Asian Studies @ STL

The purpose of this blog is to alert SUNY New Paltz Asian Studies faculty, staff and students of recently acquired Asian Studies resources at the Sojourner Truth Library.

If you have any questions or suggestions, please e-mail Megan Coder, Asian Studies Liaison Librarian: (coderm@newpaltz.edu)

Other Resources:

SUNY New Paltz Asian Studies Department

Sojourner Truth Library

Sojourner Truth Library- Asian Studies Guide

Purchase Recommendations for Sojourner Truth Library

Asian Studies databases:

Academic Search Complete

Art & Architecture Index

Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO)

Historical New York Times

New Acquisitions - January 2012

Stacks BL1803 .G66 2011 — The religious question in modern China / Vincent Goossaert and David A. Palmer

Stacks GR335 .C64 2011 — The Columbia anthology of Chinese folk and popular literature / edited by Victor H. Mair and Mark Bender

GT3021.C6 B46 2011 — Golden-silk smoke: a history of tobacco in China, 1550-2010 / Carol Benedict

Stacks HG187.A2 A874 2011 — Asian perspectives on financial sector reforms and regulation / Masahiro Kawai and Eswar S. Prasad, editors

Stacks HV551.5.C6 C56 2012 — China’s crisis management / edited by Jae Ho Chung

Reference Collection PL1273 .J53 2011 — 500 common Chinese idioms: an annotated frequency dictionary / Liwei Jiao, Cornelius C. Kubler, Weiguo Zhang

Stacks PN2960.S644 C66 2010 — Contemporary Southeast Asian performance : transnational perspectives / edited by Laura Noszlopy and Matthew Isaac Cohen

New Acquisitions - December 2011

Stacks DS481.G3 D433 2010 — Debating Gandhi : [a reader] / edited by A. Raghuramaraju

Stacks DS554.8 .B75 2011— Cambodia’s curse : the modern history of a troubled land / Joel Brinkley

Stacks E183.8.C5 L313 2011 — China’s America : the Chinese view the United States, 1900-2000 / Jing Li

Stacks E184.A75 E43 2010 — Embodying Asian/American sexualities / edited by Gina Masequesmay and Sean Metzger

Stacks HQ1058.5.J3 A65 2010 — Widows of Japan : an anthropological perspective / Deborah McDowell Aoki

Stacks NE1321.8 .T56 2010— Japanese prints : ukiyo-e in Edo, 1700-1900 /

Stacks: BL1812.R57 B53 2011— Burning money : the material spirit of the Chinese lifeworld /

New Acquisitions - November 2011

Stacks: DS341.3.U6 A447 2011 — American interests in South Asia: building a grand strategy in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India / foreword by Joseph S. Nye & Brent Scowcroft

Stacks: DS481.G3 C36 2011 — The Cambridge companion to Gandhi

Stacks: DS557.74 .T757 2010— Triumph revisited: historians battle for the Vietnam War /

Stacks: DS779.48 .Z42 2011 — Tide players : the movers and shakers of a rising China / Jianying Zha

Stacks PN1993.5.C4 C4425 2010 — Chinese film stars

New Acquisitions - October 2011

Reference Collection DS446.3 .M36 2011 — Makers of modern India / edited by Ramachandra Guha.

Stacks DS907.18 .S426 2011 — A history of Korea : from antiquity to the present

Stacks GE160.V5 B54 2010 — Quagmire: nation-building and nature in the Mekong Delta / David Biggs ; foreword by William Cronon

Stacks HD9502.A782 E25 2011 — Energy and security in South Asia : cooperation or conflict? / Charles K. Ebinger.

Media/Video: ML421.D12 H3 2010 — Hanoi eclipse [videorecording] : the music of Dai Lam Linh / directed, filmed and produced by Barley Norton

Stacks NK1068 .K59 2011 — Things Chinese: antiques, crafts, collectibles / Ronald G. Knapp ; photography by Michael Freeman

Stacks UA853.K6 B39 2011— Beyond North Korea : future challenges to South Korea’s security / edited by Byung Kwan Kim, Gi-Wook Shin, and David Straub

New Books - September 2011

Reference Collection BL473.5 .G64 2011 — Goddesses in world culture /

Stacks DS423 .J49 2011 — Royal patronage, power and aesthetics in princely India

Stacks DS509.5.H66 C48 2010 — An introduction to Hmong culture /

Stacks DS511 .H65 2011 — A history of East Asia : from the origins of civilization to the twenty-first century /

Stacks DS748.16.T76 D39 2010 — Imperial warlord : a biography of Cao Cao 155-220 AD /

Stacks DS774 .D56 2010 — China : a modern history /

Stacks DS779.43 .F36 2010 — Dreaming in Chinese : Mandarin lessons in life, love, and language /

Oversize: ND1046.T5 J27 2010 — The Nepalese legacy in Tibetan painting

Oversize NK1068 .N38 2011 — The National Museum of China /

Stacks NK1068 .O87 2011 — Five blessings : coded messages in Chinese art /

Stacks NK3634.Z4466 M33 2011 — Zhao Mengfu : calligraphy and painting for Khubilai’s China /

Reference Collection PL1455 .H7957 2010 — McGraw-Hill’s Chinese dictionary & guide to 20,000 essential words /

Stacks PN1993.5.A75 A85 2010 — Asian film journeys : selections from Cinemaya

Stacks PN1993.5.C4 C4635 2011 — Chinese women’s cinema : transnational contexts /

Stacks Q127.C5 S825 2011 — The crafting of the 10,000 things : knowledge and technology in Seventeenth-Century China /

New Books- August 2011

Stacks BR1065 .C45 2011 — Christianities in Asia / edited by Peter C. Phan

Stacks DS778.M3 K359 2010 — Mao Zedong and China in the twentieth-century world: a concise history / Rebecca E. Karl

Stacks JZ1480.A57 C6 2011 — America’s challenge: engaging a rising China in the twenty-first century / Michael D. Swaine

Oversize TX724.5.C5 S3513 2010 — Culinaria China : cuisine, country, culture / Katrin Schlotter, Elke Spielmanns-Rome, text.

New Books- July 2011

Stacks DS709 .T475185 2010 — China: through the lens of John Thomson, 1868-1872 = Wan Qing sui ying : Yuehan Tangmuxun yan zhong de Zhongguo

Stacks DS485.J4842 S53 2010 — In the shadows of the state: indigenous politics, environmentalism, and insurgency in Jharkhand, India / Alpa Shah

Stacks GT3331.J3 K38 2010 — Nature’s embrace: Japan’s aging urbanites and new death rites / Satsuki Kawano

Stacks HD2910 .L54 2011 — Managing the China challenge: how to achieve corporate success in the People’s Republic / Kenneth Lieberthal

Stacks HN733 .H86 2011 — Protest with Chinese characteristics: demonstrations, riots, and petitions in the Mid-Qing Dynasty / Ho-fung Hung

Stacks JK511 .K35 2011 — Haunting legacy: Vietnam and the American presidency from Ford to Obama / Marvin Kalb and Deborah Kalb

Stacks N7345 .L84213 2010 --A history of art in 20th-Century China / Lü Peng ; [translation Bruce Gordon Doar]

Oversize NK4165 .C47955 2010 — Chinese ceramics from the paleolithic period through the Qing Dynasty / edited by Li Zhiyan, Virginia L. Bower, and He Li ; foreword by David Ake Sensabaugh ; introductions by Li Zhiyan and Virginia L. Bower

Stacks NK4168.6.A1 J86 2010 — Life in ceramics: five contemporary Korean artists / Burglind Jungmann

Stacks PN1993.5.J3 K57 2010 — Screening enlightenment: Hollywood and the cultural reconstruction of defeated Japan / Hiroshi Kitamura

Stacks TT504.6.J3 S74 2010 — Japan fashion now / Valerie Steele

Stacks TX724.5.T5 V35 2009 — Bangkok street food: cooking & traveling in Thailand / Tom Vandenberghe & Eva Verplaetse

Stacks HB1064.A3 H87 2011 — Unnatural selection: choosing boys over girls, and the consequences of a world full of men / Mara Hvistendahl

Stacks N6538.C48 A76 2010 — ARTiculations: undefining Chinese contemporary art / edited by Jerome Silbergeld and Dora C.Y. Ching

Stacks NK7377 .R53 2010 — The jewelry of southeast Asia / Anne Richter

Stacks PL2543 .V65 2010 — Voices of the fourth generation: China’s poets today: an anthology / edited, with an introduction and notes by Keming Liu

New Books- June 2011

Stacks BQ935 .L44 2010 — Surviving nirvana: death of the Buddha in Chinese visual culture / Sonya S. Lee

Stacks DS754.25 .G89 2010 — Qing governors and their provinces: the evolution of territorial administration in China, 1644-1796 / R. Kent Guy

Stacks HC427.95 .B37 2010 — Awakening giants, feet of clay: assessing the economic rise of China and India / Pranab Bardhan

China in 2020: a new type of superpower / Hu Angang

Stacks N7314 .T46 2009 — Arts of ancient Viet Nam : from river plain to open sea / Nancy Tingley ; with essays by Andreas Reinecke … [et al.]

Stacks NE768 .B758 2010 — The printed image in China: from the 8th to the 21st centuries / edited by Clarissa von Spee

Reference Collection N7345 .C665 2010 — Contemporary Chinese art: primary documents / edited by Wu Hung ; with the assistance of Peggy Wang

New Books- May 2011

Stacks BL1150 .N53 2010 — Unifying Hinduism: philosophy and identity in Indian intellectual history / Andrew J. Nicholson

Stacks BL1900.L26 E5 2011 — The complete Tao te ching with the Four canons of the Yellow Emperor / translation and commentary by Jean Levi

Stacks BR563.K67 Y66 2010 — Contentious spirits: religion in Korean American history, 1903-1945 / David K. Yoo

Stacks DS481.G3 L337 2011 — Great soul: Mahatma Gandhi and his struggle with India / Joseph Lelyveld

Stacks DS518.8 .P32 2011 — A pacific nation : perspectives on the US role in an East Asia community / edited by Mark Borthwick and Tadashi Yamamoto

Stacks DS558.7 .M35 2009 — The approaching storm: conflict in Asia, 1945-1965 / Edward J. Marolda

Stacks DS774.5 .C8 2010 — Speaking to history: the story of King Goujian in twentieth-century China / Paul A. Cohen ; with a foreword by John R. Gillis

Stacks HC430.C6 G469 2010 — As China goes, so goes the world: how Chinese consumers are transforming everything / Karl Gerth

Stacks PT2603.A35 M313 2010 — The cloak of dreams: Chinese fairy tales / Béla Balázs ; translated and introduced by Jack Zipes ; illustrated by Mariette Lydis

New Books- March 2011

Stacks BL1803 .J64 2009 — Spectacle and sacrifice: the ritual foundations of village life in North China / David Johnson

Stacks BQ732 .A44 2010 — American Buddhism as a way of life / edited by Gary Storhoff and John Whalen-Bridge

Stacks DS523.3 .S36 2009 — The art of not being governed: an anarchist history of upland Southeast Asia / James C. Scott

Stacks DS748.55 .K84 2009 — The age of Confucian rule: the Song transformation of China / Dieter Kuhn

Stacks DS891 .K538 2011 — Contemporary Japan: history, politics and social change since the 1980s / Jeffrey Kingston

Stacks HQ1064.E18 A35 2010 — Aging Asia: the economic and social implications of rapid demographic change in China, Japan, and South Korea / edited by Karen Eggleston and Shripad Tuljapurkar