Dreaming in Canadian
South Asian Youth, Bollywood, and Belonging
Dreaming in Canadian explores the connections between the media and identity formation among young Canadians of South Asian origin.
Smokeless Sugar
The Death of a Provincial Bureaucrat and the Construction of China's National Economy
An investigation into the 1936 execution of a Cantonese official leads to a reassessment of regional and national politics and state-led industrialization in Republican China.
Arming the Chinese
The Western Armaments Trade in Warlord China, 1920-28, Second Edition
Anthony Chan repositions his classic account of the arms trade in warlord China within the paradigm of critical militarism and state criminality.
Solidarities Beyond Borders
Transnationalizing Women's Movements
Case studies from North America, Latin America, and Southeast Asia explore the challenges and benefits of building transnational ties among feminists and women’s groups.
Administering the Colonizer
Manchuria’s Russians under Chinese Rule, 1918-29
A revisionist history of a unique administrative experiment – the Chinese administration of Manchuria’s Russians in the 1920s – that supports a more nuanced view of Chinese nationalism and China’s relationship with minority cultures.
Asian Religions in British Columbia
This path-breaking book offers the first comprehensive, comparative examination of Asian religions in British Columbia. Its insightful and accessible community accounts offer intimate portraits of local religious groups, including Hindus and Sikhs from South Asia; Buddhist organizations from Southeast Asia; and Tibetan, Japanese, and Chinese religions from East and Central Asia.
Reforming Japan
The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union in the Meiji Period
Challenges received notions about women’s political involvement and engagement with the state in Meiji Japan by exploring the activism of members of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union.
Where the Dragon Meets the Angry River
Nature and Power in the People’s Republic of China
This book brings big geopolitical issues to life through the narrative of a particular region and its people.
Reconstructing Kobe
The Geography of Crisis and Opportunity
Explores the decade-long challenge to reconstruct Kobe after the Great Hanshin Earthquake of 1995.
Art in Turmoil
The Chinese Cultural Revolution, 1966-76
This book decodes the rhetoric of China’s turbulent decade, a time of both brutal iconoclasm and radical experimentation in the arts, to offer new insights into works that have transcended their times.