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New Book Announcement: “China’s Millennial Digital Generation: Conversations with Balinghou (Post-1980s) Indie Filmmakers” by Karen Ma
20 June 202220 June 2022
The US-based independent film scholar and movie critic specializing in Chinese cinema, Karen Ma’s most recent work takes the form of creative and inspiring interviews with 7 young Chinese film directors, revealing new trends that are not fully acknowledged in Western scholarship. Many balinghou (born in post-1980s) filmmakers are grassroots artists from smaller towns or…
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New Book Announcement: “Akira Kurosawa and Modern Japan” by David A Conrad
17 June 202217 June 2022
The samurai films of legendary Japanese director Akira Kurosawa are set in the past, but they tell us much about the present, as do his crime stories, romances, medical dramas, and arthouse films. His movies are beloved for their timeless protagonists and haunting vistas of old Japan, but we haven’t yet fully grasped everything they…
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New Book Announcement: “A Flutter in the Colony” by Sandeep Ray
13 June 202213 June 2022
In 1956, the Senguptas travel from Calcutta to rural Malaya to start afresh. In their new hamlet of anonymity—a small settlement on the edge of a British rubber plantation—the couple gradually forget their troubled pasts and form new ties. But this second home is not entirely free and gentle. A complex, racially charged society, it…
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New Book Announcement: “Self-Portrait With Ghost” by Meng Jin
9 June 20225 August 2022
From the acclaimed author of Little Gods, whose “gift merges science, politics and art: the kind of audacity our world needs now” (Gina Apostol), comes an immersive and electrifying story collection that explores self-construction, female resilience, and migrations both literal and transformative.
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New Book Announcement: “Water Thicker Than Blood: A Memoir of a Post-Internment Childhood” by George Uba
2 June 20222 June 2022
In Water Thicker Than Blood, poet and professor George Uba traces his life as a Japanese American born in the late 1940s, a period of insidious anti-Japanese racism, even following the wartime incarceration of 120,000 Japanese, two-thirds of whom were American-born citizens. His beautiful, impressionistic memoir chronicles how he, like many Sansei (and Nisei) across…
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New Book Announcement: “The Substance of Fiction: Literary Objects in China, 1550–1775” by Sophie Volpp
31 May 2022
Do the portrayals of objects in literary texts represent historical evidence about the material culture of the past? Or are things in books more than things in the world? Sophie Volpp considers fictional objects of the late Ming and Qing that defy being read as illustrative of historical things. Instead, she argues, fictional objects are…
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New Book Announcement: “Ethical Encounters: Transnational Feminism, Human Rights, and War Cinema in Bangladesh” by Elora Halim Chowdhury
29 May 2022
Ethical Encounters is an exploration of the intersection of feminism, human rights, and memory to illuminate how visual practices of recollecting violent legacies in Bangladeshi cinema can conjure a global cinematic imagination for the advancement of humanity.
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New Book Announcement: “Into the Desert” by Xuemo
26 May 202226 May 2022
This is the story of two women in Western China in the 1990s, on the edge of the Gobi Desert, near the site of the ancient Silk Road. Bound together by both poverty and tradition, they embark upon a perilous journey to change their lives. In Into the Desert, acclaimed Chinese author Xuemo has recreated…
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New Book Announcement: “Beethoven in Beijing: Stories from the Philadelphia Orchestra’s Historic Journey to China” by Jennifer Lin
23 May 2022
In 1973, Western music was banned in the People’s Republic of China. But in a remarkable breakthrough cultural exchange, the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted a tour of closed-off China, becoming the first American orchestra to visit the communist nation. Jennifer Lin’s Beethoven in Beijing: Stories from the Philadelphia Orchestra’s Historic Journey to China, provides a fabulous…
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New Book Announcement: “Stone Masters: Power Encounters in Mainland Southeast Asia”, edited by Holly High
19 May 2022
Stones and those who speak for and to them are an important focus of animist religious practice in Southeast Asia, sometimes integrated into world religions, and sometimes not. This book features city pillars, statues, megaliths, termite mounds, mountains, rocks found in forests, and stones that have been moved to shrines, as well as the territorial…
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New Book Announcement: “Still Lives” by Reshma Ruia
15 May 2022
Young, handsome and contemptuous of his father’s traditional ways, PK Malik leaves Bombay to start a new life in America. Stopping in Manchester to visit an old friend, he thinks he sees a business opportunity, and decides to stay on. Now fifty-five, PK has fallen out of love with life. His business is struggling and…
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New Book Announcement: “The United States vs China: The Quest for Global Economic Leadership” by C Fred Bergsten
7 May 2022
In this sweeping and authoritative analysis of the competition for global economic leadership between China and the United States, C Fred Bergsten draws on more than 50 years of active participation as a policymaker and close observation as a scholar.
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New Book Announcement: “Returning East” by Lauca
28 April 202228 April 2022
To keep a promise to his calligraphy teacher, JJ travels on the ocean liner “Le Cambodge” to Shanghai via Hong Kong in 1954. On board, he makes friend with Fred, and JJ’s longing for friendship will divert him from keeping his promise. After being stranded in Hong Kong with no money or passport, JJ agrees…
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New Book Announcement: “As Coarse As Emporium” by Hunter Ng
24 April 2022
In a Singapore shopping mall known only as The Emporium, ten-year-old Bee finds himself dealing with many weird and strange tenants. From a mysterious shop selling illegal gameboy cartridges to the disappearance of a Four-Faced Buddha Statue, Bee witnesses these incidents and must make sense of them.
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New Book Announcement: “Siddhartha Street” by Sudha Yadav
21 April 202221 April 2022
The street quietly watches them grow, dream and die. In Siddhartha Street characters come together and grow apart to draw you into the tale of a quotidian street, in a quaint corner of South India. On the rooftop of the lone apartment block in the street, it’s time for “Saturday night drinking” and a motley…
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