Asian Studies

Onscreen/Offscreen is an ethnographic study of the ontological politics of cinema in South India.

Building on a South Asian oral folk legend, Hidden Paradigms identifies the important symbolic patterns that well-known epic stories while also suggesting fresh strategies for further discovery.

The first book in a new series, Forgotten Things demonstrates the process of archaeological research and explores the culture of fieldwork.

Ellis provides a groundbreaking expansion of the geographical and cultural contours of Hispanism that bridges the fields of European, Latin American, and Asian Studies.

This book offers an overview of Canada’s fifty-year relationship with China, a narrative journey from diplomatic recognition to the present.

Imperial Engineers traces the history of what was once the preeminent engineering school of the British Empire, from its foundation to its final crises and closure.

China in the German Enlightenment examines the connections between eighteenth-century philosophy, German Orientalism, and the origins of modern race theory.

In this collection of ethnographic short stories spanning thirty years of fieldwork, an anthropologist narrates events that have shaped the lives of artisans in a famous heritage crafts village in Odisha, India.

Expanding on lessons taught in the beginner-level textbook, New Generation Korean 2 covers the essential content for intermediate-level Korean language learning.

This beautifully illustrated graphic novel tells the history of contemporary Thailand through the life of a blind man who walks on the streets of the capital for the last time.

Told alongside the life of a unique city resident, Harbin: A Cross-Cultural Biography is the history of Russian-Chinese relations in the Manchurian city of Harbin.

Expanding the historical understanding of the myriad ways in which the transfer of technology and business methods unfolded within East Asia, Strands of Modernization examines the translation of technologies among competing developing economies.

Designed by instructors with long-standing experience in teaching Korean, this workbook helps intermediate-level students practice their Korean language skills

This edited collection explores memories and experiences of genocide, civilian casualties, and other atrocities that occurred after the Second World War.

This is the first book in English to focus on the transitional period of Chinese science fiction – a key prelude to the increasingly global stature of Chinese science fiction in the twenty-first century.

Harvesting State Support provides an analytical focus on the local implementation and interpretation of the agricultural reform process in Japan.