Remembered today primarily as a poet, calligrapher, and critic, the protean Su Shi was an outspok...

In contrast to the large indigent population in Japan in the 1950s, very few Japanese live in pov...

Gerteis demonstrates that Japanese organized labor's discourse on womanhood not only undermined w...

'Chinese people should consume Chinese products!' This slogan was the catchphrase of a movement i...

Mountains have always been integral components of China's religious landscape. Early in Chinese h...

'George Elison's exuberant style, his amazing polyglot skills, and his overwhelming erudition mak...

Presenting fresh insights on the internal dynamics and global contexts that shaped foreign relati...

This is the most comprehensive study of pien-wen ('transformation texts,' i.e., tales of metamorp...

'In a government, military matters are the essential thing,' said Japan's 'Heavenly Warrior,' the...

Japan has long wrestled with the memories of World War II. Franziska Seraphim traces the activism...

We live in a world shaped by secularism¿the separation of numinous power from political authority...

Legislation to change Korean society along Confucian lines began at the founding of the Choson dy...