Details the textual and performative history of the South Asian festival of Indra and its role in the development of classical Hinduism.

Comprehensive examination of the goals, strategies, and motives of the six parties involved in North Korea denuclearization talks through the lens of negotiation theory.

Traces the development of the Chinese love story during the Song and Yuan dynasties.

Presents Li Zehou's culminating views on ethics in a series of works that highlight the importance of Confucian philosophy today.

A complete translation and analysis of "All Things Flow into Form" (Fan wu liu xing), a recently discovered manuscript from the Warring States period (481–221 BCE).

Analyzes the nature, processes, and political consequences of the asymmetrical relationships between China and its six small neighbors in Asia.

Reveals how the persona of India's most famous emperor was constantly reinvented in ancient times to suit a variety of social visions, political agendas, and moral purposes.

Offers a variety of pedagogical and theoretical essays designed to assist professors in introducing undergraduate students to Buddhism in China, Korea, and Japan.

Detailed assessment of the People's Republic of China as an alternative mode of political system and as a distinctive model of socioeconomic development.

An ecopsychological, ecospiritual exploration of humankind's relationship with the rest of nature.

Examines literary, historical, and cultural portrayals of Chinese women, across centuries and continents.

Offers a renovated form of Confucian liberalism that forges a reconciliation between the two extremes of anti-Confucian liberalism and anti-liberal Confucianism.

Addresses the question of China's rise and what it portends for the future.

Presents the most important portrayals of the Daoist master Yang Zhu throughout Chinese history, from the Warring States period until today.

Offers alternative approaches to the study of colonial and postcolonial Korean Buddhism, suggesting new directions for scholarship.

A richly scholarly yet accessible and imaginative account of society in the time of the Buddha.

Uses popular films to reveal the tensions generated during Japan’s postwar "economic miracle," challenging the prevailing view that it was a story of great national success.

A comprehensive treatment of the shared traditions of Chan, Sŏn, and Zen in dynamic interaction across East Asia, acknowledging the changing and growing parameters of the field of Zen studies.

Uses a comparative hermeneutical method to explain the most important terms in the classical Confucian philosophical texts, in an effort to allow the tradition to speak on its own terms.

Contextualizes Sabha Theatre historically, politically, and aesthetically, revealing how it expresses a Tamil Brahmin identity that is at once traditional and modern.

Examines the colonization of Goa in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and the durability of Portuguese rule.

Rejects Hindu nationalism and pluralist secularism in favor of a revitalized politics of Indian federalism.

Relates Chinese Realism to contemporary political and ethical challenges, such as in international relations and the morality of the public sector.

Explores Italian filmmakers' representations of China and the Chinese, both at home and abroad.

Examines the place of history in the political thought of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, one of the key architects of modern Hindu nationalism.

Offers an Asian immigrant perspective on US racial relations and explores the unique situations and challenges facing Asian immigrants in the United States.

Chronicles the astonishing and counterintuitive spread of Christianity among a group of previously isolated tribes in a remote and hilly part of Northeastern India.

The first concerted attempt to analyze how the histories Shiji and Hanshu described the technical arts as they were applied in vital areas of the administration of pre-Han and Han China.

Analyzes socially engaged art practices worldwide, linking them to decolonial struggle and critique.

Challenges and reimagines transnational feminism by analyzing the concept of ummah, or community, in Muslim women's writing.

Explores the rich diversity of narratives, rituals, and participants connected with one of the most important celebrations for Hindus in South Asia and in the diaspora.

Looking at Japan, traces crisis narratives across three decades and ten policy fields, with the aim of disentangling discursively manufactured crises from actual policy failures.

Documents how the premodern techniques of narrating the past in South Asia were deeply transformed by colonial modernity, resulting in newer forms of truth-telling within the Sikh community.

Offers three neo-Confucian understandings of broadening the Way as broadening oneself, through an ongoing process of removing self-boundaries.

Describes the profound social impact of the overthrow of the Thai absolute monarchy in 1932, and explains the importance of democracy in a country long known for authoritarian politics.

Explores how poetry was used to disseminate and interpret history in early medieval China.

Explores the aesthetic theory of one of China's most important and influential contemporary philosophers.

The ancient concept of spontaneous self-causation (ziran) from Daoism opens a path to understanding human action as self-organizing, attention as effortless, and art as somatic.

An introduction to ancient Chinese ideas on how to live a good life.

Posits the origin of a specifically Chinese concept of “word-meaning,” and sheds new light on the linguistic ideas in early Chinese philosophical texts.

Explores how a folk ballad in southern India transforms the landscape and embeds the deities that are its subject within the social worlds of their devotees.

The first English-language translation of an important figure in modern Confucian thought.

Analyzes international and cultural relationships informed by "China," a category that is becoming ever more indispensable and yet unstable in everyday narratives.

Explores questions of death and mortality in several key texts of East Asian literature and cinema.

Questions universities’ increasing reliance on market-oriented metrics to determine their strategic directions and gauge faculty productivity.

Examines the relationship between Mughal political culture and the two dominant strains of Islam's Sufi traditions in South Asia: one centered around orthodoxy, the other focusing on a more accommodating and mystical spirituality.

Explores key questions about translations and translators of South Asian Buddhist texts, past and present.

A major contribution to the study of South Asian literature, offering a landmark view of Mahābhārata studies.

Examines English-language Indian newspapers from the mid-nineteenth century and their role in simultaneously sustaining and probing British colonial governance.

Examines the key role of a hagiographer within a charismatic religious movement.

Brings early Daoist writings into conversation with contemporary contemplative studies.

Draws on two different but strikingly similar streams in our world tradition to argue for the contemporary philosophical relevance of “culture.”

Offers a comparative and deconstructive reading of the cross-cultural encounter between the Jesuits and their Confucian hosts in late Ming China.

Comparative, ethnographic study of women who migrate for marriage in rural north India.

Argues that the role of Buddhism in modern Japanese prose literature has been significantly overlooked.

Offers an in-depth exposition of the Confucian conception of persons as the starting point of Confucian ethics.

Unique interdisciplinary analysis of gendered and racialized economies of care in South Asia and the Americas.

Aims to introduce a greater degree of theoretical rigor to the discipline of Japan studies as a whole.

Essays on modern Indian history and the legacy of Partition.

Explains why and how local critical reporting can exist in China despite the kinds of media control that are the hallmarks of authoritarian rule.

A unique work on the underlying ontology, cosmology, and moral philosophy of the Yijing.

A systematic analysis of the myth cycle of Paraśurāma (“Rāma with the Axe”), an avatára of Viṣṇu with a much darker reputation.

Broadens the parameters of religious studies by accounting for material acts that help shape religious worlds.

Investigates how the Thai poet Angkarn Kallayanapong adapts Buddhist concepts of time to create a modern Asian aesthetic imaginary.

Offers a compelling intercultural perspective on body, art, self, and society.

Critical essays on the transnational Kashmiri-American poet.

Investigates the professional practices of astrologers in urban India and their popularity among the educated middle and upper classes.

The first in-depth study of the All World Gayatri Pariwar, a modern Indian religious movement.

Argues that Confucianism and other East Asian philosophical traditions can be resources for understanding and addressing current global challenges such as climate change and hunger.

A study of Hu Feng as a literary critic and case study on how intellectual work can respond to political pressure.

The first book to offer a detailed framework, a fine-grained history, and an analytically nuanced understanding of one of the rarest branches of Hindu worship.

Sets out the challenges presented to Muslim societies by Western dominance over the past two hundred years, and explores Muslim responses, particularly in the context of South Asia.

A comprehensive and theory-rich investigation of the history and philosophy of yoga, from its Indian origins to the contemporary context.

Explores the relationship between literature and philosophy in classical and contemporary Buddhist texts.

Offers new perspectives on modern Chinese political thought.

Uses a cross-national comparison of Los Angeles, New Delhi, and Hong Kong to develop strategies universities should employ to strengthen democracy and resist fascism.

Examines Shanghai both as a real city and an imaginary locale, from diverse cultural and disciplinary perspectives.

An interdisciplinary dialogue with Shūsaku Endō’s last novel offering new perspectives on Japanese culture, Christian doctrine, Hindu spiritualities, and Buddhist worldviews.

Argues for an important transformation in the construction of the self among Japanese converts to Roman Catholicism.

Examines China’s involvement in Ethiopia as the latter embarks on modernization and economic development.

Argues that the only way to understand the Confucian vision of the consummate moral life is to take the tradition on its own terms.

Examines the political dynamics behind anticorruption efforts in Asia.

Examines the role that Japanese girls’ magazine culture played during the twentieth century in the creation and use of the notion of shōjo, the cultural identity of adolescent Japanese girls.

Through an examination of archaeologically recovered texts from China’s northwestern border regions, argues for widespread interaction with texts in the Han period.

Provides a new perspective on important linguistic issues in philosophical and religious Daoism through the comparative lens of twentieth-century European philosophies of language.

Reassesses didacticism in seventeenth-century Chinese vernacular fiction and challenges the view that the late Ming was a notoriously immoral time.

Reveals cultural paradigms and historical prejudices regarding the role of birthing and women in the reproduction of society.

Discusses contemporary Confucianism's relevance and its capacity to address pressing social and political issues of twenty-first-century life.

Shows how the text evolved from a non-narrative historical record into a Confucian classic.