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

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...

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

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

'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...

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

'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...

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...

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...

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

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