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TABLE OF CONTENTS
General Interest......................... 2-4
South Asia in Motion..............4-6
Anthropology............................. 6-8
History......................................... 9-10
Sociology.................................. 10-12
Politics.........................................12-13
Asian America..............................14
Digital Publishing Initiative..... 15
Cover image: Untitled Korean
landscape painting by Jo Jung Ae
(1936–2017), September 2002.
Source: Possession of Lyu Myung Seok.
Photo © Lyu Myung Seok 2021.
Strike Patterns 1368
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2 GENERAL INTEREST
When the Iron Bird Flies India Is Broken Korea
China's Secret War in Tibet A People Betrayed, Independence A History
Jianglin Li, with a Foreword by to Today Eugene Y. Park
His Holiness the Dalai Lama Ashoka Mody While popular trends, cuisine, and
AN UNTOLD STORY THAT RESHAPES When Indian leaders first took long-standing political tension have
OUR UNDERSTANDING OF CHINESE AND
TIBETAN HISTORY
control of their government in made Korea familiar in some ways
1947, they proclaimed the ideals of to a vast English-speaking world,
From 1956 to 1962, devastating its recorded history of some two
national unity and secular democracy.
military conflicts took place in millennia remains unfamiliar to
Through the first half century of
China's southwestern and north- most. Korea: A History addresses
nation-building, leaders could point
western regions. Contemporaneous general readers, providing an
to uneven but measurable progress
records scarcely mention the up-to-date, accessible overview of
on key goals. But today, many Indians
campaign, and in the years since Korean history from antiquity to the
live in a state of underemployment,
only lukewarm acknowledgment of present. Eugene Y. Park draws on
and are one crisis away from despair.
the violence has surfaced. Jianglin Li original-language sources and the
Public goods—like health, education,
breaks this decades long silence to up-to-date synthesis of East Asian
and the judiciary—are in woeful
reveal for the first time a comprehen- and Western-language scholarship
condition. And good jobs will remain
sive and explosive picture of the six to provide an insightful account.
scarce as long as that is the case. The
years that would prove definitive in This book expands still-limited
lack of jobs will further undermine
modern Tibetan and Chinese history. English-language discussions on
democracy, which will further un-
Beyond the significant death toll, pre-modern Korea, offering rigor-
dermine job creation. India is Broken
the war also destroyed most Tibetan ous and compelling analyses of
provides the most persuasive account
monasteries in a concerted effort to Korea's modernization while dis-
available of this economic catch-22.
eradicate local religion and scholar- cussing daily life, ethnic minorities,
ship, and led to the exile of the 14th Combining statistical data with
LGBTQ history, and North Korean
Dalai Lama to India, as well as the strong, people-driven narratives, this
history not always included in
Tibetan diaspora. book is a meditation on the interplay
Korea surveys. Overall, Park is able
between democracy and economic
Offering a portrait of chaos, to break new ground on questions
progress, with lessons extending far
deception, heroism, and massive and debates that have been central
beyond India. Mody proposes a path
loss, Li argues persuasively that the to the field of Korean studies since
forward that is fraught with its own
events described in this book will its inception.
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GENERAL INTEREST 3
The Origins of COVID-19 Mother Cow, Mother India The Vulgarity of Caste
China and Global Capitalism The Multispecies Politics of Dalits, Sexuality, and Humanity
Dairy in India in Modern India
Li Zhang
Yamini Narayanan Shailaja Paik
A new strain of coronavirus
emerged in November 2019, and India imposes stringent criminal This book offers the first social
patients began to be admitted to penalties for cow slaughter, based and intellectual history of Dalit
hospitals in Wuhan with severe on a Hindu ethic of revering the performance of Tamasha—a form
pneumonia, most linked to the cow as sacred. And yet India is also of popular, secular, traveling theater.
Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market. among the world's leading produc- Shailaja Paik argues that Dalit
China's containment of the first ers of beef, leather, and milk. Using performers, activists, and leaders
stage of the epidemic, in glaring ethnographic and empirical data negotiated the violence, brutality,
contrast with the uncontrolled gathered across India, Yamini exploitation, and stigma in Tamasha
spread in Europe and the United Narayanan reveals the harms as they struggled to claim manuski
States, was heralded as a testament caused to cows in industrial dairy- (human dignity) and transform
to the Chinese Communist Party's ing, and the exploitation required themselves from ashlil (vulgar) to
unparalleled command over the of the diverse, racialized labor assli (authentic) and manus (human
biomedical sciences, population, and throughout India’s dairy produc- beings). In doing so, Paik illumi-
economy. Conversely, much debate tion continuum to obscure such nates how Dalit Tamasha women
about the origins of the virus focuses violence. Narayanan argues that the bent patriarchal pressures both
on the “backwards” cultural practice dominant Hindu framing of the inside and outside the Dalit com-
of consuming wild animals and the cow as 'mother' is one of human munity and became foundational
perceived problem of authoritarian- domination, wherein bovine moth- actors in conflicts over caste, class,
ism suppressing information about erhood is simultaneously capitalized culture, gender, and sexuality.
the outbreak until it was too late. for dairy production, and weapon- Placing Dalit Tamasha women at
ized by right-wing Hindu national- the heart of modernization in India,
The Origins of COVID-19, by Li
ists to violently oppress Muslim Paik illustrates how the choices that
Zhang, emphasizes that we must
and “low” caste Hindus. Ultimately, communities make about culture
understand the origins of emerging
Narayanan traces how that the speak to much larger questions about
diseases with pandemic potential
unraveling of human-animal inclusion, inequality, and structures
(such as SARS and COVID-19) in the
domination and exploitation is an of violence of caste within Indian
more complex and structural entan-
integral component of progressive, society, and opens up new approaches
glements of state-making, science and
democratic politics, speculating on for the transformative potential of
technology, and global capitalism.
the possibility of vegan agricultural Dalit politics and the global history of
policies for food security and multi- gender, sexuality, and the human.
cultural, multispecies diversity.
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4 GENERAL INTEREST SOUTH ASIA IN MOTION
A SERIES EDITED BY THOMAS BLOM HANSEN
Delhi Reborn The Right to Be Counted Protestant Textuality and
Partition and Nation Building The Urban Poor and the Politics of the Tamil Modern
in India's Capital Resettlement in Delhi Political Oratory and the Social
Rotem Geva Sanjeev Routray Imaginary in South Asia
Delhi, one of the world's largest In the last 30 years, Delhi, the capital Bernard Bate, Edited by
cities, has faced momentous of India, has displaced over 1.5 million E. Annamalai, Francis Cody,
challenges—mass migration, poor people. Resettlement and welfare Malarvizhi Jayanth, and
competing governing authorities, services are available—but exclusively Constantine V. Nakassis
controversies over citizenship, and so, as the city deems much of the
Throughout history, speech and
communal violence. To understand population ineligible for civic benefits.
storytelling have united communities
the contemporary plight of India's Drawing on fieldwork conducted in
and mobilized movements. Protestant
capital city, this book revisits one low-income neighborhoods, Sanjeev
Textuality and the Tamil Modern
of the most dramatic episodes in its Routray describes examines how
examines this phenomenon in Tamil-
history, telling the story of how the Delhi's urban poor stake their claims
speaking South India over the last
city was remade by the twin events to housing and life in the city. He
three centuries, charting the develop-
of partition and independence. traces the process of claims-making as
ment of political oratory and its
an attempt by the political community
Treating decolonization as a process influence on society. Supplementing
of the poor to assert its existence and
that unfolded from the late 1930s his narrative with thorough archival
numerical strength, and demonstrates
into the mid-1950s, Rotem Geva work, Bernard Bate begins with
how this struggle to be counted
traces how India and Pakistan Protestant missionaries' introduction
constitutes the systematic, protracted,
became increasingly territorialized of the sermonic genre and takes the
and incremental political process by
in the imagination and practice of reader through its local vernaculariza-
which the poor claim their substantive
the city's residents, how violence tion. What originally began as a
entitlements and become entrenched
and displacement were central format of religious speech became an
in the city. Analyzing various social,
to this process, and how tensions essential political infrastructure used
political, and economic relationships,
over belonging and citizenship to galvanize support for new social
as well as kinship networks and
lingered in the city and the nation. imaginaries, from Indian indepen-
solidarity linkages across the political
She argues for an understanding of dence to Tamil nationalism. Com-
and social spectrum, this book traces
state formation as a contest between pleted by a team of Bate's colleagues,
the ways the poor work to gain a
various lines of power, charting the this ethnography marries linguistic
foothold in Delhi and establish agency
links between different levels of anthropology to performance studies
for themselves.
political struggle and mobilization and political history, illuminating
during the churning early years of 336 pages, July 2022 new geographies of belonging in the
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independence in Delhi. modern era.
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SOUTH ASIA IN MOTION 5
A SERIES EDITED BY THOMAS BLOM HANSEN
Special Treatment From Raj to Republic Unruly Speech
Student Doctors at the All India Sovereignty, Violence, and Displacement and the Politics
Institute of Medical Democracy in India of Transgression
Anna Ruddock Sunil Purushotham Saskia Witteborn
The All India Institute of Medical Between 1946 and 1952, the British Based on a long-term ethnography
Sciences (AIIMS) is iconic in the Raj, the world's largest colony, was in China, the United States and
landscape of Indian healthcare. transformed into the Republic of Germany, Unruly Speech explores
Established in the early years of India, the world's largest democ- how Uyghurs in China and in the
independence, this enormous racy. Independence, the Constituent diaspora transgress sociopolitical
public teaching hospital rapidly Assembly Debates, the founding limits with "unruly" communication
gained fame for the high-quality of the Republic, and India's first practices in a quest for change. Saskia
treatment it offered at a nominal universal franchise general election Witteborn situates her study against
cost; at present, an average of ten occurred amidst the violence and the backdrop of displacement as a
thousand patients pass through displacement of the Partition, the communicative and spatial phenom-
the outpatient department each uncertain and contested integra- enon and focuses on how naming
day. With its notorious medical tion of the princely states, and the practices and witness accounts
program acceptance rate of less forceful quelling of internal dissent. can operate as tools of activism,
than 0.01%, AIIMS also sits at the This book investigates the ways in resistance, and communication.
apex of Indian medical education. which these violent conjunctures Moreover, she analyzes social media,
To be trained as a doctor here is to constituted a postcolonial regime of literatures on surveillance and
be considered the best. sovereignty and shaped the histori- digitized witness accounts to exam-
cal development of democracy in ine the way Uyghurs, their support-
In the first-ever ethnography of
India at the foundational moment ers and the Chinese state each use
AIIMS, Anna Ruddock untangles
of decolonization and national technology to their own ends: to set
the threads of intellectual excep-
independence. From Raj to Republic limits and to cross over those limits,
tionalism, social and power
presents the story of how a national, respectively. The book provides a
stratification, and health inequality
territorial, republican, and liberal granular view of disruptive commu-
that are woven into the health care
polity in India emerged out of a nication: its sociopolitical moorings
taught and provided at AIIMS,
violent and contested process that and socio-technical control. Findings
asking what is lost when medicine
forged new power relations and in this book inform studies of migra-
is used not as a social equalizer
opened up historical trajectories tion and displacement, language
but as a means to cultivate and
with lasting consequences for and social interaction, advocacy and
maintain prestige.
modern India. digital surveillance, and a transna-
296 pages, 2021 tional China.
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6 SOUTH ASIA IN MOTION ANTHROPOLOGY
A SERIES EDITED BY THOMAS BLOM HANSEN
The Tropical Silk Road Involuntary Consent Administering Affect
The Future of China in The Illusion of Choice in Japan’s Pop-Culture Japan and the
South America Adult Video Industry Politics of Anxiety
Edited by Paul Amar, Akiko Takeyama Daniel White
Lisa Rofel, Fernando Brancoli, The popularity of pornography is How do the worlds that state
Maria Amelia Viteri and predicated on the idea that partici- administrators manage become the
Consuelo Fernandez pants have given consent. Looking feelings publics embody? Based on
at behind-the-scenes negotiations 16 months of ethnographic fieldwork
Through thirty short essays, The
and abuses in Japan's massive $5 among rarely accessible government
Tropical Silk Road brings together
billion a year adult video industry, bureaucrats, Daniel White addresses
an impressive array of contributors,
Akiko Takeyama challenges this this question by documenting the rise
from economists, anthropologists,
notion with the idea of “involuntary of a new national figure he calls “Pop-
and political scientists to Black,
consent”. This phenomenon, she Culture Japan.” Emerging in the wake
feminist, and Indigenous communi-
argues, is ubiquitous, not only in the of Japan’s dramatic economic decline
ty organizers, Chinese stakeholders,
porn industry, but in our everyday in the early 1990s, Pop-Culture
environmental activists, and local
lives, and yet modern society, built Japan reflected the hopes of Japanese
journalists to offer a pathbreak-
on beliefs of free choice, renders it state bureaucrats and political elites
ing analysis of China's presence
all but invisible. seeking to recover their country’s
in South America that covers a
standing on the global stage.
wide range of topics, including Takeyama argues that contract-
humanitarian aid, agribusiness, making writ large is based on Invoking the term "administering
and extractive industry—mineral fundamentally dualistic terms, affect" to illustrate how anxiety
mining, fossil fuel tapping, and implying consent and pleasure on becomes a bureaucratic target,
port and transport infrastructure. the one hand, and coercion and pain technique, and unintended conse-
As cracks in the progressive legacy on the other. Taking consent as her quence of promoting Japan's
of the Pink Tide and the failures starting point, Takeyama illustrates national popular culture, the book
of ecocidal right-wing populisms the nuances of Japan's pornographic presents an ethnographic portrait of
shape new political economies and and sex work industries and the the at-times surprisingly emotional
geopolitical possibilities, this book legal structures, or lack thereof, that lives of Japan's state bureaucrats.
provides a grassroots-based account govern them. In examining how anxious feelings
of a post-U.S. centered world order, come to drive policymaking, White
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stakes for South America that analysis of the affective forces inter-
highlights emerging voices and connecting state governance, popular
forms of resistance. culture, and national identity.
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ANTHROPOLOGY 7
Supercorporate Between Dreams and Ghosts Pious Peripheries
Distinction and Participation in Indian Migration and Runaway Women in
Post-Hierarchy South Korea Middle Eastern Oil Post-Taliban Afghanistan
Michael M. Prentice Andrea Wright Sonia Ahsan-Tirmizi
In Supercorporate, anthropologist More than one million Indians travel Taliban made piety a business of the
Michael M. Prentice examines a cen- annually to work in oil projects in state, and thereby intervened in the
tral tension in visions of big corporate the Gulf. This book follows their daily lives and social interactions
life in South Korea's twenty-first cen- migration, across sites in India, the of Afghan women. Pious Peripher-
tury: should corporations be sites of United Arab Emirates, and Kuwait, ies examines women's resistance
fair distinction or equal participation? from villages to oilfields. Engaging through groundbreaking fieldwork
the migrants themselves, the at a women's shelter in Kabul,
As South Korea distances itself from
recruiting agencies that place them, home to runaway wives, daughters,
images and figures of a hierarchical
the government bureaucrats that mothers, and sisters of the Taliban.
past, Prentice argues that the drive
regulate their emigration, and the Whether running to seek marriage
to redefine the meaning of corporate
corporations that hire them, Wright or divorce, enduring or escaping
labor echoes a central ambiguity
examines labor migration as a social abuse, or even accused of singing
around corporate labor today. Even
process, one deeply informed both sexually explicit songs in public,
as corporations remain idealized
by workers’ dreams for the future “promiscuous” women challenge
sites of middle-class aspiration in
and the ghosts of colonial capital- status quo—and once marked as
South Korea, employees are torn as to
ism. Placing migrants at the center promiscuous, women have few
whether they want greater recognition
of global capital, Wright shows how resources. Ahsan-Tirmizi explores
for their work or meaningful forms
migrants are not passive bodies at how these women negotiate
of cooperation. Through an in-depth
the mercy of abstract forces—and gendered power mechanisms and
ethnography of the Sangdo Group
reveals a new understanding of create a new supportive community,
conglomerate, the book examines
contemporary resource extraction, finding friendship and solidarity
how managers attempt to perfect
governance, and global labor. among the women who inhabit the
corporate social life through new of-
“A landmark contribution that margins of Afghan society.
fice programs while also minimizing
the risks of creating new hierarchies. pushes our understanding of oil, “Pious Peripheries brings the reader
labor, and migrant lives in new and into a diverse and opinionated world
Ultimately, this book reveals how
unexpected directions.” of Afghan women. Ahsan-Tirmizi's
office life is a battleground for work-
—Adam Hanieh, willingness to step aside and allow
ing out the promises and the perils of SOAS University of London these remarkable women to speak for
economic democratization in one of themselves is a tremendous strength.”
East Asia's most dynamic countries. STANFORD STUDIES IN
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8 ANTHROPOLOGY
The Opium Business Tiger, Tyrant, Bandit, Dream Super-Express
A History of Crime and Capitalism Businessman A Cultural History of the World's
in Maritime China Echoes of Counterrevolution from First Bullet Train
Peter Thilly New China Jessamyn Abel
From its rise in the 1830s, to its Brian DeMare A symbol of the “new Japan”
pinnacle in the 1930s, the opium The rural county of Poyang, lying in celebrated as the product of a nation-
trade was a guiding force in the northern Jiangxi Province, goes largelyal spirit of innovation, the Tōkaidō
Chinese political economy. Opium unmentioned in the annals of modern Shinkansen—the first bullet train,
money was inextricably bound up in Chinese history. Yet records from dubbed the “dream super-express”
local, national, and imperial finances. the Public Security Bureau archive —represents the bold aspirations
In this book, Peter Thilly narrates the hold a treasure trove of data on the of a nation rebranding itself after
dangerous lives and shrewd business everyday interactions between locals military defeat, but also the deep
operations of opium traffickers in and the law. Drawing on these largely problems caused by the unbridled
southeast China, situating them overlooked resources, Tiger, Tyrant, postwar drive for economic growth.
within a global history of capitalism Bandit, Businessman follows four In Dream Super-Express, Jessamyn
and demonstrating how the modern- criminal cases that together uniquely Abel contends that understanding
izing Chinese state was infiltrated, illuminate the dawning years of the the various, often contradictory,
manipulated, and profoundly trans- People's Republic. images of the bullet train reveals
formed by opium profiteers. how infrastructure operates beyond
Using a unique casefile approach, its intended use as a means of
Opium merchants carried the drug Brian DeMare recounts stories of a transportation to perform cultural
by sea, over mountains, and up rivers, Confucian scholar who found himself and sociological functions. This
with leading traders establishing allied with bandits and secret society history of imaginations around the
monopolies over trade routes and members; a farmer who murdered a monumental rail system resists the
territories, assembling “opium armies” cadre; an evil tyrant who exploited commonplace story of progress to
to protect their businesses. Over time, religious traditions to avoid prosecu- consider the tug-of-war over the
these organizations became more tion; and a merchant accused of a significance of the new line. Tracing
bureaucratized and militarized, mim- crime he did not commit. Each case the meanings assigned to high-speed
icking—and then eventually influenc- is a tremendous tale, complete with rail shows how it prompted a rei-
ing, infiltrating, or supplanting—the memorable characters, plot twists, magination of identity on the levels
state. Drug traders mattered—not and drama. Balancing storytelling of individual, metropolis, and nation
only in the seedy ways in which they with historical inquiry, this book is in a changing Japan.
have been caricatured, but crucially as at once a grassroots view of rural
STUDIES OF THE WEATHERHEAD
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China's evolution on the world stage. archival research. COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
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HISTORY 9
Whose Islam? Guns, Guerillas, and the Seeking Western Men
The Western University Great Leader Email-Order Brides under
and Modern Islamic Thought North Korea and the Third World China's Global Rise
in Indonesia Benjamin R. Young Monica Liu
Megan Brankley Abbas Far from always having been International dating agencies that
For generations, Indonesia's an isolated nation, North Korea facilitate marriages comprise a
foremost Muslim leaders received exercised significant influence $2.5-billion-dollar global industry,
their educations in Middle Eastern among Third World nations during and are rife with stereotypes—in
madrasas or the archipelago's own the Cold War era. With one foot particular, younger brides from
Islamic schools. Starting in the in the socialist Second World and non-Western countries being paired
mid-twentieth century, however, the other in the anticolonial Third with older Western men. However,
growing numbers traveled to the World, North Korea occupied a this book departs from this narrative,
West to study Islam before return- unique position as both a postcolo- offering stories of women in China's
ing home to assume positions of nial nation and a Soviet client state. email-order bride industry who are
political and religious influence. North Korea sent advisors to assist primarily middle-aged, divorced,
Whose Islam? examines the African liberation movements, and proactively seeking spouses to
far-reaching repercussions of this trained anti-imperialist guerilla fulfill their material and sexual needs.
change for major Muslim commu- fighters, and completed building What they seek in their Western
nities as well as for Islamic studies. projects in developing countries. partners is tied to what they believe
State-run media coverage of the they've lost in the shifting global
Drawing on extensive archival economy around them.
Third World shaped the worldview
research from around the globe,
of many North Koreans and How does China's global ascendance
this incisive new book provides a
helped them imagine a unified reshape Chinese women's perception
unique perspective on the peren-
anti-imperialist front that stretched of Western masculinity? Moreover,
nial tensions between insiders and
from the boulevards of Pyongyang how do the women's own divergent
outsiders in religious studies.
to the streets of the Gaza Strip and class positions within Chinashape the
“One of the most interesting works the beaches of Cuba.
in Islamic education and Islamic outcome of their marital trajectories?
studies in recent years.” “An unprecedented look into Through the unique window of
the causes and consequences of global internet dating, this book
—Robert Hefner,
Boston University
North Korea's struggle for reveals how China's rise on the world
international influence.” stage reshapes relationships of race,
ENCOUNTERING TRADITIONS
—Mitchell Lerner, class, gender, sex, and intimacy
280 pages, 2021 Ohio State University
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10 HISTORY SOCIOLOGYMarriage Unbound The Border Within Precarious Asia
State Law, Power, and Inequality Vietnamese Migrants Transforming Global Capitalism and Work in
in Contemporary China Ethnic Nationalism in Berlin Japan, South Korea, and Indonesia
Ke Li Phi Hong Su Arne L. Kalleberg, Kevin Hewison
China after Mao has undergone When the Berlin Wall fell, Germany and Kwang-Yeong Shin
vast transformations, including united in a wave of euphoria and Precarious Asia assesses the role
massive rural-to-urban migration, solidarity. Also caught in the current of global and domestic factors in
rising divorce rates, and the steady were Vietnamese border crossers shaping precarious work and its
expansion of the country's legal who had left their homeland after outcomes in Japan, South Korea, and
system. Today, divorce may appear a its reunification in 1975. Unwilling Indonesia as they represent a range
private concern, when in fact it is a to live under socialism, one group of Asian political democracies and
profoundly political matter. Marriage resettled in West Berlin as refugees. capitalist economies: Japan and South
Unbound focuses on the politics In the name of socialist solidarity, a Korea are now developed and mature
of divorce cases in contemporary second group arrived in East Berlin economies, while Indonesia remains
China, following a group of women as contract workers. The Border a lower-middle income country.
seeking judicial remedies for conju- Within paints a vivid portrait of
gal grievances and disputes. these disparate Vietnamese migrants' By linking macrostructural policies
encounters with each other in the to both the mesostructure of labor
Drawing on extensive archival and relations and the microstructure of
post-socialist city of Berlin. Phi
ethnographic data, paired with outcomes experienced by individual
Hong Su's rigorous ethnography
unprecedented access to rural Chi- workers, they reveal the interplay
unpacks this intuition. In absorbing
nese courtrooms, Ke Li presents not of forces that generate precarious
prose, Su reveals how these Cold
only a stirring portrayal of how these work. In doing so, they synthesize
War compatriots enact palpable so-
women navigate divorce litigation, historical and institutional analyses
cial boundaries in everyday life. This
but also a uniquely in-depth account with the political economy of capi-
book uncovers how 20th-century
of the modern Chinese legal system. talism and class relations, and show
state formation and international
With sensitive and fluid prose, Li how precarious work ultimately
migration—together, border cross-
reveals the struggles between the contributes to increasingly high
ings—generate enduring migrant
powerful and the powerless at the levels of inequality and condemns
classifications. In doing so, border
front lines of dispute management; segments of the population to
crossings fracture shared ethnic,
the complex interplay between chronic poverty and many more to
national, and religious identities in
culture and the state; and insidious livelihood and income vulnerability.
enduring ways.
statecraft that far too often sacrifices EMERGING FRONTIERS IN THE
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SOCIOLOGY 11At Risk The Dragon Roars Back Enacting the Security
Indian Sexual Politics and the Transformational Leaders and Community
Global AIDS Crisis Dynamics of Chinese Foreign Policy ASEAN's Never-ending Story
Gowri Vijayakumar Suisheng (Sam) Zhao Stéphanie Martel
In the mid-1990s, experts predicted In modern world history, no other This book illuminates the central
that India would face the world's rising power has ever experienced role of discourse in the making
biggest AIDS epidemic by 2000. China's turbulent relations with its of security communities through
Global public health institutions neighbors and Western countries. a case study of the Association of
and the Indian state initiated a Weaving together complex events, Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
massive prevention effort, channel- processes, and players, this book pro-
ing billions of dollars toward groups vides a historically in-depth, concep- Stéphanie Martel argues that talk
designated as at-risk—sex workers tually comprehensive, and up-to-date about security is more than empty
and men who have sex with men. At analysis of Chinese foreign policy rhetoric. It is precisely through
Risk captures this unique moment transition since the founding of the discourse that ASEAN is brought
in which these criminalized and People's Republic of China (PRC). into being as a security community.
marginalized groups reinvented Martel analyzes the epic narratives
This book demonstrates how Mao that state and non-state actors tell
their “at-risk” categorization. The
Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, and Xi about ASEAN's journey, featur-
AIDS crisis created a contradictory,
Jinping are transformational leaders ing a colorful cast of heroes and
conditional, and temporary opening
who have charted unique courses of monsters. Through fieldwork and
for sex-worker and LGBTIQ activ-
Chinese foreign policy in the quest in-depth interviews with practitio-
ists to renegotiate citizenship and to
for security, prosperity, and power. ners, Martel provides clear evidence
make demands on the state.
With the ultimate decision-making that discourse is key to sustaining
Working across India and Kenya, authority on national security and regional organizations like ASEAN.
Gowri Vijayakumar provides a strategic policies, these leaders have Enacting the Security Community is
detailed account of the political made political use of ideational an incisive contribution to debates
struggles at the heart of the Indian forces, tailoring bureaucratic institu- among scholars and practitioners
AIDS response, and illuminates tions, exploiting the international about security communities as well
how the politics of gender, sexuality, power distribution, and responding as the role of discourse in the study
and nationalism shape reactions to strategically to the international of world politics.
global crisis. In so doing, she con- norms and rules to advance their
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12 SOCIOLOGY POLITICSChina's Rise in the United Front Slow Anti-Americanism
Global South Projecting Solidarity through Social Movements and Symbolic
The Middle East, Africa, and Deliberation in Vietnam’s Politics in Central Asia
Beijing's Alternative World Order Single-Party Legislature Edward Schatz
Dawn C. Murphy Paul Schuler Negative views of the United States
As China and the U.S. increasingly Conventional wisdom emerging from abound, but we know too little about
compete for power in key areas China and other autocracies claims how such views affect politics. Based
of U.S. influence, great power that single-party legislatures and on careful research on post-Soviet
conflict looms. Yet few studies elections are mutually beneficial for Central Asia, Edward Schatz argues
have looked to the Middle East and citizens and autocrats, serving func- that anti-Americanism is best seen
Africa, regions of major political, tions like constraining political lead- not as a rising tide that swamps or as a
economic, and military importance ers or providing information about conflagration that overwhelms. Rather,
for both China and the U.S., to citizens. In United Front, Paul Schuler “America” is a symbolic resource that
theorize how China competes in a challenges these views by examining resides quietly in the mundane but
changingworld system. the past and present functioning always has potential value for social
of the Vietnam National Assembly and political mobilizers. Using a wide
China's Rise in the Global South (VNA). Critical behavior from legis- range of evidence, Schatz considers
examines China's behavior as a lature delegates represents crossfire how Islamist movements, human
rising power in two key Global within the regime, not genuine citizen rights activists, and labor mobilizers
South regions, the Middle East and feedback. Schuler's argument suggests across Central Asia avail themselves
Sub-Saharan Africa. From the Belt that there are limits to generating of this fact, thus changing their ability
and Road initiative to the founding genuinely "consultative authori- to pursue their respective agendas.
of new cooperation forums and tarianism" through quasi-democratic Schatz refocuses our analytic gaze
special envoys, China's Rise in the institutions. Applying cutting-edge away from high politics for a clearer
Global South offers an in-depth look social science methods on original view of the slower moving, partially
at China's foreign policy approach to data like legislative speeches, election occluded, and socially embedded
the countries it considers its partners returns, and surveys, Schuler shows processes that ground how “America”
in South-South cooperation. that even in a seemingly vociferous becomes political.
Murphy contends that China is legislature like the VNA, the ultimate “Fresh, strikingly original, with the
constructing an alternate interna- purpose is not to reflect the views wisdom of the long view.”
tional order to interact with these of citizens, but rather to signal the —Alexander Cooley,
regions, and provides policymakers regime's strength and preferences Columbia University
and scholars of international while taking down rivals. 232 pages, 2021
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POLITICS 13Koreatown, Los Angeles Citizens, Immigrants, Minor Transpacific
Immigration, Race, and the and the Stateless Triangulating American, Japanese,
“American Dream” A Japanese American Diaspora and Korean Fictions
Shelley Lee in the Pacific David S. Roh
Koreatown, Los Angeles tells the Michael R. Jin There is a tendency to think of
story of an American ethnic From the 1920s to the eve of the Korean American literature—and
community often equated with Pacific War in 1941, more than 50,000 Asian American literature writ
socioeconomic achievement and second-generation Japanese Ameri- large—as a field of study involving
assimilation, but whose experi- cans (Nisei) embarked on transpacific only two spaces, the United States
ences as racial minorities and journeys to the Japanese Empire, and Korea. The same rings true with
immigrant outsiders illuminate key putting an ocean between themselves Korean Japanese Zainichi literature
economic and cultural develop- and pervasive anti-Asian racism in involving only Japan and Korea.
ments in the United States since the American West. This contingent This book posits that both fields
1965. Beginning with the early of Japanese Americans—one in four must account for all three spaces:
development of LA's Koreatown U.S.-born Nisei—came in search of Korean American literature has to
and culminating with the 1992 Los better lives but instead encountered a grapple with the legacy of Japanese
Angeles riots and their aftermath, world shaped by increasingly volatile imperialism in the United States, and
Shelley Sang-Hee Lee demonstrates relations between the U.S. and Japan. Zainichi literature must account for
how Korean Americans' lives American interventions in Japan.
were shaped by patterns of racial Based on transnational and bilingual Working in Japanese and English,
segregation and urban poverty, and research in the United States and David S. Roh builds a theoretical
legacies of anti-Asian racism and Japan, Michael R. Jin recuperates framework for articulating moments
orientalism. More than a dot on a the stories of this unique group at of contact between minority litera-
map, Koreatown holds profound the crossroads of U.S. and Japanese tures in a third national space.
emotional significance for Korean empire. From the Jim Crow American
West to the Japanese colonial frontiers “A refreshing piece of scholarship that
immigrants across the nation as a will advance important conversations
symbol of their shared bonds and in Asia, and from internment camps surrounding transnational minor
place in American society. in America to Hiroshima on the eve of literature and Korean American
the atomic bombing, these individuals cultural production.
“A compelling and accessibly written redefined ideas about home, identity,
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histories to examine Korean Los citizenship, and belonging as they University of Toronto
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