New Asian Studies Books – University of Hawaiʻi Press AAS 2026 Selection

University of Hawaiʻi Press is pleased to present a curated selection of titles for the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Annual Conference.

Our AAS 2026 featured books and journals reflect the breadth and depth of contemporary Asian Studies research. These titles engage topics including colonialism and empire, intellectual history, cultural production, religion, and political life, offering new perspectives grounded in archival research, ethnography, and interdisciplinary analysis.

Award-Winning Titles at AAS 2026

University of Hawaiʻi Press is honored to celebrate two award-winning titles recognized by the Association for Asian Studies in 2026 for their outstanding scholarly contributions.

Even in the Rain: Uyghur Music in Modern China by Chuen-Fung Wong is the winner of the E. Gene Smith Inner Asia Book Prize, which recognizes exceptional and innovative research on Inner Asia. This book examines Uyghur musical life in contemporary China, revealing how musicians navigate cultural identity, artistic practice, and political pressure. Through ethnographic insight and musical analysis, Wong demonstrates how music functions as a powerful site of expression, memory, and resilience.

Epistemology of the Past: Texts, History, and Intellectuals of Cambodia, 1855–1970 by Theara Thun received an Honorable Mention for the Harry J. Benda Prize, awarded annually to an outstanding first book in Southeast Asian studies. This landmark study explores the development of historical knowledge in Cambodia by centering the intellectuals, texts, and scholarly practices that shaped understandings of the past during a period of colonialism, nationalism, and political transformation.

Explore Our New Asian Studies Titles & Journals

In addition to these prize-winning books, University of Hawaiʻi Press’s AAS 2026 featured titles and journals highlight recent and notable publications across Asian Studies and related fields. These works showcase cutting-edge research and diverse methodological approaches that speak to key debates shaping the discipline today.

To view the complete list of University of Hawaiʻi Press titles available for AAS 2026, please scroll to the bottom of this page, where you’ll find a link to our full conference selection in one place.

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BOOKS

JOURNALS

Archives of Asian Art, vol. 66, no. 2 (2016)

From this issue: Sekino Jun’ichirō, Fukuroi: Annual Growth Rings / Fukuroi: nenrin, from New Fifty-Three Stations of the Tōkaidō / Shin Tōkaidō gojūsan tsugi, no. 28, 1960. Woodblock print. Palmer Museum of Art of Pennsylvania State University, Gift of Bruce and Marilyn Shobaken, UC.

Archives of Asian Art, volume 66, number 2 features the the following essays and works:

Chinese Glass Paintings in Bangkok Monasteries
Jessica Lee Patterson, 153

The Pagoda in Kherlen-Bars: New Understandings of Khitan-Period Toweing Pagodas
Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt, 187

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AAA, vol. 66, no. 1 (2016)

FIG. 2. Thousand-armed Avalokiteśvara, Mogao Cave 14, south wall, Tang dynasty, mid-9th–early 10th century. Dunhuang, China, mural painting. From Liang Weiying, Dunhuang shiku yishu: Mogao ku di shisi ku (wan Tang) (Nanjing: Jiangsu meishu chubanshe, 1996), pl. 94. By permission of the Dunhuang Research Academy.
Thousand-armed Avalokiteśvara, Mogao Cave 14, mid-9th–early 10th century. Dunhuang, China. From The Thousand-armed Manjusri at Dunhuang and Paired Images in Buddhist Visual Culture in this issue. By permission of the Dunhuang Research Academy.

Archives of Asian Art, volume 66, number 1 features the following essays and works:

The Expanse of Archaeological Remains at Nalanda: A Study Using Remote Sensing and GIS
M. B. Rajani

The Literati, the Eunuch, and a Memorial: The Nelson-Atkins’s Red Cliff Handscroll Revisited
Lei Xue Continue reading “AAA, vol. 66, no. 1 (2016)”

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AAA, vol. 65, no. 1&2 (2015: Double Issue)

Lang Jingshan (China, 1892–1995), Yiye bianzhou du wanjiang (One small boat crosses a thousand rivers), 1963. LACDA.
From The Allegorical Landscape: Lang Jingshan’s Photography in Context by Mia Yinxing Liu as seen in this issue.

Archives of Asian Art, volume 65, number 1&2 features the the following essays and works:

The Allegorical Landscape: Lang Jingshan’s Photography in Context
Mia Yinxing Liu, 1

The Pulled Back View: The Illustrated Life of Ippen and the Visibility of Karma in Medieval Japan
Chelsea Foxwell, 25 Continue reading “AAA, vol. 65, no. 1&2 (2015: Double Issue)”