We spoke with Professor Anthony J. Barbieri-Low (University of California, Santa Barbara) about his new book Parallel Journeys: Eurasian History Through Travelers’ Eyes (400 BCE–1936 CE)—a unique anthology that presents a sweeping comparative history of Eurasia through the eyes of travelers spanning 2,400 years—and asked him to reflect on its…
Beyond Sinocentrism: Ethnocultural Others in Early Modern China by Huili Zheng offers the first sustained study of how early modern Chinese literature imagined and negotiated encounters with ethnocultural others. Focusing on fictional narratives from the seventeenth through the late nineteenth centuries, the book examines how Chinese literati used imaginative writing…
Despite Latin American literature being widely known as a rich literary canon—or perhaps because it is such a rich literary canon—there are still works and aspects of Latin American literature that remain under-explored. Here are five books that bring critical works of Latin American literature to English-language audiences for the…
On October 10, President Tsai Ing-wen noted in her National Day address the record performance of Taiwan’s athletes, noting “We had waited so long for that moment, for Taiwan’s achievements, Taiwan’s confidence, and Taiwan’s courage to be seen and appreciated by the world.” This is not just in the athletic arena…
#AAS2021 Watch this short video about the Cambria Literature in Taiwan Series (general editor: Dr. Nikky Lin, National Taiwan Normal University) & other noteworthy titles. There are 3 new books out this spring: A Son of Taiwan: Stories of Government Atrocity edited by Drs. Howard Goldblatt & Sylvia Li-chun Lin,…
The following is an excerpt from the introduction in Contemporary Taiwanese Women Writers, edited by Jonathan Stalling, Lin Tai-man, and Yanwing Leung. A Pacific island of roughly 14,400 square miles, Taiwan lies just over a hundred miles off China’s southeast shoreline and seven hundred miles south of Japan. It has…
When a book is included in the series of the world-renowned Sinologist Victor Mair (University of Pennsylvania) and praised by top Sinophone scholars David Der-wei Wang (Harvard University), Shu-mei Shih (UCLA), and Quah Sy Ren (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore), it is not surprising (but still very gratifying!) when it is…
“Not just an intellectual exercise, or a scholarly pleasure, but also a profound relief to read,” is how this first-ever monograph on Shirley Hazzard has been described. Widely praised this book, which is in the Cambria Australian Literature Series headed by Susan Lever (University of Sydney), is also an important…
Cambria Press New Book! Philip Roth and World Literature “Far from insular, Roth’s work appears deeply rooted in the American canon, while at the same time it exhibits a remarkable openness, a persistent need for contact with his European forebears, and true engagement with contemporary world literature.” – Philip Roth and World…
We were delighted when we had an unexpected visitor at the Cambria Press booth at the MLA annual convention–Brigitta Olubas all the way from Australia! Dr. Olubas is the author of Shirley Hazzard: Literary Expatriate and Cosmopolitan Humanist , which has garnered several excellent reviews. This book is in the Cambria…
