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| Please join us for the AAS 2016
Cambria Sinophone World Series Event
on April 2 (Saturday) at 7:30 p.m. in the
Jefferson Room at the Sheraton Seattle. Speakers include our series editor Dr. Victor Mair,
our director Ms. Toni Tan, and Cambria authors.
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| Since its inception in 2011, the Cambria Sinophone World Series continues to thrive under the stewardship of general editor Victor Mair (University of Pennsylvania) and our esteemed editorial board members. Joining the book list in the series are four new outstanding titles, including one by Wilt Idema (Harvard University), who was recently awarded the highly prestigious Special Book Award of China, Christopher Lupke (Washington State University), Chia-rong Wu (Rhodes College), Minghui Hu (UC Santa Cruz), and Johan Elverskog (Southern Methodist University). We are also proud to announce two new groundbreaking books by Karil Kucera (St. Olaf College) and Thomas Drohan (USAF Academy) that have been published in time for the AAS conference. Book and author details are below. We hope you will join us for this exciting event on April 2 (Saturday) at 7:30 p.m.
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| Wilt L. Idema (Harvard University) "This comprehensive book brings together a wide range of scholarship on the baojuan genre with an insightful use of sources. The greatest contribution of the Introduction is the focus on baojuan in the northwest of China within both historical and performance contexts. The translated texts offer readers a well-rounded look at the themes and content of this prosimetric genre which are creatively presented on the printed page. The text will be very useful in comparisons with other Chinese genres of prosimetrum and texts in other traditions in East Asia, India, Central Asia, and possibly farther afield." —Mark Bender, The Ohio State University
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| Christopher Lupke (Washington State University) "A whole new generation of film lovers must get to know this master of cinema, and loyal fans of Hou’s need to know him anew. Lupke’s book does just that. The Sinophone Cinema of Hou Hsiao-Hsien provides comprehensive coverage, detailed contextualization, and insightful analysis from Hou’s earliest works to his most recent accomplishment. The narrative is particularly compelling because it weaves cultural and social contexts and filmic texts together, and it brings various formal elements (image, editing, language, music) to bear upon one another. The book also includes careful comparison with another East Asian auteur Ozu as well as delineating the creative synergy between Hou and his long-term collaborator, famed Taiwan writer, Zhu Tianwen. All done in a clear and accessible prose, Lupke’s book is a significant addition to the world of Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s cinema that will continue to fascinate and illuminate us for many years to come."
—Guo-juin Hong, Duke University
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| Chia-rong Wu (Rhodes College) "This book examines some interesting, significant types and aspects of Sinophone Taiwan fiction, as well as a number of prominent writers and representative works. Focusing on the narratives of the strange, it connects the trope of ghost haunting with Taiwan’s complex ethnoscapes and historical, colonial trauma. In addition to investigating ‘ghost island’ narratives, it explores literary representations of magical nativism--including magical localism and translocalism. It offers an excellent, timely study on the important but understudied Sinophone Taiwan literature."
—Yenna Wu, University of California Riverside
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| Minghui Hu (UC Santa Cruz) & Johan Elverskog (SMU)
"This book provides a wide-ranging display of the ways in which 'cosmopolitanism' has meaning in China, c. 1600–c. 1900 and how these possibilities were reduced subsequently. Significantly, the volume shows the meanings of cosmopolitanism for different kinds of people in Qing China, including Manchus, Muslims, Koreans (in relation to the Qing, if not in the Qing). It further explicates the multiple framings within which different modalities of cosmopolitanism were achieved, including Buddhist and Confucian. It also shows cosmopolitanism not merely as a feature of thought, but suggests implications of such approaches in matters of governance. Creating multiple challenges to conventional views of early modern and modern China, this important book offers opportunities to craft a more sensible and persuasive understanding of how China’s early modern regional world became part of a late twentieth-century Inner Asian and East Asian world region."
—R. Bin Wong, UCLA
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| Karil Kucera (St. Olaf College)
"Baodingshan is a unique site from many perspectives. It is also a site that is difficult to study because of the dearth of inscriptional materials and historical documents that are contemporaneous with the time when the site was created. The strength of this book is how existing textual materials, both in the form of inscribed religious texts and stele inscriptions, have been used to try to piece together the larger relationships of the components of the site. The study is organized well and in an interesting way, one which ties into the important notions of time as embodied in Buddhist notions of cause and effect that is a key message of the site’s sculptural program and corresponding texts. With its detailed analysis that goes beyond some of the limitations of other previous works, this book will contribute to the scholarship of this particular unique site and the general discourse on Buddhism in China. It is a work of scholarship that is valuable to researchers and yet accessible to general readers."
—Tom Suchan, Eastern Michigan University
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| Utilizing its unique capability to combine speed of publication with high-production values, Cambria Press is proud to announce a new series, Rapid Communications in Conflict and Security (RCCS), to bring to market in a timely manner books on a range of pressing aspects of global and national conflict—from foreign policy and diplomacy to the projection of both inter-state and intra-state hard power. The series is headed by general editor Dr. Geoffrey R. H. Burn, a former army officer with a doctorate in organization theory and strategy as well as thirty years of experience as the chief executive of book and journal publishing companies. He is a fellow of the Inter University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society, a member of the Association of Former Intelligence Officers, a member of the Royal Canadian Military Institute, and a fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts.
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| This first book in the RCCS series is by Colonel Thomas Drohan (PhD, Princeton University), head of the Department of Military & Strategic Studies at the United States Air Force (USAF) Academy.
Col Drohan’s publications include American-Japanese Security Agreements, Past and Present and articles in journals such as Joint Force Quarterly and Defense Studies. His career includes combat rescue, airlift and anti-terrorism in East Asia, the Middle East, and Afghanistan. He is a Council on Foreign Relations Japan fellow and Reischauer Center scholar.
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| "Drohan’s approach provides an innovative primer for the next generation of strategists. He exposes the stale assumptions underlying our challenges in countering contemporary threats, and provides informed alternatives. A must read by all involved with our nation’s security.” —Lt Gen David A. Deptula, USAF (Ret),
Dean of the Mitchell Institute of Aerospace Studies "Tom Drohan advances the case for employing the concept of combined effects as a necessary complement to that of combined arms, and then examines the methodology through analysis of three enormously important Asian contingencies. This is a key study for those seeking to understand the complexities of modern warfare." —Thomas Keaney,
Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies
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