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From the UC Press Journals Archives: Remembrances of the Vietnam War
Apr 30 2025
The pages of UC Press’s journals have examined the War from a myriad of angles, from all sides of the conflict–its global economic and political impact, the role of student activism, memory in small-town America, and more.
50 Years Since the Vietnam War: The Cleaving
Apr 12 2025
Excerpts from "The Cleaving: Vietnamese Writers in the Diaspora"
How Taiwanese Vegetables Became the Envy of the World
Mar 15 2025
Author James Lin on the rural history that defined a generation of Taiwanese.
An interview with Paul Unschuld, translator of the "Ben Cao Gang Mu"
Oct 01 2024
The "Ben Cao Gang Mu" brings together ancient medicine, wisdom, and culture. German scholar and translator Paul U. Unschuld explains why it remains a crucial text — revealing the culture that underlies Chinese health care and politics.
Q&A with Andre Schmid, author of North Korea’s Mundane Revolution
Mar 28 2024
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 power. Often overshadowed in this storyline, however, are the myriad ways the Korean population participated in
Q&A with Divya Cherian, author of Merchants of Virtue
Nov 17 2023
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 presents a fine-grained study of everyday life and local politics in the kingdom of Marwar in eighteenth-century wes
Q&A with Olivia Milburn, translator of Kingdoms in Peril
Mar 19 2022
Olivia Milburn is Professor in the Department of Chinese at Seoul National University. Her previous publications include The Glory of Yue and The Spring and Autumn Annals of Master Yan.One of the great works of Chinese literature, beloved in East Asia but virtually unknown in the West, Kingd