An expansion of the ''ABC Chinese-English Dictionary'', this alphabetically ordered dictionary of...

Edogawa Ranpo (1894-1965) was a great admirer of Edgar Allan Poe and like Poe drew on his penchan...

'Hawaiian: Past, Present, Future presents aspects of Hawaiian and its history that are rarely tre...

The Floating World by novelist James A. Michener is a classic work on the Japanese print of the E...

Gavan Daws' remarkable achievement is to free Hawaiian history from the dust of antiquity. Based ...

''They put up barriers, the same way with our bodies. Our bodies are meant for us to be very expr...

'Here at last is an accurate and enjoyable rendering of Lu Xun's fiction in an American English i...

All series volumes have been developed in accordance with performance-based principles and method...

Two years after Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations was published in 1776, Pak Chega's (1750-1805) Dis...

Covers the writing and meaning of the 1,000 most commonly used characters in the Chinese writing ...

I lana tusi ‘ua ta’ua ‘o le Pōuliuli, tātou te fetaui ai ma le toea’ina e ‘autu i ai le tala a le...

Huineng (638–713), author and hero of the Platform Sutra, is often credited with founding the Sou...

Voices Beyond the Grave uncovers critically understudied histories of Japanese internment and lab...

Remembering Kalākaua

Remembering Kalākaua

'The exploration and settlement of the Pacific Island world is one of the most remarkable achieve...

Mother Tree imparts wisdom to her offspring, Daughter Seed, as they grow alongside each other in ...

'In the connected highlands of southwest China, Vietnam, and Laos, recalling the past is a highly...

'Hyakunin'shu: Reading the Hundred Poets in Late Edo Japan explores the 'popular literary literac...

'Modern social movements frequently serve as a space to voice concerns in a supportive and collec...

Emplacing East Timor explores the relationship between the cycle of regime change and that of kno...

The various words for 'divorce' in Japanese--rien, enkiri, fūfu wakare, rikon--reflect how the so...

The Tai Lue of Sipsong Panna, located in China's southern Yunnan province, is the largest communi...

Outsiders have construed Pitcairn and Norfolk Islands as isolated natural laboratories since the ...

For over a century, Japan has vexed and disappointed its Western allies by resisting their effort...

This volume is the first annotated translation in any language of the 'Chojang chungga-ŭi' (The M...

Written by one of the leading scholars of Japanese religion, From Stars to Stones is the fourth i...

Twelve Japanese War Criminals and One Who Got Away

Twelve Japanese War Criminals and One Who Got Away

'Transfiguring Women in Late Twentieth-Century Japan: Feminists, Lesbians, and Girls' Comics Arti...

Lyrical Translation is a literary history of modern Korean poetry's origins and its development t...

Rounding the Bases

Rounding the Bases

Observances, Feasts, and Scripts is the first monograph written in English to offer a comprehensi...

The Contours of Endearment

The Contours of Endearment

Can food determine your fate? Could indulging in delicacies bring calamity to your community? Nou...

Between 1392 and 1592—a period bounded by Japanese pirate raids along the Korean coast and Japan’...

This collection of eleven essays explores emotions and affect in Korean culture across a broad te...

Yi Kyubo (1168–1241) was the foremost writer and poet of the Koryŏ dynasty (918–1392). Not Everyt...

This book presents the first comprehensive introduction to Korean Buddhism through twenty-five ke...

In The Power of Remainder, Céline Coderey redefines how we understand health, healing, and margin...

Water Powers is an interdisciplinary collection that presents timely, original research on sacred...

This collection of eleven essays explores emotions and affect in Korean culture across a broad te...

Jakarta, one of the largest metropolitan areas in Southeast Asia, has grown from 150,000 resident...

Negotiations of the Sacred offers a fresh perspective on one of Japan’s most famous festivals, th...

Everyone knows that meditation is good for your health and wellbeing. However, a percentage of pe...

From the tenth to the thirteenth centuries, Japanese aristocrats attributed their afflictions to ...