Association for Asian Studies

Welcome to our virtual Association for Asian Studies booth, where we’ve collected our new books and conference discount to share with you during this year’s meeting, March 16–19, 2023 in Boston, MA.

 

We are pleased to offer AAS members a 30% discount with free shipping on all orders to US addresses placed through April 14th. Enter promo code WAAS23 at checkout through our website or by calling 1-800-537-5487.

 

Our acquisitions editors are eager to connect with current and prospective authors about new projects and book proposals. If you have a project you’d like to discuss, please get in touch with one of our editors, and they can set up a Zoom or phone meeting with you:

 

Lorri Hagman, Executive Editor, lhagman@uw.edu

Asian studies, cultural and environmental anthropology

 

We’ve curated a selection of our new and noteworthy books below, and you can find additional titles here.

New in Asian Studies

An Ecological History of Modern China

An Ecological History of Modern China

Stevan Harrell

$35.00

Paperback

Fukushima Futures

Fukushima Futures

Survival Stories in a Repeatedly Ruined Seascape

Satsuki Takahashi, K. Sivaramakrishnan, K. Sivaramakrishnan

$32.00

Paperback

194 Pages

Ecologies of Empire in South Asia, 1400-1900

Ecologies of Empire in South Asia, 1400-1900

Sumit Guha, K. Sivaramakrishnan, K. Sivaramakrishnan

$32.00

Paperback

268 Pages

Good Formulas

Good Formulas

Empirical Evidence in Mid-Imperial Chinese Medical Texts

Ruth Yun-Ju Chen

$32.00

Paperback

236 Pages

A Thorough Exploration in Historiography / <i>Shitong</i>

A Thorough Exploration in Historiography / Shitong

Liu Zhiji, Victor Cunrui Xiong

$125.00

Hardcover

1104 Pages

The Brush of Insight

The Brush of Insight

Artists and Agency at the Mughal Court

Yael Rice

$65.00

Hardcover

272 Pages

The Ghost in the City

The Ghost in the City

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

Michele Matteini

$65.00

Hardcover

248 Pages

Old Stacks, New Leaves

Old Stacks, New Leaves

The Arts of the Book in South Asia

Sonal Khullar

$65.00

Hardcover

328 Pages

A Century of Modern Chinese Poetry

A Century of Modern Chinese Poetry

An Anthology

Michelle Yeh, Zhangbin Li, Frank Stewart

$32.00

Paperback

394 Pages

Porcelain for the Emperor

Porcelain for the Emperor

Manufacture and Technocracy in Qing China

Kai Jun Chen

$65.00

Hardcover

248 Pages

Spatial Dunhuang

Spatial Dunhuang

Experiencing the Mogao Caves

Wu Hung

$65.00

Hardcover

392 Pages

The Camphor Tree and the Elephant

The Camphor Tree and the Elephant

Religion and Ecological Change in Maritime Southeast Asia

Faizah Zakaria, K. Sivaramakrishnan, K. Sivaramakrishnan

$32.00

Paperback

280 Pages

Chinese Autobiographical Writing

Chinese Autobiographical Writing

An Anthology of Personal Accounts

Patricia Buckley Ebrey, Cong Ellen Zhang, Ping Yao

$32.00

Paperback

272 Pages

Material Contradictions in Mao

Material Contradictions in Mao's China

Jennifer Altehenger, Denise Y. Ho

$32.00

Paperback

264 Pages

Lahore Cinema

Lahore Cinema

Between Realism and Fable

Iftikhar Dadi, K. Sivaramakrishnan, Anand A. Yang, Padma Kaimal

$32.00

Paperback

264 Pages

Spawning Modern Fish

Spawning Modern Fish

Transnational Comparison in the Making of Japanese Salmon

Heather Anne Swanson, K. Sivaramakrishnan, K. Sivaramakrishnan

$32.00

Paperback

274 Pages

Governing Water in India

Governing Water in India

Inequality, Reform, and the State

Leela Fernandes

$32.00

Paperback

298 Pages

Turning Land into Capital

Turning Land into Capital

Development and Dispossession in the Mekong Region

Philip Hirsch, Kevin Woods, Natalia Scurrah, Michael B. Dwyer, K. Sivaramakrishnan, K. Sivaramakrishnan

$32.00

Paperback

264 Pages

The Tibetan Nun Mingyur Peldrön

The Tibetan Nun Mingyur Peldrön

A Woman of Power and Privilege

Alison Melnick Dyer

$32.00

Paperback

242 Pages

Fixing the Image

Fixing the Image

Ultrasound and the Visuality of Care in Phnom Penh

Jenna Grant

$30.00

Paperback

240 Pages

The Many Lives of the First Emperor of China

The Many Lives of the First Emperor of China

Anthony J. Barbieri-Low

$65.00

Hardcover

360 Pages

Mumbai Taximen

Mumbai Taximen

Autobiographies and Automobilities in India

Tarini Bedi, Padma Kaimal, K. Sivaramakrishnan, Anand A. Yang

$32.00

Paperback

248 Pages

Adivasi Art and Activism

Adivasi Art and Activism

Curation in a Nationalist Age

Alice Tilche, Padma Kaimal, K. Sivaramakrishnan, Anand A. Yang

$32.00

Paperback

256 Pages

Garden of Eloquence / Shuoyuan說苑

Garden of Eloquence / Shuoyuan說苑

Liu Xiang, Eric Henry, Andrew Plaks, Michael Nylan

$125.00

Hardcover

1360 Pages

Ordering the Myriad Things

Ordering the Myriad Things

From Traditional Knowledge to Scientific Botany in China

Nicholas K. Menzies, K. Sivaramakrishnan, K. Sivaramakrishnan

$32.00

Paperback

312 Pages

Carving Status at Kŭmgangsan

Carving Status at Kŭmgangsan

Elite Graffiti in Premodern Korea

Maya K. H. Stiller, Clark W. Sorensen

$65.00

Hardcover

224 Pages

The City in Time

The City in Time

Contemporary Art and Urban Form in Vietnam and Cambodia

Pamela N. Corey

$65.00

Hardcover

240 Pages

Chinese Village Life Today

Chinese Village Life Today

Building Families in an Age of Transition 

Gonçalo Santos

$32.00

Paperback

320 Pages

Arranged Companions

Arranged Companions

Marriage and Intimacy in Qing China

Weijing Lu

$32.00

Paperback

264 Pages

Ancient Egypt and Early China

Ancient Egypt and Early China

State, Society, and Culture

Anthony J. Barbieri-Low

$50.00

Hardcover

352 Pages

Timber and Forestry in Qing China 

Timber and Forestry in Qing China 

Sustaining the Market

Meng Zhang, K. Sivaramakrishnan, K. Sivaramakrishnan

$32.00

Paperback

280 Pages

Healing with Poisons

Healing with Poisons

Potent Medicines in Medieval China

Yan Liu

$32.00

Paperback

276 Pages

Religious Tourism in Northern Thailand

Religious Tourism in Northern Thailand

Encounters with Buddhist Monks

Brooke Schedneck

$32.00

Paperback

242 Pages

Reproductive Politics and the Making of Modern India

Reproductive Politics and the Making of Modern India

Mytheli Sreenivas

$30.00

Paperback

284 Pages

The Peking Gazette in Late Imperial China

The Peking Gazette in Late Imperial China

State News and Political Authority 

Emily Mokros

$32.00

Paperback

280 Pages

The Empress in the Pepper Chamber

The Empress in the Pepper Chamber

Zhao Feiyan in History and Fiction

Olivia Milburn

$32.00

Paperback

234 Pages

Outcaste Bombay

Outcaste Bombay

City Making and the Politics of the Poor

Juned Shaikh, Padma Kaimal, K. Sivaramakrishnan, Anand A. Yang

$32.00

Paperback

242 Pages

Opening Kailasanatha

Opening Kailasanatha

The Temple in Kanchipuram Revealed in Time and Space

Padma Kaimal

$65.00

Hardcover

288 Pages

The Social Life of Inkstones

The Social Life of Inkstones

Artisans and Scholars in Early Qing China

Dorothy Ko

$35.00

Paperback

336 Pages

The Lady of Linshui Pacifies Demons

The Lady of Linshui Pacifies Demons

A Seventeenth-Century Novel

Kristin Ingrid Fryklund, Mark Edward Lewis, Brigitte Baptandier

$35.00

Paperback

304 Pages

Pure Land in the Making

Pure Land in the Making

Vietnamese Buddhism in the US Gulf South

Allison J. Truitt

$32.00

Paperback

226 Pages

The Objectionable Li Zhi

The Objectionable Li Zhi

Fiction, Criticism, and Dissent in Late Ming China

Rivi Handler-Spitz, Pauline C. Lee, Haun Saussy

$32.00

Paperback

296 Pages

Exile from the Grasslands

Exile from the Grasslands

Tibetan Herders and Chinese Development Projects

Jarmila Ptáčková, Stevan Harrell

$32.00

Paperback

188 Pages

Yumeji Modern

Yumeji Modern

Designing the Everyday in Twentieth-Century Japan

Nozomi Naoi

$65.00

Hardcover

300 Pages