New Book Announcements

New Book Announcements | New Non-Fiction Books
“The Wu Ming-Yi Companion: Literature, Environment, and Translation through Compound Eyes”, edited by Michael Berry and Kuei-fen Chiu
2 March 20268 April 2026
Wu Ming-Yi is one of Taiwan’s most celebrated contemporary writers, whose work bridges literature, environmental thought, and history with a global perspective. The Wu Ming-Yi Companion, edited by Michael Berry and Kuei-fen Chiu, is the first comprehensive volume in English dedicated to his oeuvre, offering new scholarship from leading researchers across Taiwan, Hong Kong, North…
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“Lyrical Translation: The Creation of Modern Poetry in Colonial Korea” by David Krolikoski
22 February 20268 April 2026
Lyrical Translation is a literary history of modern Korean poetry’s origins and its development through translation. As the use of Korean became increasingly restricted during the Japanese occupation, translation was not a choice but a necessity for higher education and intellectual labor. Yet it also had an expansive, creative function: Korean poets wielded it as…
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New Book Announcement: “Little Bay” by Lynette Nam, illustrated by Kori Song
18 February 20267 April 2026
A young boy follows the tail of a breeze to find a hidden bay. There he sets sail on a whirlwind journey to find a world that is ever-expanding and full of wonders. A lyrical tale of discovery, Little Bay reminds us to embrace the unknown and live with curiosity and presence.
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New Book Announcement: “Beyond the Sewol: Activist Theatre and Performance in South Korea and the Diaspora” by Areum Jeong
14 February 202624 March 2026
On April 15, 2014, the Sewol ferry departed from Incheon, bound for Jeju Island, with 476 people onboard. After receiving a distress call, authorities urged the crew to prepare for evacuation. Instead, passengers were told to stay in their cabins and wait for help. Most died waiting for rescue.
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New Book Announcement: “Decolonial Keywords: South Asian Thoughts and Attitudes”, edited by Renny Thomas and Sasanka Perera
6 February 202624 March 2026
The volume presents a set of keywords and concepts embedded in the languages of South Asia and its vast cultural landscape. It reiterates specific attitudes, ways of seeing and methods of doing, which are embedded in the historical and contemporary experiences in the region. The words, concepts, ideas and attitudes in this volume explore the…
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New Book Announcement: “Political Thought and Japan’s New Left Movements”, edited by Christopher Perkins and Ferran De Vargas
2 February 202624 March 2026
Arguing for the importance of taking Japanese political thought seriously, this book is the first to bring together authoritative essays by world experts on the thinkers who shaped Japan’s New Left movement. In doing so, it demonstrates the distinctiveness and significance of Japanese left-wing thought, providing an invaluable resource for students of 20th-century radical politics.
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New Book Announcement: “Meandering to Manila” by Keith Dalton
22 January 202624 March 2026
Keith Dalton was a journalist with foreign correspondent dreams. He had them as a 10-year-old. They never went away. Dalton was 25 when he crammed a typewriter in his backpack and set off from Australia to Southeast Asia, convinced he could be a self-made foreign correspondent. Writing as he went, Dalton took buses, trucks, trains, planes,…
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New Book Announcements | New Fiction Books
New Book Announcement: “Heaven Has Eyes” by Philip Holden
19 January 202624 March 2026
Set in Singapore, Vancouver, London, and the spaces in between, the short stories in Heaven Has Eyes offer an imaginative, penetrating look at the complexities of migration, belonging, and a desire to find a home in the world.
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New Book Announcement: “Cross-border intimacies: Affect and emotions in marriage migration between China and Taiwan” by Lara Momesso
11 January 202624 March 2026
Cross-border Intimacies is a powerful account of the experiences of migrant women and their families between China and Taiwan. Since the early 1990s, economic exchanges between the two countries have paved the way to migration and sociocultural interaction across a previously closed border.
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New Fiction Books
New Book Announcement: “The Boy with the Jade” by Charles Bush
28 October 202528 October 2025
In 18th-century China, young aristocrat Baoyu—born with a jade pendant foretelling his fate—grapples with love, loss, and identity amid the grandeur and constraints of his powerful family. Torn between his cousin Daiyu and his devoted maid Amber, Baoyu’s privileged world unravels through tragedy, betrayal, and the crushing weight of expectation. Seeking freedom from duty and…
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New Book Announcement: “Chinese on the Beach” by Vanessa Fabiano
18 October 202518 October 2025
A nascent media mogul battling for political survival, a love triangle fractured by the SARS pandemic, the ruthless choreography of Shanghai’s social scene—each story in Chinese on the Beach explores the particular madness of living through history, when old rules dissolved overnight and new ones hadn’t yet formed.
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New Non-Fiction Books
New Book Announcement: “Fuji: A Mountain in the Making” by Andrew W Bernstein
27 September 202527 September 2025
Mount Fuji is everywhere recognized as a wonder of nature and enduring symbol of Japan. Yet behind the picture-postcard image is a history filled with conflict and upheaval. Violent eruptions across the centuries wrought havoc and instilled fear. Long an object of worship, Fuji has been inhabited by deities that changed radically over time. It…
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New Non-Fiction Books | Non-Fiction Reviews
“Triangle Republics: Literary Transits Between Cross-Border Between the Cold War Koreas and Japan” by I Jonathan Kief
24 September 202526 September 2025
A new book offers what many readers will find surprising insights into the circulation of texts in the Cold War among three neighbouring countries at odds with one another: North Korea, South Korea, and Japan.
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New Book Announcement: “Sing Me a Circle: Love, Loss and a Home in Time” by Samina Najmi
14 September 202514 September 2025
“All points on a circle are always the same distance from the center.” These exquisite personal essays trace the orbit of Pakistani-American author Samina Najmi as she reflects on events, people, and places that shape her traditional childhood in Pakistan and continue to inspire her as she pursues her dreams of education and travel, enlarging…
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New Book Announcement: “Freebourne” by Salman Shaheen
1 September 20251 September 2025
After learning of his wife’s affair with his best friend and business partner, divorced and unemployed MindTech entrepreneur Dr Harry Coulson arrives in the idyllic English town of Freebourne, looking to start a new life. But any hopes of quietly picking up the pieces of his broken world are shattered when he steps off the…
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