Qingming shanghe (Up the River during Qingming), dubbed China's Mona Lisa, is a painting whose pr...

In early modern China, a major revival of Buddhism coincided with a surging fascination with thea...

The Mongol Empire changed the world, but early chronicles of its conquests, written from regional...

In The Promised Republic, Russell Burge offers a bold new history of South Korea's rapid developm...

The Presence of Peach Spring radically breaks with conventional interpretations of medieval lumin...

Is China's signature global strategy a boon to world development or a channel for control? Traver...

Longing for Landscape explores the work of famed Chinese poet Su Shi (1037-1101) and his creation...

In traditional studies of Chinese architecture, Buddhist halls are often seen as mere variations ...

Forty lessons designed to introduce beginning students to the basic patterns and structures of Cl...

Between 1876 and 1945, thousands of Japanese civilians¿merchants, traders, prostitutes, journalis...

Since the late 1960s a ubiquitous feature of popular culture in Japan has been the 'idol,' an att...

This book assesses the historical significance of the International Military Tribunal for the Far...

Amid the political turmoil of China's Cultural Revolution, a small group of painters in Beijing d...