Tag: Yuri Pines

March 22, 2021

Browse Our AAS Virtual Exhibit Booth and Our Asian Studies Catalog

Asian studies is a major focus at Columbia University Press, and all of us who would usually be at the Association for Asian Studies Conference this week are disappointed not to be meeting you in person. We’ve highlighted a small...

October 20, 2020

New Book Tuesday! Radio Empire, So You Want to Be a Neuroscientist? and Zhou History Unearthed

Our weekly list of new books is now available! From the Modernist Latitudes series Radio Empire The BBC’s Eastern Service and the Emergence of the Global Anglophone Novel Daniel Ryan Morse In Radio Empire, Daniel Ryan Morse demonstrates the significance...

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...

September 13, 2019

Weekend Reading List: Theory and Philosophy in Translation

To continue our immersion into National Translation Month, we’ve compiled a weekend reading list of translated philosophical books for you to expand your mind’s eye beyond language barriers and borders. •  •  •  •  •  • From the Translations from...

September 12, 2019

Book Excerpt! The Book of Lord Shang, by Shang Yang (introduction) and edited and translated by Yuri Pines

“This thorough study and complete translation of The Book of Lord Shang is a major achievement. It will open many avenues for research into early political thought, a long neglected core topic of early Chinese philosophy.” Carine Defoort, coeditor, The...

September 11, 2019

Yuri Pines on Translating The Book of Lord Shang: Apologetics of State Power in Early China

“No one in the world is more qualified than Yuri Pines to present this new translation of the infamous The Book of Lord Shang, which has both fascinated and repelled readers throughout Chinese history. Accompanied by a superbly informed study...

February 26, 2019

New Book Tuesday! Buying Gay, Media Persuasion in the Islamic State, New Authoritarianism And More!

Our list of new books is now available! Buying Gay How Physique Entrepreneurs Sparked a Movement David K. Johnson Media Persuasion in the Islamic State Neil Krishan Aggarwal The Book of Lord Shang Apologetics of State Power in Early China,...