By Arash Khazeni, author of The City and the Wilderness: Indo-Persian Encounters in Southeast Asia The fading traces of a different time of cross-cultural exchanges between the Indo-Persian Mughal world and the …
Read More >We’re proud to be publishing China expert Roger Garside’s China Coup: The Great Leap to Freedom in Spring 2021. This short book predicts—contrary to the prevailing consensus—that China’s leader Xi Jinping will …
Read More >Smithsonian Folkways has just announced artist and activist Nobuko Miyamoto’s new album, 120,000 Stories. The album will release January 29th and is now available for pre-order. From the Smithsonian Folkways press release: …
Read More >As a professor who has taught on Korea, Theodore Jun Yoo knew there was a need for a concise, engaging book that distilled contemporary Korea and the very different trajectories of North …
Read More >Anirudh Krishna’s essay “The Poorest After the Pandemic” is featured in Current History’s November special issue on the pandemic’s global ramifications. Krishna is the Edgar T. Thompson Professor of Public Policy and …
Read More >We are delighted to welcome Current History to UC Press’s portfolio of journals. Current History‘s September 2020 issue—the first issue to be published by UC Press—has just released, and, in celebration, we …
Read More >On August 13, 2020, the United States Postal Service released postage stamps showcasing ten sculptures of Ruth Asawa. Several of these sculptures are also included in the second edition of The Sculpture …
Read More >Join Art Historians and UC Press authors Christine Ho and Chinghsin Wu for a lively gathering on East Asian art history and launch party of 20 exciting new books. Friday, July 31: 11AM …
Read More >By Stuart Schrader, author of Badges Without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed American Policing July 17, 2020 Fifty years ago today, Life magazine printed photographs taken inside a prison on an island …
Read More >From the earliest marches in 1970 to this month’s events around the Bay Area and the world, Pride has celebrated and commemorated the LGBTQ community’s culture and heritage for over 40 years. …
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