Asian History

Diaspora Space-Time explores the transformations of Pine Mansion—a Shenzhen former emigrant community—and its members' changing relationship with t...

In Strange Tales from Edo, William Fleming paints a sweeping picture of Japan’s engagement with Chinese fiction in the early modern period (1600–18...

Like all empires, Japan’s prewar empire encompassed diverse territories as well as a variety of political forms for governing such spaces. This boo...

This book brings together multiple strands of debate around the cultural creative industries and contemporary capitalism, China’s position in globa...

Since the second century BC the Confucian Classics, endorsed by the successive ruling houses of imperial China, had stood in tension with the stati...

From 1937 to 1949, Beijing was in a state of crisis. The combined forces of Japanese occupation, civil war, runaway inflation, and reformist campai...

Reflecting the Past is the first English-language study to address the role of historiography in medieval Japan, an age at the time widely believed...

Religion has not been a popular target for economic analysis. Yet the tools of economics can offer deep insights into how religious groups compete,...

A social theory of grand corruption from antiquity to the twenty-first century.In contemporary policy discourse, the notion of corruption is highly...

An eye-opening portrait of global capitalism spanning 150 years, told through the history of the Tata corporation.Nearly a century old, the grand f...

For many years, China and India have been powerfully shaped by both transnational and subnational circulatory forces. This edited volume explores t...

Once a powerful figure who reversed the disintegration of China and steered the country to Allied victory in World War II, Chiang Kai-shek fled int...

This study of modern Japan engages the fields of art history, literature, and cultural studies, seeking to understand how the “beautiful woman” (bi...

Images of the city in literature and film help constitute the experience of modern life. Studies of the Japanese city have focused on Tokyo, but a ...

This book, a condensed translation of the prize- winning Jacqueries et révolution dans la Chine du XXe siècle, focuses on “spontaneous” rural unres...

As the rest of the world worries about what a future might look like under Chinese supremacy, Edward Luttwak worries about China’s own future prosp...

Mark E. Byington explores the formation, history, and legacy of the ancient state of Puyŏ, which existed in central Manchuria from the third centur...

The turn of the third century CE—known as the Jian’an era or Three Kingdoms period—holds double significance for the Chinese cultural tradition. It...

Persian Manuscripts & Paintings from the Berenson Collection presents an in-depth analysis of the little-known Persian manuscripts and painting...

South Korea has been held out as an economic miracle—as a country that successfully completed the transition from underdeveloped to developed count...

The Mongol conquest of north China between 1211 and 1234 inflicted terrible wartime destruction, wiping out more than one-third of the population a...

In 2009, to mark the sixtieth anniversary of the People’s Republic of China, the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies convened a major conference to...

What does it mean to be Taiwanese? This question sits at the heart of Taiwan’s modern history and its place in the world. In contrast to the prevai...

A grandson’s photo album. Old postcards. English porcelain. A granite headstone. These are just a few of the material objects that help reconstruct...

Presenting fresh insights on the internal dynamics and global contexts that shaped foreign relations in early modern Japan, Robert I. Hellyer chall...

Rise of a Japanese Chinatown is the first English-language monograph on the history of a Chinese immigrant community in Japan. It focuses on the tr...

An internationally acclaimed expert explains why Chinese-style architecture has remained so consistent for two thousand years, no matter where it i...

In this study of the Japanese jeweled pagoda mandalas, Halle O’Neal reveals the entangled realms of sacred body, beauty, and salvation. Much of the...

Landscape has always played a vital role in shaping Japan’s cultural identity. Imaginative Mapping analyzes how intellectuals of the Tokugawa and M...