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Gregory Smits
The Ryukyu Islands

The first comprehensive history of the Ryukyu Islands region in English.The Ryukyu Islands between Japan and Taiwan consist of around 160 islands and are home to about 1.5 million inhabitants. Across the …

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Benjamin M Han
Reckoning with the World

Forthcoming Fall 2025

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Xu Ma
Boundaries and Bodhisattvas

A striking new perspective on women, religious spaces, and literary culture during the Ming and Qing eras From the sixteenth to early nineteenth centuries, Neo-Confucian ideology sought to reinforce the s…

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Vindhya Buthpitiya,
A Volatile Picture

Photography as witness and weapon amid civil war This groundbreaking ethnography explores how, in the context of Sri Lanka's protracted civil war and its turbulent aftermath, photography has become bound …

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India's Mithila Painting

A woman's art form transforms from home to high art Since at least the fifteenth century, Hindu women in the Mithila region of northern India have been painting images of deities, flora and fauna symboliz…

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Nianshen Song
The Neighborhood

"This book is a centuries-spanning account of Xita, a neighborhood located in Shenyang, the largest city in Northeast China. By telling its story over four centuries, Nianshen Song shows how it has e…

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Indigeneity in the Philippines

In the Philippines, the concept of Indigeneity is deeply intertwined with colonial history, a pattern echoed across the globe. Yet, its manifestation in the Philippines bears distinct features. The Philip…

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Charlotte Brooks
The Moys of New York and Shanghai

The most extraordinary family you've never heard of. Born to Chinese immigrant parents, the Moy siblings grew up in an America that questioned their citizenship and denied their equality. Sophisticated an…

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Stephen Simmons
Cambodia's Swinging Sixties

A brief blaze of brilliance on the edge of history Before the darkness descended, there was light. Cambodia burst into color in a single, electrifying decade--its cities humming with new ideas, bold desig…

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Ming-Sho Ho
Be Water

Forthcoming Spring 2025

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Ming-Sho Ho
Be Water

Forthcoming Spring 2025

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Po-Yi Hung,
Routes of Taiwan Tea

Demonstrates how a popular commodity has reshaped borders, traditions, and geopolitics From misty mountain oolongs to the global boba boom, Taiwan's teas carry far more than flavor. They embody contested …

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R Kent Guy
Three Impeachments

A probe into corruption in late Imperial China At the beginning of China's long eighteenth century or "High Qing" era, a time of peace and prosperity when the foundations of Manchu rule under th…

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Asian Catholicism and the Remaking of Contemporary Families

Asian Catholicism and the Remaking of Contemporary Families attends to the ways in which Asian Catholics navigate and negotiate the ethical ideals, normative discourses, and devotional practices of their …

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Jennifer Estes
Betting on Education

Educational credentials are one of the most reliable tickets to a middle-class livelihood across the globe today. But as the costs of schooling rise, young people increasingly wonder whether their investm…

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Jennifer Estes
Betting on Education

Educational credentials are one of the most reliable tickets to a middle-class livelihood across the globe today. But as the costs of schooling rise, young people increasingly wonder whether their investm…

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Revolutionary Natures

How a mundane metal bound miners and officials to global capitalism and an emerging technocratic state This volume offers a groundbreaking reassessment of the environmental history of Mao-era China, a per…

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Emotions, Affect, and Narrative in Korean History and Culture

This collection of eleven essays explores emotions and affect in Korean culture across a broad temporal span, from the Koryŏ dynasty (918--1392) to the present. Drawing on a diverse array of sources---inc…

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Emotions, Affect, and Narrative in Korean History and Culture

This collection of eleven essays explores emotions and affect in Korean culture across a broad temporal span, from the Koryŏ dynasty (918--1392) to the present. Drawing on a diverse array of sources---inc…

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Spaces of Creative Resistance

This edited volume brings together an exciting cross-regional inter-disciplinary group of scholars, scholar activists, artists and others. Each chapter focuses on a different form of "creative resist…

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