Asian Studies

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To Be an Actress: Labor and Performance in Anna May Wong's Cross-Media World

• by Yiman Wang (Author)
• June 2024
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Almost Futures: Sovereignty and Refuge at World’s End

• by Thu-huong Nguyen-vo (Author)
• June 2024
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Uncommon Cause: Living for Environmental Justice in Kerala

• by John Mathias (Author)
• April 2024
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Kretek Capitalism: Making, Marketing, and Consuming Clove Cigarettes in Indonesia

• by Marina Welker (Author)
• April 2024
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Subjects and Sojourners: A History of Indochinese in France

• by Charles Keith (Author)
• March 2024
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Seeing Things: Spectral Materialities of Bombay Horror

• by Kartik Nair (Author)
• February 2024
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Anxiety Aesthetics: Maoist Legacies in China, 1978–1985

• by Jennifer Dorothy Lee (Author)
• February 2024
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North Korea’s Mundane Revolution: Socialist Living and the Rise of Kim Il Sung, 1953–1965

• by Andre Schmid (Author)
• January 2024
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Pious Labor: Islam, Artisanship, and Technology in Colonial India

• by Amanda Lanzillo (Author)
• January 2024
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Menace to Empire: Anticolonial Solidarities and the Transpacific Origins of the US Security State

• by Moon-Ho Jung (Author)
• December 2023
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Lived Refuge: Gratitude, Resentment, Resilience

• by Vinh Nguyen (Author)
• November 2023
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Becoming Global Asia: Contemporary Genres of Postcolonial Capitalism in Singapore

• by Cheryl Narumi Naruse (Author)
• October 2023
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Political Moods: Film Melodrama and the Cold War in the Two Koreas

• by Travis Workman (Author)
• October 2023
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A Thousand Tiny Cuts: Mobility and Security across the Bangladesh-India Borderlands

• by Sahana Ghosh (Author)
• September 2023
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Celluloid Democracy: Cinema and Politics in Cold War South Korea

• by Hieyoon Kim (Author)
• September 2023
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A Life of Worry: Politics, Mental Health, and Vietnam’s Age of Anxiety

• by Allen L Tran (Author)
• August 2023
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Sounding the Indian Ocean: Musical Circulations in the Afro-Asiatic Seascape

• by Jim Sykes (Author), Julia Suzanne Byl (Author)
• August 2023
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Microbial Machines: Experiments with Decentralized Wastewater Treatment and Reuse in India

• by Kelly D. Alley (Author)
• August 2023
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New Export China: Translations across Time and Place in Contemporary Chinese Porcelain Art

• by Alex Burchmore (Author)
• June 2023
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World Socialist Cinema: Alliances, Affinities, and Solidarities in the Global Cold War

• by Masha Salazkina (Author)
• June 2023
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Nuclear Ghost: Atomic Livelihoods in Fukushima's Gray Zone

• by Ryo Morimoto (Author)
• April 2023
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Fabulous Machinery for the Curious: The Garden of Urdu Classical Literature

• by Musharraf Ali Farooqi (Author)
• April 2023
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Bury the Corpse of Colonialism: The Revolutionary Feminist Conference of 1949

• by Elisabeth B. Armstrong (Author)
• March 2023
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Needle at the Bottom of the Sea: Bengali Tales from the Land of the Eighteen Tides

• by Tony K. Stewart (Author)
• March 2023
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Provincializing Empire: Omi Merchants in the Japanese Transpacific Diaspora

• by Jun Uchida (Author)
• February 2023
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Angloscene: Compromised Personhood in Afro-Chinese Translations

• by Jay Ke-Schutte (Author)
• February 2023
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Bridging Two Worlds: Comparing Classical Political Thought and Statecraft in India and China

• by Daniel A. Bell (Editor), Amitav Acharya (Editor), Rajeev Bhargava (Editor), Yan Xuetong (Editor)
• January 2023
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Merchants of Virtue: Hindus, Muslims, and Untouchables in Eighteenth-Century South Asia

• by Divya Cherian (Author)
• December 2022
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Spiritual Ends: Religion and the Heart of Dying in Japan

• by Timothy O. Benedict (Author)
• December 2022
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Pacific Confluence: Fighting over the Nation in Nineteenth-Century Hawai'i

• by Christen T. Sasaki (Author)
• November 2022
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Belonging in a House Divided: The Violence of the North Korean Resettlement Process

• by Joowon Park (Author)
• November 2022
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Passport Entanglements: Protection, Care, and Precarious Migrations

• by Nicole Constable (Author)
• November 2022
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Cancer and the Kali Yuga: Gender, Inequality, and Health in South India

• by Cecilia Coale Van Hollen (Author)
• October 2022
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Departures: An Introduction to Critical Refugee Studies

• by Yen Le Espiritu (Author), Lan Duong (Author), Ma Vang (Author), Victor Bascara (Author)
• October 2022
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The Koreas: The Birth of Two Nations Divided

• by Theodore Jun Yoo (Author)
• September 2022
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Dictee

• by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (Author)
• September 2022
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Infrastructure and Form: The Global Networks of Indian Contemporary Art, 1991-2008

• by Karin Zitzewitz (Author)
• September 2022
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China Coup: The Great Leap to Freedom

• by Roger Garside (Author)
• August 2022
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Sirens of Modernity: World Cinema via Bombay

• by Samhita Sunya (Author)
• July 2022
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The Industrial Ephemeral: Labor and Love in Indian Architecture and Construction

• by Namita Vijay Dharia (Author)
• July 2022
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Being Single in India: Stories of Gender, Exclusion, and Possibility

• by Sarah Lamb (Author)
• June 2022
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Urban Ecologies on the Edge: Making Manila's Resource Frontier

• by Kristian Karlo Saguin (Author)
• June 2022
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Two Systems, Two Countries: A Nationalist Guide to Hong Kong

• by Kevin Carrico (Author)
• May 2022
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Archipelago of Resettlement: Vietnamese Refugee Settlers and Decolonization across Guam and Israel-Palestine

• by Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi (Author)
• April 2022
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Huizhou: Local Identity and Mercantile Lineage Culture in Ming China

• by Qitao Guo (Author)
• March 2022
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The Practice of Texts: Education and Healing in South India

• by Anthony Cerulli (Author)
• March 2022
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Crimes in Archival Form: Human Rights, Fact Production, and Myanmar

• by Ken MacLean (Author)
• March 2022
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Accidental Holy Land: The Communist Revolution in Northwest China

• by Joseph W. Esherick (Author)
• February 2022
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Sensitive Reading: The Pleasures of South Asian Literature in Translation

• by Yigal Bronner (Editor), Charles Hallisey (Editor)
• January 2022
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Acquired Alterity: Migration, Identity, and Literary Nationalism

• by Edward Mack (Author)
• January 2022
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