Asian Studies Fall 2020
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Black Market Business
Building a Religious Empire
Selling Sex in Northern Vietnam, 1920–1945 Christina Elizabeth Firpo
Tibetan Buddhism, Bureaucracy, and the Rise of the Gelukpa Brenton Sullivan
Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University December 2020 276pp 2 b&w photos, 1 b&w line drawing, 8 maps 9781501752650 £36.00 / $42.95 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Encounters with Asia December 2020 304pp 11 hts., 3 charts, 2 tables 9780812252675 £52.00 / $65.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
A grassroots social history of the clandestine market for sex in colonial Tonkin. Explores the ways in which sex workers, managers, and clients evaded the colonial regulation system in the turbulent economy of the interwar years.
Examines the Geluk school of Tibetan Buddhism’s expansion and consolidation of power along the frontier with China and Mongolia from the mid17th through the mid-18th centuries.
Building Socialism
Cinema and the Cultural Cold War
The Afterlife of East German Architecture in Urban Vietnam Christina Schwenkel
US Diplomacy and the Origins of the Asian Cinema Network Sangjoon Lee
October 2020 440pp 95 illus., incl. 17 in color 9781478011064 £24.99 / $30.95 PB 9781478010012 £95.00 / $114.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
The United States in the World December 2020 306pp 25 b&w hts. 9781501753916 £22.99 / $28.95 PB 9781501752315 £95.00 / $115.00 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Analyzes the collaboration between East German and Vietnamese architects and urban planners as they attempted to transform the bombed-out industrial city of Vinh into a model socialist city. Draws on archival and ethnographic research in Vietnam and Germany.
Explores the ways in which postwar Asian cinema was shaped by transnational collaborations and competitions between newly independent and colonial states at the height of Cold War politics.
Disastrous Times
Ethnic Dissent and Empowerment
Beyond Environmental Crisis in Urbanizing Asia Edited by Eli Elinoff & E. Tyson Vaughan
Economic Migration between Vietnam and Malaysia Angie Ngoc Tran
Critical Studies in Risk and Disaster December 2020 288pp 10 illus. 9780812252705 £48.00 / $59.95 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Studies of World Migrations October 2020 296pp 9780252085277 £22.99 / $30.00 PB 9780252043369 £100.00 / $125.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Disastrous Times explores how people across Asia live through and make sense of environmental Examine how migrant workers challenge a transformation and asks how we might analyze transnational process that coerces and exploits this moment of disruption and risk. them. Excludes SE Asia, Indian SC & ANZ
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Fluid Jurisdictions
Further Adventures on the Journey to the West
Colonial Law and Arabs in Southeast Asia Nurfadzilah Yahaya
Master of Silent Whistle Studio, Translated by Qiancheng Li & Robert E. Hegel, Introduction by Qiancheng Li
September 2020 264pp 5 b&w hts., 3 maps, 2 graphs 9781501750878 £41.00 / $49.95 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
October 2020 272pp 16 b&w illus. 9780295747729 £22.99 / $30.00 PB 9780295747712 £76.00 / $95.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
Draws on international archives to demonstrate the interplay between colonial projections of order and their realities, Arab navigation of legally plural systems in SE Asia and beyond, and the fraught and deeply human struggles that played themselves out between family, religious, contract, and commercial legal orders.
Building on the 16th-century novel Journey to the West, this sequel is a parable of self-delusion that explores the tension between desire and emptiness from a Buddhist perspective.
Gardens of Gold
Greening East Asia
Place-Making in Papua New Guinea Jamon Alex Halvaksz
The Rise of the Eco-developmental State Edited by Ashley Esarey, Mary Alice Haddad, Joanna I. Lewis & Stevan Harrell
Culture, Place, and Nature September 2020 248pp 4 b&w illus., 7 maps, 5 charts, 8 tables 9780295747590 £22.99 / $30.00 PB UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
November 2020 264pp 2 b&w illus., 5 maps, 15 charts, 9 tables 9780295747910 £22.99 / $30.00 PB 9780295747903 £76.00 / $95.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
Drawing from extensive ethnographic research, Halvaksz examines the role of place in informing indigenous relationships with conservation and development.
Explores a region’s shift to “eco-development”, acknowledging that environmental sustainability is a critical component of economic growth.
Indonesian Pluralities
Mekong Dreaming
Islam, Citizenship, and Democracy Edited by Robert W. Hefner & Zainal Abidin Bagir
Contending Modernities January 2021 282pp 9780268108625 £33.00 / $40.00 PB 9780268108618 £82.00 / $100.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
Offers important insights on the state of Indonesian politics and society more than twenty years after its return to democracy.
Life and Death along a Changing River Andrew Alan Johnson
August 2020 216pp 12 illus. 9781478010821 £20.99 / $25.95 PB 9781478009771 £83.00 / $99.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Explores the changing relationship between the river and the residents of Ban Beuk, a village on the Thailand-Laos border, by focusing on the effect that construction has had on human and inhuman elements of the villagers’ world.
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Mountains of Blame
One Left
Climate and Culpability in the Philippine Uplands Will Smith
A Novel
Kim Soom, Translated by Bruce Fulton & Ju-Chan Fulton Foreword by Bonnie Oh
Culture, Place, and Nature December 2020 192pp 9 b&w illus., 1 map, 2 tables 9780295748160 £22.99 / $30.00 PB 9780295748153 £76.00 / $95.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
September 2020 192pp 9780295747668 £14.99 / $19.95 PB 9780295747651 £76.00 / $95.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
Kim Soom tells the story of a woman who was kidnapped at the age of thirteen during the Pacific War. This first-ever English translation recovers the overlooked and disavowed stories of Korea’s most marginalized women.
Asks how those who have contributed least to greenhouse gases have positioned themselves as culpable for the impacts of climate change.
Peace Corps Volunteers and the Making of Korean Studies in the United States
Power Misses II
Cinema, Asian and Modern Edited by David E. James
September 2020 208pp 60 b&w illus. 9780861967476 £31.00 / $38.00 PB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Edited by Seung-kyung Kim & Michael Robinson
Like David James’ earlier collection of essays, Power Misses: Essays Across (Un)Popular Culture (1996), the present volume, Power Misses II: Cinema, Asian and Modern is concerned with popular cultural activity that propose alternatives and opposition to capitalist media.
Center For Korea Studies Publications July 2020 280pp 41 b&w illus. 9780295748139 £36.00 / $45.00 PB 9780295748122 £76.00 / $95.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
Former volunteers sent by the Peace Corps to South Korea from 1966 through 1981 reflect on their experiences.
Restitching Identities in Rural Sri Lanka
Seeing Like a Child
Inheriting the Korean War Clara Han Foreword by Richard Rechtman
Gender, Neoliberalism, and the Politics of Contentment Sandya Hewamanne
Thinking from Elsewhere November 2020 208pp 9780823289462 £18.99 / $25.00 PB 9780823289455 £72.00 / $90.00 HB FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
Contemporary Ethnography September 2020 224pp 9780812252408 £44.00 / $55.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Continuing her work on women free-trade-zone factory workers in Sri Lanka, Hewamanne explores how these women negotiate their social and economic lives once back in their villages.
An utterly original and illuminating work that meets at the crossroads of autobiography and ethnography to reexamine violence and memory through the eyes of a child.
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Soundscapes of Uyghur Islam
Textiles in Burman Culture
Rachel Harris
Sylvia Fraser-Lu
Framing the Global November 2020 258pp 24 b&w photos, 6 figures 9780253050205 £27.99 / $35.00 PB 9780253050182 £66.00 / $80.00 HB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
October 2020 584pp 293 color illus., 30 b&w illus., 29 charts, 5 maps 9786162151637 £52.00 / $65.00 PB UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
Profusely illustrated with onsite and archival photographs of weavers and heirloom textiles, as well as with diagrams and sketches, this book will be an important reference for textile scholars and art historians and for those interested in Burman culture.
China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region is experiencing a crisis of securitization and mass incarceration. In Soundscapes of Uyghur Islam, author Rachel Harris examines the religious practice of a group of Uyghur women in a small village now engulfed in this chaos.
The Ends of Kinship
The Occupied Clinic
Connecting Himalayan Lives between Nepal and New York Sienna R. Craig
Militarism and Care in Kashmir Saiba Varma October 2020 240pp 28 illus. 9781478010982 £20.99 / $25.95 PB 9781478009924 £83.00 / $99.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Global South Asia October 2020 312pp 9 b&w illus., 2 maps 9780295747699 £22.99 / $30.00 PB 9780295747682 £76.00 / $95.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
Explores spaces of military and humanitarian care in Indian-controlled Kashmir— the world’s most militarized place—to examine the psychic, ontological, and political entanglements between medicine and violence.
Engages with foundational questions in cultural anthropology: How do different generations understand each other? How are traditions defended and transformed in the context of new mobilities?
The Power of the Brush
The Story of King Lo
Epistolary Practices in Chosŏn Korea Hwisang Cho
Lilit Phra Lo Translated by Robert J. Bickner
Korean Studies of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies November 2020 280pp 28 b&w illus., 9780295747811 £22.99 / $30.00 PB 9780295747804 £76.00 / $95.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
September 2020 323pp 9786162151606 £18.99 / $24.95 PB UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
Highly regarded as an important part of the poetic heritage of Thailand. Bickner uses comparative and historical linguistics as the foundation for his examination and interpretation Examines the social effects of changes brought on of the poem and with this translation guides by the invention of an easily learned Korean readers through the many complexities of this alphabet in the fifteenth century. fascinating text.
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The Whites Are Enemies of Heaven
Traffic in Asian Women Laura Hyun Yi Kang
Next Wave: New Directions in Women’s Studies September 2020 352pp 19 illus. 9781478009665 £22.99 / $28.95 PB 9781478008804 £87.00 / $104.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Climate Caucasianism and Asian Ecological Protection Mark Driscoll
December 2020 352pp 22 illus. 9781478011217 £22.99 / $28.95 PB 9781478010166 £87.00 / $104.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Demonstrates that the figure of “Asian women” functions as an analytic with which to understand the emergence, decline, and permutation of US power and knowledge at the nexus of capitalism, state power, global governance, and knowledge production throughout the twentieth century.
Examines Western imperialism in East Asia throughout the 19th century and the devastating effects of “climate caucasianism”—the West’s racialized pursuit of capital at the expense of people of color, women, and the environment.
Who Is a Muslim?
Uneasy Military Encounters
Orientalism and Literary Populisms Maryam Wasif Khan
The Imperial Politics of Counterinsurgency in Southern Thailand Ruth Streicher
January 2021 288pp 9780823290130 £26.99 / $35.00 PB 9780823290123 £100.00 / $125.00 HB FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
October 2020 186pp 9 b&w hts. 9781501751332 £20.99 / $25.95 PB 9781501751325 £99.00 / $115.00 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Destabilizes traditional constructions of postcolonial literary histories through the specific example of Urdu by suggesting that this NorthIndia vernacular, far from secular or progressive, has been shaped as the authority designate around the intertwined questions of piety, national identity, and citizenship.
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A historically grounded political ethnography of the Thai military’s counterinsurgency practices in the southern borderland, home to the greater part of the “Malay-Muslim minority.”
China and the End of Global Silver, 1873– 1937
Chinese Senior Migrants and the Globalization of Retirement
Austin Dean
Cornell Studies in Money November 2020 264pp 5 b&w hts. 9781501752407 £41.00 / $49.95 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Nicole DeJong Newendorp
September 2020 256pp 9781503613881 £21.99 / $28.00 PB 9781503611726 £74.00 / $90.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Focuses on how officials, policy makers, bankers, merchants, academics, and journalists in China and around the world answered a simple question: how should China change its monetary system?
Focusing on Chinese-born senior migrants’ engagement in transnational lifeways and global mobility processes as they relocate to the U.S., Newendorp sheds light on seniors’ strategies for achieving later-life goals.
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Cultural Revolution and Revolutionary Culture
Divine, Demonic, and Disordered
Alessandro Russo
Women without Men in Song Dynasty China Hsiao-wen Cheng
September 2020 368pp 9781478009528 £22.99 / $28.95 PB 9781478008590 £87.00 / $104.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
January 2021 272pp 3 b&w illus. 9780295748320 £22.99 / $30.00 NIP 9780295748313 £76.00 / $95.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
Russo rethinks the history of China’s Cultural Revolution, arguing that it must be understood as a mass political experiment aimed at thoroughly reexamining the tenets of communism itself.
Hsiao-wen Cheng considers accounts of “manless women,” many of which depict women who suffered from “enchantment disorder” or who engaged in “intercourse with ghosts”—conditions with specific symptoms and behavioral patterns.
Divorce in China
Exile from the Grasslands
Institutional Constraints and Gendered Outcomes Xin He
Tibetan Herders and Chinese Development Projects Jarmila Ptáčková
January 2021 304pp 15 b/w illus. 9781479805532 £54.00 / $65.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Studies on Ethnic Groups in China December 2020 176pp 17 b&w illus., 5 maps, 1 table 9780295748191 £22.99 / $30.00 PB 9780295748184 £76.00 / $95.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
The only study of Chinese divorce cases based on fieldwork and interviews conducted inside Chinese courtrooms over the course of a decade. With an unusual vantage point, Xin He offers a rare and unfiltered view of the operation of Chinese courts in the authoritarian regime. Excludes SE Asia & ANZ
Documents the viewpoints of both the people affected during the Great Opening of the West— Tibetan pastoralists in Qinghai Province—and the Chinese officials charged with relocating them in newly constructed housing projects.
Global Medicine in China
Good Governance in Economic Development
A Diasporic History Wayne Soon
International Norms and Chinese Perspectives Edited by Sarah Biddulph & Ljiljana Biuković
October 2020 304pp 9781503614000 £23.99 / $30.00 PB 9781503611931 £77.00 / $90.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Asia Pacific Legal Culture and Globalization August 2020 394pp 4 tables 9780774861939 £22.99 / $37.95 NIP UBC PRESS
Wayne Soon tells the global health story of Overseas Chinese who transformed medicine in China and Taiwan through the practices of military medicine, blood banking, mobile medicine, and mass medical training.
Insights into the global and national implications of international good governance rules. Excludes SE Asia, Indian SC & ANZ
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Revisiting Women’s Cinema
Saving the Nation through Culture
The Folklore Movement in Republican China Jie Gao
Feminism, Socialism, and Mainstream Culture in Modern China
Lingzhen Wang
a Camera Obscura book December 2020 304pp 18 illus. 9781478010807 £21.99 / $27.95 PB 9781478009757 £87.00 / $104.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Contemporary Chinese Studies September 2020 364pp
20 b&w photos 9780774838399 £22.99 / $37.95 NIP UBC PRESS
Unveils how Chinese films have been misread through extant research paradigms entrenched in Western Cold War ideology, post-second-wave cultural feminism, & post-Mao intellectual discourses.
Tells the story of how a group of Chinese scholars attempted to use “low culture” to promote national unity during a long period of crisis. Excludes SE Asia, Indian SC & ANZ
The Edge of Knowing
The Evolution of the Chinese Internet
Dreams, History, and Realism in Modern Chinese Literature Roy Bing Chan
Creative Visibility in the Digital Public Shaohua Guo
July 2020 233pp 9780295748115 £22.99 / $30.00 PB UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
December 2020 344pp 9781503614437 £23.99 / $30.00 PB 9781503613775 £77.00 / $90.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Realism and the rhetoric of dreams intersected in modern Chinese literature from the May Fourth Era in the early 20th century through the period just following the end of the Cultural Revolution in 1976. This title shows how writers’ attention to dreams demonstrates the multiple influences of Western psychology and utopian desire for revolutionary change.
Traces the emergence of one of the most creative digital cultures in the world, through four major technological platforms that have marked trends in internet use: the bulletin board system, the blog, the microblog, and WeChat.
The Future History of Contemporary Chinese Art
The Lady of Linshui Pacifies Demons
A Seventeenth-Century Novel Translated by Kristin Ingrid Fryklund, Introduction by Mark Edward Lewis & Brigitte Baptandier
Peggy Wang
December 2020 264pp 47 b&w illus., 19 Color Plates 9781517909161 £23.99 / $30.00 PB 9781517909154 £99.00 / $120.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
A revelatory reclaiming of five iconic Chinese artists and their place in art history. Offers a corrective to previous appraisals, demonstrating how their works address questions about the forms, meanings, and possibilities of art. Excludes Japan & ANZ
February 2021 328pp 9780295748351 £26.99 / $35.00 PB 9780295748344 £76.00 / $95.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
Narrates Chen Jinggu’s lifelong struggle with and eventual triumph over her spirit double and rival, the White Snake demon.
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The Objectionable Li Zhi
United Front
Fiction, Criticism, and Dissent in Late Ming China Edited by Rivi Handler-Spitz, Pauline C. Lee & Haun Saussy
Projecting Solidarity through Deliberation in Vietnam’s Single-Party Legislature Paul Schuler
January 2021 296pp 1 map 9780295748382 £22.99 / $30.00 PB 9780295748375 £76.00 / $95.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
Studies of the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center January 2021 264pp 9781503614741 £21.99 / $28.00 PB 9781503614628 £74.00 / $90.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Demonstrates the interrelatedness of seemingly discrete aspects of iconoclastic scholar Li Zhi’s (1527–1602) thought and emphasizes his farreaching impact on his contemporaries and successors.
Examines the past & present functioning of the Vietnam National Assembly, arguing that the legislature's primary role is to signal strength to the public.
Utopian Ruins
Chad M. Bauman
Religion and Conflict September 2020 312pp 6 b&w hts., 4 maps, 1 chart 9781501750687 £27.99 / $34.95 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Sinotheory December 2020 408pp 62 illus. 9781478011231 £23.99 / $29.95 PB 9781478010180 £91.00 / $109.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Through an extended history of Christian-Hindu relations, with particular attention to the 2007– 2008 riots in Kandhamal, Odisha, Anti-Christian Violence in India examines religious violence and how it pertains to broader aspects of humanity.
Traces the creation, preservation, and elision of memories about China’s Mao era by envisioning a virtual museum that reckons with both its utopian yearnings and cataclysmic reverberations.
Assembling the Local
Elementary Aspects of the Political
Political Economy and Agrarian Governance in British India Upal Chakrabarti
Histories from the Global South
Prathama Banerjee
Intellectual History of the Modern Age December 2020 288pp 9780812252736 £64.00 / $79.95 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Theory in Forms December 2020 288pp 11 illus. 9781478010906 £20.99 / $26.95 PB 9781478009870 £83.00 / $99.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Through analysis of British imperial history, this book engages with articulations of the “local” on multiple theoretical and empirical fronts, weaving them into a complex reflection on the problem of difference and a critical commentary on connections between political economy, agrarian property, and governance.
Moves beyond postcolonial and decolonial critiques of European political philosophy to rethink modern conceptions of “the political” from the perspective of Indian and Bengali practices and philosophies from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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India
Anti-Christian Violence in India
A Memorial Museum of the Mao Era Jie Li
Enduring Cancer
From Raj to Republic
Life, Death, and Diagnosis in Delhi Dwaipayan Banerjee
Sovereignty, Violence, and Democracy in India Sunil Purushotham
Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography August 2020 240pp 32 illus. 9781478009559 £20.99 / $25.95 PB 9781478008620 £83.00 / $99.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
South Asia in Motion January 2021 344pp 9781503614543 £21.99 / $28.00 PB 9781503613256 £74.00 / $90.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Presents a multifaceted history of sovereignty and democracy in India by linking together the state of Hyderabad’s attempt to establish itself as an independent sovereign state, the partitioning of Punjab, and the communist-led revolutionary movement in the Indian region of Telangana.
Banerjee explores the efforts of Delhi’s urban poor to create a livable life with cancer as they negotiate an over-extended health system unequipped to respond to the disease.
Nobody’s People
Opening Kailasanatha
Hierarchy as Hope in a Society of Thieves Anastasia Piliavsky
The Temple in Kanchipuram Revealed in Time and Space Padma Kaimal
South Asia in Motion November 2020 312pp 9781503614208 £23.99 / $30.00 PB 9781503604643 £74.00 / $90.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
October 2020 312pp 62 b&w illus., 19 color plates, 4 tables 9780295747774 £52.00 / $65.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
Opening Kailasanatha examines the figures adorning the eighth-century Kailasanatha temple complex in southeastern India, built by rulers who were both warriors and ascetics. Padma Kaimal deciphers the intentions of the monument’s makers, reaching back across centuries to illuminate worldviews of the ancient Indic south.
What if we could imagine hierarchy not as a social ill, but as a source of social creativity and hope? In Nobody's People, Anastasia Piliavsky takes us into a "caste of thieves," among Kanjars, in the Indian state of Rajasthan.
Sacred Cows and Chicken Manchurian
South Asian Filmscapes Transregional Encounters Edited by Elora Halim Chowdhury & Esha Niyogi De
The Everyday Politics of Eating Meat in India James Staples
November 2020 336pp 13 b&w illus., 1 table 9780295747859 £26.99 / $35.00 PB 9780295747842 £76.00 / $95.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
Culture, Place, and Nature November 2020 256pp 11 b&w illus. 9780295747873 £76.00 / $95.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
Drawing on ethnographic research, Staples charts how cattle owners, brokers, butchers, cooks, and South Asian Filmscapes excavates the complex occasional beef eaters navigate the contemporary politics and poetics of bordered identity and crossings through selected histories of cinema in political and cultural climate of bovine politics. South Asia.
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The Audacious Raconteur
The Globally Familiar
Digital Hip Hop, Masculinity, and Urban Space in Delhi Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan
Sovereignty and Storytelling in Colonial India Leela Prasad
November 2020 220pp 16 b&w hts., 4 maps 9781501752278 £15.99 / $19.95 PB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
October 2020 272pp 17 illus. 9781478011200 £21.99 / $26.95 PB 9781478010159 £83.00 / $99.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
How the young men of Delhi’s hip hop scene construct themselves on- and off-line and how digital platforms offer these young men the means to reimagine themselves and their city through hip hop.
Studying the oral narrations and writings of Indian authors in colonial India, The Audacious Raconteur argues that even the most hegemonic circumstances cannot suppress “audacious raconteurs”.
The Greater India Experiment
Constructing Empire
Hindutva and the Northeast Arkotong Longkumer
August 2020 312pp 22 photos, 21 tables, 3 maps 9780774836531 £22.99 / $37.95 NIP UBC PRESS
South Asia in Motion December 2020 328pp 9781503614222 £23.99 / $30.00 PB 9781503613461 £74.00 / $90.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Civilians play crucial roles in building empires. This book shows how Japanese urban planners, architects, and other civilians contributed to constructing a modern colonial enclave in northeast China, their visions shifting over time. Excludes SE Asia, Indian SC & ANZ
For the first time, Longkumer constructs a comprehensive understanding of Hindutva, an idea central to the establishment of a Hindu nation-state, focusing on the Sangh Parivar’s engagement with indigenous peoples in a region that has long resisted the “idea of India.”
Disruptions of Daily Life
Japonisme and the Birth of Cinema
Japanese Literary Modernism in the World Arthur M. Mitchell
Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University October 2020 270pp 3 b&w hts., 4 color hts., 2 charts 9781501752919 £46.00 / $55.00 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Daisuke Miyao
August 2020 232pp 71 illus. 9781478009429 £20.99 / $25.95 PB 9781478008538 £83.00 / $99.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Explores the mass media landscape of early twentieth century in order to uncover the subversive societal impact of four major Japanese authors: Tanizaki Jun’ichirō, Yokomitsu Riichi, Kawabata Yasunari, and Hirabayashi Taiko.
Examining nearly 1,500 Lumière films, explores the influence of Japanese art on the development of early cinematic visual style, particularly the actualité films made by the Lumière brothers between 1895 and 1905.
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Japan
The Japanese in Changchun, 1905–45 Bill Sewell
More Than Medals
A History of the Paralympics and Disability Sports in Postwar Japan Dennis J. Frost January 2021 320pp 6 charts 9781501753084 £33.00 / $39.95 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Addresses the histories of individuals, institutions, and events—the 1964 Paralympics, the FESPIC Games, the Ōita International Wheelchair Marathon, the Nagano Winter Paralympics, and the 2021 Tokyo Summer Games—that played important roles in the development of disability sports in Japan.
Reworking Japan
Changing Men at Work and Play under Neoliberalism Nana Okura Gagné
January 2021 324pp 9 b&w hts., 1 b&w line drawing, 5 charts 9781501753039 £37.00 / $45.00 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Examines how the past several decades of neoliberal economic restructuring and reforms in Japan have reshaped corporate ideologies, gender ideologies, and subjectivities of individual employees in Japan.
Radiation and Revolution Sabu Kohso
Thought in the Act September 2020 216pp 9781478011002 £19.99 / $24.95 PB 9781478009948 £79.00 / $94.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Political theorist and anticapitalist activist Sabu Kohso uses the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster to illuminate the relationship between nuclear power, capitalism, and the nation-state, showing how nuclear power has become the organizing principle of the global order.
Translating the Occupation
The Japanese Invasion of China, 1931-45
Edited by Jonathan Henshaw, Craig A. Smith & Norman Smith
December 2020 292pp 24 colour photos, 3 maps, 3 tables, 9780774864466 £44.00 / $65.00 HB UBC PRESS
Featuring translated texts written by writers who lived through the occupation, this book challenges and deepens our understanding of the tensions and transformations that Japanese invasion wrought on Chinese society. Excludes SE Asia, Indian SC & ANZ
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