Asian Studies
New and Forthcoming in Asian Studies
Alignments, Competitors, and Regional Diplomacy

China’s Asymmetric Statecraft uncovers the different narratives and paradigms that constitute Chinese foreign policy toward its weaker neighbours, alerting us to a dramatically changing international environment.

Enshrining the Right to Sexual Autonomy in Japan

Sex, Sexuality, and the Constitution persuasively demonstrates the need to entrench protections for individual sexual autonomy within constitutional law.

Assessing Sustainable Development Goals

Global Health Security in China, Japan, and India uses the targets set by the UN Sustainable Development Goals to conduct an impressively thorough assessment of coordinated health care in three major Asian countries.

Insights from Indonesia

Globalization, Poverty, and Income Inequality uses diverse empirical approaches to reveal the sometimes unexpected effects of trade and globalization on poverty and inequality.

Histories and Legacies of a Cold War Conflict
Edited by Andrew Burtch and Tim Cook

Canada and the Korean War synthesizes Canadian and global perspectives on a watershed conflict to explore its profound influence on international, diplomatic, and military history, public memory, and contemporary affairs.

Chinese Women’s Memories of the War of Resistance against Japan, 1931–45

Not Just a Man’s War uncovers the extraordinary stories of ordinary Chinese women during the horrific fourteen-year War of Resistance against Japan, from 1931 to 1945.

Building a Nation in China’s Borderlands, 1919–45

Frontier Fieldwork exposes the transformative power that early-twentieth-century fieldwork had in placing the Sino-Tibetan borderlands at the centre of China’s nation-making process and race to modernity.

The Making of a Chinese Christian Women's Institution, 1899–1957

The YWCA in China traces the history of this Christian organization – and the social philosophies of the Chinese women who led it – through the tumultuous first half of the twentieth century.

Asian Studies Titles from our Publishing Partners
Refugee Urbanism in American Cities and Suburbs

An in-depth look at the diverging paths of Vietnamese American communities, or “Little Saigons,” in America’s built environment.

Reiki’s Circulation in the Twentieth-Century North Pacific

Japanese American Musicking and the Politics of Identity

A generation-spanning history of music making and the sense of belonging it engenders

Caretaking, Parenting, and Struggles

Paying special attention to the seventy million children left behind by internal migrants in rural China, this book investigates the role of parental migration and the left-behind status of their children in shaping family dynamics and the children’s general wellbeing, including school performance, delinquency, resilience, feelings of ambiguous loss, and other psychological problems.

From Patriarchy to New Familism

Chinese Marriages in Transition documents the nuanced and multidirectional nature of the transformations in Chinese marriage, gender roles, and family. Using complex and large-scale historical national data as well as comprehensive data from multiple countries, Xiaoling Shu and Jingjing Chen demonstrate that Chinese new familism consists of values both old and new.

Narrating the Contemporary Chinese Diaspora in the United States

Transpacific Cartographies examines how contemporary Chinese diasporic narratives address the existential loss of home for immigrant communities at a time of global precarity and amid rising Sino-US tensions. Melody Li argues that the characters in these stories create multilayered maps that transcend the territorial boundaries that make finding a home in foreign land a seemingly impossible task.

Communism as Movement and Culture in Korea, 1919–1945

Nisei Buddhism in the Transwar Years, 1943–1965

An Anthology of Southeast Asian Ecowriting
Series edited by Craig Santos Perez

Translation, Adaptation, Mediation
By Amanda Kennell Series edited by Allison Alexy

Propaganda, Nature, and Agency in Mao’s China, 1949–1976

Ritual and Relationship in Daoist Practice

Gender, Memory, and Placemaking in Postindustrial Taiwan

Name Brands, Advertising, and Consumption in Modern Japan

Politics, Protest, and Musical Storytelling in Modern Japan

Selected Essays in Art and Material Culture

Filled with exquisite color illustrations, this volume examines an underserved aspect of Asian art history by discussing women artists, collectors, archaeologists, and architects whose efforts have largely been left out of scholarship.

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