Nonfiction - Asian Reads
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The Art of Fate Calculation: Practicing Divination in Taipei, Beijing, and Kaifeng
HardcoverOriginal price $145.00 - Original price $145.00Original price $145.00$167.99$167.99 - $167.99Current price $167.99| /From housewives to students and high-ranking officials, people from all social backgrounds in China and Taiwan visit fate calculation masters to l...
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Asian Political Cartoons
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /In Asian Political Cartoons, scholar John A. Lent explores the history and contemporary status of political cartooning in Asia, including East Asia...
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Rats, Cats, Rogues, and Heroes: Glimpses of China's Hidden Past
PaperbackOriginal price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /History has many untold stories. In Rats, Cats, Rogues, and Heroes the author provides glimpses into China's hidden past through the native's point...
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Asian Political Cartoons
HardcoverOriginal price $99.00 - Original price $99.00Original price $99.00$122.99$122.99 - $122.99Current price $122.99| /In Asian Political Cartoons, scholar John A. Lent explores the history and contemporary status of political cartooning in Asia, including East Asia...
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Crossing Boundaries and Confounding Identity: Chinese Women in Literature, Art, and Film
HardcoverOriginal price $99.00 - Original price $99.00Original price $99.00$117.99$117.99 - $117.99Current price $117.99| /Examines literary, historical, and cultural portrayals of Chinese women, across centuries and continents.Product DetailsISBN-13: 9781438492155 Medi...
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The Camphor Tree and the Elephant: Religion and Ecological Change in Maritime Southeast Asia
PaperbackOriginal price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00$44.99$44.99 - $44.99Current price $44.99| /What is the role of religion in shaping interactions and relations between the human and nonhuman in nature? Why are Muslim and Christian organizat...
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Toward a Framework for Vietnamese American Studies: History, Community, and Memory
PaperbackOriginal price $44.95 - Original price $44.95Original price $44.95$50.99$50.99 - $50.99Current price $50.99| /The large number of Vietnamese refugees that resettled in the United States since the fall of Saigon have become America's fastest growing immigran...
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Unquiet Spirits: Essays by Asian Women in Horror
HardcoverOriginal price $22.95Original price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /From hungry ghosts, vampiric babies, and shapeshifting fox spirits to the avenging White Lady of urban legend, for generations, Asian women's roles...
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Unquiet Spirits: Essays by Asian Women in Horror
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /From hungry ghosts, vampiric babies, and shapeshifting fox spirits to the avenging White Lady of urban legend, for generations, Asian women's roles...
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Devotional Fanscapes: Bollywood Star Deities, Devotee-Fans, and Cultural Politics in India and Beyond
HardcoverOriginal price $110.00 - Original price $110.00Original price $110.00$135.99$135.99 - $135.99Current price $135.99| /Devotional Fanscapes examines the practices and materiality of fans who worship film stars as divine figures. This book is an analysis of visual cu...
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Outsourcing the Polity: Non-State Welfare, Inequality, and Resistance in Myanmar
PaperbackOriginal price $31.95 - Original price $31.95Original price $31.95$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /Outsourcing the Polity offers a new account of social outsourcing in post-independence Myanmar, demonstrating how the bankrupt post-socialist junta...
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Among Women Across Worlds: North Korea in the Global Cold War
HardcoverOriginal price $56.95 - Original price $56.95Original price $56.95$74.99$74.99 - $74.99Current price $74.99| /In Among Women across Worlds, Suzy Kim excavates the transnational linkages between women of North Korea and a worldwide women's movement. Women of...
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Japanese Government and Politics
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00$24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /This volume takes a comparative approach to Japanese politics, covering topics such as political parties and elections, civil society, bureaucracy,...
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China Adorned: Ritual and Custom of Ancient Cultures
HardcoverOriginal price $70.00Original price $70.00 - Original price $70.00Original price $70.00Current price $57.99$57.99 - $57.99Current price $57.99| /Aesthetic influences drawn from China have long resonated throughout Western art, design, and philosophy. China Adorned challenges the monolithic i...
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River Life and the Upspring of Nature
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /In River Life and the Upspring of Nature Naveeda Khan examines the relationship between nature and culture through the study of the everyday existe...
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Provincializing Empire: Omi Merchants in the Japanese Transpacific Diaspora Volume 18
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminos...
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Spies in British Controlled Singapore: Policing the Japanese, 1921-1941
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00Original price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Imagine being Japanese, living in Singapore in the nineteen twenties and thirties, suspected by everyone around you of being a spy.Prior to Decembe...
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Imperfect Partners: The United States and Southeast Asia
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /"Imperfect Partners" is former ambassador Scot Marciel's inside account of US relations with Southeast Asia since the Cold War. Combining research,...
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Communicating Food in Korea
PaperbackOriginal price $39.99 - Original price $39.99Original price $39.99$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /An in-depth investigation of the complex relationships among food, culture, and society in Korea, Communicating Food in Korea presents diverse inte...
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Honeymoon Couples and Jurassic Babies: Identity and Play in Chennai's Post-Independence Sabha Theater
PaperbackOriginal price $36.95 - Original price $36.95Original price $36.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Kristen Rudisill is Professor of Popular Culture and Director of the Asian Studies Program at Bowling Green State University.Product DetailsISBN-13...
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The 1.5 Generation Korean Diaspora: A Comparative Understanding of Identity, Culture, and Transnationalism
PaperbackOriginal price $39.99 - Original price $39.99Original price $39.99$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /The 1.5 Generation Korean Diaspora: A Comparative Understanding of Identity, Culture, and Transnationalism provides insights into the contemporary ...
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Modi's India: Hindu Nationalism and the Rise of Ethnic Democracy
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /A riveting account of how a popularly elected leader has steered the world's largest democracy toward authoritarianism and intolerance Over the pas...
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Sex in the Land of Genghis Khan: From the Times of the Great Conqueror to Today
HardcoverOriginal price $95.00 - Original price $95.00Original price $95.00$118.99$118.99 - $118.99Current price $118.99| /This book examines the history of sexuality in Mongolia over the last 800 years.Product DetailsISBN-13: 9781666937497 Media Type: Hardcover Publish...
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Race and the Animated Bodyscape: Constructing and Ascribing a Racialized Asian Identity in Avatar and Korra
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Race does not exist in animation--it must instead be constructed and ascribed. Yet, over the past few years, there has been growing discourse on th...
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