Social & Cultural History

Weixing, or surname guessing, was a highly organized lottery practice in China wherein money was bet on the surnames of which candidates would pass...

Winner of the Grawemeyer Award in ReligionA Los Angeles Times BestsellerRaises timely and important questions about what religious freedom in Ameri...

Illegitimacy, Family, and Stigma is the first full-length exploration of what it was like to be illegitimate in eighteenth-century England, a perio...

A landmark reference guide to the LGBTQIA+ community's contributions to the English language-an intersectional, inclusive illustrated glossary feat...

Ge Zhaoguang, an eminent historian of traditional China and a public intellectual, takes on fundamental questions that shape the domestic and inter...