Columbia University Press: 2355 books
by Alain Badiou, Judith Butler, Georges Didi-Huberman
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
What Is a People? seeks to reclaim "people" as an effective political concept by revisiting its uses and abuses over time. Alain Badiou surveys the idea of a people as a productive force of solidarity and emancipation and as a negative tool of categorization and suppression. Pierre Bourdieu...
by Rey Chow
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2002
In late-capitalist Western society, cross-ethnic cultural transactions are an inevitable daily routine. Yet, according to acclaimed cultural critic Rey Chow, the notion of ethnicity as it is currently used is theoretically ambivalent, confusing, indeed self-contradictory, straddling as it does an...
From Judgment to Passion
Devotion to Christ and the Virgin Mary, 800–1200
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2002
Devotion to the crucified Christ is one of the most familiar, yet most disconcerting artifacts of medieval European civilization. How and why did the images of the dying God-man and his grieving mother achieve such prominence, inspiring unparalleled religious creativity as well such imitative extremes...
DMZ Crossing
Performing Emotional Citizenship Along the Korean Border
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
The Korean demilitarized zone might be among the most heavily guarded places on earth, but it also provides passage for thousands of defectors, spies, political emissaries, war prisoners, activists, tourists, and others testing the limits of Korean division. This book focuses on a diverse selection...
A History of Pain
Trauma in Modern Chinese Literature and Film
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2008
The portrayal of historical atrocity in fiction, film, and popular culture can reveal much about the function of individual memory and the shifting status of national identity. In the context of Chinese culture, films such as Hou Hsiao-hsien's City of Sadness and Lou Ye's Summer Palace and novels...
Nomadic Subjects
Embodiment and Sexual Difference in Contemporary Feminist Theory
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2011
For more than fifteen years, Nomadic Subjects has guided discourse in continental philosophy and feminist theory, exploring the constitution of contemporary subjectivity, especially the concept of difference within European philosophy and political theory. Rosi Braidotti's creative style vividly renders...
Critical Children
The Use of Childhood in Ten Great Novels
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
The ten novels explored in Critical Children portray children so vividly that their names are instantly recognizable. Richard Locke traces the 130-year evolution of these iconic child characters, moving from Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, and Pip in Great Expectations to Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry...
The Refuge of Affections
Family and American Reform Politics, 1900–1920
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2001
The Progressives—those reformers responsible for the shape of many American institutions, from the Federal Reserve Board to the New School for Social Research—have always presented a mystery. What prompted middle-class citizens to support fundamental change in American life? Eric Rauchway shows...
Long Road Home
Testimony of a North Korean Camp Survivor
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2009
Kim Yong shares his harrowing account of life in a labor camp-a singularly despairing form of torture carried out by the secret state. Although it is known that gulags exist in North Korea, little information is available about their organization and conduct, for prisoners rarely escape both incarceration...
Discovering History in China
American Historical Writing on the Recent Chinese Past
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2010
Since its first publication, Paul A. Cohen's Discovering History in China has occupied a singular place in American China scholarship. Translated into three East Asian languages, the volume has become essential to the study of China from the early nineteenth century to today.
Cohen critiques...
by Guobin Yang
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
Raised to be "flowers of the nation," the first generation born after the founding of the People's Republic of China was united in its political outlook and at first embraced the Cultural Revolution of 1966, but then split into warring factions. Investigating the causes of this fracture, Guobin Yang...
Literature and Film in Cold War South Korea
Freedom's Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
Korean writers and filmmakers crossed literary and visual cultures in multilayered ways under Japanese colonial rule (1910–1945). Taking advantage of new modes and media that emerged in the early twentieth century, these artists sought subtle strategies for representing the realities of colonialism...
Staging Chinese Revolution
Theater, Film, and the Afterlives of Propaganda
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
Staging Chinese Revolution surveys fifty years of theatrical propaganda performances in China, revealing a dynamic, commercial capacity in works often dismissed as artifacts of censorship. Spanning the 1960s through the 2010s, Xiaomei Chen reads films, plays, operas, and television shows from an interdisciplinary...
Transpacific Community
America, China, and the Rise and Fall of a Cultural Network
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
In the turbulent years after World War I, a transpacific community of American and Chinese writers and artists emerged to forge new ideas regarding aesthetics, democracy, internationalism, and the political possibilities of art. Breaking with preconceived notions of an "exotic" East, the...