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RED AND YELLOW, BLACK AND BROWN Decentering Whiteness in Mixed Race Studies Edited by Joanne L. Rondilla, Rudy P. Guevarra Jr., and Paul Spickard “This is a first-rate book on an important, topical, and under-theorized area of scholarship. A focus on mixed race people of color, as opposed to mixed race white/ people of color, is truly cutting edge.” —Kevin Johnson, Dean, UC Davis School of Law 304 pp • 12 photos, 4 tables • 978-0-8135-8730-1 Paperback • $29.95S Sale Price $20.97 R RED& BLACK BROWN Decentering Whiteness in Mixed Race Studies edited byJoanne L. Rondilla, Rudy P. Guevarra Jr. and Paul Spickard & YELLOW IN LADY LIBERTY’S SHADOW The Politics of Race and Immigration in New Jersey Robyn Magalit Rodriguez “Robyn Magalit Rodriguez makes an original intellectual contribution to the study of migration control that places the politics of race, anti-blackness, and suburban governance at the center of the analysis!” —Alfonso Gonzales, author of Reform Without Justice 248 pp • 9 photos • 978-0-8135-7008-2 Paperback • $19.95F Sale Price $13.97 WHEN WOMEN RULE THE COURT Gender, Race, and Japanese American Basketball Nicole Willms “Willms has combined solid research with clear prose to craft an exemplary study that is smart in execution and fresh in its perspective. When Women Rule the Court is unlike any other on the market and will make contributions to multiple fields.” —C. Richard King, author of Redskins: Insult and Brand 244 pages • 10 photos • 978-0-8135-8415-7 Paperback • $28.95S Sale Price $20.27 HOLLYWOOD’S HAWAII Race, Nation, and War Delia Malia Caparoso Konzett “A marvelously comprehensive gaze at cinematic representations of Hawai`i, this insightful study shows how those fictions constitute and are constituted by US imperialism, Christian capitalism, and white nationalism. Moreover, the imagined South Pacific is not a distant, fleeting pleasure but an imminent, durable presence.” —Gary Y. Okihiro, author of Island World: Hawai`i and the United States 264 pp • 30 photos • 978-0-8135-8743-1 Paperback • $27.95S Sale Price $19.56 RACE, NATION, AND WAR DELIA MALIA CAPAROSO KONZETT DELIA MALIA CAPAROSO KONZETT HOLLYWOODS HAWAii SAVING FACE The Emotional Costs of the Asian Immigrant Family Myth Angie Y. Chung “Full of rich and absorbing interview material, Saving Face explores the emotional dynamics of family experiences, responsibilities, and commitments among the children of Chinese and Korean immigrants. Covering a range of themes, from parent-child relations to gender roles and expectations, the book offers fresh insights into Asian immigrant family life.” —Nancy Foner, coauthor of Strangers No More 256 pp • 978-0-8135-6981-9 • Paperback • $28.95S Sale Price $20.95 ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES 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 672 pp • 978-0-8135-4575-2 • Paperback • $38.95S Sale Price $27.27 RACING ROMANCE Love, Power, and Desire among Asian American/White Couples Kumiko Nemoto “A provocative, insightful, and richly-detailed study. This book should be required reading for anyone studying race and romance in contemporary society.” —Erica Chito Childs, author of Navigating Interracial Borders: Black-White Couples and Their Social Worlds 208 pp • 978-0-8135-4533-2 • Paperback • $23.95S Sale Price $16.77 FAITH, FAMILY, AND FILIPINO AMERICAN COMMUNITY LIFE Stephen M. Cherry “Well-written and informative, this book is an incredibly in-depth, sensitive look into the worlds of Filipino lives, families, and religious practices. Cherry puts Filipino religious lives in context, helping us get up-close views that bring social patterns to life.” —Michael O. Emerson, Rice University 256 pp • 5 figures • 978-0-8135-6204-9 Paperback • $27.95S Sale Price $19.57 ASIAN AMERICA Forming New Communities, Expanding Boundaries Edited by Huping Ling “This volume of solid scholarship presents fresh and original research findings highlighting new phenomena in Asian American communities.” —Shehong Chen, University of Massachusetts, Lowell 304 pp • 2 illustrations • 978-0-8135-4487-8 Paperback • $25.95S Sale Price $18.17 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 BEYOND THE CITY AND THE BRIDGE East Asian Immigration in a New Jersey Suburb Noriko Matsumoto “In this fine-grained and engaging study of a multi-ethnic community just outside of New York City, Matsumoto uncovers the changing dynamics of American suburban life. This book will appeal to those studying urban sociology, race and ethnicity, and immigration.” —Andrew Deener, author of Venice: A Contested Bohemia in Los Angeles 175 pp • 1 map, 6 b/w figures • 978-0-8135-8888-9 Paperback • $25.95S Sale Price $18.16 NEW 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 214 pp • 1 illustration, 1 table 978-0-8135-4727-5 • Paperback • $25.95S Sale Price $18.17 30% DISCOUNT USE DISCOUNT CODE “02ASIA18”

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RED AND YELLOW, BLACK AND BROWNDecentering Whiteness in Mixed Race StudiesEdited by Joanne L. Rondilla, Rudy P. Guevarra Jr., and Paul Spickard“This is a first-rate book on an important, topical, and under-theorized area of scholarship. A focus on mixed race people of color, as opposed to mixed race white/people of color, is truly cutting edge.”—Kevin Johnson, Dean, UC Davis School of Law304 pp • 12 photos, 4 tables • 978-0-8135-8730-1 Paperback • $29.95S Sale Price $20.97

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BLACKBROWN Decentering Whiteness in Mixed Race Studies

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IN LADY LIBERTY’S SHADOWThe Politics of Race and Immigration in New JerseyRobyn Magalit Rodriguez“Robyn Magalit Rodriguez makes an original intellectual contribution to the study of migration control that places the politics of race, anti-blackness, and suburban governance at the center of the analysis!”—Alfonso Gonzales, author of Reform

Without Justice248 pp • 9 photos • 978-0-8135-7008-2 Paperback • $19.95F Sale Price $13.97

WHEN WOMEN RULE THE COURTGender, Race, and Japanese American BasketballNicole Willms“Willms has combined solid research with clear prose to craft an exemplary study that is smart in execution and fresh in its perspective. When Women Rule the Court is unlike any other on the market and will make contributions to multiple fields.”—C. Richard King, author of Redskins: Insult and Brand244 pages • 10 photos • 978-0-8135-8415-7 Paperback • $28.95S Sale Price $20.27

HOLLYWOOD’S HAWAIIRace, Nation, and WarDelia Malia Caparoso Konzett“A marvelously comprehensive gaze at cinematic representations of Hawai`i, this insightful study shows how those fictions constitute and are constituted by US imperialism, Christian capitalism, and white nationalism. Moreover, the imagined South Pacific is not a distant, fleeting pleasure but an imminent, durable presence.”—Gary Y. Okihiro, author of Island World: Hawai`i and the

United States264 pp • 30 photos • 978-0-8135-8743-1 Paperback • $27.95S Sale Price $19.56

RACE, NATION,AND WAR

DELIA MALIA CAPAROSO KONZETTDELIA MALIA CAPAROSO KONZETT

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SAVING FACEThe Emotional Costs of the Asian Immigrant Family MythAngie Y. Chung“Full of rich and absorbing interview material, Saving Face explores the emotional dynamics of family experiences, responsibilities, and commitments among the children of Chinese and Korean immigrants. Covering a range of themes, from parent-child relations to gender roles and expectations, the book offers fresh insights into Asian immigrant family life.”—Nancy Foner, coauthor of Strangers No More256 pp • 978-0-8135-6981-9 • Paperback • $28.95S Sale Price $20.95

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ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES NOWA Critical ReaderEdited 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 Aliens672 pp • 978-0-8135-4575-2 • Paperback • $38.95S Sale Price $27.27

RACING ROMANCELove, Power, and Desire among Asian American/White CouplesKumiko Nemoto“A provocative, insightful, and richly-detailed study. This book should be required reading for anyone studying race and romance in contemporary society.”—Erica Chito Childs, author of Navigating

Interracial Borders: Black-White Couples and Their Social Worlds

208 pp • 978-0-8135-4533-2 • Paperback • $23.95S Sale Price $16.77

FAITH, FAMILY, AND FILIPINO AMERICAN COMMUNITY LIFEStephen M. Cherry“Well-written and informative, this book is an incredibly in-depth, sensitive look into the worlds of Filipino lives, families, and religious practices. Cherry puts Filipino religious lives in context, helping us get up-close views that bring social patterns to life.”—Michael O. Emerson, Rice University256 pp • 5 figures • 978-0-8135-6204-9 Paperback • $27.95S Sale Price $19.57

ASIAN AMERICAForming New Communities, Expanding BoundariesEdited by Huping Ling“This volume of solid scholarship presents fresh and original research findings highlighting new phenomena in Asian American communities.”—Shehong Chen, University of

Massachusetts, Lowell304 pp • 2 illustrations • 978-0-8135-4487-8 Paperback • $25.95S Sale Price $18.17

WRITING THE GHETTOClass, Authorship, and the Asian American Ethnic EnclaveYoonmee 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 America208 pp • 2 illustrations • 978-0-8135-5175-3 Paperback • $24.95S Sale Price $17.47 The American Literatures Initiative

BEYOND THE CITY AND THE BRIDGEEast Asian Immigration in a New Jersey SuburbNoriko Matsumoto“In this fine-grained and engaging study of a multi-ethnic community just outside of New York City, Matsumoto uncovers the changing dynamics of American suburban life. This book will appeal to those studying urban sociology, race and ethnicity, and immigration.”—Andrew Deener, author of Venice: A Contested Bohemia in

Los Angeles175 pp • 1 map, 6 b/w figures • 978-0-8135-8888-9Paperback • $25.95S Sale Price $18.16

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A FAITH OF OUR OWNSecond-Generation Spirituality in Korean American ChurchesSharon Kim“Sharon Kim has written a clear, well-organized, and accessible book on an important emerging phenomenon among second generation Korean American churches.”—Contemporary Sociology214 pp • 1 illustration, 1 table 978-0-8135-4727-5 • Paperback • $25.95S Sale Price $18.17

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LOOKING BACK ON THE VIETNAM WARTwenty-first-Century PerspectivesEdited by Brenda M. Boyle and Jeehyun Lim“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

224 pp • 6 photos • 978-0-8135-7993-1 Paperback • $27.95S Sale Price $19.57 War Culture

LATINIDAD: TRANSNATIONAL CULTURES IN THE

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SOUTHWEST ASIAThe Transpacific Geographies of Chicana/o LiteratureJayson 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 Barbara168 pp • 9 photos • 978-0-8135-7716-6 Paperback • $26.95S Sale Price $18.87

BECOMING MEXIPINOMultiethnic Identities and Communities in San DiegoRudy 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 Americans256 pp • 21 photos, 3 maps, 5 tables • 978-0-8135-5284-2 Paperback • $25.95S Sale Price $18.17

THE NEW CHINESE AMERICAClass, Economy, and Social HierarchyXiaojian Zhao“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 Cincinnati220 pp • 978-0-8135-4692-6 Paperback • $27.95S Sale Price $19.57

• 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 HEROESThe Transnational Labor Brokering of Filipino WorkersAnna 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 America274 pp • 978-0-8135-4634-6 • Paperback • $25.95S Sale Price $18.17

THE CRUCIBLEAn Autobiography by Colonel Yay, Filipina American GuerrillaEdited 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 YEEThe Silent Traveller from the East—A Cultural BiographyDa 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 College358 pp • 18 illustrations, 18 photos • 978-0-8135-4693-3 Cloth • $59.95S Sale Price $41.97

FACING THE KHMER ROUGEA Cambodian JourneyRonnie YimsutAs 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

The New ChineseAmericaClass, Economy, and Social Hierarchy

Xiaojian Zhao

Nazli Kibria

Muslims in Motion

Islam and National Identity in the Bangladeshi Diaspora

LATINASIAN CARTOGRAPHIESHistory, Writing, and the National ImaginarySusan Thananopavarn“LatinAsian Cartographies is an excellent book that widens the scope of Asian American, Latin American, and American studies. Thananopavarn’s comparative study allows us to engage with and learn about the complexities of globalization, transnational migration, citizenship, and belonging.”—Rudy Guevarra Jr., author of Becoming Mexipino:

Multiethnic Identities and Communities in San Diego216 pp • 3 illustrations • 978-0-8135-8984-8 Paperback • $27.95S Sale Price $20.96

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POISON IN THE IVYRace Relations and the Reproduction of Inequality on Elite College CampusesW. Carson ByrdPoison 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.264 pp • 9 figures, 41 tables • 978-0-8135-8936-7 Paperback • $34.95S Sale Price $24.46

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• Honorable mention for the 2011 Book Award in Social Sciences from Association for Asian American Studies

MUSLIMS IN MOTIONIslam and National Identity in the Bangladeshi DiasporaNazli 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 University208 pp • 978-0-8135-5056-5 • Paperback • $24.95S Sale Price $17.47

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RACIAL AMBIGUITY IN ASIAN AMERICAN CULTUREJennifer Ann Ho“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 uncertainty and their political stakes for Asian Americans.”—Leslie Bow, author of Partly Colored: Asian Americans

and Racial Anomaly in the Segregated South256 pp • 978-0-8135-7069-3 Paperback • $31.95S Sale Price $22.37

RACE, RELIGION, AND CIVIL RIGHTSAsian Students on the West Coast, 1900-1968Stephanie Hinnershitz“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

256 pp • 6 photos • 978-0-8135-7178-2 Paperback • $28.95S Sale Price $20.27

ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIESASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES TODAY

TECHNO-ORIENTALISMImagining Asia in Speculative Fiction, History, and MediaEdited 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 Catastrophe272 pp • 15 photos • 978-0-8135-7063-1 Paperback • $34.95S Sale Price $24.47

• Received an Honorable Mention for the 2015-2016 Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature, Adult Non-Fiction category

FROM CANTON RESTAURANT TO PANDA EXPRESSA History of Chinese Food in the United StatesHaiming 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 America240 pp • 2 tables • 978-0-8135-7474-5 Paperback • $27.95S Sale Price $19.57

MAKING ASIAN AMERICAN FILM AND VIDEO

JUN OKADA

History, Institutions, Movements

Asian Students

on the

West Coast,

1900-1968

Race, Religion,

and Civil Rights

Stephan ie H innersh i tz

from Canton Restaurant to Panda Express

A History of Chinese Food in the United States

Haiming Liu

DAVID S. ROH, BETSY HUANG, AND GRETA A. NIU

K o r e a n A m e r i c a n A d o p t e e s ,

A s i a n A m e r i c a n E x p e r i e n c e s , a n d

R a c i a l E x c e p t i o n a l i s m

K I M PA R K N E L S O N

I N V I S I B L E

ASIANS

RACIAL AMBIGUITYI N A S I A N A M E R I C A N C U LT U R E

JENNIFER ANN HO

IMAGINING ASIA IN THE AMERICASEdited by Zelideth María Rivas and Debbie Lee-DiStefano“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

REDEFINING JAPANESENESSJapanese Americans in the Ancestral HomelandJane H. Yamashiro“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, Berkeley224 pp • 978-0-8135-7636-7 Paperback • $27.95S Sale Price $19.57

INVISIBLE ASIANSKorean American Adoptees, Asian American Experiences, and Racial ExceptionalismKim Park Nelson“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 America248 pp • 6 photos, 1 table • 978-0-8135-7066-2 Paperback • $25.95S Sale Price $18.17

THE RESILIENT SELFGender, Immigration, and Taiwanese AmericansChien-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 Education208 pp • 4 b/w photos, 1 table • 978-0-8135-8605-2Paperback • $25.95S Sale Price $18.16

BETWEEN FOREIGN AND FAMILYReturn Migration and Identity Construction among Korean Americans and Korean ChineseHelene K. Lee“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 Japan192 pp • 2 tables • 978-0-8135-8613-7Paperback • $26.95S Sale Price $18.86

FOREIGNBETWEEN

FAMILYAND

Helene K. Lee

R etur n Migr ation

and Identity Construction

among Kor ean Amer icans

and Kor ean Chinese

NEWNEW

MAKING ASIAN AMERICAN FILM AND VIDEOHistory, Institutions, MovementsJun 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.”—Choice180 pp • 12 photos • 978-0-8135-6501-9 Paperback • $26.95S Sale Price $18.87

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MOVIE MIGRATIONSTransnational Genre Flows and South Korean CinemaHye Seung Chung and David Scott Diffrient“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.”—CHOICE306 pp • 30 photos, 1 figure, 2 tables • 978-0-8135-6997-0 Paperback • $29.95S Sale Price $20.97 New Directions in International Studies

LIVING CLASS IN URBAN INDIASara Dickey“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 California288 pp • 8 photos • 978-0-8135-8391-4 Paperback • $29.95S Sale Price $20.97

COSMOPOLITAN PUBLICSAnglophone Print Culture in Semi-Colonial ShanghaiShuang Shen“[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 University204 pp • 10 illustrations • 978-0-8135-4542-4 Cloth • $39.95S Sale Price $27.97

RUTGERS SERIES IN CHILDHOOD STUDIES

CHILDREN OF THE OCCUPATIONJapan’s Untold StoryWalter Hamilton“A wonderful, moving, important book.”—Paul Spickard, University of California,

Santa Barbara340 pp • 42 photos in 16 pp gallery, 2 maps 978-0-8135-6100-4 Paperback • $28.95S Sale Price $20.27

AMBIVALENT ENCOUNTERSChildhood, Tourism, and Social Change in Banaras, IndiaJenny Huberman“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

Institute246 pp • 1 map • 978-0-8135-5406-8 Paperback • $28.95S Sale Price $20.27

NARRATING LOVE AND VIOLENCEWomen Contesting Caste, Tribe, and State in Lahaul, IndiaHimika Bhattacharya“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

H I M I K A B H A T T A C H A R Y A

Narrat ing Love and

ViolenceWomen Contesting Caste, Tribe, and State in Lahaul, India

PLANNING FAMILIES IN NEPALGlobal and Local Projects of ReproductionJan Brunson“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. Louis248 pp • 11 figures, 1 table • 978-0-8135-7861-3Paperback • $26.95S Sale Price $18.86

VALUING DEAF WORLDS IN URBAN INDIAMichele 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 University216 pp • 1 photo, 7 figures • 978-0-8135-7060-0 Paperback • $28.95S Sale Price $20.27

TRANSITIVE CULTURESAnglophone Literature of the TranspacificChristopher B. Patterson“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 Square256 pp • 1 figure • 978-0-8135-9186-5 Paperback • 29.95S Sale Price $18.16

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CHILDHOOD IN A SRI LANKAN VILLAGEShaping Hierarchy and DesireBambi L. Chapin“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

University220 pp • 3 tables • 978-0-8135-6165-3 Paperback • $30.95S Sale Price $24.46

Childhood in a Sri lankan Village

Shaping Hierarchy and Desire

B amBi L . Chapin

NEWUNVEILING DESIREFallen Women in Literature, Culture, and Films of the EastEdited 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 Mobilities298 pp • 978-0-8135-8784-4 Paperback • $34.95S Sale Price $24.47

ASIAN STUDIESA DREAM OF RESISTANCEThe Cinema of Kobayashi MasakiStephen Prince“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 Kurosawa338 pages • 45 b/w photos • 978-0-8135-9235-0 Cloth • $39.95T Sale Price $27.96

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AGING AND LOSSMourning and Maturity in Contemporary JapanJason Danely“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

Austin246 pp • 1 map, 8 illustrations • 978-0-8135-6516-3 Paperback • $28.95S Sale Price $20.27 Global Perspectives on Aging