Asian History

Japans road to war in China in the 1930s1940s is well known, as are the legacies of that conflict in the diplomatic disputes, territorial rows, and...

'Magisterial' - The Financial TimesAn updated edition of Ramachandra Guha's India After Gandhi with new material that explains the major events, po...

This book examines the representation of Birsa's political life, memory politics and the making of anticolonialism in contemporary Jharkhand. It of...

This ambitious work offers a transnational account of the deity Shinra Myjin, the god of Silla worshipped in medieval Japanese Buddhism from the el...

James St. André applies the perspective of cross-identity performance to the translation of a wide variety of Chinese texts into English and French...

With more than 150,000 Japanese restaurants around the world, Japanese cuisine has become truly global. Through the transnational culinary mobiliti...

Southeast China is a traditional stronghold of Buddhism, but little scholarly attention has been paid to this fact. Brian Nicholss pioneering book,...

Although scholars have long assumed that early Chinese political authority was rooted in Confucianism, rulership in the medieval period was not bou...

On February 1, 2021, Myanmar was thrown into a state of crisis by a military coup, abruptly ending a decade of civilian rule. The junta imprisoned ...

A comprehensive survey of Abad's visually dazzling and politically prescient works blending fabric and painting This volume surveys three decades ...

When soldiers go to war, what do their families and friends experience? There is huge public support for the military, who risk their lives in fara...

Tradition, Revolution, and Market Economy in a North Vietnamese Village examines both continuity and change over eight decades in a small rural vil...

China Reporting is an oral history showing how the China correspondent of the 1930s and 1940s constructed his or her news reality or the network of...