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Arranged Companions
China
Marriage and Intimacy in Qing China Weijing Lu
Ancient Egypt and Early China
July 2021 264pp 9 b&w illus. 9780295749129 £22.99/ $30.00 PB 9780295749112 £76.00/ $95.00 HB
State, Society, and Culture Anthony J. Barbieri-Low
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
July 2021 352pp 21 color illus., 45 b&w illus., 3 maps, 1 chart 9780295748894 £40.00/ $50.00 HB
Offering surprising revela�ons about conjugal rela�ons during early and High Qing (midseventeenth through mid-nineteenth centuries), Arranged Companions raises provoca�ve ques�ons about the cultural construc�on of in�macy and the meaning of a “happy marriage.”
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
This groundbreaking volume offers an innova�ve comparison of the great civiliza�ons of New Kingdom Egypt and Han dynasty China. Through a combina�on of textual, art historical, and archaeological analyses, the book reveals shared structural traits as well as dis�nc�ve features.
China's Grand Strategy
Chinese Village Life Today
A Roadmap to Global Power? Edited by David B. H. Denoon
Building Families in an Age of Transition Gonçalo Santos
June 2021 336pp 8 b/w illus. 9781479804092 £31.00/ $38.00 PB 9781479804085 £99.00/ $120.00 HB
August 2021 288pp 7 b&w illus., 2 maps, 5 charts, 9 tables 9780295747408 £22.99/ $30.00 PB 9780295747385 £76.00/ $95.00 HB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Over the past few decades, China has increasingly challenged the global influence of the United States. In China’s Grand Strategy, David B. H. Denoon brings together a group of eminent scholars to explain China’s rapid ascendance on the world stage, as well as its future implica�ons for global poli�cs.
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
To gain be�er access to jobs, health care, and consumer goods, Chinese villagers o�en travel or migrate to ci�es, and that engagement with new technoscien�fic and medical prac�ces is transforming village life. This though�ul ethnography presents a fresh perspec�ve on China’s urban-rural divide and rural transforma�on.
Excludes SE Asia & ANZ
Coming Home to a Foreign Country
Exporting Virtue?
August 2021 252pp 5 b&w hal�ones, 1 map, 1 chart, 4 graphs 9781501756184 £54.00/ $65.00 HB
Asia Pacific Legal Culture and Globaliza�on February 2021 268pp 9780774865555 £59.00/ $89.95 HB
China’s International Human Rights Activism in the Age of Xi Jinping Pitman B. Potter
Xiamen and Returned Overseas Chinese, 1843–1938 Soon Keong Ong
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
UBC PRESS
Ong Soon Keong explores the unique posi�on of the treaty port Xiamen (Amoy) within the ChinaSoutheast Asia migrant circuit and examines its role in the crea�on of Chinese diasporas. This �tle addresses how migra�on affected those who moved out of China and later returned to par�cipate in the city's economic revitaliza�on, educa�onal advancement, and urban reconstruc�on.
Expor�ng Virture? inves�gates the challenges that China’s human rights orthodoxy poses to interna�onal norms and ins�tu�ons, offering norma�ve and ins�tu�onal analysis and providing sugges�ons for policy response. Excludes SE Asia, Indian sc & ANZ
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Governing the Dead
Healing with Poisons
August 2021 294pp 11 b&w hal�ones, 1 map 9781501756504 £41.00/ $49.95 HB
June 2021 288pp 7 b&w illus., 1 map, 3 tables 9780295748993 £22.99/ $30.00 PB 9780295749006 £76.00/ $95.00 HB
Martyrs, Memorials, and Necrocitizenship in Modern China Linh D. Vu
Potent Medicines in Medieval China Yan Liu
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
In Governing the Dead, Linh D. Vu explains how the Chinese Na�onalist regime consolidated control by honoring its millions of war dead, allowing China to emerge rapidly from the wreckage of the first half of the twen�eth century to become a powerful state, supported by strong na�onalis�c sen�ment and ins�tu�onal infrastructure.
Yan Liu explores the ways physicians, religious figures, court officials, and laypersons used poisons to both relieve acute illnesses and enhance life in China’s forma�ve era of pharmacy (200–800 CE).
Illegal Immigrants/ Model Minorities
Mao's Bestiary
Medicinal Animals and Modern China Liz P. Y. Chee
The Cold War of Chinese American Narrative Heidi Kim
Experimental Futures May 2021 288pp 9 illus. 9781478014041 £20.99/ $26.95 PB
Asian American History & Cultu March 2021 260pp 9781439919026 £26.99/ $34.95 PB 9781439919019 £88.00/ $110.50 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Liz P. Y. Chee complicates understandings of Chinese medicine as �meless and unchanging by historicizing the expansion of animal-based medicines in the social and poli�cal environment of early Communist China.
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Heidi Kim inves�gates how Chinese American writers navigated a strategy to normalize and jus�fy the Chinese presence in the US during the Cold War era, a �me when fears of Communism ran high. Excludes Asia Pacific
Meritocracy and Its Discontents
Minor China
Method, Materialisms, and the Aesthetic Hentyle Yapp
Anxiety and the National College Entrance Exam in China Zachary M. Howlett
ANIMA: Cri�cal Race Studies Otherwise April 2021 288pp 38 illus. 9781478011552 £20.99/ $26.95 PB
April 2021 282pp 12 b&w hal�ones, 2 charts 9781501754463 £23.99/ $29.95 PB 9781501754432 £95.00/ $115.00 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Hentyle Yapp analyzes contemporary Chinese art as it circulates on the global art market to outline the limita�ons of the predominant narra�ves that currently frame understandings of non-Western art.
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Meritocracy and Its Discontents inves�gates the wider social, poli�cal, religious, and economic dimensions of the Gaokao, China's na�onal college entrance exam, as well as the complica�ons that arise from its existence. 3
On the Horizon of World Literature
Policing China
Street-Level Cops in the Shadow of Protest Suzanne E. Scoggins
Forms of Modernity in Romantic England and Republican China Emily Sun
Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Ins�tute, Columbia University June 2021 198pp 7 b&w hal�ones, 1 b&w line drawing, 2 charts 9781501755583 £33.00/ $39.95 HB
Lit Z April 2021 176pp 9780823294794 £22.99/ $30.00 PB 9780823294787 £84.00/ $105.00 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
Scoggins delves into the paradox of China's selfprojec�on of a strong security state while having a weak police bureaucracy. Scoggins finds that the central government and the Ministry of Public Security have priori�zed "stability maintenance" (weiwen) to the detriment of nearly every aspect of policing.
Comparing literary texts from two asynchronous periods of incipient literary modernity— Roman�c England and Republican China—Emily Sun offers a model of a deprovincialized close reading loosened from confinement within monocultural hermeneu�c circles.
Reinventing Licentiousness
Spring and Autumn Annals of Wu and Yue
Pornography and Modern China Y. Yvon Wang
An Annotated Translation of Wu Yue Chunqiu Jianjun He
March 2021 306pp 14 b&w hal�ones 9781501752971 £37.00/ $45.00 HB
April 2021 294pp 9781501754340 £45.00/ $55.00 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Reinven�ng Licen�ousness navigates an overlooked history of representa�on during the transi�on from the Qing Empire to the Chinese Republic—a �me when older, hierarchical no�ons of licen�ousness were overlaid by a new, pornographic regime.
Spring and Autumn Annals of Wu and Yue is the first complete English transla�on of Wu Yue Chunqiu, a chronicle of two neighboring states during China's Spring and Autumn period. This collec�on of poli�cal history, philosophy, and fic�onal accounts depicts the rise and fall of Wu and Yue and the rivalry between them, the inspira�on for centuries of poetry, vernacular fic�on, and drama.
The Empress in the Pepper Chamber
The End of the Village Planning the Urbanization of Rural China Nick R. Smith
Zhao Feiyan in History and Fiction Olivia Milburn
Globaliza�on and Community June 2021 336pp 45 b&w illus. 9781517910921 £20.99/ $27.00 PB 9781517910914 £89.00/ $108.00 HB
May 2021 264pp 1 table 9780295748757 £22.99/ $30.00 PB 9780295748740 £76.00/ $95.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
Since the 21st century, China has expanded its urbaniza�on processes in an effort to reduce the inequali�es between urban and rural areas. Centered on the region of Chongqing, which serves as an experimental site for the country’s new urban development policies, Smith analyzes the radical expansion of urbaniza�on.
This study of Empress Zhao Feiyan and her literary legacy includes a transla�on of The Scandalous Tale of Zhao Feiyan, a Tang dynasty ero�c novella. Olivia Milburn reconstructs the evolu�on of Zhao Feiyan’s story and illuminates the broader context of palace life for women.
Excludes Japan & ANZ
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The Future Conditional
The Language of Political Incorporation
Building an English-Speaking Society in Northeast China Eric S. Henry
Chinese Migrants in Europe Amy Liu
March 2021 pp 9781439920138 £26.99/ $34.95 PB 9781439920121 £88.00/ $110.50 HB
May 2021 222pp 8 b&w hal�ones, 2 maps 9781501755163 £21.99/ $27.95 PB 9781501754906 £95.00/ $115.00 HB
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS
In this groundbreaking study, Amy Liu focuses on Chinese migrants in Central-Eastern Europe and their varying levels of poli�cal incorpora�on in the local community.
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Eric S. Henry brings twelve-years of exper�se and research to offer a nuanced discussion of the globaliza�on of the English language and the widespread effects it has had on Shenyang, the capital and largest city of China's northeast Liaoning Province.
Excludes Asia Pacific
The Peking Gazette in Late Imperial China
The Pitfalls of Piety for Married Women
May 2021 280pp 11 b&w illus., 2 maps 9780295748795 £22.99/ $30.00 PB 9780295748788 £76.00/ $95.00 HB
August 2021 228pp 9781501758362 £45.00/ $55.00 HB
State News and Political Authority Emily Mokros
Two Precious Scrolls of the Ming Dynasty Edited and translated by Wilt L. Idema CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
Shows how problema�c the prac�ce of Buddhist piety could be in Late Imperial China. Two thema�cally related "precious scrolls" (baojuan) from the Ming dynasty, The Precious Scroll on the Red Gauze and The Precious Scroll of the Handkerchief, illustrate the difficul�es faced by women whose religious devo�on conflicted with the demands of marriage and motherhood.
This comprehensive history of the Peking Gaze�e frames the newspaper as the cornerstone of a Qing informa�on policy that, paradoxically, prized both transparency and secrecy. Illuminates the rela�onship between media, informa�on, and state power.
The Social Life of Inkstones
The Stone and the Wireless
February 2021 336pp 78 color illus., 27 b&w illus., 3 maps, 10 tables 9780295749174 £26.99/ $35.00 NIP
Sign, Storage, Transmission June 2021 312pp 10 illus. 9781478011477 £21.99/ $27.95 PB 9781478010463 £87.00/ $104.95 HB
Artisans and Scholars in Early Qing China Dorothy Ko
Mediating China, 1861–1906 Shaoling Ma
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
The inkstone has been entangled with elite masculinity and the values of wen (culture, literature, civility) in China, Korea, and Japan for more than a millennium. Dorothy Ko explores the hidden history and cultural significance of the inkstone and puts the stonecu�ers and ar�sans on center stage.
Shaoling Ma examines late Qing China's poli�cal upheavals and modernizing energies through the problem of the dynamics between new media technologies such as the telegraph the discursive representa�ons of them.
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The Wa of Myanmar and China's Quest for Global Dominance
Timber and Forestry in Qing China Sustaining the Market Meng Zhang Series edited by K. Sivaramakrishnan Foreword by K. Sivaramakrishnan
Bertil Lintner
March 2021 264pp 9786162151705 £20.99/ $27.95 PB
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
Culture, Place, and Nature June 2021 264pp 4 b&w illus., 5 charts, 3 maps, 8 tables 9780295748870 £22.99/ $30.00 PB 9780295748863 £76.00/ $95.00 HB
The United Wa State Army (UWSA) is a nonstate armed group that administers an autonomous zone in the Wa Hills of eastern Myanmar. Ber�l Lintner traces the history of the region and the struggles of its people, providing a rare look at the UWSA.
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
Standard environmental histories have o�en depicted the Qing period (1644–1912) as an era of reckless deforesta�on. This comprehensive new study shows that the reality was more complex.
Eight Dogs, or "Hakkenden"
Japan
Part One—An Ill-Considered Jest Kyokutei Bakin Translated by Glynne Walley
A Medicated Empire
The Pharmaceutical Industry and Modern Japan Timothy M. Yang
August 2021 356pp 72 b&w hal�ones, 10 color hal�ones 9781501758935 £25.99/ $32.95 PB 9781501755170 £95.00/ $115.00 HB
Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Ins�tute, Columbia University June 2021 366pp 25 b&w hal�ones, 3 b&w line drawings 9781501756245 £45.00/ $55.00 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Eight Dogs is the culmina�on of centuries of premodern Japanese tale-telling, combining aspects of historical romance, fantasy, Tokugawa-era popular fic�on, and Chinese vernacular stories. Glynne Walley's lively transla�on conveys the wi�y and colorful prose of the original, producing a faithful and entertaining edi�on of this important literary classic.
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Timothy M. Yang explores the history of Japan's pharmaceu�cal industry in the early twen�eth century through a close account of Hoshi Pharmaceu�cals, one of East Asia's most influen�al drug companies from the late 1910s through the early 1950s.
From Country to Nation
Mobilizing Japanese Youth
Ethnographic Studies, Kokugaku, and Spirits in NineteenthCentury Japan Gideon Fujiwara
The Cold War and the Making of the Sixties Generation Christopher Gerteis Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Ins�tute, Columbia University July 2021 216pp 15 b&w hal�ones, 1 b&w line drawing, 13 charts 9781501756313 £33.00/ $39.95 HB
May 2021 292pp 24 b&w hal�ones, 3 maps, 4 color plates 9781501753930 £45.00/ $55.00 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
From Country to Na�on tracks the emergence of the modern Japanese na�on in the nineteenth century through the history of some of its local aspirants. It explores how kokugaku (Japan studies) scholars envisioned their place within Japan and the globe, while living in a castle town and domain far north of the poli�cal capital.
In Mobilizing Japanese Youth, Christopher Gerteis examines how non-state ins�tu�ons in Japan—le�wing radicals and right-wing ac�vists—a�empted to mold the poli�cal consciousness of the na�on's first postwar genera�on, which by the late 1960s were the demographic majority of vo�ng-age adults. 6
Resurrecting Nagasaki
Korea
Reconstruction and the Formation of Atomic Narratives Chad R. Diehl
Contemporary Korean Shamanism
Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Ins�tute, Columbia University March 2021 234pp 15 b&w hal�ones 9781501755255 £18.99/ $23.95 NIP
From Ritual to Digital Liora Sarfati
August 2021 240pp 15 b&w illus. 9780253057174 £21.99/ $28.00 PB 9780253057167 £62.00/ $75.00 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
In Resurrec�ng Nagasaki, Chad R. Diehl explores the genesis of narra�ves surrounding the atomic bombing of August 9, 1945, by following the individuals and groups who contributed to the shaping of Nagasaki City's postwar iden�ty.
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Applying ethnography and folklore research, Contemporary Korean Shamanism maps the shi� in percep�on about shamanism—from a sign of a backward, undeveloped Korea to a valuable, indigenous cultural asset.
Guns, Guerillas, and the Great Leader
Pop City
Cold War Interna�onal History Project April 2021 232pp 9781503627635 £21.99/ $28.00 PB 9781503613294 £74.00/ $90.00 HB
March 2021 252pp 4 b&w hal�ones 9781501755538 £15.99/ $19.95 NIP
Korean Popular Culture and the Selling of Place Youjeong Oh
North Korea and the Third World Benjamin R. Young
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pop City examines the use of Korean television dramas and Kpop music to promote urban and rural places in South Korea. Building on the phenomenon of Korean pop culture, Youjeong Oh argues that pop culture– featured place selling mediates two separate domains: poli�cal decentraliza�on and the globaliza�on of Korean popular culture.
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
North Korea held significant influence among Third World na�ons during the Cold War era. This book examines the intersec�on of North Korea's domes�c and foreign policies and the ways in which North Korea's developmental model appealed to the decolonizing world.
Stitching the 24-Hour City
Women in the Sky
Gender and Labor in the Making of Modern Korea Hwasook Nam
Life, Labor, and the Problem of Speed in Seoul Seo Young Park
August 2021 294pp 4 b&w hal�ones, 1 map 9781501758263 £40.00/ $47.95 HB
June 2021 186pp 11 b&w hal�ones, 3 maps 9781501756115 £20.99/ $26.95 PB 9781501754265 £95.00/ $115.00 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Women in the Sky examines Korean women factory workers' century-long ac�vism, from the 1920s to the present, with a focus on gender poli�cs both in the labor movement and in the larger society. It highlights several key moments in colonial and postcolonial Korean history when factory women commanded the a�en�on of the larger society.
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
S�tching the 24-Hour City reveals the intense speed of garment produc�on and everyday life in Dongdaemun, a lively market in Seoul, South Korea. Once the site of uprisings against oppressive working condi�ons in the 1970s and 80s, Dongdaemun has now become iconic for its crea�ve economy, nightlife, and fast-fashion factories and shopping plazas. 7
Gods in the Time of Democracy
South Asia
At Risk
Kajri Jain
Indian Sexual Politics and the Global AIDS Crisis Gowri Vijayakumar
January 2021 360pp 124 illus., incl. 14 in color 9781478011392 £23.99/ $29.95 PB 9781478010340 £91.00/ $109.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Globaliza�on in Everyday Life July 2021 261pp 9781503628052 £20.99/ $26.00 PB 9781503627529 £70.00/ $85.00 HB
Kajri Jain examines how the monumental statues erected in India following its economic reforms in the 1990s became a favored religious and poli�cal form with which to assert cultural, poli�cal, religious, and caste power.
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
A fine-grained account of the poli�cal struggles at the heart of the Indian AIDS response, revealing how the crisis created a qualified opportunity for sex-worker and LGBTIQ ac�vists to renego�ate ci�zenship and make demands on the state.
Jungle Passports
Pious Peripheries
Fences, Mobility, and Citizenship at the Northeast IndiaBangladesh Border Malini Sur
Runaway Women in Post-Taliban Afghanistan Sonia Ahsan-Tirmizi May 2021 216pp 9781503614710 £20.99/ $26.00 PB 9781503614703 £70.00/ $85.00 HB
The Ethnography of Poli�cal Violence June 2021 248pp 23 illus 9780812252798 £62.00/ $75.00 HB
PRESS
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
The Taliban made piety a business of the state, and thereby intervened in the daily lives and social interac�ons of Afghan women. Pious Peripheries examines women's resistance through groundbreaking fieldwork at a women's shelter in Kabul, home to runaway wives, daughters, mothers, and sisters of the Taliban.
In Jungle Passports Malini Sur follows the struggles of the inhabitants of what are now the borderlands of Northeast India and Bangladesh and their efforts to secure shi�ing land, gain access to rice harvests, and smuggle the ca�le and garments upon which their livelihoods depend.
Protestant Textuality and the Tamil Modern
Reproductive Politics and the Making of Modern India
Political Oratory and the Social Imaginary in South Asia Bernard Bate
Mytheli Sreenivas
June 2021 296pp 9 b&w illus. 9780295748849 £22.99/ $30.00 PB 9780295748832 £76.00/ $95.00 HB
Edited by E. Annamalai, Francis Cody, Malarvizhi Jayanth and Constantine Nakassis
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
South Asia in Mo�on
Mytheli Sreenivas demonstrates how colonial administrators, postcolonial development experts, na�onalists, eugenicists, feminists, and family planners all aimed to reform reproduc�on to transform both individual bodies and the body poli�c—o�en with devasta�ng implica�ons.
August 2021 280pp 9781503628656 £19.99/ $25.00 PB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Examines this phenomenon in Tamil-speaking South India over the last three centuries, char�ng the development of poli�cal oratory and its influence on society. 8
Special Treatment
Southeast Asia
Student Doctors at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences Anna Ruddock
Architecture from the Indonesian Past
South Asia in Mo�on July 2021 264pp 9781503628250 £21.99/ $28.00 PB 9781503614925 £74.00/ $90.00 HB
Life and Work of FermontCuypers, 1927-1957 Obbe H. Norbruis
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
February 2021 296pp 200 color illus., 200 b&w illus. 9789460220159 £55.00/ $69.50 HB
This first ethnography of the elite public teaching hospital AIIMS (the All India Ins�tute of Medical Sciences) asks what is lost when medicine is used not as a social equalizer, but as a means to cul�vate and maintain pres�ge.
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
Obbe H. Norbruis tells the story of a celebrated Dutch architecture firm, its unique buildings, and their designers.
Birds' Nests: Business and Ethnicity in Southeast Asia
Cold War Reckonings
Authoritarianism and the Genres of Decolonization Jini Kim Watson
An Anthropological Study of Business Kasem Jandam
August 2021 272pp 12 9780823294831 £22.99/ $30.00 PB 9780823294824 £84.00/ $105.00 HB
March 2021 400pp 20 color illus., 205 b&w illus. 9786162151675 £36.00/ $45.00 PB
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
Cold War Reckonings shows how the Cold War shaped culture and poli�cal power in the decolonizing world and gave rise, paradoxically, to authoritarian regimes of the so-called free world.
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
Southeast Asia is renowned for the bird’s nest trade. Kasem Jandam outlines key aspects of this market including business rela�onships among ethnic groups.
Empire's Mistress, Starring Isabel Rosario Cooper
Experiments in Skin
February 2021 232pp 41 illus. 9781478014003 £20.99/ $25.95 PB 9781478011866 £83.00/ $99.95 HB
March 2021 280pp 10 illus. 9781478011774 £20.99/ $25.95 PB 9781478010661 £83.00/ $99.95 HB
Race and Beauty in the Shadows of Vietnam Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu
Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu examines the legacies of the Vietnam War on contemporary ideas about race and beauty, showing how US war�me efforts to alleviate the environmental and chemical risks to soldiers' skin has impacted how contemporary Vietnamese women use pharmaceu�cal cosme�cs to repair the damage from the war's lingering toxicity.
Vernade�e Vicuña Gonzalez follows the life of Filipina vaudeville and film actress Isabel Rosario Cooper, who was the mistress of General Douglas MacArthur to explore the contours of empire as experienced on the scale of personal rela�onships.
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Experts in Action
Globalization, Poverty, and Income Inequality
Transnational Hong Kong–Style Stunt Work and Performance Lauren Steimer
Insights from Indonesia Edited by Richard Barichello, Arianto A. Patunru & Richard Schwindt
February 2021 240pp 49 illus. 9781478011705 £20.99/ $25.95 PB 9781478010579 £83.00/ $99.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Asia Pacific Legal Culture and Globaliza�on June 2021 242pp 42 charts/diagrams, 29 tables 9780774865616 £59.00/ $89.95 HB
Lauren Steimer examines how Hong Konginfluenced ac�on movie aesthe�cs and stunt techniques have been taken up, imitated, and reinvented in other loca�ons and produc�on contexts around the globe.
UBC PRESS
Examines the rela�onship between globaliza�on and trade liberaliza�on, and poverty and income inequality, using Indonesia as a case study. Excludes SE Asia, Indian sc & ANZ
History on the Run
Language Ungoverned
February 2021 272pp 9 illus. 9781478011316 £20.99/ $26.95 PB
August 2021 264pp 14 b&w hal�ones, 1 map 9781501758232 £24.99/ $31.95 PB 9781501758225 £95.00/ $115.00 HB
Secrecy, Fugitivity, and Hmong Refugee Epistemologies Ma Vang
Indonesia's Chinese Print Entrepreneurs, 1911–1949 Tom G. Hoogervorst
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Ma Vang examines the experiences of Hmong refugees who migrated to the United States following the secret war in Laos (1961–1975) to theorize “history on the run” as a framework for understanding refugee histories, in par�cular those of the Hmong.
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
By exploring a rich array of Malay texts from novels and newspapers to poems and plays, Tom Hoogervorst's Language Ungoverned examines how the Malay of the Chinese-Indonesian community defied linguis�c and poli�cal governance under Dutch colonial rule, offering a fresh perspec�ve on the subversive role of language in colonial power rela�ons.
Minor Transpacific
Performing Power
Asian America July 2021 224pp 9781503628007 £23.99/ $30.00 PB 9781503611764 £74.00/ $90.00 HB
August 2021 228pp 9 b&w hal�ones, 1 map 9781501758584 £15.99/ $19.95 PB 9781501758577 $95.00/ $115.00 HB
Triangulating American, Japanese, and Korean Fictions David S. Roh
Cultural Hegemony, Identity, and Resistance in Colonial Indonesia Arnout van der Meer
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Performing Power illuminates how colonial dominance in Indonesia was legi�mized, maintained, nego�ated, and contested through the everyday staging and public performance of power between the colonizer and colonized.
Minor Transpacific unveils new connec�ons between Korean Japanese (Zainichi) and Korean American literatures. Working in Japanese and English, David S. Roh builds a theore�cal framework for ar�cula�ng moments of contact between minority literatures in a third na�onal space. 10
Re-visualizing Slavery
Religious Tourism in Northern Thailand
Visual Sources about Slavery in Asia Edited by Nancy Jouwe, Wim Manuhutu, Matthias Van Rossum & Merve Tosun
Encounters with Buddhist Monks Brooke Schedneck
June 2021 256pp 3 b&w illus. 9780295748924 £22.99/ $30.00 PB 9780295748917 £76.00/ $95.00 HB
May 2021 200pp 23 b&w illus., 17 color illus. 9789460220111 £31.00/ $39.50 PB
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
Encounters between foreign visitors and Buddhist monks combine economic mo�ves, missionary zeal, and opportuni�es for cultural exchange. A revealling study of how Thai monks perceive other religions and cultures and how they represent their own religion when interac�ng with tourists.
Historians, heritage specialists, and cultural scien�sts shed new light on the history of slavery in Asia by centering visual sources—specifically, Dutch pain�ngs, watercolors and drawings from the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries.
Return Engagements
Sound Alignments
May 2021 360pp 27 illus., incl. 16 page color insert 9781478010791 £22.99/ $28.95 PB 9781478010388 £87.00/ $104.95 HB
June 2021 312pp 15 illus. 9781478011798 £21.99/ $27.95 PB 9781478010678 £87.00/ $104.95 HB
Contemporary Art's Traumas of Modernity and History in Sài Gòn and Phnom Penh Viet Lê
Popular Music in Asia's Cold Wars Edited by Michael K. Bourdaghs, Paola Iovene & Kaley Mason
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Việt Lê examines contemporary art in Cambodia and Việt Nam to trace the entwinement of militariza�on, trauma, diaspora, and modernity in Southeast Asian art.
The contributors to Sound Alignments explore the myriad forms of popular music in Asia during the Cold War, showing how it took on new meanings and significance as it traveled across the region and forged and challenged alliances, revolu�ons, and countercultures.
Unwritten Rule
Woman between Two Kingdoms
State-Making through Land Reform in Cambodia Alice Beban
Dara Rasami and the Making of Modern Thailand Leslie Castro-Woodhouse
Cornell Series on Land: New Perspec�ves on Territory, Development, and Environment April 2021 258pp 9 b&w hal�ones, 3 maps, 3 graphs 9781501754043 £23.99/ $29.95 PB 9781501753626 £95.00/ $115.00 HB
May 2021 198pp 8 b&w hal�ones, 1 b&w line drawing 9781501755507 £15.99/ $19.95 PB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Woman Between Two Kingdoms explores the story of Dara Rasami, one of 153 wives of King Chulalongkorn of Siam in Thailand during the late nineteenth and early twen�eth centuries. Born in a kingdom near Siam called Lan Na, Dara served as both hostage and diplomat for her family and na�on.
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
In 2012, Cambodia—an epicenter of violent land grabbing—announced a bold new ini�a�ve to develop land redistribu�on efforts inside agribusiness concessions. Alice Beban's Unwri�en Rule focuses on this land reform to understand the larger nature of democracy in Cambodia.
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