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Zehou Li,
Reading the Analects Today

One of China's most prominent contemporary philosophers reads and comments on one of the central texts in the Chinese philosophical tradition.

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Global Asias

"Global Asias: Tactics & Theories is the inaugural volume in an exciting new series that explores critical concerns animating Global Asias scholarship. It challenges the silos of academic knowledge format…

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Prachi Gupta
They Called Us Exceptional

“In this vulnerable and courageous memoir, Prachi Gupta takes the myth of the exceptional Indian American family to task.”—The Washington Post “I read it in one sitting. Wow. It aims right at the tender …

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Claudia Huang
Dancing for Their Lives

Dancing for Their Lives delves into the world of retired Chinese “dancing grannies” who seek fulfillment amid broad social transformation. Based on ethnographic research, it challenges conventional narrat…

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Laura Miller
Occult Hunting and Supernatural Play in Japan

"In Japan today, women are the primary drivers of religious re-enchantment, and they are exerting pressure on shrines, temples, and the media industries to accommodate their interests and aesthetic tastes…

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Kee Howe Yong
Thailand's Far South

Questioning the naturalness of the nation state, Thailand’s Far South explores the recurring conflict in Muslim-majority provinces in Thailand’s southern region.

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Samantha Bresnahan
In Blood, Flowers Bloom

"In Blood, Flowers Bloom illuminates one of the last untold stories of World War II, the common act of soldiers taking their enemy's possessions after victory. This is the story of a single Japanese battl…

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Nature Unfurled

"As immigrants and laborers, gardeners and artists, activists and vacationers, Asian Americans have played, worked, and worshipped in nature for almost two centuries, forging enduring relationships with d…

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Metamorphosis of Buddhism in China's New Era

"This study of contemporary Chinese Buddhism explores the relationship between religion and the state in China, and argues that Buddhism has entered a new era since the mid-2000s. Case studies from extend…

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Asian America Rising

A collection of movement flashpoints and insurgent visions for Asian American activism In the late 1960s, Asian American political activism emerged to unite disparate Asian diasporic communities living i…

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Adeana McNicholl
Of Ancestors and Ghosts

Of Ancestors and Ghosts analyzes a type of Buddhist literature in which immoral, stingy people are reincarnated as hungry, suffering ghosts. It traces the emergence of this genre in relation to contempora…

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Kaila Yu
Fetishized

A deeply personal memoir-in-essays, reckoning with being an object of Asian fetish and how media, pop culture, and colonialism contributed to the oversexualization of Asian women—from Kaila Yu, former pin…

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Garrett Hongo
Ocean of Clouds

In his fourth book of poems, award-winning poet Garrett Hongo sees coastlines and waters, skylines and ancestral lines for what they inspire and teach. In a surpassingly beautiful collection of poems, wi…

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Susan Greenhalgh
Soda Science

"Recent years have brought growing concern about the power of huge corporations to distort science for corporate benefit, often to the detriment of human health. This book unearths a kind of corporate sci…

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Inukonda Thirumali
Telangana-Andhra

This book is an attempt to present the inside story of the Telangana movement that developed due to historical reasons.

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Manan Ahmed Asif
Disrupted City

"A history of Pakistan's cultural and intellectual capital, from one of the preeminent scholars of South Asia"--

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Jenny Banh
Fantasies of Hong Kong Disneyland

Jenny Banh examines the attempt to transplant Disney's "happiest place on earth" to Hong Kong, delving into the three-way dynamics of American culture-corporation intentions; Hong Kong, China government i…

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Jenny Banh
Fantasies of Hong Kong Disneyland

Jenny Banh examines the attempt to transplant Disney's "happiest place on earth" to Hong Kong, delving into the three-way dynamics of American culture-corporation intentions; Hong Kong, China government i…

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Siyuan Yin
Contesting Inequalities

After four decades of market reform, China has developed a fast-growing, prosperous economy--the second largest in the world. Despite this prosperity, social inequality has persisted and expanded, particu…

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Siyuan Yin
Contesting Inequalities

After four decades of market reform, China has developed a fast-growing, prosperous economy--the second largest in the world. Despite this prosperity, social inequality has persisted and expanded, particu…

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