Book Excerpts
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These excerpts were selected by our authors and editors. This collection covers subjects that range widely from literature, to religion, politics, history, culture, society, and activism.
| Date | Book Title | Author |
| 01-May | Undercurrents Queer Culture and Postcolonial Hong Kong |
Helen Hok-Sze Leung |
| 02-May | Gender and Change in Hong Kong Globalization, Postcolonialism, and Chinese Patriarchy |
Eliza Lee |
| 03-May | Zina, Transnational Feminism, and the Moral Regulation of Pakistani Women | Shahnaz Khan |
| 04-May | Sex and Borders Gender, National Identity, and Prostituion Policy in Thailand |
Leslie Jeffrey |
| 05-May | Resisting Manchukuo Chinese Women Writers and the Japanese Occupation |
Norman Smith |
| 06-May | Race and the City Chinese Canadian and Chinese American Political Mobilization (with Author Comment) |
Shanti Fernando |
| 07-May | Voices Rising Asian Canadian Cultural Activism |
Xiaoping Li |
| 08-May | Triumph of Citizenship The Japanese and Chinese in Canada, 1941-67 |
Patricia Roy |
| 09-May | Voices Raised in Protest Defending North American Citizens of Japanese Ancestry, 1942-49 |
Stephanie Bangarth |
| 10-May | Hiroshima Immigrants in Canada, 1891-1941 | Michiko Ayukawa |
| 11-May | The Voyage of the Komagata Maru | Hugh Johnston |
| 12-May | Cross-Cultural Caring A Handbook for Health Professionals 2nd ed. |
Nancy Waxler-Morrison, et al. |
| 13-May | Global Goes Local Popular Culture in Asia |
Timothy Craig |
| 14-May | Gutenberg in Shanghai Chinese Print Capitalism, 1876-1937 |
Christopher Reed |
| 15-May | Reclaiming Adat Khoo Contemporary Malaysian Film and Literature |
Gaik Cheng |
| 16-May | Images in Asian Religions Texts and Contexts |
Phyllis Granoff |
| 17-May | Gandharan Buddhism Archaeology, Art, and Texts |
Pia Brancaccio |
| 18-May | Dominion and the Rising Sun Canada Encounters Japan, 1929-1941 |
John Meehan |
| 19-May | Japan at the Millennium Joining Past and Future |
David Edgington |
| 20-May | Japan’s Motorcycle Wars An Industry History |
Jeffrey Alexander |
| 21-May | Japan’s Modern Prophet Uchimura KanzĂ´, 1861-1930 |
John Howes |
| 22-May | Teachers’ Schools and the Making of the Modern Chinese Nation-State, 1897-1937 | Xiaoping Cong |
| 23-May | Tibet and Nationalist China’s Frontier Intrigues and Ethnopolitics, 1928-49 |
Hsiago-Tin Lin |
| 24-May | Obedient Autonomy Chinese Intellectuals and the Achievement of Orderly Life |
Erika Evasdottir |
| 25-May | Chinese Democracy After Tiananmen | Yijang Ding |
| 26-May | The Chinese State at the Borders | Diana Lary |
| 27-May | Frontier People Han Settlers in Minority Areas of China |
Mette Hansen |
| 28-May | Healing Henan Henan: Canadian Nurses at the North China Mission, 1888-1947 |
Sonya Grypma |
| 29-May | Cult of Happiness Nianhua, Art, and History in Rural North China |
James Flath |
| 30-May | Outline of Classical Chinese Grammar | Edwin G. Pulleyblank |
| 31-May | Chinese Opera: Images and Stories | Siu Wang-Ngai with Peter Lovrick |




