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.'

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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....

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

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

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...