[Fwd: BOOK SERIES/PUBLICATIONS]

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Dear Friends,

I recently launched two new book series at Rowman & Littlefied that explore macro and micro approaches to social change. These are a series on "World Social Change," which includes but is by no means limited to a strong Asia focus, and "Asian Voices." A brief description of their scope, and illustrations of recent and forthcoming titles, follows. (My apologies if this announcement has already reached you.)

I hope that this information will be of interest to you, and I would welcome proposals from you concerning your own prospective books.

World Social Change

This series examines large-scale, long-term social change in the modern world. Focusing especially on the intersection of political economy, conflict, and social movements, authors in the series will utilize both micro- and macro-approaches. Books will explore multiple challenges and transformations facing national, regional, and global structures, hierarchies of inequality, and dominant social and cultural values.

New and forthcoming titles:

1. Anita Chan, Ben Kerkvliet and Jonathan Unger, eds. Transforming Asian Socialism. China and Vietnam Compared.* (published)
2. Feng Chongyi and David Goodman, eds., North China at War. (published)
3. Caglar Keyder, ed., Istanbul. The Making of a Global City. (published)
4. Hy Van Luong, ed., Vietnamese Society.
5. David Goodman, Social and Political Change in Revolutionary China.

Other work in the planning stages includes Scott Barmé's social history of Bangkok and a number of studies of Asian regional development in longue durée perspective.

Asian Voices

Introducing compelling and rarely heard voices, this series will center
on biography, autobiography, memoir, and reportage by and about Asian
and Pacific peoples. Readers will find contemporary women and
men, ethnic minorities, farmers and fisherfolk, workers, migrants, the
new rich and the dispossessed, writers, artists, intellectuals, politicians
and prophets, iconoclasts, and activists. These are individuals who are
shaping and/or resisting the outcomes of intense social change-local,
regional, and global. The humanity and diversity of these distinctive voices
and experiences will appeal to students and scholars with interests ranging
from area studies to gender, the environment, human rights, and social
movements.

1. Herbert Batt, Tales of Tibet: Incarnate Lamas, Sky Burials, and Wind Horses. Intro. Tsering Shakya.*
2. Rosa Maria Henson, Comfort Woman. A Filipina's Story of Prostitution and Slavery Under the Japanese Military. (pub. 1999). Introd. Yuki TANAKA.* (published)
3. OIWA Keibo, Out to the Mythological Sea: The Life of a Minamata Fisherman, Tr. by Karen Colligan-Taylor.*
4. SUH Sung, Unbroken Spirit: Nineteen Years in the South Korean Gulag. Tr. Jean Inglis. Introd. David McCann.*
5. Vasant Moon, Growing Up Untouchable. An Indian Autobiography. Tr. Gail Omvedt. Introd. Eleanor Zelliot.*

There are a number of other important titles in various planning stages including Sodei Rinjiro's Dear General MacArthur: Letters from Japanese Citizens, and Josephine Khu's Hong Kong Diary.

The following works are all now in print in my series at Routledge and M.E. Sharpe.

Routledge: Asia's Transformations

Yarong Jiang and David Ashley, Mao's Children in the New China. Voices From the Red Guard Generation.*
Michael Molasky, The American Occupation of Japan and Okinawa. Literature and Memory.
Tak-Wing Ngo, ed., Hong Kong's History. State and Society Under Colonial Rule.*
Elizabeth Perry and Mark Selden, eds., Chinese Society. Change, Conflict and Resistance.*
Sonia Ryang, ed., Koreans in Japan. Critical Voices From the Margin.
Carl Trocki, Opium, Empire and the Global Political Economy. A Study of the Asian Opium Trade 1750-1950.*
Peter Van Ness, ed., Debating Human Rights. Critical Essays From the United States and Asia.*

M.E. Sharpe: Asia and the Pacific

Cao Changching and James Seymour, eds., Tibet Through Dissident Chinese Eyes.
Laura Hein and Mark Selden, eds., Censoring History. Citizenship and Memory in Japan, Germany and the United States.*
Hua Lan and Vanessa Fong, eds., Women in Republican China. A Sourcebook. Introd. Christina Gilmartin,*
Greg O'Leary, ed., Adjusting to Capitalism. Chinese Workers and the State.
Yok-shiu Lee and Alvin So, eds., Asia's Environmental Movements. Comparative Perspectives.*
Xiaobo Lu and Elizabeth Perry, eds., Danwei. The Changing Chinese Workplace in Historical and Comparative Perspective.*
Tessa Morris-Suzuki. Reinventing Japan. Time, Space, Nation.*
James Seymour and Richard Anderson, New Ghosts Old Ghosts. Prisons and Labor Reform Camps in China.
Eduard Vermeer, Frank Pieke, and Woei Lien Chong, eds., Cooperative and Collective in China's Rural Development. Between State and Private Interests.*
Wang Shaoguang and Hu Angang, The Political Economy of Uneven Development. The Case of China.*
Yan Haiping, ed., Theatre and Society. An Anthology of Contemporary Chinese Drama.*
David Zweig, Freeing China's Farmers. Rural Restructuring in the Reform Era.*

*Available in paperback.

Mark Selden
Binghamton and Cornell Universities

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