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Joohee Suh
The Unburied

In late imperial China, death did not always lead swiftly to burial. Across the Qing empire, coffins frequently remained in temple courtyards, storage houses, or shallow pits for months, years, even decad…

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Kunal Debnath
Caste, Marginalisation, and Resistance

The identity politics of the householder Naths (Yogis) is one of the oldest and most persistent identity assertions in Bengal and Assam. Yet, for an array of reasons, the identity assertion of the househo…

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Aidan Seale-Feldman
The Work of Disaster

A compelling portrait of post-disaster imaginaries of repair in Nepal.In a world marked by escalating disasters, the forms that care takes are increasingly fraught. In this powerful book, anthropologist A…

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Wen-Chin Chang
Echoes from the Sino-Burmese Borderlands

Grounded in extensive fieldwork and archival research, Echoes from the Sino-Burmese Borderlands explores the clandestine travel of primarily Yunnanese Chinese migrants during the Cold War. Wen-Chin Chang …

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Wading Barefoot Through a Mountain Stream

Experience dramatic mountain vistas and karst caves with China's most famous travel writer Xu Xiake stands as China's most distinguished traveler and travel writer, whose extensive journeys through Ming-d…

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Diego Javier Luis
The First Asians in the Americas

Diego Javier Luis tells the story of transpacific Asian movement to and through the Spanish Americas. On arrival in Mexico, diverse Asian peoples became "chinos" subject to the colonial caste sy…

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Wen-Chin Chang
Echoes from the Sino-Burmese Borderlands

Grounded in extensive fieldwork and archival research, Echoes from the Sino-Burmese Borderlands explores the clandestine travel of primarily Yunnanese Chinese migrants during the Cold War. Wen-Chin Chang …

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Emily L Hue
Performing Vulnerability

The clash between an exile community making art and the expectations of othersA groundbreaking exploration of how diasporic Burmese artists navigate the intricate intersections of art, politics, and human…

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We Are Each Other's Liberation

A major anthology that illuminates historical and contemporary solidarities between Black and Asian feminists.A collaborative project between Black Women Radicals and the Asian American Feminist Collectiv…

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Global Screen Worlds

A detailed, nuanced, comparative analysis of African and Asian cinemas, expanding the cinema studies canon and decolonizing the methodologies through which we study global cinema.

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Eileen Otis
Walmart

This book tells the story of Walmart's expansion in China, making the case that it is the story of a major shift in the structure of global capitalism. Walmart, argues Eileen Otis, is a leading actor in t…

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Manashi Ray
Becoming Boundless

How do Indian men and women migrant entrepreneurs play a part in repositioning India as a pivotal actor in the twenty-first century's multipolar world order? In Becoming Boundless, Manashi Ray draws on et…

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Manashi Ray
Becoming Boundless

How do Indian men and women migrant entrepreneurs play a part in repositioning India as a pivotal actor in the twenty-first century's multipolar world order? In Becoming Boundless, Manashi Ray draws on et…

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Juyeon Park
Families for Mobility

Families for Mobility documents elite Korean transnational families, focusing on how they use elite education abroad as a tool for class reproduction. Drawing on interviews with parents and children at el…

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Tomas Cole,
Possessed Landscapes

When spirits guard forests, conservation becomes revolution - and liberation grows from the soil In 2011 Myanmar emerged from what was by some counts the longest ongoing war in the world. Amid the flurry …

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Jinwon Kim
Koreatown, NYC

How Manhattan's Koreatown functions as a new ethnic enclaveIn the past decade, Korean entertainment has gained global recognition, with Korean movies and TV shows winning Oscars and Emmys, and K-Pop group…

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Sukie Park
33 Keys to Understanding the Korean Wave

A rich guide to Korea's cultural rise. From BTS to Parasite, this book explores 33 themes-food, fashion, literature, music, and philosophy-tracing Hallyu's global reach and Korea's deep traditions and cul…

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Xuenan Cao
Chinese Media Improvisations

Xuenan Cao offers an unexpected angle on China's technological rise, spotlighting the role of deficit-driven improvisation. As Cao demonstrates, where printing paper, computers, and microchips have been i…

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Xuenan Cao
Chinese Media Improvisations

Xuenan Cao offers an unexpected angle on China's technological rise, spotlighting the role of deficit-driven improvisation. As Cao demonstrates, where printing paper, computers, and microchips have been i…

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Eileen Otis
Walmart

This book tells the story of Walmart's expansion in China, making the case that it is the story of a major shift in the structure of global capitalism. Walmart, argues Eileen Otis, is a leading actor in t…

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