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    - Li Zhi and Cultures of Early Modernity
    by Rivi Handler-Spitz
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    Rivi Handler-Spitz is associate professor of Chinese language and literature at Macalester College.

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    - Reflections on Sahaptin Ways
    by Virginia R. Beavert
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    The Gift of Knowledge / Ttnuwit Atawish Nchinchimam is a treasure trove of material for those interested in Native American culture. Author Virginia Beavert grew up in a traditional, Indian-speaking household. Both her parents and her maternal grandmother were shamans, and her childhood was populated by people who spoke tribal dialects and languages: Nez Perce, Umatilla, Klikatat, and Yakima Ichishkin. Her work on Native languages began at age twelve, when she met linguist Melville Jacobs while working for his student, Margaret Kendell. When Jacobs realized that Beavert was a fluent speaker of the Klikatat language, he taught her to read and write the orthography he had developed to record Klikatat myths.After a stint in the U.S. Air Force during World War II, Beavert went on to earn graduate degrees in education and linguistics, and she has contributed to numerous projects for the preservation of Native language and teachings.Beavert narrates highlights from her own life and presents cultural teachings, oral history, and stories (many in bilingual Ishishkin-English format) about family life, religion, ceremonies, food gathering, and other aspects of traditional culture.

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    - A Seventeenth-Century Chinese Story Collection
    by Aina the Layman
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    Written around 1660, the unique Chinese short story collection Idle Talk under the Bean Arbor (Doupeng xianhua), by the author known only as Aina the Layman, uses the seemingly innocuous setting of neighbors swapping yarns on hot summer days under a shady arbor to create a series of stories that embody deep disillusionment with traditional values. The tales, ostensibly told by different narrators, parody heroic legends and explore issues that contributed to the fall of the Ming dynasty a couple of decades before this collection was written, including self-centeredness and social violence. These stories speak to all troubled times, demanding that readers confront the pretense that may lurk behind moralistic stances.Idle Talk under the Bean Arbor presents all twelve stories in English translation along with notes from the original commentator, as well as a helpful introduction and analysis of individual stories.

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    - Rodeo at the Fringes of the American West
    by Rebecca Scofield
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    - Redrawing Ethnic Boundaries in Tang and Song China
    by Shao-yun Yang
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    - Jiangnan Foodways
    by Jin Feng
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    - Trading in Ritual on Cheju Island
    by Kyoim Yun
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    - The Kangxi Emperor and His Estate at Rehe
    by Stephen H. Whiteman
    £52.49

    In 1702, the second emperor of the Qing dynasty ordered construction of a new summer palace in Rehe (now Chengde, Hebei) to support his annual tours north among the court¿s Inner Mongolian allies. The Mountain Estate to Escape the Heat (Bishu Shanzhuang) was strategically located at the node of mountain ¿veins¿ through which the Qing empire¿s geomantic energy was said to flow. At this site, from late spring through early autumn, the Kangxi emperor presided over rituals of intimacy and exchange that celebrated his rule: garden tours, banquets, entertainments, and gift giving.Stephen Whiteman draws on resources and methods from art and architectural history, garden and landscape history, early modern global history, and historical geography to reconstruct the Mountain Estate as it evolved under Kangxi, illustrating the importance of landscape as a medium for ideological expression during the early Qing and in the early modern world more broadly. Examination of paintings, prints, historical maps, newly created maps informed by GIS-based research, and personal accounts reveals the significance of geographic space and its representation in the negotiation of Qing imperial ideology. The first monograph in any language to focus solely on the art and architecture of the Kangxi court, Where Dragon Veins Meet illuminates the court¿s production and deployment of landscape as a reflection of contemporary concerns and offers new insight into the sources and forms of Qing power through material expressions.Art History Publication Initiative

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    - Histories of Indian Sovereignty Suppressed and Renewed
    by Alexandra Harmon
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    - Collected Essays by Contemporary Writers
     
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    - Mana and Place in the Marquesas Islands
    by Emily C. Donaldson
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    - Collected Essays by Contemporary Writers
     
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    Elissa Washuta (Cowlitz) is assistant professor of creative writing at the Ohio State University. Theresa Warburton is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in American studies and English at Brown University and assistant professor of English at Western Washington University.

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    - The Redwood Wars and the Transformation of American Environmental Politics
    by Darren Frederick Speece
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    - An Animal History of Seattle
    by Frederick L. Brown
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    Frederick L. Brown holds a PhD in history from the University of Washington and works on a contract basis as a historian for the National Park Service.

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    - A Creation Epic from Southwest China
     
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    - A Creation Epic from Southwest China
     
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    Mark Bender is professor of East Asian languages and literatures at Ohio State University. He is the author of Plum and Bamboo: China¿s Suzhou Chantefable Tradition and translator of Butterfly Mother: Miao (Hmong) Creation Epics from Guizhou, China. Aku Wuwu is a well-known poet and professor and associate dean of the College of Yi Studies, Southwest Nationalities University, Chengdu. Jjivot Zopqu is a local tradition-bearer in Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan.

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    - The Politics of Suicide and Martyrdom in Korea
     
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    Charles R. Kim is Korea Foundation Associate Professor of Korean Studies at the University of Wisconsin¿Madison. Jungwon Kim is King Sejong Assistant Professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University. Hwasook Nam is an independent scholar who previously served as the James B. Palais Endowed Associate Professor at the University of Washington. Serk-Bae Suh is associate professor of Korean studies at the University of California, Irvine. The other contributors are Jung-hwan Cheon, Ho Kim, Sun-Chul Kim, Yerim Kim, George Kallander, Franklin Rausch, Youngju Ryu, and Young Chae Seo.

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    - Tamil Women and Work in Postwar Sri Lanka
    by Mythri Jegathesan
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    - The Politics of Suicide and Martyrdom in Korea
     
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    - The Biopolitics of Hindu Nationalism
    by Banu Subramaniam
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    - Debating India's Religion of the Heart
     
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    - Queerness, Sex Work, and the Politics of Sexuality in Kerala
    by Navaneetha Mokkil
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    - Debating India's Religion of the Heart
     
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    John Stratton Hawley is Claire Tow Professor of Religion at Barnard College, Columbia University. He is the author of A Storm of Songs: India and the Idea of the Bhakti Movement. Christian Lee Novetzke is professor of South Asian studies and comparative religion at the Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington. He is the author of The Quotidian Revolution: Vernacularization, Religion, and the Premodern Public Sphere in India. Swapna Sharma is senior lecturer in Hindi at Yale University. The contributors are Gil Ben-Herut, Divya Cherian, John E. Cort, Richard H. Davis, Shrivatsa Goswami, Phyllis Granoff, Eben Graves, David L. Haberman, Manpreet Kaur, Aditi Natasha Kini, Joel Lee, Kiyokazu Okita, Heidi Pauwels, Karen Pechilis, William R. Pinch, and Tyler Williams.

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    by Erik Mobrand
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    - Transnational Sri Lankan Tamil Marriages in the Shadow of War
    by Sidharthan Maunaguru
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  • by David Wong Louie
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    - Landscape in Contemporary Native American Art
    by Kate Morris
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    by Murray Morgan
    £16.99

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