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letter from the asian studies editors:
We are delighted to present the Columbia University Press Asian Studies catalogue of new books for
2015. The books gathered here span many fields in Asian studies—literary studies, philosophy, reli-
gion, history, politics, and film.
We offer several important new translations of literary works. Gustav Heldt’s The Kojiki: An Account
of Ancient Matters is a beautiful new translation of Japan’s oldest literary text. Sonja Arntzen and
Moriyuki Ito’s The Sarashina Diary: A Woman’s Life in Eleventh-Century Japan is a new rendering into
English with a critical introduction and notes that serve to establish the context of the diary entries.
Also on the literary studies portion of the list are two books on Chinese literature—David Der-wei
Wang’s monumental The Lyrical in Epic Time: Modern Chinese Intellectuals and Artists Through the
1949 Crisis and Michel Hockx’s Internet Literature in China, a stunning overview of the development of
Internet literature in contemporary China and how it challenges literary conventions while operating
within the context of the PRC’s publishing system. The Fall of Language in the Age of English, a best-
selling book in Japan by the famed novelist Minae Mizumura, has been revised by the author for an
English-language audience. The book takes a critical look at the results of English as the singular uni-
versal language and asks what that means for the “national languages” and “national literatures” of
the world. In Stereotype: South Asia in the Global Literary Imaginary, by Mrinalini Chakravorty, provides
a new understanding of the idea of stereotype by exploring its role in the works of prominent South
Asian writers and how it shapes ideas of the region in the global cultural imagination.
Our recent titles in Asian history and politics also reflect the range and depth of our list. Jie Li’s
Shanghai Homes offers a highly original microhistory of residential life in Shanghai in the twentieth
century, told through the author’s family history. Wendy Law-Yone’s A Daughter’s Memoir of Burma
is an adventure story, a love story, and a political memoir set against Burma’s turbulent twentieth
century. Hans van de Ven’s Breaking with the Past: The Maritime Customs Service and the Global
Origins of Modernity in China brilliantly recounts China’s rocky entrance into the global political
economy. Nicholas Dirks’s Autobiography of an Archive: A Scholar’s Passage to India describes Dirks’s
development as a South Asia scholar alongside the unfolding relationship between the American
academy and what was then called the “third” or “developing” world. Sandra Fahy conducted lengthy
and detailed interviews with more than thirty North Korean refugees. Her book, Marching Through
Suffering: Loss and Survival in North Korea, is the first to truly give North Korean people their own
voice on the famine, survival, loyalty to the regime, and their surprisingly conflicted views of South
Korea and the United States.
In Paving the Great Way: Vasubandhu's Unifying Buddhist Philosophy, Jonathan Gold identifies recurrent
treatments of causality and scriptural interpretation in Vasubandhu's work that unify distinct strands
of his thought under a single, Buddhist philosophy, offering a new perspective on the development of
Buddhist epistemology and the theorization of tantra. In religious studies, Richard Boyle’s Realizing
Awakened Consciousness: Interviews with Buddhist Teachers and a New Perspective on the Mind investi-
gates how traditions and practices that originated in India, China, Tibet, and Japan have been inter-
preted by some of North America’s most prominent teachers. Harry Rothschild’s Emperor Wu Zhao
and Her Pantheon of Devis, Divinities, and Dynastic Mothers analyzes the tumultuous reign of China’s
first and only female emperor.
Columbia University Press is also the proud distributor in the United States of the excellent books
published by Hong Kong University Press and the Chinese University Press in Hong Kong.
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CONTENTS
Manuscript queries and proposals can be sent to:
Anne Routon ([email protected])f or Asian history and politics.
Jennifer Crewe ([email protected]) for Translations from the Asian Classics and Asian literature.
Wendy Lochner ([email protected]) for Asian philosophy and religion.
Philip Leventhal ([email protected]) for Asian film.
For a complete listing of Columbia’s titles or for more information about any book in this catalog, visit our web site: www.cup.colum-bia.edu
Most titles in this catalog pulished by Columbia University Press are available worldwide from the Press. If no UK price appears, it is most likely from Columbia only in the United States, its possessions, and Canada.
Japanese Literature & Culture .......................4
Japanese History & Politics ........................... 7
Chinese Literature & Culture.........................8
Chinese History & Politics ...........................11
Himalayas & Tibet ....................................... 14
East Asian Studies ........................................15
Asian Cinema & Media Studies...................19
South/Southast Asian Studies ....................20
Indian History, Religion & Culture ..............22
Korean Literature, Politics & Culture ..........24
Asian-American Studies ..............................26
Pan-Asian Studies ........................................28
Buddhism ....................................................29
Order Form ...................................................31
Drawing New Color LinesTransnational Asian American Graphic
NarrativesEdited by Monica Chiu
p. 28
Ground Zero, Nagasaki Stories
Seirai Yuichi p. 4
Autobiography of an ArchiveA Scholar's Passage to India
Nicholas B. Dirksp. 21
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The Tale of GenjiTranslation, Canonization, and World LiteratureMichael Emmerich
$30.00 / £19.50 paper 978-0-231-16273-9
2013 512 pages / 129 illus.
cloth 978-0-231-16272-2
Ground Zero, Nagasaki Stories
Seirai Yuichi
Translated by Paul Warham
“A moving document of the atomic experi-
ence and one that suggests the ways it still
affects Japan today.”
——Stephen Snyder, Middlebury College
Set in contemporary Nagasaki, the six short stories in this collection draw a chilling por-trait of the ongoing trauma of the detonation of the atomic bomb. Whether they experi-enced the destruction of the city directly or heard about it from survivors, the characters in these tales filter their pain and alienation through their Catholic faith, illuminating a side of Japanese culture little known in the West. Many of them are descended from the "hidden Christians" who continued to practice their religion in secret during the centuries when it was outlawed in Japan. Urakami Cathedral, the center of Japanese Christian life, stood at ground zero when the bomb fell.
$35.00 / £24.00 cloth 978-0-231-17116-8
2015 208 pages
New in paper
E D I T E D B Y Thomas Harper and Haruo Shirane
S O U R C E S F R O M T H E F I R S T M I L L E N N I U M
Reading The Tale of Genji
Forthcoming June
Reading The Tale of Genji
Sources from the First Millennium
Edited by Thomas Harper and Haruo Shirane
“This book is a treasure. Erudite and master-ful translations, many appearing here for the first time, will advance the field in significant ways.”
—Melissa McCormick, Harvard University
“A brilliant example of what collaboration among scholars can produce. The introduction to the whole work and to the individual texts are clear, cogent, concise, and engaging, and the translations are very readable and display different nuances in style.”
—Sonja Arntzen, University of Toronto
$65.00 / £45.00 cloth 978-0-231-16658-4
June 2015 656 pages / 13 illus.
JAPANESE LITERATURE & CULTURE
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JAPANESE LITERATURE & CULTURE
The Columbia Anthology of Japanese EssaysZuihitsu from the Tenth to the Twenty-First Century
Edited and translated by Steven D. Carter
"This focused ramble of the traditional
Japanese essay format called zuihitsu (liter-
ally, 'following the brush') has appealed to
writers of both genders, all ages, and every
class in Japanese society. Highly personal,
these essays contain dollops of philosophy,
odd anecdotes, quiet reflection, and pro-
nouncements on taste. In running alongside
the main tracks of Japanese literature, this
broad collection of zuihitsu brims with idio-
syncratic interest."
—Liza Dalby, author of The Tale of Murasaki
and East Wind Melts the Ice
The Columbia Anthology of Japanese Essays presents a representative selection of more than one hundred zuihitsu from a range of historical periods written by close to fifty authors--from well-known figures, such as Matsuo Basho, Natsume Soseki, and Koda Aya, to such writers as Tachibana Nankei and Dekune Tatsuro, whose works appear here for the first time in English.
$40.00 / £27.50 paper 978-0-231-16771-0
$120.00 / £83.00 cloth 978-0-231-16770-3
2014 560 pages
The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese DramaEdited by J. Thomas Rimer, Mitsuya Mori,
and M. Cody Poulton
“An excellent representative sampling of
modern Japanese drama and a substantial
contribution to Japanese literature in
translation and the body of Japanese scripts
available in English for Western theater
artists.”
—Kevin J. Wetmore Jr., Loyola Marymount
University
“Few anthologies are as comprehensive as
this one, and the translators have done an
admirable job in capturing the language
and tone of each of the playwrights. This
anthology will open up much of modern and
contemporary Japanese theater work to a
wider audience.”
—David Jortner, Baylor University
$75.00 / £52.00 cloth 978-0-231-12830-8
2014 880 pages
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The Sarashina DiaryA Woman's Life in Eleventh-Century Japan
Sugawara no Takasue no Musume
Translated, with an introduction, by Sonja Arntzen
and Moriyuki Ito
"This sparkling new version of The Sarashina
Diary opens out an eleventh-century clas-
sic for twenty-first-century readers. Sonja
Arntzen and Ito Moriyuki situate the diary
culturally and historically, and their trans-
lation conveys both the vivid realism of
Takasue no Musume's prose and the haunt-
ing melancholy of her poems." — David Damrosch, Harvard University
This new translation captures the lyrical richness of the original text while revealing its subtle structure and ironic meaning. The introduction highlights the poetry in The Sarashina Diary and the juxtaposition of poetic passages and narrative prose, which brings meta-meanings into play. The trans-lators' commentary offers insight into the author's family and world, as well as the fascinating textual legacy of her work.
$47.00 / £27.50 cloth 978-0-231-16718-5
2014 264 pages / 20 illus.
Translations from Asian Classics
JAPANESE LITERATURE & CULTURE
The Kojiki
An Account of Ancient Matters
O no Yasumaro
Translated by Gustav Heldt
“Heldt's new, complete, and contemporary
translation brings vibrancy and clarity to this
often politicized work of ancient Japan. The
poetry is rendered exquisitely, the narratives
unfold with clarity; the translation itself is at
once impeccable and imaginative. A master
work that will generate discussions far into
the future.
—James E. Ketelaar, University of Chicago
“A translation of the Kojiki that is accurate
and faithful to the original and at the same
time exciting to read. A key element of the
Kojiki mythology is the power of naming, and
Heldt's decision to translate the names of its
various gods and royal figures has brought
the narrative alive in a way that it has never
been before in English."— Torquil Duthie, University of California,
Los Angeles
$27.00 / £18.50 paper 978-0-231-16389-7
$80.00 / £55.00 cloth 978-0-231-16388-0
2014 312 pages
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JAPANESE HISTORY & POLITICS
Grassroots FascismThe War Experience of the Japanese People
Yoshimi Yoshiaki
Translated by Ethan Mark
“The translation of Yoshiaki Yoshimi's unprec-
edented Grassroots Fascism makes available
his compelling narrative of popular partici-
pation in the actuality of Japanese fascism
before and during the Pacific War. Although
this classic work concentrates on how ordi-
nary people were enlisted into Japan's fascist
project, it also shows in rich detail the role
they were willing to play as agents at the
level of everyday life. Yoshimi's book joins a
post-Cold War historiographical tradition that
once more recognizes the necessity t0 take
fascism seriously as a global conjunctural
event."
— Harry Harootunian, Columbia University
$45.00 / £30.95 cloth 978-0-231-16568-6
2015 360 pages / 11 illus.
Weatherhead Books on Asia
Manchu Princess, Japanese SpyThe Story of Kawashima Yoshiko, the Cross-Dressing Spy Who Commanded Her Own Army
Phyllis Birnbaum
"Richly illustrated with rare photos, and
enlivened by numerous interviews, Phyllis
Birnbaum's book is a balanced, well-written
biography of one of the most notorious fig-
ures to emerge in the early twentieth-century
contest for empire in northeast Asia. Anyone
interested in the personal dimension of Sino-
Japanese relations during the period of their
most problematic intensity will find much
profit in reading these stories of the life of
Kawashima Yoshiko, many told through the
memories of the men and women who loved
her and hated her, often at the same time."
— Mark C. Elliott, Harvard University
$30.00 cloth 978-0231-15218-1
2015 272 pages / 22 illus.
Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture
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Internet Literature in China
Michel Hockx
“This book is the best introduction avail-
able in English to the psychic landscape of
contemporary Chinese netizens who know
how to play with censors to articulate their
personal desires, fantasies, phobias and
exhibitionism."
—Lydia H. Liu, author of The Freudian
Robot: Digital Media and the Future of the
Unconscious
Conducting the first comprehensive survey in English of this phenomenon, Michel Hockx describes in detail the types of Chinese literature taking shape right now online and their novel aesthetic, politi-cal, and ideological challenges. Offering a unique portal into postsocialist Chinese culture, he presents a complex portrait of internet culture and control in China that avoids one-dimensional representations of oppression. Hockx interviews online authors, publishers, and censors, capturing the convergence of mass media, creativity, censorship, and free speech that is upend-ing traditional hierarchies and conventions
within China—and across Asia.
$40.00 / £27.50 cloth 978-0-231-16082-7
2015 256 pages / 29 illus.
Global Chinese Culture
Internet Literature in China Michel Hockx
wang
The Lyrical
inEpicTime
The Lyrical in Epic Time Modern Chinese Intellectuals and artists Through the 1949 Crisis
David Der-wei wang
The Lyrical in Epic TimeModern Chinese Intellectuals and Artists Through the 1949 Crisis
David Der-wei Wang
“Wang moves with ease and flair from one
discipline to another as he delineates the
complex dynamics of the evolving cultural
lyricism in mid-twentieth-century China. No
other published book in the field can rival
this in breadth, depth, and goals.”
—Zong-Qi Cai, University of Illinois
“By bringing energetic questioning and
immense erudition to bear on lyricism, Wang
succeeds in throwing a brilliant new light
onto crucial aspects of modern Chinese expe-
rience in ways that demand a reconfiguration
of our understanding.”
—Susan Daruvala, Cambridge University
$60.00 / £41.50 cloth 978-0-231-17046-8
2015 528 pages
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The Orphan of Zhao and Other Yuan PlaysThe Earliest Known Versions
Edited by Stephen H. West and Wilt L. Idemas
“The anthology, together with original intro-ductory segments, opens a new window onto the urban milieu of the formative period of early Chinese theater. For anyone interested in not only in the literary, but in the per-formance aesthetics of traditional Chinese drama, this collection will be indispensable."
—Patricia Sieber, The Ohio State University
Crackling with raw emotion, violent imagery, and colorful language and wit, the zaju in this volume explore the consequences of loyalty and betrayal, ambition and enlight-enment, and piety and drunkenness. The collection features seven of the twenty-six available untranslated zaju published in the fourteenth century, with a substantial intro-duction preceding each play and extensive annotations throughout.
$65.00 / £45.00 cloth 978-0-231-16854-0
2014 432 pages
Translations from the Asian Classics
t r a n s l at e d & i n t r o d uc e d by
stephen h. West
a n d Wilt l. idema
the
earliest
KnoWn
Versions
a n d O t h e r Yuan P laysThe Orphan of Zhao
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Visions of Dystopia in China's New Historical Novels
Jeffrey C. Kinkley
“Kinkley dives directly into the complex and
sometimes murky intersection between
history and literature in contemporary China.
Along the way, we are introduced to the
leading voices in Chinese literature today—
including Mo Yan, Su Tong, Yu Hua and
Wang Anyi— and offered nuanced readings
of the dystopian undercurrent in their major
works. For those interested in delving deeper
into the most important Chinese novels of
the past quarter century, this is where to
start."
—Michael Berry, author of History of Pain
and Speaking in Images
“A lucid, thought-provoking, and substantial
study of several of China's most important
creative writers; one that poses crucial ques-
tions about the links between fiction, history
and politics in the contemporary People's
Republic.”
—Julia Lovell, University of London
$45.00 / £30.95 cloth 978-0-231-16768-0
2014 304 pages
Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture
Visions o
f Dyst
opia in Chin
a’s
Jeffrey C. Kinkley
New
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cal N
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CHINESE LITERATURE & CULTURE
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Talk Radio, the Mainstream Press, and Public Opinion in Hong Kong
Francis L. F. Lee
In the absence of a fully democratic sys-tem, phone-in programmes on public and commercial radio channels have played an influential role in channeling and mediat-ing Hon Kong public opinion. Lee examines the phenomenon of talk radio in Hong Kong, arguing that the circulation and re-circulation of talk radio content through the mainstream media is crucial in explaining the medium's social prominence and influ-ence. The process has not only widened the dissemination of talk radio content, but has also established talk radio as a channel for free political expression, giving it a role in shaping serious debate not seen in many other societies. Drawing on interviews with radio personnel, analysis of radio and news-paper content, and audience surveys, Talk Radio explores the vital and influential world of Hong Kong's phone-in programmes.
$32.00 / £22.00 paper 978-988-820-858-6
$58.00 / £40.00 cloth 978-988-820-857-9
2014 288 pages / 9 illus.
Hong Kong University Press
Media in China, China in the MediaProcesses, Strategies, Images, Identities
Edited by Adina Zemanek
Mass media plays a significant role in the production and reproduction of identities and lifestyles, values and world-views. It also convey information about the world we live in, as it reflects elements of the broader context within which it comes into being. This volume brings together eleven essays that offer a complex approach to both media in the PRC and the way China and the Chinese are presented in the media of other countries. Individual chapters discuss images constructed, persuasive techniques employed, political undertakings and official stances reflected, as well as popular feeling expressed in the Chinese official and popu-lar press, information websites, Internet forums, mainstream Western press, Polish and Italian media, Zambian Internet forums, and Indonesian cinema.
$42.00 / £29.00 paper 978-83-233-3621-1
2014 208 pages
jagiellonian university press
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Emperor Wu Zhao and Her Pantheon of Devis, Divinities, and Dynastic Mothers
N. Harry Rothschild
"By delving deeply into the religious underpin-
nings of Wu Zetian's power in a way that not
even the most dedicated approach to her uti-
lization of Buddhist scriptures and doctrines
alone could manage, this investigation illumi-
nates the unique quality of Wu Zetian's reign
far more effectively than previous studies....
A solid piece of well-documented scholarship,
vibrant and entertaining throughout."
— Victor H. Mair, University of Pennsylvania
Wu Zhao (624-705), better known as Wu Zetian or Empress Wu, is the only woman to have ruled China over the course of its 5,000-year history. How did she rise to power, and why was she never overthrown? Exploring a mystery that has confounded scholars for centuries, this multifaceted his-tory suggests that Wu Zhao drew on China's rich pantheon of female divinities and emi-nent women to aid in her reign.
$40.00 / £27.50 cloth 978-0-231-16938-7
June 2015 384 pages / 18 illus.
The Sheng Yen Series in Chinese Buddhist Studies
Shanghai HomesPalimpsests of Private Life
Jie Li
“Shanghai Homes recounts the lives of three
generations of residents in Shanghai’s alley-
way neighborhoods, once vibrant communi-
ties that have all but disappeared since the
late 1990s. In her detailed and wonderfully
written account, Li treats her subjects with
a rare combination of personal engagement
and academic rigor. A remarkable work in
urban cultural studies."
—Hanchao Lu, author of Beyond the
Neon Lights
“A real gem...Shanghai Homes is that unique
work that effortlessly moves between and
cuts across several disciplinary areas: family
history, Cultural Revolution politics, urban
architecture, and above all personal and col-
lective memory and its place in post-Socialsit
and globalized China.”
—Leo Ou-Fan Lee, author of Shanghai Modern
$30.00 / £20.50 paper 978-0-231-16717-8
$90.00 / £62.00 cloth 978-0-231-16716-1
2014 304 pages / 49 figures
Global Chinese Culture
CHINESE HISTORY & POLITICSForthcoming June
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The Golden GhettoThe American Commercial Community at Canton and the Shaping of American China Policy, 1784-1844
Jacques M. Downs
With a new introduction by Frederic D. Grant, Jr.
“The fullest exposition on the subject thus
far and as the final word on extant, previ-
ously untapped, English-language sources."
— The China Quarterly
Before the opening of the treaty ports in the 1840s, Canton was the only Chinese port where foreign merchants were allowed to trade. The Golden Ghetto takes us into the world of one of this city's most important foreign communities—the Americans—during the decades between the American Revolution of 1776 and the signing of the Sino-US Treaty of Wanghia in 1844. Jacques Downs devotes particular attention to the biographical details of the principal American traders, the leading American firms, and their operations in Canton and
the United States.
$69.00 / £47.50 cloth 978-988-8139-09-5
2015 504 pages / 66 illus.
hong kong university press
From Warhorses to PloughsharesThe Later Tang Reign of Emperor Mingzong
Richard L. Davis
Mingzong (r. 926-933) was the most illus-trious emperor of the Five Dynasties, and one of the most admired of China's middle period, the Tang to Song. Mingzong mar-shaled a cluster of eminently able court-iers, men who balanced Confucian charity against the military discipline demanded in a time of transition. He wisely eschewed military conflict, except as a last resort. Conservative in moral and legal matters, he introduced radical economic reforms that included deregulation of traditional monopolies and timely changes to the tribu-tary system. Drawing extensively on primary sources, including Mingzong's spirited correspondence with his officials, this politi-cal and cultural biography brings to life a charismatic emperor who was held up as a model ruler by succeeding generations.
$60.00 / £41.50 cloth 978-988-8208-10-4
2015 224 pages
hong kong university press
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NEw IN PAPER
China’s Uncertain Future
Jean-Luc Domenach
Translated by George Holoch Jr.
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title
“Informed, accessible, engaging...Highly
recommended.” — Choice
$24.00 / £16.50 paper 978-0-231-15225-9
2014 208 pages
cloth 978-0-231-15224-2
China’s Search for Security
Andrew J. Nathan and Andrew Scobell
“[Nathan & Scobell] skillfully and fairly
explore this complex and contradictory
American-Chinese competition.”
—New York Review of Books
$24.00 / £16.50 paper 978-0-231-14051-5
2014 432 pages
cloth 978-0-231-14050-8
Pacific CrossingCalifornia Gold, Chinese Migration, and the Making of Hong Kong
Elizabeth Sinn
$34.00 / £23.50 paper 978-988-8139-72-9
2014 472 pages / 23 illus.
cloth 978-988-8139-71-2
Hong Kong University Press
Never Forget National HumiliationHistorical Memory in Chinese Politics and Foreign Relations
Zheng Wang
$25.00 / £17.50 paper 978-0-231-14891-7
2014 312 pages / 23 illus.
cloth 978-0-231-14890-0
Contemporary Asia in the World
Breaking with the PastThe Maritime Customs Service and the Global Origins of Modernity in China
Hans van de Ven
“Far more than an institutional history of
the Customs Service, this book is effectively
a complete new history of China’s rocky
entrance into the global political economy.
There is no better book written at this level
of historical research and archival detail on
the subject of “China and the West.”
— Timothy Brook, University of British
Columbia
“This is the story of China’s economic
internationalization in the century before
the Communist conquest....The eminent
Cambridge historian, Hans van de Ven, has
written this history in full for the first time,
using an extraordinary array of Chinese and
international sources. Today, as China looks
to its pre-Communist past as a guide to its
future, this is an important book.”
— William C. Kirby, Harvard University
$50.00 / £34.50 cloth 978-0-231-13738-6
2014 432 pages / 34 illus.
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HIMALAYAS & TIBET
The Dalai Lama and the Emperor of ChinaA Political History of the Tibetan Institution of Reincarnation
Peter Schwieger
“Peter Schwieger brings new precision to
our understanding of Tibet's central political
institution, that of the Dalai Lama, reach-
ing beyond earlier scholarship thanks to
his innovative and thorough use of archival
sources that have only recently become
available."
— Matthew Kapstein, EPHE, Paris, and the
University of Chicago
A major new work in modern Tibetan history, this book follows the evolution of Tibetan Buddhism's trülku (reincarnation) tradition from the seventeenth to the nine-teenth centuries, along with the Emperor of China's efforts to control its development. By illuminating the political aspects of the trülku institution, Schwieger shapes a broader history of the relationship between the Dalai Lama and the Emperor of China, as well as a richer understanding of the Qing Dynasty as an inner Asian empire, the modern fate of the Mongol empire, and current Sino-Tibetan relations.
$50.00 / £34.50 cloth 978-0-231-16852-6
2015 352 pages / 18 illus.
Love and LiberationAutobiographical Writings of the Tibetan Buddhist Visionary Sera Khandro
Sarah H. Jacoby
"Sarah H. Jacoby's study of gender and sexu-
ality is pathbreaking in the field of Tibetan
studies. Because the main research materials
were authored by a noncelibate woman, this
book gives rich insight into one woman's
conception of the complex social, political,
and even medical aspects of tantric consort
practices. Jacoby grounds Buddhist theory in
the lived experience of an actual practitioner
and illuminates this topic based on her field-
work in Tibet. "
— Gray Tuttle, Columbia University
$50.00 / £34.50 cloth 978-0-231-14768-2
2014 456 pages / 19 illus.
South Asia Across the Disciplines
New in paper
The Culture of the Book in Tibet
Kurtis R. Schaeffer
"A brilliant study."—Journal of Asian Studies
$26.00 / £18.000 paper 978-0231-14717-0
2014 264 pages
cloth 978-0-231-14716-3
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EAST ASIAN STUDIES
The Japan-South Korea Identity ClashEast Asian Security and the United States
Brad Glosserman and Scott A. Snyder
"Glosserman and Snyder unbundle one
of the most consequential and seemingly
illogical puzzles in contemporary East Asia.
Whether scholars and policymakers agree
with their call for a bold American move to
reset relations between these two critical
allies and democracies, one cannot ignore
the authors' path-breaking analysis—or the
strategic consequences they point to in the
current impasse." —Michael J. Green, former Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Asia, National Security Council
Glosserman and Snyder isolate compet-ing notions of national identity as the main obstacle to a productive partnership between Japan and South Korea. Through public opinion data, interviews, and years of observation, they show how fundamen-tally incompatible, rapidly changing con-ceptions of national identity in Japan and South Korea--and not struggles over power or structural issues—have complicated ter-ritorial claims and international policy.
$35.00 / £24.00 cloth 978-0-231-17170-0
May 2015 224 pages / 12 illus.
Contemporary Asia in the World
Forthcoming May
Intimate RivalsJapanese Domestic Politics and a Rising China
Sheila A. Smith
“This well-informed study explains, with
admirable clarity, the increasingly involved
and complex attitudes in Japanese domestic
politics regarding China... A fine-grained
analysis.”
— Publishers Weekly
No country feels China's rise more deeply than Japan. Through intricate case stud-ies of visits by Japanese politicians to the Yasukuni Shrine, conflicts over the boundaries of economic zones in the East China Sea, concerns about food safety, and strategies of island defense, Sheila A. Smith explores the policy issues testing the Japanese government as it tries to navigate its relationship with an advancing China. ted territorial claims and international policy.
$40.00 / £27.50 cloth 978-0-231-16788-8
2015 384 pages / 18 illus.
A Council on Foreign Relations Book
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EAST ASIAN STUDIES
The Fall of Language in the Age of English
Minae Mizumura
Translated by Mari Yoshihara
and Juliet Winters Carpenter
“Provocatively participates in debates on
world literature, translation, reading, and
writing, bringing an illuminating perspec-
tive to the translingual formation of national
languages and the now-endangered arch of
modern literature.”
—Tomi Suzuki, Columbia University
Winner of the Kobayashi Hideo Award, The Fall of Language in the Age of English lays bare the struggle to retain the brilliance of one's own language in this period of English-language dominance. Born in Tokyo but also raised and educated in the United States, Minae Mizumura acknowledges the value of a universal language in the pursuit of knowledge, yet also embraces the different ways of understanding offered by multiple tongues. She warns against losing this pre-cious diversity.
$35.00 / £24.00 cloth 978-0-231-16302-6
2015 256 pages
Dams and Development in ChinaThe Moral Economy of Water and Power
Bryan Tilt
“[Tilt's book] is a highly readable and wide-
ranging account of hydropower develop-
ment in China, providing insights on topics
ranging from the relationship between state
capitalism and the building of dams, to new
data on the effects of resettlement on liveli-
hoods, attitudes and social networks, and
information on China's new dam construction
overseas. Carefully avoiding black and white
characterizations, Tilt instead explores water
management as a struggle over competing
values among groups and differential access
to resources and power."
—Emily Yeh, University of Colorado at
Boulder
$30.00 / £20.50 paper 978-0-231-17011-6
$90.00 / £62.00 cloth 978-0-231-17010-9
2014 280 pages / 8 illus.
Contemporary Asia in the World
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EAST ASIAN STUDIES
Memories of Mount QilaiThe Education of a Young Poet
Yang Mu
Translated by John Balcom and Yingtsih Balcom
"A landmark in Taiwanese literature as well as
in modern Chinese prose. Yang Mu has rein-
vented the genre of literary autobiography
by welding together a paean to the beauty of
indigenous landscapes and peoples, a pen-
etrating look at the social and political trans-
formations in postwar Taiwan, an honest and
moving bildungsroman, and, above all, a
poetic language that is supple and sinewy at
the same time."
—Michelle Yeh, University of California, Davis
These evocative and allusive autobiographi-cal essays provide a personal response to history as Taiwan transitioned from a Japanese colony to the Republic of China. Yang Mu recounts his childhood experiences under the Japanese, life in the mountains in proximity to indigenous people as his family took refuge from the American bombings, his initial encounters and cultural conflicts with Nationalist soldiers recently arrived from mainland China, the subsequent activi-ties of the Nationalist government to consoli-date power, and the island's burgeoning new manufacturing society.
$35.00 / £24.00 cloth 978-0-231-16996-7
2015 320 pages
Modern Chinese Literature From Taiwan
Historical Atlas of Northeast Asia, 1590-2010Korea, Manchuria, Mongolia, Eastern Siberia
Li Narangoa and Robert Cribb
"This superb atlas greatly enhances our
knowledge of the region of Asia comprising
north China, Korea, Japan, Russia, Mongolia,
and Manchuria. The authors define the
region ecologically instead of politically,
focusing on the interaction of nomadic
conquerors with the expanding empires of
Russia and China and the Korean state. They
outline boundaries with vivid colors and
carefully locate major towns and geographic
features, while also providing a concise
integrated political narrative for each decade
over nearly five hundred years....An essential
resource for anyone researching or teaching
about this critical region of Asia."—Peter C. Perdue, Yale University.
$150.00 / £103.50 cloth 978-0-231-16070-4
2014 352 pages / 78 maps
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EAST ASIAN STUDIES
Exemplary Women of Early ChinaThe Lienü zhuan of Liu XiangTranslated and edited by Anne Behnke Kinney
“Exemplary Women of Early China is essential
for understanding China’s premodern gender
regime, Confucian ideology, and women’s
sense of self. The Lienü zhuan provided
later authors and artists with an endlessly
rich source of moral exemplars to reveal
behavioral norms for both genders. Kinney’s
elegant and erudite translation brings to life
the words and deeds of these remarkable
women. A wonderfully inspiring read.”
— Robin D. S. Yates, McGill University
$35.00 / £24.00 paper 978-0-231-16309-5
$105.00 / £72.50 cloth 978-0-231-16308-8
2014 384 pages
Translations from the Asian Classics
ExEmplary WomEn of Early ChinaT h e L i e n ü z h u a n o f L i u X i a n g
annE BEhnkE kinnEyT r a n s L a T o r a n d e d i T o r
The Columbia Sourcebook of Literary Taiwan
Edited by Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang,
Michelle Yeh, and Ming-ju Fan
“This book is a tour de force, bringing together
many of the most important documents
relating to the history of Taiwan literary
criticism and many firsthand reflections on
writing and the literary scene from leading
writers, playwrights, and poets. Translating
an impressive array of critical writings on
literature into English for the first time, there
is no other volume quite like this, certainly
not in English, and perhaps not even in
Chinese.”
—Michael Berry, author of A History of Pain:
Trauma in Modern Chinese Literature and
Film
$75.00 / £52.00 cloth 978-0-231-16576-1
2014 688 pages
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Bollywood's IndiaA Public Fantasy
Priya Joshi
"Joshi’s work is a timely assessment of key
films and periods in Bollywood’s history. Its
wide ranging literary, theoretical, and socio-
cultural perspectives which cut across litera-
ture, postcolonial studies, media and cultural
studies will surely be taken up by other
scholars as well as general readers."
—Rajinder Dudrah, University of Manchester
Summoning the 1970s as an interpretive lens, Joshi deftly examines blockbusters from notably tumultuous moments when the idea of India was made, unmade, and remade. Joshi’s incorporates fresh explora-tions of iconic films such as Awara (1951) and Deewaar (1975), as well as those less analyzed, such as Ab Dilli Dur Nahin (1957) and A Wednesday (2008).
$30.00 / £20.50 paper 978-0-231-16961-5
$90.00/ £62.00 cloth 978-0-231-16960-8
2015 216 pages / 45 illus.
BwNDY
PRIYA JOSHI
A Public Fantasy
OLL WOO S
I DIABOLLYWOOD’S
INDIA
The Sensuous Cinema of Wong Kar-waiFilm Poetics and the Aesthetic of Disturbance
Gary Bettinson
"Gary Bettinson offers a critical assessment not
only of the stylistic features of Wong Kar-wai's
films but also of the scholarship that has devel-
oped around them. Arguing against the facile
culturalism that tends to dominate such schol-
arship, this book does full justice to Wong's
cinematic methods in a series of impressively
well-informed and informative readings." — Rey Chow, Duke University
The widely acclaimed films of Wong Kar-wai are characterized by their sumptuous yet complex visual and sonic style. This study of Wong's filmmaking techniques uses a poet-ics approach to examine how form, music, narration, characterization, genre and other artistic elements work together to produce certain effects on audiences.
$59.00 / £40.50 cloth 978-988-813-929-3
2015 176 page / 20 illus.
Hong Kong University Press
ASIAN CINEMA & MEDIA STUDIES
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Transnational RepresentationsThe State of Taiwan Film in the 1960s and 1970s
James Wicks
"James Wicks' book offers a most nuanced,
sensible, and timely account of the 1960--70s
Taiwan films in terms of plot, theme, language,
and generic innovations. He zooms in on works
by such prominent directors as Li Xing, Bai
Jingrui, Song Cunshou, and others, highlighting
local, regional, and transnational flows, while
not losing sight of the complexities in the
island-state's identity and modernity formation
processes."
— Ping-hui Liao, University of California,
San Diego
Combining a concise overview of Taiwan film history with analysis of representative Taiwan films, the book reveals the internal and external struggles Taiwan experienced in its search for
global identity.
$64.00/ £44.00 cloth 978-988-820-850-0
2015 192 pages / 17 illus.
Hong Kong University Press
ASIAN CINEMA & MEDIA STUDIES
In StereotypeSouth Asia in the Global Literary Imaginary
Mrinalini Chakravorty
"The stereotype—that fixed and frozen form
of cultural unknowledge—is brought to
animate life in this book. Rereading an indis-
pensable archive of South Asian Anglophone
fiction through iconic stereotypes of the
postcolony and the postcolonial (hunger,
crowds, slums, migrant dislocation, global
metropolis, civil war's deathscape, and ter-
ror), Mrinalini Chakravorty brilliantly reveals
what lies within the stereotype."
—Vilashini Cooppan, University of
California, Santa Cruz, author of Worlds
Within: National Narratives and Global
Connections in Postcolonial Writing
In Stereotype considers the influential work of Salman Rushdie, Aravind Adiga, Michael Ondaatje, Monica Ali, Mohsin Hamid, and Chetan Bhagat, among others, to illustrate how stereotypes about South Asia provide insight into the material and psychic invest-ments of contemporary imaginative texts: the colonial novel, the transnational film, and the international best-seller.
$50.00 / £340.50 cloth 978-0-231-16596-9
2014 336 pages
Literature Now
SOUTH/SOUTHEAST ASIAN STUDIES
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SOUTH/SOUTHEAST ASIAN STUDIES
A Daughter's Memoir of Burma
Wendy Law-Yone
“An important testimony to the almost unbe-
lievable courage, determination and patience
of those who choose a hazardous path of
political dissent in the face of state tyranny
and oppression.”
—Times Literary Supplement
Wendy Law-Yone was just fifteen when Burma's military staged a coup and over-threw the civilian government in 1962. The daughter of Ed Law-Yone, the daredevil founder and chief editor of The Nation, Burma's leading postwar English-language newspaper, she experienced firsthand the perils and promises of a newly independent Burma.
$30.00 cloth 978-0-231-16936-3
2014 328 pages
Autobiography of an ArchiveA Scholar's Passage to India
Nicholas B. Dirks
“Using the conceit of an autobiography, this
book dazzles with luminous reflections on
the archive of knowledge on India....Nicholas
Dirks offers original insights on the history
and politics of scholarship, on Empire and its
entailment in the production of knowledge,
and the career of history and anthropology as
disciplines. "
—Gyan Prakash, author of Mumbai Fables
"Nicholas Dirks’s account of the interconnec-
tions of anthropology and history and his com-
mitment to the internationalization of liberal
learning make his book a vital contribution to
contemporary discussions of globalization and
education."—Michael S. Roth, President, Wesleyan
University
$30.00 / £20.50 paper 978-0-231-16967-7
2015 400 pages
Cultures of History
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INDIAN HISTORY, RELIGION, & CULTURE
The Invention of Private LifeLiterature and Ideas
Sudipta Kaviraj
“Sudipta Kaviraj is one of the foremost schol-
ars anywhere in the world working on South
Asia. A master of the essay form, his writ-
ings on political theory and Indian politics
show him to be a scholar of vast erudition,
subtle analytical skill, and brilliant humor.”
—Partha Chatterjee, Columbia University
A longtime political analyst and thinker, Sudipta Kaviraj proves in this probing col-lection that he is also an acute writer on literature and politics. In these works, which lie at the intersection of the study of litera-ture, social theory, and intellectual history, Kaviraj locates serious reflections on moder-nity’s complexities in the vibrant currents of modern Indian literature, particularly in the realms of fiction, poetry, and autobiography.
$30.00 / £20.50 paper 978-0-231-17439-8
$90.00 / £62.00 cloth 978-0-231-17438-1
2015 376 pages
Paving the Great WayVasubandhu's Unifying Buddhist Philosophy
Jonathan C. Gold
“Gold has done something extraordinary:
he has pulled together the key philosophi-
cal strands running through Vasubandhu's
works, thereby demonstrating far greater
continuity than might have been suspected,
and he has given us a much deeper and
more compelling author as a result. This
book will forever change the way we read
Vasubandhu."
— Mark Siderits, Seoul National University
The Indian Buddhist philosopher Vasubandhu (fourth-fifth century C.E.) is known for his critical contribution to Buddhist Abhidharma thought, his turn to the Mahayana tradition, and his con-cise, influential Yogacara-Vijñanavada texts. Paving the Great Way reveals another dimension of his legacy: his integration of several seemingly incompatible intellectual and scriptural traditions, with far-ranging consequences for the development of Buddhist epistemology and the theorization of tantra.
$55.00 / £38.00 cloth 978-0-231-16826-7
2014 336 pages
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Wombs in LaborTransnational Commercial Surrogacy in India
Amrita Pande
"Pande writes vividly, sensitively, and with
critical intelligence about an incredibly com-
plex modern phenomenon. Her attentiveness
to the diverse situations and personalities
of surrogate mothers is her book's greatest
strength. A gripping read."—Ann Grodzins Gold, Syracuse University
In the first detailed ethnography of India's surrogacy industry, Amrita Pande visits clin-ics and hostels and speaks with surrogates and their families, clients, doctors, brokers, and hostel matrons in order to shed light on this burgeoning business and the experiences of the laborers within it.
$28.00 / £19.50 paper 978-0-231-16991-2
$85.00 / £58.50 cloth 978-0-231-16990-5
2014 272 pages
South Asian Across the Disciplines
The Pariah ProblemCaste, Religion, and the Social in Modern India
Rupa Viswanath
“Viswanath powerfully argues that there was
a government–missionary nexus that sought
to turn the pariah from traditional forms of
slavery to modern forms of dispossessed
labor. Most remarkably, she shows that the
initiative for conversion to Christianity came
not from missionaries but from Dalits who
were motivated not by abstract ideas of
emancipation but by strategic considerations
of material advantage in their daily struggles.” — Partha Chatterjee, Columbia University
$60.00 / £41.50 cloth 978-0-231-16306-4
2014 416 pages
Cultures of History
INDIAN HISTORY, RELIGION, & CULTURE
Writing ResistanceThe Rhetorical Imagination of Hindi Dalit LiteratureLaura R. Brueck
“In a wide-ranging investigation of origins, motivations and genres, Laura Brueck addresses the fundamental questions of what makes this literature Dalit, and what makes it literary; her fine book offers a sympathetic and yet penetrating guide to a vivacious new canon of Hindi
prose.”—Rupert Snell, University of Texas at Austin$30.00 / £20.50 paper 978-0-231-16605-8
$90.00 / £62.00 cloth 978-0-231-16604-1
2014 288 pages
South Asian Across the Disciplines
w r it ingr
e s i s ta n c e
lau ra r. brueck
TheRhetorical
Imagination ofHindi DalitLiterature
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Marching Through SufferingLoss and Survival in North Korea
Sandra Fahy
“Sandra Fahy's analysis of the North Korea
famine draws extensively on her interviews
with survivors, which give this narrative a
unique depth and credibility....No book I have
ever read conveys the mundane horror of a
famine so vividly, while retaining academic
rigour and advancing our understanding of
this famine's complex causes and conse-
quences."— Stephen Devereux, Institute of Development Studies, author of Theories of Famine
Casting North Koreans as a diverse people with a vast capacity for adaptation rather than a monolithic entity passively enduring oppression, Marching Through Suffering posi-tions personal history as a critical lens for interpreting political violence.
$40.00 / £27.50 cloth 978-0-231-17134-2
2015 272 pages
Contemporary Asia in the World
When the Future DisappearsThe Modernist Imagination in Late Colonial KoreaJanet Poole
"Janet Poole shows how Korean poets,
philosophers, and essayists in the colonial
period struggled in their work with the
notion of a disappearing future with no
change in sight. Through the local Korean
case she works through the broader ques-
tion of the complex temporality of the late
colonial period, and shows how culture bears
the imprint of this sense of time in its very
form."
—Alan Tansman, University of California,
Berkeley
“An indispensable addition to existing stud-
ies on Japanese modernism, Japanese impe-
rialism and its politics and culture, European
modernism, and the growing body of schol-
arly works on colonial Korea.”
—Jin-Kyung Lee, University of California,
San Diego
$60.00 / £41.50 cloth 978-0-231-16518-1
2014 336 pages
Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute,
Columbia University
KOREAN LITERATURE, CULTURE & POLITICS
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KOREAN LITERATURE, CULTURE & POLITICS
Pavane for a Dead PrincessA NovelMin-gyu Park
Translated by Amber Hyun Jung Kim
Park Min-gyu has been celebrated and condemned for his attacks upon what he perceives as the humorlessness of contem-porary Korean literature. Pavane for a Dead Princess is his attack upon the beauty-fetish that reigns over popular culture, detailing the relationship between a man with mati-nee-idol good looks and "the ugliest woman of the century." To complicate matters fur-ther, Park also includes a so-called "writer's cut" of the same story, offering alternate versions of the facts, giving the reader the opportunity to imagine all the different ways this same novel might have been written.
$15.95 / £10.95 paper 978-1-62897-066-1
2014 208 pages
DALKEY ARCHIVE PRESS
KOREAN LITERATURE, CULTURE & POLITICS
Contentious Activism and Inter-Korean Relations
Danielle L. Chubb
"In this meticulously researched book,
Danielle L. Chubb reveals that South Korean
policies toward the North are about far more
than strategic considerations. Reaching
beyond prevailing state-centric foreign policy
accounts, she convincingly argues that inter-
Korean relations have been significantly
shaped by the legacy that several decades
of contentious political activism have left on
South Korean society and politics."
— Roland Bleiker, University of Queensland
Danielle L. Chubb traces the development of various policy disputes and perspectives from the 1970s through South Korea's democratic transition. Focusing on four case studies—the 1980 Kwangju uprising, the June 1987 uprising, the move toward democracy in the 1990s, and the decade of "progressive" government that began with the election of Kim Dae Jung in 1997—she tracks activ-ists' complex views on reunification along with the rise and fall of more radical voices encouraging the adoption of a North Korean-style form of socialism.
$55.00 / £38.00 cloth 978-0-231-16136-7
2014 296 pages
Contemporary Asia in the World
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Chop Suey, USAThe Story of Chinese Food in America
Yong Chen
“Chop Suey, USA is an utterly original and
significant contribution to the field, well-
organized and breathtakingly broad in its
geographic scope. Yong Chen has done a
superb job ”
—Hasia Diner, New York University
“A thoroughly researched, highly readable
account of the development of Chinese
American food, this book fills important gaps
in the literature of ethnic and food studies.”
—Jeffrey Pilcher, University of Toronto
“A perceptive view of an America built on
abundance and consumption.”
—Kirkus
$35.00 / £24.00 cloth 978-0-231-16892-2
2014 352 pages / 18 illus.
Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary
History
Not Like a Native SpeakerOn Languaging as a Postcolonial Experience
Rey Chow
"Rey Chow's book Not Like a Native Speaker
is not only a brilliant and original reflection
on the fate of language in the afterlife of
colonialism, but also an authoritative state-
ment on postcolonial theory; moving beyond
the confinement of the politics of identity, it
provides a unique map for the postcolonial
criticism of the future, one informed by rigor
and unafraid of judgment."
—Simon Gikandi, Princeton University
“How does colonial power deploy language?
—a central question in postcolonial studies—
is infused with new life by Rey Chow in this
dazzling book. Chow poses other searching
questions concerning identity and estrange-
ment, memory and oblivion, bilingualism and
aphasia, and offers acute discussions of lan-
guage in Fanon, Benjamin, Derrida, Achebe,
and Ngugi."
—Roland Greene, Stanford University
$25.00 / £15.95 paper 978-0-231-15145-0
$75.00 / £52.00 cloth 978-0-231-15144-3
2014 192 pages
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Embracing DifferencesTransnational Cultural Flows Between Japan and the United States
Iris-Aya Laemmerhirt
The omnipresence and popularity of American consumer products in Japan have triggered an avalanche of writing shedding light on different aspects of this cross-cultural relationship. Cultural interactions are often accompanied by the term cultural imperialism, a concept that on close scrutiny turns out to be a hasty oversimplification given the contemporary cultural interac-tion between the U.S. and Japan. Embracing Differences shows that this assumption of a one-sided transfer is no longer valid. Closely investigating Disney theme parks, sushi, as well as movies, Iris-Aya Laemmerhirt reveals a dialogical exchange between these two nations that has changed the image of Japan in the United States.
$50.00 paper 978-3-8376-2600-1
2014 262 pages
Transcript-Verlag
The Cinema of Ang Lee The Other Side of the ScreenSecond Edition
Whitney Crothers Dilley
Through suggestive readings of gender and identity, Whitney Crothers Dilley explores the international appeal of an acclaimed contemporary director. Dilley has revised the book’s introduction to reflect Ang Lee’s new films and their global reception and adds to the text a consideration of new develop-ments in Chinese film, recent critiques of Brokeback Mountain (2005), and chapters on Lust/Caution (2007), Taking Woodstock (2009), and Life of Pi (2012).
$30.00 / £20.50 paper 978-0-231-16773-4
$90.00 / £62.00 cloth 978-0-231-16772-7
2015 272 pages
wallflower Press
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Religion, Tradition, and the PopularTranscultural Views from Asia and Europe
Edited by Judith Schlehe and Evamaria
Sandkühler
This book provides unique case studies from Asia and Europe illustrating new religious practices, forms of articulation and mass mediatization, all of which render religious traditions significant for contemporary issues and concerns. Contributors examine experi-ences of spirituality in combination with commercialization and expressive performa-tive practices as well as everyday politics of identity. The essays take into consideration what the transcultural negotiation of religion, tradition and the popular signifies in different places and social contexts. With contribu-tions by Anthony Reid, Hubert Knoblauch, Ariel Heryanto, Stefanie von Schnurbein and others.
$50.00 cloth 978-3-8376-2613-1
2014 286 pages / 8 illus.
Transcript-Verlag
PAN-ASIAN STUDIES
Drawing New Color LinesTransnational Asian American Graphic Narratives
Edited by Monica Chiu
"Foregrounding the shifting meanings of race
within, across, and between various national
contexts, the fifteen essays in Chiu's collec-
tion explore the visual dimensions of Asian
American transnational literary culture with
originality and offer particular insight into the
complexities of production, interpretation, and
reception for graphic narrative."
— Pamela Thoma, author of Asian American Women's Popular Literature
The global circulation of comics, manga, and other such visual mediums between North America and Asia produces transnational meanings no longer rooted in a separation between "Asian" and "American." Drawing New Color Lines explores the culture, produc-tion, and history of contemporary graphic narratives that depict Asian Americans and Asians. It examines how Japanese manga and Asian popular culture have influenced Asian American comics; how these comics and Asian American graphic narratives depict the "look" of race; and how these various repre-sentations are interpreted in nations not of their production.
$69.00 / £47.50 cloth 978-988-8139-385
2015 368 pages / 42 illus.
h0ng kong university press
ASIAN-AMERICAN STUDIES
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Being Human in a Buddhist WorldAn Intellectual History of Medicine in Early Modern Tibet
Janet Gyatso
"[This] will be the key book on medicine and
religion in Tibet for this generation. Like
Gyatso's book on autobiography, her new
book on medicine will simply be field defining."
—Kurtis R. Schaeffer, The University of
Virginia
Critically exploring medical thought in a cultural milieu with no discernible influence from the European Enlightenment, Being Human reveals an otherwise unnoticed intersection of early modern sensibilities and religious values in traditional Tibetan medicine. It further studies the adaptation of Buddhist concepts and values to medical concerns and suggests important dimen-sions of Buddhism's role in the development of Asian and global civilization
$45.00 / £30.95 cloth 978-0-231-16496-2
2015 544 pages / 51 illus
Realizing Awakened ConsciousnessInterviews with Buddhist Teachers and a New Perspective on the Mind
Richard P. Boyle
“When meditators have an 'awakening,' what
is it really like? Richard P. Boyle interviewed
eleven Western Buddhist teachers to find out,
and we get to read their accounts in their
own words. Then, drawing on these inter-
views and on scientific research, Boyle offers
an innovative view of how awakening hap-
pens and how it can transform each of us."
—Paula England, New York University
If, as Buddhism claims, the potential for awakening exists in all human beings, we should be able to map the phenomenon with the same science we apply to other forms of consciousness. A student of cogni-tive social science and a Zen practitioner for more than forty years, Richard P. Boyle brings his sophisticated perspective to bear on the development of a theoretical model for both ordinary and awakened consciousness.
$30.00 / £20.50 paper 978-0-231-17075-8
$90.00 / £62.00 cloth 978-0-231-1707-4
June 2015 384 pages / 11 illus.
BUDDHISM
Forthcoming June
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Living KarmaThe Religious Practices of Ouyi Zhixu
Beverley Foulks McGuire
“An ingeniously conceived and deeply
researched study of one of the four great
Buddhist masters of the late Ming dynasty.
The book reveals Ouyi Zhixu to be a far more
interesting and intellectually complex person
than we knew. By giving primacy to the theme
of karma, McGuire finds a unity to Ouyi’s
conduct and textual practice that has gone
unremarked until now."
— Timothy Brook, University of British Columbia
Ouyi Zhixu (1599–1655) was an eminent Chinese Buddhist monk who, contrary to his contemporaries, believed karma could be changed. Through vows, divination, repen-tance rituals, and ascetic acts such as burning and blood writing, he sought to alter what others understood as inevitable and inescap-able. Drawing attention to Ouyi’s unique reshaping of religious practice, Living Karma reasserts the significance of an overlooked individual in the modern development of
Chinese Buddhism.
$55.00 / £38.00 cloth 978-0-231-16802-1
2014 240 pages / 6 illus.
The Sheng Yen Series in Chinese Buddhist Studies
Spells, Images, and MandalasTracing the Evolution of Esoteric Buddhist Rituals
Koichi Shinohara
“Spells, Images, and Mandalas is the first
study of early Buddhist Tantra to make full use
of a vast trove of Chinese sources that pre-
date, often by many centuries, extant Sanskrit
and Tibetan materials. Through exacting
detective work, Koichi Shinohara reconstructs
the evolution of Buddhist Tantra from its
origins in simple incantation rituals to more
elaborate forms of image worship and finally
to full-blown mandala and visualization rites.
The result is a groundbreaking account of the
development of Buddhist ritual traditions."
—Robert Sharf, University of California,
Berkeley
$50.00 / £34.50 cloth 978-0-231-16614-0
2014 352 pages / 10 illus.
The Sheng Yen Series in Chinese Buddhist Studies
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The Body IncantatorySpells and the Ritual Imagination in Medieval Chinese Buddhism
Paul Copp
“This book profoundly revises our under-
standing of Buddhist spells in medieval
China. Both provocative and persuasive, it
provides the first in-depth analysis of such
spells manifested across a wide range of
written, verbal, and material forms and
compels us to reevaluate their fundamental
importance in Buddhist practices."
— Wu Hung, University of Chicago
Focusing on two major Buddhist spells, or dharani, and their embodiment of the incan-tatory logics of adornment and unction, Paul Copp makes breakthrough claims about the significance of Buddhist incantation prac-tice not only in medieval China but also in Central Asia and India. Copp's work vividly captures the diversity of Buddhist practice among medieval monks, ritual healers, and other individuals lost to history, offering a corrective to accounts that have overempha-sized elite, canonical materials.
$55.00 / £38.00 cloth 978-0-231-16270-8
2014 400 pages / 32 illus.
The Sheng Yen Series in Chinese Buddhist Studies
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