Looks at Western understandings of South Asian religions and indigenous responses from pre-colonial to contemporary times.

Explores the roles of Korean Buddhist nuns and laywomen from the Koryo period to the present.

Explores how Xu Bing and other contemporary Chinese artists use Western ideas within a Chinese cultural discourse.

Depicts the Cultural Revolution through stories in a variety of voices.

A wide-ranging consideration of Confucianism for Western readers.

Details the transformation of Tamil literary culture that came with colonialism and the encounter with Western modernity.

Explores the new literary and interpretive milieu that emerged in the years following the decline of China’s Han dynasty.

Innovative analysis of the relationship of gender to East Asian economic development.

A consideration of Confucian ethics as a living ethical tradition with contemporary relevance.

Enlightening encounters with the world's religions from a Hindu perspective.

An exploration and translation of the work of Hindu poet-saint Kāraikkāl Ammaiyār.

Explores the significance of levity and humor in South Asian religious traditions.

Examines the project of Filipino self-determination in the context of capitalist globalization.

A vivid portrait of the culture of a provincial military society in China’s early medieval period and its interactions with the southern imperial court.

A work of and about comparative philosophy that stresses the importance of language in intercultural endeavors.

Examines how and why nations have persuaded North Korea to cooperate on topics such as nuclear policy.

Advocating a global as opposed to a Eurocentric perspective in the college classroom, discusses why and how to teach about China's Silk Road.

Explores the milieu of Taiwan’s Buddhist nuns, who have the greatest numbers in the Buddhist world and a prominent place in their own country.

Provides an overview of some of the great texts of Asian philosophy and religion along with an exploration of the contexts in which they arose.

An overview of Korean Buddhism and its major figures in the modern period.

A wide-ranging, readable account of the Theravada Buddhist thought and practice in the Southeast Asian societies of Thailand, Myanmar (Burma), Laos, Cambodia, and Sri Lanka.

Looks at how a spiritual tradition can be appropriated by those involved in ethno-nationalist conflict.

Materially grounded analysis of contemporary film, literature, and music in Hong Kong that resists the superficial stereotypes of the “global city. ”

Explores Xunzi's thought in relation to the early Chinese philosophical context that relied on the natural world.

A look at the voluntary sector in Japan, which has emerged strongly only in recent years.