Dixon investigates the Japanese and Turkish states’ narratives of their “dark pasts,” the Nanjing Massacre (1937-38) and Armenian Genocide (1915-17), respectively...

Nolan also challenges the hoary concept of the military "genius," even of the Great Captains--from Alexander to Frederick and Napoleon--mapping instead the decent into total war...

Bryson’s research explores the various social and historical contexts of the Dali region in Southwest China where the deity was shaped by local expressions of the Buddhist tradition...

Cindy Yik-Yi Chu opens up an important new archive in Hong Kong to illuminate the complex and challenging story of the only entirely indigenous congregation of Chinese Catholic sisters...

Kerim Yasar argues that modern technologies of sound reproduction and transmission have had profound—and often underappreciated—social, economic, and political effects...

Ehler examines the ways in which ordinary subjects—including many so-called outcastes and other marginalized groups—participated in the administration and regulation of society in Tokugawa Japan...

Dai interrogates the truly historic events unfolding in today’s China to ask what these mean for history itself...

Anne A. Cheng illustrates the longstanding relationship between the ‘oriental’ and the ‘ornamental’...

Is democracy still the best political regime for countries to adapt to economic and technological pressures and increase their level of prosperity?

Black explores the forty-one years from the beginning of the Great War in August 1914 to the surrender of Japan in August 1945....

Gregory Smits makes extensive use of scholarship in archaeology and anthropology and leverages unconventional sources such as the Omoro sōshi(a collection of ancient songs) to present a fundamental rethinking of early Ryukyu...

What do management consultants do, and how do they do it?

Woodbridge focuses on a small but very significant evangelical community, the so-called Plymouth Brethren, and documents the attempts made by their missionaries in China during the first half of the twentieth century...

Matthew W. King tells the story of Zawa Damdin, one Mongolian monk’s efforts to defend Buddhist monasticism in revolutionary times, revealing an unexplored landscape of countermodern Buddhisms beyond old imperial formations and the newly invented national subject...

The revival of mass monasticism in Tibet in the early 1980s is one of the most extraordinary examples of religious resurgence in post-Mao China...

The fact that Korea’s experience of Japanese imperialism plays a role in present-day Japan-Korea relations is no secret to anyone

Professor Black shows the reader how criticisms of the legacy of the British Empire are, in part, criticisms of the reality of American power today.

The Taiwan Strait Crises of 1954-55 and 1958 occurred at the height of the Cold War...

Wang's is the first study of the whole life of Guo Moruo, the ‘writer, poet, dramatist, Marxist historian, paleographer . . . revolutionist and cultural fighter.'

In the late second century BCE, a series of trading route developed between China in the east and Rome’s empire in the west...

What's the connection between globalization and organized crime?

Hong Fincher makes the case that the subjugation of women is a key component of the authoritarian state...

The story of popular entertainment in American immigrant communities is only just beginning to be told...

How does music link people across time and space?

In the information age, knowledge is power. Hence, facilitating the access to knowledge to wider publics empowers citizens and makes societies more democratic...