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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

Connects California cannabis production to the violence and dispossession of Indigenous land and people

Settler Cannabis

From Gold Rush to Green Rush in Indigenous Northern California

By Kaitlin P. Reed

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.

The most comprehensive collection of modern Chinese poetry in English translation available today

Century of Modern Chinese Poetry

An Anthonlogy

By Michelle Yeh, Zhangbin Li and Frank Stewart

A visual and social exploration of early modern Beijing's cultural milieu

The Ghost in the City

Luo Ping and the Craft of Painting in Eighteenth-Century China

By Michele Matteini

Sheds light on the art and artists that gave material form to Mughal imperial vision

Artists and Agency at the Mughal Court

By Yael Rice

Celebrates the groundbreaking work of six contemporary craft artists from Indigenous Nations across the US

Sharing Honors and Burdens

Renwick Invitational 2023

By Lara M. Evans, Miranda Belarde-Lewis and Anya Montiel

A critical look at the renegade spirit that permeates Japanese prints and the posters of fin-de-siècle Paris

Renegade Edo and Paris

Japanese Prints and Toulouse-Lautrec

By Xiaojin Wu. With Contributions by Mary Weaver Chapin

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Lorri Hagman, UW Press Executive Editor, Retires: Q&A
The University of Washington Press announces the retirement of longtime executive editor Lorri Hagman, whose last day in the office will be Friday, May 19. Lorri has acquired books in Asian studies, anthropology, and environmental studies for UW Press since 1994. She began her publishing career as a student assistant at the press in 1977 […]

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