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 …
By Joowon Park, author of Belonging in a House Divided: The Violence of the North Korean Resettlement Process In October 2022, the decomposed skeletal remains of a 49-year-old North Korean woman were …
The Bengali stories in this collection are first and foremost tales of survival. Each story in Needle at the Bottom of the Sea underscores the need for people to work together—not just to overcome …
By Christen T. Sasaki, author of Pacific Confluence: Fighting over the Nation in Nineteenth-Century Hawai‘i Typically, the history of U.S. empire is told as a story of inevitable expansion. Within this narrative, …