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ANTHROPOLOGY 3
Staged Seduction Choosing Daughters The Good Child
Selling Dreams in a Tokyo Family Change in Rural China Moral Development in a
Host Club Lihong Shi Chinese Preschool
Akiko Takeyama China’s patrilineal and patriarchal Jing Xu
In the host clubs of Tokyo’s red-light tradition has encouraged a long- Chinese academic traditions take
district, ambitious young men seek standing preference for male heirs. zuo ren—self-fulfillment in terms
their fortunes by selling love, ro- But a counterpattern is emerging of moral cultivation—as the
mance, companionship, and some- in rural China where a noticeable ultimate goal of education. To many
times sex to female consumers for proportion of young couples have in contemporary China, however,
exorbitant sums of money. Akiko willingly accepted having a single the nation seems gripped by moral
Takeyama’s investigation of this daughter. In Choosing Daughters, decay, the result of rapid and pro-
beguiling “love business” provides Lihong Shi delves into the social, found social change over the course
a window into Japanese host clubs economic, and cultural forces of the twentieth century. Placing
and the lives of hosts, clients, club behind these couples’ child-rearing Chinese children at the center of
owners, and managers. The club is aspirations and the resulting her analysis, Jing Xu investigates
a place where fantasies are pursued, changes in family dynamics, the effects of these transformations
and the art of seduction reveals a gender relations, and intimate on the moral development of the
complex set of transactions built on parent–daughter ties. She refutes nation’s youngest generation. The
desperation and hope. Aspiration the conventional understanding of Good Child examines preschool-
itself is commercialized as citizens a universal preference for sons and aged children in Shanghai, China,
are seduced out of the present and discrimination against daughters tracing how Chinese socialization
into a future where hopes and in China and counters claims of beliefs and methods influence their
dreams are imaginable—and bil- continuing resistance against China’s construction of a moral world. Xu’s
lions of dollars seem within reach. population control program. innovative blend of anthropology
“There is so much of interest in Staged “A persuasive, eloquent study of and psychology illuminates how
Seduction. Takeyama argues that changing gender roles. Full of young children’s nascent moral
host clubs are emblematic of a neo- surprises and new vistas for dispositions are selected, expressed
liberal, post-industrial Tokyo…. Her investigation, it is ethnography or repressed, and modulated in
study offers fascinating insight into a at its best.” daily experiences.
greatly expanded part of its nightlife.” —William Jankowiak,
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
“The most significant work of sino-
—Joy Hendry, logical anthropology I have read in
Times Higher Education
208 pages, 2017 a long time.”
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4 ANTHROPOLOGY
Raising Global Families Outsourced Children The Politics of Compassion
Parenting, Immigration, and Orphanage Care and Adoption The Sichuan Earthquake and
Class in Taiwan and the US in Globalizing China Civic Engagement in China
Pei-Chia Lan Leslie K. Wang Bin Xu
Public discourse on Asian parenting Thousands of Chinese children The 2008 Sichuan earthquake
tends to fixate on ethnic culture have been adopted by American killed 87,000 people and left 5
as a static value set, disguising the parents, and many Western aid million homeless. In response
fluidity and diversity of Chinese organizations invest in helping to the devastation, an unprec-
parenting. Such stereotypes also orphans in China—but why does edented wave of volunteers and
fail to account for the challenges China allow this exchange, and civic associations streamed into
of raising children in a rapidly what does it reveal about globaliza- Sichuan to offer help. The Politics
modernizing world, full of global- tion? Outsourced Children answers of Compassion examines how
izing values. In Raising Global these questions by examining life civically engaged citizens acted on
Families Pei-Chia Lan examines in nine Chinese orphanages that the ground, how they understood
how ethnic Chinese parents in were assisted by international hu- the meaning of their actions, and
Taiwan and the United States manitarian groups. Leslie K. Wang how the political climate shaped
negotiate cultural differences explains how these transnational their actions and understandings.
and class inequality to raise partnerships place marginalized This book is a powerful account
children. She draws on a uniquely children at the intersection of of how the widespread death and
comparative, multi-sited research public and private spheres, state suffering caused by the earthquake
model with four groups of parents: and civil society, and local and illuminates the moral-political
middle-class and working-class global agendas. Although Western dilemma faced by Chinese citizens
parents in Taiwan, and middle- societies view childhood as innocent and provides a window into the
class and working-class Chinese and unaffected by politics, this book world of civic engagement in
immigrants in the Boston area. Lan explores how children both symbol- contemporary China.
demonstrates that class inequality ize and influence national futures. “Bin Xu’s analytic insights into ‘the
permeates the fabric of family life, “A caringly crafted, unsettling, politics of compassion’ are acute,
even as it takes shape in different yet humane account of how the but his account never erases the
ways across national contexts. One Child Policy continues to personal and human. The result
remake our world.” is riveting, provocative, and
“[Lan] illuminates complex processes ultimately heartbreaking.”
such as globalization and trans- —Susan Greenhalgh,
nationalism, making this a superb Harvard University —Deborah Davis,
Yale University
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SOCIOLOGY 5
Arresting Cinema Archaeology of Babel Figuring Korean Futures
Surveillance in Hong Kong Film The Colonial Foundation of Children’s Literature in
Karen Fang the Humanities Modern Korea
In Arresting Cinema, Karen Fang Siraj Ahmed Dafna Zur
delivers a unifying account of Hong For more than three decades, This book is the story of the emer-
Kong cinema that draws upon its preeminent scholars in comparative gence and development of writing
renowned crime films and other literature and postcolonial studies for children in twentieth-century
unique genres to demonstrate Hong have called for a return to philology Korea. The child audience was
Kong’s view of surveillance. She as the indispensable basis of critical perceived as unique because of a
argues that Hong Kong’s films display method in the humanities. Against new concept: the child-heart, the
a tolerance of—and even opportun- such calls, this book argues that perception that the child’s body
ism towards—constant observation, the privilege philology has always and mind rested on the threshold
unlike the fearful view prevalent in enjoyed within the modern humani- of culture. Reading children’s
the West. These films show a more ties silently reinforces a colonial periodicals against the political,
crowded, increasingly economically hierarchy. Tracing an unacknowl- educational, and psychological
stratified, and postnational world edged history that extends from discourses of their time, Dafna
that nevertheless offers an aura of British Orientalist Sir William Zur argues that the figure of the
hopeful futurity. While many surveil- Jones to Palestinian American child was particularly favorable
lance cinema studies focus solely on intellectual Edward Said and to the project of modernity and
European and Hollywood films, Fang beyond, Archaeology of Babel reveals nation-building, as well as to the
shows that only by exploring Hong the extent to which even postcolonial colonial and postcolonial projects
Kong surveillance film can we begin studies and European philosophy of socialization and nationalization.
to shape a truly global understanding are the progeny of colonial rule. It Figuring Korean Futures reveals the
of Hitchcock’s “rear window ethics.” unearths the alternate concepts of complex ways in which the child
“Innovative, refreshing, and yes, language and literature that were became a driving force of nostalgia
arresting. Fang’s analysis offers lost along the way and issues a call that stood in for aspirations for the
an essential complement to for humanists to reckon with the individual, family, class, and nation.
Western scholarship on cinema politics of philological practices. “A remarkable achievement. The
and surveillance.”
“An important, scintillating study, book gives welcome new insights
—Michael Curtin, Archaeology of Babel reappraises into colonial modernity and
University of California, astutely illuminates some of the
Santa Barbara the historical roots of philology and
encourages readers to re-imagine most fundamental concerns of the
240 pages, 2017 our present.” colonial period.”
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The Graduate Center, CUNY Harvard University
6 CULTURAL STUDIES
Fact in Fiction Goddess on the Frontier Contraceptive Diplomacy
1920s China and Ba Jin’s Family Religion, Ethnicity, and Gender Reproductive Politics and Imperial
Kristin Stapleton in Southwest China Ambitions in the United States
Megan Bryson and Japan
In Fact in Fiction, Kristin Stapleton
puts Ba Jin’s bestseller, Family, Dali is a small region on a high Aiko Takeuchi-Demirci
into full historical context, both plateau in Southeast Asia. Its main This book turns to the history of the
to illustrate how it successfully deity, Baijie, has assumed several birth control movement in the United
portrays human experiences gendered forms throughout the States and Japan to interpret the
during the 1920s and to reveal its area’s history: a Buddhist goddess, struggle for hegemony in the Pacific
historical distortions. She focuses the mother of Dali’s founder, a through the lens of transnational
on Chengdu, China, Ba Jin’s birth- widowed martyr, and a village feminism. Aiko Takeuchi-Demirci
place and the setting for Family, divinity. What accounts for so follows the relationship between
which was also a cultural and many different incarnations of a two iconic birth control activists,
political center of western China. local deity? Goddess on the Frontier Margaret Sanger and Ishimoto
The city’s richly preserved archives argues that Dali’s encounters with Shizue, as well as other intellectuals
allow for an intimate portrait of forces beyond region and nation and policymakers, to make sense of
a city that seemed far from the have influenced the goddess’s the complex transnational exchanges
center of national politics of the transformations. Dali sits at the occurring around contraception. The
day but clearly felt the forces of— cultural crossroads of Southeast birth control movement facilitated
and contributed to—the turbulent Asia, India, and Tibet; it has been U.S. expansionism, exceptionalism,
stream of Chinese history. claimed by different countries but and anti-communist policy and was
“This book is beautifully written and is currently part of Yunnan Province welcomed in Japan as a hallmark of
a real pleasure to read. A useful in Southwest China. Megan Bryson modernity. Within this transnational
complement to Family, it is an argues that Baijie provided a context, Takeuchi-Demirci draws
instructive example of how to read regional identity that enabled connections between birth control
literary sources with attention to their Dali to position itself geopolitically activism and the history of eugenics,
motivation and historical context.” and historically. racism, and imperialism.
—Henrietta Harrison,
University of Oxford “A tour de force of historical and “A fascinating study of transnational
ethnographic inquiry, this book is feminism and international policy
296 pages, 2016 a must-read for anyone interested that yields an exciting new frontier
9781503601062 Paper $25.95 $20.76 sale in the interplay of gender, ethnicity, for transnational histories.”
and religion.” —Barbara Molony,
—Meir Shahar, Santa Clara University
Tel Aviv University
ASIAN AMERICA
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HISTORY 7
Aurangzeb Forgotten Disease Violence and Order on the
The Life and Legacy of India’s Illnesses Transformed in Chengdu Plain
Most Controversial King Chinese Medicine The Story of a Secret Brotherhood
Audrey Truschke Hilary A. Smith in Rural China, 1939–1949
The Mughal emperor Aurangzeb Around the turn of the twentieth Di Wang
Alamgir is one of the most hated century, disorders that Chinese physi- In 1939, residents of a rural
men in Indian history. Reviled as cians had been writing about for over village near Chengdu watched
a religious fanatic who violently a millennium acquired new identities as Lei Mingyuan, a member of a
oppressed Hindus, he is even in Western medicine. Hilary A. Smith violent secret society known as the
blamed for setting into motion argues that privileging these later Gowned Brothers, executed his
conflicts that resulted in the creation sources misrepresents what traditional teenage daughter. Six years later,
of a separate Muslim state in South Chinese doctors were seeing and Shen Baoyuan, a sociology student
Asia. In her lively overview of his doing, creating an unfair view of their at Yenching University, arrived in
life and influence, Audrey Truschke medicine as inferior. Drawing on a the town to conduct fieldwork on
offers a clear-eyed perspective on wide array of sources, ranging from the society. She got to know Lei
the debate over Aurangzeb and early Chinese classics to modern Mingyuan and his family, recording
makes the case for why his maligned scientific research, Smith traces the many rare insights about the
legacy deserves to be reassessed. She history of one representative case, murder and the Gowned Brothers’
evaluates Aurangzeb not by modern foot qi, from the fourth century to the inner workings. Using the filicide
standards but according to the tradi- present day. She examines the shifting as a starting point to examine the
tions and values of his own time, meanings of disease over time, history, culture, and organization
painting a picture of Aurangzeb as showing that each transformation of the Gowned Brothers, Di Wang
a complex figure whose relationship reflects the social, political, intellec- offers nuanced insights into the
to Islam was dynamic, strategic, and tual, and economic environment. structures of local power in 1940s
sometimes contradictory. “The writing of the history of diseases rural Sichuan. Moreover, he
“A fresh, balanced, and much-needed has played a crucial but often invisible examines the influence of Western
survey of one of the most controversial role in shaping Chinese medicine as sociology and anthropology on the
figures in Indian history.” we know it today. Forgotten Disease way intellectuals in the Republic of
challenges the dominant historiography China perceived rural communities.
—Richard M. Eaton,
with great insights.”
University of Arizona By studying the complex relationship
—Sean Hsiang-lin Lei, between the Gowned Brothers and
152 pages, 2017 Academia Sinica, Taiwan
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STUDIES OF THE WEATHERHEAD he offers a unique perspective on
EAST ASIAN INSTITUTE,
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY China’s transition to socialism.
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8 HISTORY
The Politics of Rights and the State-Sponsored Inequality Bound Feet, Young Hands
1911 Revolution in China The Banner System and Social Tracking the Demise of
Stratification in Northeast China Footbinding in Village China
Xiaowei Zheng
Shuang Chen Laurel Bossen and Hill Gates
China’s 1911 Revolution was a
momentous political transformation. This book explores the socio- In this groundbreaking work,
Its leaders, however, were not economic processes of inequality Laurel Bossen and Hill Gates upend
rebellious troublemakers on the in nineteenth- and early-twentieth- the popular view of footbinding as
periphery of imperial order, but a century rural China, wherein a status or sexual symbol by showing
powerful political and economic the state classified immigrants to that it was an undeniably effective
elite deeply entrenched in local the county of Shuangcheng into way to get young girls to sit still and
society, with imperially sanctioned distinct categories, each associated work with their hands. Interviews
cultural credentials. The revolution with different land entitlements. with 1,800 elderly women, many
they spearheaded produced a new, The resulting patterns of wealth with bound feet, reveal the reality
democratic political culture that stratification and social hierarchy of girls’ hand labor across the North
enshrined national sovereignty, were both challenged and reinforced China Plain, Northwest China, and
constitutionalism, and the rights by the local population. The tensions Southwest China. When factories
of the people as indisputable built into unequal land entitlements eliminated the economic value of
principles. Based upon previously shaped the identities of immigrant handwork, footbinding died out.
untapped Qing and Republican groups, persisting even after As the last generation of footbound
sources, this book is a nuanced and unequal state entitlements were women passes away, Bound Feet,
colorful chronicle of the revolution. removed. This book also sheds light Young Hands presents a data-driven
Xiaowei Zheng explores the ideas on the many parallels between the examination of the social and
that motivated the revolution, the stratification system in nineteenth- economic aspects of this misunder-
popularization of those ideas, and century Shuangcheng and structural stood custom.
their animating impact on the inequality in contemporary China. “Laurel Bossen and Hill Gates
Chinese people at large. “A rare and highly original contribu- break new ground in our under-
“A major contribution to the histori- tion to the studies of community standing of the role and status of
ography of the 1911 Revolution, this formation and social stratification women’s work during a period of
book illuminates the events leading in human history. This book is enormous economic, political, and
to the birth of the Chinese republic.” destined to become a new reference cultural change.”
for understanding Chinese society, — Rubie S. Watson,
—Li Huaiyin, past and present.” Harvard University
University of Texas at Austin
—Wang Feng, 264 pages, 2017
376 pages, February 2018 University of California, Irvine
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HISTORY 9
Borderland Capitalism A World Trimmed with Fur Luxurious Networks
Turkestan Produce, Qing Silver, Wild Things, Pristine Places, and Salt Merchants, Status,
and the Birth of an Eastern Market the Natural Fringes of Qing Rule and Statecraft in Eighteenth-
Kwangmin Kim Jonathan Schlesinger Century China
This book offers a dynamic revision- In the eighteenth and nineteenth Yulian Wu
ist account of the history of the Qing centuries, booming demand for Luxurious Networks examines
Empire in Central Asia. Drawing natural resources transformed Huizhou salt merchants of High Qing
on Chinese, Manchu, Turki, China and its frontiers. Wild objects China to reveal a dynamic interaction
Russian, and English sources and from the far north became part of between people and objects. The
archival material, Kwangmin Kim elite fashion, and unprecedented Qianlong emperor purposely used
shows how Muslim notables (begs) consumption exhausted the region’s objects to expand his economic and
aligned themselves with the Qing to most precious resources—pearlers cultural influence. Thanks to their
strengthen their own plantation-like had stripped riverbeds of mussels, broad networks, outstanding manage-
economic system. As controllers of mushroom pickers had uprooted rial skills, and abundant financial
food supplies, commercial goods, the steppe, and fur-bearing animals resources, salt merchants were ideal
and human resources, the begs had disappeared from the forest. agents for selecting and producing
had the political power to dictate In response, the Qing court turned objects for imperial use. These wealthy
the fortunes of governments in the to “purification”: it registered businessmen became respected
region. Their political choice to and arrested poachers, reformed individuals who played a crucial role
cooperate with the Qing promoted territorial rule, and redefined the in the political, economic, social, and
an expansion of the Qing’s emerging boundary between the pristine and cultural world of eighteenth-century
international trade at the same time the corrupted. In A World Trimmed China. Their life experiences illustrate
that Europe was developing global with Fur, Jonathan Schlesinger uses the dynamic relationship between the
capitalism and imperialism. Manchu and Mongolian archives Manchu and Han, central and local,
“In this pioneering frontier history, to reveal how Qing rule witnessed and humans and objects.
Kwangmin Kim offers striking new not the destruction of unspoiled
“A paragon of interdisciplinary
perspectives on the economic power environments, but their invention. scholarship, filled with insights into
of the Qing state in the borderlands, Schlesinger’s resulting analysis the political and material cultures of
with implications for comparative provides a framework for rethinking eighteenth-century China.”
study of empires everywhere.” the global invention of nature. —Michael Chang,
—Peter C. Perdue, George Mason University
Yale University “A tremendously important book.
This is scholarship of the highest order.” 320 pages, 2017
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10 HISTORY
Circles of Compensation The Indonesian Way Hard Target
Economic Growth and the ASEAN, Europeanization, and Sanctions, Inducements, and
Globalization of Japan Foreign Policy Debates in a the Case of North Korea
Kent E. Calder New Democracy Stephan Haggard and
Japan grew explosively and con- Jürgen Rüland Marcus Noland
sistently for more than a century, On December 31, 2015, the ten- This book captures the effects of
from the Meiji Restoration until the member Association of Southeast sanctions and inducements on North
collapse of the economic bubble in Asian Nations ushered in a new era Korea and reconstructs the role of
the early 1990s. Since then, it has with the founding of the ASEAN economic incentives around the
been unable to restart its economic Community (AC). The AC was country’s nuclear program. Stephan
engine and respond to globaliza- both a historic initiative and an Haggard and Marcus Noland draw
tion. How could the same politi- unprecedented step toward the on an array of evidence to show
cal–economic system produce such area’s regional integration. Political the reluctance of the North Korean
strongly contrasting outcomes? commentators and media outlets, leadership to weaken its grip on
This book identifies the crucial however, suggested that Southeast foreign economic activity. They
variables as classic Japanese forms Asia was taking its first steps on a argue that inducements have limited
of socio-political organization: the linear process of unification that effect on the regime, and instead
“circles of compensation.” These would converge on the model of urge policymakers to think in terms
cooperative groupings of economic, the European Union. Jürgen Rüland of gradual strategies. Hard Target
political, and bureaucratic interests challenges this previously unques- connects economic statecraft to the
dictate corporate and individual tioned diffusion of European norms. marketization process to understand
responses to such critical issues as Focusing on the reception of ASEAN North Korea and addresses a larger
investment and innovation. Kent E. in Indonesia, he traces how foreign debate over the merits and demerits
Calder examines how these circles policy stakeholders have responded of “engagement” with adversaries.
operate and deals in special detail to calls for ASEAN’s Europeanization,
“An innovative study of the evolving
with the influence of Japan’s chang- ultimately fusing them with their political economy of North Korea.
ing financial system. own distinctly Indonesian form of Amid an increasing application of
“A beautifully-written breakthrough regionalism. sanctions, Hard Target contributes
analysis of how to think about one of much needed sophistication and
“With intelligence and nuance, nuance to over-simplified debates
the world’s most important nations. [Rüland] offers an essential study of
Simply too important to pass up.” about dealing with North Korea.”
comparative regionalism and Indo-
—Jeffrey Garten, nesia’s role in the ASEAN Charter.” —John S. Park,
Yale University Harvard University
—Randall Schweller,
Ohio State University 344 pages, 2017
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The Chinese
Deathscape
Edited by
Thomas S. Mullaney
In the past decade alone,
ten million corpses have
been exhumed and reburied
across the Chinese land-
scape. The campaign has
transformed China’s grave-
yards into sites of acute
personal, social, political,
and economic contestation.
Led by volume editor
Thomas S. Mullaney, three historians of the Chinese world analyze the phenomenon of grave
relocation via essays that move from the local to the global. Starting with an exploration
of the phenomenon of “baby towers” in the Lower Yangzi region of late imperial China
(Jeffrey Snyder-Reinke), and moving to an overview of the histories of death in the city of
Shanghai (Christian Henriot), the final essay takes a broader view to discuss the history
of grave relocation and its implications for our understanding of modern China overall
(Thomas S. Mullaney).
Built on a bespoke spatial analysis platform, each essay takes on a different aspect of
burial practices in China over the past two centuries. Rounding off the historical analyses,
platform creator David McClure speaks to new reading methodologies emerging from a
format in which text and map move in lockstep to advance the argument.
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