Goble examines the emergence and early history of esoteric Buddhism in China.,,

Aboitiz reconnects the Philippine Revolution to the histories of Southeast and East Asia through an innovative consideration of its transnational political setting and regional intellectual foundations....

It is difficult to understand the pace or extent of the changes in Hong Kong since the protests began in June 2019...

Quinn explores the transitional years following the civil rights movement of the 1960s, in order to chart the struggle by Black film makers for rights, recognition and representation....

Hart explores how texts—literary and visual—help us engage with the space that goes beyond the limits of visible geographical borders and legal regulations...

Scott challenges us to question the persistence of structures of power and the very idea of the nation-state, while encouraging us to rethink whether there truly is such a thing as the judgment of history...

Whysner offers an accessible and compelling history of toxicology and its key findings....

Richards radically rewrites our understanding of first-wave feminism by demonstrating its proximity to international avant-garde movements including surrealism,..

Crows can be found almost everywhere that people are,..

Chinese culture and the chile pepper have been intertwined for centuries. Yet, this was not always the case...

The relationship between the United States and Saudi Arabia is a critical feature of the modern international system...

The relationship between the United States and Saudi Arabia is a critical feature of the modern international system...

Capitalism seems to many to be in a sort of constant crisis, leaving many struggling to make ends meet...

Heine gives us a comprehensive introduction to this essential Zen text, offering a textual, historical, literary, and philosophical examination of Dōgen’s treatise...

Thai chronicles the vicissitudes of smuggling in modern China—its practice, suppression, and significance—to demonstrate the intimate link between illicit coastal trade and the amplification of state power...

The American attitude towards outsiders has always been ambivalent....

Beginning in the 1950s, a group of academics, businesspeople, and politicians set out on an ambitious project to remake North Carolina’s low-wage economy...

Desai offers an alternative history of East Africa in the Indian Ocean world...

Bronkhorst makes the case through an extensive introduction and select translations of important Indian texts that language has a crucial role in Indian thought...

Lean offers a new understanding of industrialization, going beyond material factors to show the central role of culture and knowledge production in technological and industrial change....

How did Buddhist women access religious experience and transcendence in a Confucian patriarchal system in imperial China?

What do psychoanalysts do with bodies, and what do they do with them now?

Arjomand provides a startling account of the many intersections between theatre and trials in Germany and the United States from the 1930s to the 1960s...

How are we going to address inequality and put the economy on a sounder footing?

Siegel explores the previously neglected history of a diverse group of women from around the world who fought for women’s rights as male politicians forged a new world order...