An important presence through centuries of musical and social change, gamelan angklung is a small, four-tone bronze-keyed ensemble that remains ubiquitous at cremations in Bali. Ellen Koskoff offers a compelling portrait of these little-studied orchestras and their members: rice farmers, eatery owners, and other locals who do not see themselves as ......
From the end of the Second World War to the early 1970s, new paradigms began to form in academic, scientific, and professional knowledge in various disciplines and fields-not only in the United States, but also in East Asia. Drawing on a wealth of archival documents from East Asia, Knowledge Production in Cold War Asia focuses on the building and ......
From the end of the Second World War to the early 1970s, new paradigms began to form in academic, scientific, and professional knowledge in various disciplines and fields-not only in the United States, but also in East Asia. Drawing on a wealth of archival documents from East Asia, Knowledge Production in Cold War Asia focuses on the building and ......
Conceived during the 2020 COVID-19 lockdown and the accompanying rise in anti-Asian bigotry, Word of Mouth: Asian American Artists Sharing Recipes is an artists' cookbook featuring stories and artwork from twenty-four Asian American and Asian diaspora artists from across the United States, with contributions that range from Los Angeles-based ......
How the Chinese Script Came to Write Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese
A fascinating story of writing across cultures and time While other ancient nonalphabetic scripts-Sumerian cuneiform, Egyptian hieroglyphs, and Mayan hieroglyphs-are long extinct, Chinese characters, invented over three thousand years ago, are today used by well over a billion people to write Chinese and Japanese. In medieval East Asia, the ......
How the Chinese Script Came to Write Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese
A fascinating story of writing across cultures and time While other ancient nonalphabetic scripts-Sumerian cuneiform, Egyptian hieroglyphs, and Mayan hieroglyphs-are long extinct, Chinese characters, invented over three thousand years ago, are today used by well over a billion people to write Chinese and Japanese. In medieval East Asia, the ......
Affective Capitalism and Potentiality in a Global City
In The Future of Futurity, Purnima Mankekar and Akhil Gupta examine the lives and experiences of call center agents in India's business process outsourcing (BPO) industry, who live in Bengaluru and work for customers in the Global North. Mankekar and Gupta show how futurity--an affective-temporal potentiality and mode of being that emphasizes the ......
