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Contemporary Asian America (third edition): A Multidisciplinary Reader by Min Zhou
RRP: $42.57$38.25The third edition of the foundational volume in Asian American studies Who are Asian Americans? Moving beyond popular stereotypes of the "model minority" or "forever foreigner," most Americans know surprisingly little of the nation's... -
The Ocean in the School: Pacific Islander Students Transforming Their University by Rick Bonus
RRP: $30.95$26.33In The Ocean in the School Rick Bonus tells the stories of Pacific Islander students as they and their allies struggled to transform a university they believed did not value their presence. Drawing on dozens of interviews with students he taught,... -
Filipino Time: Affective Worlds and Contracted Labor by Allan Punzalan Isaac
RRP: $28.37$24.24.Book InformationISBN 9780823298532Author Allan Punzalan IsaacFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Fordham University PressPublisher Fordham University PressWeight(grams) 152g -
Everyday Soviet Utopias: Planning, Design and the Aesthetics of Developed Socialism by Anna Alekseyeva
RRP: $174.15$151.81This book explores how intellectuals of the later Soviet decades - the 1970s and 1980s - sought to bring about the socialist utopian world. It argues that the last two decades of the Soviet Union were not characterised by state withdrawal and malaise, as... -
Fearful Symmetry: India-Pakistan Crises in the Shadow of Nuclear Weapons by Sumit Ganguly
RRP: $33.53$28.43With the nuclearization of the Indian subcontinent, Indo-Pakistani crisis behavior has acquired a deadly significance. The past two decades have witnessed no fewer than six crises against the backdrop of a vigorous nuclear arms race. Except for the... -
The Production of Hindu-Muslim Violence in Contemporary India by Paul R. Brass
RRP: $46.44$40.49Chronic Hindu-Muslim rioting in India has created a situation in which communal violence is both so normal and so varied in its manifestations that it would seem to defy effective analysis. Paul R. Brass, one of the world's preeminent experts on South... -
Missing: Youth, Citizenship, and Empire after 9/11 by Sunaina Marr Maira
RRP: $33.53$28.43In Missing, Sunaina Marr Maira explores how young South Asian Muslim immigrants living in the United States experienced and understood national belonging (or exclusion) at a particular moment in the history of U.S. imperialism: in the years immediately... -
Critical Issues in Contemporary Japan by Jeff Kingston
RRP: $47.72$42.48This new and fully updated second edition of Critical Issues in Contemporary Japan provides undergraduate and graduate students with an interdisciplinary textbook written by leading specialists on contemporary Japan. Students will gain the analytical... -
Contemporary India: The Basics by Rekha Datta
RRP: $25.79$22.82Contemporary India: The Basics provides readers with a clear and accessible guide through the richness, diversity and complexity of twenty-first century India. It explores the reality of the country's cultural diversity which creates both harmony and... -
Modern Hindu Traditionalism in Contemporary India: The Sri Ma?h and the Jagadguru Ramanandacarya in the Evolution of the Ramanandi Sampradaya by Daniela Bevilacqua
RRP: $51.59$45.23Modern Hindu Traditionalism addresses Hindu traditions that resisted contact with both Neo-Hindu thought and views of "classical" Hinduism perceived to be outmoded. This book provides an in-depth understanding of Modern Hindu Traditionalism... -
Stuck: Why Asian Americans Don't Reach the Top of the Corporate Ladder by Margaret M. Chin
RRP: $30.95$26.33A behind-the-scenes examination of Asian Americans in the workplace In the classroom, Asian Americans, often singled out as so-called "model minorities," are expected to be top of the class. Often they are, getting straight As and gaining... -
Interpreting the Chinese Diaspora: Identity, Socialisation, and Resilience According to Pierre Bourdieu by Guanglun Michael Mu
RRP: $51.59$45.23Globalisation and migration have created a vibrant yet dysphoric world fraught with different, and sometimes competing, practices and discourses. The emergent properties of the modern world inevitably complicate the being, doing, and thinking of Chinese... -
Singapore’s Multiculturalism: Evolving Diversity by Sharon Siddique
RRP: $51.59$45.23Since independence in 1965, Singapore has developed its own unique approach to managing the diversity of Race, Religion, Culture, Language, Nationality, and Age among its citizens. This approach is a consequence of many factors, including its very... -
Digital China's Informal Circuits: Platforms, Labour and Governance by Elaine Jing Zhao
RRP: $51.59$45.23From open source cultures, piracy, to amateur media and on-demand labour, informal media activities are vibrant in circuits of cultural production, distribution, consumption and labour utilisation in China. They come in different sizes and shapes,... -
Between the Lines: South Asians and Postcoloniality by Deepika Bahri
RRP: $49.02$42.12This ground-breaking collection of new interviews, critical essays, and commentary explores South Asian identity and culture. Sensitive to the false homogeneity implied by "South Asian," "diaspora," "postcolonial," and "Asian American," the contributors... -
Soundtracks of Asian America: Navigating Race through Musical Performance by Grace Wang
RRP: $30.95$26.33In Soundtracks of Asian America, Grace Wang explores how Asian Americans use music to construct narratives of self, race, class, and belonging in national and transnational spaces. She highlights how they navigate racialization in different genres by... -
The Chinese Laundryman: A Study of Social Isolation by Paul C.P. Siu
RRP: $36.11$30.52Chinese hand laundries have been a fixture of America's urban landscape for over one hundred years. Yet little is publicly known about the workings of this familiar institution which originated shortly after Chinese immigrants had started to arrive in... -
Straitjacket Sexualities: Unbinding Asian American Manhoods in the Movies by Celine Shimizu
RRP: $28.37$24.24Depictions of Asian American men as effeminate or asexual pervade popular movies. Hollywood has made clear that Asian American men lack the qualities inherent to the heroic heterosexual male. This restricting, circumscribed vision of masculinity-a... -
Asian Diasporas: New Formations, New Conceptions by Rhacel Salazar Parrenas
RRP: $30.95$26.33Asian migrants are inextricably linked to contemporary debates concerning the nation-state, neoliberalism, globalization, and transnationalism. This volume brings together these streams of inquiry and proposes a synthetic approach to examine various... -
New Worlds, New Lives: Globalization and People of Japanese Descent in the Americas and from Latin America in Japan by Lane Ryo Hirabayashi
RRP: $161.25$137.36This ambitious work confronts the complex question of who and what is a Nikkei, that is, a person of Japanese descent, by studying their communities in seven countries in the Americas: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Paraguay, Peru, and the United... -
Migration in Post-Colonial Hong Kong by Susanne Y.P. Choi
RRP: $51.59$45.23Since 1995 most mainland migrants to Hong Kong have been the wives or non-adult children of Hong Kong men of lower socio-economic status. The majority of immigrants are women, who throughout the past two decades have accounted for more than 60% of... -
America Is in the Heart: A Personal History by Carlos Bulosan
RRP: $20.63$17.17First published in 1943, this classic memoir by well-known Filipino poet Carlos Bulosan describes his boyhood in the Philippines, his voyage to America, and his years of hardship and despair as an itinerant laborer following the harvest trail in the... -
Law in Japan: A Turning Point by Daniel H. Foote
RRP: $121.26$104.62This volume explores major developments in Japanese law over the latter half of the twentieth century and looks ahead to the future. Modeled on the classic work Law in Japan: The Legal Order in a Changing Society (1963), edited by Arthur Taylor von... -
Seditious Histories: Contesting Thai and Southeast Asian Pasts by Craig J. Reynolds
RRP: $46.44$39.98This collection of eleven essays by senior Asianist Craig Reynolds features debates about meaning in Southeast Asian and Thai history. He explores themes that have hitherto been treated superficially in Thai historical writing, including Siam's... -
The King and the Making of Modern Thailand by Antonio L. Rappa
RRP: $56.75$49.59The making of modern Thailand is grounded in specific political institutions, Brahmanical tropes, and sacred Buddhist traditions stylized with Hindu rituals. Over and above these mysterious practices and ancient customs, modern Thailand is a product of... -
Ethnicity and Inequality in Hawai'i by Jonathan Y. Okamura
RRP: $36.11$30.52Challenges the misconception of Hawai'i as a racial paradise by analyzing how ethnic inequality is maintained among its constituent groupsBook InformationISBN 9781592137565Author Jonathan Y. OkamuraFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Temple University... -
Empire's Mistress, Starring Isabel Rosario Cooper by Vernadette Vicuna Gonzalez
RRP: $29.66$25.28In Empire's Mistress Vernadette Vicuna Gonzalez follows the life of Filipina vaudeville and film actress Isabel Rosario Cooper, who was the mistress of General Douglas MacArthur. If mentioned at all, their relationship exists only as a salacious footnote... -
Postcolonial Grief: The Afterlives of the Pacific Wars in the Americas by Jinah Kim
RRP: $28.37$24.24In Postcolonial Grief Jinah Kim explores the relationship of mourning to transpacific subjectivities, aesthetics, and decolonial politics since World War II. Kim argues that Asian diasporic subjectivity exists in relation to afterlives because the deaths... -
Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation: On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans by David L. Eng
RRP: $118.68$101.16In Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation critic David L. Eng and psychotherapist Shinhee Han draw on case histories from the mid-1990s to the present to explore the social and psychic predicaments of Asian American young adults from Generation X to... -
Straight A's: Asian American College Students in Their Own Words by Christine R. Yano
$120.76The American Dream of success for many Asian Americans includes the highest levels of education. But what does it mean to live that success? In Straight A's Asian American students at Harvard reflect on their common experiences with discrimination,... -
Ocean Passages: Navigating Pacific Islander and Asian American Literatures by Erin Suzuki
RRP: $46.44$39.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439920947Author Erin SuzukiFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Temple University PressPublisher Temple University PressWeight(grams) 152g -
Soviet and Post-Soviet Sexualities by Richard C.M. Mole
RRP: $51.59$45.23Despite Soviet Russia having been one of the first major powers to decriminalise homosexual acts between men, attitudes towards lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people in contemporary Russia and the other post-Soviet states have become... -
Germany's Colony in China: Colonialism, Protection and Economic Development in Qingdao and Shandong, 1898-1914 by Fion Wai Ling So
RRP: $59.33$51.77This book explores the economic development of the northern Chinese city of Qingdao, which was held by Germany as a colony from 1898 to 1914. It focuses especially on the economic polices of the German colonial government and of the provincial government... -
Transformations in Independent Timor-Leste: Dynamics of Social and Cultural Cohabitations by Susana De Matos Viegas
RRP: $174.15$151.291999 was a decisive year in the long history of the people of Timor-Leste, whose future was open when they voted for independence in a UN-sponsored referendum. Its results left no doubt that the Timorese considered themselves to be a nation wishing to... -
Pakistan's Nuclear Policy: A Minimum Credible Deterrence by Zafar Khan
RRP: $41.27$36.55In May 1998, in reaction to India's nuclear weapons tests, Pakistan tested six nuclear weapons. Following this, the country opted for a policy of minimum deterrence, and within a year Pakistan had altered its policy stance by adding the modifier of... -
Transitional Justice in Nepal: Interests, Victims and Agency by Yvette Selim
RRP: $174.15$151.29The conflict in Nepal (1996 - 2006) resulted in an estimated 15,000 deaths, 1,300 disappearances, along with other serious human rights and humanitarian law violations. Demands for peace, democracy, accountability and development, have abounded in the... -
War, Genocide, and Justice: Cambodian American Memory Work by Cathy J. Schlund-Vials
RRP: $28.37$24.24In the three years, eight months, and twenty days of the Khmer Rouge's deadly reign over Cambodia, an estimated 1.7 million Cambodians perished as a result of forced labor, execution, starvation, and disease. Despite the passage of more than thirty... -
Between Foreign and Family: Return Migration and Identity Construction among Korean Americans and Korean Chinese by Helene K. Lee
RRP: $172.86$147.74Between Foreign and Family explores the impact of inconsistent rules of ethnic inclusion and exclusion on the economic and social lives of Korean Americans and Korean Chinese living in Seoul. These actors are part of a growing number of return migrants,... -
International Case Studies of Terrorist Rehabilitation by Rohan Gunaratna
RRP: $51.59$45.23The post 9/11 era has produced structured rehabilitation programmes in a wide range of countries including Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Pakistan, Malaysia, Egypt, Iraq, and Uzbekistan. There are also ad hoc and emerging programmes in Nigeria, China,... -
Chinese Fans of Japanese and Korean Pop Culture: Nationalistic Narratives and International Fandom by Lu Chen
RRP: $51.59$45.23How can Japanese popular culture gain numerous fans in China, despite pervasive anti-Japanese sentiment? How is it that there's such a strong anti-Korean sentiment in Chinese online fan communities when the official Sino-Korean relationship is quite...