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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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...