From the history of race and caste in Latin America to the role of music in religion around the world, Columbian College faculty publish numerous thought-provoking and timely titles every year. Their work has topped bestseller lists, inspired debate and dialogue and received positive reviews from high-profile outlets like the Los Angeles Review of Books and The New York Times.
This work explores East Asian performances and reworkings of Shakespeare in Japan, China, Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore, the United Kingdom and Hong Kong.
Hongyuan Dong provides a comprehensive introduction to the historical development of the Chinese language from its Proto-Sino-Tibetan roots to Modern Chinese.
Silvio Waisbord offers an X-ray of current American society that helps to understand its historical contradictions and power to build myths and hide realities.
Kavita Daiya provides an archive of refugee experiences to respond to the question “What is created?” after decolonization and the 1947 Partition of India.
Eyal Aviv offers an account of Ouyang Jingwu, a leading intellectual who revived the Buddhist scholastic movement during the early Republican period in China.
Translated from Spanish by Sergio Waisman, professor of Spanish and international affairs, "A Musical Education" is a compilation of poems by Yaki Setton.
Written by leading experts on spiders, including Biology’s Gustavo Hormiga, Spiders of the World covers an array of spider species from around the globe.
Benjamin Hopkins makes a case that “failed states” along the periphery of today’s international system are the intended result of 19th century colonial design.