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Borderland Dreams: The Transnational Lives of Korean Chinese Workers
HardcoverOriginal price $102.95 - Original price $102.95Original price $102.95$121.99$121.99 - $121.99Current price $121.99| /In Borderland Dreams June Hee Kwon explores the trajectory of the "Korean dream" that has fueled the massive migration of Korean Chinese workers fr...
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Borderland Dreams: The Transnational Lives of Korean Chinese Workers
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /In Borderland Dreams June Hee Kwon explores the trajectory of the "Korean dream" that has fueled the massive migration of Korean Chinese workers fr...
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Karma and Grace: Religious Difference in Millennial Sri Lanka
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Around the turn of the millennium, Pentecostal churches began to pepper majority-Buddhist Sri Lanka, setting off a sense of alarm among Buddhists w...
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Kuxlejal Politics: Indigenous Autonomy, Race, and Decolonizing Research in Zapatista Communities
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Over the past two decades, Zapatista indigenous community members have asserted their autonomy and self-determination by using everyday practices...
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Chinese Revolution in Practice: From Movement to the State
HardcoverOriginal price $170.00 - Original price $170.00Original price $170.00$204.99$204.99 - $204.99Current price $204.99| /This book employs multiple case studies to explore how the Chinese communist revolution began as an ideology-oriented intellectual movement aimed a...
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A Thousand Tiny Cuts: Mobility and Security Across the Bangladesh-India Borderlands Volume 10
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /A Thousand Tiny Cuts chronicles the slow transformation of a connected region into national borderlands. Drawing on a decade of fieldwork in northe...
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The Last Island: Discovery, Defiance, and the Most Elusive Tribe on Earth
HardcoverOriginal price $28.95Original price $28.95 - Original price $28.95Original price $28.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /"A deft combination of adventure, history, reportage and elegy."--Washington Post A journey to the coast of North Sentinel Island, home to a tribe...
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K-Speed: The Source of Korean Competitiveness
HardcoverOriginal price $131.95Original price $131.95 - Original price $131.95Original price $131.95Current price $100.99$100.99 - $100.99Current price $100.99| /Korea was one of the poorest countries in the world up to the mid to late 20th century, but within less than half a century she emerged as an econo...
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Aromas of Asia: Exchanges, Histories, Threats
HardcoverOriginal price $114.95 - Original price $114.95Original price $114.95$141.99$141.99 - $141.99Current price $141.99| /A uniquely powerful marker of ethnic, gender, and class identities, scent can also overwhelm previously constructed boundaries and transform social...
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Rights Refused: Grassroots Activism and State Violence in Myanmar
HardcoverOriginal price $95.00 - Original price $95.00Original price $95.00$112.99$112.99 - $112.99Current price $112.99| /For decades, the outside world mostly knew Myanmar as the site of a valiant human rights struggle against an oppressive military regime, predominan...
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Rights Refused: Grassroots Activism and State Violence in Myanmar
PaperbackOriginal price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00$44.99$44.99 - $44.99Current price $44.99| /For decades, the outside world mostly knew Myanmar as the site of a valiant human rights struggle against an oppressive military regime, predominan...
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Homesick Blues: Politics, Protest, and Musical Storytelling in Modern Japan
HardcoverOriginal price $68.00 - Original price $68.00Original price $68.00$79.99$79.99 - $79.99Current price $79.99| /Homesick Blues explores how artists, fans, amateur practitioners, and others have used music to tell stories of everyday life in Japan from the lat...
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Regional Identities in Southeast Asia: Contemporary Challenges, Historical Fractures
PaperbackOriginal price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00$52.99$52.99 - $52.99Current price $52.99| /The Association of Southeast Asian Nations, or ASEAN, is a community of multiple identities. Over time, its citizens' loyalties were formed around ...
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Japanese Americans and the Racial Uniform: Citizenship, Belonging, and the Limits of Assimilation
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /How race continues to shape the citizenship and everyday lives of later-generation JapaneseAmericans Japanese Americans are seen as the "model mino...
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Temple Tracks: Labour, Piety and Railway Construction in Asia
HardcoverOriginal price $145.00 - Original price $145.00Original price $145.00$167.99$167.99 - $167.99Current price $167.99| /The notions of labour, mobility and piety have a complex and intertwined relationship. Using ethnographic methods and a historical perspective, Te...
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Modified Bodies, Material Selves: Beauty Ideals in Post-Reform Shanghai
PaperbackOriginal price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00$44.99$44.99 - $44.99Current price $44.99| /Thin body, white skin, and big eyes. Such beauty ideals are ubiquitous across Shanghai, where salons and weight-loss clinics offering an array of p...
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Visions of Marriage: Politics and Family on Kinmen, 1920-2020
HardcoverOriginal price $135.00 - Original price $135.00Original price $135.00$156.99$156.99 - $156.99Current price $156.99| /Grounded in multi-generational stories from Kinmen in Taiwan, Visions of Marriage explores the historical entanglements between the pursuit of new...
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Outsiders: Memories of Migration to and from North Korea
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /In this unique and insightful book, Markus Bell explores the hidden histories of the men, women, and children who traveled from Japan to the world...
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Between Self and Community: Children's Personhood in a Globalized South Korea
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /Between Self and Community investigates the early childhood socialization process in a rapidly changing, globalizing South Korea. Based on long-ter...
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Fukushima Futures: Survival Stories in a Repeatedly Ruined Seascape
PaperbackOriginal price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00$44.99$44.99 - $44.99Current price $44.99| /Both before and after the 2011 "Triple Disaster" of earthquake, tidal wave, and consequent meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, a...
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Antinuclear Citizens: Sustainability Policy and Grassroots Activism in Post-Fukushima Japan
HardcoverOriginal price $65.00 - Original price $65.00Original price $65.00$80.99$80.99 - $80.99Current price $80.99| /Following the Great East Japan Earthquake on March 11, 2011, tsunamis engulfed the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant located on Japan's Pacific...
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Ecological States: Politics of Science and Nature in Urbanizing China
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /Ecological States critically examines ecological policies in the People's Republic of China to show how campaigns of scientifically based environme...
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Stalemate: Autonomy and Insurgency on the China-Myanmar Border
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Stalemate reveals the history and contemporary politics of the United Wa State Army (UWSA), Asia's strongest insurgent army on Myanmar's border wit...
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From Village Commons to Public Goods: Graduated Provision in Urbanizing China
HardcoverOriginal price $135.00 - Original price $135.00Original price $135.00$156.99$156.99 - $156.99Current price $156.99| /Illuminating the complex processes of China's uneven urbanization through the lens of the transition from village commons to public goods, this bo...
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