Forthcoming Titles in Asian & Asian American Studies, 2024

A list of the latest and soon-to-be-released publications through October 2025.

Posted on September 5, 2024 in Forthcoming Academic Titles

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Business, Economics, & Education

Ethics, Business and Capitalism: Thailand and Indonesia in an Asian Perspective, ed. by Janet Hunter, Patnaree Srisuphaolarn, Pierre van der Eng, and Julia Yongue. National University of Singapore Press, Oct. 2024. pbk ISBN 9789813252745 $38.00; ebook ISBN 9789813252752 $46.00

Re-membering Culture: Erasure and Renewal in Hmong American Education, by Bic Ngo. Minnesota, Nov. 2024. ISBN 9781517910747 $108.00; pbk ISBN 9781517910754 $27.00; ebook ISBN 9781452965246 $27.00

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History

The Banality of Good: The UN’s Global Fight Against Human Trafficking, by Lieba Faier. Duke, Sep. 2024e. ISBN 9781478026297 $109.95e; pbk ISBN 9781478030560 $29.95e; ebook ISBN 9781478059523 $109.95e

Cambodia’s Trials: Contrasting Visions of Truth, Transitional Justice and National Recovery, ed. by Robin Biddulph and Alexandra Kent. National University of Singapore Press, Sep. 2024. ISBN 9788776943301 $100.00; pbk ISBN 9788776943318 $40.00

Contested Environmentalisms: Trees and the Making of Modern China, by Cheng Li. Stanford, Dec. 2024. ISBN 9781503640306 $70.00; ebook ISBN 9781503641334 $70.00

Creation and Separation: A Chinese Emperor’s Six Stone Horses, by Xiuqin Zhou. University of Pennsylvania Museum, Dec. 2024. ISBN 9781949057218 $75.00

Disorder and Diagnosis: Health and the Politics of Everyday Life in Modern Arabia, by Laura Frances Goffman. Stanford, Oct. 2024. ISBN 9781503638174 $120.00; pbk ISBN 9781503640818 $30.00; ebook ISBN 9781503640825 $30.00

Hokusai’s Daughter: A Young Artist in Old Japan – Bilingual English and Japanese Text, by Sunny Seki. Tuttle Publishing, Sep. 2024. ISBN 9784805318614 $17.99

The Human Journey: A Concise Introduction to World History, by Kevin Reilly. 3rd ed. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Jul. 2025. ISBN 9781538179505 $130.00; ebook ISBN 9781538179512 $85.00

An Indonesian History: Personalised Politics in Makassar and South Sulawesi, c.1600–2018, by Heather Sutherland. National University of Singapore Press, Oct. 2024. pbk ISBN 9789813252059 $46.00; ebook ISBN 9789813252738 $55.00

The Japan Ideology: A Marxist Critique of Liberalism and Fascism, by Tosaka Jun. Translated by Robert Stolz. Columbia, Sep. 2024. ISBN 9780231216524 $140.00; pbk ISBN 9780231216531 $35.00; ebook ISBN 9780231561327 $34.99

Labors of Love: Gender, Capitalism, and Democracy in Modern Arab Thought, by Susanna Ferguson. Stanford, Sep. 2024. ISBN 9781503640061 $130.00; pbk ISBN 9781503640337 $32.00; ebook ISBN 9781503640344 $32.00

Mary Kitagawa: A Nikkei Canadian Life, by Karen M. Inouye. Stanford, Nov. 2024. ISBN 9781503640504 $110.00; pbk ISBN 9781503641075 $28.00; ebook ISBN 9781503641082 $28.00

Okinawa: A History of Violence, by Jon Mitchell. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Jul. 2025. ISBN 9781538188392 $33.00

Opinions Throughout History: Refugees & Asylum Seekers. Grey House Publishing, Sep. 2024. pbk ISBN 9781637008522 $195.00

Propaganda and Political Warfare in South Asia: India and Anglo-American Relations during WWII, by Arnold P. Kaminsky. Taylor & Francis Group, Dec. 2024e. ISBN 9780415820943 $150.00e

The Red Lie: A Story of Family, Betrayal, and My Escape from China, by Hua Foley. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Sep. 2024. ISBN 9781538194683 $36.00; ebook ISBN 9781538194690 $35.00

Settler Militarism: World War II in Hawai’i and the Making of US Empire, by Juliet Nebolon. Duke, Nov. 2024e. ISBN 9781478026778 $104.95e; pbk ISBN 9781478031017 $27.95e; ebook ISBN 9781478060031 $104.95e

Southeast Asia Views the United States: Perceptions, Policies, and Prospects, by Ann Marie Murphy. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Jan. 2025. ISBN 9781538191965 $105.00; pbk ISBN 9781538191972 $40.00; ebook ISBN 9781538191989 $38.99

State of Fear: Policing a Postcolonial City, by Joshua Barker. Duke, Sep. 2024e. ISBN 9781478026525 $107.95e; pbk ISBN 9781478030768 $28.95e; ebook ISBN 9781478059752 $107.95e

State Power and Governance in Early Imperial: The Collapse of the Qin Empire, 221–207 BCE China, by Chun Fung Tong. SUNY Press, Sep. 2024. ISBN 9781438499376 $99.00; ebook ISBN 9781438499390 $99.00

Unmentionables: Textiles, Garment Work, and the Syrian American Working Class, by Stacy D. Fahrenthold. Stanford, Dec. 2024. ISBN 9781503638082 $120.00; pbk ISBN 9781503641303 $30.00; ebook ISBN 9781503641310 $30.00

Where Every Ghost Has a Name: A Memoir of Taiwanese Independence, by Kim Liao. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Sep. 2024. ISBN 9781538194058 $36.00; ebook ISBN 9781538194065 $30.00

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Humanities (General)

After Redress: Japanese Canadian and Indigenous Struggles for Justice, ed. by Kirsten Emiko McAllister and Mona Oikawa. UBC Press, Dec. 2024. ISBN 9780774870658 $110.00e; ebook ISBN 9780774870672 $125.00e

Brown Women Have Everything: Essays on (Dis)comfort and Delight, by Sayantani Dasgupta. North Carolina, Oct. 2024. ISBN 9781469681764 $99.00; pbk ISBN 9781469681771 $22.00; ebook ISBN 9781469681788 $17.99

Documents of the Asian American Experience, by Noriko Matsumoto. Bloomsbury, May 2025e. ISBN 9781440879821 $100.00

Emergent Genders: Innovating Categories and Living Otherwise in Tokyo, by Michelle H. S. Ho. Duke, Jan. 2025e. ISBN 9781478028123 $104.95e; pbk ISBN 9781478031376 $27.95e; ebook ISBN 9781478060338 $104.95e

Feathered Entanglements: Human-Bird Relations in the Anthropocene. Scott E. Simon and Frédéric Laugrand. UBC Press, Nov. 2024. ISBN 9780774870009 $99.00; ebook ISBN 9780774870023 $125.00e

Global Asias: Tactics & Theories, ed. by Tina Chen and Charlotte Eubanks. Hawaii, Dec. 2024. ISBN 9780824894061 $75.00; ebook ISBN 9780824899905 $29.99

Handbook of Sports Science in India, ed. by Martin Toms, Meenu Dhingra, and Pralay Majumdar. Taylor & Francis Group, Sep. 2024e. ISBN 9781032059181 $150.00e

Landbridge: Life in Fragments, by Y-Dang Troeung. Duke, Nov. 2024e. ISBN 9781478026884 $104.95e; pbk ISBN 9781478031123 $27.95e; ebook ISBN 9781478060116 $104.95e

The Promise of Beauty, by Mimi Thi Nguyen. Duke, Oct. 2024e. ISBN 9781478026761 $107.95e; pbk ISBN 9781478030973 $28.95e; ebook ISBN 9781478060000 $107.95e

Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Laos, ed. by Simon Creak, Holly High, and Oliver Tappe. Taylor & Francis Group, Jan. 2025e. ISBN 9780367536251 $245.00e

Sinophone Studies Across Disciplines: A Reader, ed. by Howard Chiang and Shu-mei Shih. Columbia, Sep. 2024. ISBN 9780231208628 $180.00; pbk ISBN 9780231208635 $45.00; ebook ISBN 9780231557528 $44.99

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Language and Literature

Dictionary of Ancient Sports Programs of China, by Jinxiang Bai. Springer, Jan. 2025e. ISBN 9789819956319 $399.00e

Dictionary of Chinese Cultural Knowledge, ed. by Xu Baofeng. Springer Singapore, Sep. 2024e. ISBN 9789819950089 price not yet set

Graphic Novels Core Collection. 5th ed. H.W. Wilson, Nov. 2024. pbk ISBN 9781637009109 $295.00

Green Star Japan: Esperanto and the International Language Question, 1880–1945, by Ian Rapley. Hawaii, Oct. 2024. ISBN 9780824897543 $75.00; ebook ISBN 9780824898793 $25.00

Hundred Years and a Day, by Tomoka Shibasaki. Stone Bridge Press, Apr. 2025e. pbk ISBN 9798988688730 $18.95e

Korean for K-Pop and K-Drama Fans: Essential Korean Phrases for Everyday Use, by Soohee Kim and Emily Curtis. Tuttle Publishing, Oct. 2024. pbk ISBN 9780804853705 $16.99

Ruling Devotion: The Hindu Temple in the Imperial Imagination, by Deborah Sutton. SUNY Press, Sep. 2024. ISBN 9781438499208 $99.00; ebook ISBN 9781438499222 $99.00

Set My Heart in Fire, by Izumi Suzuki. Verso, Nov. 2024. pbk ISBN 9781804293300 $19.95; ebook ISBN 9781804293324 $9.99

Spring and Autumn Annals of Wu and Yue: A Literary Translation of the First Chinese Novel, Wu Yue chunqiu, ed. by Olivia Milburn. SUNY Press, Sep. 2024. ISBN 9781438499352 $99.00; ebook ISBN 9781438499369 $99.00

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Performing & Visual Arts

Across Time and Space: Re-visiting Twentieth-Century Chinese Oil Paintings, ed. by Shuo Hua. Hong Kong University Press, Dec. 2024. pbk ISBN 9789887470823 $28.00

Couplet Pair Rebus: The Principle of Cause and Effect in Art, by Harald P. Kraemer. Hong Kong University Press, Dec. 2024. pbk ISBN 9789887470830 $28.00

India, Pakistan, Bollywood: Popular Culture and Political Imaginations, by Vaishali Raghuvanshi. Taylor & Francis Group, Apr. 2025e. ISBN 9781032279022 $170.00e

Noble Virtuosity: Hidden Asymmetry in Ikat from Sumba, by Peter ten Hoopen. Hong Kong University Press, Dec. 2024. ISBN 9789887470847 $65.00

OM2—Ordinary Moments+, by Basil Pao. Hong Kong University Press, Oct. 2024. ISBN 9789888805754 $50.00

Remixing Wong Kar-Wai: Music, Bricolage, and the Aesthetics of Oblivion, by Giorgio Biancorosso. Duke, Jan. 2025e. ISBN 9781478026945 $104.95e; pbk ISBN 9781478031178 $27.95e; ebook ISBN 9781478060161 $104.95e

The Rescuers: Ten Remarkable Stories of Heroes Who Saved Civilization’s Treasures, by Nancy Moses. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Jan. 2025. ISBN 9781538159798 $36.00; ebook ISBN 9781538159804 $34.00

Tango in Japan: Cosmopolitanism beyond the West, by Yuiko Asaba. Hawaii, Feb. 2025. ISBN 9780824895693 $75.00

Tattoo Traditions of Asia: Ancient and Contemporary Expressions of Identity, by Lars Krutak. Hawaii, Oct. 2024. ISBN 9780824895709 $90.00; ebook ISBN 9780824897956 $90.00

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Philosophy & Religion

Ancient China: An Ethic History of Enduring Beliefs, by Michael Elson. Algora Publishing, Oct. 2024e. ISBN 9781628945317 $33.95; pbk ISBN 9781628945300 $23.95; ebook ISBN 9781628945324 $23.95

Bone, Bronze, and Bamboo: Unearthing Early China with Sarah Allan, ed. by Constance A. Cook, Christopher J. Foster, and Susan Blader. SUNY Press, Sep. 2024. ISBN 9781438499000 $99.00; ebook ISBN 9781438499017 $99.00

Buddhism and Healing in the Modern World, ed. by C. Pierce Salguero, Kin Cheung, and Susannah Deane. Hawaii, Sep. 2024. ISBN 9780824897697 $75.00

Literature for Little Bodhisattvas: Making Buddhist Families in Modern Taiwan, by Natasha Heller. Hawaii, Jan. 2025. ISBN 9780824897642 $75.00

Making a Canon: Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, Sri Lanka, and the Place of Buddhist Art, by Janice Leoshko. Chicago, Dec. 2024. ISBN 9780226836065 $45.00

Redefining Heresy and Tolerance: Governance of Muslims and Christians in the Qing Empire before 1864, by Tak Wai Hung. Hong Kong University Press, Dec. 2024. ISBN 9789888842834 $65.00

Religion and Sport in Japan, ed. by Zachary T. Smith, Dennis J. Frost, and Stephen G. Covell. Hawaii, Sep. 2024. ISBN 9780824897666 $75.00; ebook ISBN 9780824898571 $25.00

Ritual and Liturgy in Esoteric Chinese Buddhism: Tantric Subjects, ed. by Charles Orzech. Taylor & Francis Group, Sep. 2024e. ISBN 9781138016002 $150.00e; pbk ISBN not yet set $150.00e

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Political Science & Law

Asia Pacific in World Politics, by Derek McDougall. 3rd ed. Lynne Rienner Publishers, Sep. 2024e. pbk ISBN 9781962551021 $36.00e

Bangalore Girls: Witnessing the Rise of Nationalism in a Progressive City, by Supriya Baily. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Oct. 2024. ISBN 9781538198018 $34.00; ebook ISBN 9781538198025 $32.50

Between India and China: An Ancient Dialectic for Contemporary World Politics, by L. H. M. Ling and Payal Banerjee. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Apr. 2025. pbk ISBN 9781783484522 $34.95; ebook ISBN 9781783484539 $32.95

Beyond Borders: Escaping North Korea, by Dan Chung. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Mar. 2025. ISBN 9781538191729 $27.95; ebook ISBN 9781538191736 $26.50

Contemporary Hong Kong Government and Politics, ed. by Wai-man Lam, Percy Luen-tim Lui, and Wilson Wong. 3rd ed. Hong Kong University Press, Oct. 2024. ISBN not yet set $42.00; pbk ISBN 9789888842872 $42.00

Fabricating Homeland Security: Police Entanglements across India and Palestine/Israel, by Rhys Machold. Stanford, Sep. 2024. ISBN 9781503639690 $120.00; pbk ISBN 9781503640719 $30.00; ebook ISBN 9781503640726 $30.00

Hedging the China Threat: US-Taiwan Security Relations Since 1949, by Shao-cheng Sun. Lynne Rienner Publishers, Sep. 2024e. ISBN 9781685859961 $125.00e

The Impact of Xi Jinping’s New Era on Korea and the World, by Duck Koo Chung. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Nov. 2024. ISBN 9781538199534 $100.00; pbk ISBN 9781538199541 $40.00; ebook ISBN 9781538199558 $38.00

Indo-Pacific Strategy in Asian International Relations, by Lowell Dittmer. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Jan. 2025. ISBN 9781538183342 $100.00; pbk ISBN 9781538183359 $40.00; ebook ISBN 9781538183366 $38.00

Japan and the United States: The Journey of a Defeated Nation – A Diplomat’s Memoir by Yukio Okamoto, by Yukio Okamoto et al. Tuttle Publishing, Oct. 2024. ISBN 9784805318430 $24.99

Manipulating Authoritarian Citizenship: Security, Development, and Local Membership in China, by Samantha A. Vortherms. Stanford, Oct. 2024. ISBN 9781503640184 $75.00; ebook ISBN 9781503640832 $75.00

Maritime Power and China’s Grand Strategy, ed. by Anil Kumar Chawla. Taylor & Francis Group, Oct. 2024e. ISBN 9781032803630 $170.00e

New Politics of Beijing-Hong Kong Relations: Ideological Conflicts and Factionalism, by Sonny Shiu-Hing Lo. Hong Kong University Press, Jan. 2025. ISBN 9789888805723 $95.00

The Philippines, Vietnam and Malaysia in the South China Sea: Coping with China Threat, ed. by Jeffrey Ordaniel. Taylor & Francis Group, Oct. 2024e. ISBN 9780367700577 $160.00e; pbk ISBN not yet set $160.00e

The Political Economy of Central Asia, by Gül Berna Özcan. Taylor & Francis Group, Mar. 2025e. ISBN 9780415421911 $145.00e

The Politics of South Korea: A Comprehensive Introduction, by Ji Young Choi. Lynne Rienner Publishers, Oct. 2024e. ISBN 9781962551182 $115.00e; pbk ISBN 9781962551205 $32.5.00e

Routledge Handbook of Central Asian Politics, ed. by Reuel R. Hanks. Taylor & Francis Group, Oct. 2025e. ISBN 9780415776769 $210.00e

The Routledge Handbook of Internal Migration in India, ed. by S. Irudaya Rajan, M. Sumeetha. Taylor & Francis Group, Jun. 2025e. ISBN 9781032523521 $170.00e

Suffering and Smiling: Everyday Life in North Korea, by Byung-Ho Chung. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Oct. 2024. ISBN 9781538193846 $30.00; ebook ISBN 9781538193853 $29.00

The US-North Korea Relations: Dialogue of the Deaf, by Vivek Kumar. Taylor & Francis Group, Sep. 2024e. ISBN 9780367370695 $170.00e

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Psychology, Sociology & Anthropology

The Airport as Urban Territory: The Spatial Effects of Singapore’s Changi Airport, by Anna Gasco. National University of Singapore Press, Sep. 2024. ISBN 9789813252141 $68.00

Chronicles of a Global City: Speculative Lives and Unsettled Futures in Bengaluru, ed. by Vinay Gidwani, Michael Goldman, and Carol Upadhya. Minnesota, Nov. 2024. ISBN 9781517917357 $108.00; pbk ISBN 9781517917364 $27.00; ebook ISBN 9781452972367 $27.00

Feeling Machines: Japanese Robotics and the Global Entanglements of More-Than-Human Care, by Shawn Bender. Stanford, Nov. 2024. ISBN 9781503640191 $130.00; pbk ISBN 9781503641150 $32.00; ebook ISBN 9781503641167 $32.00

Lampang Assessment: Revisiting a Classic Study of Field Research in Northern Thailand, ed. by Søren Egerod and Per Sørensen. NIAS Press, Sep. 2024. pbk ISBN 9788776942731 $32.00

The Paleoanthropology of Eastern Asia, by Christopher J. Bae. Hawaii, Sep. 2024. ISBN 9780824897659 $80.00

A Technomoral Politics: Good Governance, Transparency, and Corruption in India, by Aradhana Sharma. Minnesota, Nov. 2024. ISBN 9781517918071 $112.00; pbk ISBN 9781517918088 $28.00; ebook ISBN 9781452972343 $28.00

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Social & Behavioral Sciences (General)

Chinese Cartoons as Visual Discourse, by Yingchi Chu. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Sep. 2025. ISBN 9781786607638 $135.00; ebook ISBN 9781786607645 $43.99

Law, Discrimination and the LGBTQ movement in India: Unsettling Citizenship, by Poonam Kakoti Borah. Taylor & Francis Group, Nov. 2024e. ISBN 9780367410254 $170.00e

Love Across Difference: Mixed Marriage in Lebanon, by Lara Deeb. Stanford, Oct. 2024. ISBN 9781503640054 $120.00; pbk ISBN 9781503640757 $30.00; ebook ISBN 9781503640764 $30.00

The Making of China’s Hidden Children: Customary Adoption Under the One-Child Policy, by Ling Meng. Taylor & Francis Group, Nov. 2024e. ISBN 9781032704852 $170.00e

Millennial North Korea: Forbidden Media and Living Creatively with Surveillance, by Suk-Young Kim. Stanford, Oct. 2024. ISBN 9781503614918 $110.00; pbk ISBN 9781503640870 $28.00; ebook ISBN 9781503640887 $28.00

No Island Is an Island: Perspectives on Immigration to Japan, ed. by Michael Strausz. Hawaii, Jan. 2025. ISBN 9780824898519 $75.00

Polarizing Dreams: Gangnam and Popular Culture in Globalizing Korea, by Pil Ho Kim. Hawaii, Dec. 2024. ISBN 9780824899851 $75.00; pbk ISBN 9780824897512 $30.00

Popular Culture and Korea’s New Exports, ed. by Doobo Shim. Taylor & Francis Group, Sep. 2024e. ISBN 9781138048645 $140.00e

The Trade-Offs of Legal Status: Safe Migration, Documentation, and Debt in Southeast Asia, by Maryann Bylander. Hawaii, Sep. 2024. ISBN 9780824897529 $75.00

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