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Exceptional books require exceptional resources. Philanthropic gifts help UC Press maintain the production values required for high-quality photos, maps, and other special features. They also help to keep prices affordable for students, scholars, and general readers. Gifts of $5,000 and above may be designated to subsidize the special costs associated with a book's publication and will be recognized in the first pages of the book supported. You may also choose to underwrite a group or series of publications in a particular subject with a gift of $25,000 or more.

You may designate your support for one of the titles below by clicking on DonateNow and entering your request in the Comments box. Or contact Director of Development Deborah Kirshman at deborah.kirshman@ucpress.edu or 510-643-7704.

Forthcoming books requiring support include:

The Art of Modern China, by Julia Andrews and Kuiyi Shen
(Anticipated date of publication: Spring 2009)
This first comprehensive study of modern Chinese art history begins with Chinese art of the Age of Imperialism and then both chronologically and thematically focuses on the art of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. One of the authors' primary goals is to highlight the self-conscious struggle of Chinese artists to honor tradition while embracing modernity as well as the tension between cultural nationalism and cosmopolitanism. This lively, accessible, and beautifully illustrated text will serve and enlighten scholars, students, collectors, and the myriad individuals who are interested in Asian art and artists.

The Third Reich Sourcebook, edited by Sander Gilman and Anson Rabinbach
(Anticipated date of publication: Spring 2009)
This volume is conceived as a companion to The Weimar Republic Sourcebook published by UC Press in 1994. No documentation of National Socialism can be undertaken without explicit recognition that the "German Renaissance" promised by the Nazis culminated in unprecedented horror-World War II and the genocide of European Jewry. The Third Reich Sourcebook will survey the political and ideological formation of Nazism in the early 1920s, the growth of a mass movement with a new political style in the mid and late 1920s, the struggle for power in the 1930s, and the twelve years of Nazi rule. Consisting of 425 documents, 100 illustrations, and in-depth commentary and analysis, with an estimated length of 1,000 printed pages, it will become the standard documentary source for undergraduates, graduate students, and general readers.

Poems for the Millennium, Volume Three: The University of California Book of Romantic and Postromantic Poetry, edited by Jerome Rothenberg and Jeffrey Robinson
(Anticipated date of publication: January 2009)
Global in scope, experimental in structure, and revolutionary in content, the first two Poems for the Millennium anthologies brought together the work of poets who have been at the forefront of innovative and visionary poetry in the twentieth century. This third volume recognizes that innovative and visionary poetry had its roots in the Romantic period. Not only will the volume reevaluate the work from this period, it will present new translations of well-known works that will result in reinterpretation and rethinking of the relationship between the Romantic period and the Modern period. This landmark anthology will take a fresh and radical approach to the poetry of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

When Government Worked: The Legacy of the New Deal in California, photographs by Robert Dawson, with an introduction by D.J. Waldie
(Anticipated date of publication: Spring 2009)
This books aims to make visible the built landscape of the New Deal in California through photographs by Robert Dawson and text by D.J. Waldie. In an era when government funding for public works has been drastically curtailed, this book attests to the importance and lasting value of such government-funded projects. These New Deal projects–works ranging from the US-99 highway expansion to Diego Rivera murals, the Berkeley Rose Garden, and numerous city halls, libraries, schools, airports, railway stations, dams, etc.–have quietly enriched communities and helped strengthen the state's economy. The photographs and text will both preserve this legacy and offer a model for how government can serve the public for the future.