A guide to Buddhism’s rich variety of traditions and cultural expressions for educators who would like to include Buddhism in their undergraduate courses.

Adds new voices to the feminist conversation and brings a rich variety of diverse approaches to Buddhist women’s identities, “the feminine,” and Buddhist feminism.

This exploration of key terms related to social and political order, found in early Indian texts, challenges the idea of a unified ancient India and a unified national identity at that time.

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

Presents rare biographies of traditional Indian scholars during the nineteenth century, a critical moment of transition for the Indian intellectual tradition.

Offers a new perspective on the relationship between religion and the creation of the first Chinese empires.

Shows that the feminist interventions of the Mao era (1949–1976) continue to influence contemporary Chinese women.

Presents an updated account of Hong Kong and its culture two decades after its reversion to China.

The first comprehensive treatment of Inoue Enryō, a pioneer of modern Buddhism and a key figure in the reception of Western philosophy in East Asia.

A wide-ranging exploration and critical assessment of the work of a major figure in Chinese and comparative philosophy.

Explores the contemporary nature and the diverse narratives, rituals, and performances of the Navarātri Festival.

Offers biographical accounts of several of North Korea’s leaders to illuminate the inner workings of its government.

Engages with Chinese philosophy to offer new conceptual models for reframing gender, bodies, and aesthetics.

Explores how religious travel in India is transforming religious identities and self-constructions.

Critical reflections on the work of Angus Charles Graham, renowned Western scholar of Chinese philosophy and sinology.

The first scholarly book to address Korean geomancy through an interdisciplinary lens.

An encounter between Franke’s philosophy of the unsayable and Eastern apophatic wisdom in the domains of poetry, thought, and culture.

Challenges the idea held by many prominent twentieth-century Sinologists that early China experienced a “language crisis. ”

Explores the rich potential of Confucianism in American and Chinese classrooms of the twenty-first century.

Challenges prevailing conceptions of what religious ritual does and how it achieves its ends.

Attempts to think anew about philosophical questions from the perspective of breath and breathing.

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

Captures how Indian Protestant Christians negotiate their religious and cultural identities within the Indian diaspora.

Challenges the monolithic view of Hinduism in the nineteenth century, and instead offers a vision of India that contains a rich multiplicity of Hinduisms, women’s stories, and cultural histories.

Sheds new light on pre-modern Chinese gender relationships in the context of marriage, male Confucian literati self-presentation, and social networks.