Category: Chinese

• Cambria Press Publication Review – Zhang Yimou: Globalization and the Subject of Culture

  Congratulations to Professor Wendy Larson on the excellent review of her book Zhang Yimou: Globalization and the Subject of Culture by the Journal of Asian Studies. The review states: “Wendy Larson’s landmark analysis is definitely not a survey of Zhang Yimou as a praised or vilified Chinese film director who often provokes heated debates and…

  Cambria Press

  May 30, 2018

  AAS, Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, Asian Studies, Cambria Press, China, Chinese, Performing Arts, university books

  Chinese culture, Chinese history, Chinese studies, contemporary China, cultural studies, Film studies, globalization, postsocialism, Zhang Yimou

• Cambria Press Author Albert Welter – Speech at AAS 2018 Reception

  Cambria Press author Professor Albert Welter, Head of East Asian Studies at the University of Arizona, gave a speech about his book, The Administration of Buddhism in China: A Study and Translation of Zanning and the Topical Compendium of the Buddhist Clergy (Da Song Seng shilue), at the Cambria Press reception at the AAS 2018…

  Cambria Press

  March 29, 2018

  AAS, Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, Asian Studies, Cambria Press, China, Chinese, History, Religion, Religious Studies

  AAS, Albert Welter, Association For Asian Studies, Buddhist studies, Cambria Press, Da Song Seng shilue, Song Dynasty, state and religion, Topical Compendium of the Buddhist Clergy, Zanning

• Cambria Press Publication Review: Zhang Yimou

  Congratulations to Professor Wendy Larson on the outstanding review of her book Zhang Yimou: Globalization and the Subject of Culture in the journal Modern Chinese Literature and Culture (MCLC)!   The book review notes: “At 420 pages, Zhang Yimou: Globalization and the Subject of Culture is a magnum opus. … Although I have emphasized the themes that run…

  Cambria Press

  March 18, 2018

  AAS, Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, Asian Studies, Cambria Press, China, Chinese, Culture, Film Studies, university books

  Cambria Press review, Cambria Sinophone World Series, Chinese cinema, MCLC, modern chinese literature and culture, Sinophone, Wendy Larson, Zhang Yimou

• Cambria Press Publication Excerpt from “Buddhist Transformations and Interactions”

  The following is an excerpt from Buddhist Transformations and Interactions edited by Professor Victor Mair. This new book was released by Cambria Press at the 2017 AAS conference a week ago. According to Tansen Sen (professor at Baruch College), Antonino Forte had the well-earned reputation of being “a valued mentor, a comforting friend, and a great…

  Cambria Press

  March 27, 2017

  AAS, Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, Asian Studies, Cambria Press, China, Chinese, Culture, New Books, New Scholarly Books, university books

  AAS, Antonino Forte, Buddhism, Buddhist, Buddhology, Cambria Press, Kyoto, monograph, Sinophone, Tang dynasty, Tansen Sen, Victor Mair

• Forthcoming: Buddhist Transformations and Interactions

  The following is an announcement from Dr. Victor H. Mair, Professor of  Chinese Language and Literature at the University of Pennsylvania and general editor of the Cambria Sinophone World Series. “It is with great pleasure that I announce the forthcoming publication of Buddhist Transformations and Interactions: Essays in Honor of Antonino Forte (Cambria Press, 2017). …

  Cambria Press

  July 22, 2016

  AAS, Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, Asian Studies, Cambria Press, China, Chinese, History, Religious Studies

  Antonino Forte, Buddhist, Buddhological research, Cambria author, Cambria Press, Cambria publication, Central Asia, China, Chinese, East Asia, India, Japan, Khitan, Korea, maya, nirvana, Sinophone, Victor Mair, Vietnam

• AAS 2016 Cambria Press Sinophone World Series Event

  The AAS 2016 conference was one of our best conferences yet. It was great being right in the front of the exhibit hall and across from the AAS booth. We appreciated the compliments on our 8 ft long banners from both attendees and other exhibitors. Thanks to all who stopped by! The Cambria booth had…

  Cambria Press

  April 14, 2016

  AAS, Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, Asian Studies, Cambria Press, China, Chinese, Film Studies, History, International relations, Literary Criticism, Literary History, Literary Studies, Literature, New Books, university books

  AAS 2016 Seattle, Asia warfare, Asian Studies, Association of Asian Studies AAS, Baodingshan, Buddhism, Cambria Press, Chia-rong Wu, Christopher Lupke, Cosmopolitanism in China, East Asia, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Johan Elverskog, Karil Kucera, Minghui Hu, Sinophone, Supernatural Taiwan, Thomas Drohan, Toni Tan, Victor Mair, Wilt Idema

• Supernatural Sinophone Taiwan and Beyond

  Cambria Press is pleased to announce a new publication Supernatural Sinophone Taiwan and Beyond by Chia-rong Wu (Rhodes College). This book is in the Cambria Sinophone World Series headed by Victor Mair (University of Pennsylvania). This book will be launched at the upcoming 2016 Association of Asian Studies (AAS) conference in Seattle. The following are…

  Cambria Press

  March 30, 2016

  AAS, Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, Asian Studies, Cambria Press, China, Chinese, Culture, Literary Criticism, Literary History, Literary Studies, Literature, New Scholarly Books, university books

  academic publisher, Cambria Press, Chia-rong Wu, Chinese diaspora, Chu T’ien-hsin, David Der-wei Wang, ghost island literature, Giddens Ko, Japanese colonialization, Judith T. Zeitlin, Li Ang, Pai Hsien-yung, Sinophone, Taiwan, The Labyrinthine Garden, Victor Mair, Visible Ghosts, zhiguai, Zhu Tianxin

• The Sinophone Cinema of Hou Hsiao-hsien

  Cambria Press is pleased to announce a new publication The Sinophone Cinema of Hou Hsiao-hsien: Culture, Style, Voice, and Motion by Christopher Lupke (Washington State University). This book is in the Cambria Sinophone World Series headed by Victor Mair (University of Pennsylvania) and the Cambria Contemporary Global Performing Arts Series headed by John Clum (Duke University).…

  Cambria Press

  March 27, 2016

  AAS, Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, Asian Studies, Cambria Press, China, Chinese, Film Studies, New Books, New Scholarly Books, Performing Arts, university books

  A City of Sadness, academic publisher, Cambria Press, Christopher Lupke, Cinema of Taiwan, Dust in the Wind, February 28 Incident, Flowers of Shanghai, Goodbye South Goodbye, Guomindang, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Millennium Mambo, Nie Yinniang, Ozu Yasujirô, Sinophone, Taiwan, The Assassin, Victor Mair, Zhu Tianwen

• Cosmopolitanism in China, 1600–1950

  Cambria Press is pleased to announce a new publication Cosmopolitanism in China, 1600–1950 by Professors Minghui Hu (University of California Santa Cruz) and Johan Elverskog (Southern Methodist University) . This book is in the Cambria Sinophone World Series headed by Victor Mair (University of Pennsylvania). This book will be launched at the upcoming 2016 Association…

  Cambria Press

  March 25, 2016

  AAS, Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, Asian Studies, Cambria Press, China, Chinese, History, university books

  academic publisher, Albert Étienne Jean Baptiste Terrien de Lacouperie, Benjamin Elman, Cambria Press, China, Chinese Muslim, Chosŏn, Du Yaquan, Eastern Miscellany, Gong Zizhen, James Frankel, Johan Elverskog, Joseph R. Levenson, Minghui Hu, Nakhunte, Qing scholarship, R. Kent Guy, Sinophone, Stephen Roddy, Sun Jiang, Victor Mair, Wang Hui, Yellow Emperor, Yongzheng emperor, Yu Yue

• AAS 2016 Seattle: Cambria Sinophone World Series Event

  Cambria Press will be holding its annual Cambria Sinophone World Series event at the AAS conference on Satuday (April 2, 2016) at 7:30 p.m. in the Jefferson Room (4th floor in the Union Street Tower) at the Sheraton Seattle. All are welcome to this event. Dr. Victor Mair (University of Pennsylvania) will be discussing the…

  Cambria Press

  March 14, 2016

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  AAS 2016 Seattle, academic publisher, Asian Studies, Baodingshan, Buddhism, Cambria Press, Chia-rong Wu, China, Christopher Lupke, Cosmopolitanism in China, Geoffrey R.H. Burn, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Johan Elverskog, Karil Kucera, Minghui Hu, Precious Scrolls, Rapid Communications in Conflict and Security, Sinophone, Thomas Drohan, Victor Mair, warfare east asia, Wilt Idema