Publications

Passing, Posing, Persuasion: Cultural Production and Coloniality in Japan’s East Asian Empire co-edited by Christina Yi (2023)

Passing, Posing, Persuasion: Cultural Production and Coloniality in Japan’s East Asian Empire co-edited by Christina Yi (2023)

Publication title: Passing, Posing, Persuasion: Cultural Production and Coloniality in Japan’s East Asian Empire Publication year: 2023 Author: Edited by Christina Yi, Andre Haag, and Catherine Ryu About the book Passing, Posing, Persuasion interrogates the intersections between cultural production, identity, and persuasive messaging that idealized inclusion and unity across Japan’s East Asian empire (1895–1945). Japanese propagandists […]

Khiyaalon Ka Savera (The Morning of Thoughts) by Gurinder Mann (2023)

Khiyaalon Ka Savera (The Morning of Thoughts) by Gurinder Mann (2023)

Publication title: Khiyaalon Ka Savera (The Morning of Thoughts) Publication year: 2023 Author: Gurinder Mann About the book Khiyaalon Ka Savera (The Morning of Thoughts) is a book of Hindi and Urdu poetry, written in the Devanagari (Hindi) script, by Gurinder Mann. His poems refer to diverse subjects, and he uses a variety of literary tools […]

Jazbaatan Da Kinara (Coastline of Emotions) by Gurinder Mann (2023)

Jazbaatan Da Kinara (Coastline of Emotions) by Gurinder Mann (2023)

Publication title: Jazbaatan Da Kinara (Coastline of Emotions) Publication year: 2023 Author: Gurinder Mann About the book Jazbaatan Da Kinara (Coastline of Emotions) is Gurinder Mann’s debut book, where he will take you on a journey of heart felt emotions through Punjabi poetry. These poems touch upon various topics, issues, and sentiments, and uses the […]

The Penguin Book of Korean Short Stories edited by Bruce Fulton (2023)

The Penguin Book of Korean Short Stories edited by Bruce Fulton (2023)

Publication title: The Penguin Book of Korean Short Stories Publication year: 2023 Author:  Introduced by Kwon Youngmin, edited by Bruce Fulton About the book Journeying through Korea’s dramatic recent past, from the Japanese occupation and colonial era to the devastating war between north and south and the rapid, disorienting urbanization of later decades, The Penguin […]

Togani by Gong Ji-young, translated by Bruce Fulton and Ju-Chan Fulton (2023)

Togani by Gong Ji-young, translated by Bruce Fulton and Ju-Chan Fulton (2023)

Publication title: Togani Publication year: 2023 Author: Translated by Bruce Fulton and Ju-Chan Fulton; Series edited by Bruce Fulton About the book Atmospheric and fast-paced, this novel of manners set in a provincial South Korean city leads readers through the silent corridors of a school for hearing-impaired children and the city’s foggy back streets and murky […]

In Search of Liberty: Lin Yusheng’s Life and Thought by Josephine Chiu-Duke (2023)

In Search of Liberty: Lin Yusheng’s Life and Thought by Josephine Chiu-Duke (2023)

Publication title: In Search of Liberty: Lin Yusheng’s Life and Thought Publication year: 2023 Author: Dr. Josephine Chiu-Duke About the book Professor Lin Yu-sheng (1934-2022) was one of the leading scholars in modern Chinese intellectual history. His 1979 English book, The Crisis of Chinese Consciousness is a systematic study of radical anti-traditionalism in the May […]

A Korean Confucian’s Advice on How to Be Moral: Tasan Chŏng Yagyong’s Reading of the Zhongyong by Don Baker (2023)

A Korean Confucian’s Advice on How to Be Moral: Tasan Chŏng Yagyong’s Reading of the Zhongyong by Don Baker (2023)

Publication title: A Korean Confucian’s Advice on How to Be Moral: Tasan Chŏng Yagyong’s Reading of the Zhongyong Publication year: 2023 Author: Translated, annotated and with an introduction by Dr. Don Baker About the book Tasan Chŏng Yagyong (1762–1836) is one of the most creative thinkers Korea has ever produced, one of the country’s first Christians, […]

Death of a Crow translated by Christina Yi (2022)

Death of a Crow translated by Christina Yi (2022)

Publication title: Death of a Crow Publication year: 2022 Author: Kim Sok-pom, translated by Christina Yi About the book Kim Sok-pom (b. 1925) is widely considered one of the most important zainichi (literally, “resident in Japan”) Korean writers of his generation. His seminal short story collection Death of a Crow (Karasu no shi) features three interlinked […]

Perception of Lexical Tones by Homeland and Heritage Speakers of Cantonese by Zoe Lam (2022)

Perception of Lexical Tones by Homeland and Heritage Speakers of Cantonese by Zoe Lam (2022)

 Publication title: Perception of Lexical Tones by Homeland and Heritage Speakers of Cantonese Publication year: 2022 Author: Zoe Wai-Man Lam About the book Perception of Lexical Tones by Homeland and Heritage Speakers of Cantonese compares the lexical tone perception abilities of two populations with different bilingual configurations: Cantonese-dominant adults who grew up in Hong Kong (referred […]

The Deadly Intersections of COVID-19: Race, States, Inequalities and Global Society edited by Sunera Thobani (2022)

The Deadly Intersections of COVID-19: Race, States, Inequalities and Global Society edited by Sunera Thobani (2022)

Publication title: The Deadly Intersections of COVID-19: Race, States, Inequalities and Global Society Publication year: 2022 Editor: Sunera Thobani About the book This pioneering book demonstrates the disproportionate impact of state responses to COVID-19 on racially marginalized communities. Written by women and queer people of colour academics and activists, the book analyses pandemic lockdowns, border controls, […]