Publications of the Month 2026

Publications of the Month showcases recent FASS academic books and journal articles.

December 2026

On Text and Image: Making Meaning in Manga and Comics

Deborah Shamoon

Minnesota University Press

November 2026

A Wider Reality: Representative Lives, Modernity, and the Novel

Heather Brink-Roby

University of Chicago Press

October 2026

Elderly woman with caregiver in the needle crafts occupational therapy for Alzheimer’s or dementia

Conundrums and paradoxes in the pre-death grief experiences of dementia caregivers: A causal loop analysis

Yong Hao Ng, Joy Juan Wang, & Amy Y.M. Chow

Social Science & Medicine

September 2026

the land of happiness

The Land of Happiness: How the Japanese Department Store Visualized Modern Life

Nozomi Naoi

MIT University Press

August 2026

Touching Literature, or The Experience of the Limit

Irving Goh

Cornell University Press

July 2026

Decolonial Endurance: Lisu Worldmaking Against Chinese Settler Colonialism

Ting Hui Lau

Stanford University Press

June 2026

States of Admission: Japan's Foreign Labor Politics in Regional Comparison

Konrad Kalicki

Cornell University Press

May 2026

Emotional Filipinos: The American Myth of the "Lazy Native" and Islamic Separatism in the Philippines

George Baylon Radics

Georgia University Press

April 2026

A Nation Within: North Korean Zainichi in Postimperial Japan (Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University)

A Nation Within: North Korean Zainichi in Postimperial Japan

Sayaka Chatani

Stanford University Press

March 2026

Figures of Buddhist Diplomacy in Modern Asia

Jack Meng-Tat Chia (Ed.)

Bloomsbury

February 2026

Sober State: Origins of Alcohol Prohibition in India

Darinee Alagirisamy

Cambridge University Press

January 2026

Charting Translation Reception: Methods and Challenges

Bei Hu

Cambridge University Press

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