book series

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.

World Social Change

This critical 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.
2. Feng Chongyi and David Goodman, eds., North China at War.
3. Caglar Keyder, ed., Istanbul. The Making of a Global City.
4. Hy Van Luong, ed., Vietnamese Society.

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, From the Land above the Clouds: Incarnate Lamas, Sky Burials, and Wind Horses.
Contemporary Fiction of Tibet.
2. Rosa Maria Henson, Comfort Woman. A Filipina's Story of Prostitution and Slavery Under the Japanese Military.
3. OIWA Keibo, ed. and tr. with Karen Colligan-Taylor, Out to the Mythological Sea: The Life of a Minamata Fisherman.
4. SUH Sung, Unbroken Spirit: Nineteen Years in the South Korean Gulag. Tr. Jean Inglis. 

I welcome proposals and suggestions for new and translated works from prospective authors.

mark selden
binghamton and cornell universities
ms44@cornell.edu
tel: 607-257-5185