Religion has returned to China. Really, it never left...

Given its expanding multimedia presence in Asia and around the world for many years now, K-pop is a phenomenon that is hard to ignore...

Baum's book is a genealogy of “psychiatric modernity,” of the invention and reinvention of modern mental illness in Beijing, 1901-1937...

There can be little doubt that Hong Kong has stood out as a particularly intense East Asian news hotspot in recent years...

Goscha brilliantly paints a picture of an ancient, diverse, and complex country which had already begun to modernize before the arrival of the French...

Alfredo Toro Hardy analyzes the leadership of China and the economic strength of Asia...

Based on interviews with North Koreans who have settled in the South, Baek shows how everything from television programs to foreign affairs coverage and fashion has made its way into the country from the outside world....

Monica Kim provides a fresh look at the Korean War with a people-centered approach that studies the experiences of prisoners of war...

More than a history of garbage and waste disposal, Waste is a look at the aspirations and discontents of a rapidly changing society...

Abrahamian's work on each place is based on years of firsthand experience in these ‘outposts of tyranny’, as former-US Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice dubbed them in 2005...

Fulton’s book is a timely contribution to discussion of the changing global balance of power as Gulf states

Jackson argues that the 2017 nuclear crisis was a product of a gradual hardening of U.S. policy towards North Korea...

China’s global rise has been analysed from many perspectives in recent years...

At a time when trade between China and the outside world is rarely out of the news, it remains important to remember that in centuries past global commerce moved in directions very different from those which dominate the present...

As public knowledge grows of the Chinese state’s subjugation of the central Asian region of Xinjiang, many may find themselves wondering what Beijing’s interest in this distant region is in the first place.

Alessandro Arduino and Xue Gong’s Securing the Belt and Road, Risk Assessment, Private Security and Special Insurances Along the New Wave of Chinese Outbound Investments (Red Globe Press, 2018) significantly contributes to an understanding not only of China’s ambitious infrastructure and energy driven Belt and Road Initiative, but also the increasing challenges it poses for China itself...

Howard Chiang’s new book is a masterful study of the relationship between sexual knowledge and Chinese modernity...

On the background of widespread portrayals of China as a monolithic geographical and political entity...

The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki both play a central role in any narrative of the end of the East Asia-Pacific War...

McKenzie Wark’s new book offers 21 focused studies of thinkers working in a wide range of fields who are worth your attention...

In her new book, historian Jennifer Altehenger, a Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Chinese History at King’s College London, grapples with the complex issue of how authorities and cultural workers attempted to create effective law propaganda...

The Making of a Modern Art World: Institutionalization and Legitimization of Gouhua in Republican Shanghai (Brill, 2017) investigates the production and consumption of guohua (“national painting”) in Shanghai between 1929 and the outbreak of the Second...

When he was elected president of China in 1912, Yuan Shikai was hailed as his nation’s George Washington, yet four years later he would die as the leader of a country in turmoil after a failed bid to become its emperor.