An interdisciplinary look at the dramatic changes in the contemporary Japanese family, including both empirical data and analyses of popular culture.

Comparative study of contemporary nativist literary and cultural movements in China and Taiwan.

Looks at a variety of Buddhist sacred writings as literature and includes insights from literary theory.

Discusses an essential Tibetan Buddhist work that shows how Noble Beings progress toward enlightenment.

How perceptions of land and space influence social and aesthetic conditions in the Tamil region of India.

Explores ideas on women and sexuality presented in the great Hindu epic, the Mahabharata.

A meticulous study of various Taiwanese religions and their relationships with democratic values and behaviors.

A fresh look at Yoga philosophy.

A comprehensive overview of Ayurveda.

Presents the intellectual world of early medieval Sichuan through a critical biography of historian and classicist Qiao Zhou.

Explores the early Chinese press, which emerged in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and its impact on China’s modernization.

The first English translation of work by Wang Xiaobo, one of the most important writers of twentieth-century China.

A study of the seminal Tibetan Buddhist work, Gateway to Learning.

Contemporary critical theory is brought to the consideration of caste in the Pañcatantra, one of the best-known cycles of Indian tales.

Using the life and work of influential Chinese writer Guo Moruo (1892–1978), reflects on China’s encounters with modernity, Communism, and capitalism.

Looks at mourning practices during the Han dynasty to reassess whether filial piety was the overriding model for society and governance in early China.

A translation and analysis of Guru Nanak’s description of the Sikh path to spiritual liberation.

A multi-disciplinary exploration of China’s first great classical novel, Three Kingdoms, and its influence on Chinese culture.

Explores the narratives and dialogues of the Upanisads and shows that these literary elements are central to an understanding of Upanishadic philosophy.

Takes the reader on a pilgrimage to Mount Kōya, the holy Buddhist mountain in Japan.

Explores how spiritual values are learned and mind and body developed through the practice of the Japanese arts.

Korean cinema as industry, art form, and cultural product.

Brings Asian theories of consciousness into dialogue with Western psychotherapeutic practices.

Explores the ritual practice of Buddhist preaching.

Challenges accepted beliefs that Confucianism is a cause of women’s oppression and explores Confucianism as an ethical system compatible with gender parity.