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

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...

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

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...

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...

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”?

Fromm has much light to shed on how the country’s ruling Communist Party refashioned its relationship with its frontiers at an earlier point in history...

Oda shows how city leaders and local residents in San Francisco fashioned a postwar municipal identity through their promotion of what Oda calls transpacific urbanism...

Frühstück shows how children and childhood have been used in twentieth century Japan as technologies to moralize war, and later, in the twenty-first century, to sentimentalize peace...

Starling invites us into the daily lives of the bōmori, the spouses of priests in the Japanese Jōdo Shinshū, or True Pure Land, tradition...

Vukovich analyzes the 'intellectual political culture' of post-Tiananmen China in comparison to and in conflict with liberalism inside and outside the P.R.C...

Orbach provides new insights into the origins of the insubordination that plagued and characterized the Imperial Japanese Army in the 1930s...

Perabo examines the conflict through the concept of an “interreligious war” between Christian and Buddhist nations...

The Genji Album (1510) in the Harvard Art Museums is the oldest dated set of Genji illustrations known to exist...

Steinhardt here draws on decades of exhaustive reading and tireless fieldwork to tell the story of Chinese building practices, principles and techniques across space and time...

"Becoming One" is a rich ethnographic study of the work of a Japanese NGO called the Organization for Industrial, Spiritual and Cultural Advancement...

Taking ideology seriously as a component of socialist foreign policy, Friedman’s new and compelling analysis shows how deep Moscow and Beijing’s disagreements ran...

Harris talks about the trip she made with her friend Mel, tracing Marco Polo’s route across Central Asia and Tibet...

Arch weaves together a wealth of diverse materials to demonstrate and explore the social, cultural, economic, intellectual, and religious impacts of whales on the world of Tokugawa Japan...

Is classical Japanese poetry something to be enjoyed in private, an object of study for scholars, or an item of public life teeming with hints about how to understand and deal with our past and our future?