Schoneveld shows how Shirakaba arose in opposition to the statist art of the young Meiji state,..

We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don’t understand what we’re looking at?

In 1960, a poet and journalist named Lin Zhao was arrested by the Communist Party of China and sent to prison for re-education...

Jones explores many of the core doctrines, practices and controversies of Chinese Pure Land Buddhism, situating them historically and in the modern period...

Guiffrida tells the history of collecting and exhibiting Chinese art through the story of renowned curator and museum director Sherman E. Lee (1918-2008)...

What do university presses do, and how do they do it?

Wang Gungwu has long been recognized as a world authority on the history of China and the overseas Chinese...

Benesch and Zwigenberg use the fate of castles after the Meiji coup of 1868 as a case study to explore aspects of Japan’s modern history including historical memory, cultural heritage, and state-civil society and national-regional relations...

What to make of the fact that China is ruled by a Communist Party which detains and arrests people studying Maoism, organising workers, or campaigning for women’s liberation...

Köll looks at the development of railroads in China from the late 19th century to the post-Mao reform period...

In the twenty-five years after 1989, the world enjoyed the deepest peace in history...

The things that make people academics do not necessarily make them good teachers...

Law examines the cultural context of Tokyo and Berlin’s political rapprochement in 1936...

Larry Diamond joins us this week to talk about the threat China’s model of authoritarian capitalism...

Song examines a tumultuous period in the history of this vital northeast Asian border, showing how it took shape before and during the era of Japanese empire...

Thomas challenges the commonsensical notion that the Japanese empire granted its subjects no religious freedom...

Dawley traces the waves of newcomers to Taiwan beginning with Qing dynasty transplants from the southeastern coast of China...

Li offers a sophisticated argument that this all fed into an entire framework for socialist modernity which China sought to adopt at this crucial period in its history...

Part travelogue, part history, Walton charts the opportunities and pitfalls confronting small states that have become particularly acute in an era of identity politics and civilizational leadership...

Legassie talks about medieval travel, especially long distance travel, and the way it was feared, praised, and sometimes treated with suspicion.

The Wrong of Rudeness asks a key question for our times how do we interact with each other, especially in politically contentious situations?

Day offers a fresh take on Qing diplomacy...

Founded in the 1930s by a group of teachers focused on educational reform, Soka Gakkai has since evolved from its grassroot origins as a movement inspired by Nichiren Buddhism...

Why would the Chinese Communist Party revive this former ritual? What powers lie in the symbolism of the “Golden Urn”?