Asian History

Chinese ink painters of the Republican period (19111949) creatively engaged with a range of art forms in addition to ink, such as oil painting, dra...

Drawing on original Burmese texts and illustrations, recent scholarship, and mapping,  Mandalay and the Art of Building Cities in Burma argues that...

Guangxi, a region on China's southern border with Vietnam, has a large population of ethnic minorities and a history of rebellion and intergroup co...

Poet-Monks focuses on the literary and religious practices of Buddhist poet-monks in Tang-dynasty China to propose an alternative historical arc of...

A recovery of the vital role Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Americans played in US intelligence services in Asia during World War II. Spies deep be...

As China struggled to redefine itself at the turn of the twentieth century, nationalism, religion, and material culture intertwined in revealing wa...

In recent years, discussion of the colonial period in Korea has centered mostly on the degree of exploitation or development that took place domest...

Tens of thousands of epitaphs, or funerary biographies, survive from imperial China. Engraved on stone and placed in a grave, they typically focus ...

Rise of a Japanese Chinatown is the first English-language monograph on the history of a Chinese immigrant community in Japan. It focuses on the tr...

The status and position of Indian women have undergone many changes since the high status they enjoyed in the Vedic era yielded to forced suicide d...

Ever since Singapore became an independent nation in 1965, its government has been intent on transforming the islands environment. This has led to ...

Inventing the Way of the Samurai examines the development of the 'way of the samurai' - bushid - which is popularly viewed as a defining element of...

Female chastity stirs trouble in medieval ChinaA variety of Chinese writings from the Song period (9601279)medical texts, religious treatises, fict...

The story of a family in modern China with a history of deceit, betrayal and political intrigue, and the communist party's long shadow over them, f...

Indonesia is a semi-annual journal devoted to the timely study of Indonesia's culture, history, government, economy, and society. It features origi...

In The Chinese Revolution on the Tibetan Frontier, Benno Weiner provides the first in-depth study of an ethnic minority region during the first dec...

The book claims that the United States and the Soviet Union attained the mastery of the international order by projecting universalist values that ...

A Record of Buddhist Monasteries in Lo-yang (the Lo-Yang ch'ieh-lan chi) is a major document of Chinese history and literature. This translation of...

This book examines the history of the military comfort women system in China. It aims to give readers a deeper insight into the origin, establishme...

Authored by one of the leading scholars of German Indology, Fortified Cities in Ancient India offers a comparative exploration of the development o...