Using the thought of Christian thinker Thomas Aquinas and Neo-Confucian Zhu Xi, explores how to exercise and limit authority.

Challenges standard views of the origins of the Daodejing, revealing the work’s roots in a tradition of physical cultivation.

Explores the trend of lifelong learning in Japan as a means to deal with risk in a neoliberal era.

A wide-ranging analysis of the Mokṣopāya, the Indian literary classic that teaches through storytelling how to enjoy an active, successful, worldly life in a spiritually enlightened way.

A reconsideration of Zhu Xi, known as the “great synthesizer” of Confucianism, which establishes him as an important thinker in his own right.

Four Warring States texts discovered during recent decades challenge longstanding understandings of Chinese intellectual history.

Describes how religious tradition is established as available within a text, free from ritual and observance, in Buddhism and Christianity.

An overview of Daoist texts on passive meditation from the Latter Han through Tang periods.

Documents the rise and fall of a market economy in China from 1000-1500.

A critical examination of the impact of BRAC, the world's largest NGO, on the status of women in Southern Bangladeshi cultural life.

Explores how objects shape the worlds of religious participants across a range of South Asian traditions.

Creates a new space for hybrid feminist analysis of Asian Muslim women’s lives.

Looks at southern Chinese martial arts traditions and how they have become important to local identity and narratives of resistance.

Presents multifaceted aspects of Asian Muslim women’s lives and agencies.

A collection of poems by the South Korean poet Lee Jangwook.

Explores the challenges of translating Chinese works for Western readers, particularly premodern texts.

Discusses the journey of Buddhist ideas on awareness and personhood from India to China.

Groundbreaking study demonstrating how Japan's leaders play an important role in diplomacy.

Considers the notable similarities between the thought of Confucius and Wittgenstein.

A reconsideration of the Confucian concept li (ritual or ritual propriety), one that references Western philosophers as well as the Chinese context.

Thorough exploration of the distinct culture of the Mappila Muslims of Kerala, India.

Reintroduces the concept of “world literature” in a truly global context, transcending past Eurocentrism.

Explores the resources for contemporary ethics found in the work of the Cheng brothers, canonical neo-Confucian philophers.

The career of communist revolutionary Wei Baqun, one of China’s “three great peasant leaders” and man of the southern frontier.

An interdisciplinary exploration of the contemporary Confucian revival.