IEAS - Institute of East Asian Studies, UC Berkeley

IEAS Book Series: New Perspectives on East Asia

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The IEAS book program series "New Perspectives on East Asia" features authors of recent books that offer fresh views and innovative analyses of issues relevant to students of China, Japan and Korea.

Please contact Caverlee Cary (ccary@berkeley.edu) if you would like to receive additional information.

Programs

April 9, 2008

Deborah Rudolph, Impressions of the East: Treasures from the C.V. Starr East Asian Library

March 12, 2008

Vinod Aggarwal and Min Gyo Koo, Asia's New Institutional Architecture: Evolving Structures for Managing Trade, Financial, and Security Relations

February 20, 2008

Penny Edwards, Camboge: The Cultivation of a Nation, 1860-1945

February 6, 2008

Susan Shirk, China: Fragile Superpower

May 8, 2007

Jeffrey Wasserstrom, China's Brave New World - And Other Tales for Global Times

April 24, 2007

Sheridan Prasso, The Asian Mystique: Dragon Ladies, Geisha Girls & Our Fantasies of the Exotic Orient

April 13, 2007

David Leheny, Think Global, Fear Local: Sex, Violence, and Anxiety in Contemporary Japan

April 6, 2007

Natsuo Kirino, Grotesque

March 20, 2007

Roland Kelts, Japanamerica: How Japanese Pop Culture has Invaded the U.S.

March 2, 2007

Stephan Haggard and Marcus Noland, Famine in North Korea: Markets, Aid, and Reform

February 20, 2007

Nathan Hesselink, P'ungmul: South Korean Drumming and Dance

February 8, 2007

John Pomfret, Chinese Lessons: Five Classmates and the Story of the New China

January 24, 2007

The Yomiuri Shimbun, From Marco Polo Bridge to Pearl Harbor: Who Was Responsible?

November 7, 2006

Steven K. Vogel, Japan Remodeled: How Government and Industry Are Reforming Japanese Capitalism

September 19, 2006

Michael Zielenziger, Shutting Out the Sun

April 11, 2006

Karl Taro Greenfeld, China Syndrome: The True Story of The 21st Century's First Great Epidemic

March 22, 2006

Kevin J. O'Brien, Rightful Resistance in Rural China

March 9, 2006

Vinod K. Aggarwal and Shujiro Urata (eds), Bilateral Trade Agreements in the Asia-Pacific

November 30, 2005

James McGregor, One Billion Customers: Lessons from the Front Lines of Doing Business in China

November 17, 2005

Anne Allison, Millennial Monsters: Japanese Toys and the Global Imagination

November 7, 2005

Jung Chang and Jon Halliday, Mao: The Unknown Story

November 2, 2005

Brook Larmer, Operation Yao Ming: The Chinese Sports Empire, American Big Business, and the Making of an NBA Superstar

October 17, 2005

Ma Jian, Stick Out Your Tongue

March 11, 2005

Kishore Mahbubani, Beyond the Age of Innocence - A Worldly View of America

February 24, 2005

Harry Harding, The India-China Relationship: What the United States Needs to Know

November 22, 2004

Gillian Tett, Saving the Sun: How Wall Street Mavericks Shook Up Japan's Financial World and Made Billions

November 19, 2004

Peter Hessler, Migrants' Tales: Life in China's Boomtowns

November 1, 2004

Seth Faison, South of the Clouds: Exploring the Hidden Realms of China

October 20, 2004

Elizabeth Economy, The River Runs Black: The Environmental Challenge to China's Future

October 14, 2004

Han Ong, The Disinherited

September 22, 2004

Melissa Brown, Is Taiwan Chinese? The Impact of Culture, Power, and Migration on Changing Identities

May 11, 2004

James Lilley, China Hands: Nine Decades of Adventure, Espionage, and Diplomacy in Asia

April 6, 2004

Ian Johnson, Wild Grass: Three Stories of Change in Modern China

April 1, 2004

Bruce Cumings, North Korea, Another Country

March 10, 2004

John Nathan, Japan Unbound

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