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

Series

Asian Religions and Society

Contemporary Chinese Studies

Urbanization in Asia