ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES RED AND YELLOW, BLACK AND BROWN
Decentering Whiteness in Mixed Race Studies Edited by Joanne L. Rondilla, Rudy P. Guevarra Jr., and Paul Spickard
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edited by Joanne L. Rondilla, Rudy P. Guevarra Jr. and Paul Spickard
BEYOND THE CITY AND THE BRIDGE
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East Asian Immigration in a New Jersey Suburb Noriko Matsumoto
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Red and Yellow, Black and Brown
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IN LADY LIBERTY’S SHADOW
SAVING FACE
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The Politics of Race and Immigration in New Jersey Robyn Magalit Rodriguez
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WHEN WOMEN RULE THE COURT
Gender, Race, and Japanese American Basketball Nicole Willms
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RACING ROMANCE
Love, Power, and Desire among Asian American/White Couples Kumiko Nemoto
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FAITH, FAMILY, AND FILIPINO AMERICAN COMMUNITY LIFE Stephen M. Cherry
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A FAITH OF OUR OWN
Second-Generation Spirituality in Korean American Churches Sharon Kim “Sharon Kim has written a clear, well-organized, and accessible book on an important emerging phenomenon among second generation Korean American churches.” —Contemporary Sociology
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The Emotional Costs of the Asian Immigrant Family Myth Angie Y. Chung
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HOLLYWOOD’S HAWAII
Race, Nation, and War Delia Malia Caparoso Konzett
HOLLYWOOD’S
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DELIA MALIA CAPAROSO KONZETT
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ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES NOW
A Critical Reader Edited by Jean Yu-Wen Shen Wu and Thomas Chen
“To read these essays is to be challenged again and again by some of the brightest minds and most sophisticated political sensibilities at work today. This volume is essential reading.” —Paul Spickard, author of Almost All Aliens
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ASIAN AMERICA
Forming New Communities, Expanding Boundaries Edited by Huping Ling
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WRITING THE GHETTO
Class, Authorship, and the Asian American Ethnic Enclave Yoonmee Chang
“Chang’s excellent book makes a compelling case for why Asian American critics need to use the ‘ghetto’ as a paradigm and marshals ample evidence to show the ways Asian American literature supports such a provocative claim.” —Viet Thanh Nguyen, author of Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America 208 pp • 2 illustrations • 978-0-8135-5175-3 Paperback • $24.95S Sale Price $17.47 The American Literatures Initiative
Superintendent of Education in the Empire of Japan, 1873-1879
Dr. David Murray
434 pp • 28 illustrations • 978-0-8135-6966-6 Paperback • $42.95S Sale Price $30.06
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Constructing the National School System, 1872-1890 Benjamin Duke
THE HISTORY OF MODERN JAPANESE EDUCATION
426 pp • 43 b/w photos • 978-0-8135-9497-2 Cloth • $65.00S Sale Price $45.50
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Superintendent of Education in the Empire of Japan, 1873-1879 Benjamin Duke
DR. DAVID MURRAY
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History, Writing, and the National Imaginary Susan Thananopavarn
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Multiethnic Identities and Communities in San Diego Rudy P. Guevarra, Jr.
“Guevarra’s fresh, exciting, and provocative analysis provides an extraordinary account of what it means to be a multiethnic American ... a remarkable feat!” —Rick Bonus, author of Locating Filipino Americans
The Transpacific Geographies of Chicana/o Literature Jayson Gonzales Sae-Saue
“This impressive and innovative book articulates a critical perspective on Chicana/o studies that is not only sorely needed, but that also points to the interethnic and transnational origins of the field as a productive trajectory forward.” —Maria Herrera Sobek, associate vice chancellor, University of California, Santa Barbara 168 pp • 9 photos • 978-0-8135-7716-6 Paperback • $26.95S Sale Price $18.87
220 pp • 978-0-8135-4692-6 Paperback • $27.95S Sale Price $19.57
264 pp • 9 figures, 41 tables • 978-0-8135-8936-7 Paperback • $34.95S Sale Price $24.46
LOOKING BACK ON THE VIETNAM WAR
Twenty-first-Century Perspectives Edited by Brenda M. Boyle and Jeehyun Lim
THE CRUCIBLE
SOUTHWEST ASIA
“Zhao’s book provides the most detailed and relatively comprehensive look that we have of the ways in which Chinese America works and aspires.” —Roger Daniels, University of Cincinnati
Poison in the Ivy examines college students in the U.S.’s upper-echelon of higher education to identify how young elites interact with one another, how these social interactions influence their views of race and inequality, and how these views and interactions may contribute to broader racial inequalities in society.
224 pp • 6 photos • 978-0-8135-7993-1 Paperback • $27.95S Sale Price $19.57 War Culture
256 pp • 21 photos, 3 maps, 5 tables • 978-0-8135-5284-2 Paperback • $25.95S Sale Price $18.17
Class, Economy, and Social Hierarchy Xiaojian Zhao
NEW Race Relations and the Reproduction of Inequality on Elite College Campuses W. Carson Byrd
“It is a crucial and timely moment to revisit the meanings of the Vietnam War. This book is a hugely valuable reassessment of the war’s legacies and cultural impact.” —Marita Sturken, author of Tangled Memories: The Vietnam War, the AIDS Epidemic, and the Politics of Remembering
BECOMING MEXIPINO
THE NEW CHINESE AMERICA
POISON IN THE IVY
The New Chinese America Class, Economy, and Social Hierarchy
Xiaojian Zhao
• Winner of the 2010 American Sociological Association’s Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Book Award, from the Race, Gender, and Class section • Honorable mention, 2011 American Sociological Association’s Section on Asia and Asian America Book Award
MARKETING DREAMS, MANUFACTURING HEROES
The Transnational Labor Brokering of Filipino Workers Anna Romina Guevarra
“A splendid and hard-hitting book that exposes the campaigns by some governments to urge their citizens to work overseas, a key and virtually unnoticed aspect of economic globalization.” —Karen Brodkin, author of How Jews Became White Folks and What That Says About Race in America 274 pp • 978-0-8135-4634-6 • Paperback • $25.95S Sale Price $18.17
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An Autobiography by Colonel Yay, Filipina American Guerrilla Edited by Denise Cruz and Yay Panlilio
“The Crucible is a fascinating and unique autobiography that presents readers with a point of view that is rarely seen and heard, but deserves notice.” —Catherine Ceniza Choy, author of Empire of Care: Nursing and Migration in Filipino American History 352 pp • 1 illustration • 978-0-8135-4682-7 Paperback • $27.95S Sale Price $19.57
• Named one of the Chinese American Librarians Association’s Best Books of 2010
CHIANG YEE
The Silent Traveller from the East—A Cultural Biography Da Zheng
“Da Zheng’s meticulous recording of Chiang Yee’s cultural biography promises to bring about an intensified awareness of the diverse intellectual and cultural itineraries organizing various aspects of Chinese American culture.” —Donald Pease, Dartmouth College
358 pp • 18 illustrations, 18 photos • 978-0-8135-4693-3 Cloth • $59.95S Sale Price $41.97
FACING THE KHMER ROUGE A Cambodian Journey Ronnie Yimsut
As a child, Yimsut played among the ruins of the Angkor Wat temples, surrounded by a close-knit community. As the Khmer Rouge gained power and began its genocidal reign of terror, his life became a nightmare. This is Yimsut’s personal quest to rehabilitate himself, make a new life in America, and then return to Cambodia to help rebuild the land of his birth.
270 pp • 1 family tree, 2 maps • 978-0-8135-5152-4 Paperback • $26.95S Sale Price $18.87 Genocide, Political Violence, Human Rights • Honorable mention for the 2011 Book Award in Social Sciences from Association for Asian American Studies
MUSLIMS IN MOTION
Muslims in Motion Islam and National Identity in the Bangladeshi Diaspora
Islam and National Identity in the Bangladeshi Diaspora Nazli Kibria
“Kibria’s groundbreaking study provides valuable insight into the process of transnational and diasporic identity formation among contemporary populations.” —Steven J. Gold, Michigan State University
Nazli Kibria
208 pp • 978-0-8135-5056-5 • Paperback • $24.95S Sale Price $17.47
CAN STUDIES ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES TODAY THE RESILIENT SELF
BETWEEN FOREIGN AND FAMILY
Gender, Immigration, and NEW Taiwanese Americans Chien-Juh Gu
“A study of middle-class, educated Taiwanese women and their efforts to redefine their lives after immigration as dependent spouses initially unable, by the terms of their visas, to work outside the home.” —Chronicle of Higher Education
192 pp • 2 tables • 978-0-8135-8613-7 Paperback • $26.95S Sale Price $18.86
INVISIBLE ASIANS
“Imagining Asia in the Americas brings fresh ideas and scholarship to the field. Using oral histories and personal experience, the essays in this volume convey a level of intimacy missing from other collections on the Asian diaspora.” —Jerry García, author of Looking Like the Enemy: Japanese Mexicans, the Mexican State, and U.S. Hegemony 216 pp • 3 photos • 978-0-8135-8520-8 Paperback • $27.95 S Sale Price $19.57
Korean American Adoptees, Asian American Experiences, and Racial Exceptionalism Kim Park Nelson
I N V I SASI I B AL NS E
“In this accessible and original work, Kim Park Nelson explores the complexity of historical and contemporary Korean American adoptee identity and experience.” —Catherine Ceniza Choy, author of Global Families: A History of Asian International Adoption in America
Korean American Adoptees,
Asian American Experiences, and Racial E xceptionalism
KIM PAR K N E L S O N
248 pp • 6 photos, 1 table • 978-0-8135-7066-2 Paperback • $25.95S Sale Price $18.17
REDEFINING JAPANESENESS
RACIAL AMBIGUITY IN ASIAN AMERICAN CULTURE
Japanese Americans in the Ancestral Homeland Jane H. Yamashiro
Jennifer Ann Ho
“Not only does Yamashiro give us engaging portraits of how Japanese Americans navigate the social and cultural terrain of contemporary Japan, but she also provides a fundamental rethinking of the analytic frameworks by which migrant identities have been contextualized and understood.” — Michael Omi, University of California, Berkeley
256 pp • 978-0-8135-7069-3 Paperback • $31.95S Sale Price $22.37
TECHNO-ORIENTALISM
RACE, RELIGION, AND CIVIL RIGHTS
Imagining Asia in Speculative Fiction, History, and Media Edited by David S. Roh, Betsy Huang, and Greta A. Niu
“Situating itself at the nexus of Asian and Asian American Studies, Techno-Orientalism covers an exciting range of topics and draws productive connections between literature, popular culture, technology, and the emergent geopolitics of what has been called the Pacific Century. This collection is a vital contribution to global media and cultural studies.” —Peter Paik, author of From Utopia to Apocalypse: Science Fiction and the Politics of Catastrophe DAVID S. ROH, BETSY HUANG, AND GRETA A. NIU
272 pp • 15 photos • 978-0-8135-7063-1 Paperback • $34.95S Sale Price $24.47
RACIAL AMBIGUITY I N A S I A N A M E R I C A N C U LT U R E
“With nuanced, original readings and fluid prose, Racial Ambiguity in Asian American Culture exceeds other studies of multiracialism by presenting a lucid, yet complex meditation on category confusion and epistemological JENNIFER uncertainty and their political stakes for ANN HO Asian Americans.” —Leslie Bow, author of Partly Colored: Asian Americans and Racial Anomaly in the Segregated South
224 pp • 978-0-8135-7636-7 Paperback • $27.95S Sale Price $19.57
Asian Students on the West Coast, 1900-1968 Stephanie Hinnershitz
Race, Religion, and Civil Rights Asian Students on the
West Coast, 1900-1968
“Hinnershitz takes an innovative approach to the people whom Americans generally regarded as non-American other. This is a welcome innovation in the research on the civil rights movement.” —Liping Bu, author of Making the World Like Us: Education, Cultural Expansion, and the American Century Stephanie Hinnershitz
256 pp • 6 photos • 978-0-8135-7178-2 Paperback • $28.95S Sale Price $20.27
MAKING ASIAN AMERICAN FILM AND VIDEO from
Canton Restaurant to Panda Express
A History of Chinese Food in the United States Haiming Liu
“Haiming Liu turns the topic of restaurants into a discussion of Chinese American history and explores complex issues concerning race relations and ethnic identity, as well as political and regional affiliations among the Chinese in the United States.” —Xiaojian Zhao, author of The New Chinese America 240 pp • 2 tables • 978-0-8135-7474-5 Paperback • $27.95S Sale Price $19.57
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A History of Chinese Food in the United States Haiming Liu
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IMAGINING ASIA IN THE AMERICAS
FROM CANTON RESTAURANT TO PANDA EXPRESS
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BETWEEN FOREIGN AND FAMILY
“In this distinct contribution to the field of transnational studies, Helene K. Lee shows how ethnic identity comes to take on a very different significance depending on one’s nationality and class position.” —Joshua Roth, author of Brokered Homeland: Japanese Brazilian Migrants in Japan
208 pp • 4 b/w photos, 1 table • 978-0-8135-8605-2 Paperback • $25.95S Sale Price $18.16
• Received an Honorable Mention for the 2015-2016 Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature, Adult Non-Fiction category
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Return Migration and Identity Construction among Korean Americans and Korean Chinese Helene K. Lee
History, Institutions, Movements Jun Okada “Institutional context provides Okada with the framework for her illuminating study of Asian American filmmaking from its roots in the early 1970s to the present.” —Choice 180 pp • 12 photos • 978-0-8135-6501-9 Paperback • $26.95S Sale Price $18.87
MAKING ASIAN AMERICAN
FILM AND VIDEO
History, Institutions, Movements JUN OKADA
ASIAN STUDIES A DREAM OF RESISTANCE
RUTGERS SERIES IN CHILDHOOD STUDIES
“Prince, already one of the field’s greatest observers of film form, has moved beyond form to demonstrate Kobayashi’s deep humanism, fierce political convictions, and religio-philosophical leanings within a career of rare depth and beauty.” —David Desser, author of The Samurai Films of Akira Kurosawa
CHILDREN OF THE OCCUPATION Japan’s Untold Story Walter Hamilton
“A wonderful, moving, important book.” —Paul Spickard, University of California, Santa Barbara
338 pages • 45 b/w photos • 978-0-8135-9235-0 Cloth • $39.95T Sale Price $27.96
340 pp • 42 photos in 16 pp gallery, 2 maps 978-0-8135-6100-4 Paperback • $28.95S Sale Price $20.27
TRANSITIVE CULTURES
Anglophone Literature of the NEW Transpacific Christopher B. Patterson
AMBIVALENT ENCOUNTERS
Childhood, Tourism, and Social Change in Banaras, India Jenny Huberman
“Patterson’s reframing of Anglophone literature stands to substantially enrich existing conversations among scholars in English studies, comparative literature, and Asian studies.” —Belinda Kong, author of Tiananmen Fictions Outside the Square
“A useful contribution to our understanding of interactions with children that take place in the context of tourism, and of children’s economic activities more generally.” —Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
256 pp • 1 figure • 978-0-8135-9186-5 Paperback • 29.95S Sale Price $18.16
LIVING CLASS IN URBAN INDIA
246 pp • 1 map • 978-0-8135-5406-8 Paperback • $28.95S Sale Price $20.27
UNVEILING DESIRE
Sara Dickey
NEW
Fallen Women in Literature, Culture, and Films of the East Edited by Devaleena Das and Colette Morrow
“Unveiling Desire’s greatest contribution is its exploration of the nexus of Eastern and Western feminisms. Readers will discover how the trope of the fallen woman appears in [an] array of texts, engaging themes of female agency, colonialism, nationalism, and patriarchal traditions.” —Amy Levin, editor of Global Mobilities 298 pp • 978-0-8135-8784-4 Paperback • $34.95S Sale Price $24.47
Transnational Genre Flows and South Korean Cinema Hye Seung Chung and David Scott Diffrient
288 pp • 8 photos • 978-0-8135-8391-4 Paperback • $29.95S Sale Price $20.97
CHILDHOOD IN A SRI LANKAN VILLAGE Shaping Hierarchy and Desire Bambi L. Chapin
220 pp • 3 tables • 978-0-8135-6165-3 Paperback • $30.95S Sale Price $24.46
“Brimming with insight and detail, this is the go-to book for South Korean genre cinema, a remarkable achievement of scholarship, richly detailed with frame grabs and production stills ... Highly recommended.” —CHOICE
COSMOPOLITAN PUBLICS Anglophone Print Culture in Semi-Colonial Shanghai Shuang Shen
306 pp • 30 photos, 1 figure, 2 tables • 978-0-8135-6997-0 Paperback • $29.95S Sale Price $20.97 New Directions in International Studies
AGING AND LOSS
Mourning and Maturity in Contemporary Japan Jason Danely
“[This] book provides a rare perspective from which to view the multivalent (and multilingual) dimensions of China’s search for modernity in the cultural sphere.” —David Wang, Harvard University 204 pp • 10 illustrations • 978-0-8135-4542-4 Cloth • $39.95S Sale Price $27.97
PLANNING FAMILIES IN NEPAL
“Jason Danely’s book represents an excellent contribution to our understanding of aging in Japan and provides an important exploration of the intersection of religion and aging.” —John Traphagan, University of Texas at Austin
Global and Local Projects of Reproduction Jan Brunson
246 pp • 1 map, 8 illustrations • 978-0-8135-6516-3 Paperback • $28.95S Sale Price $20.27 Global Perspectives on Aging
Women Contesting Caste, Tribe, and State in Lahaul, India Himika Bhattacharya
“Captivating stories of everyday life, connecting the capitalist forces we categorize as ‘global’ with the spaces, practices, and organizations that ground daily experience.” —Mary Hancock, University of California
“Chapin’s work is a significant contribution to the anthropology of childhood. It tackles important questions about the meaning of child care practices and patterns.” —Jill E. Korbin, Case Western Reserve University
MOVIE MIGRATIONS
NARRATING LOVE AND VIOLENCE
NEW
The Cinema of Kobayashi Masaki Stephen Prince
HIMIKA
BHATTACHARYA
Na rrat i ng Love and Violence Women Contesting Caste, Tribe, and State in Lahaul, India
“The book exemplifies how theoretically informed storytelling and politically aware methodology can be interwoven to produce possibilities of justice, dignity, and recognition.” — Richa Nagar, author of Muddying the Waters: Co-authoring Feminisms Across Scholarship and Activism 236 pages • 6 photos and 2 maps • 978-0-8135-8953-4 Paperback • $28.95S Sale Price $20.27
“Jan Brunson skillfully weaves keen ethnographic observation with incisive social scientific analysis to provide a sensitive and nuanced account of gender and reproduction in an increasingly globalized Nepal.” —Geoff Childs, Washington University in St. Louis
248 pp • 11 figures, 1 table • 978-0-8135-7861-3 Paperback • $26.95S Sale Price $18.86
VALUING DEAF WORLDS IN URBAN INDIA Michele Ilana Friedner
“Friedner’s ethnography takes us on a rich, grounded journey with deaf young adults in Bangalore and shows us how they make their way through schools, vocational training, and religious worlds.” —Faye Ginsburg, New York University 216 pp • 1 photo, 7 figures • 978-0-8135-7060-0 Paperback • $28.95S Sale Price $20.27
Childhood in a Sri lankan Village Shaping Hierarchy and Desire B amBi L. Chapin