SELECTED RECENT FACULTY PUBLICATIONS, 2007-2013
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Books
Haihui Zhang (East Asian Library), ed., A Scholarly Review of Chinese Studies in North America (Association for Asian Studies, 2013)

Andrew Weintraub (Music), ed., Islam and Popular Culture in Indonesia and Malaysia (Routledge, 2010)

Pamela J. Stewart (Anthropology) and Andrew Strathern (Anthropology), Kinship in Action: Self and Group (Prentice Hall Publishing, 2011)

Pamela J. Stewart (Anthropology) and Andrew Strathern (Anthropology), Peace-Making and the Imagination: Paupa New Guinea Perspectives (University of Queensland Press, 2011)

Cecile Sun (East Asian Languages and Literatures), The Poetics of Repetition in English and Chinese Lyric Poetry(Chicago University Press, 2010)

Gabriella Lukacs (Anthropology), Scripted Affects, Branded Selves: Television, Subjectivity, and Capitalism in 1990s Japan(Duke University Press, 2010)

Stewart, Pamela J. and Andrew Strathern (eds.) (2010). Chinese Version (updated and revised) of Religious and Ritual Change: Cosmologies and Histories. [with Yeh, Chueng-rong] Taipei, Taiwan: Linking Publishing (ISBN 978-957-08-3633-2)

Neepa Majumdar(English), Wanted Cultured Ladies Only!: Female Stardom and Cinema in India, 1930s-1950s (University of Illinois Press, 2009)
Andrew Weintraub and Bell Yung (Music), eds., Music and Cultural Rights (University of Illinois Press, 2009)
Katheryn M. Linduff (HAA) and Karen S. Rubinson, eds., Are All Warriors Male? : Gender Roles on the Ancient Eurasian Steppe ( AltaMira Press, 2008)

Bell Yung (Music), The Last of China’s Literati : the Music, Poetry,and Life of TsarTeh-yun (Hong Kong University Press, 2008)
Thomas G. Rawski (Economics) and Loren Brandt , eds., China’s Great Economic Transformation (Cambridge University Press, 2008)
Ann Jannetta (History), The Vaccinators : Smallpox, Medical knowledge, and the "Opening" of Japan (Stanford University Press, 2007)
Robert E. Hegel and Katherine Carlitz (EALL & ASC), eds., Writing and Law in Late Imperial China (University of Washington Press, 2007)
William W. Keller (Ridgeway Center) and Thomas G. Rawski (Economics), eds., China’s Rise and the Balance of Influence in Asia (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007)
Hiroshi Nara (EALL), Inexorable Modernity: Japan's Grappling with Modernity in the Arts (Lexington Books, 2007) and Yoshida Shigeru: The Last Meiji Man (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2007)
Pamela J. Stewart (Anthropology) and Andrew Strathern (Anthropology), eds., Asian Ritual Systems: Syncretisms and Ruptures (Carolina Academic Press, 2007)
Richard J. Smethurst (History), Takahashi Korekiyo, Japan’s Keynes: From Foot Soldier to Finance Minister (Harvard University Asia Center, 2007)
Chapters and Articles
- Katherine Carlitz (EALL & ASC), “Genre and Justice in Late Qing China: Wu Woyao’s Strange Case of Nine Murders and Its Antecedents,” in Robert E. Hegel and Katherine Carlitz (EALL & ASC), eds., Writing and Law in Late Imperial China (University of Washington Press, 2007), pp. 234-257
- William W. Keller (Ridgeway Center) and Louis W. Pauly, “Building a Technocracy in China: Semiconductors and Security,” pp. 46-73, in William W. Keller (Ridgeway Center) and Thomas G. Rawski (Economics), eds., China’s Rise and the Balance of Influence in Asia (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007)
- Neepa Majumdar (English), "Beyond the Song Sequence: Theorizing Sound in Indian Cinema,” The ContinuumCompanion to Sound in Film and Visual Media, ed. Graeme Harper (London: Continuum Press, forthcoming), and, “Sant Tukaram (1936),” The Cinema of India: 24 Frames Series, ed. Lalitha Gopalan (Wallflower Press, forthcoming), and, “Film Fragments, Documentary History, and Colonial Indian Cinema,” Canadian Journal of Film Studies 16.1 (Spring 2007): 63-79, and, Review, The River (Aleksei Balabanov, 2002). Kinokultura (January 2005)
- Andrew Strathern (Anthropology) and Pamela J. Stewart (Anthropology), “Forward to Collection, Ritual: Transplacements and Explanations,” Journal of Ritual Studies, 20(2), (2006), pp. i-v, and, “Witchcraft and Rumors: A Synthetic Approach,” Newsletter of Taiwanese Anthropology and Ethnology, no. 39, (2006), pp.3-34, and, “Anthropology and Cultural History in Asia and the Indo-Pacific Series Editors’ Preface,” in John Gray, Domestic Mandala: Architecture of Lifeworlds in Nepal (Ashgate Publishing, 2006), and, “Ritual Studies Monograph Series Editors’ Preface,” in S. Bamford, ed., Embodying Modernity and Post-Modernity: Ritual Praxis and Social Change in Melanesia, (Carolina Academic Press, 2007), pp. ix-xx, and, “Ritual Studies Monograph Series Editors’ Preface,” in Michael W. Scott, The Severed Snake: Matrilineages, Making Place, and a Melanesian Christianity in Southeast Solomon Islands (Carolina Academic Press, 2007), pp. xi-xix, and, “Self-Decoration in Hagen and Duna (Papua New Guinea): Display and Disjuncture,” in S. Bamford, ed., Embodying Modernity and Post-Modernity: Ritual Praxis and Social Change in Melanesia, (Carolina Academic Press, 2007), pp. 239-255
- John C. Weidman (Education), “Globalization of Korean Higher Education: A turn for the better?,” The Korea Herald, July 30, 2007, p. 4, and, with Regsuren Bat-Erdene, and Erika Bat-Erdene, “Schooling inMongolia.” In Gerard A. Postiglione (Ed.), Schooling Around the World: East Asia (Greenwood Press, 2007), and, with Yoder, Brian L., “Struggling Through Education Reform during the First Decade of the Post-Soviet Era in Central Asia: Mongolia and Uzbekistan.” In Mohamed A. Nur-Awaleh and Adel Al-Bataineh (Eds.), International Education Systems: Global Perspectives. (Rowman Littlefield, Scarecrow Education, forthcoming, 2006)
- Andrew Weintraub (Music), “Dangdut Soul: Who are ‘The People’ in Indonesian Popular Music?,” Asian Journal of Communication, 16(4), (2006), pp. 411-31, and “Java’s Puppets Come Out of the Shadows,” Songlines, no.37, (June 2006), pp. 32-35 and “Samba, But not as we know it,” Songlines, no. 38, (July/August 2006), pp. 28-39
Translations
- William Crawford (EALL), “The World of Zhuang Zii’s Thought,” in Chinese Contemporary Thought, (M.E. Sharpe, Spring 2007)
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