"What are the implications of re-theorizing 'service-learning' in the Asian context--an area that encompasses some 60 percent of the world's population? Xing, Ma, and their colleagues delineate a new pedagogy that will enhance service, civic engagement, and participatory democracy in local contexts even as students and their teachers grapple with the miasmas of the global political economy." --Lane Ryo Hirabayashi, The George and Sakaye Aratani Endowed Chair, Asian American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles