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Protracted Contest: Sino-Indian Rivalry in the Twentieth Century by John W. Garver
RRP: $38.69$34.04Ever since the two ancient nations of India and China established modern states in the mid-20th century, they have been locked in a complex rivalry ranging across the South Asian region. Garver offers a scrupulous examination of the two countries'... -
Asians in Colorado: A History of Persecution and Perseverance in the Centennial State by William Wei
RRP: $33.53$28.43Providing the most comprehensive examination to date of Asians in the Centennial State, William Wei addresses a wide range of experiences, from anti-Chinese riots in late nineteenth-century Denver to the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans... -
John Okada: The Life and Rediscovered Work of the Author of <i>No-No Boy</i> by Frank Abe
RRP: $33.53$25.99No-No Boy, John Okada's only published novel, centers on a Japanese American who refuses to fight for the country that incarcerated him and his people in World War II and, upon release from federal prison after the war, is cast out by his divided... -
Meng Jiangnu Brings Down the Great Wall: Ten Versions of a Chinese Legend by Wilt L. Idema
RRP: $36.11$30.52Meng Jiangnu Brings Down the Great Wall brings together ten versions of a popular Chinese legend that has intrigued readers and listeners for hundreds of years. Elements of the story date back to the early centuries B.C.E. and are an intrinsic part of... -
Picturing Model Citizens: Civility in Asian American Visual Culture by Thy Phu
RRP: $36.11$30.52How images portraying Asians as civil subjects contribute to debates on Asian American citizenship.Book InformationISBN 9781439907214Author Thy PhuFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint Temple University Press,U.S.Publisher Temple University Press,U.S. -
Ways of Knowing about Human Rights in Asia by Vera Mackie
RRP: $61.91$53.93This innovative multidisciplinary collection brings together the latest research on human rights issues in the Asian region, by leading scholars with a deep familiarity with the languages and cultures of the region. The contributors bring a range of... -
The Politics of Culture in Soviet Azerbaijan, 1920-40 by Audrey Altstadt
RRP: $64.49$56.12The early Soviet Union's nationalities policy involved the formation of many national republics, within which "nation building" and "modernization" were undertaken for the benefit of "backward" peoples. This book, in considering how such policies were... -
Imperial Citizens: Koreans and Race from Seoul to LA by Nadia Y. Kim
RRP: $33.53$28.43Asians and Latinos comprise the vast majority of contemporary immigrants to the United States, and their growing presence has complicated America's prevailing White-Black race hierarchy. Imperial Citizens uses a global framework to investigate how Asians... -
Rethinking Japanese Studies: Eurocentrism and the Asia-Pacific Region by Kaori Okano
RRP: $51.59$45.23Japanese Studies has provided a fertile space for non-Eurocentric analysis for a number of reasons. It has been embroiled in the long-running internal debate over the so-called Nihonjinron, revolving around the extent to which the effective... -
Desert Exile: The Uprooting of a Japanese American Family by Yoshiko Uchida
RRP: $24.50$21.10After the attack on Pearl Harbor, everything changed for Yoshiko Uchida. Desert Exile is her autobiographical account of life before and during World War II. The book does more than relate the day-to-day experience of living in stalls at the Tanforan... -
Alien Neighbors, Foreign Friends: Asian Americans, Housing, and the Transformation of Urban California by Charlotte Brooks
RRP: $34.83$34.15Between the early 1900s and the late 1950s, the attitudes of white Californians toward their Asian American neighbors evolved from outright hostility to relative acceptance. Charlotte Brooks examines this transformation through the lens of California's... -
Mandarin Brazil: Race, Representation, and Memory by Ana Paulina Lee
RRP: $30.95$26.33In Mandarin Brazil, Ana Paulina Lee explores the centrality of Chinese exclusion to the Brazilian nation-building project, tracing the role of cultural representation in producing racialized national categories. Lee considers depictions of Chineseness in... -
The Politics of US Aid to Pakistan: Aid Allocation and Delivery from Truman to Trump by Murad Ali
RRP: $51.59$45.23This book aims at uncovering the politics behind the provision of US foreign aid to Pakistan during three distinctive periods: the Cold War, the post-Cold War and the "war on terror". Focusing on a comprehensive analysis of aid allocation and delivery... -
Comparative Sociology of Examinations by Fumiya Onaka
RRP: $51.59$45.74Contemporary societies are constructed, constricted, and constrained by various series of examinations. Governments of both Western and non-Western countries tend to conduct detailed, multi-layered and continuous systems of tests or examinations... -
The Goddess and the King in Indian Myth: Ring Composition, Royal Power and The Dharmic Double Helix by Raj Balkaran
RRP: $51.59$45.23The Sanskrit narrative text Devī Māhātmya, “The Greatness of The Goddess,” extols the triumphs of an all-powerful Goddess, Durgā, over universe-imperiling demons. These exploits are embedded in an intriguing frame narrative: a deposed king solicits the... -
Becoming Nisei: Japanese American Urban Lives in Prewar Tacoma by Lisa M. Hoffman
RRP: $33.53$28.43Tacoma’s vibrant Nihonmachi of the 1920s and '30s was home to a significant number of first generation Japanese immigrants and their second generation American children, and these families formed tight-knit bonds despite their diverse religious,... -
The Meaning of Money in China and the United States - The 1986 Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures by Emily Martin
RRP: $24.51$23.87When Emily Martin delivered the annual Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures at the University of Rochester in 1986, she took as her subject the meaning of money in China and the United States. Though the topic is of perennial interest - and never more so than in... -
Alien Capital: Asian Racialization and the Logic of Settler Colonial Capitalism by Iyko Day
RRP: $29.66$25.28In Alien Capital Iyko Day retheorizes the history and logic of settler colonialism by examining its intersection with capitalism and the racialization of Asian immigrants to Canada and the United States. Day explores how the historical alignment of Asian... -
Ends of Empire: Asian American Critique and the Cold War by Jodi Kim
RRP: $30.95$26.33Ends of Empire examines Asian American cultural production and its challenge to the dominant understanding of American imperialism, Cold War dynamics, and race and gender formation. Jodi Kim demonstrates the degree to which Asian American literature and... -
Voting Together: Intergenerational Politics and Civic Engagement among Hmong Americans by Carolyn Wong
RRP: $86.43$73.22Hmong American immigrants first came to the United States as refugees of the Vietnam War. Forty years on, they have made a notable impact in American political life. They have voter participation rates higher than most other Asian American ethnic groups,... -
Consuming Citizenship: Children of Asian Immigrant Entrepreneurs by Lisa Sun-Hee Park
RRP: $28.37$24.24Consuming Citizenship investigates how Korean American and Chinese American children of entrepreneurial immigrants demonstrate their social citizenship as Americans through conspicuous consumption. The American immigrant entrepreneur has played a... -
Siamese State Ceremonies: Their History and Function With Supplementary Notes by H.G.Quaritch Wales
RRP: $174.15$151.81To students of Indian Culture interested in tracing the influence of India in the institutions of her Cultural Colonies, as also to Anthropologists, the Religious Festivals and Court Ceremonies, which still remain the most characteristic features of... -
Studies in Intellectual History of Tokugawa Japan by Masao Maruyama
RRP: $74.82$59.69A comprehensive study of changing political thought during the Tokugawa period, the book traces the philosophical roots of Japanese modernization. Professor Maruyama describes the role of Sorai Confucianism and Norinaga Shintoism in breaking the stagnant... -
The Paradox of Myanmar's Regime Change by Roger Lee Huang
RRP: $174.15$151.29This book analyses Myanmar's contemporary political history, arguing that Myanmar's so-called "democratization" has always been a calculated regime transition, planned by the military, with every intention for the military to remain the key... -
The Imperial Museums of Meiji Japan: Architecture and the Art of the Nation by Alice Yu-Ting Tseng
$77.26It was not until Japan's opening to the West during the Meiji period (1868-1912) that terms for "art" (bijutsu) and "art museum" (bijutsukan) were coined. The Imperial Museums of Meiji Japan documents Japan's unification of national... -
Scenic Spots: Chinese Tourism, the State, and Cultural Authority by Pal Nyiri
RRP: $36.11$30.52Twenty years ago, commercial tourism in the People's Republic of China hardly existed. Today, China has a burgeoning tourist industry, characterized by a unique style with deep roots in traditional Chinese culture. Scenic Spots is an engaging exploration... -
Asian American Feminisms and Women of Color Politics by Lynn Fujiwara
RRP: $33.53$28.43Asian American Feminisms and Women of Color Politics brings together groundbreaking essays that speak to the relationship between Asian American feminisms, feminist of color work, and transnational feminist scholarship. This collection, featuring work by... -
Managing Multicultural Lives: Asian American Professionals and the Challenge of Multiple Identities by Pawan Dhingra
$130.66How do people handle contrasting self-conceptions? Do they necessarily compartmentalize their personal lives from their professional lives? Do minority and immigrant groups, in particular, act "ethnic" at home, "American" at work,... -
Development Agenda and Donor Influence in South Asia: Bangladesh's Experiences in the PRSP Regime by Mohammad Mizanur Rahman
RRP: $51.59$45.23Policy ownership of development agenda emerged as an important aspect in international development cooperation during the 1990s in the wake of evident failures of reform initiatives in developing countries steered by donor agencies, particularly the... -
Hanyang Kut: Korean Shaman Ritual Music from Seoul by Maria K. Seo
RRP: $43.85$39.22This volume, first published in 2002, presents a sophisticated analysis of the musical instruments, repertoires, musicians and ensembles, and symbolism of the ritual music of Shamans of Seoul, Korea. Placed firmly in a social and historical context, it... -
Singapore's Multiculturalism: Evolving Diversity by Chan Heng Chee
RRP: $174.15$151.29Since 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... -
Mine Okubo: Following Her Own Road by Greg Robinson
RRP: $33.53$30.11"To me life and art are one and the same, for the key lies in one's knowledge of people and life. In art one is trying to express it in the simplest imaginative way, as in the art of past civilizations, for beauty and truth are the only two things which... -
Tropical Renditions: Making Musical Scenes in Filipino America by Christine Bacareza Balance
RRP: $29.66$25.28In Tropical Renditions Christine Bacareza Balance examines how the performance and reception of post-World War II Filipino and Filipino American popular music provide crucial tools for composing Filipino identities, publics, and politics. To understand... -
Protestant Origins in India: Tamil Evangelical Christians 1706-1835 by D. Dennis Hudson
RRP: $174.15$151.29Protestant Christianity was established as a religion of India when in 1706 missionaries from the the German Evangelical Church sponsored by the King of Denmark landed at the Danish factory in Tamil-speaking Tranquebar. An indigenous congregation soon... -
Interest Groups and the New Democracy Movement in Hong Kong by Sonny Shiu-Hing Lo
RRP: $51.59$45.23A new era in the democracy movement in Hong Kong began on July 1, 2003, when half a million people protested on the streets, and has included the 2012 anti-National Education campaign, the 2014 Occupy Central Movement and the rapid rise of localist... -
Changing Taiwanese Identities by J. Bruce Jacobs
RRP: $51.59$45.23The peoples of Taiwan have been influenced by many different cultures and migrations throughout the island's history. In the 20th and early 21st centuries especially it has been a stage for cultural and ethnic conflict, not least because of the arrival... -
Order Wars and Floating Balance: How the Rising Powers Are Reshaping Our Worldview in the Twenty-First Century by Andreas Herberg-Rothe
RRP: $56.75$49.59A sense of order has irreversibly retreated at the turn of the twenty-first century with the rise of such ancient civilizations as China and India and the militant resurgence of Islamic groups. The United States and like-minded states want to maintain... -
The Transnational Politics of Asian Americans by Christian Collet
RRP: $38.69$33.53Discusses Asian Americans as a force for political change on both sides of the PacificBook InformationISBN 9781592138616Author Christian ColletFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Temple University Press,U.S.Publisher Temple University Press,U.S. -
Asian American Sporting Cultures by Stanley I. Thangaraj
RRP: $36.11$30.52Delves into the long history of Asian American sporting cultures, considering how identities and communities are negotiated on sporting fields Through a close examination of Asian American sporting cultures ranging from boxing and basketball to spelling... -
Unsustainable Empire: Alternative Histories of Hawai'i Statehood by Dean Itsuji Saranillio
RRP: $32.24$27.39In Unsustainable Empire Dean Itsuji Saranillio offers a bold challenge to conventional understandings of Hawai'i's admission as a U.S. state. Hawai'i statehood is popularly remembered as a civil rights victory against racist claims that Hawai'i was...