Asian Studies
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After the Post–Cold War
The Future of Chinese History Jinhua Dai & Lisa Rofel
Sinotheory November 2018 208pp 2 illus. 9781478000518 £18.99 PB 9781478000389 £73.00 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Interrogates China’s status as a global economic power in relation to its socialist past, profoundly shaped by the Cold War. Dai reveals the narrative of China’s transformation leaves little hope of moving from the capitalist degradation of the present into a radical future that points to a socially just world. Drawing on Marxism, poststructuralism, psychoanalysis, and feminist theory, Dai examines recent Chinese films that erase the country’s socialist history to show how such erasure re-signifies socialism’s past as failure and thus forecloses the imagining of a future beyond that of globalized capitalism. She outlines the tension between China’s embrace of the free market and a regime dependent on a socialist imprimatur. She also offers a genealogy of China’s transformation from a source of revolutionary power into a fountainhead of globalized modernity. This narrative, Dai contends, leaves little hope of moving from the capitalist degradation of the present into a radical future that might offer a more socially just world.
Fall/Winter 2018
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Empire of Hope
The Sentimental Politics of Japanese Decline David Leheny
November 2018 246pp 7 b&w halftones 9781501729072 £31.00 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
In a diverse array of cases from recent Japanese history, Leheny shows how sentimental portrayals of the nation and its global role reflect a durable story of hopefulness about the country’s postwar path. Expressions of national emotion do several things: they construct the boundaries of the national body, they inform and discipline appropriate expression, and they depoliticize messy problems that threaten to produce divisive questions about winners and losers. Most important, they work because they appear to be natural, simple and expected expressions of how the nation shares feeling, even when they paper over the extraordinary divergence in how the nation’s citizens experience each incident. Leheny challenges how we read the relations between emotion and politics by arguing—unlike those who build from the neuroscientific turn in the social sciences or those developing affect theory in the humanities—that the focus should be on emotional representation rather than on emotion itself.
Footbinding as Fashion
Ethnicity, Labor, and Status in Traditional China John Robert Shepherd
December 2018 264pp 7 b&w illus., 6 maps, 18 tables, 9 charts 9780295744407 £22.99 PB 9780295744414 £69.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
Previous studies of the practice of footbinding in imperial China have theorized that it expressed ethnic identity or that it served an economic function. By analyzing the popularity of footbinding in different places and times, this book investigates the claim that early Qing (1644–1911) attempts by Manchu rulers to ban footbinding made it a symbol of anti-Manchu sentiment and Han identity and led to the spread of the practice throughout all levels of society. Detailed case studies of Taiwan, Hebei, and Liaoning provinces exploit rich bodies of previously neglected ethnographic reports, economic surveys, and rare censuses of footbinding to challenge the significance of sedentary female labor and ethnic rivalries as factors leading to the hegemony of the footbinding fashion. The study concludes that, independently of identity politics and economic factors, variations in local status hierarchies and elite culture coupled with status competition and fear of ridicule for not binding girls’ feet best explain how a culturally arbitrary fashion such as footbinding could attain hegemonic status.
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Mafia Raj
The Rule of Bosses in South Asia Lucia Michelutti, Ashraf Hoque, Nicolas Martin, David Picherit, Paul Rollier, Arild E. Ruud & Clarinda Still
South Asia in Motion December 2018 360pp 9781503607316 £22.99 PB 9781503606388 £69.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
"Mafia" has become an indigenous South Asian term. Like Italian mobsters, the South Asian "gangster politicians" are known for inflicting brutal violence while simultaneously upholding vigilante justice—inspiring fear and fantasy. But the term also refers to the diffuse spheres of crime, business, and politics operating within a shadow world that is popularly referred to as the rule of the mafia, or "Mafia Raj." Through intimate stories of the lives of powerful and aspiring bosses in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, this book illustrates their personal struggles for sovereignty as they climb the ladder of success. Ethnographically tracing the particularities of the South Asian case, the authors theorize what they call "the art of bossing," providing nuanced ideas about crime, corruption, and the lure of the strongman across the world.
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A Genealogy of Dissent
A New Middle Kingdom
December 2018 264pp 9781503602083 £46.00 HB
September 2018 296pp 93 color illus. 9780295743257 £50.00 HB
The Progeny of Fallen Royals in Chosŏn Korea Eugene Y. Park STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Draws on primary and secondary sources, interviews and site visits to tell the extraordinary story of the Kaesŏng Wang, descendants of the Koryŏ dynasty. Having barely survived an extermination campaign committed by the Chosŏn state, the surviving Wangs were then rehabiliated by the state, ultimately founding elite lineages throughout Korea.
Alegal
Anthropogenic Rivers
November 2018 224pp 9780823282654 £20.99 PB 9780823282661 £73.00 HB
Expertise: Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge January 2019 282pp 6 b&w halftones, 1 b&w line drawing, 1 chart 9781501730917 £22.99 PB 9781501730900 £73.00 HB
Painting and Cultural Politics in Late Chosŏn Korea (1700–1850) J. P. Park
Biopolitics and the Unintelligibility of Okinawan Life Annmaria M. Shimabuku
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
Historians have claimed that when social stability returned to Korea after a series of invasions, the late Choson dynasty was a period of renaissance. This book questions this belief by claiming that true-view landscape and genre paintings were most likely adopted to propagandize social harmony under Choson rule.
By bringing Foucauldian biopolitics into conversation with Japanese Marxian theory, Alegal uncovers Japan’s determination to protect its middle class from the racialized sexual contact around its mainland bases by displacing them onto Okinawa, while simultaneously upholding Okinawa as a symbol of the infringement of Japanese sovereignty.
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Art and Engagement in Early Postwar Japan Justin Jesty
September 2018 336pp 34 b&w halftones, 16 color halftones 9781501715044 £38.00 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Examines writings and artworks, together with the social movements, to demonstrate how creative expression became a medium for collectivity and social engagement. Jesty reveals a shared aspiration to create a culture founded in amateur-professional interaction, expanded access to the tools of public authorship, and participatory cultural forms that intersected with progressive movements.
Battling the Buddha of Love A Cultural Biography of the Greatest Statue Never Built Jessica Marie Falcone
September 2018 324pp 15 b&w halftones 9781501723483 £17.99 PB 9781501723469 £73.00 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Explores the controversial plans of the Maitreya Project, a transnational Buddhist organization, as it sought to build the "world's tallest statue". Hoping to forcibly acquire 750 acres of occupied land for the statue park in Uttar Pradesh, the planners ran into a full-scale grassroots resistance movement of Indian farmers.
Best Practice
Management Consulting and the Ethics of Financialization in China Kimberly Chong November 2018 272pp 9781478000884 £19.99 PB 9781478000693 £76.00 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Providing insight into how global management consultancies refashion Chinese state-owned enterprises in preparation for stock market flotation, Chong demonstrates both the dynamic, fragmented character of financialization and the ways in which Chinese state capitalism enables this process.
The Production of Uncertainty in Lao Hydropower Jerome Whitington
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Previously, Laos was treated as a model for the efficacy of hydropower projects as viable options for World Bank-led development. Viewing hydropower as a process that creates ecologically uncertain environments, Whitington reveals how new forms of managerial care have emerged.
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Brothers in Arms
Chinese Aid to the Khmer Rouge, 1975–1979 Andrew C. Mertha
February 2019 200pp 7 halftones, 2 tables, 2 maps, 2 line figures 9781501731235 £14.99 NIP CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
By focusing on the links between China and Democratic Kampuchea, Mertha peers into the "black box" of Chinese foreign aid to illustrate how domestic institutional fragmentation limits Beijing’s ability to influence the countries that accept its assistance.
Caring for Glaciers
Land, Animals, and Humanity in the Himalayas Karine Gagné January 2019 264pp 19 b&w illus., 2 maps 9780295744001 £22.99 PB 9780295744018 £69.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
Looks at the causes and consequences of ongoing social and cultural change in peoples’ relationship with the natural environment. It illuminates how relations of reciprocity—learned through everyday life and work in the mountains with the animals, glaciers, and deities that form Ladakh’s sacred geography—shape and nurture an ethics of care.
Challenging Beijing's Mandate of Heaven
Taiwan's Sunflower Movement and Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement Ming-sho Ho
January 2019 288pp 9781439917077 £31.00 PB 9781439917060 £80.00 HB TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Aims to make sense of the origins, processes, and outcomes of these eventful protests. Ming-sho Ho compares the dynamics of the two movements, from the existing networks that preceded protest, to the threats that ignited the movements, to the government strategies they contended, and to the nature of their coordination.
China Gadabouts
New Frontiers of Humanitarian Nursing, 1941–51 Susan Armstrong-Reid July 2018 356pp 34 photos, 11 maps 9780774835930 £28.99 NIP UBC PRESS
Examines the roles played by Western and Chinese nurses in the China Convoy – a Quaker-sponsored humanitarian unit during the SinoJapanese War (1937-1945). Re-examines the quandries of Quaker’s purportedly apolitical global engagement that remain salient for contemporary humanitarians, illuminating the questions presented by humanitarian work within a Western-based relief organization.
Citizens in Motion
Emigration, Immigration, and Re-migration Across China's Borders Elaine Lynn-Ee Ho November 2018 184pp 9781503606661 £50.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Drawing on interviews and ethnographic observations conducted in China, Canada, Singapore, and the China-Myanmar border from 20082015, this book brings together various migration experiences and national contexts under the same analytical framework to create a rich portrait of the diversity of contemporary Chinese migration processes.
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Constructing Empire
Creating the Universe
September 2018 304pp 22 photos, 3 maps, 21 tables 9780774836524 £58.00 HB
January 2019 296pp 153 illus., 118 in color, 1 map 9780295744063 £50.00 HB
The Japanese in Changchun, 1905–45 Bill Sewell
UBC PRESS
Shows how planners, architects, and civilians contributed to constructing a modern colonial enclave in the Japanese puppet state of Manchuria. Sewell shows how the Japanese imperial project both mirrored and differed from other imperialists in China. Ultimately this book shows the responsibilities that civilians bear for historical events.
Depictions of the Cosmos in Himalayan Buddhism Eric Huntington
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
Presents examples of visual art and architecture, primary texts, ritual ideologies, and material practices— accompanied by extensive explanatory diagrams—to reveal the immense complexity of cosmological thinking in Himalayan Buddhism. Employing comparisons across function, medium, culture, and history, he exposes cosmology as a fundamental mode of engagement with numerous aspects of religion.
Dark Pasts
Changing the State's Story in Turkey and Japan Jennifer M. Dixon
November 2018 282pp 3 b&w line drawings, 1 chart 9781501730245 £42.00 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Unpacking the complex processes through which international pressures and domestic dynamics shape states’ narratives, Dixon analyzes the trajectories over the past sixty years of Turkey’s narrative of the 1915–17 Armenian Genocide and Japan’s narrative of the 1937–38 Nanjing Massacre.
Fast Money Schemes
Hope and Deception in Papua New Guinea John Cox
Framing the Global August 2018 336pp 9780253026118 £25.99 PB 9780253025609 £53.00 HB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Uses interviews with investors, newspaper accounts, and patricipant observation to understand the appeal of the infamous U-Vistract scheme. Cox delivers a a "post-village" ethnography that gives insight into the lives of urban, middle-class Papua New Guineans, examining the interplay of morality, finance and aspiration for a global cosmopolitan middle class.
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Flowering Plums and Curio Cabinets
The Culture of Objects in Late Chosŏn Korean Art Sunglim Kim November 2018 304pp 80 color illus., 18 b&w illus., 1 map 9780295743417 £50.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
Revealing a vivid picture of a complex art world, this title presents a major reconsideration of late Choson society and its material culture. Lushly illustrated, it will appeal to scholars of Korea and East Asia, art history, visual culture, and social history.
Hamka and Islam
Cosmopolitan Reform in the Malay World Khairudin Aljunied
September 2018 162pp 7 b&w halftones 9781501724572 £17.99 PB 9781501724565 £54.00 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pushes the boundaries of the expanding literature on Muslim reformism and reformist thinkers by grounding its analysis within the Malay world experience and offering a novel attempt to build a concept— "cosmopolitan reform"—that will be of service to researchers across the world.
How India Became Territorial
Foreign Policy, Diaspora, Geopolitics Itty Abraham
Studies in Asian Security September 2018 240pp 9781503608412 £18.99 PB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Identifying the contested process of decolonization as the root of contemporary Asian inter-state territorial conflicts, Abraham explores explores the political implications of establishing a fixed territorial homeland as a necessary starting point for both international recognition and national identity.
Improvisational Islam
Indonesian Youth in a Time of Possibility Nur Amali Ibrahim October 2018 210pp 9781501727863 £18.99 PB 9781501727856 £73.00 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Explores unexpected ways of being Muslim, where religious dispositions are achieved through techniques that have little or no precedent in classical Islamic texts or concepts. Ibrahim foregrounds two autodidactic university student organizations, each trying to envision alternative ways of being Muslim independent from established religious and political authorities.
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In Sickness and in Wealth
Migration, Gendered Morality, and Central Java Carol Chan
Framing the Global September 2018 296pp 9780253037060 £26.99 PB 9780253037022 £57.00 HB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Explores how Indonesian villagers evaluate the risks, successes, and failures of migration. Chan shows that for some villagers migration is a deeply gendered matter, and that the morality, destiny and fate of an individual play an enormous role in the outcome of their migration.
Indian Migration and Empire A Colonial Genealogy of the Modern State Radhika Mongia
August 2018 240pp 9780822371021 £18.99 PB 9780822370390 £73.00 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Focused on state regulation of colonial Indian migration between 1834 and 1917, Mongia illuminates the genesis of central techniques of migration control. She shows how important elements of current migration regimes are the product of complex debates that attended colonial migrations.
Ink Worlds
Contemporary Chinese Painting from the Collection of Akiko Yamazaki and Jerry Yang Richard Vinograd & Ellen Huang June 2018 232pp 9781503606845 £42.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
The Yamazaki/Yang collection is widely recognized as one of the most important private collections of contemporary Chinese ink art. This is the first book to represent the collection in its entirety. From atmospheric mountainscapes to precise calligraphy, nine illustrated essays present a comprehensive examination of this enduring art form.
Intellectual Property Rights in China Zhenqing Zhang
December 2018 320pp 5 illus. 9780812251067 £54.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
In case studies grounded in theoretical analysis as well as interviews and fieldwork, Zhang demonstrates how advocates for IPR, typically cuttingedge Chinese companies and foreign IPR holders, can be strong enough to persuade government officials to comply with IPR norms to achieve the country's long-term economic development goals.
Jade Mountains and Cinnabar Pools
The History of Travel Literature in Imperial China James M. Hargett
December 2018 264pp 9 b&w illus. 9780295744476 £22.99 PB 9780295744469 £69.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
First-hand accounts of travel provide windows into places unknown, or new ways of seeing familiar places. In this first book-length treatment in English of Chinese travel literature (youji), Hargett examines the genre’s core works, from the Six Dynasties period, when its essential characteristics emerged, to its florescence in the late Ming dynasty.
Jesuits and Matriarchs
Domestic Worship in Early Modern China Nadine Amsler
September 2018 272pp 15 b&w illus., 2 maps 9780295743806 £22.99 PB 9780295743790 £69.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
An exploration of gendered realms in seventeenth-century China reveals networks of religious sociability and ritual communities as well as women's remarkable acts of private piety. Amsler's archival research and attention to material culture reveals new insights about women's agency and activities, illuminating areas of Chinese and Catholic history that have remained obscure.
Mirroring Power
More Than Words
October 2018 296pp 25 illus. 9786162151453 £35.00 PB
September 2018 264pp 30 b&w halftones, 3 figures 9781501725357 £20.99 PB 9781501725340 £73.00 HB
Ethnogenesis and Integration among the Phunoy of Northern Laos Vanina Bouté UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
The Phunoy are a Tibeto-Burmese population group that has long been considered acculturated because of its adoption of features of neighboring Tai societies. This pioneering ethnography examines the Phunoy’s supposed acculturation and independent identity, demonstrating how they emerged as a group and constructed a “mirroring” relationship with Tai and Lao realms.
Ideology and Rural Youth Mobilization in Japan and Its Colonies Sayaka Chatani
Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University December 2018 366pp 10 b&w halftones, 3 b&w line drawings, 4 maps 9781501730757 £42.00 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Chatani reveals the core characteristics of the Japanese Empire; discusses youth mobilization, juxtaposing the Japanese seinendan (village youth associations) with the Boy Scouts and the Hitlerjugend; and examines society and individual subjectivities under totalitarian rule.
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Through a nuanced study of Balinese script as employed in rites of healing, sorcery, and self-defense, Richard Fox explores the aims and desires embodied in the production and use of palm-leaf manuscripts, amulets, and other inscribed objects.
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Nation-Empire
Transforming Script, Agency, and Collective Life in Bali Richard Fox
Novel Medicine
People's Car
Healing, Literature, and Popular Knowledge in Early Modern China Andrew Schonebaum
Industrial India and the Riddles of Populism Sarasij Majumder
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
September 2018 296pp 42 b&w illus. 9780295744315 £22.99 NIP
By examining the interplay between discourses of fiction and medicine, Schonebaum demonstrates how fiction incorporated, created, and disseminated medical knowledge from the sixteenth century. Critical readings provide a counterpoint to narratives that focus only on the “literati” aspects, showing that these texts were used by a variety of readers for multiple purposes.
November 2018 208pp 9780823282418 £24.99 PB 9780823282425 £84.00 HB
Studies divergent populist responses to land acquisition for industries in rural India. It contends that landownership enables small landowners to aspire and look forward to social mobility in the non-farm sector, which are contingent upon industrialization. The protests against land acquisition, thus, have contradictory tendencies.
Pop City
Korean Popular Culture and the Selling of Place Youjeong Oh
December 2018 258pp 4 b&w halftones 9781501730719 £33.00 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Examines the use of Korean television dramas and K-Pop music to promote urban and rural places in South Korea. Youjeong Oh argues that the marketing of K-Pop and Korean dramatic television mediates two separate domains: political decentralization and the globalization of Korean popular culture.
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Practicing Caste
On Touching and Not Touching Aniket Jaaware Foreword by Anupama Rao
Commonalities December 2018 256pp 9780823282258 £26.99 PB 9780823282265 £96.00 HB FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
Attempts a break from the tradition of caste studies, using versions of phenomenology, structuralism and post-structuralism; and gives a description of touchability and untouchability in terms of a rhetoric and semantics of touch.
Privileged Minorities
Syrian Christianity, Gender, and Minority Rights in Postcolonial India Sonja Thomas
October 2018 240pp 22 b&w illus., 3 tables 9780295743844 £22.99 PB 9780295743820 £69.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
Examines a range of sources, including oral histories, ethnographic interviews, and legislative assembly debates, to interrogate the relationships between religious rights and women’s rights in Kerala. Using an intersectional approach, and US women of color feminist theory, Thomas demonstrates the ways that race, caste, gender, religion, and politics are intertwined.
Rebranding China
Contested Status Signaling in the Changing Global Order Xiaoyu Pu Studies in Asian Security February 2019 208pp 9781503606838 £50.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Turns to the concept of branding to better understand China’s selfrepresentation the world stage. Drawing on a sweeping body of research, including original Chinese sources, Pu demystifies how the state represents its global position by analyzing recent military transformations, regional interactions, and international financial negotiations.
Remaking the Chinese Empire
Manchu-Korean Relations, 1616–1911 Yuanchong Wang
December 2018 300pp 4 b&w halftones, 2 maps, 8 charts 9781501730504 £42.00 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Examines China’s development from an empire into a modern state through the lens of Sino-Korean political relations during the Qing period. Incorporating Korea into the historical narrative of the Chinese empire, it demonstrates that the Manchu regime used its relations with Chosŏn Korea to establish, legitimize, and consolidate its identity.
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Returns of War
South Vietnam and the Price of Refugee Memory Long T. Bui
Nation of Nations November 2018 256pp 9781479871957 £22.99 PB 9781479817061 £68.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Blending ethnography with oral history, archival research, and cultural analysis, this title considers how the historical legacy of a nation that only existed for twenty years is being kept alive by its dispersed stateless exiles.
Taiwan
The Land Colonialisms Made Edited by Arif Dirlik & Ping-Hui Liao
July 2018 200pp 9781478003571 £9.99 PB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
The contributors to this special issue examine the role successive colonialisms played in forging a distinct Taiwanese identity and the theoretical implications the Taiwanese experience of colonialism raises regarding the making of modern national identities.
Taming Japan's Deflation
The Debate over Unconventional Monetary Policy Gene Park, Saori Katada, Saori N. Katada, Giacomo Chiozza & Yoshiko Kojo
Cornell Studies in Money November 2018 252pp 3 b&w line drawings, 13 charts 9781501728174 £35.00 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Explores how the Bank of Japan’s resistance to bold policy ideas stemmed from entrenched hostility to activist monetary policy. The authors explain how these ideas evolved over the BOJ’s long history and gained dominance due to the closed nature of the policy network.
The Daughter
A Political Biography of Aung San Suu Kyi Hans-Bernd Zollner & Rodion Ebbighausen October 2018 400pp 75 illus., 1 map 9786162151460 £26.99 PB
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
As the Rohingya crisis exploded, observers of Myanmar were shocked to see Aung San Suu Kyi, champion for the causes of liberal democracy, stand by as atrocities tore apart the western reaches of her country. This is an indepth exploration of this iconturned-leader and of the people, ideas, and experiences that shaped her identity.
The Gender of Caste
Representing Dalits in Print Charu Gupta Series edited by K. Sivaramakrishnan, Anand A. Yang & Padma Kaimal
Global South Asia October 2018 352pp 33 illus. 9780295744223 £22.99 NIP
The Grand Scribe's Records, Volume I
The Basic Annals of Pre-Han China Ssu-ma Ch'ien Edited and translated by Weiguo Cao, Zhi Chen, Scott Cook, Hongyu Huang, Bruce Knickerbocker, Wang Jing, Zhang Zhenjun, Zhao Hua & William H. Nienhauser, Jr.
The Basic Annals of the Han Dynasty Ssu-ma Ch'ien Edited and translated by Weiguo Cao, Zhi Chen, Scott Cook, Hongyu Huang, Bruce Knickerbocker, Wang Jing, Zhang Zhenjun, Zhao Hua & William H. Nienhauser, Jr.
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
In this study of the representations of Dalits in the print culture of colonial north India, Gupta looks at images of Dalit women as both victims and vamps, the construction of Dalit masculinities, religious conversion as an alternative to entrapment in the Hindu caste system, and the plight of indentured labor.
October 2018 416pp 9780253038555 £38.00 HB
The Meiji Restoration
The Other Milk
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
W. G. Beasley Foreword by Michael R. Auslin
October 2018 536pp 9781503608269 £22.99 NIP STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
This now classic work offers a comprehensive account of the origins, development and immediate aftermath of the events that restored Imperial rule to Japan. Originally published in 1972, this new paperback edition contains a foreword written by Michael R. Auslin that celebrates Beasley's legacy.
The Grand Scribe's Records, Volume II
This project will result in the first complete translation (in nine volumes) of the Shih chi, one of the most important narratives in traditional China. Ssu-ma Ch’ien (145-c.86 B.C.), who compiled the work, is known as the Herodotus of China.
Reinventing Soy in Republican China Jia-Chen Fu
November 2018 264pp 11 b&w illus., 1 table 9780295744032 £22.99 PB 9780295744049 £69.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
Explores the paths that led to the notion of the deficient Chinese diet and to soybean milk as the way to guarantee food security for the masses. This examination of the intertwined relationships between diet, health, and nation illuminates the forces that have been essential in the formation of nutrition science in China.
October 2018 9780253039095 £38.00 HB
This project will result in the first complete translation (in nine volumes) of the Shih chi, one of the most important narratives in traditional China. Ssu-ma Ch’ien (145-c.86 B.C.), who compiled the work, is known as the Herodotus of China.
The Politics of Love in Myanmar
LGBT Mobilization and Human Rights as a Way of Life Lynette J. Chua
Stanford Studies in Human Rights November 2018 232pp 9781503607446 £19.99 PB 9781503602236 £65.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Offers an intimate ethnographic account of a group of LGBT activists before, during, and after Myanmar’s post-2011 politial transition. Details the vivid particulars of the LGBT activist experience, providing crucial insights into the intersection of emotions and interpersonal relationships with law and social movements.
The Hijacked War
The Story of Chinese POWs in the Korean War David Cheng Chang March 2019 528pp 9781503604605 £29.99 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Drawing on newly declassified archival materials from China, Taiwan, and the United States and interviews with surviving Chinese and North Korean prisoners of war, Chang depicts the struggle over prisoner repatriation that dominated the second half of the Korean War, from late 1951 to July 1953, in the prisoners' own words.
The Reputational Imperative
Nehru’s India in Territorial Conflict Mahesh Shankar
Studies in Asian Security September 2018 280pp 9781503605466 £53.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Shankar cuts through surrounding debates about nationalism, power and security to answers longstanding questions about Nehru’s territorial negotiations, while also providing a deeper understanding of how a state’s global image works. Shankar highlights the pivotal – yet often overlooked – role reputation can play in a broad global security context.
The Venture Capital State
Waste
Cornell Studies in Political Economy September 2018 210pp 5 charts 9781501723377 £38.00 HB
October 2018 420pp 18 b&w halftones 9781501725845 £38.00 HB
The Silicon Valley Model in East Asia Robyn Klingler-Vidra
Consuming Postwar Japan Eiko Maruko Siniawer
Silicon Valley has become shorthand for a globally acclaimed way to unleash the creative potential of venture capital, supporting innovation and creating jobs. Robyn Klingler-Vidra traces how and why different states have adopted distinct versions of the Silicon Valley model.
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Financializing Poverty
Remembering the Present
South Asia in Motion July 2018 256pp 9781503605886 £20.99 PB 9781503604841 £69.00 HB
April 2018 310pp 20 b&w halftones, 1 map 9781501709173 £20.99 PB 9781501707995 £73.00 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Labor and Risk in Indian Microfinance Sohini Kar
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Reveals how MFIs have restructured debt relationships. On one hand, they have opened access to new streams of credit. However, as the network of finance incorporates the poor, the "inclusive" dimensions of microfinance are continuously met with rigid credit risk management that reproduce the very inequality the loans are meant to alleviate.
Innovatively explores the many ways in which the Japanese have thought about waste—in terms of time, stuff, money, possessions, and resources. Siniawer shows how questions about waste were deeply embedded in the decisions of everyday life, reflecting the priorities of the historical moment, and revealing people’s concerns and hopes.
Mindfulness in Buddhist Asia Julia L. Cassaniti
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Focusing on Thailand, Sri Lanka, and Myanmar, Cassaniti offers an ethnographic investigation of mindfulness, and its role in everyday life in these regions. In doing so, she shows how mindfulness needs to be understood within the cultural and historical influences from which it has emerged.
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Contemporary Chinese Studies September 2018 350pp 9780774837781 £42.00 HB
Religion and Wealth in Fourteenth-Century Korea Juhn Y. Ahn
A Reappraisal Patrick Shan
UBC PRESS
Sheds new light on the controversial history of this talented administrator and modernizer who endeavoured to establish a new dynasty while serving as the first president of the republic. Drawing on untapped primary sources and recent scholarship, Shan offers a comprehensive new interpretation of Yuan’s part in shaping modern China.
The Anime Ecology
A Genealogy of Television, Animation, and Game Media Thomas Lamarre March 2018 448pp 9781517904500 £19.99 PB 9781517904494 £83.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
With the release of Thomas Lamarre’s field-defining study The Anime Machine, critics established Lamarre as a leading voice in the field of Japanese animation. He now returns with The Anime Ecology, broadening his insights to give a complete account of anime’s relationship to television while placing it in important historical and global frameworks.
Buddhas and Ancestors June 2018 264pp 0 b&w illus. 9780295743394 £22.99 PB 9780295743387 £69.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
Two issues central to the transition from the Koryŏ to the Chosŏn dynasty were social differences in ruling elites and the decline of Buddhism, which had been the state religion. Juhn Ahn challenges the long-accepted Confucian critique that Buddhism had become so powerful and corrupt that the state had to suppress it.
The Cow in the Elevator An Anthropology of Wonder Tulasi Srinivas May 2018 288pp 29 illus. 9780822370796 £19.99 PB 9780822370642 £76.00 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Broaching provocative philosophical themes like desire, complicity, loss, time, money, technology, and the imagination, Srinivas pursues an interrogation of wonder and the adventure of writing true to its experience. The Cow in the Elevator rethinks the study of ritual while reshaping our appreciation of wonder's transformative potential for scholarship and for life.