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Watch this short video to see the books that will be showcased at the AAS 2026 conference. Parallel Journeys Eurasian History Through Travelers’ Eyes (400 BCE–1936 CE) Anthony J. Barbieri-Low This 520-page anthology offers a comparative history of Eurasia through several firsthand travel accounts spanning 2,400 years. Thematic pairings—Marco Polo and Zhao Rugua, Matteo Ricci and Xie Qinggao,…

We are excited to showcase new books at #AAS2024! Watch this video for 2 new titles in the Sinophone Translation Series headed by Prof. Kyle Shernuk. Come chat with Prof. Shernuk on March 15 (Friday) 10am–Noon or March 16 (Saturday) 2–3:30pm about future translations at booth 601. Drop off your business card at booth 601 for the lucky draw to win a copy of a new book in the series, “Urban…

Below, watch a video on the Cambria Sinophone Translations Series. The series is committed to bringing high-quality works from all areas of the Sinophone world into English translation. Professor Kyle Shernuk (Georgetown University) is the series editor, and Professor Christopher Lupke (University of Alberta) is the advisor. 

For the Ear to Asia podcast, Anne McLaren, author of Memory Making in Folk Epics of China: The Intimate and the Local in Chinese Regional Culture discusses the unique traditional cultures and epic folk songs of the lower Yangtze region. Memory Making in Folk Epics of China: The Intimate and the Local in Chinese Regional Culture is available in print and digital editions at the Cambria Press…

When Dr. Marshall Poe “endeavored to find a good new book on My Lai” and could not find one, he explains in his book The Reality of the My Lai Massacre and the Myth of the Vietnam War: I decided to take a closer look at the operation at My Lai. I am trained as an historian, so the first thing I did was try to see what sources were available and discovered something incredible: The My Lai…

In “Staging for the Emperors,” Prof. Liana Chen examines two distinct and interlocking dimensions of the Qing court theatre—the vicissitudes of the palace troupe and the multifaceted functions of court-commissioned ceremonial dramas—to highlight the diverse array of views held by individual rulers as they used theatrical means to promote their personal and political agendas. Drawing on recently…

Book Excerpt: “Decadence in Modern Chinese Literature and Culture” by Hongjian Wang

European Decadence, a controversial artistic movement that flourished mainly in late-nineteenth-century France and Britain, has inspired several generations of Chinese writers and literary scholars since it was introduced to China in the early 1920s. Translated into Chinese as tuifei, which has strong hedonistic and pessimistic connotations, the concept of Decadence has proven instrumental in…

Book Excerpt: Sensing the Sinophone

Since the 1990s, extensive urbanization in East Asian has created a situation where more people identify themselves as citizens of the city they live in rather than their ancestral village or nation. At the same time, however, this new urban identity has been under attack from the constant threat of urban restructuring. Such rapidly changing cityscapes form environments of urban flux that lead to…