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Lever Press Recent Books Unlocking the Treasury Elementary Learning for Boys in Qing China Katherine Ngo Unlocking the Treasury Elementary Learning for Boys in Qing China seeks to address the existing gap in Western scholarship regarding premodern Chinese primary education its theories and textbooks. With a focus on the Qing dynasty textbook Treasury of Elementary Learning Youxue qionglin this volume is the first major study of the Treasury in English and reveals a rich tradition of education through close and critical readings of the text. Ordering Tang China Cultural Memory Emperor Taizong and the Essentials Kelly Ngo In Ordering Tang China Cultural Memory Emperor Taizong and the Essentials Kelly Ngo presents the first booklength study in English of the Essentials for Bringing about Order from Assembled Texts Qunshu zhiyao a rulership anthology that became renowned for its model of governance in ancient and early modern East Asia. The Detroit Genre Race Dispossession and Resilience in American Literature and Film 19672023 Vincent Haddad The Detroit Genre provides the first comprehensive literary and cultural investigation of the representations of Detroit in popular and literary culture and argues that the suburban sitcom the postapocalyptic genre the scifi dystopia crime fiction the superhero genre and contemporary horror would not exist in the way they do today without the aesthetic material and racial history of Detroit.