Asian Studies
Some of the titles are a part of the series Critical Human Rights or New Perspectives in Southeast Asian Studies.
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Casebound $64.95 s
ISBN 978-0-299-30950-3
Of Beggars and Buddhas
The Politics of Humor in the Vessantara Jataka in Thailand
Katherine A. Bowie
“Provides historical justification for a new reading of the Vessantara Jataka and offers delightful ethnographic descriptions of its varied performance in several regions of Thailand. An excellent addition to Thai studies and to the understudied field of Southeast Asian literature.”
—Justin McDaniel, author of The Lovelorn Ghost and the Magic Monk: Practicing Buddhism in Modern Thailand
Casebound $79.95 s
ISBN 978-0-299-30840-7
Hamka's Great Story
A Master of Writer's Vision Islam For Modern Indonesia
James R. Rush
“A tour de force of historical writing. This is an epic work that will prove very important.”
—Eric Tagliacozzo, Cornell University
Casebound $45.00 s
ISBN 978-0-299-30870-4
Contemporary Directions in Asian
American Dance
Edited by Yutian Wong
“A methodologically diverse and eclectic approach to Asian American dance studies, where dance is both method and content. These essays illuminate the ways that dance shapes, troubles, and pushes against the contours of what counts as Asian American cultural production. ”
—Priya Srinivasan, author of Sweating Saris
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Masked
The Life of Anna Leonowens, Schoolmistress at the Court of Siam
Alfred Habegger
Spring 2014

We Shall Bear Witness
Life Narratives and Human Rights
Edited by Meg Jensen and Margaretta Jolly
Spring 2014

The Cross of War
Christian Nationalism and U.S. Expansion in the Spanish-American War
Matthew McCullough
Spring 2014

Endless Empire
Spain’s Retreat, Europe’s Eclipse, America’s Decline
Edited by Alfred W. McCoy, Josep M. Fradera, and Stephen Jacobson
Fall 2012

Trickster and Hero
Two Characters in the Oral and Written Traditions of the World
Harold Scheub
Fall 2012

Flammable Cities
Urban Conflagration and the Making of the Modern World
Edited by Greg Bankoff, Uwe Lübken, and Jordan Sand
Fall 2011

Filipino Tapestry
Tagalog Language through Culture
Rhodalyne Gallo-Crail and Michael Hawkins
Fall 2011

The Elusive Empire
Kazan and the Creation of Russia, 1552–1671
Matthew P. Romaniello
Fall 2011

The Floracrats
State-Sponsored Science and the Failure of the Enlightenment in Indonesia
Andrew Goss
Fall 2010

Policing America’s Empire
The United States, the Philippines, and the Rise of the Surveillance State
Alfred W. McCoy
Fall 2009

Colonial Crucible
Empire in the Making of the Modern American State
Edited by Alfred W. McCoy and Francisco A. Scarano
Spring 2009


The Mekong Delta
Ecology, Economy, and Revolution, 1860–1960
Pierre Brocheux
Fall 2008

Plum Wine
A Novel
Angela Davis-Gardner
Spring 2006

Viêt Nam
Borderless Histories
Edited by Nhung Tuyet Tran and Anthony Reid
Spring 2006


Recalling the Revolution
Memoirs of a Filipino General
Santiago V. Alvarez, Translated by Paula Carolina S. Malay
Spring 2004


Population and History
The Demographic Origins of the Modern Philippines
Edited by Daniel F. Doeppers and Peter Xenos
Spring 2004


Sitti Djaoerah
A Novel of Colonial Indonesia
M.J. Soetan Hasoendoetan, Translated by Susan Rodgers
Spring 2004


Salome
A Filipino Filmscript by Ricardo Lee
Ricardo Lee, Translated by Rofel Brion
Spring 2004


Inventing a Hero
The Posthumous Re-Creation of Andres Bonifacio
Glenn Anthony May
Spring 2004


Lives at the Margin
Biography of Filipinos Obscure, Ordinary, and Heroic
Edited by Alfred W. McCoy
Spring 2004

Beijing
A Novel
Philip Gambone
Spring 2003


Hibiscus on the Lake
Twentieth-Century Telugu Poetry from India
Edited and translated by Velcheru Narayana Rao
Spring 2003

Who Am I?
An Autobiography of Emotion, Mind, and Spirit
Yi-Fu Tuan
Fall 1999


The Forest of Taboos
Morality, Hunting, and Identity among the Huaulu of the Moluccas
Valerio Valeri
Spring 1999


Breaking the Chains
Slavery, Bondage, and Emancipation in Modern Africa and Asia
Edited by Martin A. Klein
Fall 1993


Magical Arrows
The Maori, the Greeks, and the Folklore of the Universe
Gregory Schrempp, With a Foreword by Marshall Sahlins
Spring 1992


From a Shattered Sun
Hierarchy, Gender, and Alliance in the Tanimbar Islands
Susan McKinnon
Fall 1991


Forbidden Family
A Wartime Memoir of the Philippines, 1941–1945
Margaret Sams, Edited with an introduction by Lynn Z. Bloom
Fall 1989


Asian Development
Economic Success and Policy Lessons
William E. James, Seiji Naya, and Gerald M. Meier
Fall 1988

The Burma Delta
Economic Development and Social Change on an Asian Rice Frontier, 1852–1941
Michael Adas
Spring 1974
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