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22/01/2024

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'Mandates and Missteps' is the first comprehensive history of Australian government to the , from the first scheme in 1948 to the Australia Awards of 2018.

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15/01/2024

Our latest title covers the intensive empirical field work of Dr Lior Rosenburg, a political sociologist specialising in contemporary China, who examines the national Village Redevelopment Program, one of China’s most significant policies of recent decades to promote rural change.

This Program was supposed to prioritise poorer villages, but instead was used to subsidise improved infrastructure and services in already industrialised and prosperous villages, while leaving behind the poorer ones.

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14/01/2024

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11/01/2024

Looking for new to add to your 2024 reading list?

Check out these four new releases available to purchase or download for free!

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08/01/2024

The small grouping of intellectuals who gathered in July 1921 in the French concession of Shanghai has magnified into one of the largest and most formidable political parties in history.

Learn more in our latest title ‘The Chinese Communist Party: A 100-Year Trajectory’, publishing soon.

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08/01/2024

Publishing Soon! Our latest title investigates the Village Redevelopment Program’s implementation in both the industrialised county of , in , and the predominantly agricultural county of Beian, in .

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07/01/2024

Happy New Year from all of us at the Press. We have some exciting titles publishing in 2024 that we can’t wait to share with you!

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22/12/2023

Merry Christmas and happy holidays to all of our authors and readers. We hope you have a safe and enjoyable break.

The ANU Press office will reopen on 2 January 2024.

See you in the new year 🎉

18/12/2023

The latest issue of ‘Lilith’ showcases exciting new innovations of scholarship by feminist historians at a variety of research-training and career stages.

It exemplifies the value of balancing international trends in feminist history with the recognition of local episodes in the history of gender struggle, underscoring the journal’s commitment to advancing new forms of feminist historical writing.

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14/12/2023

The 2023 issue of 'Lilith' showcases the journal’s dedication to encouraging underrepresented voices in historical writing, including early-career scholars, First Nations voices and historians from diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds.

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13/12/2023

'Grassroots Law in Papua New Guinea' examines village courts. How do non-metropolitan Papua New Guineans engage with this part of the legal system designed for them? And how do they experience other court-like forums, with their differing legal sensibilities, that exist in dialogue with the formal legal system without necessarily being part of it?

This study reveals a grass roots perspective on the indigenisation of the state in Papua New Guinea and makes an ethnographically informed contribution to broader debates in legal anthropology, specifically as these intersect with the New Legal Realism.

Now available to purchase or download http://doi.org/10.22459/GLPNG.2023

11/12/2023

A really great review of ‘A Young Englishman in Victorian Hong Kong: The Diaries of Chaloner Alabaster, 1855–1856’, by Peter Gordon, published this month in Asian Review of Books.

You never know what’ll show up in the archives. In 2015, Benjamin Penny stumbled across the 19th-century diaries of one Chaloner Alabaster in the Special Collections room of London’s SOAS. Alabaste…

10/12/2023

Our upcoming title explores the introduction, adoption and development of village courts in Papua New Guinea—asking how, after 50 years, such forms of dispute management now overlap and work with other forms of authority.

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06/12/2023

Myanmar’s coup on 1 February 2021 abruptly ended a decade of (limited) economic and political liberalisations and plunged the country into civil war and a deep humanitarian crisis.

This collection, edited by Anthony Ware and Monique Skidmore, with contributions from a variety of other experts in the field of political, development and humanitarian studies offers empirically based advice on the sorts of policy and practical responses international actors have, could and perhaps should make.

Now available to purchase and download: http://doi.org/10.22459/AC.2023

04/12/2023

November was a huge month for the Press with 10 amazing titles published including: three new journal issues, a study in Sanskrit narrative, and Volumes 2 and 3 of ‘The Compleat Busoni’.

Head over to our website to browse our new releases – all available to purchase, or download for

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03/12/2023

The coup in Myanmar on 1 February 2021 abruptly reversed a decade-long flirtation with economic and political freedoms.

The contributors to ‘After the Coup’ offer timely insights into ways international actors can try to reduce the suffering of millions of citizens who are again being held hostage by a brutal and self-serving regime.

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29/11/2023

Following the end of World War II, China was plunged almost immediately into a second, even more fateful conflict: the Civil War of 1945 to 1947.

In our latest title, Victor Cheng draws attention to the significance of the relatively unexplored period of ‘talking peace and making war’ in modern Chinese history.

Now available to purchase or download for free: http://doi.org/10.22459/CBPW.2023

28/11/2023

In 'China between Peace and War', Victor S. C. Cheng explores the gripping history of and international negotiations from 1945 to 1947 that helped determine the shape of the Chinese Civil War.

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27/11/2023

The latest issue of the ‘ANU Historical Journal II’ includes a wide range of subjects: A history of flooding in the Eagle Farm, Serpentine and Nudgee areas; ‘Manly’ violence: r**e, massacres and white masculinity on the mid‐19th‐Century Upper Dawson frontier; and child patients in the Newcastle mental hospital, 1871–86.

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27/11/2023

In the latest issue of 'East Asia Forum Quarterly', the authors examine what the new enthusiasm for policy activism means for the global system as well as for economies in Asia.

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23/11/2023

Contributors to the fourth issue of ‘ANU Historical Journal II’ share an interest in Australian history, especially in relation to violence, death and environmental change, with the authors’ own experience and knowledge of local spaces enriching their analysis in thought-provoking ways.

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23/11/2023

In our latest title, many of the chapters explore ethical and practical tensions around how memory operates in places where injustice has occurred, and where there are complex reasons for Indigenous and non-Indigenous people to both remember and/or forget, and to share and/or protect knowledge and memories of the past.

These are crucial issues to consider as researchers work with the history of the landscape archive, engage with memories of place, and learn from the knowledge of Traditional Owners in processes of truth-telling and collaboration.

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21/11/2023

‘Made In China Journal: Out of the Fog’ is out now!

This issue features: a brief forum on Chinese civil society after the pandemic; explores how the pandemic has affected the research of China specialists; looks back at the closure in May 2023 of the Beijing LGBT Centre—one of the largest and longest-running LGBTQ non-profit organisations in China; and much more!

Buy now or download for free http://doi.org/10.22459/MIC.08.01.2023