Publications
More Swindles from the Late Ming: Sex, Scams, and Sorcery translated by Christopher Rea and Bruce Rusk (2024)
Publication title: More Swindles from the Late Ming: Sex, Scams, and Sorcery Publication year: 2024 Author: Translated by Christopher Rea and Bruce Rusk About the book A woman seduces her landlord to extort the family farm. Gamblers recruit a wily prostitute to get a rich young man back in the game. Silver counterfeiters wreak havoc for […]
Hyakunin’shu: Reading the Hundred Poets in Late Edo Japan by Joshua S. Mostow (2024)
Publication title: Hyakunin’shu: Reading the Hundred Poets in Late Edo Japan Publication year: 2024 Author: Joshua S. Mostow About the book Hyakunin’shu: Reading the Hundred Poets in Late Edo Japan explores the “popular literary literacy” of the Japanese at the edge of modernity. By reproducing and translating a well-known annotated and illustrated Ansei-era (1854–1859) edition of the Hyakunin isshu—for hundreds […]
Migration and the Politics of Methodology co-edited by Ayaka Yoshimizu (2025)
Publication title: Migration and the Politics of Methodology: Doing Fieldwork, Decentring Power, and Foregrounding Migrants’ Perspectives Publication year: 2025 Author: Co-edited by Ayaka Yoshimizu, Kirsten Emiko McAllister, and Daniel Ahadi About the book This volume examines the politics of fieldwork and the challenges of researching migrants constructed as outsiders both nationally and transnationally. Based on research […]
Chinatown, co-translated by Bruce Fulton and Ju-Chan Fulton (2025)
Publication title: Chinatown Publication year: 2025 Author: Translated by Bruce and Ju-chan Fulton About the book In this emblematic selection of her stories, Oh Jung-hee probes beneath the surface of seemingly quotidian lives to expose nightmarish family configurations warped by desertion, psychosis, and death. In ‘Chinatown’ a young girl living on the edge of the […]
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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 […]