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Book SynopsisWith an adventurous writing style, Anand Pandian explores the transformative potential of cinema, following Tamil films from the spark of artistic impulse through their production, marketing, and reception to show how cinema recasts the ordinary experience of everyday life.Trade Review"[A] delightful combination of thought and description is a unique ethnographic account that is both autobiographical and participant-observational. ... In this book, we are made privy to this enigmatic and elusive interface between the creator and the nothingness that confronts him/her in the act of creation." -- C.S. Venkiteswaran * Frontline *"Decoding the phantasmagoria on-screen while navigating the labyrinthine networks of India’s Tamil cinema calls for inspired writing. Thankfully, the cicerone who takes us through these oneiric protean worlds can reconcile the recondite with the banal, the sublime with the quotidian, and the real with the mythological… The taut prose, the espial documentation, and cogitations make Reel World a work of superfluous quality.” -- Kumuthan Maderya * PopMatters *"Reel World is probably unlike any book on cinema production you have read. It takes seriously the felt reality of the myriad of writers, directors, producers, assistants, art directors, painters, ADR artists, lyricists—name the craftsperson—that collectively bring to the screen 800 or so films annually out of 'Kollywood.' . . . The book sifts expertly and enigmatically across all three levels: daily life, cinematic life and life in the universal. Reel World is actually Pandian’s anthropological paean to creation." -- Ritesh Mehta * MovieMaker *"Pandian delivers an adventurous and boldly written pursuit of how ideas become the sights, sounds, stories, emotions, and realities that flicker onscreen in a movie.” -- Bret McCabe * Johns Hopkins Magazine *"In this book, which follows the various paths through which Tamil films are made, another kind of dream emerges—one that allows us to re-envision the anthropological (by which I mean the human) project as one concerned with learning to open oneself to the wild world beyond what we think we can control.” -- Eduardo Kohn * Somatosphere *"Pandian interweaves the insights of an exceptional variety of thinkers, from medieval Indian poets, European philosophers, and anthropologists to South Asianists, film scholars, and critics.... [O]ne of the book’s delights remains the frolic across time, genre, discipline, field, and emotions that these many references gather and synthesize." -- Sara Dickey * American Ethnologist *"Pandian’s writing simulates the formal properties of cinema, conjuring the sounds and sights of films many of us may never see, but feel as though we have seen through his writing, while intimating that much of our apprehension of the world is already irrevocably cinematic.” -- Stephanie Spray * Somatosphere *"[A]n engaging text that introduces the reader to the film industry of a distinct cultural landscape in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu." -- Aparna Sharma * Critical Inquiry *Table of ContentsForeword / Walter Murch ix Note to the Reader, also a Listener and Seer xvii 1. Reel World 1 2. Dreams 21 3. Hope 37 4. Space 53 5. Art 69 6. Love 85 7. Desire 99 8. Light 107 9. Color 121 10. Time 135 11. Imagination 151 12. Pleasure 167 13. Sound 181 14. Voice 199 15. Rhythm 205 16. Speed 219 17. Wonder 237 18. Fate 251 19. An Anthropology of Creation 267 Acknowledgments 285 Notes 289 Bibliography 313 Index 329

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Book SynopsisWith an adventurous writing style, Anand Pandian explores the transformative potential of cinema, following Tamil films from the spark of artistic impulse through their production, marketing, and reception to show how cinema recasts the ordinary experience of everyday life.Trade Review"[A] delightful combination of thought and description is a unique ethnographic account that is both autobiographical and participant-observational. ... In this book, we are made privy to this enigmatic and elusive interface between the creator and the nothingness that confronts him/her in the act of creation." -- C.S. Venkiteswaran * Frontline *"Decoding the phantasmagoria on-screen while navigating the labyrinthine networks of India’s Tamil cinema calls for inspired writing. Thankfully, the cicerone who takes us through these oneiric protean worlds can reconcile the recondite with the banal, the sublime with the quotidian, and the real with the mythological… The taut prose, the espial documentation, and cogitations make Reel World a work of superfluous quality.” -- Kumuthan Maderya * PopMatters *"Reel World is probably unlike any book on cinema production you have read. It takes seriously the felt reality of the myriad of writers, directors, producers, assistants, art directors, painters, ADR artists, lyricists—name the craftsperson—that collectively bring to the screen 800 or so films annually out of 'Kollywood.' . . . The book sifts expertly and enigmatically across all three levels: daily life, cinematic life and life in the universal. Reel World is actually Pandian’s anthropological paean to creation." -- Ritesh Mehta * MovieMaker *"Pandian delivers an adventurous and boldly written pursuit of how ideas become the sights, sounds, stories, emotions, and realities that flicker onscreen in a movie.” -- Bret McCabe * Johns Hopkins Magazine *"In this book, which follows the various paths through which Tamil films are made, another kind of dream emerges—one that allows us to re-envision the anthropological (by which I mean the human) project as one concerned with learning to open oneself to the wild world beyond what we think we can control.” -- Eduardo Kohn * Somatosphere *"Pandian interweaves the insights of an exceptional variety of thinkers, from medieval Indian poets, European philosophers, and anthropologists to South Asianists, film scholars, and critics.... [O]ne of the book’s delights remains the frolic across time, genre, discipline, field, and emotions that these many references gather and synthesize." -- Sara Dickey * American Ethnologist *"Pandian’s writing simulates the formal properties of cinema, conjuring the sounds and sights of films many of us may never see, but feel as though we have seen through his writing, while intimating that much of our apprehension of the world is already irrevocably cinematic.” -- Stephanie Spray * Somatosphere *"[A]n engaging text that introduces the reader to the film industry of a distinct cultural landscape in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu." -- Aparna Sharma * Critical Inquiry *Table of ContentsForeword / Walter Murch ix Note to the Reader, also a Listener and Seer xvii 1. Reel World 1 2. Dreams 21 3. Hope 37 4. Space 53 5. Art 69 6. Love 85 7. Desire 99 8. Light 107 9. Color 121 10. Time 135 11. Imagination 151 12. Pleasure 167 13. Sound 181 14. Voice 199 15. Rhythm 205 16. Speed 219 17. Wonder 237 18. Fate 251 19. An Anthropology of Creation 267 Acknowledgments 285 Notes 289 Bibliography 313 Index 329

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Book SynopsisIn this book leading Chinese experts review the life, career, and artistic development of the pioneering Chinese artist Zhang Hongtu, whose diverse works speak to China's past and present, the relationship between Asia and the West, and canonical Western art.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 7 Foreword 10 1. The Displaced Artist Sees Things for Us: Zhang Hongtu and the Art of Convergence / Jerome Silbergeld 13 2. Wall, Gate, Hole: Three Recurrent Motifs in Zhang Hongtu's Art / Wu Hung 37 3. Zhang's Contemporary Cubism / Michael FitzGerald 56 4. The Man in the Moon: A Conversation with Zhang Hongtu / Eugenie Tsai 72 5. "A Hundred Ways to Learn" about Zhang Hongtu / Morgan Perkins 83 6. Restoring the Aura: Julia F. Andrews and Kuiyi Shen 101 7. Zhang Hongtu: Playing with Power / Alexandra Chang 114 8. Zhang Hontu's Fashionable Turn / Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu 130 9. Pop, Politics, and Painting / Lilly Wei 138 10. Zhang Hongtu's Queens / Tom Finkelpearl 155 11. What's Next for Us? Zhang Hongtu's Environmental Shan Shui / Luchia Meihua Lee 160 Plates 175 Autobiography 313 Selected Bibliography 323 Guide to Traditional and Simplified Chinese Characters 335 Credits 337

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Book SynopsisIndonesian Notebook contains myriad documents by Indonesian writers, intellectuals, and reporters that provide the largely absent Indonesian perspectives of the 1955 Bandung Conference and of Richard Wright's activities there, adding new depths to the understandings of the conference. It also includes a newly discovered lecture by Wright. Trade Review"Indonesian Notebook fills out the broader picture of Wright and the conference. It performs a valuable service ... and should encourage further scholarly digging in locales and languages affected by the conference." -- Jason Parker * Journal of American History *"In U.S. histories, the meanings of the term the Third World is often rendered as stable. Non-American actors, too, sometimes remain only a spectral presence. By insisting that Indonesian intellectuals and Wright co-produced a different kind of Bandung spirit, Indonesian Notebook instead underscores the contingencies of what one historian rightly calls “the complex and uneven geographies of the postcolonial cold war world.” In doing so it can help us begin to reimagine the politics, and the poetics, of the Third World." -- Mark Philip Bradley * Modern American History *"Rigorously researched and beautifully composed." -- Taomo Zhou * Southeast Asian Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Abbreviations xv Bibliography of Translated and Republished Sources xvii On the Translations xxi On Spelling and Personal Names xxiii Introduction. Richard Wright on the Bandung Conference, Modern Indonesia on Richard Wright 1 Part I. Transnational Crosscurrents 1. The Indonesian Embassy's Cultural Life of Indonesia (Excerpts) (1951) 35 2. Pramoedya Ananta Toer's "The Definition of Literature and the Question of Beauty" (1952) 43 3. S. M. Ardan's "Pramoedya Heads Overseas" (1953) 50 4. De Preangerbode's Review of The Outsider (1954) 56 5. Beb Vuyk's "Stories in the Modern Manner" (1955) 59 Part II. An Asian-African Encounter 6. A Sheaf of Newspaper Articles: Richard Wright in Indonesia's Daily Press (1955) 67 7. Mochtar Lubis's "A List of Indonesian Writers and Artists" (1955) 89 8. Gelanggang's "A Conversation with Richard Wright" (1955) 95 9. Konfrontasi's "Synopsis" of Wright's "American Negro Writing" (1955) 106 10. Richard Wright's "The Artist and His Problems" (1955) 122 11. Anas Ma'ruf's "Richard Wright in Indonesia" (1955) 138 Part III. In the Wake of Wright's Indonesian Travels 12. Beb Vuyk's "Black Power" (1955) 145 13. Beb Vuyk's "H. Creekmore and Prostest Novels" (1955) 152 14. Asrul Sani's "Richard Wright: The Artist Turned Intellectual" (1956) 159 15. Frits Kandou's "Richard Wright's Impressions of Indonesia" (1956) 171 16. Beb Vuyk's "A Weekend with Richard Wright" (1960) 182 17. Goenawan Mohamad's "Politicians" (1977) 207 18. Seno Joko Suyono's "A Forgotten Hotel" (2005) 214 Afterword. Big History, Little History, Interstitial History: On the Tightrope between Polyvocality and Lingua Franca 229 Works Cited 239 Index 253

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Book SynopsisIn Motherless Tongues Vicente L. Rafael examines the vexed relationship between language and history as seen through the work of translation in the context of empire, revolution, and academic scholarship in the Philippines, the United States, and beyond.Trade Review"Vincente Rafael's latest work, Motherless Tongues, brings an innovative perspective to the field of translation studies." -- Marianna Deganutti * Target *"Motherless Tongues is a revelatory and lucid rejection of the delusions of control of language flows implicit in the work of many a translation studies scholar. Amidst the continued hegemony of research moulded by the reassuring stability of different types of social and ideological structures, Rafael’s superbly written book illuminates the counterpoint: translation as site for the everyday expression of dissent, subversion and insurgency." -- Luis Pérez-González * The Translator *“Motherless Tongues not only demonstrates what a rich ecosystem the Philippines is for thinking through translation, but also offers a new and productive way to think about the relationship between translation and language.” -- Jessica Gross * Journal of Asian Studies *“Among the most notable aspects of the author’s approach in Motherless Tongues is that it is scholarly, theoretically vivid, and, at the same time, deeply personal. . . . The world of Motherless Tongues is encouraging to a degree that is, perhaps, even beyond the author’s intentions stated at the outset.” -- William B. Noseworthy * Pacific Affairs *“An excellent collection. . . . Rafael demonstrates that translation is a versatile and complex concept capable of producing both broad generalizations and intricately detailed historical arguments.” -- Lanny Thompson * Journal of American History *"[Rafael] is a perspicacious observer of culture whose discernments constantly open up new vistas." -- Ilan Stavans * Latin American Research Review *"Motherless Tongues offers much to literary scholarship by way of its complex and detailed historiography. It places hegemonic and nonhegemonic languages in the same zone, street, and classroom to insist that there is always another story, another example. In doing so, it makes a strong case for limber models of literary scholarship that respond to multilingual zones of translation." -- Akshya Saxena * Cultural Critique *"In this extraordinary collection of essays, anthropologist and historian Vicente L. Rafael offers the reader a fast-paced tour of the complex relationship between language, history, colonization, and war. . . . Rafael goes to considerable lengths to illustrate how the dexterity of language and the agility of translation are enormous assets, impervious to taming and domestication. He thinks like a poet and writes like a politician, fusing the best of oratorical forms to a rhetorical parsimony that ensures that his work is always an absolute pleasure to read." -- Mark Turin * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments xi Introduction. The Aporia of Translation 1 Part I. Vernacularizing the Political 1. Welcoming What Comes: Translating Sovereignty in the Revolutionary Philippines 21 2. Wars of Translation: American English, Colonial Schooling,and Tagalog Slang 43 3. The Cell Phone and the Crowd: Messianic Politics in the EDSA II Uprising 70 Part II. Weaponizing Babel 4. Translation, American English, and the National Insecurities of Empire 99 5. Targeting Translation: Counterinsurgency and the Weaponization of Language 120 Part III. Translating Lives 6. The Accidents of Area Studies: Benedict Anderson and Arjun Appadurai 149 7. Contracting Nostalgia: On Renato Rosaldo 162 8. Language, History, and Autobiograhy: Becoming Reynaldo Ileto 173 9. Interview: Translation Speaks with Vicente Rafael 189 Notes 203 Bibliography 233 Index 247

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Book SynopsisIndonesian Notebook contains myriad documents by Indonesian writers, intellectuals, and reporters that provide the largely absent Indonesian perspectives of the 1955 Bandung Conference and of Richard Wright's activities there, adding new depths to the understandings of the conference. It also includes a newly discovered lecture by Wright. Trade Review"Indonesian Notebook fills out the broader picture of Wright and the conference. It performs a valuable service ... and should encourage further scholarly digging in locales and languages affected by the conference." -- Jason Parker * Journal of American History *"In U.S. histories, the meanings of the term the Third World is often rendered as stable. Non-American actors, too, sometimes remain only a spectral presence. By insisting that Indonesian intellectuals and Wright co-produced a different kind of Bandung spirit, Indonesian Notebook instead underscores the contingencies of what one historian rightly calls “the complex and uneven geographies of the postcolonial cold war world.” In doing so it can help us begin to reimagine the politics, and the poetics, of the Third World." -- Mark Philip Bradley * Modern American History *"Rigorously researched and beautifully composed." -- Taomo Zhou * Southeast Asian Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Abbreviations xv Bibliography of Translated and Republished Sources xvii On the Translations xxi On Spelling and Personal Names xxiii Introduction. Richard Wright on the Bandung Conference, Modern Indonesia on Richard Wright 1 Part I. Transnational Crosscurrents 1. The Indonesian Embassy's Cultural Life of Indonesia (Excerpts) (1951) 35 2. Pramoedya Ananta Toer's "The Definition of Literature and the Question of Beauty" (1952) 43 3. S. M. Ardan's "Pramoedya Heads Overseas" (1953) 50 4. De Preangerbode's Review of The Outsider (1954) 56 5. Beb Vuyk's "Stories in the Modern Manner" (1955) 59 Part II. An Asian-African Encounter 6. A Sheaf of Newspaper Articles: Richard Wright in Indonesia's Daily Press (1955) 67 7. Mochtar Lubis's "A List of Indonesian Writers and Artists" (1955) 89 8. Gelanggang's "A Conversation with Richard Wright" (1955) 95 9. Konfrontasi's "Synopsis" of Wright's "American Negro Writing" (1955) 106 10. Richard Wright's "The Artist and His Problems" (1955) 122 11. Anas Ma'ruf's "Richard Wright in Indonesia" (1955) 138 Part III. In the Wake of Wright's Indonesian Travels 12. Beb Vuyk's "Black Power" (1955) 145 13. Beb Vuyk's "H. Creekmore and Prostest Novels" (1955) 152 14. Asrul Sani's "Richard Wright: The Artist Turned Intellectual" (1956) 159 15. Frits Kandou's "Richard Wright's Impressions of Indonesia" (1956) 171 16. Beb Vuyk's "A Weekend with Richard Wright" (1960) 182 17. Goenawan Mohamad's "Politicians" (1977) 207 18. Seno Joko Suyono's "A Forgotten Hotel" (2005) 214 Afterword. Big History, Little History, Interstitial History: On the Tightrope between Polyvocality and Lingua Franca 229 Works Cited 239 Index 253

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Book SynopsisIn Motherless Tongues Vicente L. Rafael examines the vexed relationship between language and history as seen through the work of translation in the context of empire, revolution, and academic scholarship in the Philippines, the United States, and beyond.Trade Review"Vincente Rafael's latest work, Motherless Tongues, brings an innovative perspective to the field of translation studies." -- Marianna Deganutti * Target *"Motherless Tongues is a revelatory and lucid rejection of the delusions of control of language flows implicit in the work of many a translation studies scholar. Amidst the continued hegemony of research moulded by the reassuring stability of different types of social and ideological structures, Rafael’s superbly written book illuminates the counterpoint: translation as site for the everyday expression of dissent, subversion and insurgency." -- Luis Pérez-González * The Translator *“Motherless Tongues not only demonstrates what a rich ecosystem the Philippines is for thinking through translation, but also offers a new and productive way to think about the relationship between translation and language.” -- Jessica Gross * Journal of Asian Studies *“Among the most notable aspects of the author’s approach in Motherless Tongues is that it is scholarly, theoretically vivid, and, at the same time, deeply personal. . . . The world of Motherless Tongues is encouraging to a degree that is, perhaps, even beyond the author’s intentions stated at the outset.” -- William B. Noseworthy * Pacific Affairs *“An excellent collection. . . . Rafael demonstrates that translation is a versatile and complex concept capable of producing both broad generalizations and intricately detailed historical arguments.” -- Lanny Thompson * Journal of American History *"[Rafael] is a perspicacious observer of culture whose discernments constantly open up new vistas." -- Ilan Stavans * Latin American Research Review *"Motherless Tongues offers much to literary scholarship by way of its complex and detailed historiography. It places hegemonic and nonhegemonic languages in the same zone, street, and classroom to insist that there is always another story, another example. In doing so, it makes a strong case for limber models of literary scholarship that respond to multilingual zones of translation." -- Akshya Saxena * Cultural Critique *"In this extraordinary collection of essays, anthropologist and historian Vicente L. Rafael offers the reader a fast-paced tour of the complex relationship between language, history, colonization, and war. . . . Rafael goes to considerable lengths to illustrate how the dexterity of language and the agility of translation are enormous assets, impervious to taming and domestication. He thinks like a poet and writes like a politician, fusing the best of oratorical forms to a rhetorical parsimony that ensures that his work is always an absolute pleasure to read." -- Mark Turin * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments xi Introduction. The Aporia of Translation 1 Part I. Vernacularizing the Political 1. Welcoming What Comes: Translating Sovereignty in the Revolutionary Philippines 21 2. Wars of Translation: American English, Colonial Schooling,and Tagalog Slang 43 3. The Cell Phone and the Crowd: Messianic Politics in the EDSA II Uprising 70 Part II. Weaponizing Babel 4. Translation, American English, and the National Insecurities of Empire 99 5. Targeting Translation: Counterinsurgency and the Weaponization of Language 120 Part III. Translating Lives 6. The Accidents of Area Studies: Benedict Anderson and Arjun Appadurai 149 7. Contracting Nostalgia: On Renato Rosaldo 162 8. Language, History, and Autobiograhy: Becoming Reynaldo Ileto 173 9. Interview: Translation Speaks with Vicente Rafael 189 Notes 203 Bibliography 233 Index 247

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Book SynopsisThe contributors to this major intervention into Indian historiography recover the long history of Dalit struggles against caste violence, exclusion, and discrimination by focusing on the importance of humiliation, dignity, and spatial exclusion to Dalit emancipatory politics.Trade Review"Dalit Studies raises and tries to answer imperative questions and also demonstrates areas open to further research. It therefore provides an interesting read for specialists and nonspecialists alike." -- Amal Shahid * LSE Review of Books *“The authors are aware that they represent the transition in the field of Dalit studies where Dalits initially were mere objects of study, but now with research contributions such as the present volume, they are also the subjects who are contributing to the study of Dalit lives…. The editors have done a commendable job in bringing together the diverse strands of scholarship for a Western audience.” -- Shradda Kumbhojkar * H-Asia, H-Net Reviews *"This is a genuinely fresh and instructive volume that will interest professional students of Indian society and politics, as well as those with a special concentration on Dalit issues. . . . As an edited work, this is not a smooth summary of the Dalit situation today or historically. What it does, successfully, is open up perspectives and developments from a Dalit rather than outsiders’ stance." -- Oliver Mendelsohn * Canadian Journal of History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Dalit Studies: New Perspectives on Indian History and Society / Ramnarayan S. Rawat and K. Satyanarayana 1 1. The Indian Nation in Its Egalitarian Conception / Gopul Guru 31 Part I. Probing the Historical 2. Colonial Archive versus Colonial Sociology: Writing Dalit History / Ramnarayan S. Rawat 53 3. Social Space, Civil Society, and Dalit Agency in Twentieth-Century Kerala / P. Sanal Mohan 74 4. Dilemmas of Dalit Agendas: Political Subjugation and Self-Emancipation in Telugu Country, 1910-50 / Chinnaiah Jangam 104 5. Making Sense of Dalit Sikh History / Raj Kumar Hans 131 Part II. Probiing the Present 6. The Dalit Reconfiguration of Modernity: Citizens and Castes in the Telugu Public Sphere / K. Satyanarayana 155 7. Questions of Representation in Dalit Critical Discourse: Premchand and Dalit Feminism / Laura Brueck 180 8. Social Justice and the Question of Categorization of Scheduled Caste Reservations: The Dandora Debate in Andhra Pradesh / Sambaiah Gundimeda 202 9. Caste and Class among the Dalits / D. Shyam Babu 233 10. From Zaat to Qaum: Fluid Contours of the Ravi Dasi Indentity in Punjab / Surinder S. Jodhka 248 Bibliography 271 Contributors 293 Index 295

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Book SynopsisIn Ghostly Desires Arnika Fuhrmann examines post-1997 Thai cinema and video art to show how vernacular Buddhist values, stories, and images combine with sexual politics in figuring in current struggles over gender, sexuality, personhood, and collective life.Trade Review“Ghostly Desires is about much more than Thai cinema. Fuhrmann pursues these diverse moving image-makers far beyond the nation’s moral-institutional architecture; and their “queering” of that architecture takes her far beyond the critical conventions of gender studies.” -- David Teh * Pacific Affairs *"Ghostly Desires has indeed opened new conversations on the question of how the diverse genres of recent Thai cinema challenge us to refashion theory." -- Peter A. Jackson * Journal of Southeast Asian Studies *"A deft and delicately defined analysis of the intersections between queer sexuality, vernacular Buddhist tenets and Thai cinema, tales and images." -- Rachel Harrison * Sojourn *"Ghostly Desires has achieved a rare accomplishment in the field of Thai studies. It fuses innovative, postmodern theoretical sophistication with a rich grounding and expertise in the Thai cultural, historical, and aesthetic context." -- Megan Sinnott * Sojourn *"Fuhrmann mines the rich materialist indexicality of ghosts to dazzling effect in her brilliant new study of queer sexuality and Buddhist-coded tropologies of desire . . . singularly impressive achievement that stages valuable interventions in competing interdisciplinary debates about cinema, religion, and sexual publics. . . . A dazzling debut from an important new voice in feminist, queer, and Asian cultural studies that deserves a wide and appreciative readership." -- Brett Farmer * GLQ *"Brilliant ... Arnika Fuhrmann’s transdisciplinary approach is a perfect example of what the queering of area studies can look like and thus fits well with the idea of New Area Studies research and its goal to investigate situated differences and formulate mid-range concepts." -- Benjamin Baumann * Journal of Asian Studies *"Ghostly Desires entreats viewers to cast their glance anew in the direction of cinema’s apparitions, mapping spectral desire along previously undetected coordinates of queerness and counternormativity. Its interdisciplinary orientation renders Ghostly Desires an essential contribution to scholarship across cinema studies, Southeast Asian studies, queer and affect theory, Buddhist studies, and beyond. Fuhrmann’s is a provocative and illuminating study rendered in a register no less haunting than its subject matter." -- Laura Isabel Serna and Mashinka Firunts Hakopian * Journal of Cinema and Media Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. Buddhist Sexual Contemporaneity 1 1. Nang-Nak—Ghost Wife: Desire, Embodiment, and Buddhist Melancholia in a Contemporary Thai Ghost Film 47 2. The Ghost Seer: Chinese Thai Minority Subjectivity, Female Agency, and the Transnational Uncanny in the Films of Danny and Oxide Pang 87 3. Tropical Malady: Same-Sex Desire, Casualness, and the Queering of Impermanence in the Cinema of Apichatpong Weerasethakul 122 4. Making Contact: Contingency, Fantasy, and the Performance of Impossible Intimacies in the Video Art of Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook 160 Coda. Under Permanent Exception: Thai Buddhist-Muslim Coexistence, Interreligious Intimacy, and the Filmic Archive 185 Notes 199 Bibliography 231 Index 249

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Book SynopsisIn Tourist Distractions Youngmin Choe uses Korean hallyu cinema as a lens to examine the importance of tourist films and film tourism in creating transnational bonds throughout East Asia and how they help Korea negotiate its twentieth-century history with the neoliberal present.Trade Review"Choe productively establishes a discussion that is relational rather than focused on bounded national contexts. She does terrific work in tying together solid and eminently useful historical context information and on-site research with close readings and more speculative, very insightful discussion. It is a balance that is difficult to achieve, but one that is especially rare in the study of popular culture from Korea." -- Alexander Zahlten * Journal of Asian Studies *"Choe’s work is highly readable, inspiring, and absorbing. Tourist Distractions also promises to be productive in the classroom. It will attract and distract hallyu fans in Korean studies and researchers with interests in tourism studies, visual and cultural anthropology, cultural studies, and film studies." -- Barbara Wall * Social History *"Although an impressive amount of scholarship on Hallyu cinema has been published in the last decade, the transnational affect of Hallyu cinema through re-contextualizing it as audience emotions, tensions, and transnational self-reflections has not been the focus of critical attention. Tourist Distractions fills this void in Korean film studies with a persuasive voice by establishing the transnational linkages of Hallyu to Japan, China, and North Korea since the early inception of the Hallyu boom." -- Yongwoo Lee * Pacific Affairs *“This is a multilayered and elegant model, albeit one still under construction, that certainly suggests a much more contextually rich way to interpret the significant works of the Korean Wave; for that contribution alone Choe’s book should be considered a must-read.” -- Kyu Hyun Kim * Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies *"Enriching the oeuvre of Korean film scholarship with its theoretical rigor, Tourist Distractions fills a critical gap in Hallyu studies by placing it in productive dialogue with Korean studies, tourism studies, film studies, cultural studies, and visual/cultural anthropology." -- Haerin Shin * Journal of Korean Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Distracted Attractions 1 Part I. Intimacy 1. Feeling Together: Pornography and Travel in Kazoku Cinema and Asako in Ruby Shoes 31 2. Affective Sites: Hur Jin-ho's April Snow and One Fine Spring Day 59 Part II. Amity 3. Provisional Feelings: The Making of Musa 89 4. Affective Palimpsests: Sudden Showers from Hwang Sun-won's "Sonagi" to Kwak Jae-yong and Andrew Lau's Daisy 112 Part III. Remembrance 5. Postmemory DMZ: Joint Security Area, Yesterday, and 2009 Lost Memories 143 6. Transient Monuments: Commemmorating and Memorializing in Taegukgi Korean War Film Tourism 166 Conclusion. K-hallyu: The Commodity Speaks in Kang Chul-woo's Romantic Island, Bae Yong-joon's A Journey in Search of Korea's Beauty, So Ji-sub's Road, and Choi Ji-woo's if 197 Notes 205 Bibliography 229 Index 241

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Book SynopsisIn Ghostly Desires Arnika Fuhrmann examines post-1997 Thai cinema and video art to show how vernacular Buddhist values, stories, and images combine with sexual politics in figuring in current struggles over gender, sexuality, personhood, and collective life.Trade Review“Ghostly Desires is about much more than Thai cinema. Fuhrmann pursues these diverse moving image-makers far beyond the nation’s moral-institutional architecture; and their “queering” of that architecture takes her far beyond the critical conventions of gender studies.” -- David Teh * Pacific Affairs *"Ghostly Desires has indeed opened new conversations on the question of how the diverse genres of recent Thai cinema challenge us to refashion theory." -- Peter A. Jackson * Journal of Southeast Asian Studies *"A deft and delicately defined analysis of the intersections between queer sexuality, vernacular Buddhist tenets and Thai cinema, tales and images." -- Rachel Harrison * Sojourn *"Ghostly Desires has achieved a rare accomplishment in the field of Thai studies. It fuses innovative, postmodern theoretical sophistication with a rich grounding and expertise in the Thai cultural, historical, and aesthetic context." -- Megan Sinnott * Sojourn *"Fuhrmann mines the rich materialist indexicality of ghosts to dazzling effect in her brilliant new study of queer sexuality and Buddhist-coded tropologies of desire . . . singularly impressive achievement that stages valuable interventions in competing interdisciplinary debates about cinema, religion, and sexual publics. . . . A dazzling debut from an important new voice in feminist, queer, and Asian cultural studies that deserves a wide and appreciative readership." -- Brett Farmer * GLQ *"Brilliant ... Arnika Fuhrmann’s transdisciplinary approach is a perfect example of what the queering of area studies can look like and thus fits well with the idea of New Area Studies research and its goal to investigate situated differences and formulate mid-range concepts." -- Benjamin Baumann * Journal of Asian Studies *"Ghostly Desires entreats viewers to cast their glance anew in the direction of cinema’s apparitions, mapping spectral desire along previously undetected coordinates of queerness and counternormativity. Its interdisciplinary orientation renders Ghostly Desires an essential contribution to scholarship across cinema studies, Southeast Asian studies, queer and affect theory, Buddhist studies, and beyond. Fuhrmann’s is a provocative and illuminating study rendered in a register no less haunting than its subject matter." -- Laura Isabel Serna and Mashinka Firunts Hakopian * Journal of Cinema and Media Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. Buddhist Sexual Contemporaneity 1 1. Nang-Nak—Ghost Wife: Desire, Embodiment, and Buddhist Melancholia in a Contemporary Thai Ghost Film 47 2. The Ghost Seer: Chinese Thai Minority Subjectivity, Female Agency, and the Transnational Uncanny in the Films of Danny and Oxide Pang 87 3. Tropical Malady: Same-Sex Desire, Casualness, and the Queering of Impermanence in the Cinema of Apichatpong Weerasethakul 122 4. Making Contact: Contingency, Fantasy, and the Performance of Impossible Intimacies in the Video Art of Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook 160 Coda. Under Permanent Exception: Thai Buddhist-Muslim Coexistence, Interreligious Intimacy, and the Filmic Archive 185 Notes 199 Bibliography 231 Index 249

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Book SynopsisTania Lewis, Fran Martin, and Wanning Sun analyze the complex social and cultural significance of lifestyle television programming in China, India, Taiwan, and Singapore, showing how it adds insight into late Asian modernity, media cultures, and broad shifts in the nature of private life, identity, citizenship, and social engagement.Trade Review"Telemodernities is a valuable addition to a growing body of scholarship.... A fascinatingly detailed comparative study of lifestyle television in China, India, and Taiwan, the book seeks to decenter the normative modernity of the West, interrogating instead the role television plays in constituting and interpreting multiple 'modernities.'" -- Tilottama Karlekar * Feminist Media Studies *"The scope of the book is expansive, covering all three aspects of media studies: production, content, and audience analysis. The thick description helps immensely with the goal of showing how modernities are interpreted, negotiated, and confronted in nuanced ways...." -- Yang Bai * International Journal of Communication *"[Telemodernities] provides a convincing comparative and nuanced analysis of how lifestyle TV filters conflicting ideologies. . . . This book offers groundbreaking comparative work on South Asian television." -- Daniel Keyes * Critical Studies in Television *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction: Telemodernities 1 1. Lifestyle Television in Context: Media Industries, Cultural Economies, and Genre Flows 25 2. Local versus Metropolitan Television in China: Stratification of Needs, Taste, and Spatial Imagination 52 3. Here, There, and Everywhere: Mediascapes, Geographic Imaginaries, and Indian Television 82 4. Imagining Global Mobility: TLC Taiwan 106 5. Gurus, Babas, and Daren: Popular Experts on Chinese and Indian Advice TV 126 6. Magical Modernities: Spiritual Advice TV in India and Taiwan 157 7. Risky Romance: Navigating Late Modern Identities and Relationships on Chinese and Indian Lifestyle TV 196 8. A Self to Believe In: Negotiating Femininities in Sinophone Lifestyle Advice TV 222 Conclusion: Negotiating Modernities through Lifestyle Television 254 Notes 271 Works Cited 281 Index 305

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Book SynopsisTania Lewis, Fran Martin, and Wanning Sun analyze the complex social and cultural significance of lifestyle television programming in China, India, Taiwan, and Singapore, showing how it adds insight into late Asian modernity, media cultures, and broad shifts in the nature of private life, identity, citizenship, and social engagement.Trade Review"Telemodernities is a valuable addition to a growing body of scholarship.... A fascinatingly detailed comparative study of lifestyle television in China, India, and Taiwan, the book seeks to decenter the normative modernity of the West, interrogating instead the role television plays in constituting and interpreting multiple 'modernities.'" -- Tilottama Karlekar * Feminist Media Studies *"The scope of the book is expansive, covering all three aspects of media studies: production, content, and audience analysis. The thick description helps immensely with the goal of showing how modernities are interpreted, negotiated, and confronted in nuanced ways...." -- Yang Bai * International Journal of Communication *"[Telemodernities] provides a convincing comparative and nuanced analysis of how lifestyle TV filters conflicting ideologies. . . . This book offers groundbreaking comparative work on South Asian television." -- Daniel Keyes * Critical Studies in Television *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction: Telemodernities 1 1. Lifestyle Television in Context: Media Industries, Cultural Economies, and Genre Flows 25 2. Local versus Metropolitan Television in China: Stratification of Needs, Taste, and Spatial Imagination 52 3. Here, There, and Everywhere: Mediascapes, Geographic Imaginaries, and Indian Television 82 4. Imagining Global Mobility: TLC Taiwan 106 5. Gurus, Babas, and Daren: Popular Experts on Chinese and Indian Advice TV 126 6. Magical Modernities: Spiritual Advice TV in India and Taiwan 157 7. Risky Romance: Navigating Late Modern Identities and Relationships on Chinese and Indian Lifestyle TV 196 8. A Self to Believe In: Negotiating Femininities in Sinophone Lifestyle Advice TV 222 Conclusion: Negotiating Modernities through Lifestyle Television 254 Notes 271 Works Cited 281 Index 305

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Book SynopsisAlexander Laban Hinton offers a detailed analysis of a former Khmer Rouge security center commandant who was convicted for overseeing the interrogation, torture, and execution of nearly 20,000 Cambodians. Interested in how someone becomes an executioner, Hinton provides numerous ways to consider justice, genocide, memory, truth, and humanity.Trade Review"Hinton’s book doesn’t just tackle the complexity of a character like Duch through the lens of the trial. It offers a way to understand the court proceedings, which can often be dry, convoluted, and peppered with legalistic jargon." -- Erin Handley * Phnom Penh Post *"Hinton’s intent is ambitious and unusual; recording is not enough. As he explains in his dense introduction, he wants us to understand this man, this trial and the questions it raises in our very bones. So, contrary to standard academic practice, he presents his material in an astonishing variety of ways. . . . Hinton’s book is profound, insightful and singular, probably even important. Most certainly a boon to anyone interested in Khmer Rouge history, international tribunals, torture or the ambiguities of evil." -- Antonia D. Bryan * Mekong Review *"The book draws on various literary genres in compiling a work which is artistic and scholarly, readable yet theoretically grounded, empirically rigorous and engaging yet approachable by people unfamiliar with the case. . . . This book will become standard reading for anyone studying the portrayal of perpetrators during post-conflict justice processes. . . ." -- Timothy Williams * Genocide Studies and Prevention *"Hinton has written a commendable work offering a new standard in the field of ethnodramatisation linked to the performative realm of an international tribunal where the hybrid nature of the court against the background of a shattered Buddhist society rebuilding from the ashes makes for real spectacle. . . . His book also stands out for its literary and philosophical innovations." -- Geoffrey C. Gunn * Journal of Contemporary Asia *"Hinton has written an interesting and insightful book, with a critical look at the way justice shapes and 'redacts' our understanding of the past, and an invitation for its readers to analyze our own way of seeing the world and overcome the simple categorizations we all use in our everyday life, which can have monstrous consequences." -- Sanne Weber * Historical Dialogues *"Hinton does the reader a tremendous service by not reducing Duch to a single identity. The book is certainly not a sympathetic take on Duch’s character, but it is a concerted effort to create a multidimensional understanding of a complicated man acting in complicated circumstances.... By using Duch’s trial as a case study, Hinton also addresses the many larger questions of transitional justice." -- Sharon Wu * LSE Review of Books *"Hinton expertly weaves trial proceedings, testimonials, and contemporary analyses of Democratic Kampuchea, thereby crafting an ambitious exposé of Duch’s trial and the various forces behind collective memory of him.... Man or Monster? is a thought-provoking literary triumph by Hinton" -- Matthew Galway * Journal of International and Global Studies *"The book, with its chilling but instructive contents, will benefit tremendously Asian experts as well as specialists on pogrom as well as researchers and students interested in the Cambodian story." -- Augustine Adu-Frimpong * African and Asian Studies *"Alexander Laban Hinton has written a highly engaging and experimental ethnography of international justice that narrates the criminal trial of Kaing Guek Eav (aka 'Duch'), a central figure in the 'killing fields’ of 1970s Cambodia." -- Richard A. Wilson * Anthropology Book Forum *"Hinton’s 'ethnodrama' of the trial of Duch is largely a chronological account, interspersed with personal commentary and even some poetic interludes that make it anything but a dry academic tome. . . . Man or Monster is unique in its appeal both to students of post-conflict socio-political issues and to the general reader, and is a major contribution to genocide studies." -- D. Gordon Longmuir * Pacific Affairs *"The book is a stunning achievement. . . . Hinton succeeds beautifully in drawing the reader into a confrontation with our own articulations and redactions of the world around us." -- Catherine Bolten * American Anthropologist *“Man or Monster? will be useful to those studying anthropology, geography, international relations, transitional justice and law, genocide, violence, and post-conflict politics. It will also be of use to those considering the very work we do as social scientists; how what we do is intimately involved in the frames of how others come to understand particular places, people, and events.” -- JoAnn DiGeorgio-Lutz * Journal of Southeast Asian Studies *“Compelling. . . . A highly original account.” -- Rachel Hughes * Law & Society Review *"Hinton gives a reader unfamiliar with these proceedings a good picture of how they were conceived, how they have unfolded, and how civil society in Cambodia has interacted with them.” -- John Quigley * Human Rights Quarterly *Table of ContentsThe Accused, Fact Sheet, Public Version—Radacted 1 Foreground. Monster 3 Part I. Confession Interrogation. Comrade Duch's Abecedarian 41 1. Man (Opening Arguments) 44 2. Revolutionary (M-13 Prison) 68 3. Subordinate (Establishment of S-21) 90 4. Cog (Policy and Implementation) 103 5. Commandant (Functioning of S-21) 130 6. Master (Torture and Execution) 142 Erasure. Durch's Apology 168 Part II. Reconstruction Torture, A Collage. The Testimony of Prak Khan, S-21 Interrogator 171 7. Villain (The Civil Parties) 176 8. Zealot (Prosecution) 197 9. Scapegoat (Defense) 213 10. The Accused (Trial Chamber Judgment) 229 Background. Redactic (Final Decision) 243 Epilogue. Man or Monster? (Conviction) 288 Acknowledgments 297 Timeline 301 Abbreviations 303 Notes 305 Bibliography 335 Index 345

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Book SynopsisCombining personal reflection, political analysis, and literary criticism with memoir and journalistic observation, Suvir Kaul examines the textures of everyday life in Kashmir in the years following the region's pervasive militarization in 1990. Of Gardens and Graves also includes contemporary Kashmiri poetry and a photo-essay by Javed Dar.Trade Review“Suvir Kaul’s impressive volume, bringing poems and photographs along with interpretative essays on the politics and history of Kashmir, tells us what has gone wrong (and is still going wrong) in Kashmir and how the security concerns of the state take precedence over the daily suffering and trauma of ordinary people. . . . Kaul’s text is dramatically highlighted as we witness firsthand this human tragedy through the poems and photographs of this magnificent book.” -- Reeta C. Tremblay * Pacific Affairs *"An eloquent appeal to the reader to understand the everyday experience of those who live in militarised Kashmir. . . . An important book that neither sentimentalises the suffering of Kashmir’s people, nor offers an abstracted analysis of their political predicament. The interweaving of essay, poetry and photography makes for a richer understanding of the ways in which global events impact on both region and on the individual within it." -- Cathy Turner * Postcolonial Studies *"This book on Kashmir offers something significant as somebody has for the first time collected Kashmiri writings written under the siege." * Kashmir Times *Table of ContentsIllustrations ix Preface xiii Acknowledgments xxv Introduction 1 Poems Arjan Dev "Majboor" 14 Ghulam Hassan "Taskeen" 20 Brij Nath "Betaab" 24 Ghulam Nabi Tak "Naazir" 28 Shabir "Azar" 33 Essay 1. Visiting Kashmir, Re-learning Kashmir 39 Poems "Shahzadah" Rafiq 64 Bashir "Dada" 66 Naji Munawar 70 Rukhsana Jabeen 72 Arshad Mushtaq 74 Ayesha "Mastoor" 78 Maqbool "Sajid" 82 Essay 3. "My Paradise in Burnin' . . . " 87 Poems Moti Lal "Saqi" 108 Mohiuddin "Massarat" 112 Mir Ghulam Nabi "Shaheen" 116 Jawahir Lal "Saroor" 120 Pyare "Hatash" 122 Ghulam Nabi "Khayal" 124 "Shahzada" Rafiq 126 Essay 3. The Witness of Poetry 129 Poems Rashid "Kanispuri" 158 Pyare "Hatash" 160 Jawahir Lal "Saroor" 162 Fayaz Talgami 164 Bashir "Zair" 166 Ghulam Hassan "Ghamgeen" 168 Kashi Nath "Baghwan" 172 Essay 4. Indian Empire (and the Case of Kashmir) 177 Poems Zahid Mukhtar 204 Som Nath Bhat "Veer" 208 Coda. A Time without Soldiers 213 Bibliography 217 Index 225

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Book SynopsisCombining personal reflection, political analysis, and literary criticism with memoir and journalistic observation, Suvir Kaul examines the textures of everyday life in Kashmir in the years following the region's pervasive militarization in 1990. Of Gardens and Graves also includes contemporary Kashmiri poetry and a photo-essay by Javed Dar.Trade Review“Suvir Kaul’s impressive volume, bringing poems and photographs along with interpretative essays on the politics and history of Kashmir, tells us what has gone wrong (and is still going wrong) in Kashmir and how the security concerns of the state take precedence over the daily suffering and trauma of ordinary people. . . . Kaul’s text is dramatically highlighted as we witness firsthand this human tragedy through the poems and photographs of this magnificent book.” -- Reeta C. Tremblay * Pacific Affairs *"An eloquent appeal to the reader to understand the everyday experience of those who live in militarised Kashmir. . . . An important book that neither sentimentalises the suffering of Kashmir’s people, nor offers an abstracted analysis of their political predicament. The interweaving of essay, poetry and photography makes for a richer understanding of the ways in which global events impact on both region and on the individual within it." -- Cathy Turner * Postcolonial Studies *"This book on Kashmir offers something significant as somebody has for the first time collected Kashmiri writings written under the siege." * Kashmir Times *Table of ContentsIllustrations ix Preface xiii Acknowledgments xxv Introduction 1 Poems Arjan Dev "Majboor" 14 Ghulam Hassan "Taskeen" 20 Brij Nath "Betaab" 24 Ghulam Nabi Tak "Naazir" 28 Shabir "Azar" 33 Essay 1. Visiting Kashmir, Re-learning Kashmir 39 Poems "Shahzadah" Rafiq 64 Bashir "Dada" 66 Naji Munawar 70 Rukhsana Jabeen 72 Arshad Mushtaq 74 Ayesha "Mastoor" 78 Maqbool "Sajid" 82 Essay 3. "My Paradise in Burnin' . . . " 87 Poems Moti Lal "Saqi" 108 Mohiuddin "Massarat" 112 Mir Ghulam Nabi "Shaheen" 116 Jawahir Lal "Saroor" 120 Pyare "Hatash" 122 Ghulam Nabi "Khayal" 124 "Shahzada" Rafiq 126 Essay 3. The Witness of Poetry 129 Poems Rashid "Kanispuri" 158 Pyare "Hatash" 160 Jawahir Lal "Saroor" 162 Fayaz Talgami 164 Bashir "Zair" 166 Ghulam Hassan "Ghamgeen" 168 Kashi Nath "Baghwan" 172 Essay 4. Indian Empire (and the Case of Kashmir) 177 Poems Zahid Mukhtar 204 Som Nath Bhat "Veer" 208 Coda. A Time without Soldiers 213 Bibliography 217 Index 225

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Book SynopsisRebecca E. Karl interrogates the concept and practice of "the economic" as it was understood in China in the 1930s and the 1980s and 90s, showing how the use of Eurocentric philosophies, narratives, and conceptions of the economic that exist outside lived experiences fail to capture modern China's complex history.Trade Review"A challenging and often compelling perspective on modern Chinese history." -- Terry Peach * European Journal of the History of Economic Thought *"An intelligent analysis of important historiographical issues in modern Chinese history." -- Margherita Zanasi * American Historical Review *“Since The Magic of Concepts came out, I have found myself constantly recommending it to friends and colleagues, and in particular to friends and colleagues who are not scholars of modern China. And not just because I assume all modern China specialists already pay attention to Rebecca Karl’s work; rather, it is because she achieves in this book what historians often strive and fail to do, or at least fail to do well—to truly engage the global and the present from the specific geographical and chronological perspective of our chosen historical subjects.” -- Fabio Lanza * Journal of Asian Studies *"Karl’s book . . . is an important contribution to the fields of Chinese, global, and economic history. . . . Her argument challenges us to ever more carefully observe our perspective and level of analysis, deconstruct our models and tools of research, and realize the 'magic' of the concepts we utilize and repeat." -- Thorben Pelzer * Connections *"The Magic of Concepts makes a powerful case that the limitations of empiricism and reified consciousness have foreclosed realms of inquiry that possess considerable potential to complicate and deepen our understanding of social history. . . . This book is eloquent testimony to the need for historians to pursue a serious engagement with such theory in our training and in our research, not just to open new possibilities in our scholarship but to make sense of our own increasingly unstable historical moment." -- Jake Werner * Journal of Social History *Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments ix Introduction. Repetition and Magic 1 1. The Economic, China, World History: A Critique of Pure Ideology 19 2. The Economic and the State: The Asiatic Mode of Production 40 3. The Economic as Transhistory: Temporality, the Market, and the Austrian School 73 4. The Economic as Lived Experience: Semicolonialism and China 113 5. The Economic as Culture and the Culture of the Economic: Filming Shanghai 141 Afterword 160 Notes 167 Bibliography 199 Index 213

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Book SynopsisThe contributors to this volume examine Asian video cultures—from video platforms in Indonesia to amateur music videos in India—in the context of social movements, market economies, and local popular cultures, showing how Asian video practices are central to shaping contemporary experiences and mainstream global media.Trade Review"Asian Video Cultures addresses a glaring omission in contemporary Western film and media scholarship in such a rich and imaginative way that it will give the book lasting significance as a fundamental reference across media studies. Featuring rich, thought-provoking essays and a major, agenda-setting introduction, this is a milestone collection." -- Meaghan Morris, coeditor of Gender, Media, and Modernity in the Asia-Pacific "Asian Video Cultures addresses the continent as an always-emerging formation, rather than just a region. By doing so, it is able to mount a series of powerful, ethnographically grounded theoretical provocations on contemporary media culture. We revisit ideas of participation and the public, the status of mediation in the bioinformatic world, globalization, and work. This outstanding collection helps us put into perspective the overly North American debate on digital media." -- Ravi Sundaram, author of Pirate Modernity: Delhi's Media UrbanismTable of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction 1 Part I. Infrastructures 1. Video Documentary and Rural Public Culture in Ethnic China / Jenny Chio 35 2. EngageMedia: The Gado Gado Tactics of New Social Media in Indonesia / Patricia R. Zimmerman 54 3. Wei dianying and Xiao quexing: Technologies of "Small" and Trans-Chinese Cinematic Practices / Chia-chi Wu 72 4. Converging Contents and Platforms: Niconico Video and Japan's Media Mix Ecology / Marc Steinberg 91 5. In Access: Digital Video and the User / Nishant Shah 114 Part II. Intimacies 6. MicroSD-ing "Mewati Videos": Circulation and Regulation of a Subaltern-Popular Media Culture / Rahul Mukherjee and Abhigyan Singh 133 7. Documenting "Immigrant Brides" in Multicultural Taiwan / Tzu-hui Celina Hung 158 8. Bollywood Banned and the Electrifying Palmasutra: The Sensory Politics in Northern Nigeria / Conerly Casey 176 9. The Asianization of Heimat: Ming Wong's Asian German Video Works / Feng-Mei Heberer 198 Part III. Speculations 10. Politics in the Age of YouTube: Degraded Images and Small-Screen Revolutions / S. V. Srinivas 217 11. Pop Cosmopolitics and K-pop Video Culture / Michelle Cho 240 12. Videation: Technological Intimacy and the Politics of Global Connection / Joshua Neves 266 13. Staying Alive: Imphal's HIV/AIDS (Digital) Video Culture / Bishnupriya Ghosh 288 14. "Everyone's Property": Video Copying, Poetry, and Revolution in Arab West Asia / Kay Dickinson 307 Bibliography 327 Contributors 349 Index 353

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Book SynopsisWilliam Schaefer traces how early twentieth century photographic practices in Shanghai provided artists, writers, and intellectuals a forum within which to debate culture, ethnicity, history, and the very nature of images, thereby showing how artists and writers used such practices to make visible the shadows of modernity in Shanghai.Trade Review"The book is smart and rigorously researched, and the prose is immaculate. By sticking close to his objects of study, no matter how ambiguous, difficult, and distant, Schaefer shows us how Shanghai’s shadows strangely illuminate the cultural history of the city—and the practices of art history." -- Lisa Claypool * CAA Reviews *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction 1 Part I. Modernism and Photography's Places 1. Picturing Photography, Abstracting Pictures 25 2. False Portals 61 Part II. Landscapes of Images 3. Projected Pasts 113 4. Montage Landscapes 145 5. Shanghai Savage 180 Notes 221 Bibliography 263 Index 279

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Book SynopsisThe contributors to this volume examine Asian video cultures—from video platforms in Indonesia to amateur music videos in India—in the context of social movements, market economies, and local popular cultures, showing how Asian video practices are central to shaping contemporary experiences and mainstream global media.Trade Review"Asian Video Cultures addresses a glaring omission in contemporary Western film and media scholarship in such a rich and imaginative way that it will give the book lasting significance as a fundamental reference across media studies. Featuring rich, thought-provoking essays and a major, agenda-setting introduction, this is a milestone collection." -- Meaghan Morris, coeditor of Gender, Media, and Modernity in the Asia-Pacific "Asian Video Cultures addresses the continent as an always-emerging formation, rather than just a region. By doing so, it is able to mount a series of powerful, ethnographically grounded theoretical provocations on contemporary media culture. We revisit ideas of participation and the public, the status of mediation in the bioinformatic world, globalization, and work. This outstanding collection helps us put into perspective the overly North American debate on digital media." -- Ravi Sundaram, author of Pirate Modernity: Delhi's Media UrbanismTable of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction 1 Part I. Infrastructures 1. Video Documentary and Rural Public Culture in Ethnic China / Jenny Chio 35 2. EngageMedia: The Gado Gado Tactics of New Social Media in Indonesia / Patricia R. Zimmerman 54 3. Wei dianying and Xiao quexing: Technologies of "Small" and Trans-Chinese Cinematic Practices / Chia-chi Wu 72 4. Converging Contents and Platforms: Niconico Video and Japan's Media Mix Ecology / Marc Steinberg 91 5. In Access: Digital Video and the User / Nishant Shah 114 Part II. Intimacies 6. MicroSD-ing "Mewati Videos": Circulation and Regulation of a Subaltern-Popular Media Culture / Rahul Mukherjee and Abhigyan Singh 133 7. Documenting "Immigrant Brides" in Multicultural Taiwan / Tzu-hui Celina Hung 158 8. Bollywood Banned and the Electrifying Palmasutra: The Sensory Politics in Northern Nigeria / Conerly Casey 176 9. The Asianization of Heimat: Ming Wong's Asian German Video Works / Feng-Mei Heberer 198 Part III. Speculations 10. Politics in the Age of YouTube: Degraded Images and Small-Screen Revolutions / S. V. Srinivas 217 11. Pop Cosmopolitics and K-pop Video Culture / Michelle Cho 240 12. Videation: Technological Intimacy and the Politics of Global Connection / Joshua Neves 266 13. Staying Alive: Imphal's HIV/AIDS (Digital) Video Culture / Bishnupriya Ghosh 288 14. "Everyone's Property": Video Copying, Poetry, and Revolution in Arab West Asia / Kay Dickinson 307 Bibliography 327 Contributors 349 Index 353

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Book SynopsisWilliam Schaefer traces how early twentieth century photographic practices in Shanghai provided artists, writers, and intellectuals a forum within which to debate culture, ethnicity, history, and the very nature of images, thereby showing how artists and writers used such practices to make visible the shadows of modernity in Shanghai.Trade Review"The book is smart and rigorously researched, and the prose is immaculate. By sticking close to his objects of study, no matter how ambiguous, difficult, and distant, Schaefer shows us how Shanghai’s shadows strangely illuminate the cultural history of the city—and the practices of art history." -- Lisa Claypool * CAA Reviews *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction 1 Part I. Modernism and Photography's Places 1. Picturing Photography, Abstracting Pictures 25 2. False Portals 61 Part II. Landscapes of Images 3. Projected Pasts 113 4. Montage Landscapes 145 5. Shanghai Savage 180 Notes 221 Bibliography 263 Index 279

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Book SynopsisExamining the cultural and gender politics of Chinese contemporary art at the turn of the twenty-first century, Sasha Su-Ling Welland shows how artists, curators, officials, and urban planners negotiated the meanings of the avant-garde, built new cultural institutions, wrote new histories of Chinese art, and imagined new, more gender-inclusive worlds.Trade Review"Drawing on her own ethnographic fieldwork, Welland investigates the power dynamics (traditional versus modern, male versus female) that played out in China as the role of experimental art was negotiated and new cultural institutions were erected." * Art in America *"For all readers, including non-specialists, Welland should succeed in making lost lives and camouflaged histories visible and palpable. The limpid prose, theoretically informed structure and expanded multimedia materials available on the book’s accompanying website would make it a captivating textbook for an advanced undergraduate course or a stimulating methodological text for graduate seminars. Marking a major contribution to the field, this is a masterful, thought-provoking and luminous text." -- Ros Holmes * Journal of Gender Studies *"A much welcome addition not only to the expanding scholarship on contemporary Chinese art, but also to Chinese feminist art, and gender studies." -- Meiqin Wang * The China Quarterly *"Experimental Beijing is a complex book that demands close reading not only by scholars interested in gender issues in art, but also those who wish for a multi-dimensional picture of the worlds of Chinese contemporary art." -- Doris Sung * China Perspectives *“Through interviews and communications on other occasions with a broad range of people, including artists, curators, officials, and urban planners, Welland shows convincingly the particular world of those almost forgotten artists and their creative strivings. … In so doing she creates a space for dialogue and cultural encounter in the text, averts the reader from the trap of translation and situates them in this admirably detailed account of the Chinese contemporary art world.” -- Siying Duan & Jun Zeng * Visual Anthropology *“Experimental Beijing is excellent at revealing the complex complicity between Chinese contemporary art and the new Chinese market economy and the heavy price that is paid by Chinese women artists for it.” -- Chris Berry * Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology *"Situated at the intersection of art history, anthropology, and gender studies, Experimental Beijing enacts incisive interventions in histories of Chinese contemporary art, global contemporary art, and feminist art.… Engagingly written with fluid and lyrical prose." -- Peggy Wang * The Art Bulletin *Table of ContentsNote on the Digital Companion ix Illustrations xi Acknowledgments xv Prologue. Worldly Fables 1 Introduction. Chinese Contemporary Art in the Expanded Field 7 Part I. Art Worldings 1. Xianfeng Beijing 43 2. Showcase Beijing 79 Part II. Zones of Encounter 3. The Besieged City 111 4. The Hinterlands of Feminist Art 135 Part III. Feminist Sight Lines 5. Red Detachment 179 6. Opening the Great Wall 206 7. Camoflaged Histories 236 Epilogue. Recursive Worldly Fables 265 Notes 275 Bibliography 305 Index 323

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Book SynopsisRadhika Mongia outlines the colonial genealogy of the modern nation-state by tracing how the British Empire monopolized control over migration, showing how between its abolition of slavery in 1834 and World War One, the regulation of Indians moving throughout the Commonwealth linked migration with nationality and state sovereignty.Trade Review"Indian Migration and Empire presents a detailed analysis of the history of colonial Indian migration of indentured labor to Mauritius, the Caribbean, Canada, and South Africa. . . . This illuminating research makes an important contribution to the fields of colonialism, migration, and political studies. . . . Recommended. Advanced undergraduates and above." -- D. A. Chekki * Choice *"Methodologically innovative and theoretically rigorous . . . Mongia has written a pathbreaking book. In the wake of this work it will no longer be possible to tell the story of border-making without a scrutiny of how human labor was dehumanized on an imperial and global scale." -- Debjani Bhattacharyya * H-Diplo, H-Net Reviews *"Mongia’s book is a methodological tour de force in migration studies and theories of the state. But the commendable feat of this book is that these accomplishments do not stand apart – her contribution to migration studies is enriched by the careful theorising of states, at once colonial, transcolonial and metropolitan." -- Tarangini Sriraman * The Wire *"Indian Migration and Empire cautions us in the epilogue that the project of modern nation state and who belongs in such a nation state is a project still incomplete and can inflict terrible oppressions and restrictions as in the example of Iroquois/Haudenosaunee of North America. For this caution alone, this book is a must-read for all who are interested in historiography of migration and political theory." -- Mithilesh Kumar * Economic and Political Weekly *"Mongia’s account is a fresh, fascinating explanation of the intricacies of migration and its impact on host-countries, nation-state and bureaucratic development, and at the heart of it all, the emigrant. There has been a steady change in academia to consider a more global and cultural perspective, and this book is relevant to many scholars, including those in political science, history, sociology, women’s studies, migration, Asian studies, colonial and post-colonial studies, and global issues." -- Kathleen M. Davis * International Social Science Review *"Radhika Mongia’s fascinating analysis of Indian migration to South Africa and its history-making aftermath is fascinatingly readable. Indian Migration and Empire certainly places Mongia among the established scholars in the field." -- Tarique Niazi * Journal of International and Global Studies *"Indian Migration and Empire is a fresh and important contribution to our understanding of the modern world." -- Thomas R. Metcalf * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. The Migration of "Free" Labor: Contracting Freedom 22 2. Disciplinary Power and the Colonial State: The Bureaucracy of Migration Control 56 3. Gendered Nationalism, the Racialized State, and the Making of Migration Law: The Indian "Marriage Question" in South Africa 85 4. Race, Nationality, Mobility: A History of the Passport 112 Epilogue. In History: A Colonial Genealogy of the Modern State 141 Notes 151 Bibliography 199 Index 221

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Book SynopsisAri Larissa Heinrich examines transnational Chinese aesthetic production—from the earliest appearance of Frankenstein in China to the more recent phenomenon of "cadaver art"— to demonstrate how representations of the medically commodified body can illuminate the effects of biopolitical violence and postcolonialism in contemporary life.Trade Review“A compelling account of how the aesthetics of corporeal politics has come to condition the rhetorics and epistemologies of life, realism, existence, authenticity, technology, reproduction, and the body itself, Chinese Surplus will forever change the way we think about the power of visual embodiment in an age of increasing angst over property/propriety rights, technological determinism, and human’s role in their imbricated historical legacy.” -- Howard Chiang * Journal of the History of Biology *"Chinese Surplus is an ambitious project that weaves together a transnational and transhistorical consideration of aesthetic production and biomedical commodification. . . . Heinrich’s project does the groundbreaking work of connecting the global power dynamics of contemporary cultural productions engaged with fragmentation and labeled inauthentic with longer histories of imperialism." -- Kathryn Cai * Catalyst *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Biopolitical Aesthetics and the Chinese Body as Surplus 1 1. Chinese Whispers: Frankenstein, the Sleeping Lion, and the Emergence of a Biopolitical Aesthetics 25 2. Souvenirs of the Organ Trade: The Diasporic Body in Contemporary Chinese Literature and Art 49 3. Organ Economics: Transplant, Class, and Witness from Made in Hong Kong to The Eye 83 4. Still Life: Recovering (Chinese) Ethnicity in the Body Worlds and Beyond 115 Epilogue. All Rights Preserved: Intellectual Property and the Plastinated Cadaver Exhibits 139 Notes 159 Bibliography 227 Index 239

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Book SynopsisAri Larissa Heinrich examines transnational Chinese aesthetic production—from the earliest appearance of Frankenstein in China to the more recent phenomenon of "cadaver art"— to demonstrate how representations of the medically commodified body can illuminate the effects of biopolitical violence and postcolonialism in contemporary life.Trade Review“A compelling account of how the aesthetics of corporeal politics has come to condition the rhetorics and epistemologies of life, realism, existence, authenticity, technology, reproduction, and the body itself, Chinese Surplus will forever change the way we think about the power of visual embodiment in an age of increasing angst over property/propriety rights, technological determinism, and human’s role in their imbricated historical legacy.” -- Howard Chiang * Journal of the History of Biology *"Chinese Surplus is an ambitious project that weaves together a transnational and transhistorical consideration of aesthetic production and biomedical commodification. . . . Heinrich’s project does the groundbreaking work of connecting the global power dynamics of contemporary cultural productions engaged with fragmentation and labeled inauthentic with longer histories of imperialism." -- Kathryn Cai * Catalyst *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Biopolitical Aesthetics and the Chinese Body as Surplus 1 1. Chinese Whispers: Frankenstein, the Sleeping Lion, and the Emergence of a Biopolitical Aesthetics 25 2. Souvenirs of the Organ Trade: The Diasporic Body in Contemporary Chinese Literature and Art 49 3. Organ Economics: Transplant, Class, and Witness from Made in Hong Kong to The Eye 83 4. Still Life: Recovering (Chinese) Ethnicity in the Body Worlds and Beyond 115 Epilogue. All Rights Preserved: Intellectual Property and the Plastinated Cadaver Exhibits 139 Notes 159 Bibliography 227 Index 239

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Book SynopsisTulasi Srinivas uses the concept of wonder—feelings of amazement at being overcome by the unexpected and sublime—to examine how residents of Banglore, India pursue wonder by practicing Hindu religious rituals as a way to accept and resist neoliberal capitalism.Trade Review"[The Cow in the Elevator] teased me into questioning what Srinivas has so beautifully and chillingly thought through for decades—wonder as an ethical practice." -- Dhruv Ramnath * The Citizen *"Srinivas provides a lively lesson in religious originality with applications and implications far beyond Bangalore or India." -- Jack David Eller * Reading Religion *"The central contribution of this book is its presentation of wonder as a new category of anthropological inquiry, and its interdisciplinary approach of parsing wonder from the vantage points of ritual and liturgical lives, socioeconomics, and aesthetic and creative spheres. Srinivas’s deployment of these specific categories by no means limits its readers; on the contrary, the book inspires readers to revisit their own field experiences, and look for the moments of wonder." -- Arthi Devarajan * Anthropology News *"Tulasi Srinivas does us a service in identifying important insights arising from her study of ritual practice that will help us to better understand wonder. Hopefully, her work will prompt other scholars to use an anthropological approach to better understand the dynamics of wonder from the perspective of the interlocutors they study." -- Steve Derné * Asian Anthropology *"The Cow in the Elevator captures in lovely detail and theory-rich rumination, the evolution and dynamism of Hindu ritualism in modern Bangalore, calling attention to the unstable and creative dimensions of ritual, and the ethical possibilities and challenges it opens up within this rapidly changing city. Scholars of Hinduism and South Asian urbanism will find much to ponder in this book, as will anthropologists interested in ritual theory and practice." -- Andrew C. Willford * Pacific Affairs *"I treasure The Cow in the Elevator for its sparkle and its positive news about hope and creativity in often bleak circumstances. Rich in original analytic insights, this book is not a tidy package but a cornucopia from which all kinds of sweet and bitter products may be extracted, tasted, consumed, and transformed: high-powered caloric fuel for interpretive intellectual energies. . . . Daring, insightful, and highly engaging, The Cow in the Elevator offers so much that its capacity to provoke unanswered questions in no way detracts from its invaluable qualities. Certainly, no other book on religion in urban India so effectively conveys the ways that ritual excess works wonders." -- Ann Grodzins Gold * American Ethnologist *"In this intriguing and richly-textured book, Tulasi Srinivas immerses us in the world of contemporary Hindu ritual practice in Malleshwaram, a suburb of the South Indian city of Bangalore. . . . The Cow in the Elevator is a deeply insightful work that offers us a glimpse of the creativity and wonder that sustain Hindu ritual life in the concrete jungles of modern, neoliberal India." -- Tracy Pintchman * Anthropos *"I found much of value in this book. . . . The writing displays a lively sense of wonder. The autoethnography is deft, and the homage to M. N. Srinivas, as father and anthropologist, very moving." -- Soumhya Venkatesan * Anthropological Quarterly *"A stunning and provocative book.… Srinivas's experienced and eloquent prose gives this book a rare combination of provocativeness and accessibility.… The Cow in the Elevator provides an intensely real and nuanced account of urban life in the twenty-first century." -- Deonni Moodie * The Revealer *Table of ContentsA Note on Translation xi Acknowledgments xiii O Wonderful! xix Introduction. Wonder, Creativity, and Ethical Life in Bangalore 1 Cranes in the Sky 1 Wondering about Wonder 6 Modern Fractures 9 Of Bangalore's Boomtown Bourgeoisie 13 My Guides into Wonder 16 Going Forward 31 1. Adventures in Modern Dwelling 34 A Cow in an Elevator 34 Grounded Wonder 37 And Ungrounded Wonder 39 Back to Earth 41 Memorialized Cartography 43 "Dead-Endu" Ganesha 45 Earthen Prayers and Black Money 48 Moving Marble 51 Building Wonder 56 Interlude: Into the Abyss 58 2. Passionate Journeys: From Aesthetics to Ethics 60 The Wandering Gods 60 Waiting . . . 65 Moral Mobility 69 Gliding Swans and Bucking Horses 70 The Pain of Cleaving 74 And the Angry God 80 Full Tension! 84 Adjustments 86 Life and . . . 91 Ethical Wonders 92 Interlude. Up in the Skyye 95 3. In God We Trust: Economies of Wonder and Philosophies of Debt 99 A Treasure Trove 99 Twinkling Excess 107 The Golden Calf 111 A Promise of Plenitude 114 "Mintingu" and "Minchingu" 119 "Cash-a-carda?" Philosophies of Debt 128 Soiled Money and the Makings of Distrust 131 The Limits of Wonder 133 4. Technologies of Wonder 138 Animatronic Devi 138 Deus Ex Machina 140 The New in Bangalore 142 The Mythical Garuda-Helicopter 143 Drums of Contention 152 Capturing Divine Biometrics 157 Archiving the Divine 159 Technologies of Capture 162 FaceTiming God 164 Wonder of Wonders 169 5. Timeless Imperatives, Obsolescence, and Salvage 172 "Times have Changed" 172 The Untimeliness of Modernity 175 Avelle and Ritu 178 Slipping Away 181 When Wonder Falls 183 Time Lords 187 Dripping Time 188 The Future, The Past, and the Immortal Present 204 Conclusion. A Place for Radical Hope 206 Radical Hope 206 Amazement in Turmeric 210 The Need for Wonder 213 Afterword. The Tenacity of Hope 216 Notes 219 References 247 Index 265

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Book SynopsisRadhika Mongia outlines the colonial genealogy of the modern nation-state by tracing how the British Empire monopolized control over migration, showing how between its abolition of slavery in 1834 and World War One, the regulation of Indians moving throughout the Commonwealth linked migration with nationality and state sovereignty.Trade Review"Indian Migration and Empire presents a detailed analysis of the history of colonial Indian migration of indentured labor to Mauritius, the Caribbean, Canada, and South Africa. . . . This illuminating research makes an important contribution to the fields of colonialism, migration, and political studies. . . . Recommended. Advanced undergraduates and above." -- D. A. Chekki * Choice *"Methodologically innovative and theoretically rigorous . . . Mongia has written a pathbreaking book. In the wake of this work it will no longer be possible to tell the story of border-making without a scrutiny of how human labor was dehumanized on an imperial and global scale." -- Debjani Bhattacharyya * H-Diplo, H-Net Reviews *"Mongia’s book is a methodological tour de force in migration studies and theories of the state. But the commendable feat of this book is that these accomplishments do not stand apart – her contribution to migration studies is enriched by the careful theorising of states, at once colonial, transcolonial and metropolitan." -- Tarangini Sriraman * The Wire *"Indian Migration and Empire cautions us in the epilogue that the project of modern nation state and who belongs in such a nation state is a project still incomplete and can inflict terrible oppressions and restrictions as in the example of Iroquois/Haudenosaunee of North America. For this caution alone, this book is a must-read for all who are interested in historiography of migration and political theory." -- Mithilesh Kumar * Economic and Political Weekly *"Mongia’s account is a fresh, fascinating explanation of the intricacies of migration and its impact on host-countries, nation-state and bureaucratic development, and at the heart of it all, the emigrant. There has been a steady change in academia to consider a more global and cultural perspective, and this book is relevant to many scholars, including those in political science, history, sociology, women’s studies, migration, Asian studies, colonial and post-colonial studies, and global issues." -- Kathleen M. Davis * International Social Science Review *"Radhika Mongia’s fascinating analysis of Indian migration to South Africa and its history-making aftermath is fascinatingly readable. Indian Migration and Empire certainly places Mongia among the established scholars in the field." -- Tarique Niazi * Journal of International and Global Studies *"Indian Migration and Empire is a fresh and important contribution to our understanding of the modern world." -- Thomas R. Metcalf * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. The Migration of "Free" Labor: Contracting Freedom 22 2. Disciplinary Power and the Colonial State: The Bureaucracy of Migration Control 56 3. Gendered Nationalism, the Racialized State, and the Making of Migration Law: The Indian "Marriage Question" in South Africa 85 4. Race, Nationality, Mobility: A History of the Passport 112 Epilogue. In History: A Colonial Genealogy of the Modern State 141 Notes 151 Bibliography 199 Index 221

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Book SynopsisProvides a rare ground-level analysis of post-Soviet Central Asia’s social and political paradoxes by focusing on an urban ethnic community: the Uzbeks in Osh, Kyrgyzstan, who have maintained visions of societal renewal throughout economic upheaval, political discrimination, and massive violence.

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Book SynopsisThe first English-language study of Soviet culture clubs in Kyrgyzstan.

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Book SynopsisBetween Europe and Asia analyzes the origins and development of Eurasianism, an intellectual movement that proclaimed the existence of Eurasia, a separate civilization coinciding with the former Russian Empire.

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Book SynopsisAzan on the Moon is an in-depth anthropological study of people's lives along the Pamir Highway in eastern Tajikistan. In the wake of China's rise in Central Asia, people along the Pamir Highway strive to reconcile a modern future with a modern past.

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Book SynopsisThis book analyzes how Central Asians actively engaged with the rapidly globalizing world of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In presenting the first English-language history of the Khanate of Khoqand (1709-1876), Scott C. Levi examines the rise of that extraordinarily dynamic state in the Ferghana Valley.Trade ReviewSeldom have I read a history of modern Central Asia so beautifully written, clearly constructed, and deeply researched. Levi’s fine prose, wit and, erudition make this manuscript a readable, original, and endlessly interesting work. Levi’s book is a welcome addition to the increasingly rich historiography of Central Asia and it deserves the very highest praise."" - Paolo Sartori, Institute of Iranian Studies, Vienna

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Book SynopsisA comprehensive and unsettling account of the Soviet campaign to forcefully sedentarize and collectivize the Kazakh clans. Stalin and his inner circle pursued a campaign of violence and subjugation, rather than attempting any dialog or cultural assimilation.Trade ReviewPraise for the German edition - ""An outstanding contribution to the literature on the Kazakh famine. It is based on prolific research in dozens of archives and on an excellent grasp of recent Kazakh, Russian, and western scholarship."" - Slavic Review

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Book SynopsisAs an Army lieutenant, the author served in Tokyo as an intelligence officer. He translated thousands of letters, interviews, and other documents by Japanese citizens of all kinds, and came to know, as few Americans could, the hearts and minds of a defeated people as they moved slowly to democracy. This is a chronicle of his experience in Japan.Trade Review"An enlightening and entertaining account..." -The Japan Times "...original and enlightening...[a] charming, if, slender account of Goodman's wartime service." -Journal of Military History "America's Japan is a rare and insightful working-level view of the Occupation informed by Goodman's lifelong career of scholarship and involvement with East Asia." -- -Ronald H. Spector Author of Eagle Against the Sun: The American War with Japan "...a good read which provides a concise and rich presentation of the American mission and its triumphant consequences." -Pacific Affairs "Goodman's modest and amusing memoirs can be thoroughly recommended. His sketches on students, the war crimes trials and officialdom are a valuable historical resource that deserve a wide audience." -- -Henry Hilton Crisscross

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Book SynopsisAt Freedom’s Limit: Islam and the Postcolonial Predicament is a critique of how the current anthropology and sociology of Islam has used Muslims as a discursive site on which contemporary aporias of modernity are worked out. The book shows that some of the most intricate critiques of Islamism and of state theocracy are being produced by theologically adept Muslim writers.Trade Review"This is the first book to deal with the interlinked phenomena of Islamic radicalism and Islamophobia by exiting the apologetic discourse to which left-liberal critique has largely been reduced. Re-deploying the Eurocentric terms that inform so much scholarship on the issue, Abbas shows how her own allies on the left have ended up focussing on a severely 'Protestant' kind of Islam, in contrast to which she excavates a 'Baroque' auto-critique as part of a Muslim 'Counter-Reformation.'" -- -Faisal Devji St. Anthony's College, Oxford University "Once in a while, a book comes along with the force of a gale and shakes the carefully laid foundations of an academic field or discourse. This is such a book. A compelling and erudite tour-de-force that relentlessly examines the historical amnesias and political erasures at the center of contemporary popular culture and critical theory constructions of the Muslim subject, At Freedom's Limit powerfully reminds us that radical critique is rooted in complex histories of identity and struggle, both local and global. Incisive, passionate and peppered with scintillating humor, Abbas's book will surely change the face of postcolonial studies." -- -Samah Selim Rutgers University "Sadia Abbas is a virtuosa of cultural and literary criticism. She has a remarkable ability to expose essentialist and exclusivist prejudices that hide in discourses repudiating the essentialism and exclusivism of others. Uncompromising in the vindication of all the oppressed, including the victims of victims, this book sharpens both our critical faculty and our sense of justice." -- -Gilbert Achcar Professor at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London "This is a thoughtful and provocative book which illuminates some of the central questions of our times . It is a book to be carefully read as with an astute intelligence it challenges many conventional ideas about what might constitute freedom ." -- -Anthony Bogues Brown University "Sadia Abbas has produced a watershed study that promises to be a landmark in the critical analysis of the nexes between empire, Islam, gender, and culture. This book provides a roadmap for a new generation of scholarship that matches the spirit and urgencies of the time." -- -Paul Amar University of California, Santa Barbara "What possibilities exist in and as a function of the new Islam that Sadia Abbas boldly, rigorously announces and describes? What new understandings of freedom emerge from the delineation and disruption of political theology's limits that she accomplishes? In vivid analyses of the new global iconographies through which the varieties of Muslim experience would be represented and regulated, Abbas offers a poetics supple enough to attend to the painful complexities of the postcolonial condition and subtle enough to discern, in those complexities, what remains of anticolonial aspiration. At Freedom's Limit is unique, powerful and necessary." -- -Frederick C. Moten University of California, Riverside "At Freedom's Limit is an important work that adds much-needed depth to debates on Islam, Islamophobia and the artistic representations coming out of Muslim countries such as Pakistan. The author's arguments are both fresh for their insight and original for their ability to provide a sound framework for further research and inquiry. It is a book that needs to be read and taught within Pakistani academia." -The Friday TimesTable of Contents1. The Argument 2. The Maintenance of Innocence 3. The Echo-Chamber of Freedom: The Muslim Woman and the Pretext of Agency 4. Religion and the Novel: A Case Study 5. How Injury Travels 6. Cold War Baroque: Saints and Icons 7. Theologies of Love

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Book SynopsisPost-Mandarin offers an engaging look at a cohort of Vietnamese intellectuals who adopted European fields of knowledge, a new Romanized alphabet, and print media—all of which were foreign and illegible to their fathers. This new generation of intellectuals established Vietnam’s modern anticolonial literature.Trade Review"Post-Mandarin is a rich, rewarding, and ground-breaking study of a key moment in the development of modern Vietnamese literature." -- -Christopher GoGwilt Fordham University "A lucid, well-conceived, and elegantly written monograph that presents a literary history and analysis of the "post-mandarin" aesthetic modernism in colonial Vietnam, rethinking modernity alongside, yet beyond, the customary European model." -- -Lisa Lowe Tufts UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Post-Mandarin 1. Autoethnography and Post-Mandarin Masculinity 2. Pornography as Realism, Realism as Aesthetic Modernity 3. The Sociological Novel and Anticolonialism 4. I Speak in the Third Person: Women and Language in Colonial Vietnam 5. Queer Internationalism and Post-mandarin Literature Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisPost-Mandarin offers an engaging look at a cohort of Vietnamese intellectuals who adopted European fields of knowledge, a new Romanized alphabet, and print media—all of which were foreign and illegible to their fathers. This new generation of intellectuals established Vietnam’s modern anticolonial literature.Trade Review"Post-Mandarin is a rich, rewarding, and ground-breaking study of a key moment in the development of modern Vietnamese literature." -- -Christopher GoGwilt Fordham University "A lucid, well-conceived, and elegantly written monograph that presents a literary history and analysis of the "post-mandarin" aesthetic modernism in colonial Vietnam, rethinking modernity alongside, yet beyond, the customary European model." -- -Lisa Lowe Tufts UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Post-Mandarin 1. Autoethnography and Post-Mandarin Masculinity 2. Pornography as Realism, Realism as Aesthetic Modernity 3. The Sociological Novel and Anticolonialism 4. I Speak in the Third Person: Women and Language in Colonial Vietnam 5. Queer Internationalism and Post-mandarin Literature Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAlegal traces the trans-Pacific biopolitics between a postwar American empire of military bases and postcolonial Japan that secured Okinawa as a U.S. military fortress. It shows how both managed sex in its base towns from 1945 to 2015, and elucidates the potential for Okinawan insurgency in response to this collaboration.Table of ContentsPreface ix Note on Translations and Romanizations xvii List of Commonly Used Acronyms and Abbreviations xix Introduction 1 1. Japan in the 1950s: Symbolic Victims 15 2. Okinawa, 1945–1952: Allegories of Becoming 38 3. Okinawa, 1952–1958: Solidarity under the Cover of Darkness 65 4. Okinawa, 1958–1972: The Subaltern Speaks 88 5. Okinawa, 1972–1995: Life That Matters 124 Conclusion 143 Acknowledgments 147 Notes 149 Selected Bibliography 195 Index 211

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Book SynopsisAlegal traces the trans-Pacific biopolitics between a postwar American empire of military bases and postcolonial Japan that secured Okinawa as a U.S. military fortress. It shows how both managed sex in its base towns from 1945 to 2015, and elucidates the potential for Okinawan insurgency in response to this collaboration.Table of ContentsPreface ix Note on Translations and Romanizations xvii List of Commonly Used Acronyms and Abbreviations xix Introduction 1 1. Japan in the 1950s: Symbolic Victims 15 2. Okinawa, 1945–1952: Allegories of Becoming 38 3. Okinawa, 1952–1958: Solidarity under the Cover of Darkness 65 4. Okinawa, 1958–1972: The Subaltern Speaks 88 5. Okinawa, 1972–1995: Life That Matters 124 Conclusion 143 Acknowledgments 147 Notes 149 Selected Bibliography 195 Index 211

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Book SynopsisLooks at how American soldiers, sailors, and Marines considered race, ethnicity, and identity in the planning and execution of the wartime occupation of Okinawa, during and immediately after the Battle of Okinawa, 1945-1946.Table of ContentsIntroduction | 1 1 Identifying the Enemy: US Army Wartime Occupation Policy | 21 2 US Marine Discipline: Strict Directives in Wartime Marine Military Government | 32 3 “Japanese” Warriors? Okinawan Preparation for Battle | 45 4 The US Fights Overseas: Americans Charge toward the Battlefield | 51 5 Having a Say: Okinawan Constructions of Identity | 59 6 Policy into Action: The US Army Hits the Shore | 74 7 Benevolent Captors? Okinawans Encounter the Americans | 90 8 No Initiative: Unbending Policy, Rigid US Marine Action | 102 9 The US Navy Period: Navigating the Transition to Peace | 124 10 New Visions, New Interpretations of Identity: The Expansion of US Navy Military Government | 140 Conclusion | 155 Acknowledgments | 163 Notes | 167 Bibliography | 223 Index | 237 Photographs follow page 58

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Book SynopsisHow might we speak of human life amid violence, deprivation, or disease so intrusive as to put the idea of the human into question? How can scholarship and advocacy address new forms of war or the slow, corrosive violence that belie democracy''s promise to mitigate human suffering? To Veena Das, the answers to these question lie not in foundational ideas about human nature but in a close attention to the diverse ways in which the natural and the social mutually absorb each other on a daily basis. Textures of the Ordinary shows how anthropology finds a companionship with philosophy in the exploration of everyday life. Based on two decades of ethnographic work among low-income urban families in India, Das shows how the notion of texture aligns ethnography with the anthropological tone in Wittgenstein and Cavell, as well as in literary texts. Das shows that doing anthropology after Wittgenstein does not consist in taking over a new set of terms such as forms of life,Table of ContentsPreface | xi Introduction | 1 1 Wittgenstein and Anthropology: Anticipations | 29 2 A Politics of the Ordinary: Action, Expression, and Everyday Life | 58 3 Ordinary Ethics: Take One | 96 4 Ethics, Self-Knowledge, and Words Not at Home: The Ephemeral and the Durable | 120 5 Disorders of Desire or Moral Striving? Engaging the Life of the Other | 148 6 Psychiatric Power, Mental Illness, and the Claim to the Real: Foucault in the Slums of Delhi | 173 7 The Boundaries of the “We”: Cruelty, Responsibility, and Forms of Life | 198 8 A Child Disappears: Law in the Courts, Law in the Interstices of Everyday Life | 216 9 Of Mistakes, Errors, and Superstition: Reading Wittgenstein’s Remarks on Frazer | 246 10 Concepts Crisscrossing: Anthropology and Knowledge-Making | 275 11 The Life of Concepts: In the Vicinity of Dying | 307 Acknowledgments | 333 Notes | 337 References | 373 Index | 403

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Book SynopsisLooks at how American soldiers, sailors, and Marines considered race, ethnicity, and identity in the planning and execution of the wartime occupation of Okinawa, during and immediately after the Battle of Okinawa, 1945-1946.Table of ContentsIntroduction | 1 1 Identifying the Enemy: US Army Wartime Occupation Policy | 21 2 US Marine Discipline: Strict Directives in Wartime Marine Military Government | 32 3 “Japanese” Warriors? Okinawan Preparation for Battle | 45 4 The US Fights Overseas: Americans Charge toward the Battlefield | 51 5 Having a Say: Okinawan Constructions of Identity | 59 6 Policy into Action: The US Army Hits the Shore | 74 7 Benevolent Captors? Okinawans Encounter the Americans | 90 8 No Initiative: Unbending Policy, Rigid US Marine Action | 102 9 The US Navy Period: Navigating the Transition to Peace | 124 10 New Visions, New Interpretations of Identity: The Expansion of US Navy Military Government | 140 Conclusion | 155 Acknowledgments | 163 Notes | 167 Bibliography | 223 Index | 237 Photographs follow page 58

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsForeword by Richard Rechtman | ix Introduction | 1 Part I: Loss and Awakenings | 35 Interlude 1: Affliction and War in the Domestic | 61 Part II: A Future in Kinship, a Future in Language | 65 Interlude 2: Homeward Bound | 87 Part III: The Kids | 93 Interlude 3: Siblings and the Scene of Inheritance | 119 Part IV: Mother Tongue | 125 Epilogue: Seeing Like a Child | 153 Acknowledgments | 157 Notes | 161 Works Cited | 167

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Book SynopsisThis book foregrounds anticolonial theories of reading to reveal an alternative strain of anticolonialism committed not to the forms of authority that facilitate political recognition or national sovereignty, but rather to inexpertise and inconsequence, with the aim of replacing mastery with collective cultivation.Table of ContentsPreface | vi Introduction: Impossible Subjects | 1 1. Lala Har Dayal’s Imagination | 19 2. B. R. Ambedkar’s Sciences | 44 3. M. K. Gandhi’s Lost Debates | 67 4. Bhagat Singh’s Jail Notebook | 92 Epilogue: Stopping and Leaving | 113 Acknowledgments | 131 Notes | 135 Bibliography | 169 Index | 189

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Book SynopsisWho is a Muslim? destabilizes traditional constructions of postcolonial literary histories through the specific example of Urdu by suggesting that this North-India vernacular, far from secular or progressive, has been shaped as the authority designate around the intertwined questions of piety, national identity, and citizenship.Table of ContentsNote on Transliteration | ix Introduction: Who Is a Muslim? | 1 1 Mahometan/Muslim: The Chronotope of the Oriental Tale | 21 2 Hindustani/Urdu: The Oriental Tale in the Colony | 53 3 Nation/Qaum: The “Musalmans” of India | 87 4 Martyr/Mujāhid: Muslim Origins and the Modern Urdu Novel | 126 5 Modern/Mecca: Populist Piety in the Contemporary Urdu Novel | 165 Epilogue: Us, People / People Like Us: Fehmida Riaz and a Secular Subjectivity in Urdu | 209 Acknowledgments | 221 Notes | 225 Index | 255

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