A veteran of both Broadway and the protest line, Nobuko Miyamoto is an iconic Asian American artist and activist. Growing up in the 1940s as a third-generation Japanese American “without a song …
Read More >Afghanistan has a rich history of customary or traditional governance structures which have remained central to the lives of most citizens, who rely on these community-based bodies to resolve disputes, provide small-scale …
Read More >We’ve removed the paywall from Asian Survey‘s annual year-in-review issue which looks back at the biggest stories concerning Asia in 2020, a year during which the COVID-19 pandemic and a trade dispute …
Read More >This post is part of our UC Press Editor Spotlight Series. For this year’s virtual Association for Asian Studies conference, we connected with UC Press Asian Studies Editor Reed Malcolm to talk …
Read More >By Jan Bardsley, author of Maiko Masquerade: Crafting Geisha Girlhood in Japan This guest post is part of our #AAS2021 conference series. Visit our virtual exhibit to learn more. “What kinds of geisha stories …
Read More >“For the upcoming issue we have several timely reflections; on the dangers of conflating Arab and Muslim peoples, on the capitol insurrection, and on Martin Luther King’s legacy in the context of Black Lives Matter”
Read More >By David M. Lampton, co-author of Rivers of Iron: Railroads and Chinese Power in Southeast Asia This guest post is part of our #AAS2021 conference series. Visit our virtual exhibit to learn more. With …
Read More >By Li Zhang, author of Anxious China: Inner Revolution and Politics of Psychotherapy This guest post is part of our #AAS2021 conference series. Visit our virtual exhibit to learn more. The breathless pace of …
Read More >UC Press is proud to publish award-winning authors and books across many disciplines. Below are several of our recent award winners. Please join us in celebrating these scholars by sharing the news! …
Read More >By Michael Slouber, editor of A Garland of Forgotten Goddesses: Tales of the Feminine Divine from India and Beyond In the Internet age, memes have come to refer to images that are …
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