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..

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

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

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....

Greene offers the the reader a theory of everything...

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

Formichi helps us to rethink how we tell the story of Islam and the lived expressions of Muslims without privileging certain linguistic, cultural, and geographic realities...

The authors argue that the definition of washoku in the UNESCO nomination is part of a longer history of manipulative place branding in Japan that has its roots in the premodern period....

Bukh provides critical historical perspective on the social construction of territorial disputes between Japan and its neighbors in Northeast Asia...

Nobbs-Thiessen traces the entwined histories of Andean, Mennonite, and Okinawan migrants to Amazonian Bolivia...

When advocacy organizations are forbidden from rallying people to take to the streets, what do they do?

Wasserstrom provides a nuanced yet accessible overview of the struggle between Hong Kong and China over self-governance and civil liberties...

Elverskog challenges the popular image of Buddhism as a religion intrinsically concerned with the environment...

Strauss offers a comparative study of regime consolidation in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and the Republic of China (Taiwan) after 1949...

Fung finds that social constructions by way of public discourse of regime change matter when embedded in wider material conditions. She argues that anxieties about loss of status help explain China’s choices...

One can’t understand modern Thailand without understanding the role of the ethnic Chinese...

What recourse did you have in Ming China if your very excellent local official was leaving your area and moving on to a new jurisdiction? You could try to block his path, you could wail and tear your hair out – or you could house an image of him in a temple, make offerings before it, and create a ‘living shrine.’