By Kristian Karlo Saguin, author of Urban Ecologies on the Edge: Making Manila’s Resource Frontier Cities around the world are learning to live with the challenges of increasing urban ecological precarity. In …
When the crucial years after the Korean War are remembered today, histories about North Korea largely recount a grand epic of revolution centering on the ascent of Kim Il Sung to absolute …
By Kartik Nair, author of Seeing Things: Spectral Materialities of Bombay Horror What makes a vampire burn in the light? We don’t quite know. But in her stylish short film, Suicide by …
By Cheryl Narumi Naruse, author of Becoming Global Asia: Contemporary Genres of Postcolonial Capitalism in Singapore Becoming Global Asia is part of the UC Press Transpacific Series Though once widely regarded as …
Winner of the 2022 Joseph W. Elder Prize in the Indian Social Sciences, Merchants of Virtue explores the question of what it meant to be Hindu in precolonial South Asia. Divya Cherian …
In one of the first in-depth ethnographic accounts of coastal Fukushima written in English, Nuclear Ghost tells the stories of a diverse group of residents who aspire to live and die well …
The Tropical Turn chronicles the earliest histories of familiar tropical Asian crops in the ancient Middle East and the Mediterranean, from rice and cotton to citruses and cucumbers. Drawing on archaeological materials …