Columbia Press: 2357 books
Forgetting Children Born of War
Setting the Human Rights Agenda in Bosnia and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2010
Sexual violence and exploitation occur in many conflict zones, and the children born of such acts face discrimination, stigma, and infanticide. Yet the massive transnational network of organizations working to protect war-affected children has, for two decades, remained curiously silent on the needs...
Measured Excess
Status, Gender, and Consumer Nationalism in South Korea
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
-- Elise Mellinger, University of Hawaii--Manoa, Korean Studies
My South Seas Sleeping Beauty
A Tale of Memory and Longing
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2007
My South Seas Sleeping Beauty is a captivating coming-of-age tale set in the magical jungles of Borneo. Told through the vivid recollections of a Chinese-Malay youth, the novel recounts the life of Su Qi, a troubled, sensitive son of a wealthy family, and exemplifies the imaginative range of one of...
Burma Redux
Global Justice and the Quest for Political Reform in Myanmar
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
Contemporary Myanmar faces a number of political challenges, and it is unclear how other nations should act in relation to the country. Prioritizing the opinions of local citizens and reading them against the latest scholarship on this issue, Ian Holliday affirms the importance of foreign interests...
Problematic Sovereignty
Contested Rules and Political Possibilities
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2001
Some of the most pressing issues in the contemporary international order revolve around a frequently invoked but highly contested concept: sovereignty. To what extent does the concept of sovereignty—as it plays out in institutional arrangements, rules, and principles—inhibit the solution of these...
The New Crusades
Constructing the Muslim Enemy
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2003
Not since the Crusades of the Middle Ages has Islam evoked the degree of fear, hostility, and ethnic and religious stereotyping that is evident throughout Western culture today. As conflicts continue to proliferate around the globe, the perception of a colossal, unyielding, and unavoidable struggle...
Chinese Fiction of the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Essays by Patrick Hanan
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2004
It has often been said that the nineteenth century was a relatively stagnant period for Chinese fiction, but preeminent scholar Patrick Hanan shows that the opposite is true: the finest novels of the nineteenth century show a constant experimentation and evolution. In this collection of detailed and...
On Friendship
One Hundred Maxims for a Chinese Prince
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2009
"On Friendship, with its total of one hundred sayings, is the perfect gift for friends."-Feng Yingjing, renowned scholar and civic official, 1601
Matteo Ricci (1552-1610) is best known as the Italian Jesuit missionary who brought Christianity to China. He also published a landmark...
When the Future Disappears
The Modernist Imagination in Late Colonial Korea
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Taking a panoramic view of Korea's dynamic literary production in the final decade of Japanese rule, When the Future Disappears locates the imprint of a new temporal sense in Korean modernism: the impression of time interrupted, with no promise of a future. As colonial subjects of an empire headed...
The Lyrical in Epic Time
Modern Chinese Intellectuals and Artists Through the 1949 Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
In this book, David Der-wei Wang uses the lyrical to rethink the dynamics of Chinese modernity. Although the form may seem unusual for representing China's social and political crises in the mid-twentieth century, Wang contends that national cataclysm and mass movements intensified Chinese lyricism...
Chinese History and Culture
Seventeenth Century Through Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
The recipient of the Kluge Prize for lifetime achievement in the humanities and the Tang Prize for "revolutionary research" in Sinology, Ying-shih Yü is a premier scholar of Chinese studies. Chinese History and Culture volumes 1 and 2 bring his extraordinary oeuvre to English-speaking readers....
by JaHyun Kim Haboush
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
The Imjin War (1592–1598) was a grueling conflict that wreaked havoc on the towns and villages of the Korean Peninsula. The involvement of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean forces, not to mention the regional scope of the war, was the largest the world had seen, and the memory dominated East Asian memory...
Shizi
China's First Syncretist
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
By blending multiple strands of thought into one ideology, Chinese Syncretists of the pre-imperial period created an essential guide to contemporary ideas about self, society, and government. Merging traditions such as Ruism, Mohism, Daoism, Legalism, and Yin-Yang naturalism into their work, Syncretists...
The Spatiality of Emotion in Early Modern China
From Dreamscapes to Theatricality
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Emotion takes place. Rather than an interior state of mind in response to the outside world, emotion per se is spatial, at turns embedding us from without, transporting us somewhere else, or putting us ahead of ourselves. In this book, Ling Hon Lam gives a deeply original account of the history of...