Asian History

The Gateless Barrier is one of the most cherished yet also one of the most enigmatic Chan or Zen texts of East Asian Buddhism. Compiled by the Chin...

The Gateless Barrier is one of the most cherished yet also one of the most enigmatic Chan or Zen texts of East Asian Buddhism. Compiled by the Chin...

What is design in modern China? And what are the ecological stakes in understanding how modern Chinese design encourages us to see? This book takes...

South Asia has developed from a group of newly independent post-Colonial states of at most secondary importance to the wider world to its current p...

Examining two state-sponsored history writing projects in Indonesia and the Philippines in the 1970s, this book illuminates the contents and contex...

This book explores the historical interactions between Beijing and the West before the Opium War. It focuses on the experiences of Western travelle...

This book explores the historical interactions between Beijing and the West before the Opium War. It focuses on the experiences of Western travelle...

There has been a tendency to neglect the political life of Asia, in favour of religious and aesthetic considerations. The myth of the changeless Ea...

Host country to the 1988 Olympic Games, the Republic of Korea (South Korea) became prominent in world affairs but surprisingly little was known abo...

Most writing on modern China dwells on those aspects which are new to China since the Communist takeover, stressing above all politics, Marxism, ec...

Russias vast Asian territories beyond the Urals, traditionally known as Siberia, have, despite their enormous size and the crucial role they played...

This book provides a history of anarchism in Korea and challenges conventional views of Korean anarchism as merely part of nationalist ideology, si...

Cosmopolitan ideals and pluralist tendencies have been employed creatively and adapted carefully by Muslim individuals, societies and institutions ...

So begins this lovely volume of exquisite photographs from Laos, a country whose remote regions are still hidden away to all but a few inquisitive ...

As the first in a larger series of publications which preserve and make accessible primary sources from various archives and other materials relate...

In commemoration of Lothar von Falkenhausen's 60th birthday, this volume assembles eighteen scholarly essays that explore the intersection between ...

Based on a political sociology of two families of religious scholars, al-Hakim and al-Khu'i, Elvire Corboz explains the internal workings of transn...

During the period of the Tokugawa shogunates seclusion policy from about 1630 onwards there was very little European interaction with the Japanese ...

In the past decade, Bangladesh has achieved significant social and economic progress. Despite high population density, a limited natural-resource b...

This book uncovers the Jesuits mystic theological interpretation in the translation of the Book of Changes (the Yijing) in their mission in China.T...

Ho Chi Minh explores the life of this globally important twentieth-century figure and offers new insights into his lengthy career, including his of...

How can people belong simultaneously to two cultures, originating in two different places and expressed in two different languages, without alienat...

Bringing to light the largely overlooked female participation in domestic and international art worlds, this book offers the first comprehensive s...

**Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2024**A story of staggering scope and drama, Revolusi is the masterful and definitive account of the ep...