Considers what unearthed documents reveal about the creation and transmission of knowledge in ancient China.

A comparative study of wonder in South Asian religions.

Reality merges with illusion in this novel of northwestern China.

Presents Tantra from an ethnographic vantage point, through a series of case studies grounded in diverse settings across contemporary Asia.

Argues that Daoism and dandyism, linked by likeminded philosophies of “carefree wandering,” deconstruct the puritanism and political correctness sought by Confucianism, Victorianism, and contemporary neoliberal culture.

Applies a method of comparative cultural hermeneutics to let the tradition speak on its own terms.

A clear translation and helpful explanations illuminate this ancient classic of self-cultivation for a modern audience.

Explores the music of the Tibetan Chöd tradition.

An analysis of the philosophy of the Yijing in comparison to modern Western philosophies.

Offers a portrait of India as seen through the eyes of a sensitive, sharp-eyed, and witty young scholar in the early 1960s.

Reevaluates Western and Chinese philosophical traditions to question the boundaries of entrenched conceptual frameworks.

Examines the intersections between forgetting and remembering in classical Chinese civilization.

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.

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

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.

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).

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

Brings early Daoist writings into conversation with contemporary contemplative studies.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Offers new perspectives on modern Chinese political thought.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Critical essays on the transnational Kashmiri-American poet.

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

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.

Offers an in-depth ethnography of paradigm shifts in the lifestyles and values of youth in post-growth Japan.

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.

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

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

Explores the cultural dimensions of protest and dissent in China, focusing on dramatic forms of bodily, spatial, strategic, and artistic performativity.

An innovative comparative study of the role of racial stereotypes in expressing state power under globalization.

Examines the political dynamics behind anticorruption efforts in Asia.

Presents a new vision of the Buddhist history and philosophy of emptiness in Tibet.

Places the phenomenologies of Merleau-Ponty and Nishida in dialogue and uncovers a demand for a motor-perceptual form of faith in both philosophers’ meditations on artistic expression.

Groundbreaking analysis of how colonialism created new conceptual categories and spatial forms that reshaped rural societies.

Challenges descriptions of East Asian societies as Confucian cultures and communitarian Confucian models as a political alternative to liberal democracy.

Explains the Hindi novel’s role in anticipating and creating the story of middle-class modernity and modernization in North India.

Explores the role of meditation on the five elements in the practice of Yoga.

Investigates the cosmological and metaphysical thought in the Zhuangzi from the perspective of nothingness.