Recent Books
Gleanings from the Field: Food Security, Resilience, and Experiential Learning
Dan Trudeau, William Moseley and Paul Schadewald
Gleanings from the Field argues that addressing food security is essential for tackling broader sustainability challenges facing humanity and recognizes the role of food in community-building, cultural exchange, and quality of life. However, promoting food security entails navigating intricate trade-offs, such as balancing economic interests in food supply with environmental concerns.
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Unlocking the Treasury: Elementary Learning for Boys in Qing China
Katherine Ngo
Unlocking the Treasury: Elementary Learning for Boys in Qing China seeks to address the existing gap in Western scholarship regarding pre-modern Chinese primary education, its theories, and textbooks. With a focus on the Qing dynasty textbook, Treasury of Elementary Learning (Youxue qionglin 幼學瓊林), this volume is the first major study of the Treasury in English and reveals a rich tradition of education through close and critical readings of the text.
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Ordering Tang China: Cultural Memory, Emperor Taizong, and the Essentials
Kelly Ngo
In Ordering Tang China: Cultural Memory, Emperor Taizong and the Essentials, Kelly Ngo presents the first book-length study in English of the Essentials for Bringing about Order from Assembled Texts (Qunshu zhiyao 群書治要), a rulership anthology that became renowned for its model of governance in ancient and early modern East Asia.
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The Detroit Genre: Race, Dispossession, and Resilience in American Literature and Film, 1967–2023
Vincent Haddad
The Detroit Genre provides the first comprehensive literary and cultural investigation of the representations of Detroit in popular and literary culture and argues that the suburban sitcom, the post-apocalyptic genre, the sci-fi dystopia, crime fiction, the superhero genre, and contemporary horror would not exist in the way they do today without the aesthetic, material, and racial history of Detroit.
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