With many thanks to the outstanding staff of the Association of Asian Studies (especially Robyn Jones and Shilpa Karecha), the AAS 2014 annual conference in Philadelphia was the best ever for Cambria Press! Having a prime location in the front of the AAS exhibit hall made the Cambria Press…
Today marks a very special day because it is Victor Mair’s 71st birthday. Anyone who has met Dr. Mair will agree that 71 is now the new 21, but then again perhaps not because there are few in their twenties (or any age group, for that matter) who can keep…
Cambria Press congratulates Carin Holroyd and Ken Coates on the outstanding journal review of their book, Digital Media in East Asia: National Innovation and the Transformation of a Region, by Pacific Affairs. The review praises the book for not just being “well-researched and presented” and making “timely and valuable confirmations of…
Cambria Press author and series editor Victor Mair and editorial board member David Der-wei Wang (Cambria Sinophone World Series) were in Prague as speakers for “Uncertain Boundaries, Fluid Concepts, Changing Imagination,” the symposium dedicated to current issues in the study of Chinese culture. This symposium was organized by the Chiang…
The Cambria Sinophone World Series, headed by Professor Victor Mair, will soon be releasing Sinophone Malaysian Literature by Alison Groppe. While there have been several excellent works that deal with individual Chinese authors from Malaysia, there is to date no broadly framed and comprehensive study of the body of Chinese…
Victor Mair and Toni Tan (Cambria Press, AAS 2013, San Diego). Victor Mair is holding his book China and Beyond that was published in time for the AAS 2013 conference and in honor of his 70th birthday. Cambria Press Special Promotion! The special offer for China and Beyond by Victor…
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…
Cambria Press is pleased to report that the 2013 AAS conference was an enormous success and one of the best conferences yet (we thought the MLA was a hard act to follow, but the AAS was just as fantastic). This is largely because of the Cambria Sinophone World Series reception,…
WATCH the speech by Dr. Victor Mair in response to his surprise birthday party at the Cambria Press Sinophone World Series reception! Victor Mair’s speech follows a short thank-you speech by Toni Tan, which comes after the unveiling of the book, China and Beyond, compiled in his honor by his doctoral…
WATCH Victor Mair unveil his next birthday surprise at the Cambria Press Sinophone World Series reception! China and Beyond by Victor H. Mair is a book that is a rare compilation of his earlier essays put together in honor of his 70th birthday by his doctoral students, Rebecca Shuang Fu,…
