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letter from the asian studies editors:

We are delighted to present the Columbia University Press Asian Studies catalogue of new books for

2015. The books gathered here span many fields in Asian studies—literary studies, philosophy, reli-

gion, history, politics, and film.

We offer several important new translations of literary works. Gustav Heldt’s The Kojiki: An Account

of Ancient Matters is a beautiful new translation of Japan’s oldest literary text. Sonja Arntzen and

Moriyuki Ito’s The Sarashina Diary: A Woman’s Life in Eleventh-Century Japan is a new rendering into

English with a critical introduction and notes that serve to establish the context of the diary entries.

Also on the literary studies portion of the list are two books on Chinese literature—David Der-wei

Wang’s monumental The Lyrical in Epic Time: Modern Chinese Intellectuals and Artists Through the

1949 Crisis and Michel Hockx’s Internet Literature in China, a stunning overview of the development of

Internet literature in contemporary China and how it challenges literary conventions while operating

within the context of the PRC’s publishing system. The Fall of Language in the Age of English, a best-

selling book in Japan by the famed novelist Minae Mizumura, has been revised by the author for an

English-language audience. The book takes a critical look at the results of English as the singular uni-

versal language and asks what that means for the “national languages” and “national literatures” of

the world. In Stereotype: South Asia in the Global Literary Imaginary, by Mrinalini Chakravorty, provides

a new understanding of the idea of stereotype by exploring its role in the works of prominent South

Asian writers and how it shapes ideas of the region in the global cultural imagination.

Our recent titles in Asian history and politics also reflect the range and depth of our list. Jie Li’s

Shanghai Homes offers a highly original microhistory of residential life in Shanghai in the twentieth

century, told through the author’s family history. Wendy Law-Yone’s A Daughter’s Memoir of Burma

is an adventure story, a love story, and a political memoir set against Burma’s turbulent twentieth

century. Hans van de Ven’s Breaking with the Past: The Maritime Customs Service and the Global

Origins of Modernity in China brilliantly recounts China’s rocky entrance into the global political

economy. Nicholas Dirks’s Autobiography of an Archive: A Scholar’s Passage to India describes Dirks’s

development as a South Asia scholar alongside the unfolding relationship between the American

academy and what was then called the “third” or “developing” world. Sandra Fahy conducted lengthy

and detailed interviews with more than thirty North Korean refugees. Her book, Marching Through

Suffering: Loss and Survival in North Korea, is the first to truly give North Korean people their own

voice on the famine, survival, loyalty to the regime, and their surprisingly conflicted views of South

Korea and the United States.

In Paving the Great Way: Vasubandhu's Unifying Buddhist Philosophy, Jonathan Gold identifies recurrent

treatments of causality and scriptural interpretation in Vasubandhu's work that unify distinct strands

of his thought under a single, Buddhist philosophy, offering a new perspective on the development of

Buddhist epistemology and the theorization of tantra. In religious studies, Richard Boyle’s Realizing

Awakened Consciousness: Interviews with Buddhist Teachers and a New Perspective on the Mind investi-

gates how traditions and practices that originated in India, China, Tibet, and Japan have been inter-

preted by some of North America’s most prominent teachers. Harry Rothschild’s Emperor Wu Zhao

and Her Pantheon of Devis, Divinities, and Dynastic Mothers analyzes the tumultuous reign of China’s

first and only female emperor.

Columbia University Press is also the proud distributor in the United States of the excellent books

published by Hong Kong University Press and the Chinese University Press in Hong Kong.

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CONTENTS

Manuscript queries and proposals can be sent to:

Anne Routon ([email protected])f or Asian history and politics.

Jennifer Crewe ([email protected]) for Translations from the Asian Classics and Asian literature.

Wendy Lochner ([email protected]) for Asian philosophy and religion.

Philip Leventhal ([email protected]) for Asian film.

For a complete listing of Columbia’s titles or for more information about any book in this catalog, visit our web site: www.cup.colum-bia.edu

Most titles in this catalog pulished by Columbia University Press are available worldwide from the Press. If no UK price appears, it is most likely from Columbia only in the United States, its possessions, and Canada.

Japanese Literature & Culture .......................4

Japanese History & Politics ........................... 7

Chinese Literature & Culture.........................8

Chinese History & Politics ...........................11

Himalayas & Tibet ....................................... 14

East Asian Studies ........................................15

Asian Cinema & Media Studies...................19

South/Southast Asian Studies ....................20

Indian History, Religion & Culture ..............22

Korean Literature, Politics & Culture ..........24

Asian-American Studies ..............................26

Pan-Asian Studies ........................................28

Buddhism ....................................................29

Order Form ...................................................31

Drawing New Color LinesTransnational Asian American Graphic

NarrativesEdited by Monica Chiu

p. 28

Ground Zero, Nagasaki Stories

Seirai Yuichi p. 4

Autobiography of an ArchiveA Scholar's Passage to India

Nicholas B. Dirksp. 21


The Tale of GenjiTranslation, Canonization, and World LiteratureMichael Emmerich

$30.00 / £19.50 paper 978-0-231-16273-9

2013 512 pages / 129 illus.

cloth 978-0-231-16272-2

Ground Zero, Nagasaki Stories

Seirai Yuichi

Translated by Paul Warham

“A moving document of the atomic experi-

ence and one that suggests the ways it still

affects Japan today.”

——Stephen Snyder, Middlebury College

Set in contemporary Nagasaki, the six short stories in this collection draw a chilling por-trait of the ongoing trauma of the detonation of the atomic bomb. Whether they experi-enced the destruction of the city directly or heard about it from survivors, the characters in these tales filter their pain and alienation through their Catholic faith, illuminating a side of Japanese culture little known in the West. Many of them are descended from the "hidden Christians" who continued to practice their religion in secret during the centuries when it was outlawed in Japan. Urakami Cathedral, the center of Japanese Christian life, stood at ground zero when the bomb fell.

$35.00 / £24.00 cloth 978-0-231-17116-8

2015 208 pages

New in paper

E D I T E D B Y Thomas Harper and Haruo Shirane

S O U R C E S F R O M T H E F I R S T M I L L E N N I U M

Reading The Tale of Genji

Forthcoming June

Reading The Tale of Genji

Sources from the First Millennium

Edited by Thomas Harper and Haruo Shirane

“This book is a treasure. Erudite and master-ful translations, many appearing here for the first time, will advance the field in significant ways.”

—Melissa McCormick, Harvard University

“A brilliant example of what collaboration among scholars can produce. The introduction to the whole work and to the individual texts are clear, cogent, concise, and engaging, and the translations are very readable and display different nuances in style.”

—Sonja Arntzen, University of Toronto

$65.00 / £45.00 cloth 978-0-231-16658-4

June 2015 656 pages / 13 illus.

JAPANESE LITERATURE & CULTURE



The Columbia Anthology of Japanese EssaysZuihitsu from the Tenth to the Twenty-First Century

Edited and translated by Steven D. Carter

"This focused ramble of the traditional

Japanese essay format called zuihitsu (liter-

ally, 'following the brush') has appealed to

writers of both genders, all ages, and every

class in Japanese society. Highly personal,

these essays contain dollops of philosophy,

odd anecdotes, quiet reflection, and pro-

nouncements on taste. In running alongside

the main tracks of Japanese literature, this

broad collection of zuihitsu brims with idio-

syncratic interest."

—Liza Dalby, author of The Tale of Murasaki

and East Wind Melts the Ice

The Columbia Anthology of Japanese Essays presents a representative selection of more than one hundred zuihitsu from a range of historical periods written by close to fifty authors--from well-known figures, such as Matsuo Basho, Natsume Soseki, and Koda Aya, to such writers as Tachibana Nankei and Dekune Tatsuro, whose works appear here for the first time in English.

$40.00 / £27.50 paper 978-0-231-16771-0

$120.00 / £83.00 cloth 978-0-231-16770-3

2014 560 pages

The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese DramaEdited by J. Thomas Rimer, Mitsuya Mori,

and M. Cody Poulton

“An excellent representative sampling of

modern Japanese drama and a substantial

contribution to Japanese literature in

translation and the body of Japanese scripts

available in English for Western theater

artists.”

—Kevin J. Wetmore Jr., Loyola Marymount

University

“Few anthologies are as comprehensive as

this one, and the translators have done an

admirable job in capturing the language

and tone of each of the playwrights. This

anthology will open up much of modern and

contemporary Japanese theater work to a

wider audience.”

—David Jortner, Baylor University

$75.00 / £52.00 cloth 978-0-231-12830-8

2014 880 pages


The Sarashina DiaryA Woman's Life in Eleventh-Century Japan

Sugawara no Takasue no Musume

Translated, with an introduction, by Sonja Arntzen

and Moriyuki Ito

"This sparkling new version of The Sarashina

Diary opens out an eleventh-century clas-

sic for twenty-first-century readers. Sonja

Arntzen and Ito Moriyuki situate the diary

culturally and historically, and their trans-

lation conveys both the vivid realism of

Takasue no Musume's prose and the haunt-

ing melancholy of her poems." — David Damrosch, Harvard University

This new translation captures the lyrical richness of the original text while revealing its subtle structure and ironic meaning. The introduction highlights the poetry in The Sarashina Diary and the juxtaposition of poetic passages and narrative prose, which brings meta-meanings into play. The trans-lators' commentary offers insight into the author's family and world, as well as the fascinating textual legacy of her work.

$47.00 / £27.50 cloth 978-0-231-16718-5

2014 264 pages / 20 illus.

Translations from Asian Classics


The Kojiki

An Account of Ancient Matters

O no Yasumaro

Translated by Gustav Heldt

“Heldt's new, complete, and contemporary

translation brings vibrancy and clarity to this

often politicized work of ancient Japan. The

poetry is rendered exquisitely, the narratives

unfold with clarity; the translation itself is at

once impeccable and imaginative. A master

work that will generate discussions far into

the future.

—James E. Ketelaar, University of Chicago

“A translation of the Kojiki that is accurate

and faithful to the original and at the same

time exciting to read. A key element of the

Kojiki mythology is the power of naming, and

Heldt's decision to translate the names of its

various gods and royal figures has brought

the narrative alive in a way that it has never

been before in English."— Torquil Duthie, University of California,

Los Angeles

$27.00 / £18.50 paper 978-0-231-16389-7

$80.00 / £55.00 cloth 978-0-231-16388-0

2014 312 pages


JAPANESE HISTORY & POLITICS

Grassroots FascismThe War Experience of the Japanese People

Yoshimi Yoshiaki

Translated by Ethan Mark

“The translation of Yoshiaki Yoshimi's unprec-

edented Grassroots Fascism makes available

his compelling narrative of popular partici-

pation in the actuality of Japanese fascism

before and during the Pacific War. Although

this classic work concentrates on how ordi-

nary people were enlisted into Japan's fascist

project, it also shows in rich detail the role

they were willing to play as agents at the

level of everyday life. Yoshimi's book joins a

post-Cold War historiographical tradition that

once more recognizes the necessity t0 take

fascism seriously as a global conjunctural

event."

— Harry Harootunian, Columbia University

$45.00 / £30.95 cloth 978-0-231-16568-6

2015 360 pages / 11 illus.

Weatherhead Books on Asia

Manchu Princess, Japanese SpyThe Story of Kawashima Yoshiko, the Cross-Dressing Spy Who Commanded Her Own Army

Phyllis Birnbaum

"Richly illustrated with rare photos, and

enlivened by numerous interviews, Phyllis

Birnbaum's book is a balanced, well-written

biography of one of the most notorious fig-

ures to emerge in the early twentieth-century

contest for empire in northeast Asia. Anyone

interested in the personal dimension of Sino-

Japanese relations during the period of their

most problematic intensity will find much

profit in reading these stories of the life of

Kawashima Yoshiko, many told through the

memories of the men and women who loved

her and hated her, often at the same time."

— Mark C. Elliott, Harvard University

$30.00 cloth 978-0231-15218-1

2015 272 pages / 22 illus.

Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture


Internet Literature in China

Michel Hockx

“This book is the best introduction avail-

able in English to the psychic landscape of

contemporary Chinese netizens who know

how to play with censors to articulate their

personal desires, fantasies, phobias and

exhibitionism."

—Lydia H. Liu, author of The Freudian

Robot: Digital Media and the Future of the

Unconscious

Conducting the first comprehensive survey in English of this phenomenon, Michel Hockx describes in detail the types of Chinese literature taking shape right now online and their novel aesthetic, politi-cal, and ideological challenges. Offering a unique portal into postsocialist Chinese culture, he presents a complex portrait of internet culture and control in China that avoids one-dimensional representations of oppression. Hockx interviews online authors, publishers, and censors, capturing the convergence of mass media, creativity, censorship, and free speech that is upend-ing traditional hierarchies and conventions

within China—and across Asia.

$40.00 / £27.50 cloth 978-0-231-16082-7

2015 256 pages / 29 illus.

Global Chinese Culture

Internet Literature in China Michel Hockx

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The Lyrical in Epic Time Modern Chinese Intellectuals and artists Through the 1949 Crisis

David Der-wei wang

The Lyrical in Epic TimeModern Chinese Intellectuals and Artists Through the 1949 Crisis

David Der-wei Wang

“Wang moves with ease and flair from one

discipline to another as he delineates the

complex dynamics of the evolving cultural

lyricism in mid-twentieth-century China. No

other published book in the field can rival

this in breadth, depth, and goals.”

—Zong-Qi Cai, University of Illinois

“By bringing energetic questioning and

immense erudition to bear on lyricism, Wang

succeeds in throwing a brilliant new light

onto crucial aspects of modern Chinese expe-

rience in ways that demand a reconfiguration

of our understanding.”

—Susan Daruvala, Cambridge University

$60.00 / £41.50 cloth 978-0-231-17046-8

2015 528 pages

CHINESE LITERATURE & CULTURE


The Orphan of Zhao and Other Yuan PlaysThe Earliest Known Versions

Edited by Stephen H. West and Wilt L. Idemas

“The anthology, together with original intro-ductory segments, opens a new window onto the urban milieu of the formative period of early Chinese theater. For anyone interested in not only in the literary, but in the per-formance aesthetics of traditional Chinese drama, this collection will be indispensable."

—Patricia Sieber, The Ohio State University

Crackling with raw emotion, violent imagery, and colorful language and wit, the zaju in this volume explore the consequences of loyalty and betrayal, ambition and enlight-enment, and piety and drunkenness. The collection features seven of the twenty-six available untranslated zaju published in the fourteenth century, with a substantial intro-duction preceding each play and extensive annotations throughout.

$65.00 / £45.00 cloth 978-0-231-16854-0

2014 432 pages

Translations from the Asian Classics

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Visions of Dystopia in China's New Historical Novels

Jeffrey C. Kinkley

“Kinkley dives directly into the complex and

sometimes murky intersection between

history and literature in contemporary China.

Along the way, we are introduced to the

leading voices in Chinese literature today—

including Mo Yan, Su Tong, Yu Hua and

Wang Anyi— and offered nuanced readings

of the dystopian undercurrent in their major

works. For those interested in delving deeper

into the most important Chinese novels of

the past quarter century, this is where to

start."

—Michael Berry, author of History of Pain

and Speaking in Images

“A lucid, thought-provoking, and substantial

study of several of China's most important

creative writers; one that poses crucial ques-

tions about the links between fiction, history

and politics in the contemporary People's

Republic.”

—Julia Lovell, University of London

$45.00 / £30.95 cloth 978-0-231-16768-0

2014 304 pages

Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture

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Talk Radio, the Mainstream Press, and Public Opinion in Hong Kong

Francis L. F. Lee

In the absence of a fully democratic sys-tem, phone-in programmes on public and commercial radio channels have played an influential role in channeling and mediat-ing Hon Kong public opinion. Lee examines the phenomenon of talk radio in Hong Kong, arguing that the circulation and re-circulation of talk radio content through the mainstream media is crucial in explaining the medium's social prominence and influ-ence. The process has not only widened the dissemination of talk radio content, but has also established talk radio as a channel for free political expression, giving it a role in shaping serious debate not seen in many other societies. Drawing on interviews with radio personnel, analysis of radio and news-paper content, and audience surveys, Talk Radio explores the vital and influential world of Hong Kong's phone-in programmes.

$32.00 / £22.00 paper 978-988-820-858-6

$58.00 / £40.00 cloth 978-988-820-857-9

2014 288 pages / 9 illus.

Hong Kong University Press

Media in China, China in the MediaProcesses, Strategies, Images, Identities

Edited by Adina Zemanek

Mass media plays a significant role in the production and reproduction of identities and lifestyles, values and world-views. It also convey information about the world we live in, as it reflects elements of the broader context within which it comes into being. This volume brings together eleven essays that offer a complex approach to both media in the PRC and the way China and the Chinese are presented in the media of other countries. Individual chapters discuss images constructed, persuasive techniques employed, political undertakings and official stances reflected, as well as popular feeling expressed in the Chinese official and popu-lar press, information websites, Internet forums, mainstream Western press, Polish and Italian media, Zambian Internet forums, and Indonesian cinema.

$42.00 / £29.00 paper 978-83-233-3621-1

2014 208 pages

jagiellonian university press



Emperor Wu Zhao and Her Pantheon of Devis, Divinities, and Dynastic Mothers

N. Harry Rothschild

"By delving deeply into the religious underpin-

nings of Wu Zetian's power in a way that not

even the most dedicated approach to her uti-

lization of Buddhist scriptures and doctrines

alone could manage, this investigation illumi-

nates the unique quality of Wu Zetian's reign

far more effectively than previous studies....

A solid piece of well-documented scholarship,

vibrant and entertaining throughout."

— Victor H. Mair, University of Pennsylvania

Wu Zhao (624-705), better known as Wu Zetian or Empress Wu, is the only woman to have ruled China over the course of its 5,000-year history. How did she rise to power, and why was she never overthrown? Exploring a mystery that has confounded scholars for centuries, this multifaceted his-tory suggests that Wu Zhao drew on China's rich pantheon of female divinities and emi-nent women to aid in her reign.

$40.00 / £27.50 cloth 978-0-231-16938-7


The Sheng Yen Series in Chinese Buddhist Studies

Shanghai HomesPalimpsests of Private Life

Jie Li

“Shanghai Homes recounts the lives of three

generations of residents in Shanghai’s alley-

way neighborhoods, once vibrant communi-

ties that have all but disappeared since the

late 1990s. In her detailed and wonderfully

written account, Li treats her subjects with

a rare combination of personal engagement

and academic rigor. A remarkable work in

urban cultural studies."

—Hanchao Lu, author of Beyond the

Neon Lights

“A real gem...Shanghai Homes is that unique

work that effortlessly moves between and

cuts across several disciplinary areas: family

history, Cultural Revolution politics, urban

architecture, and above all personal and col-

lective memory and its place in post-Socialsit

and globalized China.”

—Leo Ou-Fan Lee, author of Shanghai Modern

$30.00 / £20.50 paper 978-0-231-16717-8

$90.00 / £62.00 cloth 978-0-231-16716-1

2014 304 pages / 49 figures

Global Chinese Culture

CHINESE HISTORY & POLITICSForthcoming June


The Golden GhettoThe American Commercial Community at Canton and the Shaping of American China Policy, 1784-1844

Jacques M. Downs

With a new introduction by Frederic D. Grant, Jr.

“The fullest exposition on the subject thus

far and as the final word on extant, previ-

ously untapped, English-language sources."

— The China Quarterly

Before the opening of the treaty ports in the 1840s, Canton was the only Chinese port where foreign merchants were allowed to trade. The Golden Ghetto takes us into the world of one of this city's most important foreign communities—the Americans—during the decades between the American Revolution of 1776 and the signing of the Sino-US Treaty of Wanghia in 1844. Jacques Downs devotes particular attention to the biographical details of the principal American traders, the leading American firms, and their operations in Canton and

the United States.

$69.00 / £47.50 cloth 978-988-8139-09-5

2015 504 pages / 66 illus.

hong kong university press

From Warhorses to PloughsharesThe Later Tang Reign of Emperor Mingzong

Richard L. Davis

Mingzong (r. 926-933) was the most illus-trious emperor of the Five Dynasties, and one of the most admired of China's middle period, the Tang to Song. Mingzong mar-shaled a cluster of eminently able court-iers, men who balanced Confucian charity against the military discipline demanded in a time of transition. He wisely eschewed military conflict, except as a last resort. Conservative in moral and legal matters, he introduced radical economic reforms that included deregulation of traditional monopolies and timely changes to the tribu-tary system. Drawing extensively on primary sources, including Mingzong's spirited correspondence with his officials, this politi-cal and cultural biography brings to life a charismatic emperor who was held up as a model ruler by succeeding generations.

$60.00 / £41.50 cloth 978-988-8208-10-4

2015 224 pages

hong kong university press

CHINESE HISTORY & POLITICS


NEw IN PAPER

China’s Uncertain Future

Jean-Luc Domenach

Translated by George Holoch Jr.

A Choice Outstanding Academic Title

“Informed, accessible, engaging...Highly

recommended.” — Choice

$24.00 / £16.50 paper 978-0-231-15225-9

2014 208 pages

cloth 978-0-231-15224-2

China’s Search for Security

Andrew J. Nathan and Andrew Scobell

“[Nathan & Scobell] skillfully and fairly

explore this complex and contradictory

American-Chinese competition.”

—New York Review of Books

$24.00 / £16.50 paper 978-0-231-14051-5

2014 432 pages

cloth 978-0-231-14050-8

Pacific CrossingCalifornia Gold, Chinese Migration, and the Making of Hong Kong

Elizabeth Sinn

$34.00 / £23.50 paper 978-988-8139-72-9

2014 472 pages / 23 illus.

cloth 978-988-8139-71-2


Never Forget National HumiliationHistorical Memory in Chinese Politics and Foreign Relations

Zheng Wang

$25.00 / £17.50 paper 978-0-231-14891-7

2014 312 pages / 23 illus.

cloth 978-0-231-14890-0

Contemporary Asia in the World

Breaking with the PastThe Maritime Customs Service and the Global Origins of Modernity in China

Hans van de Ven

“Far more than an institutional history of

the Customs Service, this book is effectively

a complete new history of China’s rocky

entrance into the global political economy.

There is no better book written at this level

of historical research and archival detail on

the subject of “China and the West.”

— Timothy Brook, University of British

Columbia

“This is the story of China’s economic

internationalization in the century before

the Communist conquest....The eminent

Cambridge historian, Hans van de Ven, has

written this history in full for the first time,

using an extraordinary array of Chinese and

international sources. Today, as China looks

to its pre-Communist past as a guide to its

future, this is an important book.”

— William C. Kirby, Harvard University

$50.00 / £34.50 cloth 978-0-231-13738-6

2014 432 pages / 34 illus.

CHINESE HISTORY & POLITICS


HIMALAYAS & TIBET

The Dalai Lama and the Emperor of ChinaA Political History of the Tibetan Institution of Reincarnation

Peter Schwieger

“Peter Schwieger brings new precision to

our understanding of Tibet's central political

institution, that of the Dalai Lama, reach-

ing beyond earlier scholarship thanks to

his innovative and thorough use of archival

sources that have only recently become

available."

— Matthew Kapstein, EPHE, Paris, and the

University of Chicago

A major new work in modern Tibetan history, this book follows the evolution of Tibetan Buddhism's trülku (reincarnation) tradition from the seventeenth to the nine-teenth centuries, along with the Emperor of China's efforts to control its development. By illuminating the political aspects of the trülku institution, Schwieger shapes a broader history of the relationship between the Dalai Lama and the Emperor of China, as well as a richer understanding of the Qing Dynasty as an inner Asian empire, the modern fate of the Mongol empire, and current Sino-Tibetan relations.

$50.00 / £34.50 cloth 978-0-231-16852-6

2015 352 pages / 18 illus.

Love and LiberationAutobiographical Writings of the Tibetan Buddhist Visionary Sera Khandro

Sarah H. Jacoby

"Sarah H. Jacoby's study of gender and sexu-

ality is pathbreaking in the field of Tibetan

studies. Because the main research materials

were authored by a noncelibate woman, this

book gives rich insight into one woman's

conception of the complex social, political,

and even medical aspects of tantric consort

practices. Jacoby grounds Buddhist theory in

the lived experience of an actual practitioner

and illuminates this topic based on her field-

work in Tibet. "

— Gray Tuttle, Columbia University

$50.00 / £34.50 cloth 978-0-231-14768-2

2014 456 pages / 19 illus.

South Asia Across the Disciplines

New in paper

The Culture of the Book in Tibet

Kurtis R. Schaeffer

"A brilliant study."—Journal of Asian Studies

$26.00 / £18.000 paper 978-0231-14717-0

2014 264 pages

cloth 978-0-231-14716-3


EAST ASIAN STUDIES

The Japan-South Korea Identity ClashEast Asian Security and the United States

Brad Glosserman and Scott A. Snyder

"Glosserman and Snyder unbundle one

of the most consequential and seemingly

illogical puzzles in contemporary East Asia.

Whether scholars and policymakers agree

with their call for a bold American move to

reset relations between these two critical

allies and democracies, one cannot ignore

the authors' path-breaking analysis—or the

strategic consequences they point to in the

current impasse." —Michael J. Green, former Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Asia, National Security Council

Glosserman and Snyder isolate compet-ing notions of national identity as the main obstacle to a productive partnership between Japan and South Korea. Through public opinion data, interviews, and years of observation, they show how fundamen-tally incompatible, rapidly changing con-ceptions of national identity in Japan and South Korea--and not struggles over power or structural issues—have complicated ter-ritorial claims and international policy.

$35.00 / £24.00 cloth 978-0-231-17170-0

May 2015 224 pages / 12 illus.


Forthcoming May

Intimate RivalsJapanese Domestic Politics and a Rising China

Sheila A. Smith

“This well-informed study explains, with

admirable clarity, the increasingly involved

and complex attitudes in Japanese domestic

politics regarding China... A fine-grained

analysis.”

— Publishers Weekly

No country feels China's rise more deeply than Japan. Through intricate case stud-ies of visits by Japanese politicians to the Yasukuni Shrine, conflicts over the boundaries of economic zones in the East China Sea, concerns about food safety, and strategies of island defense, Sheila A. Smith explores the policy issues testing the Japanese government as it tries to navigate its relationship with an advancing China. ted territorial claims and international policy.

$40.00 / £27.50 cloth 978-0-231-16788-8

2015 384 pages / 18 illus.

A Council on Foreign Relations Book


EAST ASIAN STUDIES

The Fall of Language in the Age of English

Minae Mizumura

Translated by Mari Yoshihara

and Juliet Winters Carpenter

“Provocatively participates in debates on

world literature, translation, reading, and

writing, bringing an illuminating perspec-

tive to the translingual formation of national

languages and the now-endangered arch of

modern literature.”

—Tomi Suzuki, Columbia University

Winner of the Kobayashi Hideo Award, The Fall of Language in the Age of English lays bare the struggle to retain the brilliance of one's own language in this period of English-language dominance. Born in Tokyo but also raised and educated in the United States, Minae Mizumura acknowledges the value of a universal language in the pursuit of knowledge, yet also embraces the different ways of understanding offered by multiple tongues. She warns against losing this pre-cious diversity.

$35.00 / £24.00 cloth 978-0-231-16302-6

2015 256 pages

Dams and Development in ChinaThe Moral Economy of Water and Power

Bryan Tilt

“[Tilt's book] is a highly readable and wide-

ranging account of hydropower develop-

ment in China, providing insights on topics

ranging from the relationship between state

capitalism and the building of dams, to new

data on the effects of resettlement on liveli-

hoods, attitudes and social networks, and

information on China's new dam construction

overseas. Carefully avoiding black and white

characterizations, Tilt instead explores water

management as a struggle over competing

values among groups and differential access

to resources and power."

—Emily Yeh, University of Colorado at

Boulder

$30.00 / £20.50 paper 978-0-231-17011-6

$90.00 / £62.00 cloth 978-0-231-17010-9




EAST ASIAN STUDIES

Memories of Mount QilaiThe Education of a Young Poet

Yang Mu

Translated by John Balcom and Yingtsih Balcom

"A landmark in Taiwanese literature as well as

in modern Chinese prose. Yang Mu has rein-

vented the genre of literary autobiography

by welding together a paean to the beauty of

indigenous landscapes and peoples, a pen-

etrating look at the social and political trans-

formations in postwar Taiwan, an honest and

moving bildungsroman, and, above all, a

poetic language that is supple and sinewy at

the same time."

—Michelle Yeh, University of California, Davis

These evocative and allusive autobiographi-cal essays provide a personal response to history as Taiwan transitioned from a Japanese colony to the Republic of China. Yang Mu recounts his childhood experiences under the Japanese, life in the mountains in proximity to indigenous people as his family took refuge from the American bombings, his initial encounters and cultural conflicts with Nationalist soldiers recently arrived from mainland China, the subsequent activi-ties of the Nationalist government to consoli-date power, and the island's burgeoning new manufacturing society.

$35.00 / £24.00 cloth 978-0-231-16996-7

2015 320 pages

Modern Chinese Literature From Taiwan

Historical Atlas of Northeast Asia, 1590-2010Korea, Manchuria, Mongolia, Eastern Siberia

Li Narangoa and Robert Cribb

"This superb atlas greatly enhances our

knowledge of the region of Asia comprising

north China, Korea, Japan, Russia, Mongolia,

and Manchuria. The authors define the

region ecologically instead of politically,

focusing on the interaction of nomadic

conquerors with the expanding empires of

Russia and China and the Korean state. They

outline boundaries with vivid colors and

carefully locate major towns and geographic

features, while also providing a concise

integrated political narrative for each decade

over nearly five hundred years....An essential

resource for anyone researching or teaching

about this critical region of Asia."—Peter C. Perdue, Yale University.

$150.00 / £103.50 cloth 978-0-231-16070-4

2014 352 pages / 78 maps


EAST ASIAN STUDIES

Exemplary Women of Early ChinaThe Lienü zhuan of Liu XiangTranslated and edited by Anne Behnke Kinney

“Exemplary Women of Early China is essential

for understanding China’s premodern gender

regime, Confucian ideology, and women’s

sense of self. The Lienü zhuan provided

later authors and artists with an endlessly

rich source of moral exemplars to reveal

behavioral norms for both genders. Kinney’s

elegant and erudite translation brings to life

the words and deeds of these remarkable

women. A wonderfully inspiring read.”

— Robin D. S. Yates, McGill University

$35.00 / £24.00 paper 978-0-231-16309-5

$105.00 / £72.50 cloth 978-0-231-16308-8

2014 384 pages

Translations from the Asian Classics

ExEmplary WomEn of Early ChinaT h e L i e n ü z h u a n o f L i u X i a n g

annE BEhnkE kinnEyT r a n s L a T o r a n d e d i T o r

The Columbia Sourcebook of Literary Taiwan

Edited by Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang,

Michelle Yeh, and Ming-ju Fan

“This book is a tour de force, bringing together

many of the most important documents

relating to the history of Taiwan literary

criticism and many firsthand reflections on

writing and the literary scene from leading

writers, playwrights, and poets. Translating

an impressive array of critical writings on

literature into English for the first time, there

is no other volume quite like this, certainly

not in English, and perhaps not even in

Chinese.”

—Michael Berry, author of A History of Pain:

Trauma in Modern Chinese Literature and

Film

$75.00 / £52.00 cloth 978-0-231-16576-1

2014 688 pages


Bollywood's IndiaA Public Fantasy

Priya Joshi

"Joshi’s work is a timely assessment of key

films and periods in Bollywood’s history. Its

wide ranging literary, theoretical, and socio-

cultural perspectives which cut across litera-

ture, postcolonial studies, media and cultural

studies will surely be taken up by other

scholars as well as general readers."

—Rajinder Dudrah, University of Manchester

Summoning the 1970s as an interpretive lens, Joshi deftly examines blockbusters from notably tumultuous moments when the idea of India was made, unmade, and remade. Joshi’s incorporates fresh explora-tions of iconic films such as Awara (1951) and Deewaar (1975), as well as those less analyzed, such as Ab Dilli Dur Nahin (1957) and A Wednesday (2008).

$30.00 / £20.50 paper 978-0-231-16961-5

$90.00/ £62.00 cloth 978-0-231-16960-8

2015 216 pages / 45 illus.

BwNDY

PRIYA JOSHI

A Public Fantasy

OLL WOO S

I DIABOLLYWOOD’S

INDIA

The Sensuous Cinema of Wong Kar-waiFilm Poetics and the Aesthetic of Disturbance

Gary Bettinson

"Gary Bettinson offers a critical assessment not

only of the stylistic features of Wong Kar-wai's

films but also of the scholarship that has devel-

oped around them. Arguing against the facile

culturalism that tends to dominate such schol-

arship, this book does full justice to Wong's

cinematic methods in a series of impressively

well-informed and informative readings." — Rey Chow, Duke University

The widely acclaimed films of Wong Kar-wai are characterized by their sumptuous yet complex visual and sonic style. This study of Wong's filmmaking techniques uses a poet-ics approach to examine how form, music, narration, characterization, genre and other artistic elements work together to produce certain effects on audiences.

$59.00 / £40.50 cloth 978-988-813-929-3

2015 176 page / 20 illus.


ASIAN CINEMA & MEDIA STUDIES


Transnational RepresentationsThe State of Taiwan Film in the 1960s and 1970s

James Wicks

"James Wicks' book offers a most nuanced,

sensible, and timely account of the 1960--70s

Taiwan films in terms of plot, theme, language,

and generic innovations. He zooms in on works

by such prominent directors as Li Xing, Bai

Jingrui, Song Cunshou, and others, highlighting

local, regional, and transnational flows, while

not losing sight of the complexities in the

island-state's identity and modernity formation

processes."

— Ping-hui Liao, University of California,

San Diego

Combining a concise overview of Taiwan film history with analysis of representative Taiwan films, the book reveals the internal and external struggles Taiwan experienced in its search for

global identity.

$64.00/ £44.00 cloth 978-988-820-850-0

2015 192 pages / 17 illus.


ASIAN CINEMA & MEDIA STUDIES

In StereotypeSouth Asia in the Global Literary Imaginary

Mrinalini Chakravorty

"The stereotype—that fixed and frozen form

of cultural unknowledge—is brought to

animate life in this book. Rereading an indis-

pensable archive of South Asian Anglophone

fiction through iconic stereotypes of the

postcolony and the postcolonial (hunger,

crowds, slums, migrant dislocation, global

metropolis, civil war's deathscape, and ter-

ror), Mrinalini Chakravorty brilliantly reveals

what lies within the stereotype."

—Vilashini Cooppan, University of

California, Santa Cruz, author of Worlds

Within: National Narratives and Global

Connections in Postcolonial Writing

In Stereotype considers the influential work of Salman Rushdie, Aravind Adiga, Michael Ondaatje, Monica Ali, Mohsin Hamid, and Chetan Bhagat, among others, to illustrate how stereotypes about South Asia provide insight into the material and psychic invest-ments of contemporary imaginative texts: the colonial novel, the transnational film, and the international best-seller.

$50.00 / £340.50 cloth 978-0-231-16596-9

2014 336 pages

Literature Now

SOUTH/SOUTHEAST ASIAN STUDIES


SOUTH/SOUTHEAST ASIAN STUDIES

A Daughter's Memoir of Burma

Wendy Law-Yone

“An important testimony to the almost unbe-

lievable courage, determination and patience

of those who choose a hazardous path of

political dissent in the face of state tyranny

and oppression.”

—Times Literary Supplement

Wendy Law-Yone was just fifteen when Burma's military staged a coup and over-threw the civilian government in 1962. The daughter of Ed Law-Yone, the daredevil founder and chief editor of The Nation, Burma's leading postwar English-language newspaper, she experienced firsthand the perils and promises of a newly independent Burma.

$30.00 cloth 978-0-231-16936-3

2014 328 pages

Autobiography of an ArchiveA Scholar's Passage to India

Nicholas B. Dirks

“Using the conceit of an autobiography, this

book dazzles with luminous reflections on

the archive of knowledge on India....Nicholas

Dirks offers original insights on the history

and politics of scholarship, on Empire and its

entailment in the production of knowledge,

and the career of history and anthropology as

disciplines. "

—Gyan Prakash, author of Mumbai Fables

"Nicholas Dirks’s account of the interconnec-

tions of anthropology and history and his com-

mitment to the internationalization of liberal

learning make his book a vital contribution to

contemporary discussions of globalization and

education."—Michael S. Roth, President, Wesleyan

University

$30.00 / £20.50 paper 978-0-231-16967-7

2015 400 pages

Cultures of History


INDIAN HISTORY, RELIGION, & CULTURE

The Invention of Private LifeLiterature and Ideas

Sudipta Kaviraj

“Sudipta Kaviraj is one of the foremost schol-

ars anywhere in the world working on South

Asia. A master of the essay form, his writ-

ings on political theory and Indian politics

show him to be a scholar of vast erudition,

subtle analytical skill, and brilliant humor.”

—Partha Chatterjee, Columbia University

A longtime political analyst and thinker, Sudipta Kaviraj proves in this probing col-lection that he is also an acute writer on literature and politics. In these works, which lie at the intersection of the study of litera-ture, social theory, and intellectual history, Kaviraj locates serious reflections on moder-nity’s complexities in the vibrant currents of modern Indian literature, particularly in the realms of fiction, poetry, and autobiography.

$30.00 / £20.50 paper 978-0-231-17439-8

$90.00 / £62.00 cloth 978-0-231-17438-1

2015 376 pages

Paving the Great WayVasubandhu's Unifying Buddhist Philosophy

Jonathan C. Gold

“Gold has done something extraordinary:

he has pulled together the key philosophi-

cal strands running through Vasubandhu's

works, thereby demonstrating far greater

continuity than might have been suspected,

and he has given us a much deeper and

more compelling author as a result. This

book will forever change the way we read

Vasubandhu."

— Mark Siderits, Seoul National University

The Indian Buddhist philosopher Vasubandhu (fourth-fifth century C.E.) is known for his critical contribution to Buddhist Abhidharma thought, his turn to the Mahayana tradition, and his con-cise, influential Yogacara-Vijñanavada texts. Paving the Great Way reveals another dimension of his legacy: his integration of several seemingly incompatible intellectual and scriptural traditions, with far-ranging consequences for the development of Buddhist epistemology and the theorization of tantra.

$55.00 / £38.00 cloth 978-0-231-16826-7

2014 336 pages


Wombs in LaborTransnational Commercial Surrogacy in India

Amrita Pande

"Pande writes vividly, sensitively, and with

critical intelligence about an incredibly com-

plex modern phenomenon. Her attentiveness

to the diverse situations and personalities

of surrogate mothers is her book's greatest

strength. A gripping read."—Ann Grodzins Gold, Syracuse University

In the first detailed ethnography of India's surrogacy industry, Amrita Pande visits clin-ics and hostels and speaks with surrogates and their families, clients, doctors, brokers, and hostel matrons in order to shed light on this burgeoning business and the experiences of the laborers within it.

$28.00 / £19.50 paper 978-0-231-16991-2

$85.00 / £58.50 cloth 978-0-231-16990-5

2014 272 pages

South Asian Across the Disciplines

The Pariah ProblemCaste, Religion, and the Social in Modern India

Rupa Viswanath

“Viswanath powerfully argues that there was

a government–missionary nexus that sought

to turn the pariah from traditional forms of

slavery to modern forms of dispossessed

labor. Most remarkably, she shows that the

initiative for conversion to Christianity came

not from missionaries but from Dalits who

were motivated not by abstract ideas of

emancipation but by strategic considerations

of material advantage in their daily struggles.” — Partha Chatterjee, Columbia University

$60.00 / £41.50 cloth 978-0-231-16306-4

2014 416 pages

Cultures of History

INDIAN HISTORY, RELIGION, & CULTURE

Writing ResistanceThe Rhetorical Imagination of Hindi Dalit LiteratureLaura R. Brueck

“In a wide-ranging investigation of origins, motivations and genres, Laura Brueck addresses the fundamental questions of what makes this literature Dalit, and what makes it literary; her fine book offers a sympathetic and yet penetrating guide to a vivacious new canon of Hindi

prose.”—Rupert Snell, University of Texas at Austin$30.00 / £20.50 paper 978-0-231-16605-8

$90.00 / £62.00 cloth 978-0-231-16604-1

2014 288 pages

South Asian Across the Disciplines

w r it ingr

e s i s ta n c e

lau ra r. brueck

TheRhetorical

Imagination ofHindi DalitLiterature


Marching Through SufferingLoss and Survival in North Korea

Sandra Fahy

“Sandra Fahy's analysis of the North Korea

famine draws extensively on her interviews

with survivors, which give this narrative a

unique depth and credibility....No book I have

ever read conveys the mundane horror of a

famine so vividly, while retaining academic

rigour and advancing our understanding of

this famine's complex causes and conse-

quences."— Stephen Devereux, Institute of Development Studies, author of Theories of Famine

Casting North Koreans as a diverse people with a vast capacity for adaptation rather than a monolithic entity passively enduring oppression, Marching Through Suffering posi-tions personal history as a critical lens for interpreting political violence.

$40.00 / £27.50 cloth 978-0-231-17134-2

2015 272 pages


When the Future DisappearsThe Modernist Imagination in Late Colonial KoreaJanet Poole

"Janet Poole shows how Korean poets,

philosophers, and essayists in the colonial

period struggled in their work with the

notion of a disappearing future with no

change in sight. Through the local Korean

case she works through the broader ques-

tion of the complex temporality of the late

colonial period, and shows how culture bears

the imprint of this sense of time in its very

form."

—Alan Tansman, University of California,

Berkeley

“An indispensable addition to existing stud-

ies on Japanese modernism, Japanese impe-

rialism and its politics and culture, European

modernism, and the growing body of schol-

arly works on colonial Korea.”

—Jin-Kyung Lee, University of California,

San Diego

$60.00 / £41.50 cloth 978-0-231-16518-1

2014 336 pages

Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute,

Columbia University

KOREAN LITERATURE, CULTURE & POLITICS



Pavane for a Dead PrincessA NovelMin-gyu Park

Translated by Amber Hyun Jung Kim

Park Min-gyu has been celebrated and condemned for his attacks upon what he perceives as the humorlessness of contem-porary Korean literature. Pavane for a Dead Princess is his attack upon the beauty-fetish that reigns over popular culture, detailing the relationship between a man with mati-nee-idol good looks and "the ugliest woman of the century." To complicate matters fur-ther, Park also includes a so-called "writer's cut" of the same story, offering alternate versions of the facts, giving the reader the opportunity to imagine all the different ways this same novel might have been written.

$15.95 / £10.95 paper 978-1-62897-066-1

2014 208 pages

DALKEY ARCHIVE PRESS


Contentious Activism and Inter-Korean Relations

Danielle L. Chubb

"In this meticulously researched book,

Danielle L. Chubb reveals that South Korean

policies toward the North are about far more

than strategic considerations. Reaching

beyond prevailing state-centric foreign policy

accounts, she convincingly argues that inter-

Korean relations have been significantly

shaped by the legacy that several decades

of contentious political activism have left on

South Korean society and politics."

— Roland Bleiker, University of Queensland

Danielle L. Chubb traces the development of various policy disputes and perspectives from the 1970s through South Korea's democratic transition. Focusing on four case studies—the 1980 Kwangju uprising, the June 1987 uprising, the move toward democracy in the 1990s, and the decade of "progressive" government that began with the election of Kim Dae Jung in 1997—she tracks activ-ists' complex views on reunification along with the rise and fall of more radical voices encouraging the adoption of a North Korean-style form of socialism.

$55.00 / £38.00 cloth 978-0-231-16136-7

2014 296 pages



Chop Suey, USAThe Story of Chinese Food in America

Yong Chen

“Chop Suey, USA is an utterly original and

significant contribution to the field, well-

organized and breathtakingly broad in its

geographic scope. Yong Chen has done a

superb job ”

—Hasia Diner, New York University

“A thoroughly researched, highly readable

account of the development of Chinese

American food, this book fills important gaps

in the literature of ethnic and food studies.”

—Jeffrey Pilcher, University of Toronto

“A perceptive view of an America built on

abundance and consumption.”

—Kirkus

$35.00 / £24.00 cloth 978-0-231-16892-2

2014 352 pages / 18 illus.

Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary

History

Not Like a Native SpeakerOn Languaging as a Postcolonial Experience

Rey Chow

"Rey Chow's book Not Like a Native Speaker

is not only a brilliant and original reflection

on the fate of language in the afterlife of

colonialism, but also an authoritative state-

ment on postcolonial theory; moving beyond

the confinement of the politics of identity, it

provides a unique map for the postcolonial

criticism of the future, one informed by rigor

and unafraid of judgment."

—Simon Gikandi, Princeton University

“How does colonial power deploy language?

—a central question in postcolonial studies—

is infused with new life by Rey Chow in this

dazzling book. Chow poses other searching

questions concerning identity and estrange-

ment, memory and oblivion, bilingualism and

aphasia, and offers acute discussions of lan-

guage in Fanon, Benjamin, Derrida, Achebe,

and Ngugi."

—Roland Greene, Stanford University

$25.00 / £15.95 paper 978-0-231-15145-0

$75.00 / £52.00 cloth 978-0-231-15144-3

2014 192 pages

ASIAN-AMERICAN STUDIES


Embracing DifferencesTransnational Cultural Flows Between Japan and the United States

Iris-Aya Laemmerhirt

The omnipresence and popularity of American consumer products in Japan have triggered an avalanche of writing shedding light on different aspects of this cross-cultural relationship. Cultural interactions are often accompanied by the term cultural imperialism, a concept that on close scrutiny turns out to be a hasty oversimplification given the contemporary cultural interac-tion between the U.S. and Japan. Embracing Differences shows that this assumption of a one-sided transfer is no longer valid. Closely investigating Disney theme parks, sushi, as well as movies, Iris-Aya Laemmerhirt reveals a dialogical exchange between these two nations that has changed the image of Japan in the United States.

$50.00 paper 978-3-8376-2600-1

2014 262 pages

Transcript-Verlag

The Cinema of Ang Lee The Other Side of the ScreenSecond Edition

Whitney Crothers Dilley

Through suggestive readings of gender and identity, Whitney Crothers Dilley explores the international appeal of an acclaimed contemporary director. Dilley has revised the book’s introduction to reflect Ang Lee’s new films and their global reception and adds to the text a consideration of new develop-ments in Chinese film, recent critiques of Brokeback Mountain (2005), and chapters on Lust/Caution (2007), Taking Woodstock (2009), and Life of Pi (2012).

$30.00 / £20.50 paper 978-0-231-16773-4

$90.00 / £62.00 cloth 978-0-231-16772-7

2015 272 pages

wallflower Press



Religion, Tradition, and the PopularTranscultural Views from Asia and Europe

Edited by Judith Schlehe and Evamaria

Sandkühler

This book provides unique case studies from Asia and Europe illustrating new religious practices, forms of articulation and mass mediatization, all of which render religious traditions significant for contemporary issues and concerns. Contributors examine experi-ences of spirituality in combination with commercialization and expressive performa-tive practices as well as everyday politics of identity. The essays take into consideration what the transcultural negotiation of religion, tradition and the popular signifies in different places and social contexts. With contribu-tions by Anthony Reid, Hubert Knoblauch, Ariel Heryanto, Stefanie von Schnurbein and others.

$50.00 cloth 978-3-8376-2613-1


Transcript-Verlag

PAN-ASIAN STUDIES

Drawing New Color LinesTransnational Asian American Graphic Narratives

Edited by Monica Chiu

"Foregrounding the shifting meanings of race

within, across, and between various national

contexts, the fifteen essays in Chiu's collec-

tion explore the visual dimensions of Asian

American transnational literary culture with

originality and offer particular insight into the

complexities of production, interpretation, and

reception for graphic narrative."

— Pamela Thoma, author of Asian American Women's Popular Literature

The global circulation of comics, manga, and other such visual mediums between North America and Asia produces transnational meanings no longer rooted in a separation between "Asian" and "American." Drawing New Color Lines explores the culture, produc-tion, and history of contemporary graphic narratives that depict Asian Americans and Asians. It examines how Japanese manga and Asian popular culture have influenced Asian American comics; how these comics and Asian American graphic narratives depict the "look" of race; and how these various repre-sentations are interpreted in nations not of their production.

$69.00 / £47.50 cloth 978-988-8139-385

2015 368 pages / 42 illus.

h0ng kong university press



Being Human in a Buddhist WorldAn Intellectual History of Medicine in Early Modern Tibet

Janet Gyatso

"[This] will be the key book on medicine and

religion in Tibet for this generation. Like

Gyatso's book on autobiography, her new

book on medicine will simply be field defining."

—Kurtis R. Schaeffer, The University of

Virginia

Critically exploring medical thought in a cultural milieu with no discernible influence from the European Enlightenment, Being Human reveals an otherwise unnoticed intersection of early modern sensibilities and religious values in traditional Tibetan medicine. It further studies the adaptation of Buddhist concepts and values to medical concerns and suggests important dimen-sions of Buddhism's role in the development of Asian and global civilization

$45.00 / £30.95 cloth 978-0-231-16496-2

2015 544 pages / 51 illus

Realizing Awakened ConsciousnessInterviews with Buddhist Teachers and a New Perspective on the Mind

Richard P. Boyle

“When meditators have an 'awakening,' what

is it really like? Richard P. Boyle interviewed

eleven Western Buddhist teachers to find out,

and we get to read their accounts in their

own words. Then, drawing on these inter-

views and on scientific research, Boyle offers

an innovative view of how awakening hap-

pens and how it can transform each of us."

—Paula England, New York University

If, as Buddhism claims, the potential for awakening exists in all human beings, we should be able to map the phenomenon with the same science we apply to other forms of consciousness. A student of cogni-tive social science and a Zen practitioner for more than forty years, Richard P. Boyle brings his sophisticated perspective to bear on the development of a theoretical model for both ordinary and awakened consciousness.

$30.00 / £20.50 paper 978-0-231-17075-8

$90.00 / £62.00 cloth 978-0-231-1707-4


BUDDHISM

Forthcoming June


Living KarmaThe Religious Practices of Ouyi Zhixu

Beverley Foulks McGuire

“An ingeniously conceived and deeply

researched study of one of the four great

Buddhist masters of the late Ming dynasty.

The book reveals Ouyi Zhixu to be a far more

interesting and intellectually complex person

than we knew. By giving primacy to the theme

of karma, McGuire finds a unity to Ouyi’s

conduct and textual practice that has gone

unremarked until now."

— Timothy Brook, University of British Columbia

Ouyi Zhixu (1599–1655) was an eminent Chinese Buddhist monk who, contrary to his contemporaries, believed karma could be changed. Through vows, divination, repen-tance rituals, and ascetic acts such as burning and blood writing, he sought to alter what others understood as inevitable and inescap-able. Drawing attention to Ouyi’s unique reshaping of religious practice, Living Karma reasserts the significance of an overlooked individual in the modern development of

Chinese Buddhism.

$55.00 / £38.00 cloth 978-0-231-16802-1



Spells, Images, and MandalasTracing the Evolution of Esoteric Buddhist Rituals

Koichi Shinohara

“Spells, Images, and Mandalas is the first

study of early Buddhist Tantra to make full use

of a vast trove of Chinese sources that pre-

date, often by many centuries, extant Sanskrit

and Tibetan materials. Through exacting

detective work, Koichi Shinohara reconstructs

the evolution of Buddhist Tantra from its

origins in simple incantation rituals to more

elaborate forms of image worship and finally

to full-blown mandala and visualization rites.

The result is a groundbreaking account of the

development of Buddhist ritual traditions."

—Robert Sharf, University of California,

Berkeley

$50.00 / £34.50 cloth 978-0-231-16614-0

2014 352 pages / 10 illus.


BUDDHISM


The Body IncantatorySpells and the Ritual Imagination in Medieval Chinese Buddhism

Paul Copp

“This book profoundly revises our under-

standing of Buddhist spells in medieval

China. Both provocative and persuasive, it

provides the first in-depth analysis of such

spells manifested across a wide range of

written, verbal, and material forms and

compels us to reevaluate their fundamental

importance in Buddhist practices."

— Wu Hung, University of Chicago

Focusing on two major Buddhist spells, or dharani, and their embodiment of the incan-tatory logics of adornment and unction, Paul Copp makes breakthrough claims about the significance of Buddhist incantation prac-tice not only in medieval China but also in Central Asia and India. Copp's work vividly captures the diversity of Buddhist practice among medieval monks, ritual healers, and other individuals lost to history, offering a corrective to accounts that have overempha-sized elite, canonical materials.

$55.00 / £38.00 cloth 978-0-231-16270-8

2014 400 pages / 32 illus.


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