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Creating Market Socialism
How Ordinary People Are Shaping Class and Status in China
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2007
In the midst of China’s post-Mao market reforms, the old status hierarchy is collapsing. Who will determine what will take its place? In Creating Market Socialism, the sociologist Carolyn L. Hsu demonstrates the central role of ordinary people—rather than state or market elites—in creating new...
The Remains of War
Bodies, Politics, and the Search for American Soldiers Unaccounted For in Southeast Asia
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2005
The ongoing effort of the United States to account for its missing Vietnam War soldiers is unique. The United States requires the repatriation and positive identification of soldiers’ bodies to remove their names from the list of the missing. This quest for certainty in the form of the material,...
by Seungsook Moon, Julia Adams, George Steinmetz
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2005
This pathbreaking study presents a feminist analysis of the politics of membership in the South Korean nation over the past four decades. Seungsook Moon examines the ambitious effort by which South Korea transformed itself into a modern industrial and militarized nation. She demonstrates that the...
Ghostly Desires
Queer Sexuality and Vernacular Buddhism in Contemporary Thai Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
Through an examination of post-1997 Thai cinema and video art Arnika Fuhrmann shows how vernacular Buddhist tenets, stories, and images combine with sexual politics in figuring current struggles over notions of personhood, sexuality, and collective life. The drama, horror, heritage, and experimental...
Poor People's Medicine
Medicaid and American Charity Care since 1965
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2006
Poor People’s Medicine is a detailed history of Medicaid since its beginning in 1965. Federally aided and state-operated, Medicaid is the single most important source of medical care for the poorest citizens of the United States. From acute hospitalization to long-term nursing-home care, the nation’s...
Worlds Apart
Bosnian Lessons for Global Security
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2011
Worlds Apart tells of a well-meaning foreign policy establishment often deaf to the voices of everyday people. Its focus is the Bosnian War, but its implications extend to any situation that prompts the consideration of military intervention on humanitarian grounds. Ambassador Swanee Hunt served in...
by Swanee Hunt
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
In the spring of 1994, the tiny African nation of Rwanda was ripped apart by a genocide that left nearly a million dead. Neighbors attacked neighbors. Family members turned against their own. After the violence subsided, Rwanda's women—drawn by the necessity of protecting their families—carved...
In the Name of El Pueblo
Place, Community, and the Politics of History in Yucatán
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2010
The term “el pueblo” is used throughout Latin America, referring alternately to small towns, to community, or to “the people” as a political entity. In this vivid anthropological and historical analysis of Mexico’s Yucatán peninsula, Paul K. Eiss explores the multiple meanings of el pueblo...
Culture Wars in Brazil
The First Vargas Regime, 1930–1945
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2001
In Culture Wars in Brazil Daryle Williams analyzes the contentious politicking over the administration, meaning, and look of Brazilian culture that marked the first regime of president-dictator Getúlio Vargas (1883–1954). Examining a series of interconnected battles waged among bureaucrats, artists,...
Laws of Chance
Brazil’s Clandestine Lottery and the Making of Urban Public Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
The lottery called the jogo do bicho, or “animal game,” originated as a raffle at a zoo in Rio de Janeiro in 1892. During the next decade, it became a cultural phenomenon all over Brazil, where it remains popular today. Laws of Chance chronicles the game’s early history, as booking agents, dealers,...
In from the Cold
Latin America’s New Encounter with the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2008
Over the last decade, studies of the Cold War have mushroomed globally. Unfortunately, work on Latin America has not been well represented in either theoretical or empirical discussions of the broader conflict. With some notable exceptions, studies have proceeded in rather conventional channels, focusing...
by Wang Ning, Anthony D. King, Abidin Kusno
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2000
Few countries have been so transformed in recent decades as China. With a dynamically growing economy and a rapidly changing social structure, China challenges the West to understand the nature of its modernization. Using postmodernism as both a global frame of periodization and a way to break free...
The Urban Generation
Chinese Cinema and Society at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2007
Since the early 1990s, while mainland China’s state-owned movie studios have struggled with financial and ideological constraints, an exciting alternative cinema has developed. Dubbed the “Urban Generation,” this new cinema is driven by young filmmakers who emerged in the shadow of the events...
Writing Taiwan
A New Literary History
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
W**riting Taiwan is the first volume in English to examine the entire span of modern Taiwan literature, from the first decades of the twentieth century to the present. In this collection, leading literary scholars based in Taiwan and the United States consider prominent Taiwanese authors and works...