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Association for Asian Studies 2026

March 12, 2026 / Vancouver, BC

Come find us in the Ingram Academic booth at the 2026 AAS conference!

Come find us at the Ingram Academic booth (#507) in Vancouver! Browse new and forthcoming titles in Asian studies on-site in the exhibit hall or below, or check out our complete list in the field.

Through April 23, 2026, use code AAS26 to save 40% on all books and journal issues when you order on our website. Customers in the UK and Europe can order books with this code from our UK partner, Mare Nostrum Group.

Customers in Canada can order through the University of Toronto Press.

To connect with any of our editors, view their specialties and contact information. To submit a book proposal, consult our online submissions guidelines and submission portal.

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Journal of Asian Studies

Joseph S. Alter, editor

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The flagship journal of the Association for Asian Studies

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The Fine Art of Persuasion

Corporate Advertising Design, Nation, and Empire in Modern Japan

Gennifer Weisenfeld

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Winner of the 2026 Southeast AAS Book Awards

Cover of State of Fear: Policing a Postcolonial City by Joshua Barker. Cover is teal blue and features a noise-distorted map. An undefined dark mass encroaches on the right side of the map. The title text is in white.
State of Fear

Policing a Postcolonial City

Joshua Barker

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Winner of the 2026 Harry J. Benda Prize for a First Book in Southeast Asian Studies, AAS

Cover of When the Bones Speak features the artwork Red Mask by Kinoshita Tomio. The piece depicts a crowd of stylized human faces in a reddish-brown hue. The faces, or masks, are characterized by intricate line art.
When the Bones Speak

The Living, the Dead, and the Sacrifice of Contemporary Okinawa

Christopher T. Nelson

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Cover of Reparations and the Human features an image of an empty beach. A clear blue sky occupies three quarters of the space. A relatively thin line of navy blue ocean separates the sky from a strip of undisturbed sand
Reparations and the Human

David L. Eng

Book

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Dyeing with the Earth

Textiles, Tradition, and Sustainability in Contemporary Japan

Charlotte Linton

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Cover of Ozu and the Ethics of Indeterminacy features a skyline with trees and the outline of a large industrial looking object against a grainy dark blue night sky. The black object has two red orbs on it evoking eyes.
Ozu and the Ethics of Indeterminacy

Daisuke Miyao

Book

The cover photograph depicts two people dressed simply in black and white seated at a metal table and chairs in the courtyard of a glass and concrete building.
In the Mood for Texture

The Revival of Bangkok as a Chinese City

Arnika Fuhrmann

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Brutal Fantasies

Imagining North Korea in the Long Cold War

Christine Kim

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Postwar Revisited

A Global Art History

Okwui Enwezor and Atreyee Gupta, editors

Book

Cover of Mediating Modernisms features a thin black line at the top, with a tan block below it. The bottom 3/4 of the book is orange. An untitled abstract multicolor painting by Jacques Zigoma is central to the cover.
Mediating Modernisms

Indigenous Artists, Modernist Mediators, Global Networks

Ruth B. Phillips and Norman Vorano, editors

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The cover art is a detail from the installation "Biography of a thought" by Tenzing Rigdol, a vibrant, colorful piece with stylized waves in various shades of blue and swirling, multicolored clouds.
Ocean, as Much as Rain

Stories, Lyrical Prose, and Poems from Tibet

Tsering Woeser

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Cover of The Goddess in the Mirror depicts a woman applying makeup to another woman in front of a large round mirror. The scene captures both the women directly and their reflections.
The Goddess in the Mirror

An Anthropology of Beauty

Tulasi Srinivas

Book

Cover of Everyday Erotics features a black-and-white cover illustration on a blue background depicts the backs of two women with short hair, one turned slightly towards the other with an arm across her back.
Everyday Erotics

Older Chinese Women and Same-Sex Desire

Denise Tse-Shang Tang

Book

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Unruly Comparison

Queerness, Hong Kong, and the Sinophone

Alvin K. Wong

Book

Cover of Rescuing the Enlightenment from the Europeans is brown featuring a print of a person huddled at a desk with their arms covering their face. Owls, bats, and other creatures surround them.
Rescuing the Enlightenment from the Europeans

Critical Theories of Decolonization

Nikita Dhawan

Book

Cover of Insurgent Visions features a bold, abstract illustration in red, pink, black, and teal tones. Stylized human faces and a human hand overlap with patterned abstract shapes in a collage-like composition.
Insurgent Visions

Feminism, Justice, Solidarity

Chandra Talpade Mohanty

Book

Cover of Domesticating Brown has painted patches of browns and creams. A semitransparent photograph of a family with young children is overlayed.
Domesticating Brown

Movements of Racial Imagination

Christopher B. Patterson

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The top half of the cover is a photograph of a sewing room featuring an industrial looking space, industrial grade sewing machines, and many garments. The bottom half of the cover is a gradient from black to indigo.
Precarious Accumulation

Fast Fashion Bosses in Transnational Guangzhou

Nellie Chu

Book

Cover of Hidden Empire of Finance features a concrete apartment building in disrepair. Six of the balconies have life size photos that feature people on balconies at nicer residences.
Hidden Empire of Finance

How Wall Street Profits from Our Cities and Fuels Global Inequality

Michael Goldman

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Cover design of Concrete Colonialism is minimalist with a black background covering about 80% of the space. There is a fragment of a black-and-white image resembling a torn document or film negative, showing a neoclassical building and handwritten no
Concrete Colonialism

Architecture, Urbanism, and the US Imperial Project in the Philippines

Diana Jean S. Martinez

Book

Cover of Land of Famished Beings features a photograph, taken by the author, of dried betel nuts in a plastic bag. The bag also contains what appear to be green pods. A finger belonging to a person with Black skin points at the dried nuts.
Land of Famished Beings

West Papuan Theories of Hunger

Sophie Chao

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Cover of Tension is a saturated image featuring fog in a valley between mountains in shades of yellow oranges and peachy reds. The trees and mountains peak through in purple. The title is centered on the cover in all caps.
Tension

Mental Distress and Embodied Inequality in the Western Himalayas

Nikita Kaur Simpson

Book

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Between Families and Institutions

Mental Health and Biopolitical Paternalism in Contemporary China

Zhiying Ma

Book

Cover of Disaster Nationalism is an abstract image of swirling black lines that resemble an oncoming storm, with a background that has a gradient of a brown yellow at the top and burnt orange at the bottom.
Disaster Nationalism

Tsunami and Civil War in Sri Lanka

Vivian Y. Choi

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Cover of Cleansing the Nation features a photograph of people gathered holding red and white flags. There is smoke around the crowd and a dark cloud of smoke rising in the background.
Cleansing the Nation

India, the Hindu Modern, and Mediations of Gender

Raka Shome

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On the Semicivilized

Coloniality, Finance, and Embodied Sovereignty in Cairo

Julia Elyachar

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Insecurities of Expulsion

Afro-Asian Entanglements in Transcontinental Uganda

Hundle, Anneeth Kaur

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Pierre Bourdieu′s Political Economy of Being

Ghassan Hage

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Cover of Beautiful Mystery features an image of the author and her daughter treated with a colorful gradient, giving it a blueish tone. The beach and a house are visible in the background.
Beautiful Mystery

Living in a Wordless World

Danilyn Rutherford

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asia critique

Suzy Kim, editor

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Prism

Theory and Modern Chinese Literature

Zong-qi Cai, editor

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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture

Xingpei Yuan and Zong-qi Cai, editors

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Recent special issue: "Rethinking Authorship and Agency: Women and Gender in Late Imperial China"

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Journal of Korean Studies

Paul Y. Chang, Yumi Moon, and Dafna Zur, editors

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Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies

Ross King, editor

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Open-Access Publication

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Archives of Asian Art

Sarah E. Fraser, editor

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Trans Asia Photography

Deepali Dewan, Yi Gu, and Thy Phu, editors

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Open-Access Publication

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Monsoon

Journal of the Indian Ocean Rim

Abusharaf, Rogaia Mustafa and Jeremy Prestholdt, editors

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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East

Manan Ahmed, Rosie Bsheer, and Steven Pierce, editors

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