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Book SynopsisKyung Hyun Kim considers the recent global success of Korean popular culture—the Korean wave of pop music, cinema, and television also known as hallyu—from a transnational and transcultural perspective.Trade Review“Hegemonic Mimicry presents a much-needed update on today's South Korean pop culture—one of the most fascinating epicenters of global cultural flows. Offering a probing insight into a wide spectrum of media productions, it is bound to be a must-read for those hoping to capture the symptomatic signs of the new millennium.” -- Suk-Young Kim, author of * K-Pop Live: Fans, Idols, and Multimedia Performance *“Hegemonic Mimicry provides insightful, critical analyses of Korean cultural products explored through a variety of lenses: national identity, transnationalism, convergence, social class, Confucianism, simulacra, and cynicism. Unlike many previous studies, Kyung Hyun Kim's book is very effective in theorizing developments in hallyu and its global proliferation. Anyone interested in contemporary Korean culture will learn a lot from this book and enjoy Kim's ability to connect ideas and events in brilliant new ways.” -- Roald Maliangkay, author of * Broken Voices: Postcolonial Entanglements and the Preservation of Korea’s Central Folksong Traditions *“Hegemonic Mimicry is an impressive volume that outlines the reasons behind the recent global success of South Korean popular culture.... Kim’s erudition is considerable, something to be expected given his two earlier well-received monographs.” -- Keith Howard * Asian Studies Review *"Hegemonic Mimicry is a valuable and significant contribution to the literature on Korean popular culture studies by introducing the concept of ‘hegemonic mimicry’ in detail and approaching Korean popular culture in an interdisciplinary way. This feature of the book will attract scholars from various academic disciplines as well as university students from different backgrounds." -- Beyza Dogan * LSE Review of Books *“This book and its central premise will go far. Kim’s concept of and coinage of the term hegemonic mimicry alone will no doubt appear in countless essays, book chapters and discussions of South Korean popular culture. . . . Kim is the real deal, a genuine intellect and the book successfully captures the author’s voice and it is filled with insight that will be of interest to both cinema scholars and those who study Asian popular culture.” -- Robert Hyland * Asian Cinema *"Hegemonic Mimicry is a critical addition to Korean popular culture studies literature and will surely be an essential foundation for future studies." -- Jung-Min Mina Lee * Journal of Asian Studies *"A timely response to the explosive demand for a textbook that provides both historical and theoretical frameworks to analyze the global popularity of contemporary South Korean popular culture, including K-pop music, cinema, television, and online subcultures." -- Soyi Kim * Cultural Critique *"Hegemonic Mimicry is a timely book that provides an updated overview of Korean popular culture. ... [It] offers readers an insightful perspective on the media we consume every day." -- Sojeong Park * Korean Studies *Table of ContentsPreface: Writing Pop Culture in the Time of Pandemic ix Introduction: Of Mimicry and Miguk 1 1. Short History of K-Pop, K-Cinema, and K-Television 35 2. The Souls of Korean Folk in the Era of Hip-Hop 85 3. Dividuated Cinema: Temporality and Body in the Overwired Age 118 4. Running Man: The Korean Television Variety Program and Affect Confucianism 140 5. The Virtual Feast: Mukbang, Con-Man Comedy, and the Post-Traumatic Family in Extreme Job (2019) and Parasite (2019) 164 6. Korean Meme-icry: Samsung and K-Pop 195 7. Reading Muhan Dojon through the Madanggǔk 220 Notes 237 Bibliography 273 Index 289

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Book SynopsisCan a history of cure be more than a history of how disease comes to an end? In 1950s Madras, an international team of researchers demonstrated that antibiotics were effective in treating tuberculosis. But just half a century later, reports out of Mumbai stoked fears about the spread of totally drug-resistant strains of the disease. Had the curable become incurable? Through an anthropological history of tuberculosis treatment in India, Bharat Jayram Venkat examines what it means to be cured, and what it means for a cure to come undone. At the Limits of Cure tells a story that stretches from the colonial period—a time of sanatoria, travel cures, and gold therapy—into a postcolonial present marked by antibiotic miracles and their failures. Venkat juxtaposes the unraveling of cure across a variety of sites: in idyllic hill stations and crowded prisons, aboard ships and on the battlefield, and through research trials and clinical encounters. If cure is frequently taken aTrade Review“How does one narrate a story of endings? At the Limits of Cure chronicles the fantasies of ending tuberculosis and the end of disease itself. Tying evocative histories of science to nuanced ethnography, Bharat Jayram Venkat reveals the attachments to curative reason that bind the clinic, the nation, and the globe. This electric and stunningly original book is infused with curiosity.” -- Harris Solomon, author of * Metabolic Living: Food, Fat, and the Absorption of Illness in India *“At the Limits of Cure is a work of art. Its medium includes historical and biographical narrative, medical journals, mythology, film, literature, and the keenest of ethnography. Thinking cure this carefully—not as an object, but as a desire and praxis—proves to be both a magical and a melancholic endeavor, riven with failures, false starts, and incurable imagination. Readers, specialists, and dreamers in cultural and medical anthropology, South Asian studies, and science and technology studies will love this highly original book.” -- Naisargi N. Dave, author of * Queer Activism in India: A Story in the Anthropology of Ethics *“This superbly written book weaves together a remarkable tale of tuberculosis in India. It is at once a transnational history of medical science and technology, an ethnohistory of the experience of disease, an ethnography of medicine, a history of India through the lens of public health, and, at its core, a compelling discussion of the complex, cultural discourse on the concept of 'cure,' not only in the history of medicine, but in the desires of doctors and governments, the self-understanding of patients, and even in Hindu mythology.” -- Joseph W. Elder Prize Committee“Venkat invites readers on an in-depth journey into the history of tuberculosis in India. [At the Limits of Cure] provides an excellent introduction to the field of medical anthropology. Highly recommended. All readers.” -- I. Glasser * Choice *“Venkat’s storytelling is absorbing. He appears a writer who finds joy in crafting prose, sometimes imbuing it with a playfulness that lands most aptly. . . . This is a meticulously crafted book, but it is nowhere stilted or overworked. It performs deep conceptual labor with a jargon-free lightness of touch that academic writing would do well to emulate.” -- Zahra Hayat * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *“An important consideration of At the Limits of Cure is rethinking what the end-goal of cure is. Is it the absolute removal of illness? Venkat suggests not, and that the possibilities available to us for cures exist within the realms of what we, individually and communally, desire of them.” -- Linda Hamrick * Synapsis *"Venkat argues that the imaginations of cure often dictate and shape the narratives of disease. Cure narratives are pluralistic, varied, and have the power to challenge the seeming homogeneity and universality claimed by colonial histories of disease and cure. . . . The narrative of cure, as the author argues, is more than a history of how disease comes to an end." -- Anandita Pan * Contemporary South Asia *"At the Limits of Cure brings a fresh perspective to a much-discussed disease and in the process transforms what we know about cure and chronicity in the history and anthropology of modern biomedicine. . . . For its methodological creativity with archival sources, attentive ethnography, and engrossing writing, the book will be a great choice in undergraduate and graduate classrooms." -- Koyna Tomar * ISIS *"At the Limits of Cure . . . is a masterclass in thinking with, and through stories. The book is rife with interruptions and twists and turns. Digressions happen. Lines are drawn and followed. Paths break. . . . Just like cures, stories have to be imagined otherwise: without absolute endings and without the power to explain—or narrate—away the messiness of the life they stage." -- Vincent Duclos * American Anthropologist *“Venkat expertly weaves archival methods of the historian and ethnographic fieldwork of the anthropologist to tell a powerful story. . . . As we are coming to a new stage in the global pandemic, this book can contribute to important conversations about our own approaches to cure.” -- Gourav Krishna Nandi * H-Sci-Med-Tech, H-Net Reviews *"[At the Limits of Cure] is a feminist history of disease, a social ethnography of clinical encounters, and a cinematic critical fabulation of the sanatorium. . . . This book will be a foundational text for graduate students wrestling with social histories of disease and the social life of historical actors." -- Lan A. Li * Asian Medicine *Venkat is at heart a storyteller, and the book is a sensitive interplay of the scientific and the personal as he makes the people and the drama come alive, never losing sight of the human perspective of suffering, however dry the archive . . . this is a significant book, deserving of attention by those interested in the South Asian context and in thinking about the conceptual issues of cure and chronic illness more widely." -- Catriona Ellis * Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences *"Venkat offers meticulously argued insights into cure as a concept, employing a diverse array of methods including archival research, literary and film analysis, and ethnography . . . In what is certainly one of the major highlights of the book, Venkat pens a mesmerising narrative of this history by donning the hat of a novel-writer and making the reader the subject of his description of life in a Shimla sanatorium . . . Thinking about cure through its limits is an invaluable and wonderfully fresh idea." -- Kiran Kumbhar * Contributions to Indian Sociology *Table of ContentsPreface ix Introduction. The Incurability of Fantasy 1 1. To Cure an Earthquake 23 2. Cure Is Elsewhere 77 3. From Ash to Antibiotic 121 4. Wax and Wane 165 5. After the Romance Is Over 209 Epilogue. India after Antibiotics 249 Acknowledgments 257 Bibliography 261 Index 281

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Book SynopsisSmitha Radhakrishnan explores India's microfinance industry, showing that despite the rhetoric about improving the everyday lives of women borrowers, the practice is a commercial industry that seeks to extract the maximum value from its customers.Trade Review“Smitha Radhakrishnan's compelling and important study of women in the world of microfinance is one of the best books I've read in several years. No other book on the market features this kind of data, access, or methods of triangulation. With its clear writing, rich stories and nuance, Making Women Pay will challenge readers to think more critically about how microfinance is deeply gendered. Engaging, moving, and powerful.” -- Kimberly Kay Hoang, author of * Dealing in Desire: Asian Ascendancy, Western Decline, and the Hidden Currencies of Global Sex Work *“While the scholarship on microfinance has become increasingly nuanced over the past three decades, we still lack critical information about the very people who put microfinance into practice—namely, the loan officers, educators, and field-workers who directly interface with clients and act as brokers between clients and administration, as well as upper-level administrators. Smitha Radhakrishnan fills this critical gap, offering readers a new analysis of microfinance that takes seriously microfinance workers at all levels as social agents. Reading this book is a breath of fresh air and a true delight.” -- Erin Beck, author of * How Development Projects Persist: Everyday Negotiations with Guatemalan NGOs *"...[T]he book is fascinating and does well to showcase how markets hurt women. Recommended. Undergraduates and faculty." -- J. Bhattacharya * Choice *"Smitha Radhakrishnan combines a novelist’s eye with a sharp, feminist analysis. By sympathetically bringing to life the people she encounters in her research in southern India and the USA, she illustrates the serious underlying issues. . . Making Women Pay offers a disturbing but rewarding read." -- Deborah Eade * Gender & Development *"Compelling. . . ." -- Kevin P. Donovan * Boston Review *Table of ContentsAbbreviations and Acronyms ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 1. The Invisible State of Gender and Credit 25 2. Men and Women of the MFI 47 3. Making Women Creditworthy 70 4. Social Work 100 5. Empowerment, Declined 124 6. Distortions of Distance 148 7. Impact Revisited 177 Conclusion 197 Methodological Appendix 211 Notes 219 Bibliography 233 Index 245

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Book SynopsisIn The End of Pax Americana, Naoki Sakai focuses on U.S. hegemony''s long history in East Asia and the effects of its decline on contemporary conceptions of internationality. Engaging with themes of nationality in conjunction with internationality, the civilizational construction of differences between East and West, and empire and decolonization, Sakai focuses on the formation of a nationalism of hikikomori, or “reclusive withdrawal”—Japan’s increasingly inward-looking tendency since the late 1990s, named for the phenomenon of the nation’s young people sequestering themselves from public life. Sakai argues that the exhaustion of Pax Americana and the post--World War II international order—under which Taiwan, South Korea, Hong Kong, and China experienced rapid modernization through consumer capitalism and a media revolution—signals neither the “decline of the West” nor the rise of the East, but, rather a dislocation and decenTrade Review“This is a masterful and brilliant account of the rise and fall of the Pax Americana from the perspective of Japan and northeast Asia. Working through and beyond the pitfalls and shortcomings of area studies, Naoki Sakai opens new and often unexpected angles on racism, nationalism, and the nation form in a time of transition. There is much to learn from this book, on Japan and northeast Asia, but more generally on the world we live in.” -- Sandro Mezzadra, University of Bologna“Ranging widely across texts, languages, times (conventionally understood as the premodern and the modern), and places (typically called ‘Asia’ and ‘the West’), these essays interrogate the bordering practices of knowledge production about areas while demonstrating how rethinking modernity through Japan may enable ethically engaged and concretely situated critiques of nationalism, imperialism, racism, sexism, violence, humanism, and more across the globe. A singular and timely achievement from one of our most learned, theoretically rigorous, and profound thinkers.” -- Takashi Fujitani, author of * Race for Empire: Koreans as Japanese and Japanese as Americans during World War II *"For those who want to push area studies and Japan studies to their limits and to finally pose real problems instead of offering paltry solutions in the world of ideology, The End of Pax Americana can inspire us to theorize new problems for research in the humanities and the social sciences that not only interpret the reality of our present conjuncture but that seek to change it." -- Ken C. Kawashima * Journal of Japanese Studies *"True to the critical theory tradition, the book is sure to provoke many thoughts, especially regarding what roles Japan might play as the US-China rivalry continues to intensify." -- Yuji Maeda * Journal of Asian Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. History and Responsibility: Debates over The Showa History 37 2. From Relational Identity to Specific Identity: On Equality and Nationality 57 3. Asian Theory and European Humanity: On the Question of Anthropological Difference 91 4. "You Asians": On the Historical Role of the Binary of the West and Asia 129 5. Addressing the Multitude of Foreigners, Echoing Foucault / Naoki Sakai and John Solomon 159 6. The Loss of Empire and Inward-Looking Society 183 Part 1: Area Studies and Transpacific Complicity 183 Part 2: Empire Under Subcontract 197 Part 3: Inward-Looking Society 247 Conclusion: Shame and Decolonization 269 Appendix 1. Memorandum on Policy towards Japan / Edwin O. Reischauer 287 Appendix 2. Statement on Racism Prepared by William Haver and Naoki Sakai, March 20, 1987, in Chicago / William Haver and Naoki Sakai 291 Notes 295 References 329 Index 341

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Book SynopsisTania Murray Li and Pujo Semedi examine the structure and governance of contemporary palm oil plantations in Indonesia, showing how massive forms of capitalist production and control over the palm oil industry replicate colonial-style relations that undermine citizenship.Trade Review“Plantation Life is an eye-opening book on many fronts. It offers up an ethnographically and historically rich account of forms of life in Indonesia's corporate plantation zone and has much to give about method, collaboration, and evidence. Tania Murray Li and Pujo Semedi show how the plantation is a presence both fickle and contradictory, at once an occupying force and a source of neglect: occupation and abandonment, order and disorder, theft and calculability, alignment and fracture all coexist in a rough-and-tumble assemblage in which political economy and technologies of power are simultaneously in play. An important book.” -- Michael Watts, Class of '63 Professor, University of California, Berkeley“Palm oil is one of the most ubiquitous ingredients in consumer products in industrialized countries and the principal driver of landscape transformation in the Indo-Malay tropics. This, the first ethnography of oil palm plantations, convincingly demonstrates that they neither achieve their purported goal of modernizing the rural peasantry nor---remarkably---make money for the corporations involved, a paradox and perversity of modern capitalism. This is a must-read for everyone interested in tropical peoples and environments and the impact on them of consumerism in the global North.” -- Michael R. Dove, author of * Bitter Shade: The Ecological Challenge of Human Consciousness *"A useful primer on oil palm plantations in Indonesia but even more useful for illustrating how ethnographic research can be carried out across borders and languages. Recommended. Undergraduates and two-year program students. Recommended. Undergraduates and two-year program students." -- Z. McLaughlin * Choice *“Rather than the typical colonial pattern of the local Indonesian collecting the data but having little involvement in the analysis or writing, [Plantation Life] involved the constitution of a real partnership in all aspects of the work. . . . Plantation Life represents an important contribution to the literature . . . and has a lot of potential for class adoption.” -- Ian G. Baird * Antipode *“Plantation Life is a pathbreaking book. Its approach to corporate presence as a state-licensed form of occupation represents an advance in the understanding of the forms of violence that emerge in plantation zones. . . . Since the authors critically engaged in joint research and writing, the book also sets the parameters for future developments in the practice of scholarly collaboration.” -- Miryam Nacimento * Journal of Peasant Studies *"Plantation Life stands out with its powerful combination of the depth of intensive ethnographic study and the refreshing conceptualization of corporate occupation and its 'world-making' consequences. Furthermore, for a book written with academic rigour, the flowing storytelling makes it easy to read for everyone." -- Shofwan Al Banna Choiruzzad * Pacific Affairs *Table of ContentsPreface vii Introduction 1 1. Establishing Plantations 29 2. Holding Workers 59 3. Fragile Plots 90 4. Forms of Life 122 5. Corporate Presence 158 Conclusion 185 Appendix. Collaborative Practices 193 Notes 199 Bibliography 219 Index 239

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Book SynopsisControversy over the medicinal uses of wild animals in China has erupted around the ethics and efficacy of animal-based drugs, the devastating effect of animal farming on wildlife conservation, and the propensity of these practices to foster zoonotic diseases. In Mao''s Bestiary, Liz P. Y. Chee traces the history of the use of medicinal animals in modern China. While animal parts and tissue have been used in Chinese medicine for centuries, Chee demonstrates that the early Communist state expanded and systematized their production and use to compensate for drug shortages, generate foreign investment in high-end animal medicines, and facilitate an ideological shift toward legitimating folk medicines. Among other topics, Chee investigates the craze for chicken blood therapy during the Cultural Revolution, the origins of deer antler farming under Mao and bear bile farming under Deng, and the crucial influence of the Soviet Union and North Korea on Chinese zootherapies. In the procesTrade Review“Mao's Bestiary is a brilliant revisionary cultural history, and a pioneering work on animals. Liz P. Y. Chee has written a book that is more than just a historical study; it contributes to current political debates within China as well as globally. This will be a wonderful book to teach, not only in classes on contemporary China, but also on ethnography, history, social theory, environment and sustainability, and science studies.” -- Michael M. J. Fischer, author of * Anthropology in the Meantime: Experimental Ethnography, Theory, and Method for the Twenty-First Cent *“What a daring endeavor indeed to tackle the question that many have asked with urgency even before Covid-19: Why do Chinese people use parts of wild animals for health benefits? Uncovering the little-known creation of an animal drug industry in Mao’s China, which involved surprising actors from around the globe, Liz P. Y. Chee’s groundbreaking book exemplifies how history at its best can address our deep concern about animals and the troubled world we share with them.” -- Sean Hsiang-lin Lei, author of * Neither Donkey nor Horse: Medicine in the Struggle over China’s Modernity *“Chee’s richly evidenced work enhances our understanding of the interrelationship between the state, the market and individual actors.... [Mao's Bestiary] will be a most valuable read for historians of medicine and, in particular, for those who are devoted to wildlife and biodiversity conservation and who have the propensity of fostering zoonotic diseases.” -- Yun Hu * Social History of Medicine *“Useful and timely. . . . While the tension between multispecies ethics, public health, and techno-scientific innovation is at the heart of this fascinating and accurate investigation, [Mao’s Bestiary] also raises ontological questions about the borders between humans and nonhumans.” -- Frédéric Keck * Journal of Asian Studies *“All students, scholars, and practitioners of Chinese medicine need to read this book. . . . Additionally, anyone interested in China, including a general audience, will gain insight into the ways that supposed traditional Chinese practices have often been reconstituted for purposes other than therapy.” -- James Flowers * Asian Ethnology *“Mao’s Bestiary is the first comprehensive inquiry into the historical position and significance of animal-based drugs in modern Chinese medicine. At a time when the field of modern Chinese history, PRC history in particular, is grappling with limited access to local archives and travel restrictions, this book is an exemplary work that shows how China scholars can produce inspirational work even under unfavourable conditions.” -- Jongsik Christian Yi * History *“Mao’s Bestiary is a timely contribution to the scholarly exploration of the human-animal relations in the People’s Republic of China. . . . The book is a valuable source of information for policy scholars, wildlife activists, teachers and students in disciplines such as East Asian politics and culture, animal studies and wildlife conservation.” -- Peter J. Li * Animal Studies Journal *“Shedding light on the pharmaceutical industry in Asia, [Mao’s Bestiary] contributes to an important historiographical transition in the history of medicine and is worth the attention of historians, anthropologists and sociologists interested in this field.” -- Yang Li * The China Quarterly *“Mistaking the pharmacological exploitation of animals for something intrinsic to Chinese culture reinforces anti-Chinese prejudice and impedes reform. . . . By correcting this impression, Mao’s Bestiary benefits us all: historians, practitioners, activists, policy-makers–and caged bears too.” -- Hilary A. Smith * Bulletin of the History of Medicine *"In her remarkable history of the medicalisation of animal-derived components in Chinese medicine over the course of the second part of the twentieth century, Liz Chee constructs a subtle, incisive and often surprising account of pharmaceutical and medical reasoning, while complicating commonly held oppositional narratives that pit ‘Western biomedicine’ against other medical traditions, traditional Chinese medicine among them." -- Tatiana Chudakova * Inner Asia *"The breadth of these sources alone commends this very thorough and fascinating study. I strongly recommend Mao’s Bestiary to Sinologists, medical historians, animal studies scholars, and Chinese medicine practitioners interested in the history of the use of animal bodies in medical contexts. However, this book is very accessible to the non-specialist and thus would be of relevance to anyone who has a general interest in twentieth-century Chinese history and Chinese medicine." -- Scott Hurley * Pacific Affairs *"Mao’s Bestiary is an innovative and exciting look at a completely different side of traditional Chinese medicine far removed from the clinic or the hospital. . . . The book makes an important contribution to animal studies, science and technology studies, and history of medicine in China. Finally, Mao’s Bestiary is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the real anthropogenic ecology of 'wild' animals in China and their viral risks in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic." -- Lyle Fearnley * Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences *"It provides nothing less than the first in-depth study of the transformation of Chinese medicine(s) into a modern pharmaceutical industry, which alone makes this book a must-read for anyone with a serious interest in Chinese medicine. . . . Mao’s Bestiary is written in an accessible and engaging style making it well suited for teaching undergraduate students, while its originality and analytical strength ensures that it will become a standard reference in scholarship on Chinese medicine and Asian medicines more broadly." -- Stephan Kloos * East Asian Science, Technology and Society *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. "Abandon Chinese Medicine, Retain Chinese Drugs": Creating a State Pharmaceutical Sector 27 2. "To Learn from the Soviet Union": Russian Influence on Chinese Pharmaceuticals 53 3. The Great Leap Forward and the Rise of Medicinal Animal Farming 71 4. The Quest for Innovation: Folk Remedies and Animal Therapies 99 5. "Economic Animals": Deng's Reforms and the Rise of Bear Farming 139 Conclusion 161 Notes 173 Glossary 225 Bibliography 229 Index 265

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Book SynopsisLaurence Coderre explores the material culture of the Chinese Cultural Revolution to show how it paved the way for rampant commodification and consumption in contemporary China.Trade Review“Laurence Coderre takes ordinary objects from everyday life to create extraordinary insights into the Mao era and China today. Her book is a true tour de force in contemporary Chinese studies.” -- Paul Clark, author of * Youth Culture in China: From Red Guards to Netizens *“Laurence Coderre's serious engagement with theories of materiality rooted in deeply historicized practices, relations, and things provides a politically powerful rethinking of Marxism, culture, and materiality. This superb book will be of immense interest not only to scholars in Chinese studies and Asian studies, but also to those in cultural studies, visual and material culture, sound studies, comparative socialism, Cold War studies, and Marxism.” -- Tina Mai Chen, coeditor of * The Material of World History *“Newborn Socialist Things is a tour de force: fascinating, inspiring, and challenging. It is a must-read for anyone interested in socialist (and postsocialist) China, its material culture, and its materiality.” -- Jennifer Altehenger * Journal of Asian Studies *“Brilliant and pathbreaking.” -- Michael Dutton * The China Quarterly *"Well written and engaging. . . . Newborn Socialist Things is an accomplished, meticulously researched, and fascinating book that will be of interest to scholars of all forms of cultural production in Mao-era China." -- Amy Jane Barnes * Pacific Affairs *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. The Sonic Imaginary 27 2. Selling Revolution 54 3. Productivist Display 82 4. Illuminating the Commodity Fetish 112 5. Remediating the Hero 139 6. The Model in the Mirror 170 Coda 190 Notes 197 Bibliography 221 Index 241

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Book SynopsisThe contributors to Healing at the Periphery examine Sowa Rigpa, or Tibetan medicine, and the central part practitioners of Tibetan healing known as amchis play in Indian Himalayan communities and the exile Tibetan community.Trade Review“These wonderfully detailed ethnographic studies look at ‘Tibetan Medicine’ from the peripheries and the grass roots of Indian Himalayan regions. A diverse and populous amchi medicine is here revealed as plural, embedded in communities and in history, and much valued by sick and healthy people alike. This volume promises to completely recast and thoroughly pluralize Tibetan studies and Asian medical history.” -- Judith Farquhar, Professor Emerita of Anthropology, University of ChicagoTable of ContentsIntroduction. The Indian Face of Sowa Rigpa / Stephan Kloos and Laurent Pordié 1 1. The Amchi as Villager: Status and Its Refusal in Ladakh / Fernanda Pirie 23 2. Good Medicines, Bad Hearts: The Social Role of the Amchi in a Buddhist Dard Community / Stephan Kloos 41 3. Where There is No Amchi: Tibetan Medicine and Rural-Urban Migration Among Nomadic Pastoralists in Ladakh / Calum Blaikie 65 4. The Monetarization of Tibetan Medicine: An Ethnography of Village-Based Development Activities in Lingshed / Florian Besch and Isabelle Guérin 95 5. The Amchi at the Margins: Notes on Childbirth Practices in Ladakh / Laurent Pordié and Pascale Hancart Petitet 119 6. A Case of Wind Disorder: The Interplay of Amchi Medicine and Ritual Treatments in Zangskar / Kim Gutschow 143 7. Allegiance to Whose Community? Effects of Men-Tsee-Khang Policies on the Role of Amchi in the Darjeeling Hills / Barbara Gerke 171 Afterword. When "Periphery" Becomes Central / Sienna R. Craig 197 Contributors 201 Index 205

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Book SynopsisKyung Hyun Kim considers the recent global success of Korean popular culturethe Korean wave of pop music, cinema, and television also known as hallyufrom a transnational and transcultural perspective.Trade Review“Hegemonic Mimicry presents a much-needed update on today's South Korean pop culture—one of the most fascinating epicenters of global cultural flows. Offering a probing insight into a wide spectrum of media productions, it is bound to be a must-read for those hoping to capture the symptomatic signs of the new millennium.” -- Suk-Young Kim, author of * K-Pop Live: Fans, Idols, and Multimedia Performance *“Hegemonic Mimicry provides insightful, critical analyses of Korean cultural products explored through a variety of lenses: national identity, transnationalism, convergence, social class, Confucianism, simulacra, and cynicism. Unlike many previous studies, Kyung Hyun Kim's book is very effective in theorizing developments in hallyu and its global proliferation. Anyone interested in contemporary Korean culture will learn a lot from this book and enjoy Kim's ability to connect ideas and events in brilliant new ways.” -- Roald Maliangkay, author of * Broken Voices: Postcolonial Entanglements and the Preservation of Korea’s Central Folksong Traditions *“Hegemonic Mimicry is an impressive volume that outlines the reasons behind the recent global success of South Korean popular culture.... Kim’s erudition is considerable, something to be expected given his two earlier well-received monographs.” -- Keith Howard * Asian Studies Review *"Hegemonic Mimicry is a valuable and significant contribution to the literature on Korean popular culture studies by introducing the concept of ‘hegemonic mimicry’ in detail and approaching Korean popular culture in an interdisciplinary way. This feature of the book will attract scholars from various academic disciplines as well as university students from different backgrounds." -- Beyza Dogan * LSE Review of Books *“This book and its central premise will go far. Kim’s concept of and coinage of the term hegemonic mimicry alone will no doubt appear in countless essays, book chapters and discussions of South Korean popular culture. . . . Kim is the real deal, a genuine intellect and the book successfully captures the author’s voice and it is filled with insight that will be of interest to both cinema scholars and those who study Asian popular culture.” -- Robert Hyland * Asian Cinema *"Hegemonic Mimicry is a critical addition to Korean popular culture studies literature and will surely be an essential foundation for future studies." -- Jung-Min Mina Lee * Journal of Asian Studies *"A timely response to the explosive demand for a textbook that provides both historical and theoretical frameworks to analyze the global popularity of contemporary South Korean popular culture, including K-pop music, cinema, television, and online subcultures." -- Soyi Kim * Cultural Critique *"Hegemonic Mimicry is a timely book that provides an updated overview of Korean popular culture. ... [It] offers readers an insightful perspective on the media we consume every day." -- Sojeong Park * Korean Studies *Table of ContentsPreface: Writing Pop Culture in the Time of Pandemic ix Introduction: Of Mimicry and Miguk 1 1. Short History of K-Pop, K-Cinema, and K-Television 35 2. The Souls of Korean Folk in the Era of Hip-Hop 85 3. Dividuated Cinema: Temporality and Body in the Overwired Age 118 4. Running Man: The Korean Television Variety Program and Affect Confucianism 140 5. The Virtual Feast: Mukbang, Con-Man Comedy, and the Post-Traumatic Family in Extreme Job (2019) and Parasite (2019) 164 6. Korean Meme-icry: Samsung and K-Pop 195 7. Reading Muhan Dojon through the Madanggǔk 220 Notes 237 Bibliography 273 Index 289

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Book SynopsisSmitha Radhakrishnan explores India's microfinance industry, showing that despite the rhetoric about improving the everyday lives of women borrowers, the practice is a commercial industry that seeks to extract the maximum value from its customers.Trade Review“Smitha Radhakrishnan's compelling and important study of women in the world of microfinance is one of the best books I've read in several years. No other book on the market features this kind of data, access, or methods of triangulation. With its clear writing, rich stories and nuance, Making Women Pay will challenge readers to think more critically about how microfinance is deeply gendered. Engaging, moving, and powerful.” -- Kimberly Kay Hoang, author of * Dealing in Desire: Asian Ascendancy, Western Decline, and the Hidden Currencies of Global Sex Work *“While the scholarship on microfinance has become increasingly nuanced over the past three decades, we still lack critical information about the very people who put microfinance into practice—namely, the loan officers, educators, and field-workers who directly interface with clients and act as brokers between clients and administration, as well as upper-level administrators. Smitha Radhakrishnan fills this critical gap, offering readers a new analysis of microfinance that takes seriously microfinance workers at all levels as social agents. Reading this book is a breath of fresh air and a true delight.” -- Erin Beck, author of * How Development Projects Persist: Everyday Negotiations with Guatemalan NGOs *"...[T]he book is fascinating and does well to showcase how markets hurt women. Recommended. Undergraduates and faculty." -- J. Bhattacharya * Choice *"Smitha Radhakrishnan combines a novelist’s eye with a sharp, feminist analysis. By sympathetically bringing to life the people she encounters in her research in southern India and the USA, she illustrates the serious underlying issues. . . Making Women Pay offers a disturbing but rewarding read." -- Deborah Eade * Gender & Development *"Compelling. . . ." -- Kevin P. Donovan * Boston Review *"Her scholarly analysis can serve as a textbook for graduate students and upper-level undergraduates, and her comprehensive bibliography offers multiple entry points to anyone interested in a deep exploration of microfinance practices." -- Nancy Nyland * Resources For Women And Gender Studies *Table of ContentsAbbreviations and Acronyms ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 1. The Invisible State of Gender and Credit 25 2. Men and Women of the MFI 47 3. Making Women Creditworthy 70 4. Social Work 100 5. Empowerment, Declined 124 6. Distortions of Distance 148 7. Impact Revisited 177 Conclusion 197 Methodological Appendix 211 Notes 219 Bibliography 233 Index 245

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Book SynopsisIn The End of Pax Americana, Naoki Sakai focuses on U.S. hegemony''s long history in East Asia and the effects of its decline on contemporary conceptions of internationality. Engaging with themes of nationality in conjunction with internationality, the civilizational construction of differences between East and West, and empire and decolonization, Sakai focuses on the formation of a nationalism of hikikomori, or “reclusive withdrawal”—Japan’s increasingly inward-looking tendency since the late 1990s, named for the phenomenon of the nation’s young people sequestering themselves from public life. Sakai argues that the exhaustion of Pax Americana and the post--World War II international order—under which Taiwan, South Korea, Hong Kong, and China experienced rapid modernization through consumer capitalism and a media revolution—signals neither the “decline of the West” nor the rise of the East, but, rather a dislocation and decenTrade Review“This is a masterful and brilliant account of the rise and fall of the Pax Americana from the perspective of Japan and northeast Asia. Working through and beyond the pitfalls and shortcomings of area studies, Naoki Sakai opens new and often unexpected angles on racism, nationalism, and the nation form in a time of transition. There is much to learn from this book, on Japan and northeast Asia, but more generally on the world we live in.” -- Sandro Mezzadra, University of Bologna“Ranging widely across texts, languages, times (conventionally understood as the premodern and the modern), and places (typically called ‘Asia’ and ‘the West’), these essays interrogate the bordering practices of knowledge production about areas while demonstrating how rethinking modernity through Japan may enable ethically engaged and concretely situated critiques of nationalism, imperialism, racism, sexism, violence, humanism, and more across the globe. A singular and timely achievement from one of our most learned, theoretically rigorous, and profound thinkers.” -- Takashi Fujitani, author of * Race for Empire: Koreans as Japanese and Japanese as Americans during World War II *"For those who want to push area studies and Japan studies to their limits and to finally pose real problems instead of offering paltry solutions in the world of ideology, The End of Pax Americana can inspire us to theorize new problems for research in the humanities and the social sciences that not only interpret the reality of our present conjuncture but that seek to change it." -- Ken C. Kawashima * Journal of Japanese Studies *"True to the critical theory tradition, the book is sure to provoke many thoughts, especially regarding what roles Japan might play as the US-China rivalry continues to intensify." -- Yuji Maeda * Journal of Asian Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. History and Responsibility: Debates over The Showa History 37 2. From Relational Identity to Specific Identity: On Equality and Nationality 57 3. Asian Theory and European Humanity: On the Question of Anthropological Difference 91 4. "You Asians": On the Historical Role of the Binary of the West and Asia 129 5. Addressing the Multitude of Foreigners, Echoing Foucault / Naoki Sakai and John Solomon 159 6. The Loss of Empire and Inward-Looking Society 183 Part 1: Area Studies and Transpacific Complicity 183 Part 2: Empire Under Subcontract 197 Part 3: Inward-Looking Society 247 Conclusion: Shame and Decolonization 269 Appendix 1. Memorandum on Policy towards Japan / Edwin O. Reischauer 287 Appendix 2. Statement on Racism Prepared by William Haver and Naoki Sakai, March 20, 1987, in Chicago / William Haver and Naoki Sakai 291 Notes 295 References 329 Index 341

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Book SynopsisFran Martin explores how young Chinese women negotiate competing pressures on their identity while studying abroad, between expectations of fulfilling traditional roles as wife and mother versus becoming highly educated and cosmopolitan career-oriented individuals.Trade Review“Fran Martin describes with great sensitivity and empathy how it feels to be a ‘Chinese international student’ in a Western metropolis and how their ‘dreams of flight’—away from the strictures of neotraditional femininity and toward an aspired mobile, cosmopolitan self—must navigate the impositions of family, gender, race, and nation. In a time of rising tensions between China and the West, Dreams of Flight reminds us of the human ordinariness and heterogeneity of people who are all-too-easily homogenized and ostracized as ‘the Chinese.’” -- Ien Ang, author of * On Not Speaking Chinese: Living between Asia and the West *“Dreams of Flight exemplifies the best in theoretically engaged ethnography. It tells the stories of the research participants in a beautiful, lyrical way while making nuanced and sophisticated theoretical arguments based on their experiences. It also offers a deeper understanding of Chinese students in Australia, a country that is understudied in the literature on transnational Chinese students, most of which focuses on the United States and the United Kingdom. Specialists in China studies, migration studies, international education, anthropology, and sociology will all welcome this outstanding work.” -- Vanessa L. Fong, author of * Paradise Redefined: Transnational Chinese Students and the Quest for Flexible Citizenship in the Developed World *"[Martin's] offers a unique blend of ethnographic observation, individual narrative, and theoretical considerations and is an excellent addition to the field of gender studies and the study of educational mobility." -- Zeyi Liu * Journal of International Women's Studies *"This remarkable book provides a rare deep dive into the lives of a group of people who are often the subject of unfounded stereotypes and misunderstanding. . . . Very seldom do we have the opportunity to hear from Chinese students themselves about their lives, experiences, and worldviews. . . . This book provides a deep sense of the complexities and contradictions inherent in transnational mobility, showing us the dangers of simple narratives, and most of all, allowing the everyday humanity of Chinese students to shine through." -- Christina Ho * Pacific Affairs *"Dreams of Flight is an invaluable resource for scholars, advanced undergraduates, and graduate students seeking a comparison or contrast to these present circumstances, a pleasurable and informative ethnography, and stimulating discussions of its themes and relevant theories." -- Arianne M. Gaetano * Feminist Encounters *"Dreams of Flight needs to be read as an incredibly rich and rewarding contribution to the understanding of the increasing entanglement of international education with migration trajectories. . . . Dreams of Flight will prove invaluable for scholars who are seeking to understand their interlocutors’ trajectories from the perspective of both home and host country as they navigate multiple alliances, expectations and dreams." -- Fran Martin * Journal of Development Studies *Table of ContentsPreface: After Mobility? ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction: Worlds in Motion 1 1. Before Study: Dreams of Flight 35 2. Place: Welcome to Melvillage 57 3. Media: Connection and Encapsulation 97 4. Work: Emplacement, Mobility, and Value 128 5. Sexuality: Liminal Times 161 6. Faith: Spirits of Movement 190 7. Patriotism: Feeling Global Chineseness 215 8. After Study: Moving On, Moving Up, Moving Out 247 Conclusion: Unsettled Dreams 279 Notes 297 Works Cited 311 Index 347

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Book SynopsisIn Terror Capitalism anthropologist Darren Byler theorizes the contemporary Chinese colonization of the Uyghur Muslim minority group in the northwest autonomous region of Xinjiang. He shows that the mass detention of over one million Uyghurs in “reeducation camps” is part of processes of resource extraction in Uyghur lands that have led to what he calls terror capitalism—a configuration of ethnoracialization, surveillance, and mass detention that in this case promotes settler colonialism. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in the regional capital Ürümchi, Byler shows how media infrastructures, the state’s enforcement of “Chinese” cultural values, and the influx of Han Chinese settlers contribute to Uyghur dispossession and their expulsion from the city. He particularly attends to the experiences of young Uyghur men—who are the primary target of state violence—and how they develop masculinities and homosocial friendships toTrade Review“Darren Byler’s Terror Capitalism provides critical insights into one of the most important and contested topics in international human rights. Drawing on an extensive archive of firsthand research, Byler gives a rich and detailed look at the persecution and cultural genocide of the Uyghur. An indispensable resource for studies in human rights, surveillance, China, Muslims, Islamophobia, capitalism, and more.” -- David Palumbo-Liu, Stanford University“Spelling out the full spectrum of what dispossession means for Uyghurs, Darren Byler offers a fine balance between political passion and scholarship as well as an important self-reflexivity about the role of an ethnographer in a context full of violence and terror. There is so little on what Uyghurs are going through, and it is vital that this information be made public. Terror Capitalism is one of the few works that bring such complex understanding to the situation in Xinjiang.” -- Lisa Rofel, Professor Emerita of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz"Remarkable ... compelling ... offers an important contribution for specialists and graduate students." -- Aidan Forth * Los Angeles Review of Books *"There are many reasons to recommend Terror Capitalism, and not least for the way it gives voice to so many different Uyghurs, a people often reduced either to an abstract entity or a lone voice of victimhood." -- Nick Holdstock * Times Literary Supplement *"Byler’s pioneering work vividly conveys the suffering that individuals experience under the regime’s policies in Xinjiang" -- Roger Garside * Literary Review of Canada *"Some of the stories Byler’s book recalls read like a scene straight out of Kafka’s The Trial. . . . The author’s attention to detail and commitment to thorough research is excellent." -- JP O'Malley * Globe and Mail *"Byler has written the definitive ethnography of the Uyghurs in the 2010s, a decade of increasing desperation." -- Chris Hann * Eurasian Geography and Economics *"Darren Byler’s ethnography is an invaluable contribution, as he provides a rare micro, ground-level view of events and Uyghur social life in the past decade. His storytelling brilliantly plugs the reader into his characters’ internal life and offers a remarkable insight into the Uyghur experience. He is also successful in his attempt to provide a refined, balanced and thorough scholarly analysis of the current crisis—with carefully chosen words and ethnographic vignettes. Byler’s book is therefore a powerful tribute to his informants, Han or Uyghur, and to all those who suffer from Beijing’s oppressive policies in the region." -- Vanessa Frangville * China Quarterly *“What Byler has so forensically and movingly described in Terror Capitalism is a techno-capitalist model of settler colonialism. If the hallmarks of settler colonialism are the expropriation of the lands/property of indigenous Others and their physical removal and replacement by a new settler society, then contemporary Xinjiang is perhaps distressingly at the leading edge of settler colonialism in the twenty first century.” -- Michael Clarke * Ethnic and Racial Studies *“Byler has in recent years emerged as one the most insightful and prolific chroniclers of the ongoing dispossession of the Uyghur community. . . . His richly theorized study provides readers access to a way of life largely invisible in Chinese state sources and infrequently represented in Uyghur official culture.” -- Joshua L. Freeman * Journal of Asian Studies *“While much of the heretofore published academic discussion of [Uyghur dispossession] revolves around its systemic elements, Byler calls on us to examine its devastating impact on a granular, personal level. Thus, the strength both of Byler’s theoretical and methodological frameworks is made clear: his dissection of the dehumanization caused by terror capitalism, enacted through detailed ethnography, implores readers to remember that resistance begins by reasserting the humanity of the oppressed.” -- David R. Stroup * PoLAR *"Terror Capitalism offers vivid personal tales as well as a fine-grained analysis of China’s intensified oppression in the region. . . . As the earlier chapters of Terror Capitalism masterfully elucidate, racial subjugation and colonization are not exclusive to China but rather are embedded in a global system; the West is complicit in and has benefited from Uyghur dispossession." -- Yangyang Cheng * The Nation *"Byler's authority is grounded in years of on-site work, and he reveals a deep knowledge of his subjects. This highly accessible narrative will interest many readers. . . . Recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty; professionals." * Choice *Table of ContentsNote on Language vii Note on Pseudonyms ix Preface xi Acknowledgments xix Introduction. What is Terror Capitalism? 1 1. Enclosure 31 2. Devaluation 61 3. Dispossession 95 4. Friendship 133 5. Minor Politics 163 6. Subtraction 189 Conclusion 221 Notes 231 References 243 Index 261

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Book SynopsisStefan Ecks explores depression and antidepressant uses in India to develop a theory of value that captures both market worth and cultural and ethical norms.Trade Review“In this fascinating, timely, and provocative new book, Stefan Ecks uses ethnographic examples of depression and the use of antidepressants in India to rethink anthropological and economic theory. Conceptually bold and empirically grounded, Living Worth upends capitalist assumptions that underpin global mental health and offers a new and vital way to think about how embodiment comes to matter.” -- Julie Livingston, author of * Self-Devouring Growth: A Planetary Parable as Told from Southern Africa *“Stefan Ecks shows us, yet again, why he is the leading theorist of globalizing minds and their pharmaceutical anodynes. In Living Worth, he takes readers on a tour de force through case studies of depression and of global psychopharmaceuticals to show how the values of brains and feelings become enmeshed with the larger values that capitalism places on currencies and commodities. The result is an absolute work of genius, and a must-read for anyone concerned about how we think and feel and the social practices and economies through which our thoughts and feelings come to matter.” -- Jonathan M. Metzl, author of * Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America’s Heartland *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Embodied Value Theory 11 2. Relative Value: Culture, Comparison, Commensurability 36 3. Never Enough: Markets in Life 57 4. Making a Difference: Corporate Social Responsibility 79 5. Pharmaceutical Citizenship, Marketing, and the Global Monoculture of Health 98 6. What Drugs Do in Different Spaces: Global Spread and Local Bubbles 117 7. Acting through Other (Prescribing) Habits 136 8. Culture, Context, and Consensus: Comparing Symptoms and Things 156 9. Generic: Distinguishing Good Similarity from Bad Similarity 175 10. Same Ills, Same Pills: Genealogies of Global Mental Health 194 11. Failed Biocommensurations: Psychiatric Crises after DSM-5 214 References 235 Index 269

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Book SynopsisVicente L. Rafael provides a complex account of how Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte uses humor, fear, misogyny, and violence to weaponize death as a means to control life.Trade Review“In this remarkable book, Vicente L. Rafael, the preeminent scholar of language, nationalism, and colonialism in the Philippines, shows how the global swing to the right crystallizes in a specific national history. Rafael eloquently shows why Rodrigo Duterte must be placed in the long history of the use of antidemocratic means to bolster electoral democracy and how the darkest coercive practices in the Philippine archive are enacted in Duterte's obscene power.” -- Arjun Appadurai, Max Weber Global Professor, Bard Graduate Center“Vicente L. Rafael brings a fierce intelligence and formidable analytical power to explain Duterte’s dark charisma and the violence at the heart of his presidency. In these probing and insightful essays, he accounts for how and why a strongman from the country’s periphery has held a nation in thrall for so long.” -- Sheila S. Coronel, Toni Stabile Professor, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism"This fascinating book seeks to explain why Rodrigo Duterte, the outgoing president of the Philippines, has been so popular despite his gruesome human-rights record, authoritarian ruling style and unapologetic vulgarity" -- Målfrid Braut-Hegghammer * Survival *"The Sovereign Trickster provides readers with an erudite, in-depth, and historically-contextualized analysis of how Duterte’s persona operates, and why it is so appealing to so many. . . . Anyone with an interest in recent Philippine history should find The Sovereign Trickster incredibly entertaining, accessible – it is a rare writer who can juxtapose Foucault and Mbembe and explain the relevance of their ideas clearly – and analytically illuminating. This is a book that grapples with serious questions of relevance to many societies, but does so with an eloquence that makes it a pleasure to read." -- Lin Hongxuan * LSE Review of Books *"The Sovereign Trickster is not just another addition to the scholarly pile on the Duterte phenomenon. Vicente Rafael's contribution is timely because it takes stock of the populist leader towards the end of his tenure. Moreover, his book successfully weaves historical analysis with contemporary multidisciplinary theories and the empirical richness derived from existing works about Duterte. The value of this compact but impressive volume is that it adds nuance to our understanding of this political maverick beyond the caricatures on offer." -- Aries A. Arugay * Contemporary Southeast Asia *"For those searching for a carefully contextualized and empirically rich account of the Duterte phenomenon, this book is essential reading. Rafael’s grasp of multidisciplinary theory, his skill in rhetoric, together with his commitment to history, make this a rare, if sometimes graphic interrogation into the charisma of a man much of the world is satisfied to label a vulgar tyrant." -- Adele Webb * Southeast Asian Studies *"By helping readers understand Duterte’s broad appeal, Vicente Rafael’s Sovereign Trickster brings to the fore a complex and nuanced account of contemporary authoritarianism in the Global South. . . . The book effectively makes every reader realize the complexities inherent in Duterte, his enablers, and his leadership style. It also helps us explain why the political opposition found it difficult to launch a viable challenge." -- Jean Encinas-Franco * Perspectives on Politics *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Prismatic Histories 1 1. Electoral Dystopias 6 Sketches I: The Dream of Benevolent Dictatorship 18 2. Marcos, Duterte, and the Predicaments of Neoliberal Citizenship 21 Sketches II: Motherland and the Biopolitics of Reproductive Health 36 3. Duterte's Phallus: On the Aesthetics of Authoritarian Vulgarity 42 Sketches III: Duterte's Hobbesian World 57 Duterte's Sense of Time60 4. The Sovereign Trickster 63 Sketches IV: Comparing Extrajudicial Killing 87 Death Squads 89 On Duterte's Matrix 94 Fecal Politics 98 5. Photography and the Biopolitics of Fear: Witnessing the Philippine Drug War 103 Conclusion. Intimacy and the Autoimmune Community 131 Notes 147 References 151 Index 169

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Book SynopsisIn Climatic Media, Yuriko Furuhata traces climate engineering from the early twentieth century to the present, emphasizing the legacies of Japan’s empire building and its Cold War alliance with the United States. Furuhata boldly expands the scope of media studies to consider technologies that chemically “condition” Earth’s atmosphere and socially “condition” the conduct of people, focusing on the attempts to monitor and modify indoor and outdoor atmospheres by Japanese scientists, technicians, architects, and artists in conjunction with their American counterparts. She charts the geopolitical contexts of what she calls climatic media by examining a range of technologies such as cloud seeding and artificial snowflakes, digital computing used for weather forecasting and weather control, cybernetics for urban planning and policing, Nakaya Fujiko’s fog sculpture, and the architectural experiments of Tange Lab and the Metabolists, who Trade Review“Climatic Media is a groundbreaking project that will have far-reaching resonances and implications across the humanities and social sciences. Given its critical rigor, deeply engaging analysis, and the wide-ranging readership it forges, Climatic Media is no doubt one of the most exciting books to mark this new decade. This is a field-changing work and a fascinating and extremely rewarding read.” -- Weihong Bao, author of * Fiery Cinema: The Emergence of an Affective Medium in China, 1915–1945 *“Yuriko Furuhata’s Climatic Media is a timely, vital, and urgent book. At a moment of extreme disaster speculation and technophilic ambitions to re-engineer both ourselves and our planet’s climate, this book offers both critique and inspiration. Tracing an alternative Japanese genealogy of climate control, Furuhata convincingly demonstrates how conditioning the climate and conditioning ourselves are joint projects. In exposing the militarized, imperial, and contested epistemologies that construct our contemporary ideas of ecology, she also opens a route by which we might envision and design alternative forms of environmental management, forms that might be more equitable, noncolonial, and diverse.” -- Orit Halpern, author of * Beautiful Data: A History of Vision and Reason since 1945 *“I came away with a newfound appreciation for the hidden nature of atmospheric management that we see but do not see every day. . . . The book is itself a fascinating contribution to science and technology studies, history of science and technology, and cultural and media theory literature, and offers a new way of imagining Japanese history.” -- Fiona C. Williamson * H-Sci-Med-Tech, H-Net Reviews *“Climatic Media sits at the intersection of media studies and the history of science and technology. Furuhata taps into a current trend by looking at climate as media. Highly Recommended.” -- P. L. Kantor * Choice *“[Climatic Media] is an important contribution to our understanding of many aspects of Japanese epistemic communities, the US-Japan alliance, and our current predicament of global warming and potential, man-made solutions. Hopefully, it will help our responses become more thoughtful.” -- Daniel P. Aldrich * Pacific Affairs *“It is the intersection of histories of technology, environmental mediation, and their geopolitical stakes that makes Furuhata’s book so interesting. It taps into such a crucial topic of discussion that it is sure to be widely read and referenced in and outside media studies.” -- Jussi Parikka * Leonardo *“[Furuhata] makes a remarkable contribution to the histories of climate in East Asia —where architecture, weather, and digital computing are reinforced as mutually interdependent discourses that continue to evolve and transform how we think about climate control.” -- Jennifer Ferng * Leonardo *“Those interested in Japanese media studies, theories of elemental/environmental media, and/or transpacific Cold War history will find much to celebrate in Climatic Media. . . . It is an important book that points the way toward a more critically minded mode of environmental scholarship that demonstrates the potentials of adopting a transpacific approach to the tracing of (often surprising) media genealogies.” -- Jon L. Pitt * Journal of Asian Studies *“Climatic Media marvels in its connections. . . . Furuhata’s bid to define climatic media and to establish the ecological and transpacific geopolitical feedback loops that ‘undergird atmospheric control as forms of air conditioning and social conditioning’ becomes a refreshing and necessary endeavor.” -- Laura Beltz Imaoka * Film Quarterly *“A timely and urgent work in our doom-laden age of climate change, [Climatic Media] encompasses not only the air-conditioning of discrete spaces and rooms but also that of climate-controlled shelters and atmospheric control on a geographic scale. . . . With ample original materials and thorough research, particularly the transpacific historical analysis, it gives several clear commentaries on the continuity of science-based technology between the Japanese imperial era and the postwar context.” -- Togo Tsukahara * Technology and Culture *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction 1 1. Outdoor Weather: Artificial Fog and Weather Control 25 2. Indoor Weather: Air-Conditioning and Future Forecasting 48 3. To the Greenhouse: Weatherproof Architecture as Climatic Media 80 4. Spaceship Earth: Plastics and the Ecological Dilemma of Metabolist Architecture 104 5. Cloud Control: Tear Gas, Cybernetics, and Networked Surveillance 133 Conclusion: Explicating the Backgrounds 166 Notes 177 Bibliography 215 Index 237

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Book SynopsisIn Dreadful Desires Charlie Yi Zhang examines how the Chinese state deploys affective notions of love to regulate the population and secure China’s place in the global economy. Zhang shows how the state frames love as a set of desires that encompass heteronormative intimacy, familial and communal attachment, upward mobility, and private property ownership. These desires—as circulated in performance in the nationalistic ceremony, same-sex romantic fan fiction, the wildly popular reality television dating show If You Are the One, and the cult of patriarchal personality around Xi Jinping—are explicitly based in oppressive systems of gender, class, and sexuality. Zhang contends that such desires connect love to economic survival and gender normativity in ways that underwrite Chinese neoliberalism at the expense of individual flourishing. By outlining how state-framed forms of love create desires that cannot be fulfilled, Zhang places China at the forefront oTrade Review“This fantastic book is an examination of the undoing of the Chinese worker under neoliberal reform through self-defeating acts of love in the name of family and sacrifice for the sake of children. With great critical insight, Zhang unpacks how the affective renunciations of disenfranchised workers shore up the interests of transnational capital and socialism with Chinese characteristics, resulting in a vertiginous race to the bottom.” -- David L. Eng, coauthor of * Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation: On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans *“Charlie Yi Zhang offers to do for love in China what Lauren Berlant, in Cruel Optimism, does for hope. He brilliantly shows how the idea of love has been sold as a means of reinforcing power dynamics that structure the lives of so many people, especially women, laborers, and rural people. Deploying a unique, interdisciplinary combination of ethnographic inquiry and media analysis, Zhang complicates the ways in which we take desire, affective worlds, and class aspirations for granted.” -- Ari Larissa Heinrich, author of * Chinese Surplus: Biopolitical Aesthetics and the Medically Commodified Body *"... this book with the author’s rich, interesting recounting of China’s political–economic traumas and ironies and his piercing critique of the party-state’s neoliberal mentality and capitalist exploitation, is of great significance and can spark further critical inspections of discourses on love and intimacy in post-2020 neoliberal China." -- William JanKowiak * China Quarterly *"Dreadful Desires paints a grim picture. After reading, one feels immersed in an atmosphere of scarred landscapes, ruined bodies, aspirations cynically manipulated and carelessly crushed by the machinery of a corrupted power. It is an immensely important book for our times." -- Fran Martin * Cultural Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Part I. Mapping the Edgeless Landscape of Love 1. Love of the Zeitgeist: Temporalized Desire in the PRC's Sixtieth-Anniversary Ceremony 35 2. Only If You Are the One! The Expansive Neoliberal Universe through Love Competitors' Eyes 60 Part II. Tracing the Machinery That Both Integrates China into and Separates It From the World 3. The Woeful Landscape of Love: Work Hard, Dream Big, and Die Slowly 97 4. Lessons from the Polarizing Love: Mapping Contradictions for Social Change 127 5. Love with an Unspeakable Name: The Exceptional Danmei World as the Escape Route 155 Conclusion. Envisioning a Love-Enabled Future 177 Notes 187 Bibliography 227 Index 255

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Book SynopsisOmar Kasmani theorizes the construction of queer social relations at Pakistan’s most important Sufi site by examining the affective and intimate relationship between the site’s pilgrims and its patron saint.Trade Review“A lyrical and moving meditation on Islamic saints, Sufi intimacies, and affective histories of contemporary Pakistan. Through encounters with fakir life stories, Omar Kasmani offers us an exquisitely written ethnography on the queerness of religion, region, and belonging. Queer Companions pulls us in, moving us toward more radical modes of the social life of the intimate.” -- Anjali Arondekar, author of * For the Record: On Sexuality and the Colonial Archive in India *“Queer Companions presents the reader with perceptive observations that illustrate how desire not only works, but worlds. How striving for saintly companionship puts certain futures within your reach, while this orientation alienates you from other normative ways of life.” -- Max Schnepf * Hypotheses *“By engaging with the ways in which fakirs in Sehwan encounter and experience affective bonds with the more-than-human and more-than-living, Kasmani ingeniously illustrates a form of queer world-making in unexpected places. For those who ruminate on questions pertaining to queerness, Islam, affective encounters with more-than-human entities, and/or religion-state relations, Queer Companions is an essential book and it will truly bloom as a companion in the time to come.” -- Febi R. Ramadhan * Reading Religion *Table of ContentsNote on Orthography ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction. On Coming Close 1 1. Infrastructures of the Imaginal 36 2. Her Stories in His Durbar 60 3. In Other Guises, Other Futures 84 4. Love in a Time of Celibacy 107 5. Worlding Fakirs, Fairies and the Dead 130 Coda. Queer Forward Slash Religion 152 Notes 165 Glossary 181 References 185 Index 201

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Book SynopsisHarris Solomon takes readers into the trauma ward of one of Mumbai’s busiest public hospitals, narrating the stories of the patients, providers, families, and frontline workers who experience and treat traumatic injury from traffic .Trade Review"Lifelines is a subtly crafted account of the tangled relations between mobility and life in the contemporary city. In that sense, it contributes to a vibrant discussion on mobility, infrastructure and urban life across South Asia and other regions of the world today. . . . The manuscript’s strengths lie in how it radiates out from its empirical focus: trauma as it moves in and through the hospital as a site of medicalised care." -- Waqas Butt * South Asia *Table of ContentsNote on Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction: The Traffic of Trauma 1 1. Carrying: The Lifelines of Transfer 27 2. Shifting: The Lifelines of Triage 53 3. Visiting: The Lifelines of Home 79 4. Tracing: The Lifelines of Identification 107Seeing: The Lifelines of Surgery 135 5. Breathing: The Lifelines of Ventilation 147 6. Dissecting: The Lifelines of Forensics 174 7. Recovering: The Lifelines of Discharge 200 Epilogue: The Traffic of Medicine 229 Notes 237 References 253 Index 277

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Book SynopsisSrila Roy traces the impact of neoliberalism on gender and sexuality rights movements in the Global South through queer and feminist activism in India.Trade Review"Changing the Subject brilliantly unpacks the different governmentalities at work in contemporary neoliberal West Bengal and within the activist and NGO world. Srila Roy shows that it is precisely within the intimate and complex interaction between processes of governance and the self that the possibility of self-making within and against dominant norms takes place." -- Catherine Rottenberg * Sociological Review *"There is no doubt that this is an important and topical book, filling a very real gap. It is provocative in its conceptualisation and therefore an extremely productive addition to multiple areas of inquiry, including neo-liberalism and social movements, queer movements, feminist fields, development studies among others. It invites one to engage with this version of the story to interrogate it and multiply the many other possible stories of this moment in the life of the feminist world-making project." -- Sneha Gole * Economic and Political Weekly *"Through her research and critique, she demonstrates powerfully a praxis against neoliberal, nationalist, and nativist logics. Srila Roy's book is a vibrant and richly ethnographic contribution to debates on political futures now." -- Bridget Kenny * Anthropology & Humanism *"Roy’s groundbreaking work, Changing the Subject, emerges as a beacon. . . . Changing the Subject offers different ways to think of feminism’s co-optation in the context of global neoliberalism by thinking of feminism’s entanglement with the forms of power, encouraging a deeper understanding of its multifaceted impact on individual transformation and societal change. . . . Thorough, meticulous ethnographic analysis reveals how feminist and queer political organizations negotiate their roles within broader power dynamics, engaging with and transforming prevailing governmentalities." -- Kiran Raveendran * Women's Studies *Table of ContentsAbbreviations ix Preface: We, Feminists xi Acknowledgments xvii Introduction. Changing the Subject of Indian Feminism 1 1. Indian Feminism in the New Millennium: Co-optation, Entanglement, Intersection 26 2. Queer Activism as Governmentality: Regulating Lesbians, Making Queer 47 3. Queer Self-Fashioning: In, out of, and beyond the Closet 77 4. Feminist Governmentality: Entangled Histories and Empowered Women 101 5. Subaltern Self-Government: Precarious Transformations 132 Conclusion. On Critique and Care 160 Notes 177 References 215 Index 243

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Book SynopsisNamhee Lee explores how social memory and neoliberal governance in post-1987 South Korea have disavowed the revolutionary politics of the past.Trade Review"Lee’s book makes a significant contribution to current literature on social memory, in particular, by demonstrating how memory becomes a tool for mass media to construct alternate narratives of history and collective memories of the past." -- Charlotte Hammond * European Journal of Korean Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Notes on Romanization and Translations xi Introduction: The Politics of Time and Neoliberal Disavowal 1 1. The Paradigm Shift from Minjung (People) to Simin (Citizen) and Neoliberal Governance 23 2. The Paradigm Shift from the Political to the Cultural and Huildam Literature 45 3. Park Chung-hee Syndrome, Mass Media, and “Culture War” 71 4. The Rise of New Right Historiography and Its Triumphalist Discourse 95 Epilogue: Politics of Time and the Poetics of Remembrance 121 Notes 137 Bibliography 177 Index 207

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Book SynopsisThe contributors to New World Orderings demonstrate that China’s twenty-first-century rise occurs not only through economics and state politics, but equally through its relationships and interactions with the Global South.Trade Review"New World Orderings is a timely contribution to the growing body of literature on the relationship between the Sinosphere and the Global South. By giving readers a glimpse into these multifaceted and evolving relationships from the ground up, readers see that these interactions are complex, nuanced, and often tell alternative stories about how communities are made, how commodities and capital travel, and how 'Chineseness' is a fundamentally ephemeral concept." -- Kelly A. Hammond * Modern Chinese Literature and Culture *"The 13 contributors, representing the arts, social sciences, and interdisciplinary studies, establish interesting connections among social, cultural, and economic worlds. . . . Recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty; professionals." -- G. A. McBeath * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction: Contact, Communication, Imagination, and Strategies of Worldmaking / Carlos Rojas and Lisa Rofel 1 Part I. Geopolitics and Discourse 1. Turning the Tables on the Global North: China, Afro-Asia, and Cold War Cultural Diplomacy / Nicolai Volland 21 2. From the Washington Consensus to the Beijing Consensus: Latin America Facing the Rise of China as a Great Power / Luciano Damián Bolinaga 38 3. Prehistories of China-Tanzania: Intermediaries, Subempires, and the Use of Abuse of Comparison / Derek Sheridan 58 4. A World Republic of Southern Letters / Ng Kim Chew 75 Part II. Labor and Exchange 5. New Livelihood Strategies and Ways of Being for African Women and Men in China's Workshop of the World / T. Tu Huynh 95 6. Prophetic Becoming: The Prosperity Doctrine in Guangzhou, China / Nellie Chu 113 7. Soy Makes Us Friends . . . or Not: Negotiating the “Chinese Landing“ in Argentina’s Contact Zone / Rachel Cypher and Lisa Rofel 131 8. Displacing Labor: China, Argentina, and the Work of Globalization / Andrea Bachner 149 Part III. Mobility and Displacement 9. Global South Frontiers: Chinese Worldmaking and Racial Imaginaries of Johannesburg / Mingwei Huang 169 10. A Cultural Cartography of the Sinophone Diaspora in Southeast Asia: The Cinema of Midi Z / Yu-Lin Lee 187 11. Writing South: Narratives of Homeland and Diaspora in Southeast Asia / Carlos Rojas 204 12. The Chinese Literary Imaginary and the Global South in Deep Time / Shuang Shen 222 Works Cited 241 Contributors 261 Index 265

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Book SynopsisThe contributors to Siting Postcoloniality reevaluate the notion of the postcolonial by focusing on the Sinosphere—the region of East and Southeast Asia that has been significantly shaped by relations with China throughout history. Pointing out that the history of imperialism in China and Southeast Asia is longer and more complex than Euro-American imperialism, the contributors complicate the traditional postcolonial binaries of center-periphery, colonizer-colonized, and developed-developing. Among other topics, they examine socialist China’s attempts to break with Soviet cultural hegemony; the postcoloniality of Taiwan as it negotiates the legacy of Japanese colonial rule; Southeast Asian and South Asian diasporic experiences of colonialism; and Hong Kong’s complex colonial experiences under the British, the Japanese, and mainland China. The contributors show how postcolonial theory’s central concepts cannot adequately explain colonialism in the SinospheTable of ContentsSeries Editor’s Preface / Carlos Rojas vii Acknowledgments xi Introduction: Situations and Limits of Postcolonial Theory / Pheng Cheah 1 Part I. Framing the Postcolonial 1. Mythmaking: The Nomos of Postcoloniality / Robert J. C. Young 33 2. On Twenty-First-Century Postcolonialism / Dai Jinhua, translated by Erebus Wong and Lisa Rofel 53 Part II. Chinese Socialist Postcoloniality 3. Who Owns Social Justice? Permanent Revolution, the Chinese Gorky, and the Postcolonial / Wendy Larson 71 4. De-Sovietization and Internationalism: The People’s Republic of China’s Alternative Modernity Project / Pang Laikwan 90 Part III. Hong Kong Postcoloniality among the British, Japanese, and Chinese Empires 5. From Manchukuo to Hong Kong: Postcolonizing Asian Colonial Experiences / Lo Kwai-Cheung 109 6. Decolonization? What Decolonization? Hong Kong’s Political Transition / Lui Tai-lok 127 7. Locating Anglophone Writing in Sinophone Hong Kong / Elaine Yee Lin Ho 148 Part IV. Taiwan Postcoloniality between Japanese and Chinese Colonialisms 8. The Slippage between Empires: The Production of the Colonized Subject in Taiwan / Lin Pei-yin 171 9. Questions of Postcolonial Agency: Two Film Examples from Taiwan / Liao Ping-hui 191 Part V. Diasporas in East and Southeast Asian Postcoloniality 10. Sinophone Geopoetics: From Postcolonialism to Postloyalism / David Der-wei Wang 213 11. Multiple Colonialisms and Their Philippine Legacies / Caroline S. Hau 232 12. Diasporic Worldliness in Postcolonial Globalization / Pheng Cheah 250 References 277 Contributors 313 Index 315

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Book SynopsisJosen Masangkay Diaz interrogates the distinct forms of Filipino American subjectivity that materialized from the relationship between the Ferdinand Marcos dictatorship and Cold War US anticommunism.

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Book SynopsisIn Probing Arts and Emergent Forms of Life Michael M. J. Fischer calls for a new anthropology of the arts that attends to the materialities and technologies of the world as it exists today. Fischer examines the work of key Southeast and East Asian artists within the crucibles of unequal access, geopolitics, reverberating past traumas, and emergent socialities. He outlines the work of artist-theorists---including Entang Wiharso, Sally Smart, Charles Lim, Zai Kuning, and Kiran Kumar---who speculate about changing the world in ways that are attuned to its cultivation, repair, and rethinking in the Anthropocene. Their artistic vocabulary not only undoes Western art models and categories; it probes the unfolding future, addresses past trauma, and creates contested, vibrant, and flourishing spaces. Throughout Indonesia, Korea, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam---and from Kumar’s experimental dance to Kuning’s rattan and beeswax ghost ships to Lim’s videography of SingTrade Review"[A] dynamic ethnography of prominent works by contemporary artists in Asia ... Probing Arts and Emergent Forms of Life goes far beyond introducing innovative artists and describing their artworks. It situates contemporary Asian art within ethnographic and geo-political contexts." -- Robin Visser * Journal of Contemporary Asia *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Challenging Art as Cultural Systems 12 2. Synthetic Realism: Postcinema in the Anthropocene 31 3. Feminage, Warang, and the Nervous System (Hauntology and Curation) 71 4. Nomadic Video in Turbulent Sea States: How Art Becomes Critique 100 5. Water Notes on Rattan Strings 132 6. Raw Moves and Layered Communication across the Archipelago Seas 165 Epilogue. Probing Art and Emerging Forms of Life 197 Appendix. The Year 2020 and the Camouflage Painting Series: Conversations with Entang Wiharso 215 Notes 221 References 253 Index 281

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Book SynopsisIn Dreams of Flight, Fran Martin explores how young Chinese women negotiate competing pressures on their identity while studying abroad. On one hand, unmarried middle-class women in the single-child generations are encouraged to develop themselves as professional human capital through international education, molding themselves into independent, cosmopolitan, career-oriented individuals. On the other, strong neotraditionalist state, social, and familial pressures of the post-Mao era push them back toward marriage and family by age thirty. Martin examines these women’s motivations for studying in Australia and traces their embodied and emotional experiences of urban life, social media worlds, work in low-skilled and professional jobs, romantic relationships, religion, Chinese patriotism, and changed self-understanding after study abroad. Martin illustrates how emerging forms of gender, class, and mobility fundamentally transform the basis of identity for a whole generation Trade Review“Fran Martin describes with great sensitivity and empathy how it feels to be a ‘Chinese international student’ in a Western metropolis and how their ‘dreams of flight’—away from the strictures of neotraditional femininity and toward an aspired mobile, cosmopolitan self—must navigate the impositions of family, gender, race, and nation. In a time of rising tensions between China and the West, Dreams of Flight reminds us of the human ordinariness and heterogeneity of people who are all-too-easily homogenized and ostracized as ‘the Chinese.’” -- Ien Ang, author of * On Not Speaking Chinese: Living between Asia and the West *“Dreams of Flight exemplifies the best in theoretically engaged ethnography. It tells the stories of the research participants in a beautiful, lyrical way while making nuanced and sophisticated theoretical arguments based on their experiences. It also offers a deeper understanding of Chinese students in Australia, a country that is understudied in the literature on transnational Chinese students, most of which focuses on the United States and the United Kingdom. Specialists in China studies, migration studies, international education, anthropology, and sociology will all welcome this outstanding work.” -- Vanessa L. Fong, author of * Paradise Redefined: Transnational Chinese Students and the Quest for Flexible Citizenship in the Developed World *"[Martin's] offers a unique blend of ethnographic observation, individual narrative, and theoretical considerations and is an excellent addition to the field of gender studies and the study of educational mobility." -- Zeyi Liu * Journal of International Women's Studies *"This remarkable book provides a rare deep dive into the lives of a group of people who are often the subject of unfounded stereotypes and misunderstanding. . . . Very seldom do we have the opportunity to hear from Chinese students themselves about their lives, experiences, and worldviews. . . . This book provides a deep sense of the complexities and contradictions inherent in transnational mobility, showing us the dangers of simple narratives, and most of all, allowing the everyday humanity of Chinese students to shine through." -- Christina Ho * Pacific Affairs *"Dreams of Flight is an invaluable resource for scholars, advanced undergraduates, and graduate students seeking a comparison or contrast to these present circumstances, a pleasurable and informative ethnography, and stimulating discussions of its themes and relevant theories." -- Arianne M. Gaetano * Feminist Encounters *"Dreams of Flight needs to be read as an incredibly rich and rewarding contribution to the understanding of the increasing entanglement of international education with migration trajectories. . . . Dreams of Flight will prove invaluable for scholars who are seeking to understand their interlocutors’ trajectories from the perspective of both home and host country as they navigate multiple alliances, expectations and dreams." -- Fran Martin * Journal of Development Studies *Table of ContentsPreface: After Mobility? ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction: Worlds in Motion 1 1. Before Study: Dreams of Flight 35 2. Place: Welcome to Melvillage 57 3. Media: Connection and Encapsulation 97 4. Work: Emplacement, Mobility, and Value 128 5. Sexuality: Liminal Times 161 6. Faith: Spirits of Movement 190 7. Patriotism: Feeling Global Chineseness 215 8. After Study: Moving On, Moving Up, Moving Out 247 Conclusion: Unsettled Dreams 279 Notes 297 Works Cited 311 Index 347

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Book SynopsisStefan Ecks explores depression and antidepressant uses in India to develop a theory of value that captures both market worth and cultural and ethical norms.Trade Review“In this fascinating, timely, and provocative new book, Stefan Ecks uses ethnographic examples of depression and the use of antidepressants in India to rethink anthropological and economic theory. Conceptually bold and empirically grounded, Living Worth upends capitalist assumptions that underpin global mental health and offers a new and vital way to think about how embodiment comes to matter.” -- Julie Livingston, author of * Self-Devouring Growth: A Planetary Parable as Told from Southern Africa *“Stefan Ecks shows us, yet again, why he is the leading theorist of globalizing minds and their pharmaceutical anodynes. In Living Worth, he takes readers on a tour de force through case studies of depression and of global psychopharmaceuticals to show how the values of brains and feelings become enmeshed with the larger values that capitalism places on currencies and commodities. The result is an absolute work of genius, and a must-read for anyone concerned about how we think and feel and the social practices and economies through which our thoughts and feelings come to matter.” -- Jonathan M. Metzl, author of * Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America’s Heartland *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Embodied Value Theory 11 2. Relative Value: Culture, Comparison, Commensurability 36 3. Never Enough: Markets in Life 57 4. Making a Difference: Corporate Social Responsibility 79 5. Pharmaceutical Citizenship, Marketing, and the Global Monoculture of Health 98 6. What Drugs Do in Different Spaces: Global Spread and Local Bubbles 117 7. Acting through Other (Prescribing) Habits 136 8. Culture, Context, and Consensus: Comparing Symptoms and Things 156 9. Generic: Distinguishing Good Similarity from Bad Similarity 175 10. Same Ills, Same Pills: Genealogies of Global Mental Health 194 11. Failed Biocommensurations: Psychiatric Crises after DSM-5 214 References 235 Index 269

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Book SynopsisVicente L. Rafael provides a complex account of how Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte uses humor, fear, misogyny, and violence to weaponize death as a means to control life.Trade Review“In this remarkable book, Vicente L. Rafael, the preeminent scholar of language, nationalism, and colonialism in the Philippines, shows how the global swing to the right crystallizes in a specific national history. Rafael eloquently shows why Rodrigo Duterte must be placed in the long history of the use of antidemocratic means to bolster electoral democracy and how the darkest coercive practices in the Philippine archive are enacted in Duterte's obscene power.” -- Arjun Appadurai, Max Weber Global Professor, Bard Graduate Center“Vicente L. Rafael brings a fierce intelligence and formidable analytical power to explain Duterte’s dark charisma and the violence at the heart of his presidency. In these probing and insightful essays, he accounts for how and why a strongman from the country’s periphery has held a nation in thrall for so long.” -- Sheila S. Coronel, Toni Stabile Professor, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism"This fascinating book seeks to explain why Rodrigo Duterte, the outgoing president of the Philippines, has been so popular despite his gruesome human-rights record, authoritarian ruling style and unapologetic vulgarity" -- Målfrid Braut-Hegghammer * Survival *"The Sovereign Trickster provides readers with an erudite, in-depth, and historically-contextualized analysis of how Duterte’s persona operates, and why it is so appealing to so many. . . . Anyone with an interest in recent Philippine history should find The Sovereign Trickster incredibly entertaining, accessible – it is a rare writer who can juxtapose Foucault and Mbembe and explain the relevance of their ideas clearly – and analytically illuminating. This is a book that grapples with serious questions of relevance to many societies, but does so with an eloquence that makes it a pleasure to read." -- Lin Hongxuan * LSE Review of Books *"The Sovereign Trickster is not just another addition to the scholarly pile on the Duterte phenomenon. Vicente Rafael's contribution is timely because it takes stock of the populist leader towards the end of his tenure. Moreover, his book successfully weaves historical analysis with contemporary multidisciplinary theories and the empirical richness derived from existing works about Duterte. The value of this compact but impressive volume is that it adds nuance to our understanding of this political maverick beyond the caricatures on offer." -- Aries A. Arugay * Contemporary Southeast Asia *"For those searching for a carefully contextualized and empirically rich account of the Duterte phenomenon, this book is essential reading. Rafael’s grasp of multidisciplinary theory, his skill in rhetoric, together with his commitment to history, make this a rare, if sometimes graphic interrogation into the charisma of a man much of the world is satisfied to label a vulgar tyrant." -- Adele Webb * Southeast Asian Studies *"By helping readers understand Duterte’s broad appeal, Vicente Rafael’s Sovereign Trickster brings to the fore a complex and nuanced account of contemporary authoritarianism in the Global South. . . . The book effectively makes every reader realize the complexities inherent in Duterte, his enablers, and his leadership style. It also helps us explain why the political opposition found it difficult to launch a viable challenge." -- Jean Encinas-Franco * Perspectives on Politics *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Prismatic Histories 1 1. Electoral Dystopias 6 Sketches I: The Dream of Benevolent Dictatorship 18 2. Marcos, Duterte, and the Predicaments of Neoliberal Citizenship 21 Sketches II: Motherland and the Biopolitics of Reproductive Health 36 3. Duterte's Phallus: On the Aesthetics of Authoritarian Vulgarity 42 Sketches III: Duterte's Hobbesian World 57 Duterte's Sense of Time60 4. The Sovereign Trickster 63 Sketches IV: Comparing Extrajudicial Killing 87 Death Squads 89 On Duterte's Matrix 94 Fecal Politics 98 5. Photography and the Biopolitics of Fear: Witnessing the Philippine Drug War 103 Conclusion. Intimacy and the Autoimmune Community 131 Notes 147 References 151 Index 169

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Book SynopsisSrila Roy traces the impact of neoliberalism on gender and sexuality rights movements in the Global South through queer and feminist activism in India.Trade Review"Changing the Subject brilliantly unpacks the different governmentalities at work in contemporary neoliberal West Bengal and within the activist and NGO world. Srila Roy shows that it is precisely within the intimate and complex interaction between processes of governance and the self that the possibility of self-making within and against dominant norms takes place." -- Catherine Rottenberg * Sociological Review *"There is no doubt that this is an important and topical book, filling a very real gap. It is provocative in its conceptualisation and therefore an extremely productive addition to multiple areas of inquiry, including neo-liberalism and social movements, queer movements, feminist fields, development studies among others. It invites one to engage with this version of the story to interrogate it and multiply the many other possible stories of this moment in the life of the feminist world-making project." -- Sneha Gole * Economic and Political Weekly *"Through her research and critique, she demonstrates powerfully a praxis against neoliberal, nationalist, and nativist logics. Srila Roy's book is a vibrant and richly ethnographic contribution to debates on political futures now." -- Bridget Kenny * Anthropology & Humanism *"Roy’s groundbreaking work, Changing the Subject, emerges as a beacon. . . . Changing the Subject offers different ways to think of feminism’s co-optation in the context of global neoliberalism by thinking of feminism’s entanglement with the forms of power, encouraging a deeper understanding of its multifaceted impact on individual transformation and societal change. . . . Thorough, meticulous ethnographic analysis reveals how feminist and queer political organizations negotiate their roles within broader power dynamics, engaging with and transforming prevailing governmentalities." -- Kiran Raveendran * Women's Studies *Table of ContentsAbbreviations ix Preface: We, Feminists xi Acknowledgments xvii Introduction. Changing the Subject of Indian Feminism 1 1. Indian Feminism in the New Millennium: Co-optation, Entanglement, Intersection 26 2. Queer Activism as Governmentality: Regulating Lesbians, Making Queer 47 3. Queer Self-Fashioning: In, out of, and beyond the Closet 77 4. Feminist Governmentality: Entangled Histories and Empowered Women 101 5. Subaltern Self-Government: Precarious Transformations 132 Conclusion. On Critique and Care 160 Notes 177 References 215 Index 243

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Book SynopsisNamhee Lee explores how social memory and neoliberal governance in post-1987 South Korea have disavowed the revolutionary politics of the past.Trade Review"Lee’s book makes a significant contribution to current literature on social memory, in particular, by demonstrating how memory becomes a tool for mass media to construct alternate narratives of history and collective memories of the past." -- Charlotte Hammond * European Journal of Korean Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Notes on Romanization and Translations xi Introduction: The Politics of Time and Neoliberal Disavowal 1 1. The Paradigm Shift from Minjung (People) to Simin (Citizen) and Neoliberal Governance 23 2. The Paradigm Shift from the Political to the Cultural and Huildam Literature 45 3. Park Chung-hee Syndrome, Mass Media, and “Culture War” 71 4. The Rise of New Right Historiography and Its Triumphalist Discourse 95 Epilogue: Politics of Time and the Poetics of Remembrance 121 Notes 137 Bibliography 177 Index 207

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Book SynopsisThe contributors to New World Orderings demonstrate that China’s twenty-first-century rise occurs not only through economics and state politics, but equally through its relationships and interactions with the Global South.Trade Review"New World Orderings is a timely contribution to the growing body of literature on the relationship between the Sinosphere and the Global South. By giving readers a glimpse into these multifaceted and evolving relationships from the ground up, readers see that these interactions are complex, nuanced, and often tell alternative stories about how communities are made, how commodities and capital travel, and how 'Chineseness' is a fundamentally ephemeral concept." -- Kelly A. Hammond * Modern Chinese Literature and Culture *"The 13 contributors, representing the arts, social sciences, and interdisciplinary studies, establish interesting connections among social, cultural, and economic worlds. . . . Recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty; professionals." -- G. A. McBeath * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction: Contact, Communication, Imagination, and Strategies of Worldmaking / Carlos Rojas and Lisa Rofel 1 Part I. Geopolitics and Discourse 1. Turning the Tables on the Global North: China, Afro-Asia, and Cold War Cultural Diplomacy / Nicolai Volland 21 2. From the Washington Consensus to the Beijing Consensus: Latin America Facing the Rise of China as a Great Power / Luciano Damián Bolinaga 38 3. Prehistories of China-Tanzania: Intermediaries, Subempires, and the Use of Abuse of Comparison / Derek Sheridan 58 4. A World Republic of Southern Letters / Ng Kim Chew 75 Part II. Labor and Exchange 5. New Livelihood Strategies and Ways of Being for African Women and Men in China's Workshop of the World / T. Tu Huynh 95 6. Prophetic Becoming: The Prosperity Doctrine in Guangzhou, China / Nellie Chu 113 7. Soy Makes Us Friends . . . or Not: Negotiating the “Chinese Landing“ in Argentina’s Contact Zone / Rachel Cypher and Lisa Rofel 131 8. Displacing Labor: China, Argentina, and the Work of Globalization / Andrea Bachner 149 Part III. Mobility and Displacement 9. Global South Frontiers: Chinese Worldmaking and Racial Imaginaries of Johannesburg / Mingwei Huang 169 10. A Cultural Cartography of the Sinophone Diaspora in Southeast Asia: The Cinema of Midi Z / Yu-Lin Lee 187 11. Writing South: Narratives of Homeland and Diaspora in Southeast Asia / Carlos Rojas 204 12. The Chinese Literary Imaginary and the Global South in Deep Time / Shuang Shen 222 Works Cited 241 Contributors 261 Index 265

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Book SynopsisThe contributors to Siting Postcoloniality reevaluate the notion of the postcolonial by focusing on the Sinosphere—the region of East and Southeast Asia that has been significantly shaped by relations with China throughout history. Pointing out that the history of imperialism in China and Southeast Asia is longer and more complex than Euro-American imperialism, the contributors complicate the traditional postcolonial binaries of center-periphery, colonizer-colonized, and developed-developing. Among other topics, they examine socialist China’s attempts to break with Soviet cultural hegemony; the postcoloniality of Taiwan as it negotiates the legacy of Japanese colonial rule; Southeast Asian and South Asian diasporic experiences of colonialism; and Hong Kong’s complex colonial experiences under the British, the Japanese, and mainland China. The contributors show how postcolonial theory’s central concepts cannot adequately explain colonialism in the SinospheTable of ContentsSeries Editor’s Preface / Carlos Rojas vii Acknowledgments xi Introduction: Situations and Limits of Postcolonial Theory / Pheng Cheah 1 Part I. Framing the Postcolonial 1. Mythmaking: The Nomos of Postcoloniality / Robert J. C. Young 33 2. On Twenty-First-Century Postcolonialism / Dai Jinhua, translated by Erebus Wong and Lisa Rofel 53 Part II. Chinese Socialist Postcoloniality 3. Who Owns Social Justice? Permanent Revolution, the Chinese Gorky, and the Postcolonial / Wendy Larson 71 4. De-Sovietization and Internationalism: The People’s Republic of China’s Alternative Modernity Project / Pang Laikwan 90 Part III. Hong Kong Postcoloniality among the British, Japanese, and Chinese Empires 5. From Manchukuo to Hong Kong: Postcolonizing Asian Colonial Experiences / Lo Kwai-Cheung 109 6. Decolonization? What Decolonization? Hong Kong’s Political Transition / Lui Tai-lok 127 7. Locating Anglophone Writing in Sinophone Hong Kong / Elaine Yee Lin Ho 148 Part IV. Taiwan Postcoloniality between Japanese and Chinese Colonialisms 8. The Slippage between Empires: The Production of the Colonized Subject in Taiwan / Lin Pei-yin 171 9. Questions of Postcolonial Agency: Two Film Examples from Taiwan / Liao Ping-hui 191 Part V. Diasporas in East and Southeast Asian Postcoloniality 10. Sinophone Geopoetics: From Postcolonialism to Postloyalism / David Der-wei Wang 213 11. Multiple Colonialisms and Their Philippine Legacies / Caroline S. Hau 232 12. Diasporic Worldliness in Postcolonial Globalization / Pheng Cheah 250 References 277 Contributors 313 Index 315

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Book SynopsisIn Semiotics of Rape, Rupal Oza follows the social life of rape in rural northwest India to reveal how rape is not only a violation of the body but a language through which a range of issues-including caste and gender hierarchies, control over land and labor, and the shape of justice-are contested. Rather than focus on the laws governing rape, Oza closely examines rape charges to show how the victims and survivors of rape reclaim their autonomy by refusing to see themselves as defined entirely by the act of violation. Oza also shows how rape cases become arenas where bureaucrats, village council members, caste communities, and the police debate women's sexual subjectivities and how those varied understandings impact the status and reputations of individuals and groups. In this way, rape gains meaning beyond the level of the survivor and victim to create a social category. By tracing the shifting meanings of sexual violence and justice, Oza offers insights into the social significance of rape in India and beyond.Trade Review"This poignant, timely, and urgent discussion of rape and sexual politics in rural India, Oza underscores that Dalit women’s bodies, often marked by the problematic images of vigilante justice, are defined by their sexual subjectivity and are not victims. Instead, they are complex sexual subjects which assert their choices in rape cases. . . . Oza’s monograph, therefore, makes an important contribution to the fields of gender, women’s and sexuality studies, transnational studies, anthropology, and South Asian studies. It will also be helpful for introductory feminist theory graduate courses." -- Nidhi Shrivastava * South Asian Review *"An interesting read for scholars pursuing research on gender/women’s studies, sexuality, and related topics. Policymakers should find this book interesting to sensitise authorities dealing with cases of violence against women." -- Rituparna Bhattacharyya * Asian Studies Review *Table of ContentsPreface vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Consent 36 2. Compromise 65 3. Land 104 4. Death 130 Conclusion 161 Notes 173 Sources 185 Index

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Book SynopsisIn Postcolonial Configurations Josen Masangkay Diaz examines the making of Filipino America through the dynamics of dictatorship, coloniality, and subjectivity. Diaz explores how the Ferdinand Marcos dictatorship and US policies during the Cold War that supported the regime defined the relationship between “Filipino” and “America” in ways that influenced the creation of a gendered and racialized Filipino American subject. By analyzing Philippine-US state programs for military operations, labor and immigration reform, and development and modernization plans, she shows how anticommunist liberalism and authoritarianism shaped the visibility and recognition of new forms of Filipino subjectivity. Tracing the rise of various social formations that emerged under the Marcos regime and US programs for liberal reform, from transnational Filipino and US culture and the immigrant returnee to the New Filipina woman and the humanitarian English teacher, Diaz positions

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Book SynopsisSony Coráñez Bolton examines the racial politics of disability, mestizaje, and sexuality in the Philippines, showing how heteronormative, able-bodied, and able-minded mixed-race Filipinos offered a model and path for assimilation into the US empire.Trade Review“Sony Corañez Bolton’s Crip Colony is a theoretically sophisticated contribution to the current surge in Filipinx American studies scholarship.” -- Martin Joseph Ponce * Society for U.S. Intellectual History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Crip Colonial Critique: Reading Mestizaje from the Borderlands to the Philippines 1 1. Benevolent Rehabilitation and the Colonial Bodymind: Filipinx American Studies as Disability Studies 33 2. Mad María Clara: The Queer Aesthetics of Mestizaje and Compulsory Able-Mindedness 67 3. Filipino Itineraries, Orientalizing Impairments: Chinese Foot-Binding and the Crip Coloniality of Travel Literature 99 4. A Colonial Model of Disability: Running Amok in the Mad Colonial Archive of the Philippines 131 Epilogue. A Song from Subic: Racial Disposability and the Intimacy of Cultural Translation 162 Notes 171 Bibliography 187 Index 197

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Book SynopsisGenevieve Alva Clutario traces how beauty and fashion in the Philippines shaped the intertwined projects of imperial expansion and modern nation building during the turbulent transition between Spanish, US, and Japanese empires.Trade Review“Peering through a gendered lens, Clutario exposes the complex roles Filipinas played within empire and the fraught establishment of the Philippine Commonwealth. . . . Writing about the wives of politicians, embroiderers, beauty queens, and socialites, Clutario renders beauty as a complex weapon. In the hands of her Filipina subjects, it is deployed with both tenderness and aggression.” -- Alice Sarmiento * Rappler *"A unique book that delivers fresh insights into the American colonial period in the Philippines through the politics of fashion and beauty regimens." -- Mina Roces * Fashion Theory *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. A Queen Is Crowned 1 1. Tensions at the Seams: Petty Politics and Sartorial Battles 19 2. Queen Makers: Beauty, Power, and the Development of a Beauty Pageant Industrial Complex 63 3. Philippine Lingerie: Transnational Filipina Beauty Labor under US Empire 107 4. Beauty Regimes: Structure, Discipline, and Needlework in Colonial Industrial Schools and Prisons 139 5. “The Dream of Beauty”: The Terno and the Filipina High-Fashion System 183 Epilogue. Protectionism and Preparedness under Overlapping Empires 223 Notes 237 Bibliography 287 Index 319

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Book SynopsisIn Archaism and Actuality eminent Marxist historian Harry Harootunian explores the formation of capitalism and fascism in Japan as a prime example of the uneven development of capitalism. He applies his theorization of subsumption to examine how capitalism integrates and redirects preexisting social, cultural, and economic practices to guide the present. This subsumption leads to a global condition in which states and societies all exist within different stages and manifestations of capitalism. Drawing on Japanese philosophers Miki Kiyoshi and Tosaka Jun, Marxist theory, and Gramsci’s notion of passive revolution, Harootunian shows how the Meiji Restoration of 1868 and its program dedicated to transforming the country into a modern society exemplified a unique path to capitalism. Japan’s capitalist expansion in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, rise as an imperial power, and subsequent transition to fascism signal a wholly distinct trajectory into modernity thaTrade Review“In a masterful discourse about historical time, Harry Harootunian brings to light the ways in which the past attends the present, producing uneven temporalities in three seminal moments: the Meiji Restoration, fascism, and the postwar. This book changed my understanding of modern Japanese history and indeed of history itself.” -- Carol Gluck, Columbia University“Harry Harootunian’s analysis is rooted in the history of modern Japan, but the interest of this book extends well beyond. From that ground he is able to launch a series of fascinating arguments regarding capitalist modernity’s uses of the past and its temporal heterogeneity. Particularly timely and valuable is his investigation of how the invocation of an archaic past serves as a primary trope of twentieth- and twenty-first-century fascisms.” -- Michael Hardt, author of * The Subversive Seventies *Table of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xix 1. In the Zone of Occult Instability 1 2. Restoration 36 3. Capitalism and Fascism 99 4. Actuality and the Archaic Mode of Cognition 145 5. Epilogue: Déjà Vu 223 Notes 245 Bibliography 261 Index 269

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Book SynopsisMaan Barua explores the fraught politics of dwelling between elephants and villagers on land that once harbored colonial plantations in northeastern India, showing how the legacies of colonialism impact the relationship between human and nonhuman life in a time of global environmental upheaval.

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Book SynopsisWendy Matsumura examines the history of the colonial projects and violence of interwar Japan while critiquing Japan studies’ participation of the erasure of this history in its study of the formation of the Japanese nation-state.Trade Review“Waiting for the Cool Moon is rigorous, invigorating, and consequential for how we read, see, study, research, and understand both the history of Japan in the interwar years and history more generally. This hugely impressive book is a magnificent achievement.” -- Rebecca E. Karl, author of * China’s Revolutions in the Modern World: A Brief Interpretive History *“Waiting for the Cool Moon is a fierce, passionate book, one that is as suited to these times as it is to the period it explores. Wendy Matsumura brings a powerful theoretical apparatus to bear: the Marxian analysis of her earlier work is transformed by her intense engagement with the theoretical and comparative work of Black and Indigenous women scholars. The effects of this encounter are profound. By attending to revolutionary practice and acknowledging the pain and sadness of absence, Matsumura locates the urgent ethical commitment of a radical historian. An outstanding critical history.” -- Christopher T. Nelson, author of * Dancing with the Dead: Memory, Performance, and Everyday Life in Postwar Okinawa *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Empire and Oikonomia 17 2. Enclosure and the Community of the Commons 37 3. Buraku Women against Tripled Sufferings 60 4. Housewifization, Invisibilization, and the Myth of the New Small Farm Household 83 5. Interimperial Korean Struggle in Fertilizer’s Global Circuit 108 6. Empire Through the Prism of Phosphate 134 7. Water Struggles in a Colonial City 161 Conclusion. Waiting, Witnessing, Withholding 185 Notes 193 Bibliography 241 Index 261

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Book SynopsisIn Archaism and Actuality eminent Marxist historian Harry Harootunian explores the formation of capitalism and fascism in Japan as a prime example of the uneven development of capitalism. He applies his theorization of subsumption to examine how capitalism integrates and redirects preexisting social, cultural, and economic practices to guide the present. This subsumption leads to a global condition in which states and societies all exist within different stages and manifestations of capitalism. Drawing on Japanese philosophers Miki Kiyoshi and Tosaka Jun, Marxist theory, and Gramsci’s notion of passive revolution, Harootunian shows how the Meiji Restoration of 1868 and its program dedicated to transforming the country into a modern society exemplified a unique path to capitalism. Japan’s capitalist expansion in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, rise as an imperial power, and subsequent transition to fascism signal a wholly distinct trajectory into modernity thaTrade Review“In a masterful discourse about historical time, Harry Harootunian brings to light the ways in which the past attends the present, producing uneven temporalities in three seminal moments: the Meiji Restoration, fascism, and the postwar. This book changed my understanding of modern Japanese history and indeed of history itself.” -- Carol Gluck, Columbia University“Harry Harootunian’s analysis is rooted in the history of modern Japan, but the interest of this book extends well beyond. From that ground he is able to launch a series of fascinating arguments regarding capitalist modernity’s uses of the past and its temporal heterogeneity. Particularly timely and valuable is his investigation of how the invocation of an archaic past serves as a primary trope of twentieth- and twenty-first-century fascisms.” -- Michael Hardt, author of * The Subversive Seventies *Table of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xix 1. In the Zone of Occult Instability 1 2. Restoration 36 3. Capitalism and Fascism 99 4. Actuality and the Archaic Mode of Cognition 145 5. Epilogue: Déjà Vu 223 Notes 245 Bibliography 261 Index 269

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Book SynopsisWendy Matsumura examines the history of the colonial projects and violence of interwar Japan while critiquing Japan studies' participation of the erasure of this history in its study of the formation of the Japanese nation-state.Trade Review“Waiting for the Cool Moon is rigorous, invigorating, and consequential for how we read, see, study, research, and understand both the history of Japan in the interwar years and history more generally. This hugely impressive book is a magnificent achievement.” -- Rebecca E. Karl, author of * China’s Revolutions in the Modern World: A Brief Interpretive History *“Waiting for the Cool Moon is a fierce, passionate book, one that is as suited to these times as it is to the period it explores. Wendy Matsumura brings a powerful theoretical apparatus to bear: the Marxian analysis of her earlier work is transformed by her intense engagement with the theoretical and comparative work of Black and Indigenous women scholars. The effects of this encounter are profound. By attending to revolutionary practice and acknowledging the pain and sadness of absence, Matsumura locates the urgent ethical commitment of a radical historian. An outstanding critical history.” -- Christopher T. Nelson, author of * Dancing with the Dead: Memory, Performance, and Everyday Life in Postwar Okinawa *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Empire and Oikonomia 17 2. Enclosure and the Community of the Commons 37 3. Buraku Women against Tripled Sufferings 60 4. Housewifization, Invisibilization, and the Myth of the New Small Farm Household 83 5. Interimperial Korean Struggle in Fertilizer’s Global Circuit 108 6. Empire Through the Prism of Phosphate 134 7. Water Struggles in a Colonial City 161 Conclusion. Waiting, Witnessing, Withholding 185 Notes 193 Bibliography 241 Index 261

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Book SynopsisLeading scholars examine China's global strategic plans, from Hong Kong to military power, to economic dominanceOver the past few decades, China has increasingly challenged the global influence of the United States. In China's Grand Strategy, David B. H. Denoon brings together a group of eminent scholars to explain China's rapid ascendance on the world stage, as well as its future implications for global politics. Contributors address the military, economic, diplomatic, and internal political factors shaping China's strategy, in addition to highlighting Beijing's objectives in different parts of the world, such as Central Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Ultimately, they explore the promise and perils of China's rapidly changing political ambitions, showing how the country has made its mark on the twenty-first century. China's Grand Strategy provides insight into China's quest to become a global leader, particularly at a time when the future of both China and the US remain uncertain Trade Review"David B. H. Denoon has assembled seasoned scholars who provide a fascinating and wide-ranging set of assessments on different dimensions and global regions in China's increasingly assertive, and frequently fraught, encounter with the world. A thorough and superb synopsis." -- David Shambaugh, author of Where Great Powers Meet: America and China in Southeast Asia"As the United States prepares to recalibrate relations with China, China's Grand Strategy offers a nuanced and intelligent roadmap for the Biden administration. These highly qualified contributors give priority to the most challenging issues involved in the process: new technologies, diplomacy, and strategic regional issues in Northeast Asia, South Asia, Eurasia, and North America. This book avoids ideological demagoguery and deals with the emerging realities as China consolidates its place as a major player in world affairs." -- Riordan Roett, co-editor of China's Expansion into the Western Hemisphere: Implications for Latin America and the United States"This book is essential reading for observers seeking a better understanding of Chinese actions. It also serves as an excellent primer for national security professionals and undergraduate students." -- Gerald Krieger * International Affairs *

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Book SynopsisLeading scholars examine China's global strategic plans, from Hong Kong to military power, to economic dominanceOver the past few decades, China has increasingly challenged the global influence of the United States. In China's Grand Strategy, David B. H. Denoon brings together a group of eminent scholars to explain China's rapid ascendance on the world stage, as well as its future implications for global politics. Contributors address the military, economic, diplomatic, and internal political factors shaping China's strategy, in addition to highlighting Beijing's objectives in different parts of the world, such as Central Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Ultimately, they explore the promise and perils of China's rapidly changing political ambitions, showing how the country has made its mark on the twenty-first century. China's Grand Strategy provides insight into China's quest to become a global leader, particularly at a time when the future of both China and the US remain uncertain Trade Review"David B. H. Denoon has assembled seasoned scholars who provide a fascinating and wide-ranging set of assessments on different dimensions and global regions in China's increasingly assertive, and frequently fraught, encounter with the world. A thorough and superb synopsis." -- David Shambaugh, author of Where Great Powers Meet: America and China in Southeast Asia"As the United States prepares to recalibrate relations with China, China's Grand Strategy offers a nuanced and intelligent roadmap for the Biden administration. These highly qualified contributors give priority to the most challenging issues involved in the process: new technologies, diplomacy, and strategic regional issues in Northeast Asia, South Asia, Eurasia, and North America. This book avoids ideological demagoguery and deals with the emerging realities as China consolidates its place as a major player in world affairs." -- Riordan Roett, co-editor of China's Expansion into the Western Hemisphere: Implications for Latin America and the United States"This book is essential reading for observers seeking a better understanding of Chinese actions. It also serves as an excellent primer for national security professionals and undergraduate students." -- Gerald Krieger * International Affairs *

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Book SynopsisIn a century of mass atrocities, the Khmer Rouge regime marked Cambodia with one of the most extreme genocidal instances in human history. What emerged in the aftermath of the regime's collapse in 1979 was a nation fractured by death and dispersal. It is estimated that nearly one-fourth of the country's population perished from hard labor, disease, starvation, and executions. Another half million Cambodians fled their ancestral homeland, with over one hundred thousand finding refuge in America. From the Land of Shadows surveys the Cambodian diaspora and the struggle to understand and make meaning of this historical trauma. Drawing on more than 250 interviews with survivors across the United States as well as in France and Cambodia, Khatharya Um places these accounts in conversation with studies of comparative revolutions, totalitarianism, transnationalism, and memory works to illuminate the pathology of power as well as the impact of auto-genocide on individual and collective healingTrade ReviewOffering an impressive archive of the legacy of the Khmer Rouge,From the Land of Shadowsprovides vivid first-hand accounts of starvation, hard labor, disappearances and executions, post-migration trauma, and intergenerational remembering and forgetting. With beautiful storytelling and compelling prose, Khatharya Um deftly situates rich narratives of the survivors struggles to make meaning out of lives that have been forever ruptured within the larger historical context of Cambodias colonial and post-colonial history. A deeply affecting and much-awaited book. -- Yen Le Espiritu,author of Body Counts: The Vietnam War and Militarized Refuge(es)With rich ethnographic details, From the Land of Shadows places survivor narratives in conversation with literature on revolution, diaspora, transnationalism, and memory. Khatharya Um makes visible the lived experiences of Cambodians as they try to make sense of their new identities in multiple contexts. A remarkable book. -- Chia Youyee Vang,author of Hmong America: Reconstructing Community in DiasporaThe book, which includes an incisive discussion of the paradoxes but necessity of return, will interest those considering the nature of diasporas. * Choice *Um writes with scholarly rigor. * Journal of American History *

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Book SynopsisThe surprising alliance between Japan and pro-Tokyo African Americans during World War II In November 1942 in East St. Louis, Illinois a group of African Americans engaged in military drills were eagerly awaiting a Japanese invasion of the U.S. an invasion that they planned to join. Since the rise of Japan as a superpower less than a century earlier, African Americans across class and ideological lines had saluted the Asian nation, not least because they thought its very existence undermined the pervasive notion of white supremacy. The list of supporters included Booker T. Washington, Marcus Garvey, and particularly W.E.B. Du Bois. Facing the Rising Sun tells the story of the widespread pro-Tokyo sentiment among African Americans during World War II, arguing that the solidarity between the two groups was significantly corrosive to the U.S. war effort. Gerald Horne demonstrates that Black Nationalists of various stripes were the vanguard of this trendincluding followers of Garvey and thTrade Review"An absorbing study of Afro-Asian solidarity. Horne’s prodigious archival research is ingeniously framed by questions that challenge some of the assumptions made about African American civil rights struggles in the twentieth century ... Scholars should seriously consider the views of pro-Tokyo black nationalists and their contributions to the dismantling of Jim Crow laws." -- Modernism/modernity"Horne’s masterful historiography makes Facing the Rising Sun an important text for black internationalism, Afro-Asian studies, and other related fields." -- The Journal of African American History"In his ever-expanding corpus, Gerald Horne continues to hone in on the question of contingency -- that is, why the seemingly intractable problem of racism in the United States would give way at a particular moment in history. In Facing the Rising Sun, Horne focuses on Black Nationalists who took a pro-Tokyo position during the Pacific War, a period in which Japan's revolt against the West rattled white supremacy. They forged solidarity with Japan, America's enemy, and amid the crisis over race and the very messiness of politics, the world around them changed even as they paid a high price. This work reminds us that in the cause of Black liberation, then and now, the analysis of the confluence of world and domestic affairs matters in the struggle against racism and empire." -- Yuichiro Onishi, author of,Transpacific Antiracism: Afro-Asian Solidarity in 20th-Century Black America, Japan, and Okinawa"Through uncovering a rich, dynamic history of pro-Japanese views among U.S. Black nationalists during the Depression and World War II, Gerald Horne has produced a brilliant book that provides a powerful model for writing about transnational African American history, global white supremacy, and Afro-Asian solidarities." -- Erik S. McDuffie ,author of Sojourning for Freedom"Alongside Race War!: White Supremacy and the Japanese Attack on the British Empire and other works, this monograph adds to Dr. Horne's prolific oeuvre concerning the multifaceted international context of movements of opposition and solidarity against Euro-American Empire. Horne again showcases the expansive and imaginative -- as well as at times contradictory and problematic -- transnational activities, ideology, and agency of U.S. Black political struggle. This work is another reminder of why he continues to be a leading historian and intellectual on global affairs, and moreover a model of radical intellectualism and activism for generations of today and tomorrow." -- Robeson Taj Frazier,author of The East Is Black: Cold War China in the Black Radical Imaginationier"The book offers a wealth of detail on some of the overlooked actors in this drama. Their dialogues presaged the intoxicating rise and tragic fall of postwar Afro-Asian movements, whose collective-cooperative aspirations sketched a beautiful vision of solidarity." -- Diplomatic History

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Book SynopsisOn March 11, 2011, a 9.0 earthquake off Japan's northeast coast triggered a tsunami that killed more than 20,000 people, displaced 600,000, and caused billions of dollars in damage as well as a nuclear meltdown of three reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. Japan, the world's third largest economy, was already grappling with recovery from both its own economic recession of the 1990s and the global recession following the US-driven financial crisis of 2008 when the disaster hit, changing its fortunes yet again. This small, populous Asian nationonce thought to be a contender for the role of the world's number one powernow faces a world of uncertainty. Japan's economy has shrunk, China has challenged its borders, and it faces perilous demographic adjustments from decreased fertility and an aging populace, with the country's population expected to drop to less than 100 million by 2048. In Japan: The Precarious Future, a group of distinguished scholars of Japanese economics, poliTrade ReviewA must-read for anyone interested in Japans recent past and possible future. The authors manage to be both balanced and hard hitting in their analyses. The overall tone is one of guarded pessimismwith a dash of guarded optimism. Such a stance toward Japans future both at home and in the region and world is well justified. -- Andrew Gordon,author of Fabricating Consumers: The Sewing Machine in Modern JapanBy bringing together cutting edge interdisciplinary scholarship produced by an international group of researchers, this book provides an illuminating window into how the worlds third largest economy and nation with an unresolved colonial past is trying to come to terms with its fluid present and searching for ways to deal with its uncertain future. -- Sayuri Guthrie Shimzu,author of Transpacific Field of DreamsThis book, inspired by the ordinary people who survived the catastrophic 3/11 disaster in the Tohoku region, is an excellent interdisciplinary collection of essays by leading scholars that offers an insightful and thought-provoking inquiry into the outlook for Japans near future. A major contribution to our understanding of the economic, political, social, international challenges that Japan faces today. -- Takashi Yoshida,author of The Making of the "Rape of Nanking": History and Memory in Japan, China, and the USThis volume has value in now providing food for thought to reassess Japans lost decades as an alternative to a populist uprising. * Social Science Japan Journal *The overall message that emerges is both hopeful and unsettling: Japans problems are far from insurmountable but big changes are needed, and time is running out. * The Japan Times *As an invariably thoughtful overview...of issues facing recent and contemporary Japan,Japans Precarious Futureis superb. Indeed, I plan to use it as the required text for my upcoming course on Japanese politics. My Student always seem more concerned with the future than the past, and I look forward to sharing this remarkable volume with them. * Journal of Japanese Studies *This collection of lucid essays by leading experts takes stock in Japans many problems * Foreign Affairs *

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Book SynopsisSet between the rise of the U.S. and Japan as Pacific imperial powers in the 1890s and the aftermath of the latter's defeat in World War II, Strange Fruit of the Black Pacific traces the interrelated migrations of African Americans, Japanese Americans, and Filipinos across U.S. domains. Offering readings in literature, blues and jazz culture, film,theatre, journalism, and private correspondence, Vince Schleitwiler considers how the collective yearnings and speculative destinies of these groups were bound together along what W.E.B. Du Bois called the world-belting color line. The links were forged by the paradoxical practices of race-making in an aspiring empirebenevolent uplift through tutelage, alongside overwhelming sexualized violencewhich together comprise what Schleitwiler calls imperialism's racial justice. This process could only be sustained through an ongoing training of perception in an aesthetics of racial terror, through rituals of racial and colonial violence that also proTrade ReviewStrange Fruit of the Black Pacific, filled with provocative insights and startling revelations on the color line at the intersecting histories of US imperialism, African American transpacific travels, the colonization of the Philippines, the Great Migration, and the Japanese Internment, is a significant contribution to the study of race and empire at the turn of the twentieth century. Schleitwiler’s book should be a useful addition for students and researchers who seek a deeper understanding of the ramifications of US imperialism’s racialized justifications. -- Journal of African American HistoryItinerant, flowing, and even stylistically improvisational, the text is creatively orchestrated by the author into an array of primary objects…. With his unique mining of the cultural archive, Schleitwiler provides insightful tools for scholars in a variety of fields -- Critical Ethnic StudiesStrange Fruit of the Black Pacificis an inventive study of African American and Asian American literature as a point of entry into the ways in which empire and race have been intertwined and how race-based movements for liberation have often unwittingly embraced imperial logics. Unearthing critically forgotten fiction and non-fiction texts, Schleitwiler makes an outstanding contribution, with virtuosic interpretations not only of the literary texts themselves, but of the broader social texts in which they circulate. Intelligent, moving, and extraordinarily generative,Strange Fruit of the Black Pacificmakes use the messy contradictions of the past as a way of understanding the enormous tasks that face us in the present. -- George Lipsitz,author of How Racism Takes PlaceBrilliant in its dramatic sweep and analytic nuance, Strange Fruit of the Black Pacific is a bold examination of the intersections between African American and Asian American cultural production as they emerge from competing imperialist discourses. Schleitwilers approach is groundbreaking, synthesizing a remarkable range of texts to provide unexpected and evocative conclusions. -- Helen Jun,author of Race for Citizenship: Black Orientalism and Asian Uplift from Pre-Emancipation to Neoli

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