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

This is a thoroughly revised edition of Integrated Korean: Intermediate 2, the fourth volume of t...

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

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

Remembering Kalākaua

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

A story and hands-on exploration of music made from rubbish!

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

In mid-fourteenth-century Japan, amid decades of civil unrest caused by a violent rivalry over im...

Modernity and Malevolence in the Psychiatric Clinic is a richly detailed ethnographic study of cl...

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'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

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'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

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

The Contours of Endearment

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

During the first half of the twentieth century, a wide range of the Japanese populace was drawn t...

'We joked often—laughed to the point of crying (that deep visceral laughter)—not just about the s...

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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...

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