Asian Studies 2020
New and Forthcoming Titles
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Letter from the editors: Columbia University Press has a long history of bringing the Asian classics to an Anglophone audience. The books we present to you in this 2020 catalog continue that tradition, while also paying close attention to the larger role of Asia in the world. These books span many fields in Asian studies—history, politics, literary studies, philosophy, religion, and film—and reflect the interdisciplinary and global approach of our list. Eugenia Lean’s Vernacular Industrialism in China explores how Chen Diexian (1879–1940) drew on wideranging literati interests and abilities—including a facility for languages—to become a successful modern entrepreneur. Meanwhile, William Hedberg questions the very concept of a national canon with The Japanese Discovery of Chinese Fiction, and Tsuji Nobuo’s History of Art in Japan—now available in a full-color paperback edition—traces a tradition of artistic production that continues to have significant influence on aesthetics worldwide. Among the many outstanding philosophy and religion titles in this year’s catalog, several deserve special attention. Beef, Brahmins, and Broken Men is an annotated critical selection from B. R. Ambedkar’s classic work The Untouchables, which provides his speculative historical account of how the Dalits came to exist. Wisdom as a Way of Life: Theravāda Buddhism Reimagined is the final work of Steven Collins; by reinterpreting Theravāda texts and practices as guides to the development of the self, it promises to change the field of Buddhist studies. And Buddhism and Medicine: An Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Sources, edited by C. Pierce Salguero, completes his vast project to document the global historical relationship between Buddhism and medicine. In history and politics, Columbia continues its long tradition of publishing cutting-edge works that speak to Asia’s past and present. We are especially pleased to be publishing new global histories of Asia that span a wide range of periods, from Adam Clulow’s Amboina, 1623: Fear and Conspiracy on the Edge of Empire to Raja Adal’s Beauty in the Age of Empire: Japan, Egypt, and the Global History of Aesthetic Education. These works join our recent modern histories of the region, such as Robert Culp’s The Power of Print in Modern China: Intellectuals and Industrial Publishing from the End of Empire to Maoist State Socialism and Craig Etcheson’s detailed account of the Cambodian war crimes trials, Extraordinary Justice: Law, Politics, and the Khmer Rouge Tribunals. In politics, Nicholas Jepson explores the effects of China’s global investments in In China’s Wake: How the Commodity Boom Transformed Development Strategies in the Global South. And in Dying for Rights: Putting North Korea’s Human Rights Abuses on the Record, Sandra Fahy provides a moving account of one of the biggest political and human rights challenges in East Asia today. Finally, we hope you will peruse our new translations, particularly for use in your classrooms. Wai-yee Li’s Plum Shadows and Plank Bridge: Two Memoirs About Courtesans combines a pitch-perfect translation with an excellent introduction to the Ming-Qing transition. A Couple of Soles is the first Li Yu play to be available in English translation, and Jing Shen and Robert Hegel have done a fine job of capturing the humor of the original. For those more interested in the present day, Timothy Cheek, David Ownby, and Joshua A. Fogel have brought together translations from each of China’s main intellectual clusters--liberals, the New Left, and New Confucians—in Voices from the Chinese Century. And There a Petal Silently Falls, a haunting response to the Kwangju Massacre of 1980, is newly available in paperback. Sincerely,
Caelyn Cobb, editor for global history and politics; Christine Dunbar, editor for Asian humanities and translations; Wendy Lochner, publisher for philosophy and religion
TABLE OF CONTENTS
LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION
Literature in Translation ......................................3
Table for One
Film/Art ............................................................ 12
Yun Ko-eun
Stories
Literature/Culture................................................6
Translated by Lizzie Buehler
History................................................................14 Politics/Economics...............................................19
Philosophy/Religion.............................................23 New in Paper......................................................27
Best of the Backlist..............................................30
Ordering Information ......................................... 31
Manuscript queries and proposals can be sent to the following editors: Christine Dunbar (cd2654@columbia.edu) for
Asian humanities and translation.
Caelyn Cobb (cc4141@columbia.edu) for global history and politics.
Wendy Lochner (wl2003@columbia.edu) for philosophy and religion.
In these indelible short stories, contemporary South Korean author Yun Ko-eun conjures up slightly off-kilter worlds tucked away in the corners of everyday life. Throughout Table for One, comedy and an element of the surreal are interwoven with the hopelessness and loneliness that pervades the protagonists’ decidedly mundane lives. $20.00 / £16.99 paper 978-0-231-19203-3 $60.00 / £50.00 cloth 978-0-231-19202-6 October 2020 256 pages
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Sachiko A Novel
Endō Shūsaku
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Translated by Van C. Gessel
In novels such as Silence, Endō Shūsaku examined the persecution of Japanese Christians in different historical eras. Sachiko, set in Nagasaki in the painful years between 1930 and 1945, is the story of two young people trying to find love during yet another period in which Japanese Christians were accused of disloyalty to their country. $28.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-19731-1 $95.00 / £78.00 cloth 978-0-231-19730-4 August 2020 400 pages
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LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION Other Moons
Plum Shadows and Plank Bridge
Vietnamese Short Stories of the American War and Its Aftermath
Two Memoirs About Courtesans
Mao Xiang and Yu Huai Translated and edited by Wai-yee Li
Translated and edited by Quan Manh Ha and Joseph Babcock Foreword by Bao Ninh
In this anthology, Vietnamese writers describe their experience of what they call the American War and its lasting legacy through the lens of their own vital artistic visions. The twenty short stories collected in Other Moons range from the intensely personal to narratives that deal with larger questions of remembrance, trauma, and healing.
This volume presents two memoirs by famous men of letters, Reminiscences of the Plum Shadows Convent by Mao Xiang (1611–93) and Miscellaneous Records of Plank Bridge by Yu Huai (1616–96), that recall times spent with courtesans. They evoke the courtesan world in the final decades of the Ming dynasty and the aftermath of its collapse.
$27.00 / £21.00 paper 978-0-231-19609-3
$20.00 / £16.99 paper 978-0-231-18685-8
$95.00 / £78.00 cloth 978-0-231-19608-6
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August 2020 280 pages
2020 368 pages
TRANSLATIONS FROM THE ASIAN CLASSICS
A Couple of Soles
Fu Ping
A Comic Play from Seventeenth-Century China
A Novel
Wang Anyi
Li Yu
Translated by Howard Goldblatt
Translated by Jing Shen and Robert E. Hegel
$25.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-19355-9
Fu Ping is a keenly observed portrait of the lives of lower-class women in Shanghai in the early years of the People’s Republic of China. Wang Anyi, one of contemporary China’s most acclaimed authors, explores the daily lives of migrants from rural areas and other people on the margins of urban life.
$75.00 / £60.00 cloth 978-0-231-19354-2
$18.00 / £13.99 paper 978-0-231-19323-8
A Couple of Soles is a classic comedic romance by the seventeenth-century playwright Li Yu. The first major comedy from late imperial China to appear in English translation, it provides an unparalleled view of the theater in seventeenth-century China.
2019 360 pages
$60.00 / £50.00 cloth 978-0-231-19322-1
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2019 304 pages
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LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION Friend
The Diary of 1636
A Novel from North Korea
The Second Manchu Invasion of Korea
Paek Nam-nyong
Na Man’gap
Translated by Immanuel Kim
Paek Nam-nyong’s Friend is a tale of marital intrigue, abuse, and divorce in North Korea. This groundbreaking translation of one of North Korea’s most popular writers offers English-language readers a page-turner full of psychological tension as well as a revealing portrait of a society that is typically seen as closed to the outside world. $20.00 / £16.99 paper 978-0-231-19561-4 $60.00 / £50.00 cloth 978-0-231-19560-7 April 2020 240 pages
Translated and with an introduction by George Kallander
After a Chosŏn faction realigned Korea with the Ming dynasty, the Manchu attacked in 1627 and again a decade later, forcing Korea to support the newly founded Qing dynasty. The Korean scholar-official Na Man’gap (1592–1642) recorded the second Manchu invasion in the only firstperson account chronicling the dramatic Korean resistance. $30.00 / £24.00 paper 978-0-231-19757-1 $120.00 / £100.00 cloth 978-0-231-19756-4
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TRANSLATIONS FROM THE ASIAN CLASSICS
Memories of Peking
The Handsome Monk and Other Stories
South Side Stories
Tsering Döndrup
Lin Hai-yin
Translated by Christopher Peacock
Translated by Nancy C. lng and Chi Pang-yuan Introduction by Peng Hsiao-yen
Tsering Döndrup is one of the most popular and critically acclaimed authors writing in Tibetan today. The Handsome Monk and Other Stories brings together short stories from across Tsering Döndrup’s career to create a panorama of Tibetan society.
Through the keen eyes and curious mind of a young girl, Ying-tzu, we are given a glimpse into the adult world of Peking in the 1920s. Exploring ideas of loss and bewilderment, Lin Hai-yin carefully captures the transition from childhood to adulthood.
$20.00 / £14.99 paper 978-0-231-19023-7
$18.00/ £14.99 paper 978-988-237-129-3
$60.00 / £50.00 cloth 978-0-231-19022-0
2020 228 pages
2019 216 pages
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LITERATURE/CULTURE The Japanese Discovery of Chinese Fiction
How to Read a Japanese Poem Steven D. Carter
The Water Margin and the Making of a National Canon William C. Hedberg
In The Japanese Discovery of Chinese Fiction, William C. Hedberg investigates the reception of The Water Margin in a variety of early modern and modern Japanese contexts, from eighteenth-century Confucian scholarship and literary exegesis to early twentieth-century colonial ethnography. $65.00 / £54.00 cloth 978-0-231-19334-4
How to Read a Japanese Poem offers a comprehensive approach to making sense of traditional Japanese poetry of all genres and periods. Steven D. Carter explains to Anglophone students the methods of composition and literary interpretation used by Japanese poets, scholars, and critics from ancient times to the present. $30.00 / £24.00 paper 978-0-231-18683-4
2019 264 pages
$90.00 / £70.00 cloth 978-0-231-18682-7 2019 288 pages 22 illus.
Licentious Fictions
Staging Personhood
Daniel Poch
Guojun Wang
Costuming in Early Qing Drama
Ninjō and the NineteenthCentury Japanese Novel
Nineteenth-century Japanese literary discourse and narrative developed a striking preoccupation with ninjō—literally “human emotion,” but often used in reference to amorous feeling and erotic desire. In Licentious Fictions, Daniel Poch investigates the significance of ninjō in defining the literary modernity of nineteenth-century Japan. $65.00 / £54.00 cloth 978-0-231-19370-2 2019 304 pages 5 illus.
Staging Personhood uncovers a hidden history of the Ming-Qing transition by exploring what it meant for the clothing of a deposed dynasty to survive onstage. Reading dramatic texts and performances against Qing sartorial regulations, Guojun Wang offers an interdisciplinary lens on the entanglements between Chinese drama and nascent Manchu rule. $65.00 / £54.00 cloth 978-0-231-19190-6 2020 312 pages 36 illus.
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LITERATURE/CULTURE The Unworthy Scholar from Pingjiang
Conversations Ai Weiwei
Republican-Era Martial Arts Fiction
John Christopher Hamm
Xiang Kairan, who wrote under the pen name “The Unworthy Scholar from Pingjiang,” is remembered as the father of modern Chinese martial arts fiction. In this book, John Christopher Hamm shows how Xiang Kairan’s work and career offer a new lens on the transformations of fiction and popular culture in early twentieth-century China. $70.00 / £58.00 cloth 978-0-231-19056-5 2019 312 pages 10 illus.
Ai Weiwei is one of the world’s most acclaimed artists and dissidents. This book presents him in conversation with theorists, critics, journalists, and curators about key moments in his life and career. These wide-ranging conversations flow between topics such as his relationship with China, the meaning of citizenship, moving his studio to Lesbos to be on the front lines of the migrant crisis, and how to make art. $19.95 / £16.99 paper 978-0-231-19739-7 $60.00 / £50.00 cloth 978-0-231-19738-0 October 2020 224 pages
The Typographic Imagination
Chinese Grammatology
Reading and Writing in Japan’s Age of Modern Print Media
Script Revolution and Literary Modernity, 1916–1958
Nathan Shockey
Yurou Zhong
Early twentieth-century Japan was newly awash in typographic text and mass-produced print. In The Typographic Imagination, Nathan Shockey charts the relationships among prose, politics, and print capitalism as he explores how this commercial print revolution transformed Japan’s media ecology and traces the possibilities and pitfalls of type as a force for radical social change.
For nearly half of the twentieth century, reformers waged war on the Chinese script. In Chinese Grammatology, Yurou Zhong traces the origins, transmutations, and containment of this script revolution to provide a groundbreaking account of its formative effects on Chinese literature and culture and its lasting implications.
$65.00 / £54.00 cloth 978-0-231-19428-0
$105.00 / £88.00 cloth 978-0-231-19262-0
2019 336 pages
2019 296 pages 11 illus.
$35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-19263-7
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LITERATURE/CULTURE Fixing Landscape
The Book of Lord Shang
A Techno-Poetic History of China’s Three Gorges
Apologetics of State Power in Early China (Abridged Edition)
Corey Byrnes
Shang Yang
Edited and translated by Yuri Pines CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE
Fixing Landscape reconsiders China’s Three Gorges Dam in relation to the aesthetic history of the Gorges region over more than two millennia, offering radically new ways of thinking about cultural and spatial production in contemporary China. $65.00 / £50.00 cloth 978-0-231-18806-7 2019 344 pages 105 illus.
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Compiled in China in the fourth–third centuries BCE., The Book of Lord Shang argues for a new powerful government to transform men into diligent tillers and valiant soldiers, thereby creating a “rich state and a strong army.” These ideas served the state of Qin that eventually created the first imperial polity on Chinese soil. In this new translation, The Book of Lord Shang’s intellectual boldness and surprisingly modern ideas underscore the text’s vibrant contribution to global political thought. $27.00 / £21.00 paper 978-0-231-17989-8 2019 368 pages
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The Great Flowing River
Modern Short Fiction of Southeast Asia
A Memoir of China, from Manchuria to Taiwan
A Literary History
Edited by Teri Shaffer Yamada
Chi Pang-yuan
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Translated by John Balcom
Heralded as a literary masterpiece and a best-seller in the Chinese-speaking world, The Great Flowing River is a personal account of the history of modern China and Taiwan unlike any other. The noted scholar, writer, and teacher Chi Pang-yuan recounts her youth in mainland China and adulthood in Taiwan in a novelistic, epoch-defining narrative. $35.00 / £27.00 cloth 978-0-231-18840-1 2018 480 pages
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Modern Short Fiction of Southeast Asia surveys the historical and cultural significance of modern short fiction in nine Southeast Asian nations—Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar/Burma, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam. This book will be of great interest to students of modern literature and general readers interested in Southeast Asia as well as scholars of East and South Asia who wish to compare the literary developments of those areas to Southeast Asia. $28.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-924-304-52-1 2009 360 pages
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LITERATURE/CULTURE The Mediated Myth of Lin Zexu
Transmutations of Desire
Social and Cultural Textures of Chinese Society
Literature and Religion in Late Imperial China Qiancheng Li
Edited by Angelo Maria Cimino
By analyzing Chinese media representations of the myth of Lin Zexu, contributors identify the social and cultural significance of a mediated historical knowledge. They examine cultural products such as feature films, digital images, documentaries, cartoons, and songs: analyze their discursive practices and the responses they spawn; and explain how multiple agents within the Chinese media continuously generate and reaffirm the myth’s cultural network. $40.00 paper 978-3-8376-4423-4
Qiancheng Li examines the nuances of the trend toward love occupying center stage in the Chinese context. The emphasis is on readings of literary texts, including important Ming- and Qingdynasty works of drama, Buddhist texts, and other religious and philosophical works, in all their subtlety and evocative power. $50.00 cloth 978-988-237-122-4 April 2020 310 pages
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2018 240 pages 13 illus.
TRANSCRIPT-VERLAG
Minjian
The Mingjia and Related Texts
The Rise of China’s Grassroots Intellectuals
Essentials in the Understanding of the Development of Pre-Qin Philosophy
Sebastian Veg
Translated by Ian Johnston and Wang Ping Sebastian Veg explores the rise of minjian—unofficial, unaffiliated, and among the people—intellectuals and how they have profoundly transformed China’s public culture. Minjian documents how, amid deep structural shifts, grassroots thinkeractivists began to work outside academia or policy institutions in an embryonic public sphere.
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$65.00 / £54.00 cloth 978-0-231-19140-1
2020 1184 pages
2019 368 pages
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The Mingjia (School of Names) is a notional grouping of philosophers living between the sixth and third centuries BCE whose identifying feature was a concern with linguistic issues, particularly involving the correct use of names. This is a comprehensive work on this school of thought.
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LITERATURE/CULTURE Intransitive Encounter
An Encyclopaedia of Practical Translation and Interpreting
Sino-U.S. Literatures and the Limits of Exchange Nan Z. Da
Nan Z. Da offers an in-depth study of nineteenth-century Sino–U.S. literary interactions that highlights their lack of transpacific interpollination. Intransitive Encounter is an unconventional and theoretically rich reflection on global meetings and imaginings that do not fit the patterns proclaimed by postcolonial and literary studies.
Edited by Chan Sin-wai
As a sequel to An Encyclopaedia of Translation: Chinese-English, English-Chinese, published in 1995, this volume focuses on practical translation and interpreting, two areas of increasing importance in recent decades. All chapters contain rich examples in translation between Chinese and English. $52.00 cloth 978-962-996-839-7
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2018 530 pages
2018 304 pages 6 illus.
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Wittgenstein, a OneWay Ticket, and Other Unforeseen Benefits of Studying Chinese
Kingdoms of Memory, Empires of Ink
The Veda and the Regional Print Cultures of Colonial India
Edited by Perry Link
This is a collection of essays by some of the world’s most renowned China experts, who share recollections of their time in China and reflect on what learning Chinese has meant to them. They share how Chinese has removed barriers, built rapport, opened doors, and led them down entirely unexpected roads that have changed the course of their lives. $28.00 paper 978-988-237-094-4
Cezary Galewicz
This book examines the unusual concept of the book that developed in South Asia with reference to the Veda. It tries to understand how emerging regional cultures created conditions for, inspired, and accommodated differently configured projects of bringing out printed editions of Vedic texts. $50.00 / £42.00 paper 978-83-2334-391-2 2020 306 pages
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2019 264 pages
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LITERATURE/CULTURE Classical Chinese Medicine
Keywords in Chinese Culture
Liu Lihong
Edited by Wai-yee Li and Yuri Pines
Translated by Gabriel Weiss and Henry A. Buchtel with Sabine Wilms Edited by Heiner Fruehauf
This book explains the essence of Shanghanlun (Treatise on Cold Damage), a monumental ancient medical classic, paired with cases the author encountered during years of practicing Chinese medicine. The author’s concise writing style allows readers to understand the melding of theory and practice and philosophical views of nature and life. $90.00 cloth 978-988-237-057-9 2019 704 pages
Like every culture, Chinese has its set of keywords: pivotal terms of political, ethical, literary, and philosophical discourse. This volume analyzes some of these keywords from different disciplinary and temporal perspectives, offering a new integrative study of their semantic richness, development trajectory, and distinct usages. $55.00 cloth 978-988-237-119-4 November 2020 360 pages
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The Hindi Canon
The Dancing Poet
Intellectuals, Processes, Criticism
Rabindranath Tagore and Modernity in Performance
Mrityunjay Tripathi
Rimli Bhattacharya
Translated by Shad Naved
This book presents a systematic but critical account of the beginnings, development, and history of the process of canonization in Hindi via such exemplary figures as George Grierson, Garcin de Tassy, Ramchandra Shukla, Hazari Prasad Dwivedi, Muktibodh, Namwar Singh, and Nirmal Verma, among others. It proposes an intellectual history of Hindi criticism in the twentieth century, which today faces the challenges of a decanonization move in the form of feminist and Dalit thought.
Drawing on a range of visual archives and personal collections, this book casts Rabindranath Tagore as the “Dancing Poet,” in whom the contours of a pan-Indian diversity seek to merge, albeit selectively, with that of the world, eschewing the territorial borders of the nation-state while reiterating civilizational strands. Rimli Bhattacharya outlines the contradictions and possibilities in such aspirations, central to the new cultural texts that Tagore seeks to produce in lyric, songs, dance, image, or narrative.
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2018 200 pages
2019 376 pages
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FILM/ART
Tsuji Nobuo
What Is Japanese Cinema?
Translated by Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere
Yomota Inuhiko
History of Art in Japan
A History
Translated by Philip Kaffen
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In this book, Tsuji Nobuo, the leading authority on Japanese art history, tells the fascinating story of the country’s exceptional cultural heritage. He sheds light on how Japan has nurtured distinctive aesthetics, prominent artists, and movements that have achieved global influence and popularity. The History of Art in Japan discusses works ranging from the Jōmon period to contemporary art, from earthenware figurines dated to 13,000 BCE to manga, anime, and modern subcultures. $34.95 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-19341-2
What Is Japanese Cinema? is a concise and lively history of Japanese film that shows how cinema tells the story of Japan’s modern age. Discussing popular works alongside auteurist masterpieces, Yomota Inuhiko considers films in light of both Japanese cultural particularities and cinema as a worldwide art form. $26.00 / £20.00 paper 978-0-231-19163-0 $80.00 / £62.00 cloth 978-0-231-19162-3 2019 248 pages 36 illus.
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Bombay Hustle
Residual Futures
Making Movies in a Colonial City
The Urban Ecologies of Literary and Visual Media of 1960s and 1970s Japan
Debashree Mukherjee
Franz Prichard
Franz Prichard offers a pathbreaking analysis of the works wrought from Japan’s intensive urbanization in the 1960s and 1970s. He maps the ways in which Japanese filmmakers, writers, photographers, and other artists came to grips with the entwined ecologies of a drastic transformation.
Debashree Mukherjee offers a panoramic history of early Bombay cinema and its consolidation in the 1930s. Bombay Hustle provides vital insight into practices of modernity and political, social, and technological change in late colonial India.
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August 2020 288 pages
2019 280 pages 20 illus.
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$30.00 / £24.00 paper 978-0-231-19615-4
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FILM/ART Nagarik
Perpetrator Cinema
Volume 1
Confronting Genocide in Cambodian Documentary
Edited by Ira Bhaskar
Raya Morag
Translated by Rani Ray
$14.00 / £11.99 cloth 978-81-941260-4-1
Perpetrator Cinema explores a new trend in the cinematic depiction of genocide that has emerged in Cambodian documentary in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Raya Morag analyzes how post–Khmer Rouge Cambodian documentarians propose a direct confrontation between the first-generation survivor and the perpetrator of genocide.
July 2020 88 pages
$30.00 / £24.00 paper 978-0-231-18509-7
Set in Calcutta in the aftermath of Partition, Ritwik Ghatak’s Nagarik (released in 1977 after Ghatak’s death in 1976) chronicles the struggles of a refugee family from East Bengal as they desperately strive to survive in a metropolis that is unable to address the necessities of thousands of people pouring in from across the border.
$90.00 / £70.00 cloth 978-0-231-18508-0
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2020 312 pages 20 illus.
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Stars 79-80
Notes for an Oratorio on Small Things That Fall
Edited by Li Xi
(like a screw in the night)
Ari Sitas, with Kristy Stone, Greg Dor, and Reza Khota
Notes for an Oratorio on Small Things That Fall is a poetic, creative, and sociological take on our contemporary silk roads and hazmat highways. The journey reconstructs a via dolorosa through the excesses and forms of exploitation, discrimination, and suffering. $50.00 / £42.00 cloth 978-81-941260-3-4 July 2020 120 pages
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In the late 1970s, at the close of the Cultural Revolution, a group of young, largely autodidact artists in China endeavored to create artwork that would depart from present norms and reflect individual ideals. It was a period of hope for the future, full of energy on all levels of society. In the 40th anniversary of the founding of the Stars, Stars 79–80 collects their most significant writings, images and artworks, capturing the youthfulness and vibrancy of a new ideological movement. $52.00 cloth 978-988-237-18-2-8 2020 292 pages 270 illus
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HISTORY Vernacular Industrialism in China
The Profits of Nature
Colonial Development and the Quest for Resources in Nineteenth-Century China
Local Innovation and Translated Technologies in the Making of a Cosmetics Empire, 1900–1940
Peter B. Lavelle
Eugenia Lean
By examining the manufacturing, commercial, and cultural activities of the maverick industrialist Chen Diexian (1879–1940), Eugenia Lean illustrates how lettered men of early twentieth-century China engaged in “vernacular industrialism,” the pursuit of industry and science outside of conventional venues. $65.00 / £54.00 cloth 978-0-231-19348-1 2020 416 pages 18 illus.
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Peter B. Lavelle uses the life and career of the statesman Zuo Zongtang as a lens to explore the environmental history of nineteenth-century China. The Profits of Nature offers a new approach to understanding the dynamic relationship among imperial crisis, natural resources, and colonial development during a critical juncture in Chinese history. $65.00 / £50.00 cloth 978-0-231-19470-9 2020 304 pages 24 illus.
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Gao Village Revisited
To the End of Revolution
The Life of Rural People in Contemporary China
The Chinese Communist Party and Tibet, 1949–1959
Mobo C. F. Gao
Xiaoyuan Liu
The status of Tibet is one of the most controversial and complex issues in the history of modern China. In To the End of Revolution, Xiaoyuan Liu draws on unprecedented access to the archives of the Chinese Communist Party to offer a groundbreaking account of Beijing’s evolving Tibet policy during the critical first decade of the People’s Republic. $35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-19527-0 $140.00 / £115.00 cloth 978-0-231-19526-3 July 2020 408 pages
This is a study of Gao Village twenty years after the author, an anthropologist and native of Gao Village, wrote his original ethnography Gao Village. It combines ethnographic analysis, personal vignettes, and a number of fascinating stories, to present a complex picture of how Gao villagers interact with the outside world. The author argues that rural Chinese entrepreneurial powers and inner strength are active contributors to China’s economic boom. $45.00 cloth 978-962-996-578-5 2019 300 pages
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HISTORY The Power of Print in Modern China
Asian Place, Filipino Nation
Intellectuals and Industrial Publishing from the End of Empire to Maoist State Socialism
A Global Intellectual History of the Philippine Revolution, 1887–1912
Nicole CuUnjieng Aboitiz
Robert Culp
Robert Culp explores the world of commercial publishing to offer a new perspective on modern China’s cultural transformations. He examines China’s largest and most influential publishing companies during the late Qing and Republican periods and into the early years of the People’s Republic. $65.00 / £54.00 cloth 978-0-231-18416-8 2019 392 pages 15 illus.
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Nicole CuUnjieng Aboitiz reconnects the Philippine Revolution to the histories of Southeast and East Asia through an innovative consideration of its transnational political setting and regional intellectual foundations. She charts turn-ofthe-twentieth-century Filipino thinkers’ and orevolutionaries’ political organizing and pr0tonational thought. $35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-19215-6 $140.00 / £115.00 cloth 978-0-231-19214-9 May 2020 264 pages
COLUMBIA STUDIES IN INTERNATIONAL AND GLOBAL HISTORY
Beauty in the Age of Empire
Peace on Our Terms
The Global Battle for Women's Rights After the First World War
Japan, Egypt, and the Global History of Aesthetic Education
Mona L. Siegel
Peace on Our Terms is the first book to demonstrate the centrality of women’s activism to the Paris Peace Conference and the critical diplomatic events of 1919. Mona L. Siegel tells the timely story of how female activists transformed women’s rights into a global rallying cry, laying a foundation for generations to come. 35.00 / £30.00 cloth 978-0-231-19510-2
Raja Adal
Beauty in the Age of Empire is a global history of aesthetic education focused on how Western practices were adopted, transformed, and repurposed in Japan and Eygpt. Raja Adal uncovers the emergence of aesthetic education in modern schools and its role in making a broad spectrum of ideologies, from fascism to humanism, attractive. $65.00 / £50.00 cloth 978-0-231-19116-6 2019 264 pages 43 illus.
2020 344 pages 28 illus.
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HISTORY The Making of a Periphery
Christian Sorcerers on Trial
How Island Southeast Asia Became a Mass Exporter of Labor
Records of the 1827 Osaka Incident
Translated and with an introduction by Fumiko Miyazaki, Kate Wildman Nakai, and Mark Teeuwen
Ulbe Bosma
Island Southeast Asia was once a thriving region with products that found eager consumers from China to Europe. Today, the Philippines, Indonesia, and Malaysia are primarily exporters of their surplus of cheap labor. How did a prosperous region become a peripheral one? Ulbe Bosma draws on new archival sources from the colonial period to the present to demonstrate how high demographic growth and a long history of bonded labor relegated Southeast Asia to the margins of the global economy. $65.00 / £50.00 cloth 978-0-231-18852-4
In 1829, six people were paraded through Osaka and crucified as devotees of the “pernicious creed” of Christianity. Christian Sorcerers on Trial offers annotated translations of a range of sources on this sensational event. It provides students and scholars alike with an extraordinarily rich picture of late Edo society. $35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-19691-8 $140.00 / £115.00 cloth 978-0-231-19690-1 July 2020 416 pages 16 illus.
2019 320 pages
COLUMBIA STUDIES IN INTERNATIONAL AND GLOBAL HISTORY
Drinking Bomb and Shooting Meth
Understanding East Asia’s Economic “Miracles”
Alcohol and Drug Use in Japan
Revised and expanded edition
Jeffrey W. Alexander
Zhiqun Zhu
Concise yet comprehensive, Zhiqun Zhu’s book is the perfect introduction to the political economy of East Asia for undergraduate and advanced high school classes. Zhu’s analysis of the economic ‘miracles’ of Japan, South Korea, China and Taiwan takes into account both domestic factors and the international environment, and is sensitive to the similarities as well as differences between the developmental experiences of these nations. $15.00 / £12.99 paper 978-0-924-304-79-8 2017 112 pages
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Drinking Bomb and Shooting Meth explores the efforts of those who brewed, distilled, synthesized, and marketed Western alcohol and innovative pharmaceuticals. Jeffrey W. Alexander asks how these products became so popular, available, and fashionable, and explores what their advertising campaigns say about Japan’s shifting culture, which is often quick to absorb and refine foreign wares. Alexander’s research themes include the seedy reputation of early bars, the style of prewar beer advertising, and the promises offered by hangover pill. $16.00/ £13.99 paper 978-0-924-304-85-9 2018 180 pages
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HISTORY A People's History of India 31
The Cultural Economy of Land
The National Movement, Part 2: The Struggle for Freedom, 1919–1947
Rural Bengal, Circa 1860–1940 Suhita Sinha Roy
Irfan Habib
Edited by Mallarika Sinha Roy
This volume takes up the story of the Indian National Movement from 1919, when the first nationalist struggle took place on an all-India scale. The work ends with August 1947, when India finally attained independence.
The Cultural Economy of Land attempts to bring out a multilayered pattern of rural life-worlds by tracing, on the one hand, major social and political changes, and on the other hand, the everyday life of Birbhum district at a specific historical juncture.
$17.00 / £13.99 cloth 978-81-941260-1-0
$35.00 / £30.00 cloth 978-81-937329-7-7
July 2020 132 pages
2019 200 pages
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Weighing the Evidence: Who Killed Gandhi?
Amboina, 1623
Fear and Conspiracy on the Edge of Empire
The Justice Jeevan Lal Kapur Commission of Inquiry Report
Adam Clulow
Annotated and edited by Teesta Setalvad This volume brings to light the report of the Kapur Commission, which was appointed by the government of India in 1965 to examine the depth and scope of the conspiracy that lay behind the killing of Gandhi. This three-volume report has been absent from the public domain though it contains invaluable evidence of the extent of the authorities’ complicity.
In 1623, Dutch authorities executed twenty-one alleged conspirators over a plot to seize a castle on a remote set of islands in what is now eastern Indonesia. In this landmark study, Adam Clulow presents a new perspective on the Amboina case that aims to move beyond the debate over guilt or innocence.
$55.00 / £46.00 cloth 978-81-941260-2-7
2019 304 pages 14 illus.
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July 2020 400 pages
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HISTORY The Chile Pepper in China
Kingly Crafts
The Archaeology of Craft Production in Late Shang China
A Cultural Biography Brian R. Dott
Brian R. Dott explores how the non-native chile went from obscurity to ubiquity in China, influencing not just cuisine but also medicine, language, and cultural identity. The Chile Pepper in China sheds new light on the piquant cultural impact of a potent plant and raises broader questions regarding notions of authenticity in cuisine. $32.00 / £28.00 cloth 978-0-231-19532-4
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 July 2020 240 pages 100 illus.
TANG CENTER SERIES IN EARLY CHINA
May 2020 296 pages 20 illus.
ARTS AND TRADITIONS OF THE TABLE: PERSPECTIVES ON CULINARY HISTORY
A History of Cultic Images in China
Modeling Peace
Royal Tombs and Political Ideology in Early China
The Domestic Statuary of Hunan
Jie Shi
Alain Arrault
Translated by Lina Verchery
Among hundreds of thousands of ancient graves and tombs excavated to date in China, the Mancheng site stands out for its unparalleled complexity and richness. It features two juxtaposed burials, those of the first king and queen of the Zhongshan kingdom (dated late second century BCE).This book is the first scholarly monograph on an undisturbed and fully excavated early Chinese royal burial site. $60.00 / £50.00 cloth 978-0-231-19102-9
In the past twenty years, work on the local culture of central Hunan has been one of the most exciting sources for rethinking the nature and variety of Chinese local society. At the heart of this society is a kind of statuary found nowhere else in China— sculpted images of local people, primarily religious specialists of a wide range, but also parents and ancestors. Based on two decades of international collaborative research, Alain Arrault focuses on some 4,000 of these statues.
2019 352 pages 60 illus.
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TANG CENTER SERIES IN EARLY CHINA
November 2020 260 pages 89 illus .
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POLITICS/ECONOMICS China’s Fintech Explosion
Voices from the Chinese Century
Disruption, Innovation, and Survival Sara Hsu and Jianjun Li
Public Intellectual Debate from Contemporary China
Edited by Timothy Cheek, David Ownby, and Joshua A. Fogel
Sara Hsu and Jianjun Li explore the transformative potential of China’s financial-technology industry, describing the risks and rewards for participants as well as the impact on consumers. Offering expert analysis of market potential, risks, and competition, as well as case studies of firms, China’s Fintech Explosion is a must-read.
Voices from the Chinese Century brings together a selection of essays from representative leading thinkers that offer an entryway into public debate in China today on fundamental questions of China and the world—past, present, and future. The voices in this volume include figures from each of China’s main intellectual clusters.
$35.00 / £30.00 cloth 978-0-231-19656-7
$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-19523-2
August 2020 320 pages 39 illus.
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$90.00 / £74.00 cloth 978-0-231-19522-5 2019 384 pages
U.S. Strategy in the Asian Century
In China’s Wake
How the Commodity Boom Transformed Development Strategies in the Global South
Empowering Allies and Partners Abraham M. Denmark
Nicholas Jepson
Nicholas Jepson shows how Chinese demand not only transformed commodity markets but also provided resource-rich states with the financial leeway to set their own policy agendas. He combines analysis of China-led structural change with finegrained analysis of how the boom played out across fifteen different resource-rich countries.
U.S. Strategy in the Asian Century offers vital perspective on the future of power dynamics in the Indo-Pacific, focusing on the critical roles that American allies and partners can play. Blending academic rigor and practical policy experience, Abraham M. Denmark analyzes the future of major-power competition in the region.
$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-18797-8
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2020 376 pages 40 illus.
October 2020 256 pages
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POLITICS/ECONOMICS The China-U.S. Trade War and Their Future Economic Relations
China’s Hong Kong
Lawrence J. Lau
Tim Summers
Lawrence J. Lau examines various economic statistics of the past few decades to show that while the real effects of the China-U.S. trade war in 2018 are not negligible, they are relatively manageable for both nations. By countering the rise of xenophobia, Lau envisions China-U.S. economic collaboration as a potentially positive-sum game that will enable each country to fully use the other’s currently underutilized resources.
The Politics of a Global City
This book looks afresh at the constitutional settlement under which Hong Kong became a Special Administrative Region of the PRC. Tim Summers argues that the developments in Hong Kong have to be understood as a unique interplay among local, national, and global forces. $30.00 paper 978-1-788210-69-0 2019 176 pages
AGENDA PUBLISHING
$39.00 cloth 978-988-237-112-5 2019 224 pages
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How Sentiment Matters in International Relations:
The Future of UK-China Relations
The Search for a New Model
China and the South China Sea Dispute
Kerry Brown
David Groten
At a time when China’s role in the world is becoming the focus of international business strategy and Brexit is pushing the UK to look to the rest of the world for trade and investment, Kerry Brown assesses the potential for a new “golden age” of UK-China relations and what the UK needs to understand about China before embarking on such a venture.
The rise of China represents a major challenge for regional stability in Southeast Asia. This book contends that experiences of perceived disrespect by the Chinese side have contributed to its increasingly bold stance toward the South China Sea dispute. However, conflict is not inevitable, and the book provides a number of policy recommendations.
$30.00 paper 978-1-78821157-4
2019 370 pages
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$80.00 cloth 978-3-8474-2319-5
2019 192 pages
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POLITICS/ECONOMICS Japan’s New Regional Reality
Ambitious and Anxious
Geoeconomic Strategy in the Asia-Pacific
How Chinese College Students Succeed and Struggle in American Higher Education
Saori N. Katada
Yingyi Ma
Yingyi Ma offers a multifaceted analysis of the wave of Chinese students across American highereducation based on research in both Chinese high schools and U.S. institutions. Ma argues that their experiences embody the duality of ambition and anxiety that arises from transformative social changes in China. $35.00 / £30.00 cloth 978-0-231-18458-8
Japan’s New Regional Reality offers a comprehensive analysis of Japan’s geoeconomic strategy that reveals the country’s role in shaping regional economic order in the Asia-Pacific. Saori N. Katada explains Japanese foreign economic policy in light of both international and domestic dynamics. $35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-19073-2 $140.00/ £115.00 cloth 978-0-231-19072-5 July 2020 336 pages
2020 312 pages
CONTEMPORARY ASIA IN THE WORLD
Dying for Rights
The Japanese Economy
Putting North Korea’s Human Rights Abuses on the Record
Hiroaki Richard Watanabe
Sandra Fahy
Hiroaki Richard Watanabe examines the ups and downs of Japan’s postwar economic history to offer an up-to-date and authoritative guide to the workings of Japan’s economy. He highlights the country’s distinct modes of business networks and Japan’s state–market relationship. $30.00 paper 978-1-78821-051-5 $90.00 cloth 978-1-78821-050-8 2019 224 pages
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Dying for Rights scrutinizes North Korea’s treatment of its own people as well as foreign nationals, how violations committed by the state spread into the international realm, and how North Korea uses its state media and presence at the United Nations. Sandra Fahy meticulously documents the extent of arbitrary detention, torture, executions, and the network of prison camps throughout the country, detailing the systematic and widespread violations of freedom of speech and of movement, and the rights to food and to life. $35.00 / £30.00 cloth 978-0-231-17634-7 2019 352 pages
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POLITICS/ECONOMICS The Indian Economy
India-Pakistan Strategic Relations
Matthew McCartney
The Nuclear Dilemma Christoph Bluth and Uzma Mumtaz
Christoph Bluth and Uzma Mumtaz scrutinize the atypical and seemingly paradoxical impact of nuclearization on the conflict between India and Pakistan. They demonstrate that the dominant paradigm used in the international relations literature is inadequate to explain the relations between India and Pakistan, and develop a new explanation.
This book explains the development of the Indian economy since independence and partition. Matthew McCartney uses case studies of poverty, inequality, education, health, work, and gender issues to outline the human story behind the economic figures and performance indicators. $25.00 paper 978-1-788210-09-6 $90.00 cloth 978-1-788210-08-9
$46.00 paper 978-3-8382-1413-9
2019 240 pages
May 2020 350 pages
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Extraordinary Justice
Sustaining Economic Growth in Asia
Craig Etcheson
Edited by Jérémie Cohen-Setton, Thomas Helbling, Adam Posen, and Changyong Rhee
Law, Politics, and the Khmer Rouge Tribunals
Craig Etcheson, one of the world’s foremost experts on the Cambodian genocide and its aftermath, draws on decades of experience to trace the evolution of transitional justice in the country from the late 1970s to the present. He considers how war crimes tribunals come into existence, how they operate and unfold, and what happens in their wake.
Sustaining Economic Growth in Asia explores the relevance to several Asian economies of the diagnosis known as “secular stagnation.” Leading experts discuss the fiscal and monetary policy challenges of reviving growth without generating domestic financial imbalances in essays on innovation, demographics, spillovers, and various policy proposals.
$65.00 / £50.00 cloth 978-0-231-19424-2
$23.95 / £18.99 paper 978-0-88132-733-5
2019 456 pages
2018 175 pages
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PHILOSOPHY/RELIGION Beef, Brahmins, and Broken Men
Wisdom as a Way of Life
An Annotated Critical Selection from The Untouchables
Theravāda Buddhism Reimagined Steven Collins
B. R. Ambedkar
B. R. Ambedkar spent his life battling Untouchability and instigating the end of the caste system. In his 1948 book The Untouchables, he sought to trace the origin of Untouchability. Beef, Brahmins, and Broken Men is an annotated selection from this work, produced in a time when the oppression of and discrimination against Dalits remains pervasive. $30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-19585-0
Edited by Justin McDaniel. Preface by Dan Arnold. Afterword by Charles Hallisey.
This wide-ranging and powerful book argues that Theravāda Buddhism provides ways of thinking about the self that can reinvigorate the humanities and offer broader insights into how to learn and how to act. $35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-19721-2 $140.00 / £115.00 cloth 978-0-231-19720-5 June 2020 296 pages
$90.00 / £70.00 cloth 978-0-231-19584-3 2020 256 pages
Readings of Dōgen's Treasury of the True Dharma Eye
Buddhism and Medicine
An Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Sources
Steven Heine
Edited by C. Pierce Salguero
A companion to Buddhism and Medicine: An Anthology of Premodern Sources, this work presents a collection of modern and contemporary texts and conversations from across the Buddhist world dealing with the multifaceted relationship between Buddhism and medicine, covering the early modern period to the present.
The Treasury of the True Dharma Eye (Shōbōgenzō) is the masterwork of Dōgen (1200–1253), founder of the Sōtō Zen Buddhist sect in Kamakura-era Japan. Steven Heine provides a comprehensive introduction to this essential Zen text, offering a textual, historical, literary, and philosophical examination of Dōgen’s treatise.
$150.00 / £125.00 cloth 978-0-231-18936-1
$35.00 /£30.00 paper 978-0-231-18229-4
2019 424 pages 20 illus.
$140.00 / £115.00 cloth 978-0-231-18228-7 June 2020 312 pages
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PHILOSOPHY/RELIGION Becoming Guanyin
Chinese Esoteric Buddhism
Artistic Devotion of Buddhist Women in Late Imperial China
Amoghavajra, the Ruling Elite, and the Emergence of a Tradition
Yuhang Li
Yuhang Li examines how lay Buddhist women in late imperial China forged a connection with the subject of their devotion, arguing that women used their own bodies to echo that of Guanyin. She combines empirical research with theoretical insights from both art history and Buddhist studies. $65.00 / £50.00 cloth 978-0-231-19012-1
Geoffrey C. Goble
Chinese Esoteric Buddhism is generally held to have been established as a distinct Buddhist school in the eighth century. Geoffrey C. Goble provides an innovative account of its emergence that sheds new light on the structures and traditions that shaped its institutionalization, with a focus on Amoghavajra (704–774).
2019 272 pages
$70.00 / £60.00 cloth 978-0-231-19408-2
PREMODERN EAST ASIA: NEW HORIZONS
2019 336 pages
THE SHENG YEN SERIES IN CHINESE BUDDHIST STUDIES
Readings of Śāntideva’s Guide to Bodhisattva Practice
Thriving in Crisis
Buddhism and Political Disruption in China, 1522–1620
Edited by Jonathan C. Gold and Douglas S. Duckworth
Dewei Zhang
Thriving in Crisis is a systematic study of the late Ming Buddhist renewal with a focus on the religious and political factors that enabled it. Dewei Zhang explores the history of the boom in enthusiasm for Buddhism in the Jiajing-Wanli era (1522–1620), tracing a pattern of advances and retrenchment at different social levels in varied regions. $65.00 / £54.00 cloth 978-0-231-19700-7
Śāntideva’s eighth-century work, the Guide to Bodhisattva Practice (Bodhicaryāvatāra), is one of the crucial texts of the Buddhist ethical and philosophical tradition. This book serves as a companion to the Indian Buddhist classic, illuminating the Guide’s many philosophical, literary, ritual, and ethical dimensions. $30.00 / £24.00 paper 978-0-231-19267-5 $90.00 / £74.00 cloth 978-0-231-19266-8 2019 288 pages
June 2020 360 pages 10 illus.
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PHILOSOPHY/RELIGION The Original Meaning of the Yijing
Stating the Sacred
Zhu Xi
Michael J. Walsh
Religion, China, and the Formation of the Nation-State
Commentary on the Scripture of Change
Edited and translated by Joseph A. Adler One of the most influential commentaries on the Yijing (I Ching), or Scripture of Change, for the past thousand years has been that of Zhu Xi (1130– 1200). Joseph A. Adler’s translation of the Yijing includes for the first time in any Western language Zhu Xi’s commentary in full.
Stating the Sacred offers a novel approach to nation-state formation, arguing that its most critical element is how the state sacralizes the nation. Focusing primarily on China, Michael J. Walsh argues that the foundational role of the sacred makes all nation-states religious states.
$65.00 / £50.00 cloth 978-0-231-19124-1
$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-19357-3
2019 400 pages 24 illus.
$95.00 / £78.00 cloth 978-0-231-19356-6
TRANSLATIONS FROM THE ASIAN CLASSICS
2020 272 pages
Muslim Environmentalisms
New Life for Old Ideas Chinese Philosophy in the Contemporary World: A Festschrift in Honour of Donald J. Munro
Religious and Social Foundations Anna M. Gade
Edited by Yanming An and Brian J. Bruya
Anna M. Gade explores the religious and cultural foundations of Islamic environmentalisms. She blends textual and ethnographic study to offer a comprehensive and interdisciplinary account of the legal, ethical, social, and political principles underlying Muslim commitments to the earth.
In this festschrift, students of Donald J. Munro and scholars influenced by him celebrate Munro’s body of work in essays that extend his legacy, exploring topics as varied as the ethics of Zhuangzi’s autotelicity, the teleology of nature in Zhu Xi, and family love in Confucianism and Christianity.
$35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-19105-0
$52.00 cloth 978-988-237-052-4
$105.00 / £88.00 cloth 978-0-231-19104-3
2019 416 pages
2019 336 pages
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PHILOSOPHY/RELIGION Modern Sufis and the State
A Genealogy of Devotion
The Politics of Islam in South Asia and Beyond Edited by Katherine Pratt Ewing and Rosemary R. Corbett
In recent years, Sufism has been held up as a supposedly peaceful alternative to forms of Islam associated with violence, an embodiment of tolerance and pluralism. Modern Sufism and the State brings together a range of scholars, including anthropologists, historians, and religious studies specialists, to challenge common assumptions.
Bhakti, Tantra, Yoga, and Sufism in North India Patton E. Burchett
Patton E. Burchett offers a pathbreaking genealogical study of devotional (bhakti) Hinduism that traces its understudied historical relationships with tantra, yoga, and Sufism. He focuses his analysis on the early modern period, when the rise of bhakti communities in North India transformed the religious landscape.
$35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-195751
$70.00 / £58.00 cloth 978-0-231-19032-9
$140.00 / £115.00 cloth 978-0-231-195744
2019 456 pages
August 2020 336 pages
Modern Things on Trial
Politics of the Possible
Essays on Gender, History, Narratives, Colonial English
Islam’s Global and Material Reformation in the Age of Rida, 1865–1935
Kumkum Sangari
Leor Halevi
Leor Halevi tells the story of the Islamic trials of technological and commercial innovations of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Shedding light on culture, commerce, and consumption in Cairo and other colonial cities, Modern Things on Trial is a groundbreaking account of Islam’s material transformation in a globalizing era. $75.00 / £62.00 cloth 978-0-231-18866-1 2019 384 pages
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This collection of essays covers a broad range of disciplines to produce a work that rethinks relationships and divisions in gender, geography, class relations, culture, and much more to create a true “politics of the possible.” $43.00 paper 978-81-852294-5-4 July 2020 556 pages
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NEW IN PAPER Transpacific Attachments
China’s Green Religion
Sex Work, Media Networks, and Affective Histories of Chineseness
Daoism and the Quest for a Sustainable Future James Miller
Lily Wong
$26.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-18339-0 2020 248 pages 30 photos
$26.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-17587-6 2020 224 pages
GLOBAL CHINESE CULTURE
The Buddha’s Wizards
Sōseki
Modern Japan’s Greatest Novelist
Magic, Protection, and Healing in Burmese Buddhism
John Nathan
Thomas Nathan Patton
$26.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-18761-9
$22.00 / £18.99 paper 978-0-231-17143-4
2020 240 pages 33 illus.
2019 344 pages 7 illus.
ASIA PERSPECTIVES: HISTORY, SOCIETY, AND CULTURE
Edo Kabuki in Transition
South Korea at the Crossroads
From the Worlds of the Samurai to the Vengeful Female Ghost
Autonomy and Alliance in an Era of Rival Powers Scott A. Snyder
Satoko Shimazaki
$28.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-17227-1
$25.00 /£20.00 paper 978-0-231-18549-3
2020 392 pages 50 illus.
2020 376 pages
A COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS BOOK
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NEW IN PAPER There a Petal Silently Falls
The Merchant’s Tale
Yokohama and the Transformation of Japan
Three Stories by Ch’oe Yun Ch’oe Yun
Simon Partner
$22.00 / £18.99 paper 978-0-231-14297-7
$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-18293-5
2020 200 pages
2020 320 pages 20 illus.
WEATHERHEAD BOOKS ON ASIA
ASIA PERSPECTIVES: HISTORY, SOCIETY, AND CULTURE
Global Entanglements of a Man Who Never Traveled
An Empire of Touch
Women’s Political Labor and the Fabrication of East Bengal
A Seventeenth-Century Chinese Christian and His Conflicted Worlds
Poulomi Saha
Dominic Sachsenmaier
$26.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-18753-4
$26.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-19209-5
2020 280 pages
2019 344 pages
COLUMBIA STUDIES IN INTERNATIONAL AND GLOBAL HISTORY
GENDER AND CULTURE SERIES
Spreading Buddha’s Word in East Asia
Homecomings
The Belated Return of Japan's Lost Soldiers
The Formation and Transformation of the Chinese Buddhist Canon
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