Asian History

Provides vivid accounts of commercial and leisure spaces that captivated the public imagination in the past but have since been destroyed, forgotte...

Radical Islam is a major affliction of the contemporary world. Each year, radical Islamists carry out terrorist attacks that result in a massive de...

This volume launches the translation of a work that describes the development of Chinese political thought from the time of Confucius in the late C...

In this sequel to his highly acclaimed Bureaucratic Reform in the Ottoman Empire, Carter Findley shifts focus from the organizational aspects of ad...

China was the most advanced country in the world when Huizong ascended the throne in 1100 CE. In his eventful twenty-six year reign, the artistical...

From the cry of a tiny insect, one can hear the sound of a vast world. . . .So begins Zhang Dayes preface to The World of a Tiny Insect, his haunti...

One of the most violent episodes of Chinas Boxer Uprising was the Taiyuan Massacre of 1900, in which rebels killed foreign missionaries and thousan...

Colonial Rule and Social Change in Korea 1910-1945 highlights the complex interaction between indigenous activity and colonial governance, emphasiz...

At midnight on June 30, 1997, Hong Kong became part of the Peoples Republic of China. The transfer of Hong Kong sovereignty from Great Britain to C...

In 1949, G. William Skinner, a Cornell University graduate student, set off for southwest China to conduct field research on rural social structure...

Until the 1980s, a common narrative about women in China had been one of victimization: women had dutifully endured a patriarchal civilization for ...

By studying the early splits within Korean nationalism, Michael Robinson shows that the issues faced by Korean nationalists during the Japanese col...

Scholar-officials of late medieval China were not only enthusiastic in amateur storytelling, but also showed unprecedented interest in recording st...

During the Qing dynasty (16441911), the province emerged as an important element in the management of the expanding Chinese empire, with governors ...

While popular movements in South Korea rightly grab the headlines for forcing political change and holding leaders to account, those movements are ...