Published by the Association for Asian Studies “KEY ISSUES IN ASIAN STUDIES” is a new series of booklets designed for use in
undergraduate humanities and social science courses, as well as by advanced high-school students and their teachers.
“Key Issues” booklets are designed to complement Education about Asia, and serve as vital educational materials that are both accessible and affordable for classroom use. Booklets will sell for around $10 each.
Booklets in the series will tackle broad subjects or major cultural and historical themes in an introductory but compelling, jargon-free style appropriate for survey courses, written to encourage classroom debate and discussion. Topics (for example) might include: Asia in the World Literature Classroom, East Asia’s Economic Rise, The British Raj and South Asia, Islam in Asia, The Meiji Restoration, The Cultural Revolution, and The Vietnam War.
More exciting titles are in the works—the AAS plans to publish 2–3 “Key Issues” booklets each year. Potential forthcoming titles include: Caste in India, Global India Circa 100 CE, Traditional China in Asian and World History, Understanding East Asia's Economic Miracles, Korea in World History, and Japanese Popular Culture and Globalization.
If you have questions about "Key Issues"—or have suggestions for topics that would be useful in your teaching—please contact the "Key Issues" Editor, Lucien Ellington, at l-ellington@comcast.net.
“Gender, Sexuality, and Body Politics in Modern Asia” addresses topics of importance for students and scholars of multiple disciplines—including anthropology, sociology, gender studies, Asian studies, religion, geography, political science, and history.
This engagingly written booklet—designed for use in undergraduate humanities and social science courses—has great potential for use in the classroom. It will also appeal to specialists in the field owing to Peletz’s ability to present sophisticated yet accessible discussions of a broad range of topics.
Drawing on the vast body of scholarship of those who have either grown up in the region or have spent many years engaged in anthropological fieldwork or other research, Peletz provides a masterful overview of gender, sexuality, and body politics in modern Asia, presenting multiple perspectives in an accessible, jargon-free style.
The “Suggestions for Further Reading” section at the back of the booklet provides students and scholars with a comprehensive guide for further research.
"This is a very important book. Addressing ideologies of female inferiority, practices of gender transgression, and patterns of sexual violence, Peletz takes an unflinching look at the politics of bodies and intimacy over a very large area of the contemporary world."
Sherry B. Ortner
Distinguished Professor of Anthropology
University of California, Los Angeles
"Peletz provides an exciting overview of the multiplicity and flexibility of body notions and practices that characterize different regions of Asia. This is a valuable contribution indeed to gender and sexuality studies, and a seriously playful intervention into the strait-laced and stolid scholarship on Asia at large."
Aihwa Ong
Professor of Social Cultural Anthopology
University of California, Berkeley
"Peletz’s book addresses topics of the highest significance for multiple disciplines, effectively linking gender issues and gendered identities to many other matters of current and enduring import across Asia -- including public health, violence, industrialization, and media. Peletz has made an extraordinary effort to do justice to multiple complexities while delivering a wonderfully succinct and lucid text. "
Ann Grodzins Gold
Professor of Religion and Anthropology
Syracuse University
Gender, Sexuality, and Body Politics in Modern Asia
Michael Peletz
Key Issues in Asian Studies, No. 1
ISBN 978-0-924304-50-7, 2007, 6" x 9" paperback, 120 pages, $10.00
NOW AVAILABLE.
List price $10.00 (10% discount for bookstores).
AAS Member price $8.00.
To order online, use the secure order form. Postage and handling will be added to your total (U.S. orders, $3.50 first copy, $2.00 each additional. Non-U.S. orders, $10.00 first copy, $3.00 each additional).
If you wish to order more than five copies, postage will be weighed and charged on an individual basis.
Orders are sent First Class/Priority Mail in the U.S. and First Class International for non-U.S. orders.
To pay by check, use the print order form. Please make checks payable to "AAS" and mail to Association for Asian Studies, Inc, ATTN: Anne Arizala, 1021 E. Huron Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48104 USA.
“Political Rights in Post-Mao China” provides an engaging overview of political changes in China in the later decades of the twentieth-century and early years of the twenty-first century, highlighting the growing rights consciousness movement among China’s citizens.
Professor Goldman explains how demands for Party reform and the increasingly organized struggle for democracy and political rights have spread from their beginnings among China’s urban intellectuals to mass demonstrations held by workers, farmers, and the growing middle class. China’s moves toward a free market economy have provided these various groups with access to new technologies—including the Internet and cell phones—that help organize their political protests.
This booklet is invaluable to anyone wishing to understand the political dynamics of reform-era China and will appeal to teachers and students of many disciplines—including anthropology, Asian studies, geography, government, history, philosophy, political science, religion, and sociology.
"Merle Goldman has produced a gem of a pamphlet on political rights in China. It is lucid and accessible, vivid with human detail and historically rich."
Edward Friedman
Professor of Political Science
University of Wisconsin
"This is a wonderfully accessible overview of the highly charged debates (among Chinese and Westerners alike) concerning political rights in contemporary China. Merle Goldman’s informative booklet has much to say to scholars and advanced graduate students in the field of Asian studies, but its greatest use is likely to be in college and high school classrooms. Professor Goldman has performed an invaluable service in supplying to students and their teachers a clear and compelling account of China’s impassioned struggles over the meaning and practice of citizenship."
Elizabeth J. Perry
Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government, Harvard University
President, Association for Asian Studies, Inc., 2007–2008
Political Rights in Post-Mao China
Merle Goldman
Key Issues in Asian Studies, No. 2
ISBN 978-0-924304-51-4, 2007, 6" x 9" paperback, 80 pages, $10.00
NOW AVAILABLE. List price $10.00 (10% discount for bookstores).
AAS Member price $8.00.
To order online, use the secure order form. Postage and handling will be added to your total (U.S. orders, $3.50 first copy, $2.00 each additional. Non-U.S. orders, $10.00 first copy, $3.00 each additional).
If you wish to order more than five copies, postage will be weighed and charged on an individual basis.
Orders are sent First Class/Priority Mail in the U.S. and First Class International for non-U.S. orders.
To pay by check, use the print order form. Please make checks payable to "AAS" and mail to Association for Asian Studies, Inc, ATTN: Anne Arizala, 1021 E. Huron Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48104 USA.
