EastBridge Imprints
EastBridge is assisted by a talented and experienced team of imprint and series editors who help maximize both the intellectual and economic value of their titles thereby retaining quality authors and fostering the widest possible readership.
Signature Books is dedicated to presenting a wide range of books
in the field of Asian and related studies.
The principal concentrations include texts and supplementary materials
for academic courses; literature-in-translation; and the writings of Westerners
who experienced Asia as journalists, scholars, diplomats, and travelers. Within the Signature Books imprint is the Japanese Horizons series dedicated to distinguished Japanese literature-in-translation.
Charles W. Hayford,
Imprint Editor
D'Asia Vu Reprint Library republishes classic books in
fiction, essays, journalism, and scholarly exegeses which look at many parts of
Asia in order to critically appreciate the range of views and how they changed
over time. A special focus is on books that are effective in the classroom,
books that make their many Asias vivid and personal.
Each volume has a new
introduction by a contemporary authority to set the historical context for the
reader and to suggest modern and post-modern critical interpretations.
An Independent Scholar, Charles W Hayford has taught Chinese
history and U.S.-China Relations at Harvard University, Oberlin College, The
Chinese University of Hong Kong, Northwestern University, University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Illinois at Chicago Circle,
Stanford University, and the University of Iowa. A graduate of Harvard College,
Dr. Hayford received his Ph.D. in Chinese History from Harvard University. His
publications include To the People: James
Yen and Village China (1990); China,
a volume in the World Bibliography Series (1997); and articles, chapters,
encyclopedia entries, and reviews in the field of Chinese history and
Chinese-American relations. From 1990 to 1995, he was the book review editor
(China/Inner Asia) for the Journal of
Asian Studies.
Kathleen L. Lodwick,
Imprint Editor
Protestant and Catholic
missionaries in Asia left an enduring legacy in the countries where they worked
and frequently not the one they intended. The
Missionary Enterprise In Asia presents enduring works on the experiences,
legacy, and impact of these missionaries and their families. All time periods
are covered, with emphasis on the modern era.
The Missionary Enterprise in Asia includes studies by scholars in the fields of
history, sociology, religion, anthropology; memoirs of those who served as missionaries
in Christian missions in Asia; and writings of indigenous scholars and converts
whose lives were impacted by missionary activities.
Kathleen L. Lodwick, Professor of History at
Pennsylvania State University, teaches at the Lehigh Valley Campus of Penn
State's Berks/Lehigh Valley College. She holds a Ph.D. in Chinese History from
the University of Arizona. Her publications include the two-volume reference The Chinese Recorder Index: A Guide to
Christian Missions in Asia, 1867-1941 (1986), Educating the Women of Hainan: The Career of Margaret Moninger in
China, 1915-1941 (1995), and Crusaders
Against Opium: Protestant Missionaries in China, 1880- 1917 (1996).
Professor Lodwick is currently writing a history of the Nanjing Theological
Seminary under a grant from the Foundation for Theological Education.
Steven I. Levine, Imprint Editor
Voices of Asia presents important academic and other books in the
social sciences and the humanities by leading contemporary Asian writers in
English translation. It responds to the need to make available at least a
portion of the large corpus of outstanding scholarship by Asian authors whose
work would otherwise be accessible to only a very small number of Western
specialists.
Voices of Asia proceeds from the premise that, apart from their
specific foci of academic inquiry, most Western specialists on Asia, for
various reasons, are unable to keep abreast of contemporary Asian scholarship
in their fields. At the same time, because English is the international
language, large numbers of Asian scholars are able to follow the Western
academic literature in their specializations. Voices of Asia recognizes this lack of reciprocity as a serious
barrier to understanding and seeks to facilitate a two-way flow of knowledge
between Asia and the West. The imprint also publishes selected books of general
interest by Asian writers.
Steven I. Levine teaches Asian history at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill and heads the Carolina Asia Center there. He received his AB in Politics from Brandeis
University and Ph.D. in Government and Far Eastern Languages from Harvard
University. He has taught at the University of Michigan, Duke University, The
American University, the Defense Intelligence College, Columbia University, and
Merrimack College. He served as a Consultant and Social Scientist at the Rand
Corporation; as Director, Center for Slavic, Eurasian and East European
Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; and as Resident Director,
Duke Study in China Program, Bejing and Nanjing, His publications, in addition
to many journal articles and book reviews, include America's Wars in Asia: A Cultural Approach to History and Memory
(co-editor, 1998), China's Bitter
Victory. The War with Japan, 1937-1945 (co-editor, 1992), and Anvil of Victory: The Communist Revolution
in Manchuria, 1945-1948 (1987).
