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When the crucial years after the Korean War are remembered today, histories about North Korea largely recount a grand epic of revolution centering on the ascent of Kim Il Sung to absolute power. Often overshadowed in this storyline, however, are the myriad ways the Korean population participated in

By Cheryl Narumi Naruse, author of Becoming Global Asia: Contemporary Genres of Postcolonial Capitalism in SingaporeBecoming Global Asia is part of the UC Press Transpacific SeriesThough once widely regarded as a punitive, culturally sterile island-nation, or what William Gibson deemed “Disn

Winner of the 2022 Joseph W. Elder Prize in the Indian Social Sciences, Merchants of Virtue explores the question of what it meant to be Hindu in precolonial South Asia. Divya Cherian presents a fine-grained study of everyday life and local politics in the kingdom of Marwar in eighteenth-century wes

In one of the first in-depth ethnographic accounts of coastal Fukushima written in English, Nuclear Ghost tells the stories of a diverse group of residents who aspire to live and die well in their now irradiated homes. Their determination to recover their land, cultures, and histories for future gen

Sahana Ghosh, author of "A Thousand Tiny Cuts" on borders and bordering South Asia.

By Moon-Ho Jung, author of Menace to Empire: Anticolonial Solidarities and the Transpacific Origins of the US Security StateIn the wake of very visible hate crimes against Asian Americans this past year, President Joe Biden vowed to combat racism to make America live up to its reputed ideals

As a professor who has taught on Korea, Theodore Jun Yoo knew there was a need for a concise, engaging book that distilled contemporary Korea and the very different trajectories of North and South. So, he went on to write The Koreas: The Birth of Two Nations Divided, a fascinating and unique histor