OCTOBER 2022. AVAILABLE TO PREORDER NOW via the Columbia University Press website. 9781952636318. 220 pages. Paperback. AAS MEMBERS: use the code AASMEMBER at checkout for your 20% discount. New Threats to Academic Freedom in Asia examines the increasingly dire state of academic freedom in Asia. Using cross-national data and in-depth case studies, the authors shed […]

SEPTEMBER 2022. AVAILABLE TO PREORDER NOW via the Columbia University Press website. 9781952636295. 220 pages. Paperback. AAS MEMBERS: use the code AASMEMBER at checkout for your 20% discount. Who Is the Asianist? reconsiders the past, present, and future of Asian Studies through the lens of positionality, questions of authority, and an analysis of race with […]

9781952636271. 138 pages. Paperback. AAS MEMBERS: use the code AASMEMBER at checkout for your 20% discount. This volume provides an historical overview of Japan’s relationship with animals from ancient times to the 1950s. Its analysis serves as a lens through which to scrutinize Japanese tradition and interrogate ahistorical claims about Japan’s culturally endemic empathy for […]

9781952636257. 244 pages. Paperback. AAS MEMBERS: use the code AASMEMBER at checkout for your 20% discount. A play on George Orwell’s famous novel, Burmese Days, Burmese Haze provides a unique—and personal—perspective on the historical events and foreign ties that shaped Myanmar and its relationship with the United States. Former intelligence analyst Erin Murphy tells the […]

View the AAS Digital Dialogue book launch webinar for Japan on American TV featuring Alisa Freedman, Anne Allison, Jan Bardsley, and Bill Tsutsui with moderator, Maura Cunningham. Listen to the podcast from New Books Network. 9781952636219. 202 pages. Paperback. AAS MEMBERS: use the code AASMEMBER at checkout for your 20% discount. Japan on American TV […]

9780924304958. 142 Pages. Paperback. AAS MEMBERS: use the code AASMEMBER at checkout for your 20% discount. Every literate person today will encounter the word “tribe” in many settings. What does this word mean? When and how did its use begin? Is it a good label for any contemporary social organization? Is it relevant for policymakers […]

9780924304941. 144 Pages. Paperback. AAS MEMBERS: use the code AASMEMBER at checkout for your 20% discount. What will the world look like in the future? How do people think and act in that future world? What constitutes the allures or hidden dangers of being modern? These are questions science fiction is uniquely equipped to entertain […]

Teaching About Asia in a Time of Pandemic, edited by David Kenley, is a collaborative work between Asia Shorts and the AAS pedagogical journal Education about Asia. 9781952636196. 234 pages. Paperback. Also available in e-book and open access formats. AAS MEMBERS: use the code AASMEMBER at checkout for your 20% discount. In the spring of […]

The Pandemic: Perspectives on Asia, edited by Vinayak Chaturvedi, is a collaborative work between Asia Shorts and the Journal of Asian Studies. 9781952636172. 198 pages. Paperback. Also available in e-book and open access formats. AAS MEMBERS: use the code AASMEMBER at checkout for your 20% discount. The Pandemic: Perspectives on Asia provides analyses of the […]

ISBN: 9780924304934. 176 Pages. Paperback. AAS MEMBERS: use the code AASMEMBER at checkout for your 20% discount. Drawing on a decade of ethnographic research in the Indian city of Mumbai, Waiting Town is an unconventional little book—experimental in form—about how we come to know the worlds about which we write. The narrative follows the author’s […]

ISBN: 9781952636134 (print, paperback). 166 Pages. AAS MEMBERS: use the code AASMEMBER at checkout for your 20% discount. E-book format also available at $15.99. How can one of the world’s most free-wheeling cities transition from a vibrant global center of culture and finance into a subject of authoritarian control? As Beijing’s anxious interference has grown, […]

ISBN: 9780924304927. 148 pages. Paperback. AAS MEMBERS: use the code AASMEMBER at checkout for your 20% discount. E-book format also available at $15.99. The Great Smog of China traces Chinese air pollution events dating back to more than 2,000 years ago. Based on the authors’ fieldwork, interviews and text studies, the book offers a short […]

ISBN: 978-0-924-304-88-0. 122 pages. Paperback. AAS MEMBERS: use the code AASMEMBER at checkout for your 20% discount. Lu Xun spent the last decade of his life in the turbulent world of Shanghai. Soon after arriving in 1927, he befriended Uchiyama Kanzō, owner of a bookstore specializing in Japanese writings. Their friendship and the mutual kindnesses […]

ISBN 978-0-924304-87-3. 138 pages. Paperback. AAS MEMBERS: use the code AASMEMBER at checkout for your 20% discount. What do we talk about when we talk about East Asia? We are worried about China’s emergence as an economic giant and military power that may upset the regional and, indeed, the global status quo. Much more mercurial, […]

Winner of the 2019 ICAS Book Prize: “Most Accessible and Captivating Work for the Non-Specialist Reader” ISBN 978-0-924304-85-9. 180 pages. Paperback. AAS MEMBERS: use the code AASMEMBER at checkout for your 20% discount. In Japan, beer has been known, since the 1960s, as the “beverage of the masses,” and whisky culture has roots stretching back […]