Note on a Book Series

Looks like a nice cover, right? You'd think the publisher would give us a larger version of the central graphic...

I've always wanted to read books in the series that the publisher comes up with. A newish example of this is the "Critical Interventions" series edited by Sheldon Lu. Don't you love the long, intimidating titles? I do want to get to such books, but I also don't feel bad when I don't have time to read them.

This latest series from University of Hawai‘i Press aims at building a list of innovative, cutting-edge works with a focus on Asia or the presence of Asia in other continents and regions. Manuscripts and proposals exploring a wide range of issues and topics in the modern and contemporary periods are welcome—especially those dealing with literature, cinema, art, theater, media, cultural theory, and intellectual history, as well as subjects that cross disciplinary boundaries. The scholarship should combine solid research with an imaginative approach, theoretical sophistication, and stylistic lucidity.

Children of Marx and Coca-Cola: Chinese Avant-garde Art and Independent Cinema, by Xiaoping Lin (January 2010)

Cinema, Space, and Polylocality in a Globalizing China, by Yingjin Zhang (October 2009)