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2021 ASIAN STUDIES NG THE F ASIANGI STUDIESIEL N D A O ASIANH STUDIESF ASIANC STUDIES ASIAN STUDIES ASIANO STUDIES N E M E I ASIANBO STUDIES A T ASIANO STUDIESK AT ASIAN STUDIES ASIAN STUDIES Cornell University Press Welcome to our 2021 Asian Studies catalog. As part of our efforts to showcase our books in the best possible manner, we've shifted our approach to our subject catalogs. All our forthcoming, new, and recent books published in Asian Studies are here, of course, as well as articles written by some of our authors, Q&A sessions with others, and some short excerpts from books. We think these additions give you a better sense of our authors. It’s all part of the experience of being part of CUP family. If you see this symbol we have a podcast with that author. If you're viewing this catalog on ISSUU you can click the symbol to listen. Otherwise, download the podcast from your preferred platform. Look to the bottom right corner of each page to see if we think that book is suitable for classroom use. Check out the top left of the page and you'll see if the book is available as an open access ebook or it's one of our recent bestsellers. Enjoy browsing! MEET OUR ACQUIRING EDITORS IN ASIAN STUDIES Emily Andrew Sarah Grossman Jim Lance Senior Editor Acquisitions Editor, SEAP Senior Editor [email protected] Publications [email protected] [email protected] @JimLance554 NIU PRESS Alexis Siemon Amy Farranto Managing Editor, Cornell Acquisitions Editor, East Asia Series Northern Illinois [email protected] University Press [email protected] INVITE THESE AUTHORS TO SPEAK TO YOUR CLASS Cornell University Press is connecting our authors with academics and students in their disci- plines. Authors who are participating in this initiative have indicated their willingness to speak to a class on the subject covered in their book (or something else that is relevant). These presentations will be conducted via an online meeting application. Listed below are our authors in the field of Asian Studies who have graciously offered their time should you wish them to speak to your class. If you invite an author listed here to speak to your class we'll send you a 40 percent discount code for attendees to purchase the author's book. For more information visit our website or look for the this symbol on pages in this catalog and click on the link. OLIVER CHARBONNEAU CHRISTINA ELIZABETH DENNIS J. FROST History FIRPO Disability Studies Gender Studies Sports History GRACIA LIU-FARRER ARTHUR M. MITCHELL KRISTEN E. LOONEY Sociology Literary Studies Political Science Political Science Media Studies Sociology 2 CHANGING THE FIELD OF CLASSICS ONE BOOK AT A TIME PATRICIA D. NORLAND JAMES PICKETT JOHN T. SIDEL Women's Studies Religion Political Science Religion RUTH STREICHER CHIGUSA YAMAURA Anthropology Anthropology Political Science Gender Studies CORNELLPRESS.CORNELL.EDU 3 H I S T O R Y Governing the Dead Martyrs, Memorials, and Necrocitizenship in Modern China Linh D. Vu In Governing the Dead, Linh D. Vu explains how the Chinese Nationalist regime consolidated control by honoring its mil- lions of war dead, allowing China to emerge rapidly from the wreckage of the first half of the twentieth century to become a powerful state, supported by strong nationalistic sentiment and institutional infrastructure. The fall of the empire, internecine conflicts, foreign inva - sion, and war-related disasters claimed twenty to thirty million "An impressive book, underpinned by very Chinese lives. Vu draws on government records, newspapers, rich archival work, that explores what it and petition letters from mourning families to analyze how meant to incorporate the martyred dead the Nationalist regime's commemoration of the dead and com - into the common political body of the na- pensation of the bereaved actually fortified its central authority. tion."—Rana Mitter, University of Oxford, By enshrining the victims of violence as national ancestors, author of China's Good War the Republic of China connected citizenship to the idea of the nation, promoting loyalty to the "imagined community." The "Governing the Dead makes an essential regime constructed China's first public military cemetery and contribution not only to Chinese history, hundreds of martyrs' shrines, collectively mourned millions but to the general history of war and com- of fallen soldiers and civilians, and disbursed millions of yuan memoration. Chinese and military historians to tens of thousands of widows and orphans. The regime thus alike must familiarize themselves with Linh D. exerted control over the living by creating the state apparatus Vu's important work."—Edward A. McCord, necessary to manage the dead. George Washington University, author of Although the Communist forces prevailed in 1949, the Military Force and Elite Power in the Forma- Nationalists had already laid the foundation for the modern tion of Modern China nation-state through their governance of dead citizens. The Na- tionalist policies of glorifying and compensating the loyal dead in an age of catastrophic destruction left an important legacy: violence came to be celebrated rather than lamented. Linh D. Vu is Assistant Professor at Arizona State Universi- ty's School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies. $49.95 hardcover | $24.99 ebook 294 pages, 6 x 9, 11 b&w halftones, 1 map CORNELLPRESS.CORNELL.EDU 5 Coming Home to a Foreign Country Xiamen and Returned Overseas Chinese, 1843–1938 Ong Soon Keong Ong Soon Keong explores the unique position of the treaty port Xiamen (Amoy) within the China-Southeast Asia migrant cir- cuit and examines its role in the creation of Chinese diasporas. Coming Home to a Foreign Country addresses how migration affected those who moved out of China and later returned to participate in the city's economic revitalization, educational ad- vancement, and urban reconstruction. Ong shows how the mo- bility of overseas Chinese allowed them to shape their personal "Coming Home to a Foreign Country provides and community identities for pragmatic and political gains. This fresh insight into the history of Xiamen. Ong resulted in migrants who returned with new money, knowledge, makes a long overdue contribution, focusing and visions acquired abroad, which changed the landscape of not only on trade and the movement of their homeland and the lives of those who stayed. commodities, but also on the movement Placing late Qing and Republican China in a transnation - of people associated with Xiamen and the al context, Coming Home to a Foreign Country explores the impact of their activities on the city itself."— multi-layered social and cultural interactions between China Leander Seah, Stetson University and Southeast Asia. Ong investigates the role of Xiamen in the creation of a China-Southeast Asia migrant circuit; the activities "Coming Home to a Foreign Country sheds of aspiring and returned migrants in Xiamen; the accumula - new light on the complex issue of identity tion and manipulation of multiple identities by Southeast Asian construction in diaspora by questioning Chinese as political conditions changed; and the motivations the fixity and givenness of nation and behind the return of Southeast Asian Chinese and their con - native-place attachment. Ong's work rep- tinual involvement in mainland Chinese affairs. For Chinese resents a novel approach to the well-studied migrants, Ong argues, the idea of "home" was something con- topic of Chinese migration."—Eric C. Han, sciously constructed. William and Mary, author of Rise of a Japa- Ong complicates familiar narratives of Chinese history to nese Chinatown show how the emigration and return of overseas Chinese helped transform Xiamen from a marginal trading outpost at the edge of the Chinese empire to a modern, prosperous city and one of the most important migration hubs by the 1930s. Ong Soon Keong is Assistant Professor in the School of Hu- manities, Nanyang Technological University. CORNELL EAST ASIA SERIES $65.00 hardcover | $31.99 ebook 252 pages, 6 x 9, 5 b&w halftones, 1 map, 1 chart, 4 graphs 6 CHANGING THE FIELD OF ASIAN STUDIES ONE BOOK AT A TIME Our ebooks are available from wherever you like to get your ebooks, including direct from our website. They're also just 50 percent of the lowest print price. So, read on! CORNELLPRESS.CORNELL.EDU 7 PERFORMING POWER: FacE MASKS, EVERYDay RESISTANCE, AND SOciaL CHANGE Arnout van der Meer f there is one object that encapsulates the anxieties colonial hierarchies of race, class, and gender. However, of the year 2020, it is the face mask. Virtually absent the colonized were not mere extras in this colonial play. Ifrom our lives prior to March 2020, its subsequent rise Through acts of everyday resistance, such as speaking a to ubiquity makes it hard to imagine public life without it different language, withholding deference, and chang- today. Instead of being widely embraced as an effective ing one’s appearance and consumer behavior, a new health measure in the fight against a global pandemic, generation of Indonesians successfully contested the the face mask turned into a controversial object, expos- hegemonic colonial performance, and the racial and ing deep social anxieties and divisions. gender inequalities that it sustained. A recent New York Times editorial observed that fu- Crucially, my book suggests that instead of focusing ture “historians will puzzle over the idea that mask-wear- on political events as hinges of historical change, every- ing in service of protecting all citizens was considered day discursive acts—exchanging a sarong for trousers, by many to be a mark of oppression.” To historians and speaking Dutch or Malay rather than Javanese, de- social scientists, however, this is less puzzling when we manding a chair instead of sitting on the ground—reveal consider the issue of mask-wearing as a form of every- a more pervasive moment of social transformation in day resistance and a means to contest or strengthen the year 1913.
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