Roberts reveals the nuances of Chinese censorship in the age of the internet...

Hara explores the collaboration between Hisaishi and Miyazaki Hayao, the film’s creator and director...

Eunuchs. Nobody liked them, everybody seems to have hated them, but, even so, they were an essential part of many states – even in the Qing...

Is a rising power – like China – a threat to the world order?

What are the arguments in favor of social hierarchies?

Challenging conventional narratives of Japan’s colonial history that often centered on sites of dominance and oppression, Ziomek “reverse engineers” these narratives to focuses on the experiences of Japan’s colonial subjects,..

Accompanied by a rich array of archival photos, maps and designs, Roskam’s book takes us down to street level,..

Kim's book is the first monograph published in English on the early modern history of the Orochen, an ethnic group that has inhabited northeast Asia for centuries...

The discipline of folkloristics in the People’s Republic of China is robust and well-funded...

How does the world of book reviews work?

Rebgong, in the Northeastern part of the Tibetan Plateau (China’s Qinghai Province), is in the midst of a ‘Battle for Fortune.’

Mattingly argues that civil society can encourage contributions to public goods like roads, schools, and charities, civil associations increase the prestige and authority of local elites who can help insure political compliance...

Between 1942 and 1955, Setzekorn argues, professionally-minded officers within the KMT leveraged their military partnership with the United States to build China's first truly national army...

If you’re a grad student facing the ugly reality of finding a tenure-track job, you could easily be forgiven for thinking about a career change...

The term ‘Manchuria’ conjures up all manner of evocative associations for people interested in East Asian and world history,..

Marsili offers a new comparative perspective on the role of the sacred in the formation of China’s early empires (221 BCE–9 CE)...

Cheung discusses the most important points of the book while at the same time digressing (philosophically, of course) to various other themes, from the practice of teaching philosophy to the advantages and dangers of English as a lingua franca...

Elizabeth Economy explains the background to recent dramatic changes inside China...

Lovins explains how as king Chŏngjo governed not as a weak ruler but as an absolute monarch...

Between 1901 and World War II, up to half of all U.S.-born Chinese Americans relocated to China in search of better lives due to the discrimination they faced in the United States...

This book brings together perspectives of leading international Tibetan studies scholars on the subject of zhentong or “other-emptiness.

Fahy gives a thorough and compelling analysis of testimonies and reports on North Korea...

Liu makes a massive contribution to the field by opening up a fascinating new vista for scholars of cybernetics, film studies, literature, media studies, science and technology studies, and beyond...

From its crude and uneasy beginnings thirty years ago, Chinese sperm banking has become a routine part of China’s pervasive and restrictive reproductive complex...

Driessen finds that the hope of sharing China’s success with developing countries soon turns into bitterness, as Chinese workers perceive a lack of support and appreciation from Ethiopian laborers and local institutions...