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

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...

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

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...

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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...

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