Jennifer Crewe, Editorial Director

I acquire in the fields of Asian humanities, film, and food history, and publish books on New York City history and culture. In addition I publish several longstanding series: European Perspectives, Gender and Culture, and the Wellek Library Lectures.

Our Asian humanities list, developed over the past 50 years in close association with the Department of East Asian Literature and Culture at Columbia University, is comprised mainly of translations of classic works in philosophy, history and literature from China, Japan, Korea, and India, as well as anthologies of translations of core texts in those traditions. Recent publications include Burton Watson’s translations of The Analects of Confucius and The Tales of the Heike , Victor Mair’s The Art of War: Sun Zi’s Military Methods, Haruo Shirane’s Traditional Japanese Literature:  An Anthology, and Wm. Theodore DeBary’s Sources of East Asian Tradition.

I also publish translations of modern Asian literary works in our Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan series, including Orphan of Asia by Zhouliu Wu and in our Weatherhead Books on Asia series, including I Love Dollars and Other Novellas by Zhu Wen.  The Weatherhead series includes a nonfiction component in which we publish translations of important historical works, such as In the Beginning, Woman Was the Sun:  The Autobiography of a Japanese Feminist by Haratsuka Raicho.  In addition the Asia Perspectives series includes works of history and cultural criticism of interest to general readers as well as to Asia scholars, such as Frog in the Well:  Portraits of Japan by Watanabe Kazan, by Donald Keene.

Most film books published at Columbia are in our Film and Culture Series.  This well-established series has published many of the most highly respected works of film history and culture of the past twenty years, including Silent Film Sound, by Rick Altman, Pre-Code Hollywood, by Thomas Doherty, and Primitive Passions, by Rey Chow.  Recently Richard Allen’s Hitchcock’s Romantic Irony has appeared in this series.

Gender and Culture is also a longstanding series at the Press, and includes many seminal feminist works, including Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s Between Men and Joan Wallach Scott’s Gender and the Politics of History.  Recent works include Modernism and the Architecture of Private Life by Victoria Rosner.

Our food list includes the highly acclaimed Molecular Gastronomy by Hervé This, and the seminal Food: A Culinary History, edited by Jean-Louis Flandrin and Massimo Montanari. The books in this list are published in our series Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History, and most are historical in nature.

European Perspectives, another well established series at the Press, includes translations of works by leading European philosophers, historians, and cultural critics, including Julia Kristeva, Gilles Deleuze, Emmanuel Levinas, Theodor Adorno, Carlo Ginzburg, and many others.

Recent publications on New York City include Riverside Park: The Splendid Sliver by Edward Grimm with photographs by E. Peter Schroeder, and South Street by Barbara G. Mensch.

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