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AAS 2016 Seattle: Cambria Sinophone World Series Event
ByCambria Press March 14, 2016March 14, 2016

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…

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New Cambria Press Publication: Ritual and Representation in Chinese Buddhism
ByCambria Press March 8, 2016March 9, 2016

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…

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Start the New Year Right, with a Nobel Laureate!
ByCambria Press January 4, 2016January 4, 2016

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…

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Essential Books on Modern China on Amazon Kindle
ByCambria Press December 21, 2015December 22, 2015

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 ……

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Authors to Watch: Minghui Hu and Johan Elverskog
ByCambria Press October 22, 2015October 22, 2015

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…

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Asian Studies Scholars, Act Quickly! April 30 is coming up soon!
ByCambria Press April 15, 2015April 15, 2015

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,…

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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
ByCambria Press April 8, 2015April 7, 2015

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…

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Asian Studies: AAS 2015 Meet the Authors and Series Editor Event – Saturday (March 28) at 2 p.m.
ByCambria Press March 24, 2015March 24, 2015

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…

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Asian Studies: AAS 2015 Program Outside Back Cover features Cambria Press Ad
ByCambria Press March 18, 2015March 18, 2015

See the Cambria Press ad on the outside back cover of the AAS program and visit our booth (601) in the AAS book exhibit hall. An exciting event will be taking place on Saturday (March 28) at 2 p.m. LIKE Cambria Press on Facebook and follow Cambria Press on Twitter…

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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
ByCambria Press March 17, 2015March 17, 2015

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…

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