Asian History

In recent years, China 's leaders have taken decisive action to transform information, communications, and technology (ICT) into the nation's next ...

An insightful history of censorship, hate speech, and majoritarianism in post-partition South Asia.At the time of the India-Pakistan partition in 1...

A concise new history of a century of struggles to define Asian identity and express alternatives to European forms of universalism.The balance of ...

Almost forty years after its foundation, Hezbollah remains an enigma. Is it an Islamist terrorist group dedicated to destroying Israel or the first...

Concerned with the fate of the minority in the age of the nation-state, Muslim political thought in modern South Asia has often been associated wit...

Christianity is often praised as an agent of Chinese modernization or damned as a form of cultural and religious imperialism. In both cases, Christ...

Ausgehend von den narratologischen Kategorien Erzählstimme, Perspektive und Distanz nimmt die Monographie zwei Forschungsdesiderate in Angriff: Si...

In early nineteenth-century China, a remarkable transformation took place in the art world: artists among Chinas educated elites began to use touch...

For more than century before World War II, traders, merchants, financiers, and laborers steadily moved between places on the Indian Ocean, trading ...

For more than century before World War II, traders, merchants, financiers, and laborers steadily moved between places on the Indian Ocean, trading ...

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

Winner of the 2023 William H. Welch Medal, sponsored by the American Association for the History of MedicineA revealing study of risky cures in cla...