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A meditation on suffering, resilience, creativity, and grace

Stitching Love and Loss

A Gee’s Bend Quilt

By Lisa Gail Collins

Spotlights insects in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean history from the exalted to the despised

Insect Histories of East Asia

By David A. Bello and Daniel Burton-Rose

The definitive translation of a masterpiece in ancient Chinese historiography

A Thorough Exploration in Historiography

By Liu Zhiji. Translated and Introduced by Victor Cunrui Xiong.

Highlights new directions in the field and topics of interest to undergraduate students

Sustaining Natures

An Environmental Anthropology Reader

By Sarah R. Osterhoudt and K. Sivaramakrishnan

A comparative analysis of body politics, selfhood, and the pursuit of consumer-based agency

Modified Bodies, Material Selves

Beauty Ideals in Post-Reform Shanghai

By Julie E. Starr

Explores ecological crises and extinctions that have shaped US history

Bellwether Histories

Animals, Humans, and US Environments in Crisis

By Susan Nance and Jennifer Marks

How early print culture reshaped strategies for presenting medical knowledge

Good Formulas

Empirical Evidence in Mid-Imperial Chinese Medical Texts

By Ruth Yun-Ju Chen

The first genre-spanning study of how Chinese cultural creativity flourished during the long final century of the Qing empire

China’s Hidden Century

1796-1912

By Jessica Harrison-Hall and Julia Lovell

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