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Remaking the Earth, Exhausting the People
The Burden of Conservation in Modern China
State-led conservation transformed Gansu's landscape—rural communities bore the costs
From the 1940s to the 1960s, soil and water conservation measures transformed both the arid, erosion-prone environment of China’s Loess Plateau and the lives of rural people....
ISBN: 9780295753980
more detailsContested Taiwan
Sovereignty, Social Movements, and Party Formation
Where statehood is contested, questions of identity and territory define the political landscape
Despite maintaining de facto sovereignty, states like Taiwan find themselves unrecognized in today’s international system because another power claims the state as part...
ISBN: 9780295753928
more detailsThe Poetic Way of Xie Lingyun
Literary Expression and the Natural World
The father of Chinese landscape poetry in time and place
During the dark centuries between the fall of the Han dynasty in 220 CE and the golden age of reunified China under the Tang and Song...
ISBN: 9780295753737
more detailsEthnic Branding in Contemporary China
Buyi and the Paradox of Difference
An ethnic group at the crossroads of uniqueness and confirmity in Southwestern China
The Buyi people face a dilemma. On the one hand, they work hard to maintain their culture—both out of pride and to attract...
ISBN: 9780295753645
more detailsIndia's Mithila Painting
A woman's art form transforms from home to high art
Since at least the fifteenth century, Hindu women in the Mithila region of northern India have been painting images of deities, flora and fauna symbolizing fertility...
ISBN: 9780295753225
more detailsBronze Mirrors in Ancient China
Artistry and Technique
Examines mass production in antiquity
Highly decorated mirrors are widely sought by museums with collections of Chinese art and are the most actively exchanged items in the art market of ancient Chinese bronzes. Featuring intricate designs...
ISBN: 9780295752907
more detailsA Gāndhārī Abhidharma Text
British Library Kharosthī Fragment 28
Early Buddhist manuscript recording a previously unknown scholastic text about existence
This volume offers a transcription, edition, translation, and analysis of a previously unknown scholastic text, an important discovery for scholars of early Indian Buddhist doctrine....
ISBN: 9780295753843
more detailsSatirical Tibet
The Politics of Humor in Contemporary Amdo
What does comedy look like when the wrong punchline can land you in jail?
Humor has long been a vital, if underrecognized, component of Tibetan life. In recent years, alongside well-publicized struggles for religious freedom and...
ISBN: 9780295753119
more detailsChinese Characters across Asia
How the Chinese Script Came to Write Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese
A fascinating story of writing across cultures and time
While other ancient nonalphabetic scripts—Sumerian cuneiform, Egyptian hieroglyphs, and Mayan hieroglyphs—are long extinct, Chinese characters, invented over three thousand years ago, are today used by well over...
ISBN: 9780295753027
more detailsCrafting a Tibetan Terroir
Winemaking in Shangri-La
How wine has transformed Tibetan land and lives
Set in the Sino-Tibetan border region renamed "Shangri-La" by the Chinese government for tourism promotion, Crafting a Tibetan Terroir considers how the deployment of the French notion of...
ISBN: 9780295753362
more detailsNecropolitics of the Ordinary
Death and Grieving in Contemporary Singapore
Can a state make its people forget the dead?
Cemeteries have become sites of acute political contestation in the city-state of Singapore. Confronted with high population density and rapid economic growth, the government has ordered the...
ISBN: 9780295753331
more detailsThree Impeachments
Guo Xiu and the Kangxi Court
A probe into corruption in late Imperial China
At the beginning of China's long eighteenth century or "High Qing" era, a time of peace and prosperity when the foundations of Manchu rule under the Qing dynasty...
ISBN: 9780295752938
more detailsKorean Pop Culture beyond Asia
Race and Reception
Showcases the dynamism of cross-cultural engagement with Korean media
Korean media has exploded in popularity across the globe in the past decade: BTS and other K-pop groups have packed stadiums, Parasite garnered record-breaking critical success, The...
ISBN: 9780295752969
more detailsTranspacific, Undisciplined
Remaps the scope and methods of the transpacific approach
Antinuclear coalitions centering Native survivance from Okinawa to the Dakotas to Micronesia, refugee figures and automated empathy in virtual reality, cross-strait erotic intimacy in Taiwanese teahouses, art...
ISBN: 9780295752754
more detailsGood Wife, Wise Mother
Educating Han Taiwanese Girls under Japanese Rule
Traces Japan's efforts to modernize Taiwan through gendered educational practices
In Good Wife, Wise Mother, female education and citizenship serve as a lens through which to examine Taiwan’s uniqueness as a colonial crossroads between Chinese and...
ISBN: 9780295752648
more detailsChina's Camel Country
Livestock and Nation-Building at a Pastoral Frontier
How animal conservation became a defense against cultural erasure
China today positions itself as a model of state-led environmentalism. On the country’s arid rangelands, grassland conservation policies have targeted pastoralists and their animals, blamed for causing...
ISBN: 9780295752433
more detailsThe Xi Jinping Effect
Assesses the broad impact of China's influential leader
The Xi Jinping Effect explores the relationship between the People's Republic of China's current "paramount leader"—arguably the most powerful figure since Mao Zedong (1893–1976)—and multiple areas of political...
ISBN: 9780295752815
more detailsMumbai on Two Wheels
Cycling, Urban Space, and Sustainable Mobility
Cyclists from India reimagine transportation infrastructure for all
Mumbai is not commonly seen as a bike-friendly city because of its dense traffic and the absence of bicycle lanes. Yet the city supports rapidly expanding and eclectic...
ISBN: 9780295752693
more detailsGames and Play in Chinese and Sinophone Cultures
From ancient gameboards to Honor of Kings, games as cultural agents
Games as global and connected phenomena have been examined in the rising scholarly field of game studies, but relatively little has been published on the...
ISBN: 9780295752402
more detailsThe Dong World and Imperial China’s Southwest Silk Road
Trade, Security, and State Formation
Brings a borderlands perspective to the history of China
From the eighth to thirteenth centuries along China’s rugged southern periphery, trade in tribute articles and an interregional horse market thrived. These ties dramatically affected imperial China’s...
ISBN: 9780295752792
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