From March 16-19, we will be attending the 2017 Association for Asian Studies (AAS) annual conference in Toronto, Canada.
Executive editor Lorri Hagman and advancement and grants manager Beth Fuget will be representing the press at the meeting. Come see us in the exhibit hall at booth 409 and follow along with the meeting on social media at #AAS2017.
We are thrilled to celebrate the debut of a number of new and recent titles across the range of our Asian Studies titles including offerings in our Classics of Chinese Thought translation series, the Global South Asia series, the Critical Dialogues in Southeast Asian Studies series, books in the Mellon-funded collaborative Modern Language Initiative (MLI), and these recent book prize winners:
The Emotions of Justice by Jisoo M. Kim is winner of the 2017 James B. Palais Book Prize from the Association for Asian Studies.
Letters and Epistolary Culture in Early Medieval China by Antje Richter was awarded an honorable mention for the 2016 Kayden Book Award in literary studies.
New and Recent Books
Read an excerpt from Zuo Tradition / Zuozhuan: Commentary on the “Spring and Autumn Annals”
Forthcoming from the Global South Asia series
Banaras Reconstructed: Architecture and Sacred Space in a Hindu Holy City
By Madhuri Desai
Forthcoming May 2017
Desai examines the confluences, as well as the tensions, that have shaped this complex and remarkable city. In so doing, she raises issues central to historical as well as contemporary
Indian identity and delves into larger questions about religious urban environments in South Asia.
Displaying Time: The Many Temporalities of the Festival of India
By Rebecca M. Brown
Forthcoming June 2017
Using extensive archival research and interviews with artists, curators, diplomats, and visitors, Brown analyzes a selection of museum shows that were part of the Festival of India to unfurl new exhibitionary modes: the time of transformation, of interruption, of potential and the future, as well as the contemporary and the now.
Now Available in Paperback
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- “The Han” by Agnieszka Joniak-Luthi (Studies on Ethnic Groups in China)
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- “Frontier Livelihoods” by Sarah Turner, Christine Bonnin, and Jean Michaud
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- “The Drunken Man’s Talk” compiled by Luo Ye, translated by Alister D. Inglis
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- “Urbanization in Early and Medieval China” translated and introduced by Olivia Milburn
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- “The Scholar and the State” by Liangyan Ge
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- “China’s Transition to Modernity” by Minghui Hu
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- “City of Virtues” by Chuck Wooldridge
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- “Heaven in Conflict” by Anthony E. Clark
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- “God’s Little Daughters” by Ji Li (Modern Language Initiative Books)
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- “Gender and Chinese History” edited by Beverly Bossler
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