As Russia’s 1917 October Revolution distended itself across north Asia and reverberated globally, socialism acted – not unlike today’s pandemic – as a Rorschach test revealing divisions in societies and politics, and to some offering cautious hope for a new world which might be constructed in the aftermath...

McBride offers a comprehensive study of the Koryŏ (918-1392) Buddhist exegete, Ŭichŏn, that convey’s his life and work through letters, speeches, memorials, addresses, and poetry, from three epigraphical accounts...

Ambaras interrogates the spatial and ideological formations of modern Japan in its first seven decades or so as a nation-state and empire, especially vis-à-vis China...

Hong Kong in 2019 was a city on fire. Anti-government protests, sparked by an ill-fated extradition bill sparked seven months of protest and civil unrest...

In China, roughly 60% of GDP and 80% of employment comes from the private sector – yet half of private entrepreneurs report that they faced expropriation of property by local governments...

Almost 90 years ago Wuhan was at the epicentre of a major flood which, while being quite a different kind of disaster from today’s pandemic, similarly laid bare the complexities of the society which sought to deal with it.

How involved with slavery were American universities? And what does their involvement mean for us?

Scott focuses on reconstructions of Buddhist monasteries in modern China that took place in the period from 1866 to 1966,..

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...

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

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....

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...

What are the arguments in favor of social hierarchies?

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

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...