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Songs for Dead Parents Corpse, Text, and World in Southwest China

Mueggler Erik

ISBN: PB: 9780226481005, ISBN: HB: 9780226483382, University of Chicago Press, December 2017
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 halftones, 8 tables

In a society that has seen epochal change over a few generations, what remains to hold people together and offer them a sense of continuity and meaning? In "Songs for Dead Parents", Erik Mueggler shows how in contemporary China death and the practice...

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Terrestrial Lessons The Conquest of the World as Globe

Ramaswamy Sumathi

ISBN: HB: 9780226476575, University of Chicago Press, November 2017
416 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 51 halftones

Why and how do debates about the form and disposition of our Earth shape enlightened subjectivity and secular worldliness in colonial modernity? Sumathi Ramaswamy explores this question for British India with the aid of the terrestrial globe, which s...

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Sign Language

Asia

Deaf to the Marrow Deaf Social Organizing and Active Citizenship in Viet Nam

Cooper Audrey C.

ISBN: HB: 9781563686856, Gallaudet University Press, October 2017
256 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 40 photographs, 1 map

In "Deaf to the Marrow", public anthropologist Audrey C. Cooper examines the social production and transformation of ideas about language, bodies, and state-structured educational institutions in southern Viet Nam. Focusing on the reform period (1986...

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Middle East

Asia

Red Star and the Crescent China and the Middle East

Reardon-Anderson James

ISBN: PB: 9781849048217, Hurst Publishers, June 2017
240 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! "The Red Star and the Crescent" provides an in-depth and multi-disciplinary analysis of the evolving relationship between China and the Middle East. Despite its increasing importance, very few studies have examined this dynamic...

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Asia

Political Science

Hell No The Forgotten Power of the Vietnam Peace Movement

Hayden Tom

ISBN: HB: 9780300218671, Yale University Press, May 2017
168 pp., 21x14 cm

Why those who protested the Vietnam War must be honored, remembered, and appreciated. "Hell no" was the battle cry of the largest peace movement in American history – the effort to end the Vietnam War, which included thousands of veterans. The movem...

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Asia

Blood, Dreams and Gold The Changing Face of Burma

Cockett Richard

ISBN: PB: 9780300225976, ISBN: HB: 9780300204513, Yale University Press, March 2017
296 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.

Burma is one of the largest countries in Southeast Asia and was once one of its richest. Under successive military regimes, however, the country eventually ended up as one of the poorest countries in Asia, a byword for repression and ethnic violence....

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Asia

Knowledge of Nature and the Nature of Knowledge in Early Modern Japan

Marcon Federico

ISBN: PB: 9780226479033, ISBN: HB: 9780226251905, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 75 halftones, 2 tables

Between the early seventeenth and the mid-nineteenth century, the field of natural history in Japan separated itself from the discipline of medicine, produced knowledge that questioned the traditional religious and philosophical understandings of the...

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History

Asia

Red Revolution, Green Revolution Scientific Farming in Socialist China

Schmalzer Sigrid

ISBN: HB: 9780226330150, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 colour plates, 30 halftones

In 1968, the director of USAID coined the term "green revolution" to celebrate the new technological solutions that promised to ease hunger around the world – and forestall the spread of more "red", or socialist, revolutions. Yet in China, where mode...

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Political Science

Asia

Complicities The People's Republic of China in Global Capitalism

Dirlik Arif

ISBN: PB: 9780996635530, University of Chicago Press, Prickly Paradigm Press, March 2017
86 pp., 17.8x11.4 cm

As the People's Republic of China has grown in economic power, so too have concerns about what its sustained growth and expanding global influence might mean for the established global order. Explorations of this changing dynamic in daily reporting a...

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Europe

Asia

Inglorious Empire What the British Did to India

Tharoor Shashi

ISBN: HB: 9781849048088, Hurst Publishers, March 2017
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! "Inglorious Empire" tells the real story of the British in India, from the arrival of the East India Company in 1757 to the end of the Raj, and reveals how Britain's rise was built upon its depredations in India. India was Bri...

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