Asian Studies

NEW AND FORTHCOMING

Aung San Suu Kyi and Burma's Struggle for Democracy

by Bertil Lintner

China Watcher: Confessions of a Peking Tom

by Richard Baum

Escape from Blood Pond Hell: The Tales of Mulian and Woman Huang

Translated and Introduced by Beata Grant and Wilt L. Idema

Explorers and Scientists in China's Borderlands, 1880-1950

Edited by Denise M. Glover, Stevan Harrell, Charles F. McKhann, and Margaret Byrne Swain

The Northern Region of Korea: History, Identity, and Culture

Edited by Sun Joo Kim

Reassessing the Park Chung Hee Era, 1961-1979: Development, Political Thought, Democracy, and Cultural Influence

Edited by Hyung-A Kim and Clark W. Sorensen

Religious Revival in the Tibetan Borderlands: The Premi of Southwest China

by Koen Wellens

Taipei: City of Displacements

by Joseph R. Allen

Treatises of the Supervisor and Guardian of the Cinnamon Sea: The Natural World and Material Culture of Twelfth-Century China

by Fan Chengda; Translated by James M. Hargett

Writing and Literacy in Early China: Studies from the Columbia Early China Seminar

Edited by Feng Li and David Prager Branner


PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED

Advanced Reader of Contemporary Short Stories: Reflections on Humanity

compiled by Ying Wang and Carrie E. Reed

The Art of Ethnography: A Chinese "Miao Album"

translated by David Deal and Laura Hostetler

Border Landscapes: The Politics of Akha Land Use in China and Thailand

by Janet C. Sturgeon

The Buddha in the Jungle

by Kamala Tiyavanich

Building Ships, Building a Nation: Korea's Democratic Unionism under Park Chung Hee

by Hwasook Nam

Calling in the Soul: Gender and the Cycle of Life in a Hmong Village

Patricia V. Symonds

China and Iran: Ancient Partners in a Post-Imperial World

by John W. Garver

Chinese Painting Style: Media, Methods, and Principles of Form

by Jerome Silbergeld

Chung ta noi: Conversational Vietnamese, An Intermediate Text

by Le Pham Thuy-Kim and Nguyen Kim-Oanh

Communist Multiculturalism: Ethnic Revival in Southwest China

by Susan K. McCarthy

Everyday Modernity in China

edited by Madeleine Yue Dong and Joshua Goldstein

Forest Guardians, Forest Destroyers: The Politics of Environmental Knowledge in Northern Thailand

by Tim Forsyth and Andrew Walker

For Gods, Ghosts and Ancestors: The Chinese Tradition of Paper Offerings

by Janet Lee Scott

Gathering Leaves and Lifting Words: Histories of Buddhist Monastic Education in Laos and Thailand

by Justin Thomas McDaniel

Governing China's Multiethnic Frontiers

edited by Morris Rossabi

Guest People: Hakka Identity in China and Abroad

edited by Nicole Constable

Heroines of Jiangyong: Chinese Narrative Ballads in Women's Script

translation and introduction by Wilt L. Idema

Hitchcock with a Chinese Face: Cinematic Doubles, Oedipal Triangles, and China's Moral Voice

by Jerome Silbergeld

Imagined Ancestries of Vietnamese Communism: Ton Duc Thang and the Politics of History and Memory

by Christoph Giebel

The Interweaving of Rituals: Funerals in the Cultural Exchange between China and Europe

by Nicolas Standaert

The Ironies of Freedom: Sex, Culture, and Neoliberal Governance in Vietnam

by Thu-huong Nguyen-vo

Japanese Assimilation Policies in Colonial Korea, 1910-1945

by Mark Caprio

The Kirghiz and Wakhi of Afghanistan: Adaptation to Closed Frontiers and War

by Nazif Sharani

Knowing Southeast Asian Subjects

edited by Laurie J. Sears

Koizumi Diplomacy: Japan's Kantei Approach to Foreign and Defense Affairs

by Tomohito Shinoda

The Kuhls of Kangra: Community-Managed Irrigation in the Western Himalaya

by J. Mark Baker

The Lost Wolves of Japan

by Brett L. Walker

Making Fields of Merit: Buddhist Female Ascetics and Gendered Orders in Thailand

by Monica Lindberg Falk

Manchus and Han: Ethnic Relations and Political Power in Late Qing and Early Republican China, 1861-1928

by Edward J. M. Rhoads

The Many Lives of a Rajput Queen: Heroic Pasts in India, c. 1500-1900

by Ramya Sreenivasan

Meng Jiangnu Brings Down the Great Wall: Ten Versions of a Chinese Legend

translation and introduction by Wilt L. Idema

Mobility and Cultural Authority in Contemporary China

by Pal Nyiri

Modern Clan Politics: The Power of "Blood" in Kazakhstan and Beyond

by Edward Schatz

The Odyssey of China's Imperial Art Treasures

by Jeannette Shambaugh Elliott with David Shambaugh

The Pacific Muse: Exotic Femininity and the Colonial Pacific

by Patty O'Brien

Property and Politics in Sabah, Malaysia: Native Struggles over Land Rights

by Amity A. Doolittle

On the Margins of Tibet: Cultural Survival on the Sino-Tibetan Frontier

by Ashild Kolas and Monika P. Thowsen

Qing Governors and Their Provinces: The Evolution of Territorial Administration in China, 1644-1796

by R. Kent Guy

The Rebel Den of Nung Tri Cao: Loyalty and Identity along the Sino-Vietnamese Frontier

by James A. Anderson

Scenic Spots: Chinese Tourism, the State, and Cultural Authority

by Pal Nyiri

Shaping the Lotus Sutra: Buddhist Visual Culture in Medieval China

by Eugene Y. Wang

Speaking Havoc: Social Suffering and South Asian Narratives

by Ramu Nagappan

Stories Old and New: A Ming Dynasty Collection

compiled by Feng Menglong; translated by Shuhui Yang and Yunqin Yang

Stories to Caution the World: A Ming Dynasty Collection, Volume 2

compiled by Feng Menglong; translated by Shuhui Yang and Yunqin Yang

The Story of Han Xiangzi: The Alchemical Adventures of a Daoist Immortal

by Yang Erzeng; translated and introduced by Philip Clart

Text and Ritual in Early China

edited by Martin Kern

True Crimes in Eigthteenth-Century China: Twenty Case Histories

compiled and translated by Robert E. Hegel

Two Kinds of Time

by Graham Peck

Verandah of Violence: The Background to the Aceh Problem

edited by Anthony Reid

Vignettes from the Late Ming: A Hsiao-p'in Anthology

translated with Annotations and an introduction by Yang Ye

Ways of Being Ethnic in Southwest China

by Stevan Harrell

Women Playing Men: Yue Opera and Social Change in Twentieth-Century Shanghai

by Jin Jiang

Worshipping the Great Moderniser: King Chulalongkorn, Patron Saint of the Thai Middle Class

by Irene Stengs

Writing and Law in Late Imperial China: Crime, Conflict, and Judgment

edited by Robert E. Hegel and Katherine Carlitz

Xiaoyuan Hanyu/Speaking Chinese on Campus: A Textbook for Intermediate Chinese Courses

by Stella Chen, Carrie Reed, and Cao Yuqing

A Year in the Life of a Shinto Shrine

by John K. Nelson