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Book SynopsisDo states have a duty to prevent infectious disease outbreaks from spreading beyond their borders?The fields of global health and international relations are increasingly concerned with the responsibilities of nations to respond to disease outbreaks in a way that safeguards their neighbors as well as the broader international community. In Containing Contagion, Sara E. Davies focuses on one of the world's most pivotal (and riskiest) regions in the field of global healthSoutheast Asia, which in recent years has responded to a wave of emerging and endemic infectious disease outbreaks ranging from Nipah, SARS, and avian flu to dengue and Japanese encephalitis. Between 2005 and 2010, Davies explains, Southeast Asian states, despite having vastly different health system capacities and political systems, repeatedly committed to pursue a collective approach to the communication of outbreaks. Davies draws on newly gathered data and extensive field interviews to explore how these states impleTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction. A Study of Southeast Asia's Response to Infectious Disease Outbreaks Chapter One. The Revised International Health Regulations in Practice Chapter Two. The Political Context in Southeast Asia Chapter Three. Sovereignty, Regional Cooperation, and Health Security Chapter Four. Forging Political Support Chapter Five. Surveillance and Reporting in Practice Chapter Six. Understanding the Differences in Reporting Responsibilities Conclusion. The Sustainability of Health Security in Southeast Asia Appendix Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1962. This book is a study of relations between Britain and China. The first section surveys historical relations between the two nations and culminates with the Second World War. The second part examines British policy during the Chinese Civil War, the Korean War, and the Geneva Conference. The third part discusses what contemporary issues in British-Chinese relations were at the time the book was written.Table of ContentsIntroductionPart I. The PastChapter 1. The British Assault Chapter 2. The Chinese RejoinderChapter 3. Britain and the KuomintangPart II. Britain and the People's RepublicChapter 4. The Coming of the CommunistsChapter 5. The Korean WarChapter 6. MissionariesChapter 7. MerchantsChapter 8. Geneva and AfterChapter 9. Hong KongChapter 10. The Two ChinasPart III. The FutureChapter 11. Chinese Aspirations and British InterestsChapter 12. British Policy and the FutureIndex

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Book SynopsisA sweeping narrative of America's imperial history and its long entanglement with China. In Terminus, Stuart Rollo examines the origins and trajectory of American empire in the Asia-Pacific region, focusing on its westward expansion and historic entanglement with China. American foreign and strategic policy in this region, Rollo argues, has always been shaped by broader economic and political concerns centered on China. China's current rise, and the economic and strategic systems that China is developing, represents the most serious challenge to the structure of American empire to date. Rollo paints a sweeping historical narrative of American imperial history and its relationship with China from 1776 to the present. Grounded in archival research, official and personal correspondence, policy documents, declassified intelligence material, and congressional records, Terminus traces the development of American empire building from the pre-independence period to the eve of World War I,Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I. Westward Expansion and the Commercial Origins of EmpireChapter One. The Long March Westward and Native DispossessionChapter Two. The China Focus in Westward ExpansionChapter Three. A Colonial EmpirePart II. Ascending Power to Unipolarity, 1914–1991Chapter Four. The 30 Years CrisisChapter Five. American HegemonyChapter Six. War with Asia, Recession, and ResurgencePart III. From a Unipolar Global Empire to a Shrinking Exploitative HegemonyChapter Seven. The Unipolar Moment and Imperial HubrisChapter Eight. The Sleeper Awakes: China's Rise as a World Historical MomentChapter Nine. Trump, Biden, and Trouble AheadConclusionNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisA lively account of the brash men who chased their American Dreams all the way to ChinaTrade Review"John Haddad has written a subtle and spirited book, which takes America's first experiences in China as a means to explore the early years of the United States as an independent nation. This is a book about the magic of money and the ingenious ways that American business grandees reacted to the ever-shifting promises and disappointments of an emerging Asian market. It is also a book about religion, diplomacy, financial systems, arms manufacture, families under stress, ship-building, and opium. It is an absorbing tale, with many contemporary echoes." —Jonathan Spence, author of The Search for Modern China "America's First Adventure in China is a well written, succinct, and elegant book. Haddad brings a fresh approach to—and makes a convincing case for his characterization of—the American presence in China. He describes how the Americans were isolated individuals acting pretty much on their own and with nothing in the way of state, military, or other institutional support. Their experience—operating in a fog of ignorance about a world to which they had only the most limited access—is significant, and he explains why the American experience diverged from rather than followed on the British model."—Peter Buck, Senior Lecturer (retired) on the History of Science, Harvard UniversityTable of Contents Acknowledgments A Note on the Spelling of Chinese Words Introduction 1 First Contact: The Voyage of the Empress of China 2 System Men: The Rise of Perkins and Company 3 All for a Cup of Tea: Finding Goods for the Canton Market 4 Beachhead of God: The First Wave of Missionaries 5 Rising on Smoke: Opium and Identity in Canton 6 Formal Ties: The Caleb Cushing Mission 7 Centrifugal Force: The Spread of People, Goods, Capital, and Ideas 8 Heavenly War: Americans and the Taiping Rebellion 9 Cooperation: Burlingame and the Reinvention of Sino-Western Relations Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisWhy American missionaries started building schools, colleges, medical schools, hospitals, and YMCA chapters in China before 1900Trade Review“In this exceptionally well-argued and carefully documented study, John Haddad shows that many of the American missionaries to China were anything but uncritical agents of empire, capital, and churchly authority. Transformed by their direct experience with the Chinese people, missionaries became major institutional players in modern Chinese history within terms set largely by the Chinese themselves.”—David A. Hollinger, Preston Hotchkis Professor Emeritus of History at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of Protestants Abroad: How Missionaries Tried to Change the World but Changed America“Beautifully written and convincingly articulated, Cultures Colliding is a must-read for anyone who is interested in American missionary history in China or in overall Sino-American relations. With a focus on individuals, Haddad sheds light on fascinating shared journeys, experiences, dreams, nightmares, and frustrations between Chinese and Americans during the critical moments in China and the United States during the second half of the nineteenth century. The book examines the twisted path from American missionaries’ initial zeal to change China to eventually focusing on something that the Chinese wanted. We all should read Cultures Colliding today during the challenging times in Sino-American relations.”—Xu Guoqi, Professor of History at the University of Hong Kong, and author of Chinese and Americans: A Shared History"This thoroughly researched work is highly recommended for readers interested in the history of Christian missions to China. The inclusion of biographical information for many of the people involved enhances the text."—Library Journal"American missionary history is frequently seen as one-sided persuasion. The models created were new to the Christian church and extended to many large institutions, some of them (for example, Beijing University) still existing. American missionary Henry Luce...was a part of this effort in China. He employed an 'institutions model' of missionary work that went beyond the simple 'convert the heathen' model of the traditional church. Haddad argues that this change in approach can be attributed to life in rural China. This book is well argued and well documented.... Summing Up: Recommended."—Choice"Haddad’s eminently readable book traces what he calls a 'seismic shift' in the decades between 1860 and 1900 as American Protestant missionaries sought to bring China to Christ. Through twelve chapters of hair-raising stories of danger, hardship, and more than occasional pig-headedness, Haddad shows how missionaries shifted from preaching Christ to building hospitals, schools, and voluntary organizations that met Chinese needs and welcomed Chinese leadership.... Haddad’s narrative charts a remarkable shift in Chinese missions that began with a collision and ended with cooperation. That’s a story the world still needs to hear."—Pacific Historical Review

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Book Synopsis During the early part of the Cold War, Japan emerged as a model ally, and Japanese Americans were seen as a model minority. From Confinement to Containment examines the work of four Japanese and Japanese/American artists and writers during this period: the novelist Hanama Tasaki, the actor Yamaguchi Yoshiko, the painter Henry Sugimoto, and the children’s author Yoshiko Uchida. The backgrounds of the four figures reveal a mixing of nationalities, a borrowing of cultures, and a combination of domestic and overseas interests. Edward Tang shows how the film, art, and literature made by these artists revealed to the American public the linked processes of U.S. actions at home and abroad. Their work played into—but also challenged—the postwar rehabilitated images of Japan and Japanese Americans as it focused on the history of transpacific relations such as Japanese immigration to the United States, the Asia-Pacific War, U.S. and Japanese imperialism, an

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Book Synopsis During the early part of the Cold War, Japan emerged as a model ally, and Japanese Americans were seen as a model minority. From Confinement to Containment examines the work of four Japanese and Japanese/American artists and writers during this period: the novelist Hanama Tasaki, the actor Yamaguchi Yoshiko, the painter Henry Sugimoto, and the children’s author Yoshiko Uchida. The backgrounds of the four figures reveal a mixing of nationalities, a borrowing of cultures, and a combination of domestic and overseas interests. Edward Tang shows how the film, art, and literature made by these artists revealed to the American public the linked processes of U.S. actions at home and abroad. Their work played into—but also challenged—the postwar rehabilitated images of Japan and Japanese Americans as it focused on the history of transpacific relations such as Japanese immigration to the United States, the Asia-Pacific War, U.S. and Japanese imperialism, an

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Book SynopsisMany Filipino Americans feel obligated to give charitably to their families, their communities, or social development projects and organizations back home. Their contributions provide relief to poor or vulnerable Filipinos, and address the forces that maintain poverty, vulnerability, and exploitative relationships in the Philippines. This philanthropy is a result of both economic globalization and the migration of Filipino professionals to the United States. But it is also central to the moral economies of Filipino migration, immigration, and diasporic return. Giving-related practices and concerns—and the bonds maintained through giving—infuse what it means to be Filipino in America.Giving Back shows how integral this system is for understanding Filipino diaspora formation. Joyce Mariano “follows the money” to investigate the cultural, social, economic, and political conditions of diaspora giving. She takes an interdisciplinary approach t

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Book SynopsisThe United States of India shows how Indian and American writers in the United States played a key role in the development of anticolonial thought in the years during and immediately following the First World War. For Indians Lajpat Rai and Dhan Gopal Mukerji, and Americans Agnes Smedley, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Katherine Mayo, the social and historical landscape of America and India acted as a reflective surface. Manan Desai considers how their interactions provided a “transnational refraction”—a political optic and discursive strategy that offered ways to imagine how American history could shed light on an anticolonial Indian future.Desai traces how various expatriate and immigrant Indiansformedpolitical movements that ralliedforAmerican support for the cause of Indian independence. These intellectuals also developednew forms of writingaboutsubjugation in the U.S. and India. Providing an examination ofrace, caste, nationhood, and empire, Desai astutely

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Book SynopsisThe United States of India shows how Indian and American writers in the United States played a key role in the development of anticolonial thought in the years during and immediately following the First World War. For Indians Lajpat Rai and Dhan Gopal Mukerji, and Americans Agnes Smedley, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Katherine Mayo, the social and historical landscape of America and India acted as a reflective surface. Manan Desai considers how their interactions provided a “transnational refraction”—a political optic and discursive strategy that offered ways to imagine how American history could shed light on an anticolonial Indian future.Desai traces how various expatriate and immigrant Indiansformedpolitical movements that ralliedforAmerican support for the cause of Indian independence. These intellectuals also developednew forms of writingaboutsubjugation in the U.S. and India. Providing an examination ofrace, caste, nationhood, and empire, Desai astutely

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Book SynopsisWhen Temple University Japan (TUJ) was founded in 1982—to advance the mission of international higher education—the university had few ties to Japan, or any other Asian country. However, more than 40 years later, TUJ has overcome substantial obstacles and remains the only American university campus in Japan, gaining legitimacy and considerable respect as an international institution of higher education. InThe History of Temple University Japan, two former TUJ Deans, Richard Joslyn and Bruce Stronach, explore the creation, development, and maturation of TUJ,and present a case studyof how Temple University successfully created an overseas branch campus. The authors recount the development of the academic program, the recruitment of students, and the support from Temple that enabled curricular and pedagogical improvement. They also address the university’s relationships with three Japanese partners, and the financial threats and crises TUTrade Review“This book is a must-read for anyone interested in global management, crosscultural higher education, and U.S.-Japan relations.”—Glen S. Fukushima, Former President of the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan and former Deputy Assistant United States Trade Representative for Japan and China at the Office of the United States Trade Representative“Joslyn and Stronach show how TUJ’s first forty years provide valuable lessons on how to manage an organization across boundaries of language, culture, and national interest.”—Andrew Horvat, Senior Fellow at the Centre for Japanese Research at the University of British Columbia and Director (2008–2013) of the Stanford Overseas Studies Program in Kyoto, Japan

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Book SynopsisIn 1973, Western music was banned in the People's Republic of China. But in a remarkable breakthrough cultural exchange, the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted a tour of closed-off China, becoming the first American orchestra to visit the communist nation. Jennifer Lin's Beethoven in Beijing provides a fabulous photo-rich oral history of this boundary-breaking series of concerts the orchestra performed under famed conductor Eugene Ormandy. Lin draws from interviews, personal diaries, and news accounts to give voice to the American and Chinese musicians, diplomats, journalists, and others who participated in and witnessed this historic event. Beethoven in Beijing is filled with glorious images as well as anecdotes ranging from amusing sidewalk Frisbee sessions and acupuncture treatments for sore musicians to a tense encounter involving Madame Mao dictating which symphony was to be played at a concert.A companion volume to the film of the same name, Beethoven in Beijing shows how this 19Trade Review"Fans of classical music will enjoy reading about one of the most important cultural events of the 20th century, while students of history will appreciate this account of a pivotal moment in U.S.-China relations."—Library Journal"Beethoven in Beijing captures the trepidation, intrigue, and euphoria of the Philadelphia Orchestra’s good-will trip to China in 1973.... It memorializes a time when music enabled two estranged cultures to break down barriers of misinformation and communicate with smiles of understanding."—Broad Street Review“Beethoven in Beijing is, indeed, an ‘Ode to Joy.’ Jennifer Lin’s fine account of the Philadelphia Orchestra’s 1973 trip to Mao’s China reminds us that sometimes, even in diplomacy, culture matters both as a signal and a catalytic agent.”—Orville Schell, China writer and author of My Old Home: A Novel of Exile

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“Refugee Lifeworlds is a life-giving book, even as it dwells on war, genocide, and refugee experiences. Y-Dang Troeung has written a remarkable, moving, and courageous work that deserves a wide audience for its inspiring blend of criticism and memoir.”—Viet Thanh Nguyen, University Professor at the University of Southern California, and author of Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War“To read Refugee Lifeworlds is to have the synapses connect, lighting up the ways that refugee legacies, disability, and mental health have always been meant to speak to each other, but only now can. It is also to meet history anew, as Y-Dang Troeung moves across an astonishing archive of documents, moments, and texts with a close-reader’s care and a storyteller’s grace. This book is stunning—at once beautiful and devastating. It is the work of grieving, so that we may better regroup.”—erin Khue Ninh, author of Passing for Perfect: College Impostors and Other Model Minorities and Ingratitude: The Debt-Bound Daughter in Asian American Literature“Refugee Lifeworlds is a brilliant weaving of epistemological intervention, autofiction as political grievance, and abolitionist knowledge production. Argued with care and beautifully written, this profound book is invaluable for understanding the intersections of war, imperialism, and disability.”—Jasbir K Puar, author of The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability"[Troeung] incisively illustrates the importance of putting critical refugee studies in conversation with critical disability studies: the book’s main intervention."—Journal of Asian American Studies"Given the book’s richly contextualized text and engagé human pacifist message, this short review can hardly do justice to a work replete with brilliant flashes…. Y-Dang Troeung has bequeathed to us a small masterpiece and poignant self-memorial.”—Pacific Historical Review"Troeung strongly and artfully argues that the so-called Cold War was not cold in Cambodia.... An effective storyteller, Troeung has produced a work of grieving that creatively interweaves discussions of autofiction, autotheory, political grievance, trauma, and disability, including the 'violence of benevolence' of the countries that received Cambodian refugees.... Though not a happy book, this is an excellent one. Summing Up: Highly recommended."—Choice"With this book, the author has compiled an impressive refugee archive depicting the politics of refusal of state violence.... She skillfully connects the autobiographical self with both theory and experiences of gender, race, colonialism, refuge-seeking, survival and family inheritance as sources of knowledge. The result is a highly readable and interesting book."—International Institute for Asian Studies"Troeung reframes questions of international complicity and responsibility in the Cambodia genocide in ways that implicate us all. Such is the power of this book including a final 'coda,' that no one reading it could doubt her general sentiments for a moment.... Given the book’s richly contextualized text and engagé human pacifist message, this short review can hardly do justice to a work replete with brilliant flashes.... [A] small masterpiece and poignant self-memorial."—Pacific Historical Review

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“Refugee Lifeworlds is a life-giving book, even as it dwells on war, genocide, and refugee experiences. Y-Dang Troeung has written a remarkable, moving, and courageous work that deserves a wide audience for its inspiring blend of criticism and memoir.”—Viet Thanh Nguyen, University Professor at the University of Southern California, and author of Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War“To read Refugee Lifeworlds is to have the synapses connect, lighting up the ways that refugee legacies, disability, and mental health have always been meant to speak to each other, but only now can. It is also to meet history anew, as Y-Dang Troeung moves across an astonishing archive of documents, moments, and texts with a close-reader’s care and a storyteller’s grace. This book is stunning—at once beautiful and devastating. It is the work of grieving, so that we may better regroup.”—erin Khue Ninh, author of Passing for Perfect: College Impostors and Other Model Minorities and Ingratitude: The Debt-Bound Daughter in Asian American Literature“Refugee Lifeworlds is a brilliant weaving of epistemological intervention, autofiction as political grievance, and abolitionist knowledge production. Argued with care and beautifully written, this profound book is invaluable for understanding the intersections of war, imperialism, and disability.”—Jasbir K Puar, author of The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability"[Troeung] incisively illustrates the importance of putting critical refugee studies in conversation with critical disability studies: the book’s main intervention."—Journal of Asian American Studies"Given the book’s richly contextualized text and engagé human pacifist message, this short review can hardly do justice to a work replete with brilliant flashes…. Y-Dang Troeung has bequeathed to us a small masterpiece and poignant self-memorial.”—Pacific Historical Review"Troeung strongly and artfully argues that the so-called Cold War was not cold in Cambodia.... An effective storyteller, Troeung has produced a work of grieving that creatively interweaves discussions of autofiction, autotheory, political grievance, trauma, and disability, including the 'violence of benevolence' of the countries that received Cambodian refugees.... Though not a happy book, this is an excellent one. Summing Up: Highly recommended."—Choice"With this book, the author has compiled an impressive refugee archive depicting the politics of refusal of state violence.... She skillfully connects the autobiographical self with both theory and experiences of gender, race, colonialism, refuge-seeking, survival and family inheritance as sources of knowledge. The result is a highly readable and interesting book."—International Institute for Asian Studies"Troeung reframes questions of international complicity and responsibility in the Cambodia genocide in ways that implicate us all. Such is the power of this book including a final 'coda,' that no one reading it could doubt her general sentiments for a moment.... Given the book’s richly contextualized text and engagé human pacifist message, this short review can hardly do justice to a work replete with brilliant flashes.... [A] small masterpiece and poignant self-memorial."—Pacific Historical Review

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Book SynopsisA comprehensive examination of the complexities of the Vietnamese American experienceTrade Review“Toward a Framework for Vietnamese American Studies makes an important contribution as the first broad-based, edited volume about Vietnamese Americans by primarily Vietnamese American scholars. The many valuable chapters offer a wide range of chronicles of this diasporic community’s history over the past half century. The editors and contributors ‘let Vietnamese Americans tell their own story’—and this book does that, with a largely younger generation of Vietnamese studies scholars who have done careful, meticulous scholarly work.”—Janet Hoskins, Professor of Anthropology and Religion at the University of Southern California, and author of The Divine Eye and the Diaspora: Vietnamese Syncretism Becomes Transpacific Caodaism“Focused on the social sciences while branching into humanistic fields such as literary and archival studies, Toward a Framework for Vietnamese American Studies makes Vietnamese histories and actors central to any study of ‘Vietnamese America.’ The interdisciplinary essays offer nuanced research and knowledge related to transnationalism, war, and war’s afterlife while linking to broader questions of diasporic histories, politics, and worldmaking. By displacing U.S.-centered frameworks, the volume also questions how critiques of U.S. empire that inform much American studies scholarship can replicate the problems of U.S.-centric thinking.”—Marguerite Nguyen, Associate Professor of English at Wesleyan University, and author of America’s Vietnam: The Longue Durée of U.S. Literature and Empire"[T]his edited collection forges an interdisciplinary dialogue between historians of modern Vietnam, specifically the Republic of Vietnam, and scholars of Vietnamese American refugees in ethnic studies and Asian American studies. Contributors argue that a deeper engagement with the civic life and culture of postcolonial South Vietnam allows for greater understanding of the formation of Vietnamese American cultural, civic, and political engagement.... Overall, a strong effort to begin connecting Vietnamese studies and Vietnamese American studies.... Summing Up: Recommended."—Choice

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Book SynopsisA comprehensive examination of the complexities of the Vietnamese American experienceTrade Review“Toward a Framework for Vietnamese American Studies makes an important contribution as the first broad-based, edited volume about Vietnamese Americans by primarily Vietnamese American scholars. The many valuable chapters offer a wide range of chronicles of this diasporic community’s history over the past half century. The editors and contributors ‘let Vietnamese Americans tell their own story’—and this book does that, with a largely younger generation of Vietnamese studies scholars who have done careful, meticulous scholarly work.”—Janet Hoskins, Professor of Anthropology and Religion at the University of Southern California, and author of The Divine Eye and the Diaspora: Vietnamese Syncretism Becomes Transpacific Caodaism“Focused on the social sciences while branching into humanistic fields such as literary and archival studies, Toward a Framework for Vietnamese American Studies makes Vietnamese histories and actors central to any study of ‘Vietnamese America.’ The interdisciplinary essays offer nuanced research and knowledge related to transnationalism, war, and war’s afterlife while linking to broader questions of diasporic histories, politics, and worldmaking. By displacing U.S.-centered frameworks, the volume also questions how critiques of U.S. empire that inform much American studies scholarship can replicate the problems of U.S.-centric thinking.”—Marguerite Nguyen, Associate Professor of English at Wesleyan University, and author of America’s Vietnam: The Longue Durée of U.S. Literature and Empire"[T]his edited collection forges an interdisciplinary dialogue between historians of modern Vietnam, specifically the Republic of Vietnam, and scholars of Vietnamese American refugees in ethnic studies and Asian American studies. Contributors argue that a deeper engagement with the civic life and culture of postcolonial South Vietnam allows for greater understanding of the formation of Vietnamese American cultural, civic, and political engagement.... Overall, a strong effort to begin connecting Vietnamese studies and Vietnamese American studies.... Summing Up: Recommended."—Choice

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Book SynopsisThe remarkable story of Leth Oun, who went from the Killing Fields of Cambodia to refugee camps before becoming an officer in the United States Secret ServiceTrade Review"That one person could go from a little boy too afraid to show fear to a man who protects presidents is an incredible journey by anyone’s standards” . . . A “remarkable life."—Philadelphia Inquirer “A harrowing yet inspiring and upbeat survival story . . . A truly heartening story of sheer determination and the will to survive and thrive.” —Kirkus Reviews “Leth Oun’s dramatic past is similar to mine and millions of other Cambodians who went through that dark period in the seventies. Today, we might be happy, but deep down in our hearts, the wound of that dark age remains. I highly admire Leth who has not only achieved his American dream, but also his effort to put the pieces of his traumatic experiences together in this beautiful book.” —His Excellency Chhea Keo, Cambodian Ambassador to the United States “Leth Oun’s moving story is deeply inspiring. He went to hell and back, and now embodies the American Dream.” —Maria Goodavage, author of New York Times bestseller Secret Service Dogs: The Heroes Who Protect the President of the United States “Leth Oun is our Superman. He has overcome the kryptonite of a genocide and rose as a superhero for Cambodians everywhere.” — Kosol Sek, Managing Director, National Khmer Legacy Museum “Through smooth and unflinching prose, A Refugee's American Dream reveals a remarkable story of human loss, endurance, and resilience.” —Sara Nović, bestselling author of America Is Immigrants, Girl at War, and True Biz

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Book SynopsisJapanese Society and the Politics of the North Korean Threatexplains the dramatic shift in Japanesepolicy between the North Korean ballistic missile tests of 1998 and 2006.Trade Review"Seung Hyok Lee’s succinct and readable book analyzes the significant consequences of the abductions issue for Japan’s foreign and security policy." -- Celeste L. Arrington, George Washington University * Journal of Japanese Studies, vol 45:1 *Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Relations after The First Missile Launch Chapter 3: Relations prior to Koizumi's Visit to Pyongyang Chapter 4: Japan-North Korea Relations 2002-2004 Chapter 5: Relations 2004-2006: Unilateral Sanctions Debates Chapter 6: Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThis collection of essays reveals the dynamic role of the late Qing novel in the process of modernization of Chinese fiction. Substantial changes in various aspects of the Chinese novel at the turn of the century, demonstrated by structural analyses of several representative novels, suggest that the evolution of modern Chinese fiction was a more complex process than a simple imitation of Western literatures. The results challenge the scholarly consensus that modern Chinese fiction resulted from a radical change brought about by the May Fourth Movement in 1919. It is demonstrated rather that the transformation had already begun in the first decade of the twentieth century and that the conspicuous changes in Chinese fiction of the 1920s represent a culmination rather than a beginning of the modern evolutionary process.The book consists of nine studies which analyse the late Qing novel in its general and specific aspects. The introduction and first essay explain how social chang

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Book SynopsisA sophisticated and significant contribution to the literature on state building and the history of international relations, The Logic of Conformity is a fascinating study of how the concept of sovereignty is reshaped by the entrance of newcomers.Trade Review'This is a thought-provoking contribution to the study of Japanese history, political science, and international law. By juxtaposing the long-term domestic background with a selection of global theoretical models, Okagaki achieves a refreshing breath of perspective.' -- Andrew Cobbing International Journal vol 69:03:2014Table of ContentsAuthor's Note Part 1. The Framework of Analysis Chapter I. Introduction: Explaining Japan's Entry into the International System Chapter II. State Socialisation and Institutionalisation of the International System Part 2. The Process of Conformity Chapter III. Adoption: Introduction of the Law Of Nations, 1853-1860s Chapter IV. Absorption: "Civilisation and Enlightenment," 1870s Chapter V. Adaptation: International Law as a Tool, 1880s-1899 Part 3. The Logic of Conformity Chapter VI. Socialisation and Institutionalisation Dynamics Chapter VII. Conclusion Selected Bibliography Sources in English Sources in Japanese Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisThis is a selected, annotated list of some 2,000 books on Asia in English and French currently in print, chosen with the aim of providing a long-term historical perspective for the general reader. The list is presented in four main parts: Asia as a whole; the Islamic world; India, South and Southeast Asia; the Far East. Subdivisions cover such topics as: general and reference works; history, social science, and law; history of literature; literature in translation; religion and ideas; arts, crafts, architecture, and science; and the lands in modern times.

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Book SynopsisThis accessible cultural history explores 400 years of British imperial adventure in India, developing a coherent narrative through a wide range of colonial documents, from exhibition catalogues to memoirs and travelogues. It shows how these texts helped legitimize the moral ambiguities of colonial rule even as they helped the English fashion themselves. An engaging examination of European colonizers' representations of native populations Analyzes colonial discourse through an impressive range of primary sources, including memoirs, letters, exhibition catalogues, administrative reports, and travelogues Surveys 400 years of India's history, from the 16th century to the end of the British Empire Demonstrates how colonial discourses naturalized the racial and cultural differences between the English and the Indians, and controlled anxieties over these differences Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii 1 Introducing Colonial Discourse 1 2 Travel, Exploration, and ‘‘Discovery’’: From Imagination to Inquiry 12 Imagining Multiple Worlds: The Fantasy of ‘‘Discovery’’ 18 The Narrative Organization of Discovery 29 ‘‘Inquiry’’ and the Documentation of the Others 41 Conclusion: ‘‘Discovery’’ and Wonder, ‘‘Contracted and Epitomized’’ 49 3 The Discourse of Difference: Constructing the Colonial Exotic 55 The Colony and Imperial Wealth 57 The Exotic in English Culture 59 The Colonial Exotic: Aesthetics, Science, and Difference 60 The Sentimental Exotic 62 The Scientific Exotic 79 Conclusion: From the Indian to the Colonial Exotic 95 4 Empire Management: From Domestication to Spectacle 104 The Domestication of Colonial Spaces 106 Administering Colonial Spaces 121 ‘‘Raising the General Credit of the Empire’’: The Spectacle of Empire 140 Conclusion: Imperial Improvisation and the Spectacle 145 5 Civilizing the Empire: The Ideology of Moral and Material Progress 161 England’s Age of Improvement 164 Discipline and Improve 170 Imperial Lessons 174 The Salvific Colonial 178 Rescue, Reform, and Race 183 Conclusion: From Improvement to Self-Legitimization 194 6 Aesthetic Understanding: From Colonial English to Imperial Cosmopolitans 201 The Self-Fashioning of the Scholar-Colonial 204 Antiquarian Aesthetics and Colonial Authority 213 ‘‘Consumption, Ingestion, and Decoration’’: Colonial Commodities 219 The ‘‘Empire City’’: Pageantry and Empire 226 Conclusion: From Colonial English to Imperial Cosmopolitan 229 References 235 Index 260

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Book SynopsisThis updated, expanded edition of Where the Domino Fell recounts the history of American involvement in Vietnam from the end of World War II, clarifying the political aims, military strategy, and social and economic factors that contributed to the participants'' actions. Revised and updated to include an examination of Vietnam through the point of view of the soldiers themselves, and brings the story up to the present day through a look at how the war has been memorialized A final chapter examines Vietnam through the lens of Oliver Stone''s films and opens up a discussion of the War in popular culture Written with brevity and clarity, this concise narrative history of the Vietnam conflict is an ideal student text A chronology, glossary, and a bibliography all serve as helpful reference points for students An important contribution not only to the study of the Vietnam War but to an understanding of the larger workings of AmericaTable of ContentsPreface vii Prologue: LBJ and Vietnam ix 1 Eternal War: The Vietnamese Heritage 1 2 The First Indochina War, 1945–1954 18 3 The Making of a Quagmire, 1954–1960 43 4 The New Frontier in Vietnam, 1961–1963 67 5 Planning a Tragedy, 1963–1965 93 6 Into the Abyss, 1965–1966 117 7 The Mirage of Progress, 1966–1967 138 8 Tet and the Year of the Monkey, 1968 163 9 The Beginning of the End, 1969–1970 190 10 The Fall of South Vietnam, 1970–1975 215 11 Distorted Images, Missed Opportunities, 1975–1995 237 12 Oliver Stone’s Vietnam 257 Selected Bibliography 280 A Vietnam War Chronology 283 Glossary and Guide to Acronyms 292 Index 295 Maps Map 1 Indochina, 1995 xii Map 2 Vietnam, 1945 to 1975 66 Map 3 Major battles of the Tet offensive, January 1968 169

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Book SynopsisThe conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War has long been understood in a global context, but Jeremy Friedman's Shadow Cold War delves deeper into the era to examine the competition between the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China for the leadership of the world revolution.Trade ReviewA landmark study. . . . Establishes Friedman as a first-rate exponent of the 'new cold war history.' Globally minded, enviably multilingual, painstakingly archival, his book poses and answers ambitious questions that educate us about our past and make sense of our present.- The Guardian;""A fascinating book.""- Slavic Review;""A very important, well-written, and well-researched book that anybody interested in the Sino-Soviet conflict of the 1960s and 1970s must read.""- American Historical Review;""If you want to learn how much of the Third World got screwed up during the 1960s and 1970s, read this book. . . . A compelling story.""- The Russian Review;""A very thoughtful and rich chronicle of the 'behind-the-scenes' Sino-Soviet relationship of the 1950s that asks the questions we need to ask, and illuminates the importance of the developing world in the history of the Cold War. This is a very welcome addition to the existing literature.""- The China Quarterly;""Presents and proves novel arguments on an important subject frequently alluded to but rarely dealt with in depth by previous scholars.""- Passport;""A formidable work of historical scholarship which sheds dazzling new light on the global rivalry between the Chinese and the Russians. . . on top of the erudition, Friedman is a punchy writer.""- Bloomberg Business;""Shadow Cold War is a must-read book for scholars of Cold War history, foreign relations, Soviet history, and Chinese history. Original, innovative, and thought provoking, it redefines the Sino-Soviet relationship and the contours of ideological debates about communism in the Cold War. This is a major work of history.""- Jeremi Suri, University of Texas at Austin

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Book SynopsisIn this transnational history of World War II, Kelly Hammond places Sino-Muslims at the centre of imperial Japan's challenges to Chinese nation-building efforts. Hammond shows how imperial Japanese aimed to defeat the Chinese Nationalists in winning the hearts and minds of Sino-Muslims, a vital minority population.Trade ReviewChina's Muslims and Japan's Empire has a little bit for everyone. It has contemporary implications for the ways that we think about the place of Muslim minorities who live in the People's Republic of China. At the same time, there are some good escapist stories that follow individual Muslims as they navigate their relationships with the Japanese Empire during World War II." -- Los Angeles Review of Books China Channel”An illuminating overview of Japan's overtures during WWII to minority Muslim communities in Asia as a nation-building tactic…An excellent and important addition to the WWII history shelf.” -- Publishers Weekly

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Book SynopsisIn this transnational history of World War II, Kelly Hammond places Sino-Muslims at the centre of imperial Japan's challenges to Chinese nation-building efforts. Hammond shows how imperial Japanese aimed to defeat the Chinese Nationalists in winning the hearts and minds of Sino-Muslims, a vital minority population.Trade ReviewChina's Muslims and Japan's Empire has a little bit for everyone. It has contemporary implications for the ways that we think about the place of Muslim minorities who live in the People's Republic of China. At the same time, there are some good escapist stories that follow individual Muslims as they navigate their relationships with the Japanese Empire during World War II." -- Los Angeles Review of Books China Channel”An illuminating overview of Japan's overtures during WWII to minority Muslim communities in Asia as a nation-building tactic…An excellent and important addition to the WWII history shelf.” -- Publishers Weekly

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Book SynopsisExamines afresh the intense and enduring rivalry between the United States and China during the Cold War. Gregg Brazinsky shows how both nations fought vigorously to establish their influence in newly independent African and Asian countries.

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Book SynopsisThe first book to draw on archives from all of the areas in China where US forces deployed during the 1940s, this examines the formation, evolution, and undoing of the alliance between the United States and the Republic of China during World War II and the Chinese Civil War.

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Book SynopsisThe first book to draw on archives from all of the areas in China where US forces deployed during the 1940s, this examines the formation, evolution, and undoing of the alliance between the United States and the Republic of China during World War II and the Chinese Civil War.

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Book SynopsisHow China’s borderlands transformed politically and culturally throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. China’s land borders, shared with fourteen other nations, are the world’s longest. Like all borders, they are not just lines on a map but also spaces whose histories and futures are defined by their frontier status. An ambitious appraisal of China’s borderlands, Shifting Sands addresses the full scope and importance of these regions, illustrating their transformation from imperial backwaters to hotbeds of resource exploitation and human development in the age of neoliberal globalization. Xiaoxuan Lu brings to bear an original combination of archival research, fieldwork, cartography, and landscape analysis, broadening our understanding of the political economy and cultural changes in China’s borderlands in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. While conventional wisdom looks to the era of Deng Xiaoping Table of Contents List of Abbreviations Preface Introduction. Stratigraphy of China’s Borderlands Part I. Exchanges and Flows The International Development of China Infrastructure: China Ocean Shipping Company (COSCO) Logistics: China Railway Container Transport Corporation (CRCT) Expertise: China National Machinery Industry Corporation (SINOMACH) Resources: China Oil and Foodstuffs Corporation (COFCO) Part II. Corridors and Concessions China and the Transborder Subregions in Asia Silk Road Urbanism: New Town Development in the China-Laos Borderlands The Xinjiang Model: Road Construction in the Kyrgyzstan-China Borderlands Shan-shui Memory: Water Commodification in the China-Korea Borderlands Part III. Settlements and Memories Characteristics of China’s Border Settlements Southwestern Borderlands Northwestern Borderlands Northeastern Borderlands Epilogue Index

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Book SynopsisIn After the PostCold War eminent Chinese cultural critic Dai Jinhua interrogates history, memory, and the future of China as a global economic power in relation to its socialist past, profoundly shaped by the Cold War. Drawing on Marxism, post-structuralism, psychoanalysis, and feminist theory, Dai examines recent Chinese films that erase the country's socialist history to show how such erasure resignifies socialism's past as failure and thus forecloses the imagining of a future beyond that of globalized capitalism. She outlines the tension between China's embrace of the free market and a regime dependent on a socialist imprimatur. She also offers a genealogy of China's transformation from a source of revolutionary power into a fountainhead of globalized modernity. This narrative, Dai contends, leaves little hope of moving from the capitalist degradation of the present into a radical future that might offer a more socially just world.Trade Review"This volume is one of the best publications of its kind, not only because of the brilliance of the original essays, but also because of the excellent translation and editing that come across as judicious as one reads it." -- Jessica Yeung * China Perspectives *"This is a challenging book by an author at the top of her game. Insightful and cosmpolitan in its range, the book shows that public intellectuals in China are managing to find a voice. The editors have done the author and readers a fine service." -- Paul Clark * China Journal *Table of ContentsSeries Editor's Preface / Carlos Rojas vii Acknowledgments xi Editor's Introduction / Lisa Rofel xiii Introduction / Translated by Jie Li 1 Part I. Trauma, Evacuated Memories, and Inverted Histories 1. I Want to Be Human: A Story of China and the Human / Translated by Shuang Shen 25 2. Hero and the Invisible Tianxia / Translated by Yajun Mo 47 Part II. Class, Still Lives, and Masculinity 3. Temporality, Nature Morte, and the Filmmaker: A Reconsideration of Still Life / Translated by Lennet Daigle 67 4. The Piano in a Factory: Class, in the Name of the Father / Translated by Jie Li 91 Part III. The Spy Genre 5. The Spy-Film Legacy: A Preliminary Cultural Analysis of the Spy Film / Translated by Christopher Connery 109 6. In Vogue: Politics and the Nation-State in Lust, Caution, and the Lust, Caution Phenomenon in China / Translated by Erebus Wong and Lisa Rofel 127 Finale. History, Memory, and the Politics of Representation / Translated by Rebecca E. Karl 141 Interview with Dai Jinhau, July 2014 / Lisa Rofel 160 Notes 167 Selected Works of Dai Jinhua 181 Bibliography 183 Translators' Biographies 189 Index 191

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Book SynopsisKimberly Chong offers a rich ethnographic account of how a global management consultantcy translates and implements the logic of financialization in contemporary China.Trade Review"In this well-written book, the author underscores for her readers how consultancy unfolds as a very crucial site for the consideration of the transformation, in China, of corporations as well as business ethics, employee performance and labor in general in the context of financialization." -- Augustine Adu Frimpong and Noah Kankam Kwarteng * African and Asian Studies *"Best Practice is an engaging ethnography based on immersive, multisited fieldwork, and is worth reading for anthropologists specializing in work, business, and capitalism, both inside and outside of China." -- Xinyan Peng * Anthropology of Work Review *"Based on rich, immersive fieldwork, this book allows for understanding the complex social processes whereby 'financialization' takes place, as a combination of multiple repertoires such as shareholder value, modernization, nationalism, culturalism, state capitalism and the teleologies of globalization they facilitate." -- Horacio Ortiz * Asian Anthropology *"Kimberly Chong’s Best Practice offers a thought-provoking ethnography. . . . This book is an important addition to the rapidly expanding field of business anthropology." -- Tomoko Hamada * Anthropological Forum *“The book should make for vital reading in graduate and undergraduate courses focusing on the anthropology of finance, cultural theories of value, ethical subject-making, and labor in post-Mao China.” -- Michael M. Prentice * PoLAR *“Best Practice speaks to many of the themes that interest scholars of cultural economy…. Chong is an anthropologist skilled in being both close to, and critically distant, from the field. But this should not underestimate the emotional and intellectual effort that has gone into this powerful book, which is a treasure trove of insights for scholars of cultural economy.” -- Michael Power * Journal of Cultural Economy *“In short, this ethnography is of groundbreaking value…. Any reader interested in the knowledge economy in contemporary China or anthropology of financialization in 21st century China is strongly encouraged to have a look at this book.” -- Jiangnan Li * Journal of International & Global Studies *“As anthropology looks more deeply into contemporary institutions, including businesses, NGOs, and public entities, contributions such as Chong’s Best Practice are going to become increasingly important to the discipline.... Best Practice illuminates new issues and possibilities in the increasingly global regime.” -- Allen W. Batteau * American Anthropologist *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction 1 1. High Performers: The Making of Financialized Subjects 35 2. Evaluating Humans: Financial Rationality and Practices of Performance-Related Pay 64 3. Reducing Costs: Shared Service Centers, Labor, and the Outsourcing Rationale 91 4. Training Value: The Moral and Political Project of Selling Consultancy 110 5. Client Sites: Liminality, Modernity, and Performances of Expertise 131 6. Building a Paradise: Post-Mao Visions of Transformation 151 7. Conspicuous Ethicizing: Corporate Culture, CSR, and Corporate Subjectivity 172 Conclusion 193 Notes 203 References 221 Index 241

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Book SynopsisKimberly Chong offers a rich ethnographic account of how a global management consultantcy translates and implements the logic of financialization in contemporary China.Trade Review"In this well-written book, the author underscores for her readers how consultancy unfolds as a very crucial site for the consideration of the transformation, in China, of corporations as well as business ethics, employee performance and labor in general in the context of financialization." -- Augustine Adu Frimpong and Noah Kankam Kwarteng * African and Asian Studies *"Best Practice is an engaging ethnography based on immersive, multisited fieldwork, and is worth reading for anthropologists specializing in work, business, and capitalism, both inside and outside of China." -- Xinyan Peng * Anthropology of Work Review *"Based on rich, immersive fieldwork, this book allows for understanding the complex social processes whereby 'financialization' takes place, as a combination of multiple repertoires such as shareholder value, modernization, nationalism, culturalism, state capitalism and the teleologies of globalization they facilitate." -- Horacio Ortiz * Asian Anthropology *"Kimberly Chong’s Best Practice offers a thought-provoking ethnography. . . . This book is an important addition to the rapidly expanding field of business anthropology." -- Tomoko Hamada * Anthropological Forum *“The book should make for vital reading in graduate and undergraduate courses focusing on the anthropology of finance, cultural theories of value, ethical subject-making, and labor in post-Mao China.” -- Michael M. Prentice * PoLAR *“Best Practice speaks to many of the themes that interest scholars of cultural economy…. Chong is an anthropologist skilled in being both close to, and critically distant, from the field. But this should not underestimate the emotional and intellectual effort that has gone into this powerful book, which is a treasure trove of insights for scholars of cultural economy.” -- Michael Power * Journal of Cultural Economy *“In short, this ethnography is of groundbreaking value…. Any reader interested in the knowledge economy in contemporary China or anthropology of financialization in 21st century China is strongly encouraged to have a look at this book.” -- Jiangnan Li * Journal of International & Global Studies *“As anthropology looks more deeply into contemporary institutions, including businesses, NGOs, and public entities, contributions such as Chong’s Best Practice are going to become increasingly important to the discipline.... Best Practice illuminates new issues and possibilities in the increasingly global regime.” -- Allen W. Batteau * American Anthropologist *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction 1 1. High Performers: The Making of Financialized Subjects 35 2. Evaluating Humans: Financial Rationality and Practices of Performance-Related Pay 64 3. Reducing Costs: Shared Service Centers, Labor, and the Outsourcing Rationale 91 4. Training Value: The Moral and Political Project of Selling Consultancy 110 5. Client Sites: Liminality, Modernity, and Performances of Expertise 131 6. Building a Paradise: Post-Mao Visions of Transformation 151 7. Conspicuous Ethicizing: Corporate Culture, CSR, and Corporate Subjectivity 172 Conclusion 193 Notes 203 References 221 Index 241

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Book SynopsisIn Thought Crime Max M. Ward explores the Japanese state''s efforts to suppress political radicalism in the 1920s and 1930s. Ward traces the evolution of an antiradical law called the Peace Preservation Law, from its initial application to suppress communism and anticolonial nationalism—what authorities deemed thought crime—to its expansion into an elaborate system to reform and ideologically convert thousands of thought criminals throughout the Japanese Empire. To enforce the law, the government enlisted a number of nonstate actors, who included monks, family members, and community leaders. Throughout, Ward illuminates the complex processes through which the law articulated imperial ideology and how this ideology was transformed and disseminated through the law''s application over its twenty-year history. In so doing, he shows how the Peace Preservation Law provides a window into understanding how modern states develop ideological apparatuses to subject their rTrade Review"[Ward] has provided his readers with a well-written account of how between 1920 and the 1930s the Japanese nation endeavored to suppress political radicalism." -- Augustine Adu Frimpong * African and Asian Studies * "Thought Crime offers a lucid reflection on theories of power and the modern state while refusing to fetishize the particularities of the Japanese case." -- David Ambaras * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *"Thought Crime sets itself apart from past studies of the Peace Preservation Law by developing a theory of imperial ideology that focuses on its effects on those in proximity to it: bureaucrats, thought criminals, and those who were mobilized to rehabilitate them." -- John Person * Journal of Asian Studies *"Thought Crime is a thought-provoking, intelligent, and necessary book.… It is a must-read for serious students of modern Japanese political and intellectual history." -- Jeremy A. Yellen * Journal of Japanese Studies *"Rigorous and creative explorations of the multiple modalities of state power are much needed in the study of the cultural and social history of modern Japan, and in that respect Thought Crime makes an invaluable contribution to the field." -- Tomoko Seto * Monumenta Nipponica *"This book is nicely written and well-organized, and the author makes excellent use of Japanese-language primary sources. Overall, this is an outstanding piece of research. It makes a substantial contribution to existing works on this topic and is recommended for use in graduate seminars on modern Japanese history." -- Walter Skya * History: Reviews of New Books *"This analysis is a valuable service in increasing our knowledge of the rise of Japanese militarism and the coming of WWII in Asa.… Recommended. Graduate students through faculty." -- Q. E. Wang * Choice *"Thought Crime is a theoretically and archivally rich intervention into discourse surrounding tenkō and the kokutai. . . . Max Ward's incorporation of theory into the body of literature on thought crime in Japan yields an important rethinking of politics and ideology during this most fraught of historical periods." -- Jason Morgan * Japan Review *Table of ContentsPreface: Policing Ideological Threats, Then and Now ix Acknowledgments xv Introduction. The Ghost in the Machine: Emperor System Ideology and the Peace Preservation Law Apparatus 1 1. Kokutai and the Aporias of Imperial Sovereignty: The Passage of the Peace Preservation Law in 1925 21 2. Transcriptions of Power: Repression and Rehabilitation in the Early Peace Preservation Law Apparatus, 1925-1933 49 3. Apparatuses of Subjection: The Rehabilitation of Thought Criminals in the Early 1930s 77 4. Nurturing the Ideological Avowal: Toward the Codification of Tenkō in 1936 123 5. The Ideology of Conversion: Tenkō on the Eve of Total War 145 Epilogue. The Legacies of the Thought Rehabilitation System in Postwar Japan 179 Notes 185 Bibliography 261 Index 281

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Book SynopsisSaloni Mathur investigates the radical work of two seminal figures—New Dehli-based critic and curator Geeta Kapur, and her husband, contemporary multimedia artist, Vivan Sundaram—to show how their approach to artistic practice and theory may inform subsequent generations and serve as a model for artistic politics in our time.Trade Review“This critical retake on the work of Geeta Kapur and Vivan Sundaram offers a deeply informed reading of their joint and separate works but also turns the biographical norm inside out, reading their lives as illuminations of their tempestuous times and not simply as cases or examples of larger processes. It will be read with keen interest by anyone who cares about the making of modern art worlds in places like India.” -- Arjun Appadurai, Paulette Goddard Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University“Saloni Mathur's A Fragile Inheritance immerses the reader in the long march of Geeta Kapur and Vivan Sundaram, leading figures of India's avant-garde in criticism and artistic practice. Against the background of the indescribable complexity of India's many languages, political parties, and aesthetic movements, Mathur traces parallel and intersecting careers with a brilliant sense of the improvisatory, provisional, and timely character of their numerous interventions over half a century. Renouncing any claim to survey the art of India, or to provide a progressive narrative of relentless novelty, Mathur provides an in-depth account of works, projects, ideas, and the situations in which they arose. Writing ‘alongside’ rather than ‘about’ the work of these two essential figures, Mathur offers a striking model of engaged critical practice in a project that is far from finished.” -- W. J. T. Mitchell, author of * Image Science: Iconology, Visual Culture, and Media Aesthetics *“Mathur’s condensation of two difficult-to-summarize careers is a remarkable achievement.... To return to Kapur and Sundaram is a radically generous and participatory act, an invitation to reimagine our limits by slowly going over things we thought we were ready to leave behind." -- Meghaa Ballakrishnen * CAA Reviews *"This densely written book encounters not only fundamental questions of art and its preservation, but also of writing about art, and itself can be seen as an innovative example of the latter. Further, it addresses the sociocultural and political embedding of art in the postcolonial context, touching also upon ethical questions. Therefore, this book is by far not only relevant for readers who want to know about or deal with Kapur and Sundaram." -- Maja Jerrentrup * South Asia Research *Rich and luminous…. A Fragile Inheritance is an essential, thoughtful and riveting work that asks the addressee to co-participate in the making of its meaning. -- Emilia Terracciano * Third Text *"Quite unlike any other study of the art of modern and contemporary South Asia, A Fragile Inheritance is a deeply informative work that stresses the intellectual and political stakes of modern art practice and its discourse in India and the Global South.… Mathur's analysis …, superbly informed by methodological insights and comparative work by other international artists, are among the most accomplished readings of modern art from South Asia, and can be easily assigned as stand-alone essays in undergraduate and graduate university syllabi." -- Iftikhar Dadi * Oxford Art Journal *Table of ContentsPreface vii Introduction: Radical Stakes 1 1. Earthly Ecologies 40 2. The Edifice Complex 72 3. The World, the Art, and the Critic 96 4. Urban Economies 129 Epilogue: Late Styles 160 Notes 185 Bibliography 211 Index 225

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Book SynopsisLeo T. S. Ching traces the complex dynamics that shape persisting negative attitudes toward Japan throughout East Asia, showing how anti-Japanism stems from the failed efforts at decolonization and reconciliation, the U.S. military presence, and shifting geopolitical and economic conditions in the region.Trade Review"Anti-Japan is a timely analysis of the complex relationships among countries in East Asia as the political and economic power relationship in the region is rapidly reconstructed." -- Linda Wang * International Social Science Review *“This creative, thought-provoking, and deeply insightful book speaks to multiple cross-disciplinary audiences, including specialists and general readers in East Asian history, culture, and politics. It would also be of interest to anyone interested in memory, postcolonial studies, nationalism, and postconflict resolution and reconciliation.” -- Seo-Hyun Park * Journal of Asian Studies *“Leo Ching’s book Anti-Japan is a timely and relevant addition to the discussions surrounding the recent developments in Northeast Asia.” -- Joon Oh * China Report *“This thought-provoking book will help readers reevaluate and contextualize various literary works, films, testimonies, music videos, video games, and other aspects of popular culture.... [T]his book provokes readers to reevaluate issues related to historical reconciliation in East Asia.” -- Takashi Yoshida * Journal of Japanese Studies *“What Ching’s book does to set it apart from what is a fairly crowded field is to situate his analysis across the disciplinary boundaries of cultural studies, postcolonial studies, and the burgeoning studies of affect and emotions.... This is a thoughtful and thought-provoking book and deserves to be read widely.” -- Caroline Rose * Pacific Affairs *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Anti-Japanism (and Pro-Japanism) in East Asia 1 1. When Bruce Lee Meets Gojira: Transimperial Characters, Anti-Japanism, Anti-Americanism, and the Failure of Decolonization 19 2. "Japanese Devils": The Conditions and Limits of Anti-Japanism in China 36 3. Shameful Bodies, Bodily Shame: "Comfort Women" and Anti-Japanism in South Korea 57 4. Colonial Nostalgia or Postcolonial Anxiety: The Dōsan Generation In-Between "Retrocession" and "Defeat" 80 5. "In the Name of Love": Critical Regionalism and Co-Viviality in Post-East Asia 98 6. Reconciliation Otherwise: Intimacy, Indigeneity, and the Taiwan Difference 115 Epilogue. From Anti-Japanism to Decolonizing Democracy: Youth Protests in East Asia 132 Notes 143 References 153 Index 161

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Book SynopsisSince the end of the nineteenth century, the Korean people have faced successive waves of foreign domination, authoritarian regimes, forced dispersal, and divided development. Throughout these turbulent times, “queer” Koreans were ignored, minimized, and erased in narratives of their modern nation, East Asia, and the wider world. This interdisciplinary volume challenges such marginalization through critical analyses of non-normative sexuality and gender variance. Considering both personal and collective forces, the contributors extend individualized notions of queer neoliberalism beyond those typically set in Western queer theory. Along the way, they recount a range of illuminating topics, from shamanic rituals during the colonial era and B-grade comedy films under Cold War dictatorship to female masculinity among today’s youth and transgender confrontations with the resident registration system. More broadly,Queer Koreaoffers readers new ways of understanding Trade Review“A fascinating and pathbreaking work of scholarship that combines historical, social science, and cultural analysis to shatter a host of shibboleths about Korean sexuality and relationships, gives voice to the voiceless, and brings Korean queerness fully into the mainstream of Korean and East Asian studies!” -- Carter J. Eckert, author of * Park Chung Hee and Modern Korea: The Roots of Militarism, 1866–1945 *“The contributors elegantly limn the messy boundaries and porous enclosures of the heteronormative and the ‘queer’, putting into sharp relief the relatively unexplored areas of non-normative Korea. Queer Korea is full of remarkable interventions and exciting possibilities, and its contributors deploy Korean cultural and historical experiences for an energized critique of queer theory.” -- Martin F. Manalansan IV, author of * Global Divas: Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora *“Queer Korea sets a very high standard for future scholarship on Korea that productively engages with queer theory and the globalization of queer studies. With the appearance of this book … teachers too are now well-positioned to offer courses on the intersections of queer culture and modern Korean history.” -- Samuel Perry * European Journal of Korean Studies *"The text has something to offer all students of Korean or Asian studies. Above all, this book succeeds in its primary goal of engaging a queer studies audience seeking to understand the crucial context Korea provides as a site of colonial and postcolonial modernity." -- S. G. Jug * Choice *“Queer Korea bridges the gap between Korean studies and queer studies by decentering both from their disciplinary limitations—Korean studies from its ethnonationalist and heteronormative assumptions, and queer studies from its focus on identity politics privileging the United States and other Euro-American liberal societies.... Queer Korea is an instant classic....” -- So-Rim Lee * Journal of Korean Studies *"The new anthology Queer Korea . . . is, without doubt, a remarkable and long overdue scholarly effort that fundamentally advances the development and diversity of Asian queer studies in the post-2020 era. . . . Queer Korea is an illuminating, theoretically robust, and beautifully written scholarly work. . . .” -- Jamie J. Zhao * Journal of Asian Studies *“The essays in Todd A. Henry’s masterful edited collection explore queerness...as a site to theorize and critique the fundamentally heteropatriarchal nature of South Korean society.... Queer Korea will, I believe, become a seminal text on gender and sexuality in Korea that will energize the theorization and practice of ethnographers of Korea and Asia for many years to come.” -- Thomas Baudinette * Asian Ethnology *“Queer Korea reads Korean modern history through a queer lens.... Ultimately, this queer reading proves a significant endeavour for interpreting history in a dense and multilayered way, which allows us to understand it more profoundly and thoroughly.” -- Kyungtae Kim * Pacific Affairs *“Queer Korea is a monumental collection of essays. . . . Queer Korea is the first of its kind, a collective effort to write same-sex rela­tions and gender transgressions into Korean history.” -- Wenqing Kang * Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. Queer Korea: Toward a Field of Engagement / Todd A. Henry 1 Part I. Unruly Subjects Under Colonial and Postcolonial Modernity 1. Ritual Specialists in Colonial Drag: Shamanic Interventions in 1920s Korea / Merose Hwang 55 2. Telling Queer Time in a Straight Empire: Yi Sang’s “Wings” (1936) / John Whittier Treat 90 3. Problematizing Love: The Intimate Event and Same-Sex Love in Colonial Korea / Pei Jean Chen 117 4. Femininity under the Wartime System and the Symptomacity of Female Same-Sex Love / Shin-ae Ha (Translated by Kyunghee Eo) 146 5. A Female-Dressed Man Sings a National Epic: The Film Male Kisaeng and the Politics of Gender and Sexuality in 1960s South Korea / Chung-kang Kim 175 6. Queer Lives as Cautionary Tales: Female Homoeroticism and the Heteropatriarchal Imagination of Authoritarian South Korea / Todd A. Henry 205 Part II. Citizens, Consumers, and Activists in Postauthoritarian Times 7. The Three Faces of South Korea's Male Homosexuality: Pogal, Iban and Neoliberal Gay / John (Song Pae) Cho 263 8. Avoiding T’ibu (Obvious Butchness): Invisibility as a Survival Strategy among Young Queer Women in South Korea / Layoung Shin 295 9. Mobile Numbers and Gender Transitions: The Resident Registration System, the Nation-State, and Trans/gender Identities / Ruin (Translated by Max Balhorn) 323 Contributors 343 Index 345

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Book SynopsisAlthough the Japanese empire rapidly dissolved following the end of World War II, the memories, mourning, and trauma of the nation's imperial exploits continue to haunt Korea, China, and Taiwan. In Anti-Japan Leo T. S. Ching traces the complex dynamics that shape persisting negative attitudes toward Japan throughout East Asia. Drawing on a mix of literature, film, testimonies, and popular culture, Ching shows how anti-Japanism stems from the failed efforts at decolonization and reconciliation, the Cold War and the ongoing U.S. military presence, and shifting geopolitical and economic conditions in the region. At the same time, pro-Japan sentiments in Taiwan reveal a Taiwanese desire to recoup that which was lost after the Japanese empire fell. Anti-Japanism, Ching contends, is less about Japan itself than it is about the real and imagined relationships between it and China, Korea, and Taiwan. Advocating for forms of healing that do not depend on state-based diplomacy, Ching suggests that reconciliation requires that Japan acknowledge and take responsibility for its imperial history.Trade Review"Anti-Japan is a timely analysis of the complex relationships among countries in East Asia as the political and economic power relationship in the region is rapidly reconstructed." -- Linda Wang * International Social Science Review *“This creative, thought-provoking, and deeply insightful book speaks to multiple cross-disciplinary audiences, including specialists and general readers in East Asian history, culture, and politics. It would also be of interest to anyone interested in memory, postcolonial studies, nationalism, and postconflict resolution and reconciliation.” -- Seo-Hyun Park * Journal of Asian Studies *“Leo Ching’s book Anti-Japan is a timely and relevant addition to the discussions surrounding the recent developments in Northeast Asia.” -- Joon Oh * China Report *“This thought-provoking book will help readers reevaluate and contextualize various literary works, films, testimonies, music videos, video games, and other aspects of popular culture.... [T]his book provokes readers to reevaluate issues related to historical reconciliation in East Asia.” -- Takashi Yoshida * Journal of Japanese Studies *“What Ching’s book does to set it apart from what is a fairly crowded field is to situate his analysis across the disciplinary boundaries of cultural studies, postcolonial studies, and the burgeoning studies of affect and emotions.... This is a thoughtful and thought-provoking book and deserves to be read widely.” -- Caroline Rose * Pacific Affairs *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Anti-Japanism (and Pro-Japanism) in East Asia 1 1. When Bruce Lee Meets Gojira: Transimperial Characters, Anti-Japanism, Anti-Americanism, and the Failure of Decolonization 19 2. "Japanese Devils": The Conditions and Limits of Anti-Japanism in China 36 3. Shameful Bodies, Bodily Shame: "Comfort Women" and Anti-Japanism in South Korea 57 4. Colonial Nostalgia or Postcolonial Anxiety: The Dōsan Generation In-Between "Retrocession" and "Defeat" 80 5. "In the Name of Love": Critical Regionalism and Co-Viviality in Post-East Asia 98 6. Reconciliation Otherwise: Intimacy, Indigeneity, and the Taiwan Difference 115 Epilogue. From Anti-Japanism to Decolonizing Democracy: Youth Protests in East Asia 132 Notes 143 References 153 Index 161

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Book SynopsisSaloni Mathur investigates the radical work of two seminal figuresNew Dehli-based critic and curator Geeta Kapur, and her husband, contemporary multimedia artist, Vivan Sundaramto show how their approach to artistic practice and theory may inform subsequent generations and serve as a model for artistic politics in our time.Trade Review“This critical retake on the work of Geeta Kapur and Vivan Sundaram offers a deeply informed reading of their joint and separate works but also turns the biographical norm inside out, reading their lives as illuminations of their tempestuous times and not simply as cases or examples of larger processes. It will be read with keen interest by anyone who cares about the making of modern art worlds in places like India.” -- Arjun Appadurai, Paulette Goddard Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University“Saloni Mathur's A Fragile Inheritance immerses the reader in the long march of Geeta Kapur and Vivan Sundaram, leading figures of India's avant-garde in criticism and artistic practice. Against the background of the indescribable complexity of India's many languages, political parties, and aesthetic movements, Mathur traces parallel and intersecting careers with a brilliant sense of the improvisatory, provisional, and timely character of their numerous interventions over half a century. Renouncing any claim to survey the art of India, or to provide a progressive narrative of relentless novelty, Mathur provides an in-depth account of works, projects, ideas, and the situations in which they arose. Writing ‘alongside’ rather than ‘about’ the work of these two essential figures, Mathur offers a striking model of engaged critical practice in a project that is far from finished.” -- W. J. T. Mitchell, author of * Image Science: Iconology, Visual Culture, and Media Aesthetics *“Mathur’s condensation of two difficult-to-summarize careers is a remarkable achievement.... To return to Kapur and Sundaram is a radically generous and participatory act, an invitation to reimagine our limits by slowly going over things we thought we were ready to leave behind." -- Meghaa Ballakrishnen * CAA Reviews *"This densely written book encounters not only fundamental questions of art and its preservation, but also of writing about art, and itself can be seen as an innovative example of the latter. Further, it addresses the sociocultural and political embedding of art in the postcolonial context, touching also upon ethical questions. Therefore, this book is by far not only relevant for readers who want to know about or deal with Kapur and Sundaram." -- Maja Jerrentrup * South Asia Research *Rich and luminous…. A Fragile Inheritance is an essential, thoughtful and riveting work that asks the addressee to co-participate in the making of its meaning. -- Emilia Terracciano * Third Text *"Quite unlike any other study of the art of modern and contemporary South Asia, A Fragile Inheritance is a deeply informative work that stresses the intellectual and political stakes of modern art practice and its discourse in India and the Global South.… Mathur's analysis …, superbly informed by methodological insights and comparative work by other international artists, are among the most accomplished readings of modern art from South Asia, and can be easily assigned as stand-alone essays in undergraduate and graduate university syllabi." -- Iftikhar Dadi * Oxford Art Journal *Table of ContentsPreface vii Introduction: Radical Stakes 1 1. Earthly Ecologies 40 2. The Edifice Complex 72 3. The World, the Art, and the Critic 96 4. Urban Economies 129 Epilogue: Late Styles 160 Notes 185 Bibliography 211 Index 225

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Book SynopsisMaura Finkelstein examines what it means for textile mill workers in Mumbai—who are assumed to not exist—to live during a period of deindustrialization, showing how mills and workers' bodies constitute an archive of Mumbai's history that challenge common thinking about the city's past, present, and future.Trade Review"Finkelstein’s work is very refreshing. . . . The data involved is rich, and the theoretical framings and arguments very persuasive." -- Sinead D'Silva * LSE Review of Books *"Tackling the question of power, of the structure of domination in post-colony, and of the lives lived among the imperial debris makes The Archive of Loss an engaging reading for those willing to advance the project started by Maura Finkelstein and to approach ethnographically both the official records and the alternative archives. . . . The book offers a detailed description of decay and ruination as a prolonged process that follows its own logic and unfolds according to its own rules, supporting a ghostly presence of the past that refuses to die down." -- Natalia Kovalyova * Anthropology Book Forum *“In each chapter-archive, Finkelstein urges the reader to reflect on how some forms of work in contemporary capitalist society are rendered meaningless in order to sustain others.... Researchers studying the history of Mumbai’s textile mills, the processes of deindustrialization, storytelling, and archiving, and affect theory will find value in engaging with this book.” -- Saumya Pandey * Society for the Anthropology of Work *“The conceptual framing of the book is refreshingly original, the prose elegant and the structure convincing.... By carefully spelling out phenomena that do not fit into established narratives, the book illuminates the blind spot of dominant explanations.” -- Pablo Holwitt * South Asia *“The significance of this powerful book goes beyond being an ethnography of the urban or the spatial.... Archives of Loss is a must-read for understanding urban transition.” -- Sarasij Majumder * Journal of Anthropological Research *“Maura Finkelstein’s book is a wonderful ethnographic study.... [The Archive of Loss] is an important addition to studies of urban workers and the textile industry and is important for anthropology, ethnography, human geography, urban history and labour studies.” -- Vicki Crinis * Asian Studies Review *“The Archive of Loss is an exemplary ethnography of a world in transition, caught as it is between an industrial past and post-industrial present, and the unexpected openings—material, social, political—of seeing this world otherwise.” -- Waqas H. Butt * Anthropological Quarterly *“Maura Finkelstein’s The Archive of Loss is a finely theorized ethnographic archive of what she calls lively ruination that pushes methodological boundaries in novel ways.” -- Preeti Sampat * American Ethnologist *“Archive of Loss is fascinating. It is an original, remarkable, and admirable account of other sides of the glossy coins of Mumbai as a post-industrial city aiming to reach world-class status (whatever that may mean). It is moreover a convincing ‘first-hand’ account of the working and social lives of those Mumbaikars who live somewhere in the shadows of ‘development.’” -- Hans Schenk * IIAS Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii A Note on Intimate Geographies xi Introduction: The Archive of Industrial Debris 1 1. The Archive of the Mill 29 2. The Archive of the Worker 57 3. The Archive of the Chawl 85 4. The Archive of the Strike 117 5. The Archive of the Fire 149 Epilogue: The Archive of Futures Lost 181 Notes 193 References 225 Index 247

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Book SynopsisMaura Finkelstein examines what it means for textile mill workers in Mumbai—who are assumed to not exist—to live during a period of deindustrialization, showing how mills and workers' bodies constitute an archive of Mumbai's history that challenge common thinking about the city's past, present, and future.Trade Review"Finkelstein’s work is very refreshing. . . . The data involved is rich, and the theoretical framings and arguments very persuasive." -- Sinead D'Silva * LSE Review of Books *"Tackling the question of power, of the structure of domination in post-colony, and of the lives lived among the imperial debris makes The Archive of Loss an engaging reading for those willing to advance the project started by Maura Finkelstein and to approach ethnographically both the official records and the alternative archives. . . . The book offers a detailed description of decay and ruination as a prolonged process that follows its own logic and unfolds according to its own rules, supporting a ghostly presence of the past that refuses to die down." -- Natalia Kovalyova * Anthropology Book Forum *“In each chapter-archive, Finkelstein urges the reader to reflect on how some forms of work in contemporary capitalist society are rendered meaningless in order to sustain others.... Researchers studying the history of Mumbai’s textile mills, the processes of deindustrialization, storytelling, and archiving, and affect theory will find value in engaging with this book.” -- Saumya Pandey * Society for the Anthropology of Work *“The conceptual framing of the book is refreshingly original, the prose elegant and the structure convincing.... By carefully spelling out phenomena that do not fit into established narratives, the book illuminates the blind spot of dominant explanations.” -- Pablo Holwitt * South Asia *“The significance of this powerful book goes beyond being an ethnography of the urban or the spatial.... Archives of Loss is a must-read for understanding urban transition.” -- Sarasij Majumder * Journal of Anthropological Research *“Maura Finkelstein’s book is a wonderful ethnographic study.... [The Archive of Loss] is an important addition to studies of urban workers and the textile industry and is important for anthropology, ethnography, human geography, urban history and labour studies.” -- Vicki Crinis * Asian Studies Review *“The Archive of Loss is an exemplary ethnography of a world in transition, caught as it is between an industrial past and post-industrial present, and the unexpected openings—material, social, political—of seeing this world otherwise.” -- Waqas H. Butt * Anthropological Quarterly *“Maura Finkelstein’s The Archive of Loss is a finely theorized ethnographic archive of what she calls lively ruination that pushes methodological boundaries in novel ways.” -- Preeti Sampat * American Ethnologist *“Archive of Loss is fascinating. It is an original, remarkable, and admirable account of other sides of the glossy coins of Mumbai as a post-industrial city aiming to reach world-class status (whatever that may mean). It is moreover a convincing ‘first-hand’ account of the working and social lives of those Mumbaikars who live somewhere in the shadows of ‘development.’” -- Hans Schenk * IIAS Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii A Note on Intimate Geographies xi Introduction: The Archive of Industrial Debris 1 1. The Archive of the Mill 29 2. The Archive of the Worker 57 3. The Archive of the Chawl 85 4. The Archive of the Strike 117 5. The Archive of the Fire 149 Epilogue: The Archive of Futures Lost 181 Notes 193 References 225 Index 247

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Book SynopsisIn this ethnography of Indonesia's post-authoritarian public sphere, Karen Strassler explores the role of public images as they gave visual form to the ideals, aspirations, and anxieties of democracy.Trade Review“Karen Strassler convincingly links ideologies of transparency that are associated with new media forms with political and social concepts. Especially valuable is her attentiveness to both the ideological valence of new media and the pragmatic implications of what it can and cannot do in practice. Smart, stylish, and sophisticated, Demanding Images is absolutely superb.” -- Webb Keane, George Herbert Mead Collegiate Professor of Anthropology, University of Michigan“An inspiring account of the demands made upon images (to testify and endure) and the complex demands images make in turn upon those who use them. Establishing the conflictual politics of the visual, Karen Strassler dissects the ambivalence and volatility of image-events in prose that is both analytically precise and poetically rich. This is a learned contribution to the study of contemporary Indonesia and an ominous handbook illuminating the convulsive nature of new media landscapes that are changing lives everywhere.” -- Christopher Pinney, Professor of Anthropology and Visual Culture, University College London"Demanding Images encourages readers to adopt a valuable new perspective on post-authoritarian Indonesian politics." -- Megan Brankley Abbas * PoLAR *"Demanding Images is a fascinating, entertaining, and insightful read. A one-of-a-kind book on Indonesia, it will appeal to those interested in Indonesian media, politics, and society, as well as those who want to understand how images affect politics in our more complex media environment." -- Colm Fox * Pacific Affairs *"As an interdisciplinary work that draws from a number of sophisticated analytical frameworks, this accessible study holds value far beyond the immediate topic of Indonesian visual culture and public discourse in recent decades." -- S. G. Jug * Choice *"Karen Strassler is highly regarded in Indonesian studies, and . . . her ideas and theories have incredible depth and should be relevant to a larger audience critically engaged with photography and visual culture, those actively trying to grapple with the complexity of images within our social and political experience." -- Brian Arnold * Afterimage *"An engaging and thought-provoking book, which certainly demands attention from anyone with an interest in Media, Cultural, and Area Studies." -- Edward Jurriens * Anthropos *"Strassler's notion of the 'image-event' elegently draws attention to the permeability between static and mobile, enduring and fleeting, picture and performance, making her work relevant well beyond the limits of Indonesian studies and her disciplinary home in visual anthropology." -- Krishna Sen * Journal of Anthropological Research *"Whether one is interested in contemporary Indonesian politics, in understanding the role of images in public spheres more generally, or in the production and life of images themselves, this book will certainly be a valuable read." -- Jonathan Kraemer * Anthropology Book Forum *Table of ContentsPreface VII Acknowledgments XI Introduction. The Eventfulness of Images 3 1. Face Value 33 2. The Gender of Transparency 67 3. The Scandal of Exposure 95 4. Naked Effects 133 5. Street Signs 169 Conclusion. The Eye of the Crowd 221 Notes 247 Bibliography 299 Index 319

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Book SynopsisPriya Jaikumar examines seven decades of films shot on location in India to show how attending to filmed space reveals alternative timelines and histories of cinema as well as the myriad ways cinema constructs India as a place.Trade Review“With grace and flair Priya Jaikumar shows how the preproduction practices and industry cultures of cinema—from expedition and nature films to commercial Bollywood cinema—produced and reinforced the spatial notions of territory and empire that dominated geopolitical histories. She looks forward to contemporary Indian geopolitics, as the privatization of economic resources increasingly harms vulnerable populations—even while location-based films exploit these populations and iconic precolonial architecture, now often in ruins, for a cinematic backdrop or ambience. Here is a magnificent study.” -- Tom Conley, Abbott Lawrence Lowell Professor, Harvard University“Where Histories Reside is a superbly written book in which Priya Jaikumar uses the optics of space to recast the discourse of Indian cinema and its pasts. Landscape, territory, and architecture are brought into conversation with geography, cultural theory, cinema studies, and politics. The result is a magnificent and methodologically daring approach that displaces the desire for causality with the spatialization of historical inquiry.” -- Ranjani Mazumdar, Professor of Cinema Studies, School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi"Employing a variety of methodologies, the volume is valuable both in itself and as a model for subaltern cinema history and historiography." -- K. J. Wetmore Jr. * Choice *"Written with style and verve, [Where Histories Reside] is one of those rare academic works that can justifiably claim a readership beyond conventional disciplinary provinces like film history or theory." -- Anustup Basu * Critical Quarterly *“Where Histories Reside is a great resource.... It is an authoritative book with meticulous research.... [I] recommend it to those who are interested in how space, history, geography, and people have come to create the cinematic space.” -- Umme Al-wazedi * Quarterly Review of Film and Video *“Where Histories Reside might be a book of multiple localised legacies concerning regional geography, Empire and globalised networks of capital and film production, but it is also very much a publication brimming with hard-won personal insight and critical reflection.” -- Alastair Philips * BioScope *“Where Histories Reside shows that space is not a thing to be filmed, nor simply a place to film in.... Jaikumar’s book invites us to regard both national and cinematic space as overdetermined and also to consider that seeing filmed space requires multiple overlapping lenses.” -- Pamela Robertson Wojcik * Journal of Cinema and Media Studies *“Beginning with a promise of realizing a spatial critique in film studies, this book contributes to the spatial turn in film studies.... The significant success of the book is in gesturing towards diverse methods which go beyond the textual, enter the world of commerce, labour and interlink the on screen with off screen.” -- C. Yamini Krishna * Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments xi Introduction: Filmed Space 1 Part I. Rationalized Spaces 1. Disciplinary: Indian Towns in British Geography Classrooms 35 2. Regulatory: The State in Films Division's Himalayan Documentaries 75 Part II. Affective Spaces 3. Sublime: Immanence and Transcendence in Jean Renoir's India 125 4. Residual: Lucknow and the Haveli as Cinematic Topoi 181 Part III. Commodified Spaces 5. Global: From Bollywood Locations to Film Stock Rations 233 Conclusion: Cinema and Historiographies of Space 287 Appendix 311 Notes 313 Bibliography 355 Index 389

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Book SynopsisLeah Zani considers how the people and landscape of Laos have been shaped and haunted by the physical remains of unexploded ordnance from the CIA's Secret War.Trade Review“Bomb Children is a riveting and reflexive account of war remains, military waste, and ‘development’ in contemporary Laos. As a document it bears/bares the hazardous conditions of its making, poised on the edge of blasts in the margins of safety zones that are never safe, in the collision and convergence between social ecologies riddled with minefields, and between remains and (economic) revival. Tacking between these ‘paired conceptual frames’ and a set of parallelisms that collapse war and peace and life and death, Bomb Children labors in an ethnographic mode that eschews the pornography of detailing mutilated bodies and instead looks to the war damages that are not over and that remain viscerally present in the everyday of people's lives.” -- Ann Laura Stoler, author of * Duress: Imperial Durabilities in Our Times *“Bomb Children is nothing short of breathtaking. Leah Zani presents little-known and incredibly important material on the everyday aftermath of the Secret War for the people of Laos. Her topic is not only ethnographically underexplored, but has been deliberately concealed by the U.S. government for decades. In Zani's hands, fieldwork becomes a flexible toolkit, selectively and strategically deployed to grasp the object of military wasting in a revealing and ethically responsible way.” -- Joshua O. Reno, author of * Waste Away: Working and Living with a North American Landfill *"A thoroughly original work, Bomb Children is likely to become a useful reference for students and scholars alike, and indeed anyone interested in the social consequences of airstrikes. It is also an arresting personal account of the hazards of fieldwork in a highly monitored and dangerous country." -- Erin LIn * Pacific Affairs *"The book is a compelling study of the multifarious hazards haunting former war landscapes in Laos and a fascinating literary project. As an innovative and creative reflection of anthropological methods and epistemologies, the book is an excellent contribution to the discipline." -- Oliver Tappe * Sojourn *“This is a daring, adventurous and inspiring ethnography of a kind rarely seen in this region. Zani’s book will be a must-read for scholars of military waste and provides a valuable contribution to ongoing conversations about power in Lao PDR.” -- Holly High * South East Asia Research *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Note on the Lao Language ix Fieldpoem 30: Postwar 1 Introduction: The Fruit Eaters 3 Fieldpoem 11: The Fruit Eaters 36 1. The Dragon and the River 37 Fieldpoem 15: "The Rice Is More Delicious after Bomb Clearance" 64 2. Ghost Mine 65 Fieldpoem 23: Blast Radius 97 3. Blast Radius 98 Fieldpoem 26: House Blessings 130 Conclusion: Phaseout 131 Fieldpoem 18: Children 149 Appendix: Notes on Fieldpoems 151 References 155 Index 165

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Book SynopsisIn this experimental ethnography, Alan Klima examines moneylending, gambling, funeral casinos, and the consultations of spirits and mediums to predict winning lottery numbers to illustrate the relationship between contemporary Thai spiritual and financial practices and global capitalism's abstraction of monetary value.Trade Review“Alan Klima's ethnographic writing releases a middle zone, an in-between that haunts the kind of thought accreted by Euro-enlightenment. And it is beautifully done, unfolding, cascading, easing a shift in realism that starts by troubling a conventionally recognized real, material world and ends up dominated by the voice of a double, a possession. Ethnography #9 is an amazing and wonderful book by a masterful and compelling writer.” -- Kathleen Stewart, coauthor of * The Hundreds *“In Ethnography #9, ghosts dance with social theorists, and the spirit-possessed author juggles global financial tips along with winning lottery numbers. In Thailand after the financial crash, loan godmothers, gambling, and unhinging ghosts share the stage with World Bank prescriptions and market-hogging mega-marts. Alan Klima and his spirit familiar stage a wild experiment in telling the real by moving out of common sense.” -- Anna Tsing, coeditor of * Feral Atlas: The More-than-Human Anthropocene *“Ethnography #9 is not about Islam, but the book, the ethnography, the ethnographer, the possessed writer, and the haunted reader are all confronted by Islam in the very first instance, by its potential, its catastrophe, its capacities, and its ghosts.... Klima’s approach is meditative, soulful.” -- Tanzeen Rashed Doha * Milestones *“Klima’s brilliant, fantastically moving and seriously haunting book...[is] not just a book about numbers.... His is, in sum, the story of an uncertain present.” -- Gil Anidjar * Milestones *“Ethnography #9 is, among so many things, a book about media, mediums, and mediation.... But where media scholars might talk about television as a window on the world, or about how media disrupts geography by binding near and far, Klima guides our attention to something else...a gothic ethnography of the screen.” -- Erica Robles-Anderson * Milestones *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii 1. The Ghost Manifesto 1 2. World Gothic 46 3. Betting on the Real 65 4. Prove It 88 5. Regendered Debt 95 6. Men and Our Money 101 7. The Godfathers 114 8. It Has All Happened Before 124 9. The Return of the Dead 132 10. Reversing the Mount 140 11. Deterritory 145 12. Everywhere and Nowhere 149 13. The End of the World 157 14. Fossil 165 Notes 171 Bibliography 177 Index 181

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Book SynopsisGabriella Lukács traces how young Japanese women's unpaid labor as bloggers, net idols, girly photographers, online traders, and cell phone novelists was central to the development of Japan's digital economy in the 1990s and 2000s.Trade Review“Addressing crucial issues for our time, Gabriella Lukács brings an ethnographic perspective to young Japanese women who aspire to lucrative careers in day trading and beyond. Through a writing style filled with warmth and empathy, she portrays how these women often face disappointment in their entrepreneurial endeavors, and analyzes how these women's desires for better careers can sometimes be self-defeating. A deeply insightful and thought-provoking book.” -- Ian Condry, author of * The Soul of Anime: Collaborative Creativity and Japan’s Media Success Story *“Stunningly powerful, Invisibility by Design tracks the movement of young Japanese women into the digital economy where, ‘seduced’ into imagining its possibilities for meaningful work, most found instead that they labored too hard for little pay-off or gendered advancement. Indicting the capitalism that drove digital economy's rapid expansion in 2000s Japan by exploiting and invisibilizing women's affective labor, Gabriella Lukács has given us a book that is at once theoretically profound and ethnographically dense, dancing through the stories of women bloggers, net idols, 'girly' photographers, amateur traders, and cell phone novelists. A rich tour de force!” -- Anne Allison, author of * Precarious Japan *“This book is valuable for what it tells us about how some women, by moving into digital careers, have tried to resist the discrimination and restrictions of Japan’s gendered labor market.... It is also a welcome contribution to our understanding of how capitalism operates in the digital age.” -- Kaye Broadbent * Journal of Japanese Studies *“Gabriella Lukács’s stunning new book, Invisibility by Design, examines online spaces that promise opportunities for women in particular.... Although the dynamics described within it focus on Japan, this book will be of interest to scholars working in many fields, including gender studies, labor, and communications.” -- Allison Alexy * Journal of Asian Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. Labor and Gender in Japan's Digital Economy 1 1. Disidentifications: Women, Photography, and Everyday Patriarchy 30 2. The Labor of Cute: Net Idols in the Digital Economy 57 3. Career Porn: Blogging and the Good Life 81 4. Working without Sweating: Amateur Traders and the Financialization of Daily Life 106 5. Dreamwork: Cell Phone Novelists, Affective Labor, and Precarity Politics 132 Epilogue. Digital Labor, Labor Precarity, and Basic Income 155 Notes 167 References 207 Index 225

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