History

Edo Kabuki in Transition

From the Worlds of the Samurai to the Vengeful Female Ghost Satoko Shimazaki

JOHN WHITNEY HALL BOOK PRIZE, ASSOCIATION FOR ASIAN STUDIES; CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE

Satoko Shimazaki revisits three centuries of kabuki theater, reframing it as a key player in the formation of an early modern urban identity in Edo Japan and exploring the process that resulted in its re-creation in Tokyo as a national theatrical tradition. She then analyzes the profound changes that took place in Edo kabuki toward the end of the early modern period, which witnessed the rise of a new type of character: the vengeful female ghost.

$28.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-17227-1 $65.00 / £54.00 cloth 978-0-231-17226-4 2020 392 pages When Was Modernism

Essays on Contemporary Cultural Practice in India

Geeta Kapur

A commitment to modernity is the underlying theme of this volume. Through essays that are interpretive and theoretical, the author situates the modern in contemporary cultural practice. The essays divide into three sections. The first two sections, Artists and Artworks and Film/Narratives, raise questions of authorship, genre, and contemporary features of national culture that materialize into an aesthetic in the Indian context. The last section—Frames of Reference—formalizes the polemical options developed across the book.

$60.00 / £50.00 paper 978-81-894872-4-9 January 2021 456 pages

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Transpacific Attachments

Sex Work, Media Networks, and Affective Histories of Chineseness Lily Wong

Lily Wong studies the transpacific mobility and mobilization of the sex worker figure, illuminating the intersectional politics of racial, sexual, and class structures. Transpacific Attachments examines shifting depictions of Chinese sex workers in popular media from the early twentieth century to the present. Wong focuses on the transpacific networks that reconfigure Chineseness, complicating a diasporic framework of cultural authenticity.

$26.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-18339-0 $65.00 / £54.00 cloth 978-0-231-18338-3 2020 248 pages 30 illus.

GLOBAL CHINESE CULTURE TULIKA BOOKS

Stars 79–80

Edited by Li Xi

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 978-988-237-182-8 2020 292 pages 270 illus

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Green with Milk and Sugar

When Japan Filled America’s Tea Cups Robert Hellyer

Tracing the trans-Pacific tea trade from the eighteenth century onward, Green with Milk and Sugar shows how the interconnections between Japan and the United States have influenced the daily habits of people in both countries. Robert Hellyer explores the forgotten American penchant for Japanese green tea and how it shaped Japanese tastes.

$32.00 / £28.00 cloth 978-0-231-19910-0 September 2021 264 pages 15 illus. Many Worlds Under One Heaven

Material Culture, Identity, and Power in the Northern Frontiers of the Western Zhou, 1045–771 BCE Yan Sun

Many Worlds Under One Heaven analyzes a wide range of newly excavated materials to offer a new perspective on political and cultural change under the Western Zhou. Examining tombs, bronze inscriptions, and other artifacts, Yan Sun challenges the Zhou-centered view with a frontier-focused perspective that highlights the roles of multiple actors.

$65.00 / £54.00 cloth 978-0-231-19842-4 July 2021 344 pages 51 illus.

TANG CENTER SERIES IN EARLY CHINA

Dwelling in the World

Family, House, and Home in Tianjin, China, 1860–1960 Elizabeth LaCouture

Elizabeth LaCouture considers family, house, and home in Tianjin to explore how everyday life changed with the fall of the Qing Empire and the rise of a colonized city. Dwelling in the World recasts Chinese social and cultural history, offering new lenses on gender and class, colonialism and empire, visual and material culture, and technology.

$35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-18179-2 $145.00 / £120.00 cloth 978-0-231-18178-5 July 2021 320 pages Vernacular Industrialism in China

Local Innovation and Translated Technologies in the Making of a Cosmetics Empire, 1900–1940 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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Unsettling Utopia

The Making and Unmaking of French India Jessica Namakkal

After India achieved independence from the British in 1947, France retained control of five scattered territories until 1962. Unsettling Utopia presents a new account of the history of twentiethcentury French India to show how colonial projects persisted beyond formal decolonization.

$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-19769-4 $120.00 / £100.00 cloth 978-0-231-19768-7 June 2021 304 pages

COLUMBIA STUDIES IN INTERNATIONAL AND GLOBAL HISTORY

Japan, 1972

Visions of Masculinity in an Age of Mass Consumerism Yoshikuni Igarashi

Japan, 1972 takes an early seventies year as a vantage point for understanding how Japanese society came to terms with cultural change. Yoshikuni Igarashi examines a broad selection of popular film, television, manga, and other media, exposing the underpinnings of mass culture and investigating deeper anxieties over agency and masculinity.

$35.00 / £27.00 paper 978-0-231-19555-3 $140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-19554-6 April 2021 384 pages

Transtopia in the Sinophone Pacific

Howard Chiang

Howard Chiang proposes a new paradigm for doing transgender history in which geopolitics assumes central importance. Defined as the antidote to transphobia, transtopia challenges a minoritarian view of transgender experience and makes room for the variability of transness on a historical continuum.

$140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-190961 April 2021 376 pages The Religious Ethic and Mercantile Spirit in Early Modern China

Ying-shih Yü Edited by Hoyt Cleveland Tillman

Translated by Yim-tze Kwong

The historian Ying-shih Yü offers a magisterial examination of religious and cultural influences in the development of China’s early modern economy. He investigates how evolving forms of Buddhism, Confucianism, and Daoism created and promulgated their own concepts of the work ethic from the late seventh century into the Qing dynasty.

$35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-20043-1 $145.00 / £120.00 cloth 978-0-231-20042-4 March 2021 328 pages

Lineages of the Literary

Tibetan Buddhist Polymaths of Socialist China Nicole Willock

In the aftermath of the cataclysmic Maoist period, three Tibetan Buddhist scholars living and working in the People’s Republic of China became intellectual heroes. Nicole Willock reveals how they negotiated the political tides of the twentieth century, shedding new light on Sino-Tibetan relations and Buddhism during this turbulent era.

$35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-19707-6 $140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-19706-9 April 2021 320 pages 25 illus. A Buddhist Sensibility

Aesthetic Education at Tibet’s Mindröling Monastery Dominique Townsend

Founded in 1676, Mindröling Monastery became a key site for Buddhist education and a Tibetan civilizational center. Dominique Townsend investigates the ritual, artistic, and cultural practices inculcated at Mindröling to demonstrate how early modern Tibetans integrated Buddhist and worldly activities through training in aesthetics.

$30.00 / £24.00 paper 978-0-231-19487-7 $120.00 / £93.00 cloth 978-0-231-19486-0 March 2021 280 pages

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Fearing the Worst

How Korea Transformed the Cold War Samuel F. Wells Jr.

After World War II, the escalating tensions of the Cold War shaped the international system. Fearing the Worst explains how the Korean War fundamentally changed postwar competition between the United States and the Soviet Union into a militarized confrontation that would last decades.

$45.00 / £38.00 cloth 978-0-231-19274-3 2019 600 pages

WOODROW WILSON CENTER SERIES

The Profits of Nature

Colonial Development and the Quest for Resources in Nineteenth-Century China Peter B. Lavelle

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 / £54.00 cloth 978-0-231-19470-9 2020 304 pages 24 illus.

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 America.

$60.00 / £50.00 cloth 978-0-924-304-98-9 April 2021 400 pages 130 illus.

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Tribe and State in Asia, Past and Present

Sumit Guha

This book analyzes how the word “tribe” has morphed and spread through the centuries. It goes behind the label to bring out the social, military, and environmental settings that gave the term its various meanings.

$16.00 / £13.99 paper 978-0-924-304-95-8 March 2021 156 pages 5 illus.

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Found in Translation

New People in TwentiethCentury Chinese Science Fiction Jing Jiang

Found in Translation investigates Chinese science fiction as a phenomenon of world literature. It highlights the ways in which science fiction intervened in critical debates on nationalism, realism, humanism, and environmentalism in twentieth-century China.

$16.00 / £13.99 paper 978-0-924-304-94-1 February 2021 164 pages 15 illus.

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The Fifty Years That Changed Chinese Religion, 1898–1948

Paul R. Katz and Vincent Goossaert

This book demonstrates that transformative processes occurred in Chinese religions during the last decade of the Qing dynasty and the entire Republican period. Focusing on Shanghai and Zhejiang, it delves into the workings of social structures, religious practices, and personal commitments as they evolved during this period of wrenching changes.

$25.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-924-304-96-5 January 2021 248 pages 4 illus.

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The Language of History

Sanskrit Narratives of Indo-Muslim Rule Audrey Truschke

For over five hundred years, Muslim dynasties ruled parts of northern and central India. Scholars have long drawn upon works written in Persian and Arabic about this epoch, yet they have neglected the many histories that India’s learned elite wrote about Indo-Muslim rule in Sanskrit. Audrey Truschke offers a groundbreaking analysis of these texts.

$35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-19705-2 $140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-19704-5 January 2021 376 pages Made in Hong Kong

Transpacific Networks and a New History of Globalization Peter E. Hamilton

Between 1949 and 1997, Hong Kong transformed from a struggling British colonial outpost into a global financial capital. Made in Hong Kong delivers a new narrative of this metamorphosis, revealing Hong Kong both as a critical engine in the expansion and remaking of postwar global capitalism and as the linchpin of Sino-U.S. trade since the 1970s.

$35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-18485-4 $140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-18484-7 January 2021 440 pages 25 illus.

STUDIES OF THE WEATHERHEAD EAST ASIAN INSTITUTE, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

Slave in a Palanquin

Colonial Servitude and Resistance in Sri Lanka Nira Wickramasinghe

Nira Wickramasinghe uncovers the traces of slavery in the history and memory of the Indian Ocean world, exploring moments of revolt in the lives of enslaved people in Sri Lanka in the wake of abolition. Slave in a Palanquin offers a vital new portrait of the local and transnational worlds of the colonial-era Asian slave trade in the Indian Ocean.

$35.00 / £27.00 paper 978-0-231-19763-2 $140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-19762-5 2020 312 pages 18 illus. Asian Place, Filipino Nation

A Global Intellectual History of the Philippine Revolution, 1887–1912 Nicole CuUnjieng Aboitiz

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 revolutionaries’ 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 2020 272 pages

COLUMBIA STUDIES IN INTERNATIONAL AND GLOBAL HISTORY

The Great East Asian War and the Birth of the Korean Nation

JaHyun Kim Haboush Edited by William J. Haboush and Jisoo M. Kim

JaHyun Kim Haboush offers a compelling counternarrative to Western historiography, which ties Korea’s idea of nation to the imported ideologies of modern colonialism. She instead elevates the formative role of the conflicts that defined the second half of the Chosŏn Dynasty, which had transfigured the geopolitics of East Asia and introduced a national narrative key to Korea's survival.

$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-17229-5 $65.00 / £54.00 cloth 978-0-231-1722-8 March 2021 240 pages . A Misunderstood Friendship

Mao Zedong, Kim Il-sung, and Sino-North Korean Relations, 1949–1976: Revised Edition Zhihua Shen and Yafeng Xia

Diplomatic historians Zhihua Shen and Yafeng Xia draw on previously untapped primary source materials revealing tensions and rivalries to offer a unique account of the China–North Korea relationship. They unravel the twists and turns in high-level diplomacy between China and North Korea from the late 1940s to the death of Mao Zedong in 1976.

$25.00 / £20.00 paper 978-0-231-20055-4 2020 376 pages 12 illus.

Kingly Splendor

Court Art and Materiality in Han China Allison R. Miller

Many of the finest objects of the Western Han dynasty have been excavated from the tombs of kings, who administered local provinces on behalf of the emperors. Allison R. Miller paints a new picture of elite art production by revealing the contributions of the kings to Western Han artistic culture.

$65.00 / £50.00 cloth 978-0-231-19660-4 2020 360 pages 104 illus.

TANG CENTER SERIES IN EARLY CHINA

Land of Strangers

The Civilizing Project in Qing Central Asia Eric Schluessel

Eric Schluessel explores the late nineteenth-century encounter between Chinese power and a Muslim society through the struggles of ordinary people in the oasis of Turpan. He traces the emergence of new struggles around essential questions of identity, recasting the attempted transformation of Xinjiang as a distinctly Chinese form of colonialism.

$35.00 / £27.00 paper 978-0-231-19755-7 $140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-19754-0 2020 304 pages 4 illus.

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Peace on Our Terms

The Global Battle for Women's Rights After the First World War 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.

$26.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-19511-9 35.00 / £30.00 cloth 978-0-231-19510-2 April 2021 344 pages 28 illus.

COLUMBIA STUDIES IN INTERNATIONAL AND GLOBAL HISTORY

Christian Sorcerers on Trial

Records of the 1827 Osaka Incident Translated and with an introduction by Fumiko Miyazaki, Kate Wildman Nakai, and Mark Teeuwen

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 2020 416 pages 16 illus.

Who Is an Alien?

Reading the Plural Through Gandhi Kumkum Sangari

The questions Gandhi asked about imperial nations and how free nations should be made remain at the core of casteist, racist, patriarchal, and sectarian regimes. This book examines Gandhi’s struggle with the burden of colonial historiography, legal systems, and scriptural texts in the attempt to confront colonial oppression and social exclusion.

$35.00 / £30.00 cloth 978-81-9-412605-8 2020 232 pages

TULIKA BOOKS

Weighing the Evidence: Who Killed Gandhi?

The Justice Jeevan Lal Kapur Commission of Inquiry Report 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.

$55.00 / £46.00 cloth 978-81-941260-2-7 2020 400 pages

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A People’s History of India 31

The National Movement, Part 2: The Struggle for Freedom, 1919–1947 Irfan Habib

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.

$17.00 / £13.99 cloth 978-81-941260-1-0 July 2020 132 pages

TULIKA BOOKS

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 July 2021 428 pages

TULIKA BOOKS

Right on All Counts

Jammu & Kashmir and Human Development Sehar Iqbal

Jammu and Kashmir have been different things to different people throughout the twentieth century and well into the twenty-first. 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 / £22.00 cloth 978-81-947175-6-0 July 2021 188 pages -

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Defying Death

Struggles Against Imperialism and Feudalism Maya Gupt and Amit Kumar Gupta

The essays in this volume document various episodes of resistance highlighting the role of freedom fighters who inspired generations of Indians by their sacrifices. They discuss the Vellore Mutiny, the Chittagong Uprising, the Non-Cooperation Movement and the militants of Bengal, and Gandhi’s attitude to the execution of Bhagat Singh, among others.

$30.00 paper 978-81-941260-0-3 2020 292 pages

TULIKA BOOKS

To the End of Revolution

The Chinese Communist Party and Tibet, 1949–1959 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 2020 416 pages

Waiting Town

Life in Transit and Mumbai’s Other WorldClass Histories Lisa Björkman

Drawing on a decade of ethnographic research in the Indian city of Mumbai, Waiting Town is a formally experimental book about how we come to know the worlds about which we write. The narrative follows the author’s field notes through a series of ethnographic puzzles that emerge in the wake of a high-profile mega-infrastructure project.

$16.00 / £13.99 paper 978-0-924-304-93-4 2020 160 pages 20 illus.

ASSOCIATION FOR ASIAN STUDIES

A Brief Modern Chinese History

Haipeng Zhang and Jinyi Zhai

Haipeng Zhang and Jinyi Zhai provide us with a history of China's struggle for national independence and prosperity, reflecting the “humiliation” in the “sinking” period and the “struggle” during the “rising” period. After the Japanese aggressions against China had caused more damage than all previous invasions, Chinese society not only avoided continued “sinking” but also laid the foundation for China,s modernization and the recent success story to the present day.

$70.00 paper 978-3-8382-1441-2 January 2021 580 pages

IBIDEM PRESS

Beef, Brahmins, and Broken Men

An Annotated Critical Selection from The Untouchables B. R. Ambedkar Edited and annotated by Alex George and S. Anand Introduction by Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd

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 $90.00 / £74.00 cloth 978-0-231-19584-3 2020 424 pages