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  • Soft Burial

    A Novel

    by Fang Fang ...
    Translated by Michael Berry ...
    Series series Weatherhead Books on Asia
    Shortlisted, 2025 Baifang Schell Book Prize, China Books ReviewFang Fang’s Soft Burial begins with a mysterious, nameless protagonist. Decades earlier she was pulled out of a river in a state of near-death; upon regaining consciousness, she discovered that her entire memory had been erased. The narrative follows her journey through recovery as she takes a job as a housekeeper in the home of a ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • The Song of Everlasting Sorrow

    A Novel of Shanghai

    by Wang Anyi ...
    Translated by Michael Berry, Susan Chan Egan ...
    Series series Weatherhead Books on Asia
    The classic story of a woman in post-World War II China. "[A] complex and penetrating portrayal . . . that best displays [Anyi's] gifts as a novelist."— The New York TimesInfatuated with the glitz and glamour of 1940s Hollywood, Wang Qiyao—a girl born of the longtang, the crowded, labyrinthine alleys of Shanghai's working-class neighborhoods—seeks fame in the Miss Shanghai beauty pageant. This ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Translation, Disinformation, and Wuhan Diary

    Anatomy of a Transpacific Cyber Campaign

    by Michael Berry ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    During the early days of the COVID-19 health crisis, Fang Fang’s Wuhan Diary provided an important portal for people around the world to understand the outbreak, local response, and how the novel coronavirus was impacting everyday people. But when news of the international publication of Wuhan Diary appeared online in early April of 2020, Fang Fang’s writings became the target of a series of ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • The Running Flame

    A Novel

    by Fang Fang ...
    Translated by Michael Berry ...
    Series series Weatherhead Books on Asia
    “She knew that if she didn’t say her piece, that flame would never be extinguished; even after death, it would continue raging.”The Running Flame opens with its protagonist in prison awaiting execution, desperate to give an account of her life. Yingzhi, a girl from the countryside, sees opportunity in the liberal trends sweeping across China. After high school, she joins a song-and-dance troupe, ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Musha Incident

    A Reader on the Indigenous Uprising in Colonial Taiwan

    Edited by Michael Berry ...
    Series series Global Chinese Culture
    On October 27, 1930, members of six Taiwanese indigenous groups ambushed the Japanese attendees of an athletic competition at the Musha Elementary School, killing 134. The uprising came as a shock to Japanese colonial authorities, whose response was swift and brutal. Heavy artillery and battalions of troops assaulted the region, spraying a wide area with banned poison gas. The Seediq from Mhebu, ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Musha Incident

    A Reader on the Indigenous Uprising in Colonial Taiwan

    Edited by Michael Berry ...
    Series series Global Chinese Culture
    On October 27, 1930, members of six Taiwanese indigenous groups ambushed the Japanese attendees of an athletic competition at the Musha Elementary School, killing 134. The uprising came as a shock to Japanese colonial authorities, whose response was swift and brutal. Heavy artillery and battalions of troops assaulted the region, spraying a wide area with banned poison gas. The Seediq from Mhebu, ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Remains of Life

    A Novel

    Translated by Michael Berry ...
    by Wu Wu He ...
    Series series Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan
    On October 27, 1930, during a sports meet at Musha Elementary School on an aboriginal reservation in the mountains of Taiwan, a bloody uprising occurred unlike anything Japan had experienced in its colonial history. Before noon, the Atayal tribe had slain one hundred and thirty-four Japanese in a headhunting ritual. The Japanese responded with a militia of three thousand, heavy artillery, ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Wild Kids

    Two Novels About Growing Up

    Translated by Michael Berry ...
    by Ta-chun Chang ...
    Series series Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan
    These two searingly funny and unsettling portraits of teenagers beyond the control and largely beneath the notice of adults in 1980s Taiwan are the first English translations of works by Taiwan's most famous and best-selling literary cult figure. Chang Ta-chun's intricate narrative and keen, ironic sense of humor poignantly and piercingly convey the disillusionment and cynicism of modern Taiwanese ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Divided Lenses

    Screen Memories of War in East Asia

    by Michael Berry, Chiho Sawada, David Desser, Professor Eric Hayot, Professor Kyu Hyun Kim, Professor Hyangjin Lee, Professor Wenchi Lin, Professor Robert Brent Toplin, Professor Lily Wong0, Professor Yingjin Zhang1, Aaron Gerow2 ...
    Divided Lenses: Screen Memories of War in East Asia is the first attempt to explore how the tumultuous years between 1931 and 1953 have been recreated and renegotiated in cinema. This period saw traumatic conflicts such as the Sino-Japanese War, the Pacific War, and the Korean War, and pivotal events such as the Rape of Nanjing, Pearl Harbor, the Battle of Iwo Jima, and the bombings of Hiroshima ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Reporting Cultures on 60 Minutes

    Missing the Finnish Line in an American Newscast

    by Donal Carbaugh, Michael Berry ...
    This work delves into the act of reporting on different cultures as a means of exploring our own. The way culture is presented to the media highlights various international and intercultural dynamics, as well as the complexity involved in reporting from a cultural standpoint.Reporting Cultures in 60 Minutes is a study covering the journalistic practice of reporting culture by examining "Tango ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Hydraulic Fracturing

    by Michael Berry Smith, Carl Montgomery ...
    Series series Emerging Trends and Technologies in Petroleum Engineering
    Hydraulic Fracturing effectively busts the myths associated with hydraulic fracturing. It explains how to properly engineer and optimize a hydraulically fractured well by selecting the right materials, evaluating the economic benefits of the project, and ensuring the safety and success of the people, environment, and equipment. From data estimation ... Read more

    $295.00 USD

  • Listening to Rap

    An Introduction

    by Michael Berry ...
    Over the past four decades, rap and hip hop culture have taken a central place in popular music both in the United States and around the world. Listening to Rap: An Introduction enables students to understand the historical context, cultural impact, and unique musical characteristics of this essential genre. Each chapter explores a key topic in the study of rap music from the 1970s to today, ... Read more

    $94.99 USD