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Asian studies
from the University of Chicago Press
The books in this subject catalog are not all the books published by the University of Chicago Press in this field, but only our most recent and important books. We recommend you start with this catalog. For a more extensive listing you may go to the subject index of our complete catalog, or you may search our title database using a subject term. To see just our very latest books (titles released in the last six months) go to our new releases pages.
Japan
- Allison, Anne: Nightwork: Sexuality, Pleasure, and Corporate Masculinity in a Tokyo Hostess Club
- Berthier, Francois: Reading Zen in the Rocks: The Japanese Dry Landscape Garden
- Blomstrom, Magnus: Structural Impediments to Growth in Japan
- Hesselink, Nathan: P'ungmul: South Korean Drumming and Dance
- Ivy, Marilyn: Discourses of the Vanishing: Modernity, Phantasm, Japan
- Kawakami, Akane: Travellers' Visions: French Literary Encounters with Japan, 1887-2004
- Kondo, Dorinne K.: Crafting Selves: Power, Gender, and Discourses of Identity in a Japanese Workplace
- Miwa, Yoshiro: The Fable of the Keiretsu: Urban Legends of the Japanese Economy
- Ogura, Seiritsu: Labor Markets and Firm Benefit Policies in Japan and the United States
- Ohnuki-Tierney, Emiko: Kamikaze Diaries: Reflections of Japanese Student Soldiers • Read an excerpt.
- Ohnuki-Tierney, Emiko: Kamikaze, Cherry Blossoms, and Nationalisms: The Militarization of Aesthetics in Japanese History
- Portal, Jane: Art Under Control in North Korea
- Pratt, Keith: Everlasting Flower: A History of Korea
- Quinn, Joseph L.: In the Far Away Mountains and Rivers
- Ramseyer, J. Mark: Measuring Judicial Independence: The Political Economy of Judging in Japan
- Soh, C. Sarah: The Comfort Women: Sexual Violence and Postcolonial Memory in Korea and Japan
- Thal, Sarah: Rearranging the Landscape of the Gods: The Politics of a Pilgrimage Site in Japan, 1573-1912
- Walthall, Anne: The Weak Body of a Useless Woman: Matsuo Taseko and the Meiji Restoration
- West, Mark D.: Law in Everyday Japan: Sex, Sumo, Suicide, and Statutes
- West, Mark D.: Secrets, Sex, and Spectacle: The Rules of Scandal in Japan and the United States
- Wise, A. David: Health Care Issues in the United States and Japan
- Yamada, Shoji: Shots in the Dark: Japan, Zen, and the West
- Yourcenar, Marguerite: Mishima: A Vision of the Void
China
- Abe, Stanley K.: Ordinary Images
- Clunas, Craig: Pictures and Visuality in Early Modern China
- Dikotter, Frank: Narcotic Culture: A History of Drugs in China
- Eber, Irene: Voices from Shanghai: Jewish Exiles in Wartime China
- Farrer, James: Opening Up: Youth Sex Culture and Market Reform in Shanghai
- Gladney, Dru C.: Dislocating China: Muslims, Minorities, and Other Subaltern Subjects
- Hostetler, Laura: Qing Colonial Enterprise: Ethnography and Cartography in Early Modern China
- Hsia, Florence C.: Sojourners in a Strange Land: Jesuits and Their Scientific Missions in Late Imperial China
- Jullien, Fran‡ois: The Great Image Has No Form, or On the Nonobject through Painting
- Jullien, François: The Impossible Nude: Chinese Art and Western Aesthetics
- Jullien, Fran‡ois: The Impossible Nude: Chinese Art and Western Aesthetics
- Knowles, Caroline: Hong Kong: Migrant Lives, Landscapes, and Journeys
- McKeown, Adam: Chinese Migrant Networks and Cultural Change: Peru, Chicago, and Hawaii 1900-1936
- Sang, Tze-Lan D.: The Emerging Lesbian: Female Same-Sex Desire in Modern China
- Schmalzer, Sigrid: The People's Peking Man: Popular Science and Human Identity in Twentieth-Century China
- Steinmetz, George: The Devil's Handwriting: Precoloniality and the German Colonial State in Qingdao, Samoa, and Southwest Africa
- Tang, Sze-Wing: On the Formal Way to Chinese Languages
- Tsien, Tsuen-Hsuin: Written on Bamboo and Silk: The Beginnings of Chinese Books and Inscriptions, Second Edition
- Wu Hung: Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China
- Wu Hung: Exhibiting Experimental Art in China
- Wu Hung: Remaking Beijing: Tiananmen Square and the Creation of a Political Space
- Wu Hung: Transience: Chinese Experimental Art at the End of the Twentieth Century
- Yu, Anthony C.: The Monkey and the Monk: An Abridgment of The Journey to the West
- Zanasi, Margherita: Saving the Nation: Economic Modernity in Republican China
- Zhang, Zhen: An Amorous History of the Silver Screen: Shanghai Cinema, 1896-1937
- Zhao, Dingxin: The Power of Tiananmen: State-Society Relations and the 1989 Beijing Student Movement
South Asia
- Alam, Muzaffar: The Languages of Political Islam: India 1200-1800
- Beck, Brenda E. F.: Folktales of India
- Biardeau, Madeleine: Stories about Posts: Vedic Variations around the Hindu Goddess
- Blank, Jonah: Mullahs on the Mainframe: Islam and Modernity among the Daudi Bohras • Read an excerpt and interview with the author.
- Breman, Jan: The Making and Unmaking of an Industrial Working Class: Sliding Down to the Bottom of the Labour Hierarchy in Ahmedabad, India
- Breman, Jan: Working in the Mill No More
- Burnouf, Eugˆne: Introduction to the History of Indian Buddhism
- Devi, Maitreyi: It Does Not Die: A Romance
- Doniger, Wendy: Splitting the Difference: Gender and Myth in Ancient Greece and India
- Edney, Matthew H.: Mapping an Empire: The Geographical Construction of British India, 1765-1843
- Elgood, Robert: Hindu Arms and Ritual: Arms and Armour from India 1400-1865
- Fitzgerald, James L.: The Mahabharata, Volume 7: Book 11: The Book of the Women Book 12: The Book of Peace, Part 1
- Fortun, Kim: Advocacy after Bhopal: Environmentalism, Disaster, New Global Orders
- Goswami, Manu: Producing India: From Colonial Economy to National Space
- Guha, Ramachandra: Savaging the Civilized: Verrier Elwin, His Tribals, and India
- Hiltebeitel, Alf: Rethinking the Mahabharata: A Reader's Guide to the Education of the Dharma King
- Huber, Toni: The Holy Land Reborn: Pilgrimage and the Tibetan Reinvention of Buddhist India
- Joseph, Betty: Reading the East India Company 1720-1840: Colonial Currencies of Gender
- Kemper, Steven: Buying and Believing: Sri Lankan Advertising and Consumers in a Transnational World
- Kripal, Jeffrey J.: Kali's Child: The Mystical and the Erotic in the Life and Teachings of Ramakrishna
- Krueger, Anne O.: Economic Policy Reforms and the Indian Economy
- Lopez, S. Donald : The Madman's Middle Way: Reflections on Reality of the Tibetan Monk Gendun Chopel
- Lopez Jr., Donald S.: Prisoners of Shangri-La: Tibetan Buddhism and the West • Read "Seven Things You Didn't Know about Tibet".
- Narayan, R. K.: The Mahabharata: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic
- Narayan, Kirin: My Family and Other Saints • Read an excerpt.
- Ogborn, Miles: Indian Ink: Script and Print in the Making of the English East India Company
- Reddy, Gayatri: With Respect to Sex: Negotiating Hijra Identity in South India
- Rudolph, Lloyd I.: Postmodern Gandhi and Other Essays: Gandhi in the World and at Home
- Sartori, Andrew: Bengal in Global Concept History: Culturalism in the Age of Capital
- Schimmel, Annemarie: The Empire of the Great Mughals: History, Art and Culture
- Suleri, Sara: Meatless Days
- Suleri Goodyear, Sara: Boys Will Be Boys: A Daughter's Elegy
- Sura, Arya: Once the Buddha Was a Monkey: Arya Sura's "Jatakamala"
- van den Boogaart, Ernst: Civil and Corrupt Asia: Image and Text in the Itinerario and the Icones of Jan Huygen Van Linschoten
- van Woerkens, Martine: The Strangled Traveler: Colonial Imaginings and the Thugs of India
- White, David Gordon: Kiss of the Yogini: "Tantric Sex" in its South Asian Contexts
- White, David Gordon: Sinister Yogis
Southeast Asia, Australasia, Pacific Islands
- Bashkow, Ira: The Meaning of Whitemen: Race and Modernity in the Orokaiva Cultural World
- Buchanan, Sherry: Mekong Diaries: Viet Cong Drawings and Stories, 1964-1975
- Buchanan, Sherry: Vietnam Zippos: American Soldiers' Engravings and Stories (1965-1973)
- Fischer, Steven Roger: Island at the End of the World: The Turbulent History of Easter Island
- Johnson, Rob: A Region in Turmoil: South Asian Conflicts since 1947
- Lamb, Jonathan: Exploration and Exchange: A South Seas Anthology, 1680-1900
- Lamb, Jonathan: Preserving the Self in the South Seas, 1680-1840
- Montgomery, Charles: The Shark God: Encounters with Ghosts and Ancestors in the South Pacific
- Sahlins, Marshall: How "Natives" Think: About Captain Cook, For Example
- Sarkissian, Margaret: D'Albuquerque's Children: Performing Tradition in Malaysia's Portuguese Settlement
- Tenzer, Michael: Gamelan Gong Kebyar: The Art of Twentieth-Century Balinese Music
- Wong, Deborah: Sounding the Center: History and Aesthetics in Thai Buddhist Performance
Greater Asian Region
- Bonnefoy, Yves: Asian Mythologies
- Harley, J. B.: The History of Cartography, Volume 2, Book 1: Cartography in the Traditional Islamic and South Asian Societies
- Harley, J. B.: The History of Cartography, Volume 2, Book 2: Cartography in the Traditional East and Southeast Asian Societies
- Ito, Takatoshi: Financial Sector Development in the Pacific Rim
- Ito, Takatoshi: International Financial Issues in the Pacific Rim: Global Imbalances, Financial Liberalization, and Exchange Rate Policy
- Lach, Donald F.: Asia in the Making of Europe, Volume III: A Century of Advance. Books 1-4
- Lopez, S. Donald : Critical Terms for the Study of Buddhism
- Manderson, Lenore: Sites of Desire/Economies of Pleasure: Sexualities in Asia and the Pacific
- Rowe, Peter: East Asia Modern: Shaping the Contemporary City
- Stremmelaar, Josine: What about Asia?: Revisiting Asian Studies
- Tobin, Joseph: Preschool in Three Cultures Revisited: China, Japan, and the United States
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