IEAS Book Series: New Perspectives on Asia
The IEAS book program series "New Perspectives on Asia" features authors of recent books that offer fresh views and innovative analyses of issues relevant to students of Asia.
Please contact Caverlee Cary (ccary@berkeley.edu) if you would like to receive additional information.
Programs
March 7, 2012
Meg Wesling, Empire's Proxy: American Literature and U.S. Imperialism in the Philipines
January 25, 2012
Wayne Patterson, In the Service of His Korean Majesty: William Nelson Lovatt, the Pusan Customs,and Sino-Korean Relations, 1876-1888
January 18, 2012
Roselyn Hsueh, China's Regulatory State: A New Strategy for Globalization
May 4, 2011
Eleana Kim,, Adopted Territory: Transnational Korean Adoptees and the Politics of Belonging
March 16, 2011
Ellis S. Krauss, The Rise and Fall of Japan's LDP
March 2, 2011
Tuong Vu, Paths to Development in Asia: South Korea, Vietnam, China, and Indonesia
February 23, 2011
Tiantian Zheng, Red Lights: The Lives of Sex Workers in Postsocialist China
February 16, 2011
Joseph W. Esherick, Ancestral Leaves
February 09, 2011
Thomas S. Mullaney, Coming to Terms with the Nation: Ethnic Classification in Modern China
January 31, 2011
John Burgess, Stories in Stone: The Sdok Kok Thom Inscription and the Enigma of Khmer History
January 19, 2011
Aihwa Ong, Asian Biotech: Ethics and Communities of Fate
December 1, 2010
Yiyun Li, News and Stories from China
November 10, 2010
Susan Morgan, Bombay Anna: The Real Story and Remarkable Adventures of the King and I Governess
October 20, 2010
Dana Buntrock, Materials and Meaning in Contemporary Japanese Architecture: Tradition and Today
October 13, 2010
Janice C. H. Kim, The Flowers of Japanese-Korean Unity: The Female Labor Volunteer Corps, 1937-1945
September 22, 2010
George T. Yu and Lowell Dittmer, China, the Developing World, and the New Global Dynamic
September 1, 2010
You-tien Hsing, The Great Urban Transformation: Politics of Land and Property in China
April 21, 2010
Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom, China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know
April 7, 2010
Arjia Rinpoche, Surviving the Dragon: A Tibetan Lama's Life Under Chinese Rule
March 17, 2010
Jake Adelstein, Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan
March 3, 2010
John Holt, Spirits of the Place: Buddhism and Lao Religious Culture
February 10, 2010
B.R. Myers, The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves and Why It Matters
January 27, 2010
David Johnson, Spectacle and Sacrifice: The Ritual Foundations of Village Life in North China
November 4, 2009
JaHyun Kim Haboush, Epistolary Korea: Letters in the Communicative Space of the Choson, 1392-1910
October 28, 2009
Justin McDaniel, Beyond Exams and Universities: Alternative Histories of Buddhist Monastic Education in Thailand
October 6, 2009
Lynne Joiner, Honorable Survivor: Mao's China, McCarthy's America, and the Persecution of John S. Service
September 2, 2009
Huang Xiang, A Lifetime is a Promise to Keep: Artistic Expression and Resistance in the work of Huang Xiang
March 18, 2009
Sara L. Friedman, The Politics of Intimacy in China
March 3, 2009
Kevin O'Brien, Popular Protest in China
February 25, 2009
Raquel A.G. Reyes, Love, Passion, and Patriotism: Sexuality and the Philippines Propaganda Movement, 1882-1892
February 4, 2009
Robert Scalapino, From Leavenworth to Lhasa: Living in a Revolutionary Era
December 3, 2008
Jeffrey Hadler, Negotiating Islam and "Matriarchy" in Indonesia
October 29, 2008
Michael Szonyi, Cold War Island: Quemoy on the Front Line
October 8, 2008
Kirk Larsen, Tradition, Treaties, and Trade: Qing Imperialism and Chosôn Korea, 1850 - 1910
September 10, 2008
Patricia Graham, Veneration and Imagery of Buddhist "Saints" in Japan from 1700 - Present
September 3, 2008
Wen-hsin Yeh, Shanghai Splendor: Economic Sentiments and the Making of Modern China, 1843 - 1949
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
Takahiko Tennichi, 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