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Male Homosexuality in 21st-Century Thailand: A Longitudinal Study of Young, Rural, Same-Sex-Attracted Men Coming of Age
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /This book presents the very first analysis of male homosexuality in modern rural Thailand that is based on sociological/anthropological research di...
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Sexuality and the Rise of China: The Post-1990s Gay Generation in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Mainland China
PaperbackOriginal price $25.95 - Original price $25.95Original price $25.95$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /In Sexuality and the Rise of China Travis S. K. Kong examines the changing meanings of same-sex identities, communities, and cultures for young Chi...
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Brown Saviors and Their Others: Race, Caste, Labor, and the Global Politics of Help in India
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /In Brown Saviors and Their Others Arjun Shankar draws from his ethnographic work with an educational NGO to investigate the practices of "brown sav...
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Beauty Regimes: A History of Power and Modern Empire in the Philippines, 1898-1941
PaperbackOriginal price $28.95 - Original price $28.95Original price $28.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Genevieve Alva Clutario traces how beauty and fashion in the Philippines shaped the intertwined projects of imperial expansion and modern nation bu...
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Listening with a Feminist Ear: Soundwork in Bombay Cinema
HardcoverOriginal price $75.00 - Original price $75.00Original price $75.00$95.99$95.99 - $95.99Current price $95.99| /Listening with a Feminist Ear is a study of the cultural politics and possibilities of sound in cinema. Eschewing ocularcentric and siloed discipli...
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Toward a Gameic World: New Rules of Engagement from Japanese Video Games Volume 100
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /Toward a Gameic World bridges the gap between Japanese popular culture studies and game studies by encouraging a dialogue centered around Japanese-...
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The Time of Laughter: Comedy and the Media Cultures of Japan Volume 101
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /From broadcast to social media, comedy plays a prominent role in Japan's cultural landscape and political landscape. The Time of Laughter explores ...
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New Export China: Translations Across Time and Place in Contemporary Chinese Porcelain Art
HardcoverOriginal price $50.00 - Original price $50.00Original price $50.00$66.99$66.99 - $66.99Current price $66.99| /Why do so many contemporary Chinese artists use porcelain in their work? In New Export China, Alex Burchmore presents a deep dive into a unique ge...
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A Life of Worry: Politics, Mental Health, and Vietnam's Age of Anxiety Volume 17
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9780520392168 Media Type: Paperback Publisher: University of California Press Publication Date: 09-12-2023 Pages: 177 Serie...
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The Gate to China: A New History of the People's Republic and Hong Kong
HardcoverOriginal price $31.99Original price $31.99 - Original price $31.99Original price $31.99Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /An epic history of the rise of China and the fall of Hong Kong to authoritarian rule. Essential reading for anyone wishing to deal with China or to...
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Flawless: Lessons in Looks and Culture from the K-Beauty Capital
HardcoverOriginal price $29.00Original price $29.00 - Original price $29.00Original price $29.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /An audacious journalistic exploration of the present and future of beauty through the lens of South Korea's booming "K-beauty" industry and the cul...
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Righteous Revolutionaries: Morality, Mobilization, and Violence in the Making of the Chinese State
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Righteous Revolutionaries illustrates how states appeal to popular morality--shared understandings of right and wrong--to forge new group identitie...
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Lived Refuge: Gratitude, Resentment, Resilience Volume 5
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9780520397262 Media Type: Paperback Publisher: University of California Press Publication Date: 11-14-2023 Pages: 203 Serie...
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Becoming Global Asia: Contemporary Genres of Postcolonial Capitalism in Singapore Volume 1
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9780520396661 Media Type: Paperback Publisher: University of California Press Publication Date: 10-31-2023 Pages: 220 Serie...
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Jungle Passports: Fences, Mobility, and Citizenship at the Northeast India-Bangladesh Border
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /Since the nineteenth century, a succession of states has classified the inhabitants of what are now the borderlands of Northeast India and Banglade...
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Beauty Regimes: A History of Power and Modern Empire in the Philippines, 1898-1941
HardcoverOriginal price $104.95 - Original price $104.95Original price $104.95$123.99$123.99 - $123.99Current price $123.99| /In Beauty Regimes Genevieve Alva Clutario traces how beauty and fashion in the Philippines shaped the intertwined projects of imperial expansion an...
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Chinese Autobiographical Writing: An Anthology of Personal Accounts
HardcoverOriginal price $105.00 - Original price $105.00Original price $105.00$123.99$123.99 - $123.99Current price $123.99| /Personal accounts help us understand notions of self, interpersonal relations, and historical events. Chinese Autobiographical Writing contains ful...
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Chinese Autobiographical Writing: An Anthology of Personal Accounts
PaperbackOriginal price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00$44.99$44.99 - $44.99Current price $44.99| /Personal accounts help us understand notions of self, interpersonal relations, and historical events. Chinese Autobiographical Writing contains ful...
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The Wongs of Beloit, Wisconsin
PaperbackOriginal price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95$26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /Through family interviews, original photographs, and national records, Beatrice Loftus McKenzie traces the many lives of a resilient multigeneratio...
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A Refugee's American Dream: From the Killing Fields of Cambodia to the U.S. Secret Service
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /"I saw many killed. I almost starved. But I escaped to refugee camps in Thailand and eventually made it to the U.S." Thus begins Leth Oun's poignan...
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You've Changed: Fake Accents, Feminism, and Other Comedies from Myanmar
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /In this electric debut essay collection, a Myanmar millennial playfully challenges us to examine the knots and complications of immigration status,...
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Tse Tsan Tai (1872-1938): An Australian-Cantonese Opinion Maker in British Hong Kong
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00Original price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Who was Tse Tsan Tai? Insurrectionist? Socialite? Patriot? Revolutionary?Born and raised in Australia and trained in Anglo-Hong Kong's civil servic...
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Brown Girl Like Me: The Essential Guidebook and Manifesto for South Asian Girls and Women
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /You might feel that this fight is too big for you. How on earth can you dismantle so many complex, long-standing systems of oppression? My answer: ...
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A Kickboxing Geishas: How Modern Japanese Women Are Changing Their Nation
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /Forget the stereotypes. Today's Japanese women are shattering them -- breaking the bonds of tradition and dramatically transforming their culture. ...
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