End of Empire: 100 Days in 1945 that Changed Asia and the World
The book charts 100 days of dreams, drama and turmoil across eastern Asia at the end of World War II. It combines daily events with … Read more
Politicized Society: Taiwan’s Struggle with its One-Party Past by Mikael Mattlin
This book explores a relatively uncharted area of democratic transitions. In particular, it addresses the problems of protracted transitions that occur when a one-party state … Read more
Chinese Ways of Being Muslim: Negotiating Ethnicity and Religiosity in Indonesia by Hew Wai Weng
Offers unique insights into the cultural politics of Muslim and Chinese identity in Southeast Asia today. BUY BOOK Explores the intersection between Islam and Chineseness, … Read more
The Continuation of Ancient mathematics: Wang Xiaotong’s Jigu suanjing, Algebra and Geometry in 7th-Century China by Tina Su-lyn Lim and Donald B. Wagner
Translation and analysis of the most important Chinese mathematical text of the Tang period. BUY BOOK The first modern study of the entirety of this … Read more
Western Han: A Yangzhou Storyteller’s Script by Vibeke Børdahl and Liangyan Ge
This mammoth study is a major contribution to the study of Chinese literature, making available to scholars a rare storyteller’s script from the late Qing … Read more
Explaining the East Asian Peace: A Research Story by Stein Tønnesson
This is a personal story of a multinational research programme that, instead of explaining conflict, has sought to explain peace, and to gauge its quality … Read more
Debating the East Asian Peace: What it is. How it came about. Will it last?
East Asia used to be the world’s deadliest battleground but since the 1980s there has been a sudden and marked reduction in battle deaths. BUY … Read more
In the land of the Pagodas
China, 1898: a time of war, intrigue and growing foreign power. Onto the scene comes a Parisian fugitive with a gifted pen and a journalist’s … Read more
The Columbia Companion to Modern East Asian Literature
This extraordinary one-volume guide to the modern literatures of China, Japan, and Korea is the definitive reference work on the subject in the English language. … Read more
Carpentry and Building in Late Imperial China
A Study of the Fifteenth-Century Carpenter’s Manual Lu Ban Jing