Category: New Scholarly Books

• LASA 2016 Highlights – New & Noteworthy in Latin American Studies

  We are proud to launch Dr. Gabriela Fried Amilivia’s new book, State Terrorism and the Politics of Memory in Latin America, at the LASA congress. This interdisciplinary study, written in a highly accessible style, will have both specialists and nonspecialists appreciating it for how it vividly brings to life the terror inflicted by the state…

  Cambria Press

  May 24, 2016

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• 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

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  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

• Author Interview with Christopher Lupke

  Christopher Lupke’s latest book, The Sinophone Cinema of Hou Hsiao-hsien, will be released next week at the 2016 Association of Asian Studies (AAS) annual conference in Seattle. Professor Lupke is one of the few who has visited the set of Hou’s latest film, The Assassin (2015) and includes a discussion of it in his book.…

  Cambria Press

  March 26, 2016

  AAS, Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, Asian Studies, Cambria Press, Culture, Film Studies, New Scholarly Books, Performing Arts

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• 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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• United States Engagement in the Asia Pacific: Perspectives from Asia

  Professors Yoichiro Sato and Tan See Seng’s recent book, United States Engagement in the Asia Pacific: Perspectives from Asia, has been praised by Professor Tommy Koh, Ambassador-at-Large at Singapore’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Rector of Tembusu College, National University of Singapore, as being “an important book about an important subject.” The following is an interview with…

  Cambria Press

  March 9, 2016

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• A New Strategy for Complex Warfare

  As proactive competitors evolve techniques to circumvent US strengths, it is clear that the profession of arms needs to become a profession of effects. This study by Colonel Thomas Drohan intends to overcome three American weaknesses of strategy making. A New Strategy for Complex Warfare: Combined Effects in East Asia develops new theory for superior…

  Cambria Press

  March 9, 2016

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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…

  Cambria Press

  March 8, 2016

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• Cambria Press New Publication: State Terrorism and the Politics of Memory in Latin America

  Cambria Press is releasing a new book, State Terrorism and the Politics of Memory in Latin America, by Dr. Gabriela Fried Amilivia (associate professor of sociology at California State University Los Angeles). Watch Dr. Fried discuss the book during the publication launch at the LASA Congress in New York. Praise for the book: “This study is…

  Cambria Press

  February 9, 2016

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• Interview with Anne Brewster, author of “Giving this Country a Memory: Contemporary Aboriginal Voices of Australia”

  Why did you decide to write this book? Anne Brewster: With my book Giving This Country A Memory, I wanted to introduce readers to a range of Aboriginal writers, some of whom they not have heard about. The book has introductory chapters on seven writers, several of whom are well established and have high profiles,…

  Cambria Press

  December 3, 2015

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