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Carlos Peter Reinelt
Der Einfluss deutschsprachiger Literatur auf die japanische Literatur nach 1945

In diesem Buch wird die Hypothese untersucht, wonach intertextuelle Referenzen zur deutschsprachigen Literatur durch bedeutende japanische Schriftsteller und Filmschaffende -- insbesondere auf Thomas Mann…

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China's Bri in Southeast Asia

China's BRI in Southeast Asia present empirical research that analyzes the dynamics and implications of the Belt and Roads Initiative (BRI) for the countries of Southeast Asia. While much has been written…

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Nien Yuan Cheng
The Storytelling State

In The Storytelling State, Cheng Nien Yuan, a Singaporean performance scholar and dramaturg, charts Singapore's development into a storytelling state since the 2010s. In such a state, public (auto)biograp…

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Ping Wang
The Poetic Way of XIE Lingyun

The father of Chinese landscape poetry in time and placeDuring 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 dynasties (618…

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Azka Khan
Weaving Words, Shaping Worlds

An exploration of how Pakistani Anglophone novels engage with prior texts to shape meaning, reinforce themes, and position narratives within larger ideological frameworks.

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Yu Luo,
Ethnic Branding in Contemporary China

An ethnic group at the crossroads of uniqueness and conformity in Southwestern ChinaThe Buyi people face a dilemma. On the one hand, they work hard to maintain their culture-both out of pride and to attra…

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Xue Ming,
Painting Thangkas on the Tibetan Plateau

Artists navigate faith, commerce, and gender as thangkas thrive beyond tradition Xue Ming offers a rare and deeply researched look into the lives of Rebgong thangka painters, whose sacred art is at once d…

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Nuurrianti Jalli, Ika Idris
Misguided Democracy in Malaysia and Indonesia

Misguided Democracy in Malaysia and Indonesia: Digital Propaganda in Southeast Asia examines the weaponization of the internet in Southeast Asia. Nuurrianti Jalli and Ika Idris meticulously unpack the int…

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Eating More Asian America

"A veritable feast for the senses, Eating More Asian America show us how critical eating studies has done more and gone further than we expected when Eating Asian America came out over a decade ago. …

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Gregory Smits
The Ryukyu Islands

The first comprehensive history of the Ryukyu Islands region in English.The Ryukyu Islands between Japan and Taiwan consist of around 160 islands and are home to about 1.5 million inhabitants. Across the …

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Perry Link
The Anaconda in the Chandelier

"This book is a manifestation of Perry Link's deep love for the Chinese people, their humor, struggles, and courage. Anaconda in the Chandelier is packed with a deep understanding of China, astute ob…

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Timothy Thurston,
Satirical Tibet

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 f…

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Benjamin M Han
Reckoning with the World

Forthcoming Fall 2025

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Ting Hui Lau
Decolonial Endurance

What does it mean to live through a world coming undone? How do people carry on amid rupture, loss, and grief? Decolonial Endurance explores these questions through the turbulent lives of Indigenous Lisu …

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Ting Hui Lau
Decolonial Endurance

What does it mean to live through a world coming undone? How do people carry on amid rupture, loss, and grief? Decolonial Endurance explores these questions through the turbulent lives of Indigenous Lisu …

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Benjamin M Han
Reckoning with the World

Forthcoming Fall 2025

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Nianshen Song
The Neighborhood

"This book is a centuries-spanning account of Xita, a neighborhood located in Shenyang, the largest city in Northeast China. By telling its story over four centuries, Nianshen Song shows how it has e…

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Ellie Yang Camp
Louder Than the Lies

"A primer on racism that offers an intersectional, anti-racist, coalition-building view of Asian American identity"--

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India'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 symboliz…

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Emily Hong
Borderland Solidarity

Kachinland is an unrecognized state in the borderlands of Myanmar, India, China, and Thailand. Its geography throws into sharp relief the intersecting dynamics of British colonialism, settler colonialism,…

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