Asian History

When the crucial years after the Korean War are remembered today, histories about North Korea largely recount a grand epic of revolution centering ...

From its rise in the 1830s to its pinnacle in the 1930s, the opium trade was a guiding force in the Chinese political economy. Opium money was inex...

Third place in the 2022 SAHR Templer Best First Book Prize More than one million Indian soldiers were deployed during World War I, serving in the I...

Essays on the Iwakura Embassy, the realistic painter Takahashi Yuichi, the educational system, and music, show how the Japanese went about borrowin...

Due to Chinas strong dependence/reliance on its economic development but also due to its rising political ambitions with the aim to resume a centra...

An artistic journey with artist and author Debra Luker, as she finds and imparts inspiration from Rajasthan, India  The Pigment Trail is a vis...

This revealing portrait of the Dutch Empire repositions our understanding of modern empires from the terrestrial to the oceanic. It highlights the ...

From ancient gameboards to Honor of Kings, games as cultural agentsGames as global and connected phenomena have been examined in the rising scholar...

From ancient gameboards to Honor of Kings, games as cultural agentsGames as global and connected phenomena have been examined in the rising scholar...

Presented here in a new and complete translation is the Japanese classic Okagami, an historical talc that mirrors a man's life and the times in whi...

In Crip Colony, Sony Coráñez Bolton examines the racial politics of disability, mestizaje, and sexuality in the Philippines. Drawing on literature,...

In Crip Colony, Sony Coráñez Bolton examines the racial politics of disability, mestizaje, and sexuality in the Philippines. Drawing on literature,...

Mohammad Ali Jamalzadeh, acclaimed as the father of modern Persian short story, wrote this work. Sar o Tah-e Yak Karbas. to provide his fellow Iran...

With what this poor woman had been through the sight of her crying tore at my heartstrings. What if something should happen to her; who would care ...

'The writing is sublime, the research thorough, the eye for story superb' Sunday TelegraphWhen Amitav Ghosh began the research for his monumental c...

'An acerbic, compelling and always accessible account of how opium corrupted the world' TLS'The writing is sublime, the research thorough, the eye ...

Beginning with details of its nomenclature and geography, the book continues with covering and thoroughly examining and discussing the prehistory a...

Long before Deng Xiaopings market-based reforms, commercial relationships bound the Chinese Communist Party to international capitalism and left la...

Over the last few decades historians and other scholars have succeeded in identifying diverse patterns of connection linking religious communities ...

The first three centuries of the Heian period (7941086) saw some of its most fertile innovations and epochal achievements in Japanese literature an...