Asian History

Eulogy for Burying a Crane (Yi he ming) is perhaps the most eccentric piece in Chinas calligraphic canon. Apparently marking the burial of a crane,...

First-hand accounts of travel provide windows into places unknown to the reader, or new ways of seeing familiar places. In Jade Mountains and Cinna...

How news circulated from the Qing dynasty courtIn the Qing dynasty (16441911), China experienced far greater access to political information than s...

Tech companies such as Google, Amazon, and Microsoft promote the free flow of data worldwide, while relying on foreign temporary IT workers to buil...

Winner of the Ramnath Goenka Award 2020 On 26th January 1950 India became a republic, shedding its last links with its colonial past and inaugurat...

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE'Magisterial' Max Hastings, The Sunday Times'Monumental' Rana Mitter, Times Literary Supplement'Every...

This rich and enjoyable book by the acclaimed author of Japan Story explores the many ways in which Asia has influenced Europe and North America ov...

'A tour de force of accessible scholarship' The Guardian'Impressive ... It is a complicated story that still reverberates, and Gingeras narrates it...

Chinas dismantling of the Mao-era rural commune system and return to individual household farming under Deng Xiaoping has been seen as a successful...

The Kaleidoscopic City explores the development of Pentecostalism in Hong Kong between 1907 to 1942. Focusing primarily on Pentecostal missionaries...

Chinese was the earliest truly global cuisine. When the first Chinese laborers began to settle abroad, restaurants appeared in their wake. Yet Chin...

Born in Hull in 1917, Geoffrey Langlands narrowly survived the Spanish Flu epidemic and Zeppelin bombings of World War I. Coming of age in time for...

In Little Need of Divine Intervention presents a fundamental revision of the thirteenth-century Mongol Invasions of Japan by revealing that the war...

Forming the Early Chinese Court builds on new directions in comparative studies of royal courts in the ancient world to present a pioneering study ...

Broadening an overly narrow definition of Islamic journalism, Janet Steele examines day-to-day reporting practices of Muslim professionals, from co...

Postcolonial literature about the South Seas, or Nanyang, examines the history of Chinese migration, localization, and interethnic exchange in Sout...

By shedding light on a long-forgotten epigraphic genre that flourished in North China during the Mongol Empire, or Yuan Dynasty (12711368), Genealo...