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Claudia Huang
Dancing for Their Lives

Dancing for Their Livesdelves into the world of retired Chinese "dancing grannies" who seek fulfillment amid broad social transformation. Based on ethnographic research, it challenges convention…

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K Ian Shin
Imperial Stewards

"From the Gilded Age to World War II, elite collectors and museums in the United States transformed from owning a smattering of Chinese porcelain as curios to possessing some of the world's largest a…

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Samantha Bresnahan
In Blood, Flowers Bloom

"In Blood, Flowers Bloom illuminates one of the last untold stories of World War II, the common act of soldiers taking their enemy's possessions after victory. This is the story of a single Japanese …

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Kee Howe Yong
Thailand's Far South

Questioning the naturalness of the nation state, Thailand's Far South explores the recurring conflict in Muslim-majority provinces in Thailand's southern region.

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Nature Unfurled

"As immigrants and laborers, gardeners and artists, activists and vacationers, Asian Americans have played, worked, and worshipped in nature for almost two centuries, forging enduring relationships w…

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Asian America Rising

A collection of movement flashpoints and insurgent visions for Asian American activism In the late 1960s, Asian American political activism emerged to unite disparate Asian diasporic communities living in…

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Micah S Muscolino
Remaking the Earth, Exhausting the People

"Remaking the Earth, Exhausting the People focuses on Gansu's Tianshu Prefecture, detailing over the course of seven chapters how environmental changes played out in villages, on farms, and within ho…

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Midori Ogasawara
Colonial Surveillance

In order to compete with Western powers, Japan began to rapidly modernize its governing institutions, in the process creating a national population registration and identification bureaucracy, the Koseki …

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Midori Ogasawara
Colonial Surveillance

In order to compete with Western powers, Japan began to rapidly modernize its governing institutions, including the creation of a national population registration and identification bureaucracy, the Kosek…

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Adeana McNicholl
Of Ancestors and Ghosts

Of Ancestors and Ghostsanalyzes a type of Buddhist literature in which immoral, stingy people are reincarnated as hungry, suffering ghosts. It traces the emergence of this genre in relation to contemporar…

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Kaila Yu
Fetishized

"Honest, raw, and beautiful."---Aiko Tanaka, comedian and actress, Fast and Furious: Tokyo Drift A deeply personal memoir-in-essays from former pinup model and lead singer of Nylon Pink Kaila Yu…

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Siyuan Yin
Contesting Inequalities

After four decades of market reform, China has developed a fast-growing, prosperous economy--the second largest in the world. Despite this prosperity, social inequality has persisted and expanded, particu…

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Susan Greenhalgh
Soda Science

"Recent years have brought growing concern about the power of huge corporations to distort science for corporate benefit, often to the detriment of human health. This book unearths a kind of corporat…

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Inukonda Thirumali
Telangana-Andhra

This book is an attempt to present the inside story of the Telangana movement that developed due to historical reasons.

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Siyuan Yin
Contesting Inequalities

After four decades of market reform, China has developed a fast-growing, prosperous economy--the second largest in the world. Despite this prosperity, social inequality has persisted and expanded, particu…

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Metamorphosis of Buddhism in China's New Era

"This study of contemporary Chinese Buddhism explores the relationship between religion and the state in China, and argues that Buddhism has entered a new era since the mid-2000s. Case studies from e…

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Garrett Hongo
Ocean of Clouds

In his fourth book of poems, award-winning poet Garrett Hongo sees coastlines and waters, skylines and ancestral lines for what they inspire and teach.In a surpassingly beautiful collection of poems, with…

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Manan Ahmed Asif
Disrupted City

"A history of Pakistan's cultural and intellectual capital, from one of the preeminent scholars of South Asia"--

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Nathan McGovern
Holy Things

A common religious practice in Buddhist Thailand is asking "holy things" for help in return for an offering. These holy things include local spirits, Hindu gods, and famous Buddha images, which …

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Smithsonian Asian Pacific American History, Art, and Culture in 101 Objects

A rich and compelling introduction to the history of Asian Pacific American communities as told through 101 objects, from a fortune cookie baking mold to the debut Ms. Marvel comic featuring Kamala Khan A…

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