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  • Xu Bing

    Beyond the Book from the Sky

    Edited by Sarah E. Fraser, Yu-Chieh Li ...
    Series series Chinese Contemporary Art Series
    This volume offers a path-breaking reassessment of Xu Bing’s oeuvre by analyzing the diverse cultural environments in which his work has developed since the Book from the Sky. It contains three lecture transcripts and eight art historical essays; these explore themes such as Xu’s animal works, audience participation, new ink, prints, realism, socialist spectacle, and word play. A critical question ... Read more

    $205.99 CAD

  • Visual Representations of the Cold War and Postcolonial Struggles

    Art in East and Southeast Asia

    Edited by Midori Yamamura, Yu-Chieh Li ...
    Series series The Cold War in Asia
    The essays and artworks gathered in this volume examine the visual manifestations of postcolonial struggles in art in East and Southeast Asia, as the world transitioned from the communist/capitalist ideological divide into the new global power structure under neoliberalism that started taking shape during the Cold War.The contributors to this volume investigate the visual art that emerged in ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

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  • Nothing Ever Dies

    Vietnam and the Memory of War

    by Harvard ...
    Finalist, National Book Critics Circle AwardFinalist, National Book Award in NonfictionA New York Times Book Review “The Year in Reading” SelectionAll wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory. From the author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Sympathizer comes a searching exploration of the conflict Americans call the Vietnam War and Vietnamese call ... Read more

    $24.89 CAD

  • The Cambridge History of Asian American Literature

    Edited by Rajini Srikanth, Min Hyoung Song ...
    The Cambridge History of Asian American Literature presents a comprehensive history of the field, from its origins in the nineteenth century to the present day. It offers an unparalleled examination of all facets of Asian American writing that help readers to understand how authors have sought to make their experiences meaningful. Covering subjects from autobiography and Japanese American ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Vision and Society

    Towards a Sociology and Anthropology from Art

    by John Clammer ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Sociology
    The sociology of art is now an established sub-discipline of sociology. But little work has been done to explore the implications not of society on art, but of art on the nature and principles of sociology itself.Vision and Society explores the ways in which art (here mainly understood as visual art) structures in fundamental ways the constitution of society, the relations between societies and ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • Alternative Art and Anthropology

    Global Encounters

    Edited by Arnd Schneider ...
    While the importance of the relationship between anthropology and contemporary art has long been recognized, the discussion has tended to be among scholars from North America, Europe, and Australia; until now, scholarship and experiences from other regions have been largely absent from mainstream debate.Alternative Art and Anthropology: Global Encounters rectifies this by offering a ground ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Postcolonial Urbanism

    Southeast Asian Cities and Global Processes

    Edited by Ryan Bishop, John Phillips, Wei Wei Yeo ...
    A common assumption about cities throughout the world is tht they are essentially an elaboration of the Euro-American model. Postcolonial Urbanism demonstrates the narrowness of this vision. Cities in the postcolonial world, the book shows, are producing novel forms of urbanism not reducible to Western urbanism. Despite being heavily colonized in the past, Southeast Asia has been largely ignored ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Asian American Literature

    Edited by Crystal Parikh, Daniel Y. Kim ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Asian American Literature offers an engaging survey of Asian American literature from the nineteenth century to the present day. Since the 1980s, Asian American literary studies has developed into a substantial and vibrant field within English and American Studies. This Companion explores the variety of historical periods, literary genres and cultural movements affecting ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • The Silk Road

    Connecting Histories and Futures

    by Tim Winter ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Culture and Politics
    From the Great Game to the present, an international cultural and political biography of one of our most evocative, compelling, and poorly understood narratives of history. The Silk Road is rapidly becoming one of the key geocultural and geostrategic concepts of the twenty-first century. Yet, for much of the twentieth century the Silk Road received little attention, overshadowed by nationalism and ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Media Worlds

    Anthropology on New Terrain

    Edited by Faye D. Ginsburg, Lila Abu-Lughod, Brian Larkin ...
    This groundbreaking volume showcases the exciting work emerging from the ethnography of media, a burgeoning new area in anthropology that expands both social theory and ethnographic fieldwork to examine the way media—film, television, video—are used in societies around the globe, often in places that have been off the map of conventional media studies. The contributors, key figures in this new ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Singapore Literature and Culture

    Current Directions in Local and Global Contexts

    Edited by Angus Whitehead, Angelia Poon ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
    Since the nation-state sprang into being in 1965, Singapore literature in English has blossomed energetically, and yet there have been few books focusing on contextualizing and analyzing Singapore literature despite the increasing international attention garnered by Singaporean writers. This volume brings Anglophone Singapore literature to a wider global audience for the first time, embedding it ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Curating Art

    Edited by Janet Marstine, Oscar Ho Hing Kay ...
    Series series Leicester Readers in Museum Studies
    Curating Art provides insight into some of the most socially and politically impactful curating of historical and contemporary art since the late 1990s. It offers up a museological framework for understanding watershed developments of curating in art museums.Representing the plurality of theory and practice around the expanded field of relational curating, the book focuses on curating that ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD