Atwill questions the popular portrayals of Tibet as isolated, ethnically homogenous, and monolithically Buddhist...

How could a peasant in Shandong in the Qing dynasty come to know enough about a specific law that he felt confident enough to kill his own wife and his lover’s husband and think that he could get away with it?

How should we understand what's going on in China? Listen in....

Nao offers the first book-length English-language study of one of Japan’s iconic twentieth-century artists, Takehisa Yumeji (1884–1934)...

Aldrich illuminates two critical factors that had a direct influence on why survival rates varied so much across the Tōhoku region...

Karl argues that China’s contemporary emergence is best seen not as a “return,” but rather as the product of revolutionary and counter-revolutionary activity and imaginings...

Nathan offers a history of P’ogyo (Buddhist Propagation) on the Korean peninsula from the late 19th century to the beginning of the 21st that switches its focus to South Korea beginning with the Post-Korean War period...

Yang examines the resurgence of religious and ritual life after decades of enforced secularization in the coastal area of Wenzhou,..

This book brings together work on the syntax and semantics of the Chinese language with philosophy of language, from the classical Chinese and contemporary analytic Anglophone traditions...

Afinogenov offers a trove of insights into the centuries-long entanglements which have shaped Sino-Russian relationships up to the present...

Lean offers a new understanding of industrialization, going beyond material factors to show the central role of culture and knowledge production in technological and industrial change....

The key question Fulda poses is to what extent political activists in these three domiciles have made progress in their quest to liberalize and democratize their respective polities...

How did Buddhist women access religious experience and transcendence in a Confucian patriarchal system in imperial China?

This interview coincides with the 70th anniversary of the Korean War, a war that, as Baik reminds us, has not officially ended...

Miura examines a category of Japanese divinities that centered on the concept of “world renewal” (yonaoshi)...

Tam takes us through the ways that people in China have navigated the country’s complex linguistic landscape while also negotiating profound questions over the meanings of modern Chinese identity itself...

Bian offers a beautiful cultural history of pharmacy in early modern China..

The biggest question of the twenty-first century is: What does China want?

Keliher challenges traditional understandings of state-formation and helps us rethink how we tell the story of the founding of the Qing...

Chinese citizens make themselves at home despite economic transformation, political rupture, and domestic dislocation in the contemporary countryside...

Harney argues that baseball was not necessarily a place for the formation of a Taiwanese nationalist identity, nor was it a space for colonial resistance to the Japanese, but instead it was a site for mutual engagement and cultural genesis with the Japanese...

Key to the psychological, political and economic transformations which unfolded in China’s million villages in the 1940s and ‘50s was a powerful narrative impulse – a Maoist “script”...

Xu Xu (1908-1980) was one of the most widely read Chinese authors of the 1930s to 1960s...

Perelman examines the consequences of Japan’s decision not to tackle the tuberculosis epidemic that ravaged the country during the last quarter of the nineteenth century and the first quarter of the twentieth....

The “Mongol turn” in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries forged new political, commercial, and religious circumstances in Eurasia.