Tag: Asia

• #Humanities Scholarship – Important and Growing

  An excellent article from Inside Higher Ed regarding scholarship in the humanities, in which William (Bro) Adams, the head of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), said on Thursday that he wants to push humanities scholarship to become more directly connected to helping address the nation’s contemporary problems. There are also encouraging numbers from…

  Cambria Press

  January 20, 2015

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  Africa, African Studies, Ana Lucia Araujo, Asia, Asian studie, Australia, Australian literature, Brazil, China, Chinese, Classicism, Contemporary literature, culture, Duke University, Film studies, gender politics, globalism, globalization, homosexuality, Howard University, human trafficking, humanities, Inside Higher Ed, John Clum, Latin America, Latin American Studies, Literary theory, Medievalism, Moses Ochonu, Nanyang Technological University, National Endowment for the Humanities, nationalism, NEH, Neil Murphy, Nickolas Haydock, Orientalism, Performing Arts, Román de la Campa, Sinophone, slavery, Susan Lever, theatre, Toyin Falola, University of Pennsylvania, University of Puerto Rico, University of Sydney, University of Texas at Austin, Vanderbilt University, Victor Mair

• Cambria Press Forthcoming Book! The Construction of Femininity in a Postcolonial State

  “SINGAPORE is a lively, vibrant and efficient place with a cosmopolitan population. English is almost universally spoken, decisions are made quickly and the streets are safe”, as described very accurately by The Economist. Singapore has come a long way since it was just a small village and much of this has been attributed to the…

  Cambria Press

  July 31, 2013

  AAS, Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, Asian Studies, History, International Studies, New Scholarly Books, Political Science, Women’s Studies

  academic publisher, Asia, Cambria Press, education, femininity, gender identity, girls education, Kho Ee Moi, NIE, postcolonial, Singapore, Southeast Asia

• ISA 2013 San Francisco – Another Great Conference for Cambria Press!

  Cambria Press is pleased to report that the ISA 2013 annual conference in San Francisco was a great one! The Cambria Press booth was in a fantastic spot, right between Stanford University Press and Georgetown University Press. The new Cambria Press titles received much interest as well as the recently published Cambria Press titles with…

  Cambria Press

  April 18, 2013

  Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, African Studies, American Politics, Asian Studies, Conferences, International Studies, New Scholarly Books, Political Science, Public Health, Sociology, Uncategorized, Women’s Studies

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• Cambria Press Sinophone World Series Reception: Speech by Victor Mair on Cambria Press and the Sinophone World Series

  WATCH THE SECOND SEGMENT OF THE Cambria Press Sinophone World Series RECEPTION!  This follows the speeches by Toni Tan and Shu-mei Shih. In this segment, Professor Victor Mair explains why he agreed to become the general editor of the series for Cambria Press. * * * * * * * * STAY POSTED! Like Cambria…

  Cambria Press

  April 11, 2013

  AAS, Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, Asian Studies, Literature

  AAS, Asia, Asian Studies Association, Cambria Press, China, Chinese, Sinophone, Toni Tan, Victor Mair

• Distinction between Sinophone and Sinosphere by Victor H. Mair

  Professor Victor H. Mair recently engaged in a thought-provoking discussion of the distinction between Sinophone and Sinophere on the Language Log. He said “I’ve been in the thick of the Sinophone revolution and have mentioned it several times on Language Log (e.g., here), but now I’ve become acquainted with another new term, ‘Sinosphere,’ and wonder how they are…

  Cambria Press

  November 9, 2012

  Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, Asian Studies, International Studies

  Asia, Cambria Press SInophone World Series, China, Chinese studies, Chineseness, Du Fu, Nanyang, Shu-mei Shih, Sinitic, Sinophone, Sinosphere, Victor H. Mair

• The New Politics of Sinophone Asia by Charles Horner and Eric Brown (Hudson Institute)

  This excellent article, by Charles Horner and Eric Brown of the Hudson Institute, was forwarded by Professor Victor H. Mair, general editor of the Cambria Sinophone World Series. They write, “At critical times in modern China’s history, the Sinophone periphery has intervened dramatically and exercised an influence well beyond what customary analyses would have predicted.…

  Cambria Press

  August 27, 2012

  Asian Studies, Political Science

  Asia, Asia Times, Charles Horner, China, Chinese, Eric Brown, Sinophone, Victor Mair

• Sacred Display by Miriam Robbins Dexter and Victor H. Mair Wins the Sarasvati Award for the Best Nonfiction Book in Women and Mythology!

  Cambria Press congratulates Professors Miriam Robbins Dexter and Victor H. Mair on their book, Sacred Display: Divine and Magical Female Figures of Eurasia, winning the Sarasvati Award for the Best Nonfiction Book in Women and Mythology! This book which discusses erotic and magical goddesses and heroines in several ancient cultures; such a wide-ranging cross-cultural and…

  Cambria Press

  June 1, 2012

  Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, anthropology, Asian Studies, Culture, Sociology, Women’s Studies

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