Contemporary Eastern Studies (Russian-Language)

Book series under the imprint of Academic Studies Press (Boston, US) and Bibliorossica (St. Petersburg, Russia)

Academic Studies Press is pleased to announce the launch of the new Russian-language series Contemporary Eastern Studies. This series offers Russian translations of scholarship by outstanding Western, Chinese, Japanese, and Turkish scholars that deal with Russia’s closest neighbors and partners—Near East, Far East, and Central Asian countries. Topics discussed include history, culture, literature, economics, and politics of the large Asian continent, from Kazakhstan to Japan. Books within the series explore topical issues, important historical events, cultural traditions, and analysis of development.

The series brings together books written by researchers from various countries. Some of these works provide an insider’s view, focusing on specific countries or historical periods. Other works provide a broader view through the lens of a global perspective. Of note are comparative studies that examine coexistence and interrelated development between countries. Contemporary Eastern Studies especially welcomes scholarship that analyzes the relations between Russia and the East, and Russia’s quest to find its place in this region.

All books are translated into Russian for the first time. The translations are supervised and approved by the authors.

RU

Азиатские исследования

Новая серия книг от издательства «Библиороссика» и его американского партнера «Academic Studies Press».

В этой серии собраны переводы трудов выдающихся западных, китайских, турецких и японских ученых, посвященные соседям и торговым партнерам России — странам Центральной Азии, Ближнего и Дальнего Востока. Каждая представленная здесь книга — это результат многолетнего изучения истории, культуры, литературы, экономики и политической деятельности различных стран и народов – от Казахстана до Японии. Читатели смогут встретиться с актуальными вопросами настоящего и важными событиями прошлого азиатских государств, составить представление об их традициях и возможном курсе развития.

Главная задача серии — познакомить русскоязычных читателей в России и за ее пределами со взглядом иностранных специалистов на положение дел в разных регионах Азии. Часто это взгляд извне — но благодаря этому представленные нами книги дают систематическое освещение как специфики отдельных государств, так и глобальных проблем. Важная часть серии — это сравнительные исследования, темой которых является проблема сосуществования и совместного развития азиатских стран. В частности, раскрывается история взаимоотношений России и Востока, поиск Россией своего места в этой части света.

Все книги серии впервые переведены на русский язык, переводы авторизованы.

Main Contact

Ekaterina Yanduganova
Acquisitions Editor, Russian-Language Publications
Contemporary Eastern Studies, Contemporary Jewish Studies, German Slavic Studies
kate.yan@academicstudiespress.com

Current Titles

Recent Acquisitions

Global Asian Studies

  • Bloch, Alexia, Sex, Love, and Migration: Postsocialism, Modernity, and Intimacy from Istanbul to the Arctic (Cornell University Press, 2017)  
    Russian translation forthcoming 2022

Central Asian Studies

  • Barisitz, Stephan, Central Asia and the Silk Road (Springer, 2017)
    Russian translation forthcoming 2023
  • Drieu, Chloe, Fictions nationales, Cinéma, empire et nation en Ouzbékistan (1919‑1937) [Cinema, Nation, and Empire in Uzbekistan, 19197-1937] (Éditions Karthala, 2013)               
    Russian translation forthcoming 2023
  • McBrien, Julie, From Belonging to Belief: Modern Secularisms and the Construction of Religion in Kyrgyzstan (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017)     
    Russian translation forthcoming 2024

Turkish Studies                                                                                                                                                

  • Suciyan, Talin, Armenians in Modern Turkey: Post-Genocide Society, Politics and History (Bloomsbury, 2015)          
    Russian translation forthcoming 2022

Chinese Studies                                                                                                                                                             

  • Angle, Stephen, Human Rights and Chinese Thought (Cambridge University Press, 2002) 
    Russian translation forthcoming 2024
  • Brown, Jeremy, June Fourth: The Tiananmen Protests and Beijing Massacre of 1989 (Cambridge University Press, 2021)               
    Russian translation forthcoming 2024
  • Gerth, Karl, Unending Capitalism: How Consumerism Negated China’s Communist Revolution (Cambridge University Press, 2020)       
    Russian translation forthcoming 2022
  • Gladston, Paul, ‘Avant-garde’ Art Groups in China, 1979-1989 (Intellect Books, 2013)         
    Russian translation forthcoming 2024
  • Howlett, Zachary, Meritocracy and Its Discontents: Anxiety and the National College Entrance Exam in China (Cornell University Press, 2021)  
    Russian translation forthcoming 2024
  • Mueggler, Eric, The Age of Wild Ghosts: Memory, Violence, and Place in Southwest China University of California Press, 2001)
    Russian translation forthcoming 2023
  • Oi, Jean, Rural China Takes Off: Institutional Foundations of Economic Reform (University of California Press, 1999)               
    Russian translation forthcoming 2024
  • Park, Hyunhee, Mapping the Chinese and Islamic Worlds: Cross-Cultural Exchange in Pre-Modern Asia (Cambridge University Press, 2012)  
    Russian translation forthcoming 2022
  • Sun, Emily, On the Horizon of World Literature: Forms of Modernity in Romantic England and Republican China (Fordham UP, 2021)       
    Russian translation forthcoming 2024
  • Tam, Gina, Dialect and Nationalism in China (Cambridge University Press, 2020)
    Russian translation forthcoming 2024
  • Walder, Andrew, China under Mao: A Revolution Derailed (Harvard University Press, 2015)            
    Russian translation forthcoming 2022
  • Wang, Ban, Illuminations from the Past: Trauma, Memory, and History in Modern China (Stanford University Press, 2004)    
    Russian translation forthcoming 2024
  • Wyatt, Don J., Blacks of Premodern China (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010)             
    Russian translation forthcoming 2024

Japanese Studies                                                                                                                                            

  • Barshay, Andrew, The Social Sciences in Modern Japan: The Marxian and Modernist Traditions (University of California Press, 2004)       
    Russian translation forthcoming 2023
  • Dunscomb, Paul, Japan’s Siberian Intervention, 1918–1922 (Lexington Books, 2011)          
    Russian translation forthcoming 2024
  • Fruhstuck, Sabine, Uneasy Warriors: Gender, Memory and Popular Culture in the Japanese Army (University of California Press, 2007)   
    Russian translation forthcoming 2023
  • Kitamura, Hiroshi, Screening Enlightenment: Hollywood and the Cultural Reconstruction of Defeated Japan (Cornell University Press, 2010)  
    Russian translation forthcoming 2023
  • Koikari, Mire, Gender, Culture, and Disaster in Post-3.11 Japan (Bloomsbury, 2020)Russian translation forthcoming 2023
  • Traphagan, John, Taming Oblivion: Aging Bodies and the Fear of Senility in Japan (SUNY Press, 2000)         
    Russian translation forthcoming 2024
  • Willems, Nadine, Ishikawa Sanshirō’s Geographical Imagination: Transnational Anarchism and the Reconfiguration of Everyday Life in Early Twentieth-Century Japan (Leiden University Press, 2020)    
    Russian translation forthcoming 2022

East Asian Studies

  • De Vido, Elise, Taiwan’s Buddhist Nuns (SUNY Press, 2010)
    Russian translation forthcoming 2023
  • Winstanley-Chesters, Robert, Fish, Fishing and Community in North Korea and Neighbours (Springer, 2019)
    Russian translation forthcoming 2024