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A Primer for Teaching Indian Ocean World History
Ten Design Principles
Edward A. Alpers & Thomas
F. McDow
Design Principles for Teaching History
May 2024 200pp
9781478030294 £21.99 / $25.95 PB
9781478026068 £90.00 / $99.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
A guide for college and high school teachers who are teaching Indian Ocean histories for the first time or for experienced teachers who want to reinvigorate their courses.
Anime's Knowledge Cultures
Geek, Otaku, Zhai
Jinying Li
March 2024 344pp 57 b&w illus.
9781517916282 £25.99 / $30.00 PB
9781517916275 £108.00 / $120.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Li analyzes anime culture beyond the national and subcultural frameworks of Japan or Japanese otaku, instead theorizing anime’s transnational, transmedial network as the epitome of the postindustrial knowledge culture of global geekdom. By investigating the the anime boom and global geekdom, Li reshapes how we understand anime culture in relation to changing social and technological environments.
Atmospheric Violence Disaster and Repair in Kashmir
Omer Aijazi
Contemporary Ethnography
June 2024 296pp 30 b&w illus.
9781512823608 £27.99 / $32.50 PB
9781512823615 £108.00 / $120.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Atmospheric Violence grapples with the afterlife of environmental disasters and armed conflict. 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.
Across the Green Sea
Histories from the Western Indian Ocean, 1440-1640
Sanjay Subrahmanyam
Connected Histories of the Middle East and the Global South
March 2024 288pp 10 b&w illus., 5 maps
9781477328774 £45.00 / $50.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
Using a variety of documents in multiple languages, Across the Green Sea looks at the history of the ocean from a variety of shifting viewpoints: western India; the Red Sea and Mecca; and Kerala. Subrahmanyam examines how several cities grew and changed, when various powers interacted until famines and other disturbances upended the region in the seventeenth century.
Archipelagic Memory and Literatures of the Indian Ocean World
Edited by Ananya Jahanara Kabir & Luca Raimondi
May 2024 75pp 2 illus.
9781478027959 £19.99 / $23.00 PB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Topics covered include the concept of archipelagic memory, and literary critical scholarship on the Indian Ocean world; remembering oceanic pasts in the present; and ecocritical and feminist approaches to Indian Ocean literatures.
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.
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China's Camel Country
Livestock and Nation-Building at a Pastoral Frontier
Thomas White
Foreword and series edited by Paul S. Sutter & K. Sivaramakrishnan
June 2024 248pp 11 b&w illus., 2 maps
9780295752433 £27.99 / $32.00 PB
9780295752426 £94.00 / $105.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
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.
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.
Chinese Workers of the World
Colonialism, Chinese Labor, and the Yunnan–Indochina Railway
Selda Altan
June 2024 224pp
9781503638235 £58.00 / $65.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Explores Chinese labor under colonial regimes within China thorough examination of the Yunnan-Indochina Railway. Altan argues that long before the Chinese Communist Party defined Chinese workers as the vanguard of a revolutionary movement in the 1920s, the modern figure of the Chinese worker was born in the crosscurrents of empire and nation in the latenineteenth century.
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Circular Ecologies
Environmentalism and Waste Politics in Urban China
Amy Zhang
July 2024 224pp
9781503639294 £23.99 / $28.00 PB
9781503637962 £99.00 / $110.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Zhang argues that in post-reform China, waste—the material vestige of decades of growth and increasing consumption—is a systemic irritant that troubles China's technocratic governance. Waste provoked an unlikely political coalition of urban communities that came to constitute a nascent, bottom-up environmental politics, and offers a model for conceptualizing ecological action under authoritarian conditions.
Cultivating Livability
Food, Class, and the Urban Future in Bengaluru
Camille Frazier
May 2024 224pp 18 b&w illus.
9781517914998 £23.99 / $28.00 PB
9781517914981 £100.00 / $112.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
In recent years, the concept of “livability” has captured the global imagination, influencing discussions about the implications of climate change and what really makes for a livable life? Anthropologist Camille Frazier probes the meaning of “livability” in Bengaluru through ethnographic work among producers and consumers, and professionals.
Denationalizing Identities
The Politics of Performance in the Chinese Diaspora
Wah Guan Lim
July 2024 270pp 5 b&w halftones
9781501776717
£27.99 / $32.95 PB
9781501774393 £112.00 / $125.00 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Explores the relationship between performance and ideology in the global Sinosphere. Lim's study of four important diasporic director-playwrights—Gao Xingjian, Stan Lai Sheng-chuan, Danny Yung Ning Tsun, and Kuo Pao Kun—shows the impact of theater on ideas of "Chineseness" across China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore.
Coerced Liberation
Muslim Women in Soviet Tajikistan
Zamira Abman
May 2024 232pp
9781487553180 £29.99 / $37.50 PB UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
This book offers unique insights into the shifts in behaviour and attitudes surrounding the Soviet emancipation of women in the Muslim periphery, Tajikistan. From 1st April 2024
Dark Pasts
Changing the State's Story in Turkey and Japan
Jennifer M. Dixon
March 2024 276pp 3 b&w line drawings, 1 chart
9781501776052 £29.99 / $34.95 NIP CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
In recent decades, states have been called on to acknowledge and apologize for historic wrongs. Some have apologized, while others have denied past crimes. Dixon unravels the complex and fraught processes through which state narratives of past atrocities are constructed, contested, and defended, focusing on Turkey's narrative of the Armenian Genocide and Japan's narrative of the Nanjing Massacre.
Dictatorship on Trial
Coups and the Future of Justice in Thailand
Tyrell Haberkorn
June 2024 248pp
9781503639409 £25.99 / $30.00 PB
9781503635463 £108.00 / $120.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
In 2014, the NCPO carried out Thailand's 13th coup since the country's transformation from absolute to constitutional monarchy in 1932; justice—long tenuous in Thailand—disappeared entirely. Haberkorn traces the legal, social, and political impacts of authoritarianism, and foregrounds court decisions as both a history of repression and a site in which to imagine future justice.
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Eco-Writing in an Age of (Un)Natural Crises
Edited by Ban Wang & Haomin Gong
March 2024 320pp 5 illus.
9781478027973 £13.99 / $16.00 PB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Topics covered include people’s treatment of nature in natural disasters, ecocritical understanding of Chinese science fiction, ethnicity in Chinese ecocriticism, religion and the practice of environmental preservation, and the poetics of nature and crisis.
Fire Dancers in Thailand's Tourism Industry
Art, Affect, and Labor
Tiffany Rae Pollock
May 2024 186pp 13 b&w halftones
9781501774935 £23.99 / $27.95 PB
9781501774928 £112.00 / $125.00 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Explores the evolution of fire dancing from informal community jam sessions into the iconic, touristoriented performances at beach parties and bars, through a close consideration of the role of affect in the lives of fire dancers in the ever-changing scene. Pollock examines how fire artists reimagine their labor, lives, and communities in Thailand's tourism industry.
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.
Fir and Empire
The Transformation of Forests in Early Modern China
Ian M. Miller
Foreword and series edited by Paul S. Sutter
March 2024 296pp 9 b&w illus., 4 maps, 5 tables
9780295752877 £25.99 / $32.00 NIP
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
Uses the emergence of anthropogenic forests in south China to rethink both temporal and spatial frameworks for Chinese history and the nature of Chinese empire. Rectifies the omission of China’s forestry models and suggests that in some ways, China’s forest system may have worked better than the more familiar European institutions.
Following Christ and Confucius
Wang Mingdao and Chinese Christianity
Christopher Payk
Liu Institute Series in Chinese Christianities
March 2024 288pp
9780268208240 £58.00 / $65.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
The first full-length critical biography and theological analysis of Wang Mingdao, the spiritual father of China’s House Church Movement. One of the most influential figures in Chinese Christianity, church leader and evangelist Wang Mingdao rejected state control of religion in favor of the religious freedom of the unregistered House Churches.
From Forest Farm to Sawmill
Stories of Labor, Gender, and the Chinese State
Shuxuan Zhou
May 2024 184pp 6 b&w illus., 2 maps
9780295752679 £27.99 / $32.00 PB
9780295752662 £94.00 / $105.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
Socialist China’s state forestry and timber industries employed men as state workers and women as family dependents and collective workers who, beginning in the 1950s, turned rural land into urban-industrial space. In considering how sawmill and forest farmworkers creatively reconfigured state projects and challenged authority, this book opens a conversation among the fields of gender studies, labor studies, and environmental studies.
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Fuzzy Traumas
Animals and Errors in Contemporary Japanese Literature
Tyran Grillo
July 2024 168pp
9781501775994 £22.99 / $26.95 PB
9781501775987 £112.00 / $125.00 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.
Global Health Security in China, Japan, and India
Assessing Sustainable Development Goals
Edited by Lesley A. Jacobs, Yoshitaka Wada & Ilan Vertinsky
Asia Pacific Legal Culture and Globalization
February 2024 296pp 18 charts, 28 tables
9780774867719 £34.00 / $37.95 PB
UBC 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 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Liminal Minorities
Religious Difference and Mass Violence in Muslim Societies
Günes Murat Tezcür
Religion and Conflict
April 2024 270pp 14 b&w halftones, 1 b&w line drawing, 4 charts
9781501774683 £27.99 / $31.95 PB
9781501774676 £112.00 / $125.00 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Addresses the question of why some religious minorities provoke the ire of majoritarian groups and become targets of organized violence, even though they lack significant power and pose no political threat. Analyzing a variety of original sources, Tezcür reveals how religious stigmatization and political resentment motivate ordinary people to participate in mass atrocities.
Games and Play in Chinese and Sinophone Cultures
Edited by Li Guo, Douglas Eyman & 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.
Good Wife, Wise Mother
Educating Han Taiwanese Girls under Japanese Rule
Fang Yu Hu
Series edited by James Lin, William Lavely & Madeleine Yue Dong
June 2024 232pp 2 tables, 13 b&w illus.
9780295752648 £27.99 / $32.00 PB
9780295752631 £94.00 / $105.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
In Good Wife, Wise Mother, female education and citizenship serve as a lens through which to examine Taiwan’s uniqueness as a colonial crossroads between Chinese and Japanese ideas and practices.
Losing Hearts and Minds
Race, War, and Empire in Singapore and Malaya, 1915–1960
Kate Imy
Stanford British Histories
July 2024 344pp
9781503639850 £25.99 / $30.00 PB
9781503634626 £108.00 / $120.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Historian Kate Imy tells the story of how Singapore and Malaya became sites of some of the most impactful military and anti-colonial conflicts of the twentieth century, where British military leaders repeatedly tried—but largely failed—to win the "hearts and minds" of colonial subjects.
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Made in Asia/America
Why Video Games Were Never (Really) about Us
Edited by Christopher B. Patterson & Tara Fickle
Power Play: Games, Politics, Culture
April 2024 384pp 29 illus.
9781478030263 £26.99 / $30.95 PB
9781478026037 £103.00 / $114.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Explores the key role video games play within the race-makings of Asia/America. Each of its 14 critical essays on games, ranging from Death Stranding to Animal Crossing, and five roundtables with twenty Asian/American game makers, examine the historical entanglements of games, Asia, and America, and reveal the ways games offer new modes of imagining imperial violence, racial difference, and coalition.
New Generation Korean Beginner Level, Second Edition
Mihyon Jeon, Kyoungrok
Ko, Daehee Kim, Yujeong
Choi & Ahrong Lee
September 2023 184pp
9781487557072 £42.00 / $55.50 PB
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
Designed by instructors with long-standing experience in teaching Korean, this textbook covers the essential content for Korean language learning.
From 1st April 2024
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 £98.00 / $109.00 HB
UBC 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.
Mumbai on Two Wheels
Cycling, Urban Space, and Sustainable Mobility
Jonathan Shapiro Anjaria
Series Edited by Padma Kaimal, K. Sivaramakrishnan & Anand A. Yang
June 2024 240pp 17 b&w illus.
9780295752693 £27.99 / $32.00 PB
9780295752709 £94.00 / $105.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
Mumbai is not commonly seen as a bike-friendly city because of its dense traffic and the absence of bicycle lanes. Yet the city supports rapidly expanding and eclectic bicycle communities. Exploring how people bike and what biking means in the city, Jonathan Shapiro Anjaria challenges assumptions that underlie sustainable transportation planning.
New Generation Korean Workbook
Beginner Level, Second Edition
Mihyon Jeon, Kyoungrok
Ko, Daehee Kim, Yujeong
Choi & Ahrong Lee
September 2023 178pp
9781487557041 £20.99 / $27.50 PB
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
Designed by instructors with long-standing experience in teaching Korean, this workbook helps students acquire and practice their Korean language skills.
From 1st April 2024
One and All
The Logic of Chinese Sovereignty Laikwan Pang
April 2024 264pp
9781503638815 £23.99 / $28.00 PB
9781503638228 £99.00 / $110.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Laikwan analyzes the historical roots of Chinese sovereignty by surveying the four different political structures of modern China—imperial, republican, socialist, and post-socialist—and the dramatic ruptures between them. With the possibility of a new Cold War looming large and globalization disintegrating, Pang provides a timely reevaluation of the logic of sovereignty in China as power, discourse, and a basis for governance.
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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.
People's Diplomacy
How Americans and Chinese Transformed US-China Relations during the Cold War
Kazushi Minami
The United States in the World
March 2024 270pp 20 b&w halftones
9781501774157 £27.99 / $31.95 PB
9781501774140 £112.00 / $125.00 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Drawing on extensive research at two dozen archives in the US and China, People's Diplomacy redefines contemporary US-China relations as a creation of the American and Chinese people. Americans reimagined China as a country of opportunities, while Chinese reinterpreted the United States as an agent of modernization.
Perilous Wagers
Gambling, Dignity, and Day Laborers in Twenty-First-Century Tokyo
Klaus K. Y. Hammering
Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
August 2024 288pp 10 b&w halftones
9781501776427 £29.99 / $34.95 PB
9781501776410 £112.00 / $125.00 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Takes place in the squalor of Tokyo's old day-laborer district, San'ya, where the men can be found eking out a living from occasional construction work and welfare handouts, permanently displaced from their hometowns. Explores how one group of day-laborers created dignity and sociality under abject conditions of life.
Past Progress
Time and Politics at the Borders of China, Russia, and Korea
Ed Pulford
May 2024 328pp
9781503639027 £27.99 / $32.00 PB
9781503638181 £116.00 / $130.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pulford traces how several of global history's most ambitiously totalizing progressive endeavors have ended in cataclysmic collapse here. From the Japanese empire which banished Qing, Tsarist, and Choson dynastic histories from the region, through Chinese, Soviet, and Korean socialisms, these borderlands have seen projections and disintegrations of forward-oriented ideas accumulate on a grand scale.
Performing Chinatown
Hollywood, Tourism, and the Making of a Chinese American Community
William Gow
Asian America
May 2024 272pp
9781503639089 £23.99 / $28.00 PB
9781503638099 £99.00 / $110.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
In 1938, China City opened near downtown Los Angeles which employed many Chinese Americans who performed as extras in the 1937 film The Good Earth. Gow argues that Chinese Americans in Los Angeles used these performances in Hollywood films and in Chinatown for tourists to shape widely held understandings of race and national belonging during this pivotal chapter in U.S. history.
Piracy and the Making of the Spanish Pacific World
Kristie Flannery
The Early Modern Americas
May 2024 320pp 9 b&w illus., 3 maps, 2 tables
9781512825749 £49.00 / $55.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
This book offers a new interpretation of Spanish colonial rule in the Philippine islands. Drawing on the rich archives of Spain’s Asian empire, it explains how piracy is the key to the longevity of Spain’s Asian empire. It also offers important insight into piracy’s impact on the trajectory of globalization and European imperial expansion in maritime Asia.
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Platinum Bible of the Public Toilet
Ten Queer Stories
Cui Zi'en
Edited
by
Petrus Liu & Lisa Rofel
Sinotheory
February 2024 312pp
9781478030065 £24.99 / $28.95 PB
9781478024880 £97.00 / $107.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Cui Zi’en—China’s most famous and controversial queer filmmaker, writer, scholar, and LGBTQ rights activist—presents ten queer coming-of-age stories of young boys and men as they explore their sexuality and desires in contemporary China.
Protestant Missionaries in China
Robert
Morrison and Early Sinology
Jonathan A. Seitz
Liu Institute Series in Chinese Christianities
March 2024 246pp 6 b&w illus.
9780268208042 £63.00 / $70.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
Evaluates the role of 19th-century British missionaries in the early development of the cross-cultural relationship between China and the English-speaking world. Seitz proposes that, despite the limitations imposed by the orientalism impulse of the era, Robert Morrison and his fellow missionaries were instrumental in creating a new map of cross-cultural engagement that would evolve, ultimately, into modern sinology.
Reclaiming Diasporic Identity
Transnational Continuity and National Fragmentation in the Hmong Diaspora
Sangmi Lee
Studies of World Migrations
February 2024 280pp 9 b&w photos
9780252087868 £25.99 / $30.00 PB
9780252045769 £99.00 / $110.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
The Hmong diaspora radiates from Southeast Asia to include far-flung nations like the United States, New Zealand, and Argentina. Sangmi Lee draws on the concept of diasporic identity to explore the contemporary experiences of Hmong people living in Vang Vieng, Laos, and Sacramento, California.
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.
Push the Button
Interactive Television and Collaborative Journalism in Japan
Elizabeth Rodwell
February 2024 200pp 15 illus.
9781478025764 £21.99 / $25.95 PB
9781478021025 £90.00 / $99.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Elizabeth Rodwell follows the conflict between mass media conglomerates and independent media creators as they worked to redefine what interactivity meant for Japan’s television industry.
Resistance as Negotiation
Making States and Tribes in the Margins of Modern India Uday Chandra
South Asia in Motion
June 2024 304pp
9781503638112 £67.00 / $75.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Chandra demonstrates how the modern Indian state and its tribal or adivasi subjects have made and remade each other throughout the colonial and postcolonial eras, historical processes of modern statemaking shaping and being shaped by myriad forms of resistance by tribal subjects.
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SARS Stories
Affect and Archive of the 2003 Pandemic
Belinda Kong
Sinotheory
February 2024 312pp
9781478025665 £24.99 / $28.95 PB
9781478020929 £97.00 / $107.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Belinda Kong examines the Chinese popular culture archive of the 2003 SARS pandemic, from music to television to humor, to show how Chinese people survived the pandemic through practices of community, care, and love rather than solely narrating pandemic life in terms of crisis.
Sex, Sexuality, and the Constitution
Enshrining the Right to Sexual Autonomy in Japan
Shigenori Matsui
February 2024 336pp
9780774868167 £38.00 / $41.95 NIP
UBC PRESS
Focusing primarily on Japan, Sex, Sexuality, and the Constitution critically reconsiders the relationship between individual freedoms and constitutionally entrenched protection of sexual autonomy. This rigorously detailed legal analysis argues for sexual autonomy as a constitutional right, a position that has potential implications for government policy not only in Japan but in all countries facing similar issues.
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.
Seeds of Control
Japan’s Empire of Forestry in Colonial Korea
David Fedman
Foreword and series edited by Paul S. Sutter
March 2024 320pp 14 b&w illus.
9780295752860 £25.99 / $30.00 NIP
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
Wide-ranging study that explores Japanese imperialism through the lens of forest conservation in colonial Korea—a project of environmental rule that outlived the empire itself. Holding up for scrutiny the notion of conservation, examines the roots of Japanese ideas about the Korean landscape, as well as the consequences and aftermath of Japanese approaches to Korea’s “greenification.”
Shooting for Change
Korean Photography after the War
Jung Joon Lee
March 2024 304pp 74 illus., including 30 in color
9781478025993 £24.99 / $28.95 PB
9781478019923 £97.00 / $107.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Tracing the history of Korean photography while considering what is disguised or lost by framing the history of photography through nationhood, Lee considers the role of photography in shaping memory of historical events, representing the ideal national family, and motivating social movements
The Xi Jinping Effect
Edited by Ashley Esarey & Rongbin Han
June 2024 304pp 3 charts, 7 tables
9780295752815 £27.99 / $32.00 PB
9780295752808 £94.00 / $105.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
The Xi Jinping Effect explores the relationship between the People's Republic of China's current "paramount leader"—arguably the most powerful figure since Mao Zedong (1893–1976)—and multiple areas of political and social transformation. Collectively, the book's chapters document the ways in which Xi's neo-totalitarianism has dismantled Reform Era legacies, while reconfiguring governance and rewiring China's global connections.
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.
Voices from Nepal
Uncovering Human Trafficking through Comics Journalism
Dan Archer
June 2024 240pp
9781487555016 £20.99 / $27.50 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
From graphic journalist Dan Archer comes an eye-opening investigation into human trafficking and a compelling account of how to tell stories in ways that educate and empower.
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Waiting for the Cool Moon
Anti-imperialist Struggles in the Heart of Japan's Empire
Wendy Matsumura
January 2024 288pp 18 illus.
9781478025696 £23.99 / $27.95 PB
9781478020950 £94.00 / $104.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Wendy Matsumura examines the history of the colonial projects and violence of interwar Japan while critiquing Japan studies’ participation of the erasure of this history in its study of the formation of the Japanese nation-state.
Youth, Education, and Islamic Radicalism
Religious Intolerance in Contemporary Indonesia
Mun'im Sirry
Contending Modernities
March 2024 336pp 41 tables
9780268207649 £29.99 / $35.00 PB
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
Indonesia is one of the most diverse countries in the world in terms of religion, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status, but also in the complexity of its education system. Youth, Education, and Islamic Radicalism examines the roots of religious intolerance among young Indonesians and explores the various ways in which educated youth navigate radical ideologies amid growing religious conservatism.
Abundance
Sexuality’s History
Anjali Arondekar
Theory Q
August 2023 176pp 14 illus.
9781478019909 £21.99 / $24.95 PB
9781478017240 £85.00 / $94.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Arondekar refuses the historical common sense that archival loss is foundational to a subaltern history of sexuality, by theorizing the radical abundance of sexuality through the archives of a caste-oppressed Devadasi collective in South Asia. Summoning abundance over loss upends settled genealogies of historical recuperation and representation and works against the imperative to fix sexuality within wider structures of vulnerability, damage, and precarity.
When Food Became Scarce
How Chinese Peasants Survived the Great Leap Forward Famine
Yixin Chen
August 2024 354pp 2 maps
9781501776380 £51.00 / $56.95 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
About the Great Leap Famine of 1958-61. Chen adopts a grassroots level analysis to explore an existential question concerning hundreds of millions of Chinese peasants: why did some peasants perish while others from the same villages facing the same collective problems of food scarcity survive?
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A Slow Reckoning The USSR, the Afghan Communists, and Islam
Vassily Klimentov
NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
February 2024 312pp 18 b&w halftones
9781501773808 £49.00 / $54.95 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
As Klimentov demonstrates, the Soviet and communist Afghan disregard for Islam was telling of the overall communist approach to reforming Afghanistan and helps explain the failure of their modernization project.
Birth of the Geopolitical Age Global Frontiers and the Making of Modern China
Shellen
Xiao Wu
September 2023 328pp
9781503636842 £27.99 / $32.00 PB
9781503636415 £85.00 / $95.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
From the 1850s until the mid-20th century, a period marked by global conflicts and anxiety about dwindling resources and closing opportunities after decades of expansion, the frontier became a mirror for historically and geographically specific hopes and fears. Xiao Wu demonstrates how global examples of frontier settlements refracted through China's unique history and informed the making of the modern Chinese state.
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China and the Internet
Using New Media for Development and Social Change
Song Shi
December 2023 354pp 36 b&w figures and 36 tables
9781978834736 £29.99 / $34.95 PB
9781978834743 £108.00 / $120.00 HB
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
China and the Internet analyzes how Chinese activists, NGOs, and government offices have used the Internet to fight rural malnutrition, the digital divide, the COVID-19 pandemic, and other urgent problems affecting millions of people. It presents five theoretically-informed case studies of how new media have been used in interventions for development and social change, including how activists battled against COVID-19.
Cold War Deceptions
The Asia Foundation and the CIA
David H. Price
February 2024 320pp 2 tables
9780295752242 £27.99 / $32.00 PB
9780295752235 £94.00 / $105.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
During the early Cold War, the Central Intelligence Agency created dozens of funding fronts to support work that aligned with CIA goals, from clandestine operations and research to liberal anticommunist programs. Cold War Deceptions provides a rare view into the bureaucratic functioning of a covert operation in which most employees did not know they were working for the CIA.
Islamic Ecumene
Comparing Muslim Societies
Edited by David S. Powers & Eric Tagliacozzo
November 2023 312pp 6 b&w halftones, 2 maps
9781501772399 £29.99 / $34.95 PB
9781501772382 £112.00 / $125.00 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
The essays address the ways in which Muslims from Morocco to Indonesia and from sub-Saharan Africa to the steppes of Uzbekistan are members of a broad cultural unit. Islamic Ecumene seeks to understand Islamic identity as a dynamic phenomenon that is reflected in the multivalent practices of the more than one billion people who identify as Muslims.
Chinese Marriages in Transition
From Patriarchy to New Familism
Xiaoling Shu & Jingjing Chen
Politics of Marriage and Gender: Global Issues in Local Contexts
September 2023 218pp 49 images
9781978804661 £24.99 / $28.95 PB
9781978804678 £108.00 / $120.00 HB
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Outdated models of Chinese gender roles, marriage, and family transitions portray these changes as streamlined and unidirectional, from traditional to modern, public to private, collective to individual.
Glorious Qing
Decorative Arts in China, 16441911
Claudia Brown
February 2024 226pp 277 color illus., 3 maps
9780295751917 £63.00 / $70.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
With over 250 color illustrations, this companion volume to Claudia Brown's Great Qing: Painting in China, 1644–1911 covers an array of superbly crafted objects of art produced during China's last dynasty. Art historian Brown probes the materials, motivations, technologies, and skills of Qing period artists, along with trends in art patronage and collecting.
Pakistan Desires
Queer Futures Elsewhere
Edited by
Omar Kasmani
November 2023 288pp 36 illus.
9781478025238 £23.99 / $27.95 PB
9781478020325 £94.00 / $104.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Offers a multidisciplinary view on figures and forms of queerness in Pakistan, inviting reflection on queer’s myriad meanings in Pakistan and explore how desire can serve as a mode of queer future-making. By embracing forms of desire elsewhere, ones that cannot correlate to or often fall outside dominant Western theorizations of queerness, this volume gathers other ways of being queer in the world.
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Qaum, Mulk, Sultanat Citizenship and National Belonging in Pakistan
Ali Usman Qasmi
South Asia in Motion
December 2023 432pp
9781503637788 £29.99 / $35.00 PB
9781503637283 £94.00 / $105.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Drawing on a rich archive of diverse sources, Ali Qasmi traces the complex development of ideas of citizenship and national belonging in the postcolonial Muslim state, offering a nuanced and sweeping history of the country's formative period.
The Pulse of the Earth
Political Geology in Java
Adam Bobbette
August 2023 248pp 42 illus.
9781478025054 £22.99 / $26.95 PB
9781478020073 £92.00 / $102.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Drawing on archival research, interviews, and fieldwork at Javanese volcanoes and in scientific observatories, Bobbette explores how Indonesian Islam shaped the theory of plate tectonics, how Dutch colonial volcanologists learned to see the earth in new ways from Javanese spiritual traditions, and how new scientific technologies radically recast notions of the human body, distance, and the earth.
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