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Seeking allah's hierarchy
Why Muslims in South India observe hierarchical intra-communal relationships despite the egalitarianism of their religionIn Seeking Allah’s Hierarchy, P. C. Saidalavi provides an ethnographic study of a Muslim barber community in South India, unraveling how these barbers negotiated concepts of hi...
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Eyes of the ocean
Eyes of the Ocean is Syaman Rapongan’s literary autobiography, both a powerful story of survival in a settler state and a masterful portrait of the Indigenous artist as a young man.
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The monkey chronicles
A Chronicle of Xi Xi's experience with the primate kingdom both real and imagined.
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The classic of poetry
Edward L. Shaughnessy presents a complete English translation of the 305 discrete poems from the Classic of Poetry.
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An alaṅkāra reader
Classical Indian poetics prized the skillful use of alaṅkāras, or “ornaments”—literary figures of speech. An Alaṅkāra Reader is a groundbreaking panoramic overview of this tradition, presenting extensive and accessible translations of key works.
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Grotto art of china
This book traces the origins of Grotto Art form from the Indian subcontinent to its monumental flowering in China.
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The confucius chronicles
This book explores enduring narratives about Confucius, shedding light on his role as a symbol of cultural ideals and a fulcrum of ideological debates across eras.
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Death without end
Theodore Hughes crosses borders to demonstrate how stories of dying and death—what he calls the thanatographic imagination—in North Korea, the US, and South Korea energize ideas about history, the present, and the future.
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The traitor
In his only historical novel, Abe Kōbō turns to a pivotal moment in Japan’s past to explore profound questions about the nature of loyalty and the choices that people must make when they encounter forces beyond their control or understanding.
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Eyes of the sky
Syaman Rapongan is a chronicler of his people, the Tao, an Indigenous community who live on Orchid Island near the island of Taiwan. In Eyes of the Sky, he invites readers to learn the ways of this oceanic world—and to learn to see their own worlds anew through a Tao lens.
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A taiwanese ecoliterature reader
This anthology showcases cutting-edge works on ecological themes by essential and emerging Taiwanese authors, revealing the vitality of their engagements with environmental crises.
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The unraveling heart
This groundbreaking book shows that women’s songs of the grind mill played a foundational role in the vernacular turn to making literature in Marathi between the thirteenth and eighteenth centuries.
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Liturgy of the most high for daily recitations
A complete, meticulous English translation of the The Daoist Liturgy of the Most High for Daily Recitations, which is performed in Daoist temples every morning and evening.
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Cosmo-modernism and theater in india
Aparna Bhargava Dharwadker develops a new framework for understanding non-Anglophone Indian modernisms, analyzing the writing, staging, and reception of major plays in multiple languages.
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South asian texts in history
South Asian Texts in History charts the contours of a reenvisioned and revitalized field of Indology in the light of the groundbreaking research of Sheldon Pollock. One of the many exciting aspects of Pollock’s work is its unprecedented combination of classical textual study with cutting edge the...
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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...
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The splendid vision
Featuring the first-ever English translation of the "Splendid Vision Sutra," a sixth-century Indian Mahayana Buddhist scripture known for its rich ritual magic and worship of bodhisattva-goddesses, this volume explicates the text's cultural significance as a source of extraordinary value, cosmic ...
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In stereotype
Confronts the importance of cultural stereotypes in shaping the ethics and reach of global literature.
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The art of useless
The Art of Useless offers an innovative way to understand China’s political-economic, social, and cultural transformations, showing how consumer culture helps anticipate, produce, and shape a new middle-class subjectivity. Calvin Hui examines changing representations of the production and consump...
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The dancing poet
Drawing on a range of visual archives and personal collections, this book casts Rabindranath Tagore as the "Dancing Poet"—in whom the contours of a pan-Indian diversity seek to merge, albeit selectively, with that of the world, eschewing most emphatically the territorial borders of the nation-sta...
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If all the world were paper
Telling the story of Hindi literature’s development, If All the World Were Paper demonstrates how the ways books were inscribed, organized, and used can tell us as much about their meaning and significance as the texts within them.
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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.
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The invention of private life
An acclaimed political thinker traces the intimate experiences of history in the formal experiments of modern literature.
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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.
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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...
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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 ...
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Drinking bomb and shooting meth
Jeffrey W. Alexander examines how Western alcohol and innovative pharmaceuticals became so popular, available, and fashionable in Japan. He considers the people who brewed, distilled, synthesized, and marketed these products and explores what their advertising campaigns say about Japan’s shifting...
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The extraordinary in the mundane
This book brings together a diverse group of scholars to explore the many ways people in China self-organize and create varied forms of coordination to solve important problems.
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Gender, sexuality, and body politics in modern asia
Peletz’s book addresses topics of the highest significance for multiple disciplines, effectively linking gender issues and gendered identities to many other matters of current and enduring import across Asia — including public health, violence, industrialization, and media. Peletz has made an ext...
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Chinese encounters with america
Chinese Encounters with America tells the stories of twelve women and men whose American experiences transformed their lives and influenced China’s trajectory.
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Japanese popular culture and globalization
This book offers a concise overview of Japan’s phenomenal influence on world pop culture. Surveying Japanese forms from anime and manga to monster movies and Hello Kitty products, it is an accessible introduction to Japan’s pop creativity and its global appeal.
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East asian societies
So very many teach introductions to East Asia under different disciplines, including the Humanities, Sociology, Economics, History, and Religious Studies, but what makes this work so promising is its transferability across these lines of demarcation for the student engaged in her first serious st...
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Embedded generations
An interconnected, nuanced, and nonlinear view of Chinese family life since 1949With Embedded Generations, Liu Jieyu offers a comprehensive examination of Chinese family life since the Chinese Communist Revolution of 1949. Grounding her account in the analysis of 260 life history narratives and r...
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Inclusion, exclusion, agency, and advocacy
This book explores the experiences of six women with physical disabilities in China, highlighting their education, employment, relationships, family life, and social activism. It aims to amplify their voices, challenge dominant narratives, and inspire better support for disabled women globally.
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Living across connectivity
This volume looks at the role of digital media platforms in shaping migrants’ practices of connectivity and mobility. Focusing on migration within and beyond East Asia, it explores the pervasive use of smartphones as an everyday reality for intimacy, entrepreneurship, and care for East Asian migr...
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Love in india
This book focuses on the multiple sites and articulations through which “love” is constructed, articulated and experienced in contemporary India.
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Study gods
How privileged adolescents in China acquire status and why this helps them succeed Study Gods offers a rare look at the ways privileged youth in China prepare themselves to join the ranks of the global elite. Yi-Lin Chiang shows how these competitive Chinese high schoolers first become “study god...
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Male homosexuality in 21st-century thailand
This book explores the experiences, meanings and identities of young same-sex attracted men in rural Thailand. It is based on a study of 25 young rural Thai men who were each interviewed three times within a two-year period while they were aged 18–20, uncovering significant fluidity, variety and ...
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Turkish kaleidoscope
A powerful graphic novel that traces Turkey's descent into political violence in the 1970s through the experiences of four students on opposing sides of the conflictTurkish Kaleidoscope tells the stories of four unforgettable protagonists as they navigate a society torn apart by violent political...
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The principal's graduation
Joseph Sung, the seventh vice-chancellor and president of The Chinese University of Hong Kong, discusses higher education and social responsibility, pathways and choices our youths make, the visions he had and the challenges he faced, and the values he wishes his students could take seriously.
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The kokinshū
Compiled in the early tenth century, the Kokinshū is an anthology of some eleven hundred poems that became celebrated as the cornerstone of the Japanese vernacular poetic tradition. This book offers an inviting and immersive selection of roughly one-third of the anthology in English translation.
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Humans, beasts, and ghosts
Qian Zhongshu was one of twentieth-century China's most ingenious literary stylists, one whose insights into the ironies and travesties of modern China remain stunningly fresh. Between the early years of the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945) and the Communist takeover in 1949, Qian wrote a bri...
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Chinese leadership wisdom from the book of change
The Yijing has been used as a book of divination for more than three thousand years in China and still is by some people today. In this book the wisdom of leadership within the framework of the Yijing is used to indicate how a leader should act in different situations, be they good or bad. Critic...
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Ordinary days
Ordinary Days is a memoir by the scholar and critic Leo Ou-fan Lee and his wife Esther Lee Yuk Ying. Set partly against the backdrop of some of Hong Kong’s most turbulent years, partly in the far-flung diaspora of the Chinese intelligentsia, this is a revealing record of the inner life of a highl...
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The book of swindles
The Book of Swindles, a seventeenth-century story collection, offers a panoramic guide to the art of deception. Ostensibly a manual for self-protection, it presents a tableau of criminal ingenuity in late Ming China. Each story comes with commentary by the author, who expounds a moral lesson whil...
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Theory of literature and other critical writings
Natsume Soseki (1867-1916) was the foremost Japanese novelist of the twentieth century, known for such highly acclaimed works as Kokoro, Sanshiro, and I Am a Cat. Yet he began his career as a literary theorist and scholar of English literature. In 1907, he published Theory of Literature, a remark...
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Cold literature
Gao Xingjian is the first Chinese Nobel Laureate in Literature. The Swedish Academy summarized his achievements as follows: "An oeuvre of universal validity, bitter insights and linguistic ingenuity, which has opened new paths for the Chines novel and drama." The collection, which aims to present...
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Plum shadows and plank bridge
This volume presents two memoirs by famous men of letters, Reminiscences of the Plum Shadows Convent by Mao Xiang (1611–93) and Miscellaneous Records of Plank Bridge by Yu Huai (1616–96), that recall times spent with courtesans. They evoke the courtesan world in the final decades of the Ming dyna...
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Beasts head for home
In the aftermath of World War II, a Japanese youth raised in the puppet state of Manchuria struggles to return home to Japan. What follows is a wild journey involving drugs, smuggling, chases, and capture. Beasts Head for Home is an acute novel of identity, belonging, and the vagaries of human be...
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