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Jeongmin Kim
Black Market Intimacies

Black Market Intimacies reveals how illicit exchanges of money and commodities involving sexual encounters between Korean and Japanese women and US soldiers provided the material foundations of the region…

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Midori Ogasawara
Colonial Surveillance

In order to compete with Western powers, Japan began to rapidly modernize its governing institutions, in the process creating a national population registration and identification bureaucracy, the Koseki …

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Malvika Sharma
The Partition of the Indian Subcontinent

Pir-Panjals , the Himalayan ranges in Jammu and Kashmir, are home to various communities known for their distinctiveness, heterogeneity and diversity. Such diversity is historically embedded in the fluidi…

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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 in…

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Yunuen Ysela Mandujano-Salazar,
Beyond the Male Idol Factory

"A star-making factory without rival, the Japanese talent agency Johnny's Jimusho has brought fame to several generations of male stars - singers, actors and performers. Beyond the Male Idol Factory …

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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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Manan Ahmed Asif
Disrupted City

A stunning history of Pakistan's cultural and intellectual capital, from one of the preeminent scholars of South Asia Longlisted, 2025 Cundill History PrizeThe city of Lahore was more than one thousand ye…

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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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Kaila Yu
Fetishized

A "raw and lyrical" (New York Times) memoir-in-essays from former pinup model and lead singer of Nylon Pink Kaila Yu, reckoning with being an object of Asian fetish and how media, pop culture, a…

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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, with…

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Adrian de Leon,
Balikbayan

How migrants imagined a country through their acts of return What does it mean to go back home, especially when "home" is shaped by conquest, labor, and longing? This question has animated the e…

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Smithsonian Asian Pacific American History, Art, and Culture in 101 Objects

A rich and compelling introduction to the history of Asian Pacific American communities as told through 101 objects, from a fortune cookie baking mold to the debut Ms. Marvel comic featuring Kamala Khan A…

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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 go…

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The Cleaving

"Every dialogue in this anthology shares ache and joy, emotional and intellectual poignancy, a tender agony: for art, for Việt Nam, for place, space, and scale. The Cleaving is an exhibition of wha…

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James Scarth Gale,
Life of the Buddha

Composed in vernacular Korean by Powŏl, P'alsangnok , or Record of the Eight Marks , is an influential pre-modern fictional biography of the Buddha that chronicles the life of Śākyamuni through eight tran…

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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 go…

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Resilience as Heritage in Asia

Resilience as Heritage in Asia analyzes forms of collective resilience through manifestations of strength-in-fragility in selected communities in Asia (Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapo…

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Intimacies of Anti-Asian Violence

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Intimacies of Anti-Asian Violence

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Michael Luo
Strangers in the Land

"In 1889, when the Supreme Court upheld the Chinese Exclusion Act --a measure barring Chinese laborers from entering the United States that remained in effect for more than fifty years--Justice Steph…

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