Teaching about asia in a time of pandemic

Teaching About Asia in a Time of Pandemic presents many lessons learned by educators during the COVID-19 outbreak. The volume consists of two sections, one discussing how to teach using examples and case studies emerging from the pandemic and the other focusing on pedagogical tools and methods be...

The apotheosis of captain cook

Here Gananath Obeyesekere debunks one of the most enduring myths of imperialism, civilization, and conquest: the notion that the Western civilizer is a god to savages. Using shipboard journals and logs kept by Captain James Cook and his officers, Obeyesekere reveals the captain as both the self-c...

The binding vine

From one of India's most acclaimed writers--a radiant novel, now available in paperback.

The birth of vietnamese political journalism

Philippe M. F. Peycam completes the first ever English-language study of Vietnam's emerging political press and its resistance to colonialism. Published in the decade that preceded the Communist Party's founding, this journalistic phenomenon established a space for public, political contestation ...

The city in which i love you

ContentsI.Furious VersionisII.The InterrogationThis Hour And What Is DeadArise, Go DownMy Father, In Heaven, Is Reading Out LoudFor A New Citizen Of These United StatesWith RuinsIII.This Room And Everything In ItThe City In Which I Love YouIV.The WaitingA StoryGoodnightYou Must SingHere I AmA Fi...

The defiant muse

The only bilingual anthology of Vietnamese women's poetry available anywhere.   This unique collection offers over one hundred poems from over one hundred poets in the only bilingual anthology of Vietnamese women’s poetry available anywhere in the world.The poems in The Defiant Muse: Vietnamese F...

The dream of east asia

This book presents a framework for understanding contemporary Northeast Asia, focusing on the countries that comprise the conventional understanding of East Asia—China, Taiwan, Japan, and the two Koreas. In so doing, John Lie illuminates regional economic, political, and cultural dynamics.

The fifty years that changed chinese religion, 1898–1948

This book demonstrates that transformative processes occurred in Chinese religions during the last decade of the Qing dynasty and the entire Republican period. Focusing on Shanghai and Zhejiang, it delves into the workings of social structures, religious practices, and personal commitments as the...

The first tung chee-hwa administration

The future that was

How Third World women seized the means of knowledge production to fight against rising authoritarianism and imagine a future freer than our presentBeginning in the 1970s, women of the decolonizing world offered new visions of liberation that centered the ideas and lives of women. Galvanized by In...

The gold standard at the turn of the twentieth century

By the end of the nineteenth century, the world was ready to adopt the gold standard out of concerns of national power, prestige, and anti-English competition. Yet although the gold standard allowed countries to enact a virtual single world currency, the years before World War I were not a time o...

The great smog of china

The Great Smog of China traces Chinese air pollution events dating back to more than 2,000 years ago. Based on fieldwork, interviews, and text studies, the book offers a short and concise history of selected air pollution incidents that for varying reasons prompted different kinds of responses an...

The imaginary institution of india

For decades Sudipta Kaviraj has worked with and improved upon Marxist and subaltern studies, capturing India's social and political life through its diverse history and culture. While this technique has been widely celebrated in his home country, Kaviraj's essays have remained largely scattered a...

The king’s road

An exciting and richly detailed new history of the Silk Road that tells how it became more important as a route for diplomacy than for tradeThe King’s Road offers a new interpretation of the history of the Silk Road, emphasizing its importance as a diplomatic route, rather than a commercial one. ...

The logic of japanese politics

Widely recognized both in America and Japan for his insider knowledge and penetrating analyses of Japanese politics, Gerald Curtis is the political analyst best positioned to explore the complexities of the Japanese political scene today. Curtis has personally known most of the key players in Jap...

The lovelorn ghost and the magical monk

Stories centering on the lovelorn ghost (Mae Nak) and the magical monk (Somdet To) are central to Thai Buddhism. Historically important and emotionally resonant, these characters appeal to every class of follower. Metaphorically and rhetorically powerful, they invite constant reimagining across t...

The making of modern subjects

A book about Korean female spectators of the colonial era, which argues that public discourse aimed to mold them into a male-driven and top-down modernization project.

The mystique of transmission

The Mystique of Transmission is a close reading of a late-eighth-century Chan/Zen Buddhist hagiographical work, the Lidai fabao ji (Record of the Dharma-Jewel Through the Generations), and is its first English translation. The text is the only remaining relic of the little-known Bao Tang Chan sch...

The pandemic

This collection of essays provides analyses of the COVID-19 pandemic in Asia. It includes interpretations by leading scholars in anthropology, food studies, history, media studies, political science, and visual studies, who examine the political, social, economic, and cultural impact of COVID-19 ...

The philippines

Written with high school and undergraduate students as the target audience, this volume is ideal for anyone interested in Philippine history. It pieces together evidence from the precolonial era, illustrating the country’s relationship with its neighboring Asian countries, its functioning social ...

The politics of anti-westernism in asia

Cemil Aydin challenges the notion that anti-Westernism in the Muslim world is a reaction to the liberal democratic values of the West. He compares Ottoman Pan-Islamic and Japanese Pan-Asian visions of world order from the middle of the nineteenth century through World War II, focusing on the agen...

The slate of life

This sequel to Truth Tales contains ten stories by ten of the most renowned and inventive writers of India, translated from nine different languages. Rich in regional flavor, each story offers a glimpse into the everyday lives of Indian women, from the passionate political commitment of a freedom...

The uyghurs

Beginning with the history of Xinjiang and its unique population of Chinese Muslims, Gardner Bovingdon follows fifty years of Uyghur discontent, particularly the development of individual and collective acts of resistance since 1949, as well as the role of various transnational organizations in c...

Traditional china in asian and world history

Victor Mair and Tansen Sen have provided an account of China’s engagement with the Eurasian world around it that is succinct, accessible, and masterful. They demonstrate how—from their Neolithic origins through Zheng He’s fifteenth century voyages across maritime Asia—the Chinese were constantly ...

Translating mount fuji

Dennis Washburn traces the changing character of Japanese national identity in the works of six major authors: Ueda Akinari, Natsume S?seki, Mori ?gai, Yokomitsu Riichi, ?oka Shohei, and Mishima Yukio. By focusing on certain interconnected themes, Washburn illuminates the contradictory desires of...

Translation and the history of knowledge

Translation and the History of Knowledge is an anthology honoring Professor Lawrence Wang-chi Wong’s contributions to translation studies and Chinese translation history

Tribe and state in asia through twenty-five centuries

This book analyzes how the word “tribe” has morphed and spread through the centuries. It goes behind the label to bring out the social, military, and environmental settings that gave it its various meanings.

Truth tales

Here we meet Muniyakka, called “walkie-talkie” because she mutters to herself; Shakun, the dollmaker, an exploited artist who needs to feel that others depend on her; and Jashoda, professional mother to children of the rich, from Mahasveta Devi’s acknowledged masterpiece “The Wet Nurse.”First pub...

Two buddhas seated side by side

An essential companion to a timeless spiritual classicThe Lotus Sūtra is among the most venerated scriptures of Buddhism. Composed in India some two millennia ago, it asserts the potential for all beings to attain supreme enlightenment. Donald Lopez and Jacqueline Stone provide an essential readi...

Two dreams

The collected stories of the American Book Award winning author of Among the White Moon Faces

Understanding east asia's economic "miracles"

Revised and Expanded Second Edition. Concise yet comprehensive, Zhiqun Zhu’s book is the perfect introduction to the political economy of East Asia for undergraduate and advanced high school classes. Zhu’s analysis of the economic ‘miracles’ of Japan, South Korea, China and Taiwan takes into acco...