Lucas Bender considers Du Fu's pivotal role in the transformation of Chinese poetic understanding...

In contrast to the large indigent population in Japan in the 1950s, very few Japanese live in pov...

Gerteis demonstrates that Japanese organized labor's discourse on womanhood not only undermined w...

'Chinese people should consume Chinese products!' This slogan was the catchphrase of a movement i...

Mountains have always been integral components of China's religious landscape. Early in Chinese h...

'George Elison's exuberant style, his amazing polyglot skills, and his overwhelming erudition mak...

Presenting fresh insights on the internal dynamics and global contexts that shaped foreign relati...

This is the most comprehensive study of pien-wen ('transformation texts,' i.e., tales of metamorp...

Remembered today primarily as a poet, calligrapher, and critic, the protean Su Shi was an outspok...

Forty lessons designed to introduce beginning students to the basic patterns and structures of Cl...

'In a government, military matters are the essential thing,' said Japan's 'Heavenly Warrior,' the...

Japan has long wrestled with the memories of World War II. Franziska Seraphim traces the activism...

We live in a world shaped by secularism¿the separation of numinous power from political authority...

Legislation to change Korean society along Confucian lines began at the founding of the Choson dy...

This detailed biography of Japan's Postwar prime minister has had a favorable reception in the Un...

The Great Depression was a global phenomenon: every economy linked to international financial and...

The book argues that as Neo-Confucians put their philosophy of learning into practice in local so...

Jun Uchida draws on previously unused materials in multi-language archives to uncover the obscure...

Bianco focuses on 'spontaneous' rural unrest, uninfluenced by revolutionary intellectuals. The au...

The constant movement of peoples, ideas, and texts in the Japanese empire at the turn of the twen...

Relations between the Choson and Qing states are often cited as the prime example of the operatio...

Travel in Tokugawa Japan was officially controlled by bakufu and domainal authorities via an elab...

This book assesses the historical significance of the International Military Tribunal for the Far...

Michael J. Puett shows that the basic cosmological assumptions of ancient China were the subject ...

A groundbreaking study of prison religion, Karma and Punishment introduces a form of chaplaincy r...

In Wings for the Rising Sun, scholar and former airline pilot Jürgen Melzer tells the history of ...

Imaginative Mapping analyzes how intellectuals of the Tokugawa and Meiji eras used specific featu...

Sho Konishi traces the emergence from 1860 to 1930 of transnational networks of Russian and Japan...

Halle O¿Neal unpacks jeweled pagoda mandala paintings and their revolutionary entwining of word a...

Rise of a Japanese Chinatown focuses on a Chinese immigrant community in the Japanese port city o...

In Opportunity in Crisis, an exploration of the late Qing Cantonese migration along the West Rive...

The twelve chapters in this volume seek to overcome the nationalist paradigm of Japanese repressi...

Ya Zuo places Shen Gua (1031¿1095) on the broad horizon of premodern Chinese thought, and present...

The sixteen chapters in this volume treat men as well as women, theories of sexuality as well as ...

Earthquake Children is the first book to examine the origins of modern Japan¿s infrastructure of ...

The sacred mountain ¿yama (literally, ¿Big Mountain¿) has loomed over the religious landscape of ...

In this groundbreaking study, Maram Epstein identifies filial piety as the dominant expression of...

Michael A. Fuller's innovative textbook for learning classical Chinese poetry moves beyond the tr...

Chieko Nakajima tells the story of Chinäs unfolding modernity, exploring changing ideas, practice...

How have conceptions and practices of sovereignty shaped how ­Chineseness is imagined? This ethno...