Forthcoming Titles in Asian & Asian American Studies, 2025

A list of the latest and soon-to-be-released publications through February 2026.

Posted on September 4, 2025 in Forthcoming Academic Titles

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Business, Economics, & Education

Families for Mobility: Elite Korean Students Abroad and Their Parents’ Reproduction of Privilege, by Juyeon Park. Rutgers, Sep. 2025. ISBN 9781978832657 $39.95

Spectropolis: The Enchantment of Capital in Singapore, by Joshua Comaroff. Minnesota, Nov. 2025. ISBN 9781517919344 $27.00

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History

Beauty and the Nation: Women, Culture, and the National Image in Interwar Vietnam, by Christina E. Firpo. Columbia, Dec. 2025. ISBN 9780231208871 $37.00

Borobudur: Masterpiece in Stone, by John N. Miksic. Revised 3rd ed. Tuttle Publishing, Sep. 2025. ISBN 9780804859011 $24.99

Challenging Exile: Japanese Canadians and the Wartime Constitution, by Eric M. Adams and Jordan Stanger-Ross. UBC Press, Oct. 2025. ISBN 9780774872843 $37.95

The China Question, by Ho-fung Hung. Cambridge, Nov. 2025. ISBN 9781009559775 $39.99

Cold War Comrades, by Gregg A. Brazinsky. Cambridge, Dec. 2025. ISBN 9781009633314 $44.99

Creative Belonging: The Qiang and Multiethnic Imagination in Modern China, by Yanshuo Zhang. Michigan, Jan. 2026. ISBN 9780472077779 $115.00

The Death and Life of Chinese Civil Society, by Mujun Zhou. Michigan, Feb. 2026. ISBN 9780472077854 $100.00

Domestic Nationalism: Muslim Women, Health, and Modernity in Indonesia, by Chiara Formichi. Stanford, Oct. 2025. ISBN 9781503644427 $32.00

East Asia and the Modern International Order, by Stephan Haggard and David C. Kang. Cambridge, Nov. 2025. ISBN 9781009545204 $105.00

Everyday Occupation, by Chunmei Du. Cambridge, Nov. 2025. ISBN 9781009600682 $110.00

From Mutiny to Revolt, by William R. Pinch. Cambridge, Dec. 2025. ISBN 9780521885317 $95.00

A Hundred Flowers, by Dayton Lekner. Cambridge, Oct. 2025. ISBN 9781009600538 $120.00

Imperial Entertainers: Korean Women Performers from Military to Global Stages, 1937–1975, by Yu Jung Lee. Bloomsbury, Sep. 2025. ISBN 9781666964769 $120.00

The Islands and the Stars: A History of Japan’s Space Programs, by Subodhana Wijeyeratne. Stanford, Jan. 2026. ISBN 9781503644786 $35.00

The Kuroshio Frontier, by Jonas Ruegg. Cambridge, Nov. 2025. ISBN 9781009534574 $120.00

Japan’s Manga Revolution, by Andreas Marks. Tuttle Publishing, Oct. 2025. ISBN 9784805319017 $29.99

Manga’s First Century: How Creators and Fans Made Japanese Comics, 1905–1989, by Andrea Horbinski. California, Oct. 2025. ISBN 9780520403994 price not yet set

Nation-Building and State-Making During the Filipino Third Republic (1946–1960s), by Tristan Miguel Osteria. Bloomsbury, Oct. 2025. ISBN 9781666956146 $120.00

Okinawa: A History of Violence, by Jon Mitchell. Bloomsbury, Jan. 2026. ISBN 9781538188392 $35.00

The Range of the River: A Riverine History of Empire across China, India, and Southeast Asia, by Iftekhar Iqbal. Stanford, Dec. 2025. ISBN 9781503644946 $32.00

Regionalism and Nationalism at the Nanyang Border: Guangxi Province and the Making of the Chinese Nation State, 1924–1949, by Congjie Cheng, ed. by Mark Lopez. Bloomsbury, Sep. 2025. ISBN 9781666964103 $120.00

The Remarkable Madame Pandit: Champion of India, Citizen of the World, by Manu Bhagavan. Columbia, Sep. 2025. ISBN 9780231222471 $35.00

Spring Castle, by Michiko Ishimure, ed. by Bruce Allen. Tuttle Publishing, Sep. 2025. ISBN 9784805319659 $19.99

Sun Tzu’s Art of War: The Manga Version: The Full Story Behind Sun Tzu’s Masterpiece!, by Sun Tzu, ed. by Yoshihiro Watanabe. Tuttle Publishing, Sep. 2025. ISBN 9784805319543 $19.99

The Untold Story of China’s Nuclear Weapon Development and Testing, by Hui Zhang. The MIT Press, Nov. 2025. ISBN 9780262051828 $40.00

The Vietnam People’s Army: From People’s Warfare to Military Modernization?, by Zachary Abuza. Lynne Rienner Publishers, Sep. 2025e. ISBN 9781962551977 $120.00

Vietnam’s Coal Frontier, by Thuy Nguyen. Cambridge, Nov. 2025. ISBN 9781009638012 $120.00

Writing and Materiality in Ancient China: The Textual Culture of the Mawangdui Tombs, by Luke Waring. Columbia, Oct. 2025. ISBN 9780231219563 $65.00

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Humanities (general)

Beyond Borders: Escaping North Korea, by Dan Chung. Bloomsbury, Oct. 2025. ISBN 9781538191729 $27.00

Brutal Fantasies: Imagining North Korea in the Long Cold War, by Christine Kim. Duke, Sep. 2025e. ISBN 9781478032397 $25.95

Cleansing the Nation: India, the Hindu Modern, and Mediations of Gender, by Raka Shome. Duke, Nov. 2025e. ISBN 9781478032755 $31.95

Concrete Colonialism: Architecture, Urbanism, and the US Imperial Project in the Philippines, by Diana Jean S. Martinez. Duke, Sep. 2025e. ISBN 9781478032380 $29.95

Contemporary Korean Culture from the Edge: Transgression, Innovation, and Intimacy, ed. by Hong Kal, Jooyeon Rhee, and Thomas R. Klassen. Bloomsbury, Oct. 2025. ISBN 9781666965544 $120.00

Decolonizing Afghanistan: Countering Imperial Knowledge and Power, ed. by Wazhmah Osman and Robert D. Crews. Duke, Oct. 2025e. ISBN 9781478032601 $29.95

Deeper Ground, Darker Shadows: The Making of a Mindanao Rebel, by Eddie L. Quitoriano. Wisconsin, Sep. 2025. ISBN 9780299353209 $79.95

Fandom Nationalism: Participatory Censorship and Performative Patriotism in East Asia, by Erika Ningxin Wang and Qian Huang, ed. by Katie Gallof. Bloomsbury, Dec. 2025. ISBN 9798765125168 $19.95

Fashion Communications between Italy and China: Unfolding a Sartorial Relationship, by Gaoheng Zhang. Bloomsbury, Oct. 2025. ISBN 9781350544048 $100.00

Futures in Failed Survival: Gender Violence, Policing, and Asian Immigrant Woman, by Lee Ann S. Wang. Duke, Feb. 2026e. ISBN 9781478033271 $25.95

In the Mood for Texture: The Revival of Bangkok as a Chinese City, by Arnika Fuhrmann. Duke, Jan. 2026e. ISBN 9781478032991 $25.95

Ocean, as Much as Rain: Stories, Lyrical Prose, and Poems from Tibet, by Tsering Woeser. Translated by Dechen Pemba, ed. by Fiona Sze-Lorrain. Duke, Feb. 2026e. ISBN 9781478033110 $23.95

Precarious Accumulation: Fast Fashion Bosses in Transnational Guangzhou, China, by Nellie Chu. Duke, Feb. 2026e. ISBN 9781478033097 $29.95

Racial Care: On Asian American Suffering and Survival, by James McMaster. Duke, Nov. 2025e. ISBN 9781478032830 $25.95

Reckoning with the World: South Korean Television and the Latin American Imaginary, by Benjamin M. Han. Temple, Jan. 2026. ISBN 9781439923245 $104.50

Routledge Handbook of Transnational Chinese Cinemas, ed. by Yomi Braester, Chris Berry,  and Yiman Wang. Taylor & Francis Group, Jan. 2026e. ISBN 9781032041773 $250.00

Shanghai Mundane: Survival and Revival of Bourgeois Sentiments under Chinese Socialism, by Lei Ping. Bloomsbury, Sep. 2025. ISBN 9781666951387 $130.00

Spoiled: Asian American Hostility and the Damage of Repair, by Summer Kim Lee. Duke, Oct. 2025e. ISBN 9781478032052 $35.00

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Language and Literature

The Essential Akutagawa: Twenty-Two Short Stories by Japan’s Master Storyteller, by Ryunosuke Akutagawa. Translated by Richard Medhurst. Tuttle Publishing, Sep. 2025. ISBN 9784805317990 $16.99

The Hirabayashi Hatsunosuke Reader: Mass Culture and Intermediality in Imperial Japan, ed. by Seth Jacobowitz and Aaron William Moore. Bloomsbury, Sep. 2025. ISBN 9781350378155 $115.00

Intersex Figures in Modern Japanese Literature and Art, by Leslie Winston. Michigan, Oct. 2025. ISBN 9780472077762 $70.00

Planetarity from Below: Decolonial Ecopoetics of Migration and Diaspora, by Emily Yu Zong. Michigan, Jan. 2026. ISBN 9780472077816 $85.00

The Poetry of Chiyo-ni: The Life and Art of Japan’s Most Celebrated Woman Haiku Master, by Patricia Donegan and Yoshie Ishibashi. Tuttle Publishing, Sep. 2025. ISBN 9784805318669 $19.99

The Post-9/11 Great American Novel: Fictional Perpetuations of White American Trauma and Islamophobia, by Sheheryar Sheikh, ed. by Amy Martin. Bloomsbury, Nov. 2025. ISBN 9798765134405 $120.00

Reading Sanskrit: A Complete Step-by-Step Introduction with Texts from the Buddhist Tradition, by Luke Gibson. Columbia, Oct. 2025. ISBN 9780231221238 $50.00

Seeing Through Abstraction: Literary Encounters with Information in Modern China, by Anatoly Detwyler. Columbia, Oct. 2025. ISBN 9780231219884 $35.00

Textual Heritage: Locating Textual Practices Across Heritage and the Humanities, ed. by Edoardo Gerlini and Andrea Giolai. Vol. 9. Berghahn Books, Oct. 2025. ISBN 9781836951902 $135.00

Transformed by India: A Life, by Stephen Huyler. Pippa Rann Books/Independent Publishers Group (IPG), Sep. 2025e. ISBN 9781913738211 $49.99

Triangle Republics: Cross-Border Literary Transits Between the Cold War Koreas and Japan, by I Jonathan Kief. Columbia, Sep. 2025. ISBN 9780231219853 $35.00

Vietnam Now! A Vietnamese Language Reader: Bilingual Stories about Contemporary Vietnam in Vietnamese and English, by Binh Ngo. Tuttle Publishing, Sep. 2025. ISBN 9780804858045 $18.99

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Performing & Visual Arts

The Allure of the Mirror: Mass Consumption of Fine Things in the Han Empire, by Yanlong Guo. Columbia, Sep. 2025. ISBN 9780231217781 $65.00

Celebrity Bromance and Comradery Capital in Asia, by Celia Lam and Jackie Raphael-Luu. Bloomsbury, Oct. 2025. ISBN 9780755655021 $115.00

The Courtesan’s Memory, Voice, and Late Ming Drama, by Peng Xu. Michigan, Sep. 2025. ISBN 9780472077229 $85.00

The Female Playback in Bombay Cinema: Voice, Body, and Technology, by Shikha Jhingan. Wayne State, Oct. 2025. ISBN 9780814350942 $36.99

Japanese Art Journey, by Meher McArthur. Tuttle Publishing, Sep. 2025. ISBN 9784805319901 $19.99

Japanese Kabuki Stories, by Ornella Civardi. Tuttle Publishing, Oct. 2025. ISBN 9784805319727 $24.99

Kohaku Utagassen: The Red and White Song Contest, by Shelley Brunt, ed. by Leah Babb-Rosenfeld. Bloomsbury, Jan. 2026. ISBN 9781501382000 $22.95

K-Pop Fandom: Performing Deokhu from the 1990s to Today, by Areum Jeong. Michigan, Feb. 2026. ISBN 9780472077892 $70.00

Long Take, by Akira Kurosawa, translated by Anne McKnight. Minnesota, Dec. 2025. ISBN 9781517903299 $24.95

Screening Precarity: Hindi Cinema and Neoliberal Crisis in Twenty-first Century India, by Megha Anwer and Anupama Arora. Michigan, Sep. 2025. ISBN 9780472077649 $115.00

Water of the Sky: A Dictionary of 2,000 Japanese Rain Words, by Miya Ando. The MIT Press, Nov. 2025. ISBN 9780262049863 $29.95

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Philosophy & Religion

Art and Imagination: Mongolian Buddhist Texts and Rituals, by Vesna A. Wallace and Uranchimeg Tsultemin. Columbia, Nov. 2025. ISBN 9780231194792 $35.00

City of Lyrics: Ordinary Poets and Islamicate Popular Culture in Early Modern Delhi, by Nathan L. M. Tabor. North Carolina, Oct. 2025. ISBN 9781469690223 $39.95

Ma: The Japanese Secret to Contemplation and Calm, by Ken Rodgers and John Einarsen. Tuttle Publishing, Sep. 2025. ISBN 9784805319215 $15.99

Mountain Dharma: Meditative Retreat and the Tibetan Ascetic Self, by David M. DiValerio. Columbia, Sep. 2025. ISBN 9780231220224 $35.00

Religion and Identity in the Indian Ocean World, ed. by Mark Fielding and Joshua Esler.  Bloomsbury, Sep. 2025. ISBN 9781666970760 $130.00

Religious Encounters along the Silk Road: Connections, Competitions, and Comparisons, by Huaiyu Chen. Bloomsbury, Oct. 2025. ISBN 9781666943887 $115.00

The Routledge Handbook of Korean Religions, ed. by Chong Bum Kim and Liora Sarfati. Taylor & Francis Group, Feb. 2026e. ISBN 9781032818856 $270.00

The Secret World of Shugendō: Sacred Mountains and the Search for Meaning in Post-Disaster Japan, by Shayne A. P. Dahl. North Carolina, Oct. 2025. ISBN 9781469690605 $45.00

The Serpent’s Tale: Kundalini, Yoga, and the History of an Experience, by Sravana Borkataky-Varma and Anya Foxen. Columbia, Sep. 2025. ISBN 9780231212533 $32.00

Speculative Orientalism: Asian Religions in New Wave Science Fiction, by Sang-Keun Yoo. Bloomsbury, Sep. 2025. ISBN 9781350447899 $115.00

The Vestiges of Japanese Spirituality: Challenging the Standard Model of Religious History, by Brian J. McVeigh, ed. by Megan White. Bloomsbury, Oct. 2025. ISBN 9781666977936 $115.00

The Zen Guide to Opening Your Heart: Practical Advice from a Zen Buddhist Monk, by Gensho Taigu. Tuttle Publishing, Sep. 2025. ISBN 9784805319437 $15.99

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Political Science & Law

Asian America Rising: New Directions for Political Activism, ed. by Diane Wong and Mark Tseng-Putterman. New York University Press, Sep. 2025. ISBN 9781479834020 $35.00

Challenges Facing Integration in Southeast Asia: Reflections on ASEAN Community Initiatives, ed. by Ravichandran Moorthy. Bloomsbury, Jan. 2026. ISBN 9798765150085 $120.00

China’s Conservative Turn: The Origins of Xi Jinping’s New Era, by Lin Le. Lynne Rienner Publishers, Sep. 2025e. ISBN 9798896160120 $110.00

Drama of Democracy: Political Representation in Mumbai, by Lisa Björkman. Minnesota, Sep. 2025. ISBN 9781517918941 $30.00

Feminist Legal Activism in India, by Tanja Herklotz. Bloomsbury, Nov. 2025. ISBN 9781509985685 $120.00

The Future of the South China Sea: Disputes and Negotiations, by Jiye Kim. Michigan, Jan. 2026. ISBN 9780472077786 $100.00

Greyscale Legality: The Diverse Landscape of Intellectual Property Law Enforcement in China, by Qiaoling He. UBC Press, Sep. 2025. ISBN 9780774871709 $99.00

How Cambodia Survived the Killing Fields: From International Pawn to a Contemporary Quest for Stability, by Michael Haas, ed. by Katherine De Chant. Bloomsbury, Nov. 2025. ISBN 9798765137277 $110.00

Orientalism, Liberalism and Colonial Governmentality: Deconstructing the Imperialized Historiography of Modern South Asia, by Sanjeev Kumar HM. Bloomsbury, Oct. 2025. ISBN 9789356405349 $115.00

South Asian Feminisms in Diaspora: Critical Perspectives from Canada, ed. by Amina Jamal, Jane Ku, and Maryam Khan. University of Alberta Press, Oct. 2025. ISBN 9781772128222 $42.99

A Tight Grip: State Power and Control in Modern China, by Wen-Hsuan Tsai. UBC Press, Sep. 2025. ISBN 9780774872027 $39.95

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Psychology, Sociology & Anthropology

Asian American Psychology, ed. by Nita Tewari, Alvin Alvarez, and Michi  Fu. Taylor & Francis Group, Oct. 2025e. ISBN 9781032793818 $190.00

Chinese American Mothering: Toy Len Goon’s Legacy and the Myth of the Model Minority, by Andrea Louie. New York University Press, Dec. 2025. ISBN 9781479855568 $30.00

Colonial Surveillance: Technologies of Identification and Control in Japan’s Empire, by Midori Ogasawara. Stanford, Jan. 2026. ISBN 9781503644717 $30.00

Committee Worlds: Governing Medical Research through Ethics in the Asia-Pacific, by Rachel Douglas-Jones. Stanford, Jan. 2026. ISBN 9781503644274 $65.00

Dyeing with the Earth: Textiles, Tradition, and Sustainability in Contemporary Japan, by Charlotte Linton. Duke, Oct. 2025e. ISBN 9781478032212 $34.00

Fear of Queer Taiwan: Anti-LGBTQ Movements Between Taiwan and the U.S. Religious Right, by Ying-Chao Kao. New York University Press, Feb. 2026. ISBN 9781479832132 $30.00

Female Police Officers in Pakistan: Diverse Realities, Continuities and Change, by Sadaf Ahmad. Bloomsbury, Oct. 2025. ISBN 9780755657681 $115.00

Goddess in the Mirror: An Anthropology of Beauty, by Tulasi Srinivas. Duke, Nov. 2025e. ISBN 9781478032779 $29.95

Hidden Empire of Finance: How Wall Street Profits from Our Cities and Fuels Global Inequality, by Michael Goldman. Duke, Jan. 2026e. ISBN 9781478033004 $29.95

Korean Immigrants in Latin America: Home Away from Home, ed. by Kyeyoung Park. Bloomsbury, Oct. 2025. ISBN 9781666975772 $120.00

Reimagining Aid: Foreign Donors, Women’s Health, and New Paths for Development in Cambodia, by Mary-Collier Wilks. Stanford, Jan. 2026. ISBN 9781503644809 $26.00

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Social & Behavioral Sciences (general)

Chicago Korean-Americans, by Jung-Sun Park. Taylor & Francis Group, Dec. 2025e. ISBN 9780415948814 $180.00

Contemporary Korean Culture from the Edge: Transgression, Innovation, and Intimacy, ed. by Hong Kal, Jooyeon Rhee, and Thomas R. Klassen. Bloomsbury, Oct. 2025. ISBN 9781666965544 $120.00

Cooling Asia: Technology, Environment, and Society in Hot Climates, ed. by Chris Courtney and Jiat-Hwee Chang. Pittsburgh, Feb. 2026e. ISBN 9780822948629 $70.00

Imperial Entertainers: Korean Women Performers from Military to Global Stages, 1937–1975, by Yu Jung Lee, ed. by Mark Lopez. Bloomsbury, Sep. 2025. ISBN 9781666964769 $120.00

Love and Romance in China: From Comrades and Partners to AI Lovers, by Pan Wang. Bloomsbury, Oct. 2025. ISBN 9781350511804 $115.00

Nation-Building and State-Making During the Filipino Third Republic (1946-1960s), by Tristan Miguel Osteria, ed. by Mark Lopez. Bloomsbury, Oct. 2025. ISBN 9781666956146 $120.00

Nile Nightshade: An Egyptian Culinary History of the Tomato, by Anny Gaul. California, Oct. 2025. ISBN 9780520409132 $95.00

Queer Throughlines: Spaces of Queer Activism in South Korea and the Korean Diaspora, by Ju Hui Judy Han. Michigan, Oct. 2025. ISBN 9780472077724 $85.00

Routledge Handbook of China–India Relations, ed. by Kanti Bajpai,  Selina Ho, and Manjari Chatterjee Miller. Taylor & Francis Group, Feb. 2026e. ISBN 9781032803654 $300.00

Shanghai Mundane: Survival and Revival of Bourgeois Sentiments under Chinese Socialism, by Lei Ping, ed. by Mark Lopez. Bloomsbury, Sep. 2025. ISBN 9781666951387 $130.00

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