Stanford University Press

24/07/2025

Curious about Joseph Torigian's book The Party's Interests Come First? You can now learn more from our new book trailer

China's leader, Xi Jinping, is one of the most powerful individuals in the world—and one of the least understood. Much can be learned, however, about both Xi Jinping and the nature of the party he leads from the memory and legacy of his father, the revolutionary Xi Zhongxun (1913–2002).The elder Xi served the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for more than seven decades. The Party's Interests Come First is the first biography of Xi Zhongxun written in English. This biography is at once a sweeping story of the Chinese revolution and the first several decades of the People's Republic of China and a deeply personal story about making sense of one's own identity within a larger political context.

Learn more about the book: https://www.sup.org/books/history/par...

Photo Credits, in order of appearance:
Xi Jinping. Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...)

Xi Zhongxun in 1946. Public Domain via wikimedia Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...)

Xi Zhongxun in 1952, pictured with Saifuddin Azizi and Burhan Shahidi. Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...)

Xi_Zhongxun in 1959. Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...)

23/07/2025

Brazilian Belonging examines a century of Brazilian Jewish political activism, from the onset of Jewish mass migration to Brazil in the early 1920s to the present. https://www.sup.org/books/jewish-studies/brazilian-belonging

"This is the first comprehensive study of Jews in post-World War II Brazil that positions Latin America's second largest community within the framework of the Cold War. Beautifully written and relying on previously unused Portuguese and Yiddish sources, secret police and intelligence records, and over two dozen oral histories, Brazilian Belonging artfully weaves the history of Brazilian Jews into the complex fabric of South America's largest nation."
—James N. Green, Brown University

22/07/2025

From the Gilded Age to World War II, elite collectors and museums in the United States transformed from owning a smattering of Chinese porcelain as curios to possessing some of the world's largest and most sophisticated collections of Chinese art. Imperial Stewards argues that, beyond aesthetic taste and economics, geopolitics were critical to this transformation. https://www.sup.org/books/asian-american-studies/imperial-stewards

"After reading this book, you will never walk through an Asian art collection in a museum and merely see isolated objects in glass cases. Imperial Stewards tells a dynamic history of nations, institutions, and individuals across the Pacific that brought the Chinese artifacts to the United States, shaped our knowledge about them, and charted a path to the 'Pacific Century.'"
—Mari Yoshihara, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa

21/07/2025

New listening! The Last Show with David Cooper interviewed Andrew Hoffman about rethinking how we teach MBAs.

Podcast Episode · The Last Show with David Cooper · 2025-07-18 · 1h 28m

16/07/2025

"Business schools have often included ethics courses in their curriculum, often with limited success. What some schools are experimenting with is character formation."

Andrew Hoffman wrote about moral culture and MBA programs on The Conversation US

Business school applicants rate high on measures of narcissism and psychopathy. A scholar argues that character education could help change that.

16/07/2025

The need to demonstrate the effectiveness of nonprofit social programs has led to a rapid rise in the use of randomized controlled trials (RCTs), for evaluation. Mismeasuring Impact explores why RCTs are being embraced as the "gold standard" for nonprofit evaluation, despite the high cost and time investment required and the serious problems with using RCTs in a nonprofit context. https://www.sup.org/books/business/mismeasuring-impact

"In an exemplary work of humane and rigorous scholarship, Marwell and Mosley stand athwart the rise of the RCT as the dominant form of evidence for nonprofit impact and yell: 'Stop!' Even if you are a devotee of the RCT—especially if you one—this is an essential book to learn from and wrestle with."
—Benjamin Soskis, Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy, The Urban Institute

"Marwell and Mosley challenge the prevailing myth that RCTs are the 'gold standard' for evaluation, revealing RCTs as a movement rather than an infallible method. A must-read for nonprofit managers, funders, and anyone seeking a deeper, more nuanced approach to measuring impact."
—Johanna Mair, Professor of Organization, Strategy and Leadership at the Hertie School

15/07/2025

The Sensational Proletarian by Kimberly Chung is out now! https://www.sup.org/books/asian-studies/sensational-proletarian

"This engaging study examines how sensational representations of the proletarian body in 1920s-30s Korean print culture under Japanese colonialism made unique uses of affect, emotion, and visceral feelings to popularize leftist thought and class politics. Kimberly Chung presents astute, original readings of sensation, horror, and spectrality in literature, journalism, visual culture, and in the Marxist tradition itself."
—Lisa Lowe, Yale University

09/07/2025

In a new book, MIT literature professor Benjamin Mangrum explores how we deal with our doubts and fears about computing through humor, whether reconciling ourselves to machines or critiquing them.

09/07/2025

In 1898 the United States became a formal overseas empire and claimed sovereignty over the Philippine islands, justifying its rule in explicitly racial terms. Enduring Empire shows how U.S. federal state actors translated their ideas of race into state structures. https://www.sup.org/books/sociology/enduring-empire

"Methodically rigorous, clearly written, and engaged with cutting-edge literatures, Enduring Empire is a truly remarkable book. Building on a substantial, carefully assembled research base, it brings innovative social scientific analysis to bear on the tangled history of race, empire, and statecraft in the United States and the Philippines."
—Christopher Capozzola, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

08/07/2025

As AI creeps into every aspect of our lives, the data grab required to power AI also expands. In AI and Assembly, the contributors analyze how AI threatens free assembly by clustering people without consent, amplifying social biases, and empowering authoritarian surveillance. https://www.sup.org/books/sociology/ai-and-assembly

"This book is a road sign, a forewarning on the broader impact of AI on assembly and association rights. In exploring this intersection, the book paves the pathways for the reorientation of frontline civic actions in the face of AI."
—Nicholas Opiyo, Executive Director, Chapter Four Uganda

07/07/2025

We are having a sale!

To celebrate that ebooks can now be purchased directly from sup.org, we are giving a 50% discount on all direct ebook purchases made during the month of July

More information about our ebooks can be found here:
www.sup.org/ebooks