKee

This book is a comparative approach to Japanese politics. Grounded in a discussion of democracy’s historical development since the Meiji period, each chapter encourages readers to think critically and comparatively about political processes and their outcomes, situating Japan regionally and as a wealthy, democratic nation.

$15.00 / £11.99 paper 978-1-952636-35-6 January 2023 132 pages

ASSOCIATION FOR ASIAN STUDIES

The Promise and Peril of Things

Literature and Material Culture in Late Imperial China Wai-yee Li

Wai-yee Li traces notions of the pleasures and dangers of things in the literature and thought of late imperial China. She considers core oppositions—people and things, elegance and vulgarity, real and fake, lost and found—to tease out the ambiguities of material culture.

$35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-20103-2 $140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-20102-5 2022 360 pages Made in Censorship

The Tiananmen Movement in Chinese Literature and Film Thomas Chen

Despite sweeping censorship, Chinese culture continues to engage with the history, meaning, and memory of the Tiananmen movement. Thomas Chen examines the surprisingly rich corpus of Tiananmen literature and film produced in mainland China since 1989, contending that censorship does not simply forbid—it also shapes what is created.

$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-20401-9 $120.00 / £94.00 cloth 978-0-231-20400-2 2022 248 pages 11 iilus.

Confucius in East Asia

Confucianism’s History in China, Korea, Japan, and Viet Nam Revised and Expanded Second Edition Jeffrey L. Richey

Jeffrey L. Richey has written an engaging and well-crafted book that clearly delineates the oftentimes fitful development of Confucianism in China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam.

$15.00 / £11.99 paper 978-1-952636-37-0 2022 130 pages 32 illus.

ASSOCIATION FOR ASIAN STUDIES

Beyond the Book

Unique and Rare Primary Sources for East Asian Studies Collected in North America Edited by Jidong Yang

Beyond the Book is the first book dedicated to studies of rare East Asian materials collected by individuals and institutions in North America. It sheds new light on the two centuries of cultural exchanges between East Asia and North

$60.00 / £48.00 cloth 978-0-924304-98-9 2022 368 pages 130 illus.

ASSOCIATION FOR ASIAN STUDIES

How the “Red Star” Rose

Edgar Snow and Early Images of Mao Zedong Ishikawa Yoshihiro

Translated by Joshua A. Fogel

Biographies praising Mao and those slandering him are all based on the American journalist Edgar Snow’s account in How the “Red Star”Rose of the route Mao traveled from early childhood through his youth. This book examines the image of Mao and the biographical information made known to the world through the publication of Snow’s book.

$70.00 cloth 978-988-237-207-8 2022 370 pages 68 illus.

THE CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG PRESS

A Medical History of Hong Kong

The Development and Contributions of Outpatient Services Moira M. W. Chan-Yeung

This book focuses on a topic that is seldom discussed, despite its immeasurable impact on the health of the citizens and public health in Hong Kong: the development of outpatient medical services.

$55.00 cloth 978-988-237-220-7 2022 280 pages 85 illus.

THE CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG PRESS

Animal Care in Japanese Tradition

A Short History W. Puck Brecher

This book provides a historical overview of Japan’s relationship with animals from ancient times to the 1950s. Departing from existing scholarship on the subject, the book also connects Japan’s much-maligned record of animal exploitation with its strong adherence to contextual, needs-based moral memory.

$16.00 / £12.99 paper 978-1-952-636-27-1 2022 138 pages

ASSOCIATION FOR ASIAN STUDIES

The South Korean Economy

Sunil Kim and Jonson Porteux

Charts the astonishing economic development of South Korea and explains the country's remarkable transformation to a highly innovative economy based on advanced technologies and infrastructure in spite of a postcolonial legacy of military leaders in suits and the absence of fully developed free markets.

$90.00 cloth 978-1-78821-198-7 2022 224 pages

AGENDA PUBLISHING

Modern Indian History

Emily Rook-Koepsel

India, as a nation-state, is a relatively new concept. Modern Indian History is a chronological historical narrative starting in the 16th century and ending in the present, that considers political, economic, and social developments on the Indian subcontinent.

$15.00 / £11.99 paper 978-1-952636-33-2 March 2023 132 pages

ASSOCIATION FOR ASIAN STUDIES

The Hunger of the Republic

Our Present in Retrospect Edited by Ashish Rajadhyaksha

This is the first in a series of volumes that turn back to India’s recent history to produce a retrospective account of how our present was shaped. Key essays on politics, economics, cultural studies, and aesthetics appear alongside works of art, documentary film, photography, maps, letters, and legal documents.

$52.00 / £44.00 cloth 978-81-945348-1-5 2022 428 pages illus. throughout

TULIKA BOOKS

A Strategic Myth

'Underdevelopment' in Jammu and Kashmir Sehar Iqbal

The Jammu and Kashmir region has been different things to different people throughout the twentieth century and well into the twentyfirst. This book challenges commonly held misconceptions about the region and brings to light its achievements during the state-led developmental process of Jammu and Kashmir from 1948 to 1988.

$25.00 / £20.00 cloth 978-81-947175-6-0 2022 216 pages

TULIKA BOOKS

Forming the Modern Turkish Village

Nation Building and Modernization in Rural Turkey During the Early Republic Özge Sezer

Özge Sezer outlines the implementation of new rural settlements in Turkey, particularly following the 1934 Settlement Law, with a geographic focus on two cities-Izmir and Elazig - with varied socio-economic and ethnic standing in the state program.

$55.00 paper 978-3-8376-6155-2 2022 212 pages 23 illus.

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