March 25, 2020

Book Excerpt! Emperor Wu Zhao and Her Pantheon of Devis, Divinities, and Dynastic Mothers, By N. Harry Rothschild

 “With painstaking research, unerring insights, rich prose, and a sense of humor, Rothschild lavishly illustrates the political genius of Wu Zhao, China’s only female emperor. Indicating her keen political instincts and expansive knowledge of China’s cultural traditions, Rothschild adeptly...

March 25, 2020

Welcome to Our ISA 2020 Virtual Exhibit Booth!

Aloha! Welcome to our International Studies Association (ISA) 2020 virtual exhibit booth. The global pandemic may have canceled our travel plans and in-person meetings, but luckily we can still congregate in the digital sphere. We’ve relocated our exhibit booth from...

March 24, 2020

New Book Tuesday! Anxious Cinephilia, Transpacific Attachments, andChina’s Green Religion

Our weekly list of new books is now available! The Death of Idealism Development and Anti-Politics in the Peace Corps Meghan Elizabeth Kallman Why do Peace Corps volunteers often return having lost their idealism? In The Death of Idealism, Meghan Elizabeth...

March 24, 2020

Q&A: Raya Morag on the #MeToo Movement, Cambodian Cinema, and the Case of Forced Marriage and Rape

“This compelling book will matter as long as mass atrocities persist. Focused on the Cambodian genocide, Morag addresses a new phase in how we confront such events: films where survivors confront perpetrators face-to-face. These confrontations bring the visceral truth borne...

March 23, 2020

5 Ways That China’s First and Only Female Emperor Wu Zhao Reimagined Traditional Female Roles to Invent a Novel and Unique Vision of Emperorship!

Wu Zhao (624-705) was the first and only female emperor in Chinese history. Given the predominantly patriarchal and androcentric confines of medieval China, her singular ascendancy was wildly improbable. Even stranger, perhaps is one of the strategies she employed to...

March 22, 2020

New from The Sheng Yen Series in Chinese Buddhist Studies!

While you are undoubtedly tired of editor introductions at this point in your tour through our virtual booth, one more can’t hurt. My name is Lowell Frye, and I acquire exciting, interdisciplinary books on Chinese Buddhism in The Sheng Yen...

March 22, 2020

Join Wendy Lochner on a Tour of Our Books in Asian Philosophy and Religion

Hi! Welcome to our virtual booth! I’m Wendy Lochner, and I acquire books in philosophy, religion, political theory, and animal and critical-life studies—not only in Asian studies, of course, but that component is a very important part of the list. You...

March 21, 2020

#AAS2020 Happy Hour Reads: Asian Fiction in Translation

Well, it’s 4:00 PM EDT on day three of #AAS2020, and we bet you’re itching for some down time. Or, maybe you’ve just finished reading Christine’s post and you’re aching to escape into another time and place. We’ve got you...

March 21, 2020

Join Christine Dunbar on a Tour of Our New Books in Asian Fiction in Translation

Hi! I’m so glad you came back to chat more about books. We have several new translations in the booth this year. To be honest, the book I’m most excited about is still at the printer, but I begged a...

March 20, 2020

#AAS2020 Happy Hour Reads: Asian Politics and History

Well, it’s 4:00 PM EDT and normally you’d be taking advantage of your break between sessions at the AAS 2020 conference to browse our booth, and who are we to take that experience away from you? Or, maybe you just...

March 20, 2020

Join Caelyn Cobb on a Tour of Our New Books in Asian History and Politics!

Hi—happy Friday! I’m Caelyn Cobb, editor for global politics and global history. I acquire in all things global and international, but I handle all the incredible scholarship about Asia in these fields as well. We have several new releases that...

March 19, 2020

Book Excerpt! The Chile Pepper in China, By Brian R. Dotte

“Extensive source materials in both Chinese and English form the bedrock for this impressive study into how a relatively unassuming American import so radically changed one country’s cuisines and traditional pharmacopoeia. The history of the humble chile in China is...