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Japan’s Empire through the Lens of Settler Colonialism in Latin America

Mar 16 2025

Author Sidney Xu Lu on challenging and complicating the story of Japanese migration to Brazil.

How Taiwanese Vegetables Became the Envy of the World

Mar 15 2025

Author James Lin on the rural history that defined a generation of Taiwanese.

Bringing Visibility to Vietnamese American Writers

Mar 12 2025

Isabelle Thuy Pelaud, co-editor of "The Cleaving," on the invisibility of Vietnamese American writers and poets and bringing light to their work.

Q&A with Andrew Campana, author of "Expanding Verse"

Mar 11 2025

Author Andrew Campana discusses his book "Expanding Verses: Japanese Poetry at the Edge of Media"

Interview with Yiman Wang, author of "To Be an Actress"

Mar 08 2025

Yiman Wang, author of "To Be an Actress," talks about the enduring legacy of actress Anna May Wong

UC Press Becomes Publisher of Science Fiction Studies, which Releases New Special Issue on "Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction as Slipstream"

Mar 06 2025

The guest editor of UC Press's new journal answers the question, "Why have a journal special issue on Southeast Asian speculative fiction?"

How to Politicize a People: A Case Study of the Sikh Community

Dec 05 2024

The rise of the Sikh community from relative obscurity to political imperial prominence is a fascinating yet often overlooked story in the West, with lessons for contemporary geopolitical debates.

Interview with Vietnamese Dissident Journalist and Author Huy Đức

Nov 28 2024

On June 1, 2024, Trương Huy San (Huy Đức) was arrested for violating Article 331—an overly broad statute frequently used to silence peaceful critics of the Vietnamese government.

Tinkering with the Future: Everyday Experiments Under Startup Capitalism

Nov 05 2024

In their insistence on reworking what labor means and how it is experienced, women workers in Bengaluru offer significant insights into the time, space, and meaning of work under startup capitalism.