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Excellent Cambria Press Book Review! Journal of American-East Asian Relations finds “much to commend” in Japanese and Nikkei at Home and Abroad!

Cambria Press congratulates Professor Nobuko Adachi on the excellent book review of Japanese and Nikkei at Home and Abroad: Negotiating Identities in a Global World by the Journal of American-East Asian Relations. The review states that there is “much to commend. In addition to its contribution to the literature on immigration and transnationalism, its highly accessible style and detailed bibliography make...

Outstanding Cambria Press Book Review! Paths of the Atlantic Slave Trade highly praised by the Journal of Latin American Studies!

Cambria Press congratulates Professor Ana Lucia Araujo on the laudatory review of Paths of the Atlantic Slave Trade: Interactions, Identities, and Images by the Journal of Latin American Studies. The review states that: “The scholarly quality of the dozen essays included here is uniformly high … The quality and variety of the contributions make this book a desirable purchase for research libraries,...

MLA 2013: Nobel Laureate Gao Xingjian, Liu Jianmei (HKUST), Mabel Lee (University of Sydney), and Toni Tan (Cambria Press)

Cambria Press booth (MLA 2013, Boston): Nobel Prize Winner in Literature Gao Xingjian, Professor Liu Jianmei (HKUST), and Mabel Lee (University of Sydney). Cambria Press booth (MLA 2013, Boston): Professor Liu Jianmei (HKUST) and Toni Tan (Cambria Press). Attendance at this year’s convention was high. Many attendees flew in from other countries to attend sessions; of this group of international participants, we were...

MLA 2013: Nobel laureate Gao Xingjian with Mabel Lee and Christopher Lupke

Photo (left to right): Dr. Mabel Lee (University of Sydney), Gao Xingjian, and Professor Christopher Lupke (Washington State University). Many came to the Cambria Press booth for Nobel laureate Gao Xingjian’s book-signing sessions for his new book Gao Xingjian: Aesthetics and Creation. Gao Xingjian also had book-signing sessions for Soul Mountain at the HarperCollins booth, which was right next to...

MLA 2013: Shu-mei Shih and E. K. Tan

Among the scholars praising Professor E. K. Tan’s new book, Rethinking Chineseness: Translational Sinophone Identities in the Nanyang Literary World, for its contribution to  Sinophone studies is Professor Shu-mei Shih (UCLA) who has been widely credited for coining the term Sinophone and is on the editorial board of the Cambria Sinophone World Series. Professor Shih has praised Professor Tan’s book for being...

MLA 2013 New Book: Rethinking Chineseness: Translational Sinophone Identities in the Nanyang Literary World by E. K. Tan

Cambria Press author Professor E. K. Tan’s new book, Rethinking Chineseness: Translational Sinophone Identities in the Nanyang Literary World, was published just in for the 2013 MLA annual convention in Boston. The book has been praised by eminent scholars including Professor David Der-wei Wang (Harvard University) and Professor Quah Sy Ren (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) for furthering the field of Sinophone studies....

Happy New Year! Usher in 2013 with a Nobel Prize Winner!

HAPPY NEW YEAR! The 2013 MLA annual convention in Boston promises to be an especially exciting one because Nobel Prize Winner in Literature Gao Xingjian will be attending! Many new titles for Cambria Press will be showcased, including Nobel laureate Gao Xingjian’s long-awaited book Gao Xingjian: Aesthetics and Creation. There are two MLA sessions being held for Gao Xingjian: 1)    ...

Nobel Laureate Gao Xingjian Book Signing at 2013 MLA Annual Convention – Cambria Press booth (#316) on Friday (Jan 4) 1:15–1:45 p.m.

Nobel Laureate GAO Xingjian will be at the Cambria Press booth (#316) on Friday (Jan 4) at 1:15–1:45 p.m. to sign copies of his most recent book, Gao Xingjian: Aesthetics and Creation. Gao’s book has been published just in time for the 2013 MLA Annual Convention! The book takes the title Aesthetics and Creation from the name of the Chinese collection...

MLA 2013 Book Highlights: Outstanding Journal Reviews!

Visit the Cambria Press booth (#316) to browse new titles as well as other Cambria Press titles that have received rave journal reviews, including: Sacred Display: Divine and Magical Female Figures of Eurasia Winner of Sarasvati Award for the Best Nonfiction Book in Women and Mythology! The Jin Yong Phenomenon: Chinese Martial Arts Fiction and Modern Chinese Literary History “A successful study … valuable...

Cambria Press Must-See Video! Love or Hate Rap? Think gangster rap and hip hop are the same thing? You need to watch this!

Cambria Press is proud to be the first academic publisher to bring out a book on this topic related to rap music. Whether you love or hate rap, the fact is that rap music and its gangster rap variant are now far too important and influential in American life to be ignored by the general public and research communities alike....

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