May 22, 2020

Book Excerpt! Chow Chop Suey, By Anne Mendelson (introduction)

“Well-written and impeccably researched, Chow Chop Suey is a beautiful ode both to the history of Chinese Americans and the intriguing ways in which China’s rich food culture continues to take root here and flourish. Anne Mendelson’s section on Chinese...

May 21, 2020

Q&A: Anne Mendelson on Food and the Chinese American Journey

“Chow Chop Suey is an eye-opener, a book that will give everyone a deep appreciation of the exquisite skill required to produce authentic Chinese food and the sweep of history that brought Chinese cooking to America.” ~Marion Nestle, professor of nutrition,...

May 20, 2020

Book Excerpt! Sewing Women, by Margaret M. Chin (introduction)

“A new and illuminating perspective on New York’s garment industry and the dynamics of work among today’s immigrants through a carefully argued and insightful comparison of Chinese- and Korean-owned garment shops and their Chinese and Hispanic workers. This richly-textured account,...

May 20, 2020

New from Our Distributed Presses! Hong Kong in the Belt and Road Initiative, Indonesia: History, Heritage, Culture and more!

Our weekly list of new books is now available! Association for Asian Studies Indonesia: History, Heritage, Culture Kathleen M. Adams This work offers a concise, engaging introduction to the historical, political and cultural dynamics of Indonesia, the world’s fourth most...

May 19, 2020

Shennette Garrett-Scott Featured on ABWH-TV

“Garrett-Scott reclaims the stories of black women who—as bank founders and clerks, investors, aspiring home owners, loan seekers, and, yes, as those denied loans—asserted their own economic ethos. A compelling account of black women’s ideas about money, savings, lending, obligation,...

May 19, 2020

Q&A: Margaret M. Chin on the New York City Garment Industry

“Sewing Women provides a new and illuminating perspective on New York’s garment industry and the dynamics of work among today’s immigrants through a carefully argued and insightful comparison of Chinese- and Korean-owned garment shops and their Chinese and Hispanic workers.”...

May 19, 2020

New Book Tuesday! Film Studies and Foucault’s Strange Eros

Our weekly list of new books is now available! From the Film and Culture Series Film Studies, second edition An Introduction Ed Sikov Film Studies is a concise and indispensable introduction to the formal study of cinema. The second edition...

May 15, 2020

Book Excerpt! Buddhism in America, By Richard Hughes Seager (introduction)

“This well-informed book provides a comprehensive survey of a variety of Buddhist traditions in the contemporary U.S. . . . [Its] strength, apart from being a mine of information, is Seager’s insistence on taking a historically informed and comparative perspective.”...

May 15, 2020

Introducing Driving Innovation from Within, by Kaihan Krippendorff

 “This smart and wide-ranging book will convince you that it’s often more promising to be an ‘intrapreneur’—someone who innovates from within an established organization—than an entrepreneur. If you work for an organization and are itching to become more creative—to...

May 14, 2020

Richard Hughes Seager on Buddhism in America

“This well-informed book provides a comprehensive survey of a variety of Buddhist traditions in the contemporary U.S. . . . [Its] strength, apart from being a mine of information, is Seager’s insistence on taking a historically informed and comparative perspective.”...

May 14, 2020

Q&A: Robert Goodspeed on Scenario Planning for Cities and Regions

COVID-19 has introduced countless uncertainties into our lives. To prepare for the future, organizations ranging from hospitals to school districts to transit agencies, are using scenario planning, a framework for creating and analyzing multiple plausible versions of the future. In this interview with scenario planning expert Robert Goodspeed, he...

May 14, 2020

Book Excerpt! Meals Matter, By Michael Symons (prologue)

“Michael Symons succeeds brilliantly in a radical project: convincing readers to rethink a singular ‘economics’ as multiple ‘economies’: bodily, household, market, political, and natural. His book draws on intellectual history, economic and social theories, and gastronomy, and it is richly...