Asian History

Two of the most stylized shots in cinema - the close-up and the long shot - embody distinct attractions. The iconicity of the close-up magnifies th...

From the fourteenth through the nineteenth centuries Japanese monks created hundreds of maps to construct and locate their place in a Buddhist worl...

What does it mean to design democratic cities and democratic citizens in a time of mass urbanization and volatile political transformation? Citizen...

The Treaty of Paris in 1898 initiated Americas administration of the Philippines. By 1905, Manila had been replanned and the city of Baguio built a...

In the early 400s, numerous Indian and Central Asian Buddhist meditation masters (chanshi) traveled to China, where they established the first endu...