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Forthcoming books requiring support include:

The Art of Modern China, by Julia Andrews and Kuiyi Shen
(Anticipated date of publication: Fall 2012)

This first comprehensive study of modern Chinese art history begins with Chinese art of the Age of Imperialism and then both chronologically and thematically explores the art of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. One of the authors' primary goals is to highlight the self-conscious struggle of Chinese artists to honor tradition while embracing modernity as well as the tension between cultural nationalism and cosmopolitanism. This lively, accessible, and beautifully illustrated text will serve and enlighten scholars, students, collectors, and the myriad individuals who are interested in Asian art and artists.

The Cookbook Library: Four Centuries of the Cooks, Writers, and Recipes that Made the Modern Cookbook, by Anne Willan
(Anticipated date of publication: Spring 2012)

Based on the author's personal collection of rare cookbooks, The Cookbook Library will offer a beautifully illustrated view on the history of cookbooks and the evolution of cookbook writing. Focusing on cookbooks from fifteenth to early nineteenth century England, France, Italy, and Spain, Anne Willan explores the social contexts and motivations of chefs and cooks and illuminates the evolution of European cuisine over several centuries. Its comparative approach offers a new perspective on culinary crosscurrents that tend to get overlooked or dismissed when the focus is on a single national cuisine.

A People's Guide to Los Angeles, by Laura Pulido, Laura Barraclough, and Wendy Cheng
(Anticipated date of publication: Spring 2012)

A People's Guide to Los Angeles is an alternative guidebook that uncovers the rich and vibrant stories of political struggle, oppression, and resistance in the city's everyday landscapes. Much as Howard Zinn's People's History of the United States infiltrated the standard history textbook with untold stories of our nation's past, this book will reveal an alternative view of Los Angeles under the guise of a typical "guidebook," highlighting sites of racial, class, gender, sexual, and environmental struggle to show how power operates in the shaping of regions.