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A Violent Peace
Armies and Societies in Southeast Asia
Race, Militarism, and Cultures of Democratization in Cold War Asia and the Pacific Christine Hong
Edited by Volker Grabowsky & Frederik Rettig
February 2020 480pp 13 b&w illus., 3 maps, 3 tables 9786162151545 £31.00/$37.50 PB SILKWORM BOOKS
Post*45 July 2020 328pp 9781503612914 £24.99/$30.00 PB 9781503603134 £77.00/$90.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Analyzes imperial anxieties, Japanese military legacies, transoceanic experiences, postwar demobilizations and postconflict biographies, and transformation of communist guerrillas into guardians of the state and development of capitalist enterprises.
A Violent Peace offers a radical cultural account of the midcentury transformation of the United States into a total-war state. Christine Hong examines the centrality of U.S. militarism to the Cold War cultural imagination.
Far from the Caliph’s Gaze
Freedom Incorporated
Anticommunism and Philippine Independence in the Age of Decolonization Colleen Woods
Being Ahmadi Muslim in the Holy City of Qadian Nicholas H. A. Evans
The United States in the World May 2020 264pp 4 b&w halftones 9781501749131 £43.00/$49.95 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
May 2020 256pp 7 b&w halftones 9781501715693 £22.99/$27.95 PB 9781501715686 £99.00/$115.00 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
How do you prove that you’re Muslim? In Far from the Caliph’s Gaze, Nicholas Evans explores how a need to respond to this question shapes the lives of Ahmadis in Qadian in northern India. Excludes ANZ
Demonstrates how, in the mid-twentieth century Philippines, US policymakers and Filipino elites promoted the islands as a model colony. Excludes ANZ
Mobilizing for Development
Persianate Selves
Memories of Place and Origin Before Nationalism Mana Kia
The Modernization of Rural East Asia Kristen E. Looney
May 2020 336pp 9781503611955 £24.99/$30.00 PB 9781503610682 £77.00/$90.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
May 2020 234pp 2 b&w line drawings 9781501748844 £39.00/$45.00 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Mana Kia sketches the contours of a larger Persianate world, historicizing place, origin, and selfhood through its tradition of proper form: adab. In this shared culture, proximities and similarities constituted a logic that distinguished between people while simultaneously accommodating plurality.
Mobilizing for Development tackles the question of how countries achieve rural development and offers a new way of thinking about East Asia’s political economy that challenges the developmental state paradigm. Excludes ANZ
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Protecting Asia’s Heritage
Semi-Civilized
The Moro Village at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Michael C. Hawkins
Yesterday and Tomorrow Siam Society
NIU Southeast Asian Series March 2020 156pp 9 b&w halftones 9781501748219 £39.00/$45.00 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
February 2020 256pp 15 b&w illus. 9786162151569 £33.00/$40.00 PB SILKWORM BOOKS
Asian activists, organizers, critics, teachers, artists, and entrepreneurs have become passionately involved in protecting Asia’s heritage. Twelve principal authors from eleven of the region’s countries present their experience of what has been done in the past and their ideas on what should be done in the future.
A concise, revealing, and analytically insightful view of a critical period in Philippine history. Examines Moro (Filipino Muslim) contributions to the Philippine Exhibit at the St. Louis World’s Fair in 1904, providing insight into this fascinating and previously overlooked historical episode. Excludes ANZ
Sovereign Necropolis
Taiwan in Dynamic Transition
The Politics of Death in SemiColonial Siam Trais Pearson
Nation Building and Democratization Edited by Ryan Dunch & Ashley Esarey Foreword by Thomas B. Gold
March 2020 252pp 8 b&w halftones 9781501740152 £43.00/$49.95 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Offers new insight into turn-of-the-century Thai history by disinterring the forgotten stories of those who died “unnatural deaths” during this period and the work of the Siamese state to assert their rights in a pluralistic legal arena. Excludes ANZ
March 2020 256pp 3 b&w illus., 5 charts, 6 tables 9780295746807 £23.99/$30.00 PB 9780295746821 £79.00/$95.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
Provides an up-to-date assessment of contemporary Taiwan, highlighting emergent nationhood and its significance for world politics.
The Buddha’s Footprint
The Roots of Resilience
An Environmental History of Asia Johan Elverskog
Encounters with Asia February 2020 192pp 32 illus. 9780812251838 £47.00/$55.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Demonstrates how the spread of Buddhist teachings, the extension of Buddhist trading networks, and the increase of Buddhist state power were intimately connected to agricultural expansion, resource extraction, deforestation, urbanization, and the radical transformation and exploitation of Asia’s environment.
Party Machines and Grassroots Politics in Southeast Asia Meredith L. Weiss August 2020 288pp 9781501750045 £38.00/$43.95 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Examines governance from the ground up in the world’s two most enduring electoral authoritarian or “hybrid” regimes— regimes that blend politically liberal and authoritarian features to evade substantive democracy. Excludes ANZ
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The Saigon Sisters
The Visceral Logics of Decolonization
Privileged Women in the Resistance Patricia D. Norland
Neetu Khanna
February 2020 200pp 9781478008170 £20.99/$24.95 PB 9781478007739 £82.00/$94.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
NIU Southeast Asian Series July 2020 264pp 15 b&w halftones 9781501749735 £34.00/$39.95 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Focusing on the work of a Marxist anticolonial literary group active in India between the 1930s and 1950s, Neetu Khanna rethinks the project of decolonization by showing how embodied and affective responses to colonial subjugation provide the catalyst for developing revolutionary consciousness.
Offers the narratives of a group of privileged women who were immersed in a French lycée and later rebelled and fought for independence, starting with France’s occupation of Vietnam and continuing through U.S. involvement and life after war ends in 1975. Excludes ANZ
These Islands Are Ours
Disturbed Forests, Fragmented Memories
The Social Construction of Territorial Disputes in Northeast Asia Alexander Bukh
Jarai and Other Lives in the Cambodian Highlands Jonathan Padwe
Studies in Asian Security March 2020 232pp 9781503611894 £60.00/$70.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Culture, Place, and Nature April 2020 272pp 21 b&w illus., 10
maps, 2 tables 9780295746906 £23.99/$30.00 PB 9780295746920 £79.00/$95.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
Focusing on non-state actors rather than political elites, Alexander Bukh explains how and why apparently inconsequential territories become central to national discourse in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan.
Focuses on the ecological dimensions of social change and dispossession from the precolonial slave trade to the present moment of land grabs along a rapidly transforming resource frontier.
China
A Fashionable Century
Beijing from Below
Textile Artistry and Commerce in the Late Qing Rachel Silberstein
Stories of Marginal Lives in the Capital’s Center Harriet Evans
July 2020 288pp 89 color illus., 3 maps, 8 tables 9780295747187 £54.00/$65.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
May 2020 320pp 27 illus. 9781478008156 £21.99/$26.95 PB 9781478006879 £86.00/$99.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Presents an array of visually compelling clothing and accessories neglected by traditional histories of Chinese dress, examining these products’ potential to illuminate issues of gender and identity. Draws on vernacular and commercial sources, rather than on the official and imperial texts prevalent in Chinese dress history.
Drawing on oral histories that reveal memories and experiences of several neighborhood families, she reflects on the relationships between individual, family, neighborhood, and the state; poverty and precarity; gender politics and ethical living; resistance to and accommodation of party-state authority.
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Circuit Listening
Circulating the Code
Chinese Popular Music in the Global 1960s Andrew F. Jones
Print Media and Legal Knowledge in Qing China Ting Zhang
March 2020 304pp 61 b&w photos, 12 color plates 9781517902070 £22.99/$28.00 PB 9781517902063 £96.00/$112.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
April 2020 256pp 8 tables, 7 b&w illus. 9780295747156 £23.99/$30.00 PB 9780295747163 £79.00/$95.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
Profiles some of the most famous, best loved Chinese singers and cinematic icons, and places them in a larger geopolitical and technological context. Offers an unprecedented look at the role Chinese music played in the ’60s pop musical revolution. Excludes Japan & ANZ
Compares different official and commercial editions of the Qing Code, popular handbooks for amateur legal practitioners, and manuals for community legal lectures. Dissemination of legal information transformed Chinese law, judicial authority, and popular legal consciousness.
Citizens of Beauty
Corporate Conquests
Drawing Democratic Dreams in Republican China Louise Edwards
Business, the State, and the Origins of Ethnic Inequality in Southwest China C. Patterson Giersch
April 2020 224pp 123 b&w illus. 9780295747019 £23.99/$30.00 PB 9780295747026 £79.00/$95.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
March 2020 312pp 9781503612167 £25.99/$32.00 PB 9781503611641 £82.00/$95.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
In the early twentieth century China’s most famous commercial artists promoted new cultural and civic values through sketches of idealized modern women in journals, newspapers, and compendia. This is the first book to explore the work in order to compare social ideals during China’s shift from imperial to Republican times.
A history of China’s desperately unequal modern economic landscape that begins in the nation’s remote Southwest but ends by providing new understandings of ethnic inequality and the origins of China’s unique corporate organizations.
(En)gendering
Faces of Tradition in Chinese Performing Arts
Chinese Women’s Art in the Making Edited by Shuqin Cui
Edited by Levi S. Gibbs
Encounters: Explorations in Folklore and Ethnomusicology March 2020 192pp 9780253045836 £24.99/$30.00 PB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
January 2020 250pp 78 illus. 9781478008750 £11.99/$14.00 PB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Contributors—including artists, art historians, critics, and curators—consider how the work of contemporary women artists has generated new approaches to and perspectives on the Chinese art canon.
Examines the key role of the individual in the development of traditional Chinese performing arts such as music and dance. Explores the ways in which performances and recordings serve as discursive spaces where individuals engage with and redefine larger traditions and themselves.
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Fateful Decisions
Fir and Empire
Choices That Will Shape China’s Future Edited by Thomas Fingar & Jean C. Oi
The Transformation of Forests in Early Modern China Ian M. Miller Foreword by Paul S. Sutter
Studies of the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center May 2020 472pp 9781503612228 £28.99/$35.00 PB 9781503611450 £90.00/$105.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books July 2020 272pp 9 b&w illus., 4 maps, 5 tables 9780295747330 £33.00/$40.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
Rectifies the omission of China’s forestry models in frameworks for Chinese history and suggests that in some ways, China’s forest system may have worked better than the more familiar European institutions.
Experts from a range of disciplines eschew broad predictions of success or failure for close analyses of today’s most critical demographic, economic, social, political & foreign policy challenges.
Folk Literati, Contested Tradition, and Heritage in Contemporary China
Great Qing
Painting in China, 1644-1911 Claudia Brown
February 2020 352pp 245 color illus., 1 map 9780295747231 £33.00/$40.00 PB UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
Incense Is Kept Burning Ziying You
March 2020 256pp 9780253046369 £25.99/$32.00 PB 9780253046352 £65.00/$75.00 HB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Highlights fine examples of Qing painting in American museums, works from all regions of China, and paintings by women. Brown’s gorgeous, attentively rendered survey covers three centuries of momentous change and is intended for general audiences as well as art collectors, museum curators, and students and historians of Chinese art, culture, and society.
Expanding on the idea of the elite literati, the folk literati are defined as those who are skilled in classical Chinese, knowledgeable about local traditions, and capable of representing them in writing.
Negative Exposures
Re-enchanting Modernity
Knowing What Not to Know in Contemporary China Margaret Hillenbrand
Ritual Economy and Society in Wenzhou, China Mayfair Yang
Sinotheory March 2020 312pp 66 illus. 9781478008002 £22.99/$27.95 PB 9781478006190 £90.00/$104.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
May 2020 384pp 44 illus. 9781478008279 £24.99/$29.95 PB 9781478007753 £95.00/$109.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Margaret Hillenbrand explores how artistic appropriations of historical images effectively articulate the openly unsayable and counter the public secrecy that erases traumatic episodes from China’s past.
Shows how the local practices of popular religion, Daoism, and Buddhism in Wenzhou are based in community-oriented grassroots organizations that create spaces for relative local autonomy and selfgovernance.
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The Chinese Atlantic
The Chinese Revolution on the Tibetan Frontier
Seascapes and the Theatricality of Globalization Sean Metzger
Benno Weiner
Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University June 2020 315pp 8 b&w halftones, 4 maps 9781501749391 £39.00/$45.00 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Framing the Global May 2020 280pp 9780253047519 £25.99/$32.00 PB 9780253047366 £65.00/$75.00 HB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Weiner provides the first in-depth study of an ethnic minority region during the first decade of the People’s Republic of China: the Amdo region in the Sino-Tibetan borderland. Excludes ANZ
In The Chinese Atlantic, Sean Metzger charts processes of global circulation across and beyond the Atlantic, exploring how seascapes generate new understandings of Chinese migration, financial networks and artistic production.
The Early Modern Travels of Manchu
The Grand Scribe’s Records, Volume VII
A Script and Its Study in East Asia and Europe Marten Soderblom Saarela
The Memoirs of Pre-Han China Ssu-ma Ch’ien April 2020 416pp 9780253043269 £56.00/$65.00 HB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Encounters with Asia April 2020 288pp 6 illus. 9780812252071 £60.00/$69.95 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Part of the first complete translation of the Shih chi, one of the most important narratives in traditional China. Shows how intellectuals in southern China, Compiled by Ssu-ma Ch'ien, it draws upon most Russia, France, Chosŏn Korea, and Tokugawa Japan deciphered the Manchu script and the uses major early historical works and was the foremost model for style and genre in Chinese history and to which it was put: recording sounds and literature. arranging words.
The Rise of West Lake
Underglobalization
A Cultural Landmark in the Song Dynasty Xiaolin Duan
Beijing’s Media Urbanism and the Chimera of Legitimacy Joshua Neves
April 2020 248pp 21 b&w illus., 3 maps, 6 tables 9780295747101 £23.99/$30.00 PB 9780295747125 £79.00/$95.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
March 2020 268pp 87 illus. 9781478008057 £21.99/$26.95 PB 9781478007630 £86.00/$99.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Focusing on a wide range of media technologies and practices in Beijing, Joshua Neves examines the cultural politics of the “fake” and how frictions between legality and legitimacy propel dominant models of economic development and political life in contemporary China.
Incorporating evidence from miscellanies, local and temple gazetteers, paintings, maps, poems, and anecdotes, explores the complexity of West Lake as an interactive site where ecological and economic concerns contended and where spiritual pursuits overlapped with aesthetic ones.
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Urban Horror
What the Emperor Built
Neoliberal Post-Socialism and the Limits of Visibility Erin Y. Huang
Architecture and Empire in the Early Ming Aurelia Campbell June 2020 240pp 58 color illus., 48 b&w illus., 3 maps 9780295746883 £54.00/$65.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
Sinotheory February 2020 296pp 39 illus. 9781478008095 £21.99/$26.95 PB 9781478006794 £86.00/$99.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
The first book-length study devoted to the architectural projects of a single Chinese emperor. Analysis reveals advancements in timber-frame construction and implements an art-historical approach to examine patronage, audience, and reception, situating the buildings within their larger historical & religious contexts.
Drawing on Marxist phenomenology, geography, and aesthetics and film from China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan made between the 1990s and the present, Erin Y. Huang theorizes the economic, cultural, and political conditions of neoliberal postsocialist China.
India
A Secular Need
Brand New Nation
Islamic Law and State Governance in Contemporary India Jeffrey A. Redding
Capitalist Dreams and Nationalist Designs in TwentyFirst-Century India Ravinder Kaur
Global South Asia April 2020 248pp 9780295747088 £23.99/$30.00 PB 9780295747071 £79.00/$95.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
South Asia in Motion June 2020 328pp 9781503612594 £22.99/$28.00 PB 9781503612242 £77.00/$90.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Challenges narratives about the opposition between Islamic law and secular forms of governance, demonstrating that Indian secular law & governance cannot work without the significant assistance of non-state Islamic legal actors.
Teaches into the past and, inevitably, the future of the BRICS nations as well as the fundamental shifts it has wrought in our understanding of the nation-state.
Defining Dvāravatī
Exile and the Nation
Edited by Anna Bennett & Hunter Watson
February 2020 184pp 208 color illus., 95 b&w illus., 12 maps 9786162151576 £33.00/$40.00 PB SILKWORM BOOKS
Scholars examine the inception of the Dvāravatī period in the fifth century with a focus on archaeology and consider the art and architecture of the sixth to tenth centuries. Provides an overview of the art historical characteristics of Dvāravatī style; collates the epigraphic evidence; considers trade and;and discusses the end of the period.
The Parsi Community of India and the Making of Modern Iran Afshin Marashi June 2020 368pp 9781477320792 £47.00/$55.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
Shows how this interchange led to the collective reimagining of Parsi and Iranian national identity. This book reframes Iranian nationalism within the context of the modern era.
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Making Kantha, Making Home
Musicophilia in Mumbai
Women at Work in Colonial Bengal Pika Ghosh
Performing Subjects and the Metropolitan Unconscious Tejaswini Niranjana
Global South Asia July 2020 296pp 103 color illus. 9780295746999 £54.00/$65.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
February 2020 272pp 48 illus. 9781478008187 £21.99/$26.95 PB 9781478006862 £86.00/$99.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
How poetry, drama, prints & watercolors expresses kantha artists’ visual literacy. The appraisal of individual objects alongside the people & stories behind their creation elevates kantha beyond a handcraft to recognition as art.
Traces the place of Hindustani classical music in Mumbai through the long 20th century, showing how the widespread love of music in the city created a culture of collective listening and social subjects who embodied new forms of modernity.
Partisan Aesthetics
The United States of India
Modern Art and India’s Long Decolonization Sanjukta Sunderason
Anticolonial Literature and Transnational Refraction Manan Desai
South Asia in Motion July 2020 336pp 9781503612990 £24.99/$30.00 PB 9781503611948 £77.00/$90.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Asian American History & Culture March 2020 284pp 9781439918906 £27.99/$34.95 PB 9781439918890 £82.00/$99.50 HB TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Partisan Aesthetics explores art’s entanglements with conjunctural and climactic histories of latecolonial and postcolonial India, to foreground political, social, and intellectual formations of modern art during India’s long decolonization.
The role played by Indian and American writers in the US development of anticolonial thought during and after WWI. Excludes Asia Pacific
To Be an Entrepreneur
Unruly Cinema
Social Enterprise and Disruptive Development in Bangladesh Julia Qermezi Huang
History, Politics, and Bollywood Rini Battacharya Mehta
June 2020 232pp 9780252084997 £19.99/$25.00 PB 9780252043123 £91.00/$110.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
May 2020 324pp 12 b&w halftones 9781501749551 £23.99/$28.95 PB 9781501748271 £99.00/$115.00 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Looks at the complex series of events that allowed the entire Indian film industry to defy attempts to control, reform, and refine it in the twentieth century and beyond. Traces Indian cinema’s complicated history from the 1930s triumph over Hollywood imports to the global neoliberal aesthetic that encouraged the emergence of Bollywood.
Focuses on Bangladesh’s iAgent social-enterprise model, the set of economic processes that animate the delivery of this model, and the implications for women’s empowerment. Excludes ANZ
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Japan
Contesting Precarity in Japan
Dynasties and Democracy
The Rise of Nonregular Workers and the New Policy Dissensus Saori Shibata
The Inherited Incumbency Advantage in Japan Daniel M. Smith
July 2020 200pp 11 charts 9781501749933 £22.99/$27.95 PB 9781501749926 £99.00/$115.00 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Studies of the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center
March 2020 384pp 9781503613614 £24.99/$30.00 NIP STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Details the new forms of workers’ protest and opposition that have developed as Japan’s economy has transformed over the past 30 years and highlights their impact upon the country’s policymaking process. Excludes ANZ
Smith examines the factors that contribute to the development of the Japanese party system over time and the advantages that members of dynasties reap throughout their political careers.
Immigrant Japan
Intimacy across the Fencelines
Mobility and Belonging in an Ethno-nationalist Society Gracia Liu-Farrer
Sex, Marriage, and the U.S. Military in Okinawa Rebecca Forgash
April 2020 280pp 3 charts 9781501748622 £34.00/$39.95 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
August 2020 240pp 8 b&w halftones, 1 b&w line drawing, 2 maps 9781501750403 £47.00/$54.95 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Illuminates the lives of immigrants in Japan by bringing in sociological, geographical, and psychological theories—guiding the reader through life trajectories of migrants of various backgrounds, while also going so far as to suggest that Japan is already an immigrant country. Excludes ANZ
Analyzes the stories of individual US service members and their families against Okinawan history, political and economic entanglements with Japan and the United States, and a longstanding anti-base movement. Excludes ANZ
Invisibility by Design
Overcoming Isolationism
Women and Labor in Japan’s Digital Economy Gabriella Lukács
Japan’s Leadership in East Asian Security Multilateralism Paul Midford
January 2020 248pp 23 illus. 9781478006480 £20.99/$25.95 PB 9781478005810 £86.00/$99.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Studies in Asian Security May 2020 288pp 9781503611696 £65.00/$75.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Gabriella Lukács traces how young Japanese women’s unpaid labor as bloggers, net idols, “girly” photographers, online traders, and cell phone novelists was central to the development of Japan’s digital economy in the 1990s and 2000s.
This book asks why, in the wake of the Cold War, Japan suddenly reversed years of steadfast opposition to security cooperation with its neighbors.
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Revolution Goes East
Seeds of Control
Imperial Japan and Soviet Communism Tatiana Linkhoeva
Japan’s Empire of Forestry in Colonial Korea David Fedman
Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University March 2020 300pp 9781501748080 £22.99/$27.95 PB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books June 2020 288pp 14 b&w illus., 3 maps, 4 charts 9780295747453 £33.00/$40.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
Demonstrates how contemporary discussions of the Russian Revolution, its containment, and the issue of imperialism played a fundamental role in shaping Japan’s imperial society and state. Excludes ANZ
Wide-ranging study that explores Japanese imperialism through the lens of forest conservation in colonial Korea—a project of environmental rule that outlived the empire itself.
The Business Reinvention of Japan
The Metabolist Imagination
How to Make Sense of the New Japan and Why It Matters Ulrike Schaede June 2020 216pp 9781503612259 £28.99/$35.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Visions of the City in Postwar Japanese Architecture and Science Fiction William O. Gardner
April 2020 224pp 16 color plates 9781517906245 £21.99/$27.00 PB 9781517906238 £93.00/$108.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
This book offers an in-depth exploration of current Japanese business strategies that make Japan the world’s third largest economy, a chief contributor to many global supply chains, and an economic leader within Asia.
First book-length study of postwar Japanese architecture and scifi, building on the resurgence of interest in Metabolist architecture. Excludes Japan & ANZ
The Running Boy and Other Stories
Uniquely Okinawan
Determining Identity During the U.S. Wartime Occupation Courtney A. Short
Megumu Sagisawa Translated by Tyran Grillo
New Japanese Horizons April 2020 132pp 9781501749889 £16.99/$19.95 PB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
With this translation, the fiction of Megumu Sagisawa makes its long-overdue first appearance in English. With an introduction by the translator, this collection of three stories sits on the thinnest part of Japan’s economic bubble and provides and cautionary glimpse into the malaise of its impending collapse. Excludes ANZ
World War II: The Global, Human, and Ethical Dimension March 2020 272pp 9780823287727 £23.99/$30.00 PB 9780823288380 £87.00/$105.00 HB FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
Explores how American soldiers, sailors, and Marines considered race, ethnicity, and identity in the planning and execution of the wartime occupation of Okinawa, during and immediately after the Battle of Okinawa, 1945-1946.
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Yumeji Modern
April 2020 300pp 76 b&w illus., 36 color illus. 9780295746838 £54.00/$65.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
Examines the artist’s role in shaping modern Japanese identity. From the start of his career in 1905 to the 1920s, the book introduces for the first time in English translation a substantial body of Yumeji’s texts, including diary entries, poetry, essays, and commentary, alongside his illustrations.
Korean Skilled Workers Toward a Labor Aristocracy Hyung-A Kim
Korean Studies of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies May 2020 216pp 3 charts, 21 tables 9780295747217 £23.99/$30.00 PB 9780295747200 £79.00/$95.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
Tells the story of Korea’s first generation of skilled workers in the heavy and chemical industries sector who ultimately transitioned to “labor aristocracy.”
Dying to Serve
Edited by Todd A. Henry
Contributors of this volume offer interdisciplinary analyses of non-normative sexuality and gender nonconformity in Korea, extending individualized notions of queer neoliberalism beyond those set in Western queer theory.
Militarism, Affect, and the Politics of Sacrifice in the Pakistan Army Maria Rashid
South Asia in Motion April 2020 296pp 9781503611986 £22.99/$28.00 PB 9781503610415 £77.00/$90.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Focuses on the Pakistan Army, their wives and mothers, and the military culture surrounding them, addressing the question: how does the military thrive when so much of its work results in injury, debility, and death?
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Pakistan
Queer Korea
Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe January 2020 408pp 10 illus. 9781478002901 £24.99/$29.95 PB 9781478001928 £95.00/$109.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Korea
Designing the Everyday in Twentieth-Century Japan Nozomi Naoi