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...

March 19, 2020

Announcing the Tang Center Series in Early China!

Whaddup, virtual Boston!! I’m Monique Briones, and I assist the Global History and Global Politics editor, Caelyn Cobb. Please picture us ten feet tall and made of solid gold. I’m super pumped to be introducing the Tang Center for Early China’s new series, with...

March 19, 2020

Join Christine Dunbar on a Tour of Our #AAS2020 Virtual Exhibit Booth!

Hi! Welcome to the Columbia University Press booth! I’m Christine Dunbar, and I acquire books in the Asian humanities and all of our literature in translation. I recognize your name; is it possible I asked you to peer review something...

March 19, 2020

Book Excerpt! Manchu Princess, Japanese Spy, By Phyllis Birnbaum (chapter 17)

“Richly illustrated with rare photos, and enlivened by numerous interviews, Phyllis Birnbaum’s book is a balanced, well-written biography of one of the most notorious figures to emerge in the early twentieth-century contest for empire in northeast Asia. Anyone interested in...

March 19, 2020

Welcome to Our #AAS2020 Exhibit Booth!

Hi. Welcome to our booth at the Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference. “Exhibit booth?” you might ask? “But the conference has been canceled!” you might exclaim. “We’re sheltered in,” you might say. “And travel is banned,” you might add. “Nonsense!”...

March 18, 2020

Book Excerpt! The Bearded Lady Project, edited by Lexi Jamieson Marsh and Ellen Currano (foreword)

“The portraits in The Bearded Lady Project intentionally cause double takes, forcing the viewer to look, then look again. But their real power lies in how they require us to look inward and see that antediluvian ideas about who can and...

March 17, 2020

AAS Books Now Distributed by Columbia University Press

Columbia University Press is proud to announce that we are now the world-wide distributor of the books published by the Association for Asian Studies (AAS). Founded in 1941, and located in Ann Arbor, Michigan, the Association for Asian Studies (AAS)...