Focusing on the storied afterlives and artistic re-purposings of photographic images from key junctures of China’s twentieth-century – the Nanjing Massacre, the Cultural Revolution and the Tiananmen Square protests – Hillenbrand shows how they expose the subtle contours of what it is permissible and what impermissible to know...

Park offers an account of the Korean Buddhist nun, Kim Iryŏp’s life and philosophy, which takes place from 1896-1971...

Godart brings to life more than a century of ideas by examining how and why Japanese intellectuals, religious thinkers of different faiths, philosophers, biologists, journalists, activists, and ideologues engaged with evolutionary theory and religion....

According to Cook, a paradox paradox is a sophisticated kind of magic trick...

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...

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