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Sweetening and Intensification

Explores how these two currents are shaping the contours of contemporary Hindu worship, myth, and visual and material culture in contemporary South Asia and its diasporas.This volume focuses on two altern…

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Claudia Huang
Dancing for Their Lives

Dancing for Their Livesdelves into the world of retired Chinese "dancing grannies" who seek fulfillment amid broad social transformation. Based on ethnographic research, it challenges convention…

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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 …

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Ashish Koul
Reinventing Caste

This book reveals that caste, usually assumed to be a feature of Hindu society, was in fact a trans-religious phenomenon in colonial India, as it is today. Even in an Islamic religious milieu that was sup…

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Yunuen Ysela Mandujano-Salazar,
Beyond the Male Idol Factory

"A star-making factory without rival, the Japanese talent agency Johnny's Jimusho has brought fame to several generations of male stars - singers, actors and performers. Beyond the Male Idol Factory …

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Asian America Rising

A collection of movement flashpoints and insurgent visions for Asian American activism In the late 1960s, Asian American political activism emerged to unite disparate Asian diasporic communities living in…

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Siyuan Yin
Contesting Inequalities

After four decades of market reform, China has developed a fast-growing, prosperous economy--the second largest in the world. Despite this prosperity, social inequality has persisted and expanded, particu…

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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, with…

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Siyuan Yin
Contesting Inequalities

After four decades of market reform, China has developed a fast-growing, prosperous economy--the second largest in the world. Despite this prosperity, social inequality has persisted and expanded, particu…

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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 go…

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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 go…

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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…

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The Cleaving

"Every dialogue in this anthology shares ache and joy, emotional and intellectual poignancy, a tender agony: for art, for Việt Nam, for place, space, and scale. The Cleaving is an exhibition of wha…

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Scott Miller
Let My Country Awake

The true story of an audacious international movement to liberate India from colonial rule during World War I. WANTED: Brave soldiers to stir up revolt in India; REMUNERATIONS: Death; PRIZE: Martyrdom; PE…

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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 A…

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Nadine Shaanta Murshid
Intimacies of Violence

In Intimacies of Violence, Nadine Shaanta Murshid demonstrates how transnational middle-class Bangladeshi women personally embody structural violence to shed light on the ways in which violence is produce…

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Michael Luo
Strangers in the Land

"In 1889, when the Supreme Court upheld the Chinese Exclusion Act --a measure barring Chinese laborers from entering the United States that remained in effect for more than fifty years--Justice Steph…

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The China Questions 2

The China Questions 2 assembles top experts to explore key issues in US-China relations today, including conflict over Taiwan, economic and military competition, public health concerns, and areas of coope…

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Phil Tajitsu Nash
Our Place in History

A long overdue counternarrative to the story of Asian Americans as passive participants in the American storyInterest in Asian American issues and the place of Asian Americans in U.S. history has surged i…

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Ainash Mustoyapova
Nomads: In Search of the Lost Path

The book is devoted to the problem of the civilizational development of the Kazakhs, as descendants of nomads, at the present stage. The author pays special attention to how the eras of modernity and post…

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