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The Xi Jinping Effect
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 and social transformation. It illuminates not just...
ISBN: 9780295752815
more detailsLate Industrialization, Tradition, and Social Change in South Korea
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...
ISBN: 9780295752273
more detailsCold War Deceptions
The Asia Foundation and the CIA
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...
ISBN: 9780295752242
more detailsHeartbreak City
Seattle Sports and the Unmet Promise of Urban Progress
To cities, sports have never been just entertainment. Progressive urbanites across the United States have used athletics to address persistent problems in city life: the fights for racial justice, workers' rights, equality for women and...
ISBN: 9780295751993
more detailsSurviving the Sanctuary City
Asylum-Seeking Work in Nepali New York
Over the past several decades, the vibrant, multiethnic borough of Queens has seen growth in the community of Nepali migrants, many of whom are navigating the challenging bureaucratic process of asylum legalization. Surviving the Sanctuary...
ISBN: 9780295751528
more detailsGoverning Water in India
Inequality, Reform, and the State
Intensifying droughts and competing pressures on water resources foreground water scarcity as an urgent concern of the global climate change crisis. In India, individual, industrial, and agricultural water demands exacerbate inequities of access and expose...
ISBN: 9780295750439
more detailsThe Story of Propaganda in 50 Images
From ancient Greek coinage to the sound bites of modern-day political spin doctors, propaganda has existed for thousands of years. But it was in the twentieth century that the art of persuasively communicating ideas truly...
ISBN: 9780295751283
more detailsContemporary Asian American Activism
Building Movements for Liberation
In the struggles for prison abolition, global anti-imperialism, immigrant rights, affordable housing, environmental justice, fair labor, and more, twenty-first-century Asian American activists are speaking out and standing up to systems of oppression. Creating emancipatory futures...
ISBN: 9780295749808
more detailsPure and True
The Everyday Politics of Ethnicity for China's Hui Muslims
The Chinese Communist Party points to the Hui—China’s largest Muslim ethnic group—as a model ethnic minority and touts its harmonious relations with the group as an example of the Party’s great success in ethnic politics....
ISBN: 9780295749839
more detailsLove for Liberation
African Independence, Black Power, and a Diaspora Underground
During the height of the Cold War, passionate idealists across the US and Africa came together to fight for Black self-determination and the antiracist remaking of society. Beginning with the 1957 Ghanaian independence celebration, the...
ISBN: 9780295749075
more detailsThe Borders of AIDS
Race, Quarantine, and Resistance
As soon as US media and politicians became aware of AIDS in the early 1980s, fingers were pointed not only at the gay community but also at other countries and migrant communities, particularly Haitians, as...
ISBN: 9780295748979
more detailsRevolutionary Jews from Spinoza to Marx
The Fight for a Secular World of Universal and Equal Rights
In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries a small but conspicuous fringe of the Jewish population became the world’s most resolute, intellectually driven, and philosophical revolutionaries, among them the pre-Marxist Karl Marx. Yet the roots...
ISBN: 9780295748665
more detailsThe Wa of Myanmar and China's Quest for Global Dominance
The United Wa State Army (UWSA) is a nonstate armed group that administers an autonomous zone in the difficult-to-reach Wa Hills of eastern Myanmar. As China expands its geopolitical interests across Asia through the Belt...
ISBN: 9786162151705
more detailsProtecting Whiteness
Whitelash and the Rejection of Racial Equality
The standoff at Cliven Bundy’s ranch, the rise of white identity activists on college campuses, and the viral growth of white nationalist videos on YouTube vividly illustrate the resurgence of white supremacy and overt racism...
ISBN: 9780295747996
more detailsKorean Skilled Workers
Toward a Labor Aristocracy
South Korea’s triumphant development has catapulted the country’s economy to the eleventh largest in the world. Large family-owned conglomerates, or chaebŏls, such as Samsung, Hyundai, and LG, have become globally preeminent manufacturing brands. Yet Korea’s...
ISBN: 9780295747217
more detailsA Secular Need
Islamic Law and State Governance in Contemporary India
Whether from the perspective of Islamic law’s advocates, secularism’s partisans, or communities caught in their crossfire, many people see the relationship between Islamic law and secularism as antagonistic and increasingly discordant. In the United States...
ISBN: 9780295747088
more detailsTaiwan in Dynamic Transition
Nation Building and Democratization
Following a remarkable transition from authoritarian rule to robust democracy, Taiwan has grown into a prosperous but widely unrecognized nation-state for which no uncontested sovereign space exists. Increasingly vigorous assertions of Taiwanese identity expose the...
ISBN: 9780295746807
more detailsTop-Down Democracy in South Korea
While popular movements in South Korea rightly grab the headlines for forcing political change and holding leaders to account, those movements are only part of the story of the construction and practice of democracy. In...
ISBN: 9780295745473
more detailsSensitive Space
Fragmented Territory at the India-Bangladesh Border
Enclaves along the India-Bangladesh border have posed conceptual and pragmatic challenges to both states since Partition in 1947. These pieces of India inside of Bangladesh, and vice versa, are spaces in which national security, belonging,...
ISBN: 9780295744247
more detailsBeyond Death
The Politics of Suicide and Martyrdom in Korea
Suicide and martyrdom are closely intertwined with Korean social and political processes. In this first book-length study of the evolving ideals of honorable death and martyrdom from the Chosŏn Dynasty (1392–1910) to contemporary South Korea,...
ISBN: 9780295745640
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