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Leaving the Tomboy Behind

Sinophone Lesbian Subjectivities and Transnational Queer Media

By Carman K.M. Fung
Subjects: Gender Studies, Gay and Lesbian Studies, Women's Studies, Asian Studies, China, Southeast Asia, Media Studies, Cultural Studies
Series: Global Queer Asias

Turning to global LGBTQ+ media to explore selfhood and gender expressions

Ruling Indonesia

Jokowi's Presidency in an Age of Democratic Crisis and Great Power Competition

By Marcus Mietzner
Subjects: Political Science, Asian Studies, Southeast Asia
Series: Emerging Democracies

A personal examination of how one leader prioritized economic development over democratic liberties

The Future of the South China Sea

Disputes and Negotiations

By Jiye Kim
Subjects: Political Science, International Relations, Asian Studies, China, Southeast Asia

China’s ambitions in the South China Sea and new strategies of diplomacy

Screening Precarity

Hindi Cinema and Neoliberal Crisis in Twenty-first Century India

By Megha Anwer & Anupama Arora
Subjects: Media Studies, Cinema Studies, Asian Studies, Southeast Asia, Cultural Studies

Framing post-millennial Hindi films as cinema of precarity

The Troubling State of India's Democracy

Edited by Dinsha Mistree, Šumit Ganguly, and Larry Diamond
Subjects: Asian Studies, Southeast Asia, Political Science, Political Communication
Series: Emerging Democracies

Assessing the condition and potential trajectories of India’s democracy

State Institutions, Civic Associations, and Identity Demands

Regional Movements in Greater Southeast Asia

Edited by Amy H. Liu & Joel Selway
Subjects: Asian Studies, Southeast Asia, Political Science, Comparative Politics
Series: Emerging Democracies

An in-depth look at why autonomy movements fail or succeed

Transnational Philippines

Cultural Encounters in Philippine Literature in Spanish

Edited by Rocío Ortuño Casanova & Axel Gasquet
Subjects: Asian Studies, Southeast Asia, Literary Studies, Asian Literature, Cultural Studies, Latinx Studies

A study of Philippine literary production that attempts to break the nation’s isolation from broader Spanish literature

Listening with a Feminist Ear

Soundwork in Bombay Cinema

By Pavitra Sundar
Subjects: Music, Ethnomusicology, Asian Studies, Southeast Asia, Media Studies, Cinema Studies

On the cultural politics and possibilities of sound in cinema

India as Kingmaker

Status Quo or Revisionist Power

By Michael Slobodchikoff & Aakriti A Tandon
Subjects: Political Science, International Relations, Asian Studies, Southeast Asia

Predicting India’s future global influence

Complex Rivalry

The Dynamics of India-Pakistan Conflict

By Surinder Mohan
Subjects: Political Science, Peace and Conflict Studies, International Relations, Asian Studies, Southeast Asia

A new model to understand the India–Pakistan rivalry

Empire and Environment

Ecological Ruin in the Transpacific

Edited by Jeffrey Santa Ana, Heidi Amin-Hong, Rina Garcia Chua, and Xiaojing Zhou
Subjects: American Studies, Asian Studies, Southeast Asia, Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies

Explores environmental violence and recovery in Indigenous Pacific Islander, Asian North American, and Asian diasporic cultural expressions

Opposing Power

Building Opposition Alliances in Electoral Autocracies

By Elvin Jiayun Ong
Subjects: Political Science, Asian Studies, Southeast Asia
Series: Emerging Democracies

Why Opposition Parties Use Alliances to Fight Autocracy, and When They Don't

Opposing Democracy in the Digital Age

The Yellow Shirts in Thailand

By Aim Sinpeng
Subjects: Political Science, Asian Studies, Southeast Asia
Series: Emerging Democracies

Democracy and Its Discontents

Ishtyle

Accenting Gay Indian Nightlife

By Kareem Khubchandani
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Dance, Sexuality Studies, Asian Studies, Southeast Asia, American Studies
Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer/Trans Theater/Dance/Performance

Gay nightlife as sociopolitical performance

Indian Sound Cultures, Indian Sound Citizenship

By Laura Brueck, Jacob Smith, and Neil Verma
Subjects: Media Studies, Asian Studies, Southeast Asia

The sounds of India are inextricably tied to issues of citizenship, identity, and belonging

People's Wars in China, Malaya, and Vietnam

By Marc Opper
Subjects: Political Science, International Relations, Asian Studies, Southeast Asia, China, History, Asian History

The true measure of an insurgency’s success begins after victory

The Truth Machines

Policing, Violence, and Scientific Interrogations in India

By Jinee Lokaneeta
Subjects: Political Science, Asian Studies, Southeast Asia
Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence

Interrogation as a site of state sanctioned torture and violence

Electoral Reform and the Fate of New Democracies

Lessons from the Indonesian Case

By Sarah Shair-Rosenfield
Subjects: Political Science, Comparative Politics, Asian Studies, Southeast Asia
Series: Emerging Democracies

How elites influenced major electoral reform in the emerging democracy of Indonesia

Global Digital Cultures

Perspectives from South Asia

By Aswin Punathambekar & Sriram Mohan
Subjects: Media Studies, New Media, Asian Studies, Southeast Asia

How digitalization is reshaping culture and communication in the twenty-first century

The Magellan Fallacy

Globalization and the Emergence of Asian and African Literature in Spanish

By Adam Lifshey
Subjects: Cultural Studies, African Studies, Literary Studies, Asian Literature, Asian Studies, Southeast Asia, African American Studies

Now available in paperback—the award-winning first study of Spanish-language literature of Southeast Asia and West Africa

Masked Ritual and Performance in South India

Edited by David Shulman & Deborah Thiagarajan
Subjects: Asian Studies, Southeast Asia

A survey of the vibrant yet understudied traditions of masked performance playing a distinct role in South India’s visual culture and psychology

Powerful Learning

Buddhist Literati and the Throne in Burma’s Last Dynasty, 1752–1885

By Michael Charney
Subjects: Asian Studies, Southeast Asia

The first intellectual history of one of the great Buddhist empires of Southeast Asia, Konbaung Burma, before the British conquest

Ancient India in Its Wider World

Edited by Grant Parker & Carla Sinopoli
Subjects: Asian Studies, Southeast Asia

Centers ancient India geographically and historically through interdisciplinary accounts of knowledge and representation in texts, languages, and artifacts

The Train That Had Wings

Selected Stories of M. Mukundan

Translated by Donald Davis
By M. Mukundan
Subjects: Asian Studies, Southeast Asia

A collection of story-vignettes by one of India’s best contemporary authors

Puppet Theater in Contemporary Indonesia

New Approaches to Performance Events

Edited by Jan Mrazek
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Asian Studies, Southeast Asia
Series: Michigan Papers on South and Southeast Asia

Solid and accessible scholarship about a multifaceted form of art

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