June 5, 2020

Book Excerpt! Staging Personhood: Costuming in Early Qing Drama, by Guojun Wang (introduction)

“A refreshing book that will encourage readers and researchers to pay closer attention to the modes and codes of theatrical costuming in association with issues of ethnicity, gender, and individual identities, embedded in the specific context of early Qing China.”...

June 5, 2020

We Stand in Solidarity with All Those Peacefully Protesting Injustice

Columbia University Press strongly condemns the unjust killing of George Floyd and the deaths of many who went before him. We protest the systemic racism that plagues our country, and we must dedicate ourselves to eradicating it. We stand in...

June 3, 2020

Clothes Make the Person. Clothes Make the Nation
By Guojun Wang

“A marvelous piece of scholarship, Staging Personhood presents an exhaustive study of the function of clothing on stage and off. While speaking to issues of sexuality, gender, masculinity, and status in real society, the book goes beyond the existing literature...

June 3, 2020

New from Our Distributed Presses! Portraits of Automated Facial Recognition and Moving Images

New from transcript publishing Portraits of Automated Facial Recognition On Machinic Ways of Seeing the Face Lila Lee-Morrison This book offers a unique analysis of these algorithms from a critical visual culture studies perspective. The first part of this study...

June 2, 2020

Association of University Presses Releases Equity and Anti-Racism Statement

Below is a statement released on June 2, 2020 from the Association of University Presses. The Association of University Presses (AUPresses) holds among our core values diversity and inclusion. As an organization and as a community, we mourn the lost...

June 2, 2020

New Book Tuesday! Degenerative Realism, Japan’s New Regional Reality and The Ecocentrists

Our weekly list of new books is now available! Degenerative Realism Novel and Nation in Twenty-First-Century France Christy Wampole Examining key novels by Michel Houellebecq, Frédéric Beigbeder, Aurélien Bellanger, Yann Moix, and other French writers, Christy Wampole identifies and critiques...

June 1, 2020

Author Event! Join Jeffrey D. Sachs in Conversation with David Lawler

https://cupblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/In-Conversation-With-Globe-Book.mp4 Provocative discussions on the global issues of our time with world-class scholars, authors, and thought leaders Today’s most urgent problems are fundamentally global. They require nothing less than concerted, planet wide action if we are to secure a long-term...

May 29, 2020

Which Human Ancestor Invented Words?

By Herbert S. Terrace

“Language seems to be a miracle; even our closest relatives, the great apes, lack any capacity for the grammatical structures that make human language unique. Herbert Terrace goes further and shows that chimpanzees can’t even learn words. With characteristic clarity,...

May 28, 2020

COVID-19: War or Virus?
by Sunny Xiang

“Tonal Intelligence is smart and theoretically sophisticated. The book marks a significant contribution to work in Asian American and Asian studies, studies of twentieth-century literature and culture, theories of form and affect, and transpacific studies of late twentieth-century Asia.” ~Denise...

May 27, 2020

Book Excerpt! Asian Place, Filipino Nation, by Nicole CuUnjieng Aboitiz (chapter 1)

“In restoring the intellectual history of the Philippine Revolution, at long last, to its pan-Asian context, Nicole CuUnjieng Aboitiz offers a startling new perspective not only on the history of the Philippines in that era but on the evolution of...

May 26, 2020

The Philippine Revolution Constructs ‘Asia’ and Civilization from the Periphery

By Nicole CuUnjieng Aboitiz

The turn of the twentieth century is an important moment globally because of the changes in technology, sovereignty, human exchange, and ideology that it wrought. It is also a turning point for a more concentrated area: Southeast Asia—with imperial subjugation...

May 26, 2020

New Book Tuesday! Asian Place, Filipino Nation, Sex-Positive Social Work, Management Fundamentals, and More!

Our weekly list of new books is now available! Asian Place, Filipino Nation A Global Intellectual History of the Philippine Revolution, 1887–1912 Nicole CuUnjieng Aboitiz Asian Place, Filipino Nation reconnects the Philippine Revolution to the histories of Southeast and East...