Publications

From Rural China to the Ivy League: Reminiscences of Transformations in Modern Chinese History co-translated by Josephine Chiu-Duke and Michael S. Duke (2021)

Publication title: From Rural China to the Ivy League: Reminiscences of Transformations in Modern Chinese History Publication year: 2021 Author: Co-translated by Josephine Chiu-Duke and Michael S. Duke About the book A leading authority in the field of Chinese Studies, Professor Yü Ying-shih received the John W. Kluge Prize for Achievement in the Study of Humanity in […]

Persian Literature as World Literature co-edited by Mostafa Abedinifard, Omid Azadibougar and Amirhossein Vafa (2021)

Publication title: Persian Literature as World Literature Publication year: 2021 Author: Co-edited by Mostafa Abedinifard, Omid Azadibougar and Amirhossein Vafa About the book Confronting nationalistic and nativist interpreting practices in Persianate literary scholarship, Persian Literature as World Literature makes a case for reading these literatures as world literature-as transnational, worldly texts that expand beyond local and national penchants. […]

Book cover of Dr. Prange's publication, Monsoon Islam

Monsoon Islam: Trade and Faith on the Medieval Malabar Coast by Sebastian Prange (2018)

Publication title: Monsoon Islam: Trade and Faith on the Medieval Malabar Coast Publication year: 2018 Author: Sebastian Prange About the book Between the twelfth and sixteenth centuries, a distinct form of Islamic thought and practice developed among Muslim trading communities of the Indian Ocean. Sebastian R. Prange argues that this ‘Monsoon Islam’ was shaped by merchants […]

An “Ise monogatari” Reader: Contexts and Receptions co-edited by Joshua S. Mostow, Kurtis Hanlon and Yamamoto Tokurō (2021)

Publication title: An “Ise monogatari” Reader: Contexts and Receptions Publication year: 2021 Author: Co-edited by Joshua S. Mostow, Kurtis Hanlon and Yamamoto Tokurō About the book An “Ise monogatari” Reader is the first collection of essays in English on The Ise Stories, a canonical literary text ranked beside The Tale of Genji. Eleven scholars (Aoki […]

Colonizing Language: Cultural Production and Language Politics in Modern Japan and Korea by Christina Yi (2018)

Publication title: Colonizing Language: Cultural Production and Language Politics in Modern Japan and Korea Publication year: 2018 Author: Christina Yi About the book With the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War in 1894, Japan embarked on a policy of territorial expansion that would claim Taiwan and Korea, among others. Assimilation policies led to a significant body of […]

The Book of Swindles: Selections from a Late Ming Collection translated by Christopher Rea and Bruce Rusk (2017)

Publication title: The Book of Swindles: Selections from a Late Ming Collection Publication year: 2017 Author: Translated by Christopher Rea and Bruce Rusk About the book This is an age of deception. Con men ply the roadways. Bogus alchemists pretend to turn one piece of silver into three. Devious nuns entice young women into adultery. Sorcerers […]

Imperfect Understanding: Intimate Portraits of Chinese Celebrities edited by Christopher Rea (2018)

Publication title: Imperfect Understanding: Intimate Portraits of Chinese Celebrities Publication year: 2018 Author: Edited by Christopher Rea About the book What did it mean to be a celebrity in 1930s China? Who were Republican China’s preeminent intellectuals, writers, artists, politicians, diplomats, and businesspeople, and how were they represented in the popular press? This anthology brings together […]

Da bujing de niandai: Jindai Zhongguo xin xiaoshi [The Age of Irreverence: A New History of Laughter in China] by Christopher Rea (2018)

China’s Chaplin: Comic Stories and Farces by Xu Zhuodai translated and with an introduction by Christopher Rea (2019)

Publication title: China’s Chaplin: Comic Stories and Farces Publication year: 2019 Author:Xu Zhuodai translated and with an introduction by Christopher Rea About the book Hoaxes! Jokes! Farces and fun! China’s Chaplin introduces the imagination of Xu Zhuodai (1880–1958), a comic dynamo who made Shanghai laugh through the tumultuous decades of the pre-Mao era. Xu was […]

Literary Information in China: A History co-edited by Bruce Rusk (2021)

Publication title: Literary Information in China: A History Publication year: 2021 Author: Co-edited by Bruce Rusk About the book “Information” has become a core concept across the disciplines, yet it is still often seen as a unique feature of the Western world that became central only in the digital age. In this book, leading experts turn […]