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Laura Miller
Occult Hunting and Supernatural Play in Japan

"In Japan today, women are the primary drivers of religious re-enchantment, and they are exerting pressure on shrines, temples, and the media industries to accommodate their interests and aesthetic tastes…

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Prachi Gupta
They Called Us Exceptional

“In this vulnerable and courageous memoir, Prachi Gupta takes the myth of the exceptional Indian American family to task.”—The Washington Post “I read it in one sitting. Wow. It aims right at the tender …

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Xiaojin Chen
China's Left-Behind Children

Paying special attention to the seventy million children left behind by internal migrants in rural China, this book investigates the role of parental migration and the left-behind status of their children…

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Claudia Huang
Dancing for Their Lives

Dancing for Their Lives delves into the world of retired Chinese “dancing grannies” who seek fulfillment amid broad social transformation. Based on ethnographic research, it challenges conventional narrat…

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Laura Miller
Occult Hunting and Supernatural Play in Japan

"In Japan today, women are the primary drivers of religious re-enchantment, and they are exerting pressure on shrines, temples, and the media industries to accommodate their interests and aesthetic tastes…

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Aarti Ratna
A Nation of Family and Friends?

In A Nation of Family and Friends sociologist Aarti Ratna interrogates sport and leisure cultures as a site of common culture. Ratna portrays and analyses the vagaries of British Asian-ness and examines t…

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Samantha Bresnahan
In Blood, Flowers Bloom

"In Blood, Flowers Bloom illuminates one of the last untold stories of World War II, the common act of soldiers taking their enemy's possessions after victory. This is the story of a single Japanese battl…

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Metamorphosis of Buddhism in China's New Era

"This study of contemporary Chinese Buddhism explores the relationship between religion and the state in China, and argues that Buddhism has entered a new era since the mid-2000s. Case studies from extend…

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Adeana McNicholl
Of Ancestors and Ghosts

Of Ancestors and Ghosts analyzes a type of Buddhist literature in which immoral, stingy people are reincarnated as hungry, suffering ghosts. It traces the emergence of this genre in relation to contempora…

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Kaila Yu
Fetishized

A deeply personal memoir-in-essays, reckoning with being an object of Asian fetish and how media, pop culture, and colonialism contributed to the oversexualization of Asian women—from Kaila Yu, former pin…

lieferbar ab 19.8.2025.

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Garrett Hongo
Ocean of Clouds

In his fourth book of poems, award-winning poet Garrett Hongo sees coastlines and waters, skylines and ancestral lines for what they inspire and teach. In a surpassingly beautiful collection of poems, wi…

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Manan Ahmed Asif
Disrupted City

"A history of Pakistan's cultural and intellectual capital, from one of the preeminent scholars of South Asia"--

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Susan Greenhalgh
Soda Science

"Recent years have brought growing concern about the power of huge corporations to distort science for corporate benefit, often to the detriment of human health. This book unearths a kind of corporate sci…

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Jenny Banh
Fantasies of Hong Kong Disneyland

Jenny Banh examines the attempt to transplant Disney's "happiest place on earth" to Hong Kong, delving into the three-way dynamics of American culture-corporation intentions; Hong Kong, China government i…

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Jenny Banh
Fantasies of Hong Kong Disneyland

Jenny Banh examines the attempt to transplant Disney's "happiest place on earth" to Hong Kong, delving into the three-way dynamics of American culture-corporation intentions; Hong Kong, China government i…

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Natasha Warikoo
Race at the Top

"The American suburb conjures an image of picturesque privilege: manicured lawns, quiet streets, and, most important to parents, high-quality schools. These elite enclaves are also historically white, all…

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Nathan McGovern
Holy Things

A common religious practice in Buddhist Thailand is asking "holy things" for help in return for an offering. These holy things include local spirits, Hindu gods, and famous Buddha images, which Thai peopl…

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Smithsonian Asian Pacific American History, Art, and Culture in 101 Objects

A rich and compelling introduction to the history of Asian Pacific American communities as told through 101 objects, from a fortune cookie baking mold to the debut Ms. Marvel comic featuring Kamala Khan …

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Satsuki Ina
The Poet and the Silk Girl

Now in paperback: A compelling and prismatic love story of one family's defiance in the face of injustice-and how their story echoes across generations. "Beautifully woven together by Satsuki Ina's mother…

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Aarti Ratna
A Nation of Family and Friends?

In A Nation of Family and Friends sociologist Aarti Ratna interrogates sport and leisure cultures as a site of common culture. Ratna portrays and analyses the vagaries of British Asian-ness and examines t…

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