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9781501778612
A Displaced Nation
The 1954 Evacuation and Its Political Impact on the Vietnam Wars
Phi-Van Nguyen
Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
December 2024 306pp 8 b&w halftones, 6 maps
£29.99/ $34.95 PB
9781501778605 £116.00/ $130.00 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Argues that the displacement of eighty thousand mostly Roman Catholic evacuees from North Vietnam in 1954 had a profound impact on the war opposing Saigon on both Hanoi and on the evacuees themselves.
Amdo Lullaby
An Ethnography of Childhood and Language Shift on the Tibetan Plateau
Charts the contrasting language socialization trajectories of rural and urban children from one extended family, who are native speakers of a Tibetan language known locally as “Farmer Talk.” Reveals that young children are not passively abandoning their mother tongue for standard Mandarin, but instead are reformatting traditional Amdo Tibetan cultural associations among language, place, and kinship.
Ancient Western Asia Beyond the Paradigm of Collapse and Regeneration (1200-900 BCE)
Proceedings of the NYU-PSL International Colloquium, Paris Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art, April 16–17, 2019
Edited by Maria Grazia Masetti-Rouault, Ilaria Calini, Robert Hawley and Lorenzo d’Alfonso
ISAW Monographs
April 2024 640pp 9781479834624 £76.00/ $85.00 HB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
Reimagines the Late Bronze–Iron Age transition as the emergence of a set of recursive processes and outcomes nested firmly in the local cultural interactions of western Asia before the beginning of the new, unifying era of Assyrian imperialism.
A Technomoral Politics
Good Governance, Transparency, and Corruption in India
Aradhana Sharma
November 2024 288pp 1 b&w illus.
9781517918088 £23.99/ $28.00 PB
9781517918071 £100.00/ $112.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
By examining scalar dimensions of good-governance politics, from the hyperlocal work of activists to global trends, A Technomoral Politics illuminates the paradoxes, limits, and risks of a system that is meant to spread liberal democratic principles but that also ends up promoting antidemocratic, populistauthoritarian forms of rule.
Amir Sjarifoeddin
Politics and Truth in Indonesia, 1907-1948
Rudolf Mrázek
Cornell Modern Indonesia Project October 2024 414pp 9781501777462 £36.00/ $39.95 PB 9781501777455 £116.00/ $130.00 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Amir Sjarifoeddin explores the experiences of a central figure in the Indonesian revolution, whose life mirrored the idealism and contradictions of the anticolonial and post-war world of twentieth century Indonesia. Through Sjarifoeddin's life, it is possible to study the moral ambiguity and complexities of the political revolutions of the twentieth century.
Appearance Politics
Legitimacy Building in Late Imperial and Modern China
Lex Lu
November 2024 306pp 35 b&w halftones, 26 color halftones
9781501777851 £53.00/ $58.95 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Lex Lu argues in Appearance Politics that crafting an appealing and powerful outward image has long been an essential political instrument in China. Its traces may be found in historical records, imperial portraits, physiognomic prognostications, photographs, posters, statues, and digital images.
9781501777387
9781501777370
Border of Water and Ice
The Yalu River and Japan's Empire in Korea and Manchuria
Joseph A. Seeley
Foreword by Albert L. Park
The Environments of East Asia
October 2024 216pp 16 b&w halftones, 2 maps, 4 graphs
£20.99/ $23.95 PB
£116.00/ $130.00 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Explores the significance of the Yalu River as a strategic border between Korea and Manchuria during a period of Japanese imperial expansion into the region. The Yalu's seasonal patterns of freezing, thawing, and flooding shaped colonial efforts to control who and what could cross the border.
Chinese Characters across Asia
How the Chinese Script Came to Write Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese
Zev J. Handel
January 2025 pp 23 b&w illus., 3 maps
9780295753027 £27.99/ $32.00 PB
9780295753010 £94.00/ $105.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
Written in an approachable style and meant for readers with no prior knowledge of Chinese script or Asian languages, Zev J. Handel presents a fascinating story of writing across cultures and time that challenges assumptions about speech and writing.
Cinema under National Reconstruction
State Censorship and South Korea’s Cold War Film Culture
Hye Seung Chung
November 2024 230pp 24 b&w images
9781978838710 £36.00/ $39.95 PB
9781978838727 £108.00/ $120.00 HB
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Drawing upon primary documents from the Korean Film Archive’s digitized database and framing South Korean film censorship from a transnational perspective, Hye Seung Chung makes the case that, while political oppression/repression existed inside and outside the film industry during this period, film censorship was not simply a tool for authoritarian dictatorship.
Bronze Mirrors in Ancient China
Artistry and Technique
Kin Sum Li
November 2024 256pp 77 color illus., 2 maps
9780295752907 £58.00/ $65.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
Highly decorated mirrors are widely sought by museums and are the most exchanged items of the ancient Chinese bronzes’ art market. Sum Li offers a detailed analysis of how mirrors were designed in this first book-length, scholarly study of Chinese bronze mirrors produced during 500 to 200 BCE.
Chronicles of a Global City
Speculative Lives and Unsettled Futures in Bengaluru
Edited by Vinay Gidwani, Michael Goldman and Carol Upadhya Foreword by Janaki Nair Afterword by Malini Ranganathan
November 2024 280pp 27 b&w illus., 17 color images, 2 maps
Grounded in long-term ethnographic research and activist experiences, Chronicles of a Global City vividly illuminates the multifaceted entanglements of finance capital, real estate markets, livelihood struggles, and fraying ecologies in urban and peri-urban Bengaluru.
Collectivization Generation
Oral Histories of a Social Revolution in Uzbekistan
Marianne Kamp
December 2024 282pp 2 b&w halftones, 1 map, 2 charts
9781501779503 £32.00/ $36.95 PB
9781501777998 £116.00/ $130.00 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
In Collectivization Generation, we meet Uzbeks who were driven from their homes by bandits, whose fathers disappeared in the Stalinist gulag, who suffered starvation and orphanhood. We also meet Uzbeks who told of embracing the project of collectivization, of feeling rewarded with dignity, recognition, pay, association with national triumphs, and with the progress represented by a tractor.
9781501778667
Communication against Capital
Red Enlightenment at the Dawn of Indonesia
Rianne Subijanto
Cornell Modern Indonesia Project February 2025 318pp 19 b&w halftones, 12 maps
£29.99/ $34.95 PB
9781501778650 £116.00/ $130.00 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Rianne Subijanto tells the story of ordinary lowerclass women, children, and people of diverse races and ethnicities who waged their battles against Dutch colonialism within multiple arenas of communication, including political associations, assemblies, printed matter, schools, and shipping lines.
Contesting Indonesia
Islamist, Separatist, and Communal Violence since 1945
Kirsten E. Schulze
Cornell Modern Indonesia Project October 2024 300pp 1 map
9781501777677 £32.00/ $36.95 PB
9781501777660 £116.00/ $130.00 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Contesting Indonesia explains Islamist, separatist and communal violence across Indonesian history since 1945. In a sweeping argument that connects endemic violence to a national narrative, Kirsten E. Schulze finds that the outbreak of violence is related to competing local notions of the national imaginary as well as contentious belonging.
Crafting a Tibetan Terroir
Winemaking in Shangri-La
Brendan A. Galipeau
Series edited and foreword by K. Sivaramakrishnan
Culture, Place, and Nature
November 2024 pp 20 b&w illus., 2 maps
9780295753362 £27.99/ $32.00 PB
9780295753355 £94.00/ $105.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
This book considers how the French notion of terroir works to create ethno-regional identities and village landscapes through the production of Tibetan wine. It provides timely insight into China's entry into the wine market, highlighting the localized impacts of this industry, which include transformation from subsistence agriculture to agrochemical use.
Contested Environmentalisms
Trees and the Making of Modern China
Cheng Li
January 2025 272pp
9781503640306 £63.00/ $70.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Drawing on digital media sources, Cheng Li investigates the evolution of Chinese conservationist ideas. Examining ethnic borderlands and China's growth on the world stage, this book demonstrates the strength of Chinese environmentalism to adapt and survive through tumultuous changes.
Cosmopolitan Scientists
How a Global Policy of Commercialization Became Japanese Nahoko Kameo
Culture and Economic Life
September 2024 182pp
9781503640405 £21.99/ $25.00 PB
9781503639928 £90.00/ $100.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Drawing on vivid accounts from bioscientists who experienced and enacted the shift toward commercialization, the book offers an insider's view into the way scientists navigate the complex and shifting landscape of science, innovation, and economic policy. It tells a broader story of how the global rules can be successfully naturalized.
Dancing for Their Lives
The Pursuit of Meaningful Aging in Urban China
Claudia Huang
Global Perspectives on Aging
February 2025 180pp 8 b&w photos
9781978838888 £108.00/ $120.00 HB
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Dancing for their Lives explores the vibrant world of retired Chinese women known as "dancing grannies” who seek fulfillment and companionship amidst societal upheaval. These women, part of China’s “lost generation,” gather in parks and public squares to reclaim their lives through dance in the wake of Chinese economic and cultural transformations.
Drawing Coastlines
Climate Anxieties and the Visual Reinvention of Mumbai's Shore
V. Chitra
Expertise: Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge
December 2024 294pp 107 b&w halftones
9781501777967 £28.99/ $33.95 PB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Drawing Coastlines reveals the ways that technical images such as weather infographics, sea-level projections, and surveys are fast remaking Mumbai's coasts and coastal futures. They set in place infrastructural interventions, vocabularies of development and conservation, and their lines and dots inscribe material conditions of existence and horizons of loss that entangle life forms.
Expansive Trajectories
Re-Mapping Transnationalism in the Global China Era
Edited by Fran Martin
October 2024 198pp 4 illus.
9781478029953 £11.99/ $14.00 PB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Topics covered include the impacts of China’s economic and geopolitical global rise on cross-border media, financial, and human flows; everyday experiences of cultural globalization by ordinary Chinese people; and the ways in which transnationalization transforms representations, understandings, and practices of class, gender, race, nationality, and ethnicity in China.
Feeling Machines
Japanese Robotics and the Global Entanglements of More-ThanHuman Care
Shawn Bender
November 2024 296pp
9781503641150
£27.99/ $32.00 PB
9781503640191 £116.00/ $130.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
This book follows roboticists developing technologies in Japan, and travels with the robots themselves into everyday sites of care. By exploring the application of Japanese robotics across the globe, Feeling Machines highlights the entanglements of therapeutic practice and technological innovation in an age of more-thanhuman care.
Empire of Contingency
How Portugal Entered the IndoPersian World
Jorge Flores
October 2024 344pp 15 b&w illus., 2 maps, 2 charts
9781512826449 £58.00/ $65.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
This book explores the information and communication practices of the Portuguese empire in late sixteenth and seventeenth-century India— when it was struggling for survival. Flores uncovers how the Estado da Índia endeavored to survive in a vast Indo-Persian world shaped by the influence and power of the Mughal empire.
Fabricating Homeland Security
Police Entanglements across India and Palestine/Israel
Rhys Machold
South Asia in Motion
September 2024 328pp
9781503640719 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9781503639690 £108.00/ $120.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Through a focus on the overlooked political struggles at work in the making of homeland security, Machold illustrates how homeland security is a universalizing project that seeks to remake the world in its image, and tells the story of how claims to global authority are fabricated.
For the Sake of Forests and Gods
Governing Life and Livelihood in the Philippine Uplands
Wolfram H. Dressler
February 2025 252pp 25 b&w halftones, 3 maps, 1 chart
9781501779268 £28.99/ $33.95 PB
9781501779251 £116.00/ $130.00 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
For the Sake of Forests and Gods documents the consequences of nonstate actors impinging upon the existence of Indigenous peoples in the remote highlands of Palawan Island, The Philippines. Nimble, focused, and well-funded, religious and environmental organizations increasingly assume governmental authority over the lives and livelihoods of the Pala'wan people within their ancestral territories.
Ghostly Past, Capitalist Presence
A Social History of Fear in Colonial Bengal
Tithi Bhattacharya
August 2024 232pp 6 illus.
9781478030713 £22.99/ $26.95 PB
9781478026464 £92.00/ $102.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Bhattacharya introduces readers to the multifarious habits and personalities of Bengal’s traditional ghosts and investigates and mourns their eventual extermination. Reading literature alongside the colonial archive, Bhattacharya uncovers a new reordering of science and faith from the middle of the nineteenth century.
India's Mithila Painting
Edited by David L. Szanton a nd Paula Richman
Global South Asia
January 2025 320pp 96 color illus., 2 maps
9780295753225 £58.00/ $65.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
Since the fifteenth century, Hindu women in the Mithila region of northern India have been painting images of deities, flora and fauna symbolizing fertility and prosperity, and floor designs. This volume, the first up-to-date analysis of the history of Mithila painting, includes contributions from Mithila artists, anthropologists, and more.
Indians on Indian Lands
Intersections of Race, Caste, and Indigeneity
Nishant Upadhyay
October 2024 256pp 4 b&w photos
9780252088216 £23.99/ $28.00 PB
9780252046117 £99.00/ $110.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Nishant Upadhyay unravels Indian diasporic complicity in its ongoing colonialist relationship with Indigenous peoples, lands, and nations in Canada. Alberta offer examples of spaces that illuminate the dispossession of Indigenous peoples and simultaneously reveal racialized, gendered, and casted labor formations.
History of the Mariana Islands
Luis de Morales, S.J. and Charles Le Gobien, S.J.
Edited by Alexandre Coello de la Rosa
September 2016 304pp
9781935198956 £16.99/ $20.00 PB
9781935198093 £80.00/ $89.00 HB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Histoire des isles Marianes, was published in Paris in 1700 with authorship attributed to French Jesuit priest Charles Le Gobien, S.J. It provides a detailed glimpse into a tumultuous period in the history of the Mariana Islands and the CHamoru people. Alexandre Coello de la Rosa has produced this English translation of the first Spanish edition.
Indian Soldiers in World War I
Race and Representation in an Imperial War
Andrew T. Jarboe
Studies in War, Society, and the Military January 2025 334pp 11 tables, index 9781496241368 £29.99/ $35.00 NIP
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Follows the experiences of Indian soldiers deployed to battlefields in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East during World War I; the contested representations British and Indian audiences drew from the soldiers’ wartime experiences; and the impacts these had on the British Empire’s racial politics.
InterAsian Intimacies across Race, Religion, and Colonialism
Chie Ikeya
September 2024 282pp 10 b&w halftones, 2 maps
9781501777141 £27.99/ $31.95 PB
9781501777134 £116.00/ $130.00 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
The book illuminates a history of belonging across boundaries, a history that has been overshadowed by Eurocentric narratives about the mixing of white colonial masters and native mistresses. InterAsian intimacy was—and remains—foundational to modern regimes of knowledge, power, and desire throughout Asia.
Korean Pop Culture beyond Asia
Race and Reception
Edited by David C. Oh and Benjamin Min Han
August 2024 pp 2 tables
9780295752969 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9780295752952 £94.00/ $105.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
Exploring how fans from different cultural and racial backgrounds engage with Korean media, this edited collection reveals complex transcultural affinities, conflicts, and negotiations. Throughout, the contributors provide perceptive analyses that reveal what the interplay of race and Korean entertainment tells us about the complex nature of transnational fandom.
"Light Out" and Modern Vietnamese Stories, 1930–1954
Translated by Quan Manh Ha and Paul Christiansen
NIU Southeast Asian Series
November 2024 228pp
9781501778032 £25.99/ $29.95 PB
9781501778025 £116.00/ $130.00 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
The eighteen short stories included in this book thematically delineate colonial abuses, class discrimination, patriarchal expectations, and livelihoods tethered to an unstable environment. Aesthetically, they illuminate the impact of French literary traditions and Western thought on Vietnamese traditions of storytelling.
October 2024 272pp
Manipulating Authoritarian Citizenship
Security, Development, and Local Membership in China
Samantha A. Vortherms
Studies of the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center
9781503640184 £67.00/ $75.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Vortherms examines the crucial case of China—where internal citizenship regimes control who can and cannot become a local citizen through the household registration system (hukou)—and uncovers how autocrats use such institutions to create particularistic membership in citizenship.
Landbridge Life in Fragments
Y-Dang Troeung
November 2024 312pp 45 illus.
9781478031123 £24.99/ $28.95 PB
9781478026884 £97.00/ $107.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
In precise, beautiful prose, Troeung moves back and forth in time to tell stories about her family, who were among the last of the 60,000 refugees from Cambodia that Canada agreed to admit. Throughout this brilliant and astonishing book, she looks with bracing clarity at refugee existence and dares to imagine a better future, with love.
Living in Heritage
Tulou as Vernacular Architecture, Global Asset, and Tourist Destination in Contemporary China
Lijun Zhang
Material Vernaculars
October 2024 186pp 39 color illus., 3 b&w tables
9780253070975 £29.99/ $35.00 PB
9780253070968 £72.00/ $80.00 HB
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
An in-depth ethnographic account of the people dwelling and working within traditional tulou architecture in the 21st century. Through her careful study, Zhang reveals how the blurring of formerly distinct domains—private and public, local and global—gives rise to a living museum that now relies on insiders and outsiders to preserve their way of life.
Millennial North Korea
Forbidden
Media
and Living
Creatively with Surveillance
Suk-Young Kim
October 2024 256pp
9781503640870 £23.99/ $28.00 PB
9781503614918 £99.00/ $110.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Combining a close reading of North Korean state media with original interviews with defectors, Kim explores how the tensions between millennial North Korea and North Korean millennials leads to a more nuanced understanding of a fractured and fragmented society that has been frequently perceived as an unchanging, monolithic entity.
Misery beneath the Miracle in East Asia
Arvid J. Lukauskas and Yumiko Shimabukuro
Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
December 2024 300pp 1 chart, 3 graphs
9781501778742 £29.99/ $34.95 PB
9781501778735 £116.00/ $130.00 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Misery Beneath the Miracle challenges prevailing views of the East Asian economic miracle. Existing scholarship has overlooked the severity, persistence, and harmful consequences of the social welfare crises affecting the region. Arvid J. Lukauskas and Yumiko Shimabukuro fill this gap and put a major asterisk on its economic record.
Phonographic Modernity
The Gramophone Industry and Music Genres in East and Southeast Asia
Histories of phonographic technologies and industries have long overlooked the East and Southeast Asian contributions to the sonic dimension of global modernity. Yamauchi and Wang address this with a collection of essays that show the nations of East and Southeast Asia as vibrant contributors to human audible history.
Poet-Monks
The Invention of Buddhist Poetry in Late Medieval China
Thomas J. Mazanec
November 2024 348pp 3 b&w halftones, 2 b&w line drawings, 4 maps, 2 charts
9781501778780 £27.99/ $31.95 NIP
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Combining large-scale quantitative analysis with close readings of important literary texts, Thomas J. Mazanec describes how Buddhist poet-monks, who first appeared in the latter half of Tang-dynasty China, asserted a bold new vision of poetry that proclaimed the union of classical verse with Buddhist practices of repetition, incantation, and meditation.
Necropolitics of the Ordinary Death and Grieving in Contemporary Singapore
Ruth E. Toulson
December 2024 pp 15 b&w illus. 9780295753331 £27.99/ $32.00 PB
9780295753324 £94.00/ $105.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
In this ethnography of Chinese funeral parlors and cemeteries, anthropologist and trained mortician Toulson demonstrates a shift to transform a Daoistinfused obsession with ancestors into an easily controlled "Protestant" Buddhism. Using grieving as interrogative lenses, Toulson explores the scope of and resistance to state power over the dead.
Plantation Worlds
Maan Barua
August 2024 320pp 35 illus. 9781478025610 £24.99/ $28.95 PB 9781478020868 £97.00/ $107.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Drawing on research spanning fifteen years, Maan Barua presents a unique ethnography attentive to the lives of both people and elephants amid tea plantations in the Indian state of Assam. In so doing, Barua prompts a rethinking of multispecies ecologies and how they are structured by colonialism and race.
Politics of Tranquility
The Material and Mundane Lives of Buddhist Nuns in Post-Mao Tibet
Yasmin Cho
January 2025 186pp 18 b&w halftones, 1 map
9781501778810 £24.99/ $28.95 PB
9781501778803 £116.00/ $130.00 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Politics of Tranquility concerns the Tibetan Buddhist revival in China, illustrating the lives of Tibetan Buddhist nuns and exploring the political effects that arise from their nonpolitical daily engagements in the remote, mega-sized Tibetan Buddhist encampment of Yachen Gar.
Precarious Eating
Narrating Environmental Harm in the Global South
Ben Jamieson Stanley
December 2024 272pp 10 b&w illus.
9781517915803
£23.99/ $28.00 PB
9781517915797 £100.00/ $112.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
By highlighting authors, activists, and environments of the global South, Precarious Eating joins with scholarship from postcolonial, decolonial, Indigenous, and Black studies to underscore how capitalism and empire shape our planetary environmental crisis.
Remittance as Belonging
Global Migration, Transnationalism, and the Quest for Home
Hasan Mahmud
October 2024 210pp
9781978840409
£34.00/ $37.95 PB
9781978840416 £108.00/ $120.00 HB
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Drawing on three and a half years of ethnographic fieldwork, Hasan Mahmud demonstrates that while Bangladeshi migrants go abroad for various reasons, they do not travel alone. Although they leave behind their families in Bangladesh, they move abroad essentially as members of their family and community and maintain their belonging to home through transnational practices, including remittance-sending.
Sheets of Scattered Sand
Cantonese Protestants and the Secular Dream of the Pacific Rim
Justin Tse
Liu Institute Series in Chinese Christianities
November 2024 304pp 20 b&w illus.
9780268208714 £67.00/ $75.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
Justin K.H. Tse captures the voices of Cantonese Protestant Christians from the San Francisco, Vancouver, and Hong Kong metropolitan areas as they reflect on their efforts to adapt to secular communities while retaining their identity and beliefs. Tse’s work serves as an illuminating prequel to contemporary stories of the Hong Kong protests and a newly emergent Asian American politics.
Reconfiguring Racial Capitalism
South Africa in the Chinese Century
Mingwei Huang
November 2024 320pp 31 illus. 9781478031031 £24.99/ $28.95 PB 9781478026792 £97.00/ $107.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Mingwei Huang traces the development of new forms of racial capitalism in the twenty-first century. Taking a palimpsestic approach, Huang offers tools for understanding this shift and de-centering contemporary Western conceptions of race, empire, and racial capitalism in the Chinese Century.
Satirical Tibet
The Politics of Humor in Contemporary Amdo
Timothy Thurston Series edited by Stevan Harrell Foreword by Stevan Harrell
Studies on Ethnic Groups in China
December 2024 pp
9780295753119 £27.99/ $32.00 PB
9780295753102 £94.00/ $105.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
Timothy Thurston's Satirical Tibet offers the first-ever look at the powerful tool of the Tibetan art of satire, to render meaningful social and political critique under the Chinese state. Focusing on the region of Amdo, Thurston shows how Tibetans shape their society whilst navigating tightly controlled media channels.
Staging Tianxia
Dunhuang Expressive Arts and China's New Cosmopolitan Heritage
Lanlan Kuang
September 2024 256pp 21 b&w illus., 8 b&w tables
9780253070906 £29.99/ $35.00 PB
9780253070890 £72.00/ $80.00 HB
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
A careful ethnographic study that explores the ancient Chinese vision of world order known as tianxia (all under heaven) by focusing on the historical, performative, and rhetorical processes of expressive arts and cultural heritages that inform a vision of China as a historically multiethnic and cosmopolitan nation.
State of Fear
Policing a Postcolonial City
Joshua Barker
September 2024 328pp
9781478030768 £24.99/ $28.95 PB
9781478026525 £97.00/ $107.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Focusing on the city of Bandung, and synthesizing insights from in-depth ethnographic, historical, and theoretical work, Barker reveals how authoritarianism can take root not just from the top down but also the bottom up.
The Book of Politics
China in Theory
Michael Dutton
Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
September 2024 440pp 46 illus.
9781478030195 £27.99/ $31.95 PB
9781478025948 £106.00/ $117.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
From the Chinese revolution to the global rise of rightwing movements, Dutton rethinks politics in the contemporary world. He juxtaposes ancient Chinese cosmology, medicine, and Maoism against the monuments of early capitalist modernity such as the Crystal Palace and the Eiffel Tower to highlight the differences in political investments and intensities.
The Ecosystem of Exile Politics
Why Proximity and Precarity Matter for Bhutan's Homeland Activists
Susan Banki
November 2024 168pp 5 maps
9781501778209 £24.99/ $28.95 PB
9781501778193 £116.00/ $130.00 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
The Ecosystem of Exile Politics relays the events in Bhutan that led to the exodus of one-sixth of the population, and then recounts the activism by Bhutan's refugee diaspora that followed in response. Susan Banki asserts that activism functions like a physical ecosystem, in which hubs of activism in different locations interact to pressure the home country.
Detailing the protocols that have been put in place and evaluating their enactment, Faier reveals how the continued failure of humanitarian institutions to address structural inequities and colonial history ultimately reinforces the violent status quo they claim to be working to change.
The Dialectics of Absolute Nothingness
The Legacies of German Philosophy in the Kyoto School
Edited by Gregory S. Moss and Takeshi Morisato
February 2025 324pp
9781501778988 £55.00/ $61.95 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Investigates the appropriations, critiques, and innovative interpretations of German philosophy by the Kyoto School, showing how central concepts of German philosophical traditions found a place within non-Western frameworks such as Zen and Pure Land Buddhism, thereby transcending the original Western context.
The Great Commentary on the Documents Classic / Shangshu dazhuan 尚書大傳
Translated by Fan Lin and Griet Vankeerberghen Series edited by Michael Nylan and Andrew Plaks
With facing pages of Chinese and English text, this volume provides a comprehensive introduction to the Great Commentary along with detailed annotations on its value as a source for studying early Chinese history
The Mongol Archive in Late Medieval France
Texts, Objects, Encounters, 1221–1422
Mark Cruse
Medieval Societies, Religions, and Cultures
February 2025 366pp 26 color halftones, 2 maps
9781501779350 £60.00/ $66.95 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
The first comprehensive study of contact between France and the Mongols in the late Middle Ages. As they expanded across Eurasia—the French through crusade and settlement, the Mongols through conquest—their encounters altered each other's understanding of the world and their place in it.
The Politics of Coercion
State and Regime Making in Cambodia
Neil Loughlin
September 2024 186pp 1 map
9781501776588 £21.99/ $25.95 PB
9781501776571 £116.00/ $130.00 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Loughlin explains the persistence of Cambodia's authoritarian regime for more than four decades. It provides a historically grounded investigation of the country's ruling coalition: political elites, many drawn from within the state's coercive apparatus, who, in coordination with state-dependent tycoons, have come to control Cambodia's politics and its economy.
The Roots of Resilience
Party Machines and Grassroots Politics in Southeast Asia
Meredith L. Weiss
February 2025 288pp
9781501779169 £24.99/ $28.95 NIP
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
The Roots of Resilience 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.
The Pitfalls of Family Rule
Patronage Norms, Family Overreach, and Political Crisis in Kazakhstan and Beyond
Barbara Junisbai
February 2025 222pp 5 charts, 3 graphs
9781501779060 £44.00/ $48.95 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
In The Pitfalls of Family Rule, Barbara Junisbai questions the conceptual divide separating democracy from non-democracy, as well as the conceptual divide separating "strong" authoritarian rulers from "weak" ones. Focusing on patronage, endemic to post-Soviet Eurasia, but also present the world over, she untangles the spoils agreements that bind elites to strong-man presidents.
In The Politics of Language Oppression in Tibet, Gerald Roche explores the erosion of linguistic diversity through a study of a community on the northeastern Tibetan Plateau in the People's Republic of China.
The Service of Faith
An Ethnography of Mennonites and Development
Philip Fountain
September 2024 372pp 7 figures 9780228022480 £34.00/ $37.95 PB
MCGILL-QUEENS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Braiding together extensive ethnographic and archival research, Philip Fountain explores the diverse ways in which Mennonite convictions permeate the Mennonite Central Committee’s (MCC) work in Indonesia, and confronts the question of whether religion has a legitimate place in international development work.
The Twelfth of February
Canadian Aid for Gender Equality during the Rise of Violent Extremism in Pakistan
Rhonda Gossen
McGill-Queen's/Brian Mulroney Institute of Government Studies in Leadership, Public Policy, and Governance
September 2024 276pp 21 photos, 3 diagrams, 1 map
9780228022527 £29.99/ $34.95 PB
MCGILL-QUEENS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Rhonda Gossen addresses a problem that is all too timely: given violent extremism’s devastating impact on development gains including women’s rights, security, and the elimination of gender-based violence, what is the future role for international development?
Waste
Consuming Postwar Japan
Eiko Maruko Siniawer
December 2024 414pp 18 b&w halftones
9781501778797 £29.99/ $34.95 NIP
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
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.
Word across the Water
American Protestant Missionaries, Pacific Worlds, and the Making of Imperial Histories
Tom Smith
The United States in the World
October 2024 336pp 6 b&w halftones
9781501777448 £29.99/ $34.95 PB
9781501777417 £116.00/ $130.00 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Word Across the Water encourages scholars of empire and religion alike to acknowledge both the pernicious nature of imperial claims over oceanic space underpinned by religious and historical arguments, and the fragility of those claims on the ground.
Twenty-Nine Goodbyes
An Introduction to Chinese Poetry
Timothy Billings
December 2024 224pp 1 b&w illus. 9781531508357 £21.99/ $24.95 HB FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
A primer for those with no previous knowledge of Chinese, this book introduces readers to the fundamentals of classical Chinese poetry through twenty-nine ways of understanding a single poem. “Seeing Off a Friend,” by the great Tang poet Li Bai (701–762) has long been praised for its vividness, subtlety, and poignancy.
Women's Transborder Cinema
Authorship, Stardom, and Filmic Labor in South Asia
Esha Niyogi De Women’s Media History Now!
December 2024 320pp 24 b&w photos
9780252088285 £27.99/ $32.00 PB
9780252046209 £112.00/ $125.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Can we write women’s authorial roles into the history of industrial cinema in South Asia? Esha Niyogi De draws on rare archival and oral sources to explore this, delving into examples of women holding influential positions as stars, directors, and producers across the film industries in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.
Worm-Time
Memories of Division in South Korean Aesthetics
We Jung Yi
December 2024 264pp 21 b&w halftones
9781501778575 £54.00/ $59.95 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
From novels of dissent during the authoritarian era to films and webtoons in the new millennium, We Jung Yi's transmedia analyses unearth people's experiences of "wormification"—traumatic survival, deferred justice, and warped capitalist growth in the wake of the Korean War.
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Atmospheric Violence
Disaster and Repair in Kashmir
Omer Aijazi
Contemporary Ethnography
June 2024 296pp 30 b&w illus.
£27.99/ $32.50 PB
£108.00/ $120.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Drawing on extensive fieldwork in Kashmir, this book takes us to two remote mountainous valleys to discover the movements, flows, and intimacies sustained by a landscape. Through a series of interconnected scenes from the lives of five protagonists Aijazi explores those who do not subscribe to the rules.
9780295752433
China's Camel Country
Livestock and Nation-Building at a Pastoral Frontier
Thomas White Series Edited and Foreword by K. Sivaramakrishnan
Alasha now styles itself as “China’s Camel Country,” where the domestic camel has special status, exempted from many grassland conservation policies that apply to other types of livestock. This study is both a political biography of the Bactrian camel and a work of political ecology addressing critical questions of conservation, state power, and rural livelihoods.
Fragile Hope
Seeking Justice for Hate Crimes in India
Sandhya Fuchs
South Asia in Motion
June 2024 296pp
9781503639362 £27.99/ $32.00 PB
9781503638341 £116.00/ $130.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Recently, India has seen a rise in violence against Dalits (ex-untouchables) and other minorities. Consequently, an emerging "Dalit Lives Matter" movement has campaigned for the effective implementation of India's only hate crime law: the 1989 Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes Prevention of Atrocities Act (PoA). Fuchs unveils how Dalit communities in the state of Rajasthan interpret and mobilize the PoA.
Breathless
Tuberculosis, Inequality, and Care in Rural India
Andrew McDowell
South Asia in Motion
April 2024 264pp
9781503638778
£23.99/ $28.00 PB
9781503637955
£99.00/ $110.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Each year in India more than two million people fall sick with tuberculosis (TB), an infectious, airborne, and potentially deadly lung disease. McDowell tells the stories of socially marginalized Dalit ("exuntouchable") farming families afflicted by TB, and the nurses, doctors, quacks, mediums, and mystics who care for them.
China's Rising Foreign Ministry
Practices and Representations of Assertive Diplomacy
Dylan M.H Loh
Studies in Asian Security
April 2024 280pp
9781503638204 £67.00/ $75.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Loh upends conventional understandings of Chinese diplomacy by underlining the importance of China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) and its diplomats in contemporary Chinese foreign policy. Loh explains how MOFA gradually became the main interface of China's foreign policy and the primary vehicle through which the idea of 'China' is produced, articulated, and represented on the world stage.
Fuzzy Traumas
Animals and Errors in Contemporary Japanese Literature
Tyran Grillo
July 2024 168pp
9781501775994 £22.99/ $26.95 PB
9781501775987 £116.00/ $130.00 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Grillo critically examines the portrayal of companion animals in Japanese literature in the wake of the 1990s "pet boom." Examining symbiotic concepts of "humanity" and "animality," Grillo challenges negative views of anthropomorphism as something unethical, redefining it as a necessary rupture in, not a bandage on, the thick skin of the human ego.
Games and Play in Chinese and Sinophone Cultures
Edited by Li Guo, Douglas Eyman and Hongmei Sun
May 2024 272pp 13 b&w illus., 2 tables
9780295752402 £27.99/ $32.00 PB
9780295752396 £94.00/ $105.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
In exploring games and practices of play across social and historical contexts, this volume examines representations of gender, class, materiality, and imaginations of the nation in Chinese and Sinophone contexts, while addressing ways in which games inhabit, represent, disrupt, or transform cultural and social practices.
Not Just a Man’s War
Chinese Women’s Memories of the War of Resistance against Japan, 1931–45
Yihong Pan
Contemporary Chinese Studies
July 2024 272pp
9780774870351 £89.00/ $99.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA PRESS
Uncovers the extraordinary stories of ordinary Chinese women who lived through the war between China and Japan (1937 – 1945). Through interviews, published reminiscences, and oral histories, Yihong Pan gives voice to their experiences. Attending to their insights produces a multifaceted, inclusive narrative of China’s War of Resistance.
Predicting Disasters
Earthquakes, Scientists, and Uncertainty in Modern Japan
Kerry Smith
Critical Studies in Risk and Disaster
February 2024 368pp 3 maps, 9 b&w photos, 1 table
9781512825374 £58.00/ $64.95 HB
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Predicting Disasters is the first English-language book to explore how scientists convinced postwar Japan that catastrophic earthquakes were coming, and why earthquake prediction has played such a central role in Japan. This book makes Japan’s past more accessible to readers, as well as to those who want to gain a better understanding of natural phenomena.
Global Health Security in China, Japan, and India
Assessing Sustainable Development Goals
Edited by Lesley A. Jacobs, Yoshitaka Wada and Ilan Vertinsky
Asia Pacific Legal Culture and Globalization
February 2024 296pp 18 charts, 28 tables
9780774867719 £34.00/ $37.95 PB
UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA PRESS
Investigates how global health security is evolving in three major Asian countries that have committed to adhering to the international health standards and targets in accordance with United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Pakistan and American Diplomacy
Insights from 9/11 to the Afghanistan Endgame
Theodore Craig
April 2024 288pp 3 maps, index 9781640126008 £29.99/ $34.95 HB
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Through the lens of the 2019 Cricket World Cup, former senior U.S. embassy official Ted Craig offers an insightful, fast-moving tour through U.S.-Pakistan relations, from 9/11 to the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Sound and Silence
My Experience with China and Literature
Lianke Yan
Translated by Carlos Rojas
Introduction by Carlos Rojas
Sinotheory
April 2024 200pp
9781478030393 £21.99/ $25.95 PB
9781478026167 £90.00/ $99.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
World-renowned author of novels, short stories, and essays Yan Lianke describes his literary project, reflects on censorship in China, and his perspectives on life, writing, and literary history.
The Political Outsider
Indian Democracy and the Lineages of Populism
Srirupa Roy
South Asia in Motion
March 2024 374pp
9781503637986 £29.99/ $35.00 PB
9781503636460 £125.00/ $140.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Roy argues that the long 1970s were a crucial turning point in Indian politics, when democracy was suspended by the declaration of a national emergency and then subsequently restored. This book revisits democracy from India, and asks what the Indian experience tells us about the trajectory of global democratic politics.
Tibetan Manuscripts and Early Printed Books, Volume 2 Elaborations
Matthew T. Kapstein
March 2024 pp
9781501771255 £44.00/ $48.95 PB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Explores the major categories of traditional Tibetan books, introducing their specific features and the main approaches to their study. In five major sections, it surveys manuscript collections including Buddhist scriptural canons, official and administrative documents, works on technical subjects—medicine, veterinary practice, liturgical chant, and the arts of divination—and Tibetan books from China and Mongolia.
Tibetan Manuscripts and Early Printed Books, Volume I Elements
Matthew T. Kapstein
March 2024 368pp 491 color halftones, 2 maps, 2 charts
9781501716218 £41.00/ $45.95 PB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
With a documented history of over thirteen centuries, Tibetan books have long served as a medium of culture and learning throughout Central and East Asia. Yet the history and production of these works remain poorly understood. Kapstein and an international team of specialists provide an introduction to the material and aesthetic features of books.
Voices from Nepal
Uncovering Human Trafficking through Comics Journalism
Dan Archer
July 2024 pp
9781487555016 £20.99/ $27.50 HB UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
From graphic journalist Dan Archer comes an eyeopening investigation into human trafficking and a compelling account of how to tell stories in ways that educate and empower.
