Asian History

Through an ethnographic study inside Japans Buddhist goods industry, this book establishes a method for understanding change in death ritual throug...

In imperial China, people moved away from the gender they were assigned at birth in different ways and for many reasons. Eunuchs, boy actresses, an...

In imperial China, people moved away from the gender they were assigned at birth in different ways and for many reasons. Eunuchs, boy actresses, an...

The Asia-Pacific region has been enjoying fast growing economy. As President Barack Obamas pivot to Asia strategy indicates, this region is an engi...

China's Soft Power Diplomacy: Myth or Reality? examines the Chinese version of soft power both in conceptual and operational terms, and explores it...

This literary study examines women-authored poetry and poetic criticism in late imperial China. It provides close readings of original texts to exp...

This book examines the development of wartime culture in the city of Guilin, Guangxi Province, in southwestern China during a major part of the cou...

After Leaning to One Side traces the rise and fall of the Sino-Soviet alliance between 1949 and 1973, emphasizing tension over the Korean and Vietn...

Honorable Mention for the 2023 Bei Shan Tang Monograph Prize, sponsored by the Association for Asian StudiesAn innovative look at late-Qing cultura...

This book examines the journalistic coverage and challenges during the Russo-Japanese War of 190405, what some have called World War Zero. The auth...

According to conventional interpretations, the Japanese annexation of Korea in 1910 destroyed a budding native capitalist economy on the peninsula ...

The popularity of pornography is predicated on the idea that those participating have given their consent. That is what allows the porn industry to...

The popularity of pornography is predicated on the idea that those participating have given their consent. That is what allows the porn industry to...

Dan Morrison has unearthed a fabulous true-crime story and embedded it within a fascinating work of micro history. David Grann has competition. ROB...

Winner of the Science Fiction Research Association Book AwardA groundbreaking, alternate history of information technology and information discours...

The Khorat Plateau is a landscape of some 155,000 square kilometres of what is now northeast Thailand and central Laos. Despite the rich evidence f...

This book provides a timely analysis of the politics, philosophy, and history of Chinese power, focusing on social, strategic, and diplomatic trend...

Creating Japans Ground Self-Defense Force, 19452015 is a timely contribution to postwar Japan security studies. It is the first comprehensive accou...

The planned reductions in NATO troop numbers in Afghanistan through 2015 and a final withdrawal at the end of 2016 brings up numerous pressing ques...

The first book-length English-language study focusing on the early modern export of Chinese silk to New Spain from the sixteenth to the seventeenth...

Based on over two years of participant-observation in labor brokerage firms, factories, schools, churches, and peoples homes in Japan and Brazil, S...