Watch this short video to see the books that will be showcased at the AAS 2026 conference. Parallel Journeys Eurasian History Through Travelers’ Eyes (400 BCE–1936 CE) Anthony J. Barbieri-Low This 520-page anthology offers a comparative history of Eurasia through several firsthand travel accounts spanning 2,400 years. Thematic pairings—Marco Polo…
Watch this video for 2 new titles in the Sinophone Translation Series headed by Prof. Kyle Shernuk.
The Cambria Sinophone Translation Series is committed to bringing high-quality works from all areas of the Sinophone world into English translation.
“These considerations—anomalies, really—led me to take a deeper look at ‘the literature’ or, more specifically, at how these myths about My Lai gained currency.”
“Far from static or stale, these rites and rituals were intimately connected to the display of power and processes of empowerment.”
The AAS conference in Boston was excellent. It was wonderful to see many familiar faces and make new acquaintances. Thank you to those who visited our booth and came to our reception! It was also an honor to have Professor Victor H. Mair (University of Pennsylvania), editor of the Cambria Sinophone…
For the Ear to Asia podcast, Anne McLaren, author of Memory Making in Folk Epics of China: The Intimate and the Local in Chinese Regional Culture discusses the unique traditional cultures and epic folk songs of the lower Yangtze region.
European Decadence, a controversial artistic movement that flourished mainly in late-nineteenth-century France and Britain, has inspired several generations of Chinese writers and literary scholars since it was introduced to China in the early 1920s. Translated into Chinese as tuifei, which has strong hedonistic and pessimistic connotations, the concept of Decadence has proven…
In pre-contemporary China, folk epics performed at village level helped create a sense of regional as opposed to national identity. This is the first book-length study in the West on the folk epics of the Han Chinese people, who are the majority population of China. These folk epics provide an…
The following is an excerpt from Taking China to the World: The Cultural Production of Modernity by Theodore Huters: In The Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels characterized communism as a specter haunting late-nineteenth-century Europe, one whose leaders tried desperately to exorcise. For the past century of Chinese history,…
