Vote for Your Favorite Title in Asian Studies
The International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS) is currently running a colleagues choice book contest from now until March 20th. They are asking people to vote for recent books in Asian Studies that they most appreciate. The winner will be announced at the Association of Asian Studies conference on April 1. Anyone can vote and there is no need to login and register.
While we don’t want to sway the voting, we do want to point out some of the Columbia titles on the list (You can read more about them by clicking on the links):
Chinese Shakespeares: Two Centuries of Cultural Exchange
Alexander Huang
How Taiwan Became Chinese: Dutch, Spanish, and Han Colonization in the Seventeenth Century
Tonio Andrade
The Power of the Internet in China: Citizen Activism Online
Guobin Yang
Islamic Chinoiserie: The Art of Mongol Iran
Yuka Kadoi
Sacred Economies: Buddhist Monasticism and Territoriality in Medieval China
Michael J. Walsh
The Struggle for Sustainability in Rural China: Environmental Values and Civil Society
Bryan Tilt
Whaling in Japan: Power, Politics, and Diplomacy
Jun Morikawa
Winged Faith: Rethinking Globalization and Religious Pluralism through the Sathya Sai Movement
Tulasi Srinivas
