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New Cambria Press Publication: Ritual and Representation in Chinese Buddhism

Cambria Press is pleased to announce a new publication Ritual and Representation in Chinese Buddhism: Visualizing Enlightenment at Baodingshan from the 12th to 21st Centuries by Karil J. Kucera. This book will be launched at the upcoming 2016 Association of Asian Studies (AAS) conference in Seattle. The following are excepts from the book, which includes 159 color images: The earliest...

Start the New Year Right, with a Nobel Laureate!

Today is Nobel laureate Gao Xingjian’s birthday! In celebration and in honor of all his tremendous contributions to the literary world, we highlight his eponymous book, Gao Xingjian: Aesthetics and Creation, which Gao himself has maintained is the key to understanding all his creative works. This book will be very welcome by fans of Gao’s works. Anyone who has read...

Essential Books on Modern China on Amazon Kindle

Here are a few outstanding Cambria Press books you can get (or give) on Amazon Kindle: The Jin Yong Phenomenon: Chinese Martial Arts Fiction and Modern Chinese Literary History by Ann Huss and Jianmei Liu (eds). $27.99 “A successful study of Jin Yong’s literature with valuable and insightful opinions … a pleasure to read.” —CLEAR “A great contribution to a...

Authors to Watch: Minghui Hu and Johan Elverskog

Cambria Press authors Professors Minghui Hu (University of California Santa Cruz) and Johan Elverskog (Southern Methodist University) are among the group of scholars who are making the bold exploration into historian Joseph Levenson’s observation that China used to be cosmopolitan on account of Confucianism. Levenson’s assertion was made at the height of the Cultural Revolution and the Cold War in...

Asian Studies Scholars, Act Quickly! April 30 is coming up soon!

Asian studies scholars, the AAS 35% discount on all hardcover titles ends very soon (April 30)! Order TODAY at http://www.cambriapress.com (coupon code AAS2015) for significant savings on books like: The History of Chinese Buddhist Bibliography  Tanya Storch “This book deserves a place on the bookshelf of every specialist in pre-modern Chinese, Korean, and Japanese Buddhism.” – John Kieschnick, Stanford University Japan’s Shrinking...

Cambria Sinophone World Series (general editor: Victor Mair)–NEW! Chinese Ethnic Minority Oral Traditions: A Recovered Text of Bai Folk Songs in a Sinoxenic Script

In 1958 while conducting fieldwork in Yunnan, a professor came across a ricepaper booklet with strange script created from Chinese characters. This turned out to be a folksong booklet in Old Bai script. She safeguarded it carefully through the tumultuous Mao years until the 1990s, when the political environment had relaxed enough for her to conduct full-scale ethnographic research. Very...

Asian Studies: AAS 2015 Meet the Authors and Series Editor Event – Saturday (March 28) at 2 p.m.

Asian studies scholars at the AAS 2015 conference, come meet Victor Mair (University of Pennsylvania), general editor of the Cambria Sinophone World Series; Dorothy Wong and Gustav Heldt (University of Virginia), editors of the volume; and Tansen Sen (Baruch College), who is on the editorial board and a contributor; at the Cambria Press booth (601) in the AAS exhibit hall...

MCLC: “The Chinese Prose Poem’s bibliography, a feat of compilation stands as a scholarly resource in and of itself.” -> Read the Outstanding Book Review

Cambria Press congratulates Professor Nicholas A. Kaldis (Binghamton University (SUNY)) on the outstanding review of his book The Chinese Prose Poem: A Study of Lu Xun’s Wild Grass (Yecao) in the journal MCLC, which states that “the book’s substantial sixty-page bibliography [is] a feat of compilation that stands as a scholarly resource in and of itself. Clearly, The Chinese Prose Poem is...

Southeast Asian Studies Praises Sinophone Malaysian Literature for Being “Laudable” – Read the Outstanding Book Review

Cambria Press congratulates Professor Alison Groppe (University of Oregon) on the outstanding review of her book Sinophone Malaysian Literature: Not Made in China in the journal Southeast Asian Studies, which states that “this laudable book-length study has laid a solid foundation upon which scholars can investigate further to yield fresher insights about the uneasy making of modern Sinophone Southeast Asian...

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