New #AsiaNow post just published — an interview with Ho-fung Hung of Johns Hopkins University, who talks about his Levenson Prize-winning book, CITY ON THE EDGE: HONG KONG UNDER CHINESE RULE, published in 2022 by Cambridge University Press.
Ho-fung Hung is Wiesenfeld Professor in Political Economy at the Johns Hopkins University and author of City on the Edge: Hong Kong under Chinese Rule, published by Cambridge University Press and winner...
New #AsiaNow post: curators Elena Pakhoutova and Karl Debreczeny talk about PROJECT HIMALAYAN ART, a Rubin Museum of Art educational resource that includes a publication, an expansive digital platform, and a traveling exhibition.
Elena Pakhoutova and Karl Debreczeny are senior curators at the Rubin Museum of Art and content leads of Project Himalayan Art, published by the Rubin Museum of Art and recipient of an Honorable Menti...
New #AsiaNow post: colleagues remember James C. Scott, longtime Yale University professor and AAS President in 1997-98. Their tributes testify to Scott's lasting influence as a mentor, scholar, critic, and activist.
A political scientist of Southeast Asia whose scholarly reach extended far beyond both discipline and region, Yale University professor James C. Scott passed away on July 19, 2024. Scott was author of...
New #AsiaNow#AASInAsia2024, held last month in partnership with Universitas Gadjah Mada in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
On July 9-11 this year’s AAS-in-Asia was held in Yogyakarta, a city located in the south-central region of Java, Indonesia. The conference was organized by the Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM) and the As...
I love the opportunity to read widely in #AsianStudies@aasasianstudies.bsky.social#AsiaNow@stanfordpress.bsky.social history of Buddhism in 19-20th century India.
“Many scholars, colleagues, and friends told me that Indian Buddhism was dead,” Douglas Ober notes, “so I had better seek out a different subject.” Undeterred, Ober continued working on his dissertati...
New #AsiaNow@mauracunningham.bsky.social@stanfordpress.bsky.social book, DUST ON THE THRONE: THE SEARCH FOR BUDDHISM IN MODERN INDIA, shortlisted for the 2023 Cundill History Prize.
“Many scholars, colleagues, and friends told me that Indian Buddhism was dead,” Douglas Ober notes, “so I had better seek out a different subject.” Undeterred, Ober continued working on his dissertati...
New #AsiaNow post: Andrew Hall of Kyushu University remembers his mentor Dick Smethurst, a leading scholar of Japanese history at the University of Pittsburgh, who passed away in early May.
Richard Jacob (“Dick”) Smethurst, a noted scholar of modern Japanese history at the University of Pittsburgh, passed away on May 4, 2024, at the age of 90 in the Westminster Place Senior Living facili...
New #AsiaNow@mauracunningham.bsky.social interviews SSRC fellow Ying Diao about her recent University of Rochester Press book, FAITH BY AURALITY IN CHINA'S ETHNIC BORDERLANDS: MEDIA, MOBILITY, AND CHRISTIANITY AT THE MARGINS.
Published by University of Rochester Press in December 2023, Faith by Aurality in China’s Ethnic Borderland: Media, Mobility, and Christianity at the Margins is the first book by ethnomusicologist Yin...
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This week, AAS Publications celebrates the release of the newest title in our Asia Shorts series, The Transpacific Flow: Creative Writing Programs in China, by Jin Feng (Grinnell College). Feng recoun...