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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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 ...

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...