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Transpacific, Undisciplined

By Lily Wong, Christopher B. Patterson, Chien-ting Lin

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 illuminating everyday convergences between migrant workers in Hawai‘i’s...

Good Wife, Wise Mother

Educating Han Taiwanese Girls under Japanese Rule

By Fang Yu Hu

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 Japanese ideas and practices. A latecomer to the age...

Cleaning Up the Bomb Factory

Grassroots Activism and Nuclear Waste in the Midwest

By Casey A. Huegel
Foreword by Paul S. Sutter

In 1984, a uranium leak at Ohio’s outdated Fernald Feed Materials Production Center highlighted the decades of harm inflicted on Cold War communities by negligent radioactive waste disposal. Casey A. Huegel tells the story of...

Alaska Native Resilience

Voices from World War II

By Holly Miowak Guise

The US government justified its World War II occupation of Alaska as a defense against Japan’s invasion of the Aleutian Islands, but it equally served to advance colonial expansion in relation to the geographically and...

Botany of Empire

Plant Worlds and the Scientific Legacies of Colonialism

By Banu Subramaniam

Colonial ambitions spawned imperial attitudes, theories, and practices that remain entrenched within botany and across the life sciences. Banu Subramaniam draws on fields as disparate as queer studies, Indigenous studies, and the biological sciences to...

Seeds of Control

Japan’s Empire of Forestry in Colonial Korea

By David Fedman
Foreword by Paul S. Sutter

Japanese colonial rule in Korea (1905–1945) ushered in natural resource management programs that profoundly altered access to and ownership of the peninsula’s extensive mountains and forests. Under the banner of "forest love," the colonial government...

Fir and Empire

The Transformation of Forests in Early Modern China

By Ian M. Miller
Foreword by Paul S. Sutter

A CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE The disappearance of China’s naturally occurring forests is one of the most significant environmental shifts in the country’s history, one often blamed on imperial demand for lumber. China’s early modern...

Exiled to Motown

A Community History of Japanese Americans in Detroit

By Detroit JACL History Project Committee

During World War II, Detroit emerged as a relative space of freedom for Nisei permitted by the War Relocation Authority to leave sites of incarceration but banned from returning to their homes in the exclusion...

Cold War Deceptions

The Asia Foundation and the CIA

By David H. Price

During the early Cold War, the Central Intelligence Agency created dozens of funding fronts to support work that aligned with CIA goals, from clandestine operations and research to liberal anticommunist programs. While investigative journalists and...

Late Industrialization, Tradition, and Social Change in South Korea

By Yong-Chool Ha

South Korea's rapid industrialization occurred with the rise of powerful chaebǒl (family-owned business conglomerates) that controlled vast swaths of the nation's economy. Leader Park Chung Hee's sense of backwardness and urgency led him to rely...

Cops on Campus

Rethinking Safety and Confronting Police Violence

By Yalile Suriel, Grace Watkins, Jude Paul Matias Dizon, John Joseph Sloan, III

Over the last five years, headlines have thrust campus police departments from relative obscurity into the national spotlight. Campus constituents have called for campus police, as a tangible manifestation of the War on Crime within...

Treaty Justice

The Northwest Tribes, the Boldt Decision, and the Recognition of Fishing Rights

By Charles Wilkinson

In 1974, Judge George Boldt issued a ruling that affirmed the fishing rights and tribal sovereignty of Native nations in Washington State. The Boldt Decision transformed Indigenous law and resource management across the United States...

Resisting the Nuclear

Art and Activism across the Pacific

By Elyssa Faison, Alison Fields

From uranium mines on the Navajo Nation to craters caused by nuclear testing on the Bikini and Enewetak Atolls, the production and deployment of nuclear weapon technologies have disproportionately harmed Indigenous lands. Sustained exposure to...

Slapping Leather

Queer Cowfolx at the Gay Rodeo

By Elyssa Ford and Rebecca Scofield

Campy and competitive, gay rodeo offers a community of refuge that straddles the urban and rural. Since the mid-1970s, gay rodeos have provided space to both embrace and challenge the idealized masculinity associated with the...

Capturing Glaciers

A History of Repeat Photography and Global Warming

By Dani Inkpen
Foreword by Paul S. Sutter

Photographs do not simply speak for themselves. Their meanings are built through interpretive frameworks that shift over time. Today, photographs of receding glaciers are one of the most well recognized visualizations of human-caused climate change....

The Unknown Great

Stories of Japanese Americans at the Margins of History

By Greg Robinson
With Jonathan van Harmelen

Through stories of remarkable people in Japanese American history, The Unknown Great illuminates the diversity of the Nikkei experience from the turn of the twentieth century to the present day. Acclaimed historian and journalist Greg...

The Empire Looks South

Chinese Perceptions of Cambodia before and during the Kingdom of Angkor

By Peter Harris

The most famous firsthand account of the Kingdom of Angkor was left by the imperial Chinese envoy Zhou Daguan. But Zhou's was not the only portrait of Angkor and the kingdoms that came before it....

Island X

Taiwanese Student Migrants, Campus Spies, and Cold War Activism

By Wendy Cheng

Island X delves into the compelling political lives of Taiwanese migrants who came to the United States as students from the 1960s through the 1980s. Often depicted as compliant model minorities, many were in fact...

The Toxic Ship

The Voyage of the Khian Sea and the Global Waste Trade

By Simone M. Müller
Foreword by Paul S. Sutter

In 1986 the Khian Sea, carrying thousands of tons of incinerator ash from Philadelphia, began a two-year journey, roaming the world's oceans in search of a dumping ground. Its initial destination and then country after...

An Ecological History of Modern China

By Stevan Harrell

Is environmental degradation an inevitable result of economic development? Can ecosystems be restored once government officials and the public are committed to doing so? These questions are at the heart of An Ecological History of...