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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Critical essays on the transnational Kashmiri-American poet.

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.

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

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