MU Libraries New Books: History - Asia

About the new book list

5/15/2013

The RSS feeds for the new books list is updated every Wednesday and contains a list of books added to the Ellis Library collection for the last six weeks. The titles are grouped by call number classification, and are listed by week and alphabetically by title.

Books for the most recent weeks are currently on the New Books Shelves inside the north entrance of Ellis Library. They can be checked out.

Beyond tribal loyalties : personal stories of Jewish peace activists / edited by Avigail Abarbanel. (5/15/2013)

5/15/2013

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About the Author

Avigail Abarbanel is a psychotherapist in private practice and an activist for Palestinian rights. She was born in Israel in 1964 and served in the Israeli army during Israel s 1982 invasion of Lebanon. Avigail moved to Australia in 1991 where she lived for eighteen years and where she completed her undergraduate and postgraduate studies. She now lives and works near Inverness in Scotland. Her activist work consists mainly of writing and public speaking.

Call #: DS134 .B496 2012

China and the international system / becoming a world power/ edited by Xiaoming Huang and Robert G. Patman. (5/15/2013)

5/15/2013

Call #: DS777.55 .C4467355 2013

Escape from oblivion : the story of a Pakistani prisoner of war in India / Ikram Sehgal. (5/15/2013)

5/15/2013

Call #: DS388 .S444 2012

Exiled to nowhere : Burma's Rohingya / Greg Constantine foreword by Emma Larkin. (5/15/2013)

5/15/2013

Call #: DS528.2.R64 C66 2012

Harbin to Hanoi : the colonial built environment in Asia, 1840 to 1940 / edited by Laura Victoir and Victor Zatsepine. (5/15/2013)

5/15/2013

Call #: DS33.3 .H37 2013

I libri ebraici della Biblioteca universitaria di Pisa / Alessandro Catastini. (5/15/2013)

5/15/2013

Call #: DS16 .R6 n.s.23

Islam and the Arab awakening / Tariq Ramadan. (5/15/2013)

5/15/2013

Call #: DS63.1 .R3513 2012

Outside the wire : American soldiers' voices from Afghanistan / edited by Christine Dumaine Leche foreword by Brian Turner. (5/15/2013)

5/15/2013

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Review

Outside the Wire gives voice to soldiers who so often go mute and who so often retreat into isolation and despair, unable or unwilling to attach language to personal experience. The narratives and anecdotes collected in this wonderful volume are as varied and as unpredictable and as idiosyncratic as humanity itself. In this collection the reader will encounter anger, grief, laughter, loneliness, joy, terror, bitterness, redemption, hope, and cynicism. I was spellbound.

(Tim O’Brien, author of The Things They Carried and Going After Cacciato )

Outside the Wire gives me hope. Our young men and women in the U.S. military experience the terror and horror of war. Through Christine Leche's extraordinary new collection of their eyewitness stories, we can see how the process of writing offers them a way to live."—

(Maxine Hong Kingston, editor of Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace )

Outside the Wire is testimony of the most important kind. If there are any truths to be learned from our long wars they may well be found in these pages. A powerful, and powerfully necessary, collection.

(Kevin Powers, author of The Yellow Birds )

While most kids in writing classes are busy grumbling about extracurriculars, unrequited love, and long lines at the grocery store, these contributors met with Leche – a writing instructor who taught at Bagram Airfield near the Afghanistan-Pakistan border – amid combat missions, firefights, and the psychological battles that continue to haunt soldiers thousands of miles and years away from war. It's too easy to become consumed in the quotidian flotsam and jetsam of first-world life; we collectively lose touch with the harsh realities of foreign wars. Take a step toward better understanding an American soldier with what Kevin Powers called a 'powerful, and powerfully necessary, collection.'

(Austin Chronicle )

In some ways, it was like any other writing class: backpacks, books, rough drafts, discussions about literature. But instructor Christine Dumaine Leche and her students weren't sitting in a college classroom or a community center — they were on an air base in Afghanistan and the students usually came to class after long days in a war zone. Leche was teaching them to translate their experiences — the danger, the boredom, the painful separation from their families, the fear and the hatred — into prose. Out of that classroom came dozens of intimate narratives of life as a soldier.

(NPR )

Call #: DS371.413 .O95 2013

Pakistan : land of the pure / Sarah Caron. (5/15/2013)

5/15/2013

Call #: DS376.9 .C37 2010

The quest for the man on the white donkey / Yaakov Israel text by Bill Kouwenhoven. (5/15/2013)

5/15/2013

Call #: DS108.5 .I877 2012

Tumultuous decade : empire, society, and diplomacy in 1930's Japan / edited by Masato Kimura and Tosh Minohara. (5/15/2013)

5/15/2013

Call #: DS889.5 .T84 2013

880-01 Beijing feng bo ji shi = The truth about the Beijing turmoil / "Beijing feng bo ji shi" bian wei hui bian, [zhu bian Qin Han]. (5/8/2013)

5/8/2013

Call #: DS779.32 .P435 1989

Afghanistan from the Cold War through the War on Terror / Barnett R. Rubin. (5/8/2013)

5/8/2013

Call #: DS371.3 .R83 2013

Antisemitism : the generic hatred : essays in memory of Simon Wiesenthal / editors, Michael Fineberg, Shimon Samuels, Mark Weitzman. (5/8/2013)

5/8/2013

Call #: DS145 .A64477 2007

Britain in India, 1858-1947 / Lionel Knight. (5/8/2013)

5/8/2013

Call #: DS475 .K65 2012

Contemporary China / Kerry Brown. (5/8/2013)

5/8/2013

Call #: DS779.43 .B76 2013

Darius le Grand : roi de Perse, roi de Babylone, roi des rois, pharaon d'Égypte (522-486 av. J.-C.) / Par Jean Perrot. (5/8/2013)

5/8/2013

Call #: DS282.7 .P47 2013

Debating war in Chinese history / edited by Peter A. Lorge. (5/8/2013)

5/8/2013

Call #: DS738 .D43 2013

The great enterprise : sovereignty and historiography in modern Korea / Henry H. Em. (5/8/2013)

5/8/2013

Call #: DS905.7 .E44 2013

Above the din of war : Afghans speak about their lives, their country, and their future--and why America should listen / Peter Eichstaedt. (5/1/2013)

5/1/2013

Call #: DS371.4 .E37 2013

De-bordering Korea : tangible and intangible legacies of the sunshine policy / edited by Valérie Gelézeau, Koen De Ceuster and Alain Delissen. (5/1/2013)

5/1/2013

Call #: DS910.2.K7 D43 2013

From frontier policy to foreign policy : the question of India and the transformation of geopolitics in Qing China / Matthew W. Mosca. (5/1/2013)

5/1/2013

Call #: DS754.18 .M69 2013

The battle for Manchuria and the fate of China : Siping, 1946 / Harold M. Tanner. (5/1/2013)

5/1/2013

Call #: DS777.5425.S77 T36 2013

The thistle and the drone : how America's War on Terror became a global war on tribal Islam / Akbar Ahmed. (5/1/2013)

5/1/2013

Call #: DS35.74.U6 A37 2013

What remains : coming to terms with civil war in 19th century China / Tobie Meyer-Fong. (5/1/2013)

5/1/2013

Call #: DS759.15 .M49 2013

Avoiding Armageddon : America, India, and Pakistan to the brink and back / Bruce Riedel. (4/24/2013)

4/24/2013

Call #: DS341.3.U6 R54 2013

Central Asia in international relations : the legacies of Halford Mackinder / edited by Nick Megoran, Sevara Sharapova. (4/24/2013)

4/24/2013

Call #: DS327.6 .C46 2013

Cold days in hell : American POWs in Korea / William C. Latham Jr. (4/24/2013)

4/24/2013

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Review

“ . . . a wonderful contribution to American military history in general and to Korean War POW studies in particular”—Robert C. Doyle, leading expert on the treatment of enemy combatants and prisoners of war, past and present; professor of history, Franciscan University of Steubenville

Call #: DS921 .L36 2013

Foreign policy of India in the 21st century / by Biswaranjan Mohanty, assistant professor, Department of Political Science, School of Open Learning, University of Delhi, Delhi. (4/24/2013)

4/24/2013

Call #: DS449 .M65 2012

India's foreign policy and regional multilateralism / Arndt Michael. (4/24/2013)

4/24/2013

Call #: DS448 .M43 2013

Le Théâtre de Cyrrhus : d'après les archives d'Edmond Frézouls / sous la direction de Jeanine Abdul Massih avec les contributions de Frédéric Alpi [and four others]. (4/24/2013)

4/24/2013

Call #: DS94.5 .F739 2012

Social suffering and political confession : Suku in modern China / Sun Feiyu, Peking University, China. (4/24/2013)

4/24/2013

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Review

"In a century of ubiquitous social change, few transformations have been more dramatic than the one that seized China in the years immediately following the victory of Communist forces in 1949 … In this path-breaking work Feiyu Sun argues that one key to the answer lies in the practice of Suku … In contrast to other scholars who pigeon-holed Suku as a technique of persuasion or political indoctrination, Feiyu sees it as a far more variegated and instructive phenomenon, one that demands analysis from a variety of theoretical perspectives … Most important of all, far from being a mere relic of history, the encounter with Suku remains an enduring force in China's political culture today." --Professor Paul Antze, York University, Canada

"Two dominant models of transitional justice have received most of the attention of academics. One model involves utilizing an adversarial trial approach … The other model is some sort of truth and reconciliation commission … Feiyu Sun offers us a different approach to transitional justice in the early years of the People's Republic of China. The new regime in China faced the task of dealing with the gross injustices, large-scale violations of human rights, and crimes against humanity of the previous regime. Moreover, it needed to do so in a manner that furthered the ideals of the communist revolutionaries, reinforced social stability, and provided moral legitimacy to the new regime …" --Professor Lesley Jacobs, York University, Canada

"By using sociological theories to study a political practice in revolutionary China, Professor Feiyu Sun has done an extraordinarily subtle analysis of China's modernization from a perspective of political confession on social suffering. The book offers significant insights into Chinese revolution and its modern mass psychology. In addition, it adds to the body of knowledge on suffering, confession, and identity in modern social theory." --Professor Yang Shanhua, Peking University, China

Call #: DS774.5 .S86 2013

The Gandhian moment / Ramin Jahanbegloo with a foreword by the Dalai Lama. (4/24/2013)

4/24/2013

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Call #: DS481.G3 J255 2013

Yokohama yankee: my family's five generations as outsiders in Japan / Leslie Helm. (4/24/2013)

4/24/2013

Call #: DS832.7.A6 H384 2013

Encountering China : early modern European responses / edited by Rachana Sachdev and Qingjun Li. (4/17/2013)

4/17/2013

Call #: DS708 .E63 2012

Guangdong and Chinese diaspora : the changing landscape of Qiaoxiang / Yow Cheun Hoe. (4/17/2013)

4/17/2013

Call #: DS732 .Y68 2013

King and court in ancient Persia 559 to 331 BCE / Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones. (4/17/2013)

4/17/2013

Call #: DS281 .L54 2013

Sources of Tibetan tradition / edited by Kurtis R. Schaeffer, Matthew T. Kapstein, and Gray Tuttle. (4/17/2013)

4/17/2013

Call #: DS785 .A37 2013

South Asian archaeology 2007 : proceedings of the 19th Meeting of the European Association of South Asian Archaeology in Ravenna, Italy, July 2007. (4/17/2013)

4/17/2013

Call #: DS338 .E84 2007

Body of victim, body of warrior : refugee families and the making of Kashmiri jihadists / Cabeiri deBergh Robinson. (4/10/2013)

4/10/2013

Call #: DS380.K38 R63 2013

Mapping the old Zhuang character script : a vernacular writing system from southern China / by David Holm. (4/10/2013)

4/10/2013

Call #: DS2 .H3 4 v.28

Partitioned lives : migrants, refugees, citizens in India and Pakistan, 1947-65 / Haimanti Roy. (4/10/2013)

4/10/2013

Call #: DS480.842 .R69 2012

Will this be China's century? : a skeptic's view / Mel Gurtov. (4/10/2013)

4/10/2013

Call #: DS779.4 .G87 2013

Empire's ally : Canada and the war in Afghanistan / edited by Jerome Klassen and Greg Albo. (4/3/2013)

4/3/2013

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About the Author

Jerome Klassen is a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow in the MIT Center for International Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Greg Albo is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at York University.

Call #: DS371.412 .E47 2013

The Imjin and Kapyong battles, Korea, 1951 / S.P. Mackenzie. (4/3/2013)

4/3/2013

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Call #: DS918.2.I49 M33 2013

Afghanistan encounters with music and friends / by Hiromi Lorraine Sakata. (3/27/2013)

3/27/2013

Call #: DS352 .S32 2013

China's terracotta warriors : the first emperor's legacy / Liu Yang with contributions by Edmund Capon, Albert E. Dien, Jeffrey Riegel, Eugene Wang, Yuan Zhongyi. (3/27/2013)

3/27/2013

Call #: DS747.9.Q254 L58 2012

Endgame in Afghanistan : for whom the dice rolls / Hiranmay Karlekar. (3/27/2013)

3/27/2013

Call #: DS371.4 .K38 2012

Gandhi's printing press : experiments in slow reading / Isabel Hofmeyr. (3/27/2013)

3/27/2013

Call #: DS481.G3 H53 2013

India in my eyes / Barbara Macklowe foreword by Pritish Nandy texts by Philippe Garner, Eleanor Heartney. (3/27/2013)

3/27/2013

Call #: DS414.2 .M336 2012

Iran : politics, history and literature / Homa Katouzian. (3/27/2013)

3/27/2013

Call #: DS266 .K37 2013

Scottish Mandarin : the life and times of Sir Reginald Johnston / Shiona Airlie. (3/27/2013)

3/27/2013

Call #: DS773.23.J6 A57 2012

The history of Central Asia / Christoph Baumer. (3/27/2013)

3/27/2013

Call #: DS329.4 .B38 2012

The Syrian rebellion / Fouad Ajami. (3/27/2013)

3/27/2013

Call #: DS98.6 .A336 2012

New perspectives on the research of Chinese culture / Pei-kai Cheng, Ka Wai Fan, editors. (3/20/2013)

3/20/2013

Call #: DS721 .N49 2013

Post-colonial statecraft in South East Asia : sovereignty, state building and the Chinese in the Philippines / Pak Nung Wong. (3/20/2013)

3/20/2013

Call #: DS688.C3 W66 2013

Syria : the fall of the house of Assad / David W. Lesch. (3/20/2013)

3/20/2013

Call #: DS98.6 .L475 2012

Uncharted strait : the future of China-Taiwan relations / Richard C. Bush. (3/20/2013)

3/20/2013

Call #: DS799.63.C6 B86 2013