Investigates the professional practices of astrologers in urban India and their popularity among the educated middle and upper classes.

Offers an in-depth exposition of the Confucian conception of persons as the starting point of Confucian ethics.

Sets out the challenges presented to Muslim societies by Western dominance over the past two hundred years, and explores Muslim responses, particularly in the context of South Asia.

Examines China’s involvement in Ethiopia as the latter embarks on modernization and economic development.

Offers an in-depth ethnography of paradigm shifts in the lifestyles and values of youth in post-growth Japan.

Examines Shanghai both as a real city and an imaginary locale, from diverse cultural and disciplinary perspectives.

Argues for an important transformation in the construction of the self among Japanese converts to Roman Catholicism.

Examines the political dynamics behind anticorruption efforts in Asia.

Presents a new vision of the Buddhist history and philosophy of emptiness in Tibet.

Challenges descriptions of East Asian societies as Confucian cultures and communitarian Confucian models as a political alternative to liberal democracy.

An innovative comparative study of the role of racial stereotypes in expressing state power under globalization.

Analyzes the breadth of representations of the mythic figure of Māra in Buddhism to reveal how closely tied such narratives are to the social and historical concerns of Buddhist communities.

Shows how Japan’s immigration policy is shaped by the nature of Japan’s economy and elite debates about the country’s national identity.

Offers the first focused study of the shifei debates of the Warring States period in ancient China and challenges the imposition of Western conceptual categories onto these debates.

Reveals the complicity between the Kyoto School’s moral and political philosophy, based on the school’s founder Nishida Kitarō’s metaphysics of nothingness, and Japanese imperialism.

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

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.

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

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

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

Short stories that reflect the complexities of contemporary Tibetan life, written by Tibetan filmmaker Pema Tseden.

Illuminates the contradictions that emerge within conscious capitalism initiatives that are designed to empower women.

Reveals cultural paradigms and historical prejudices regarding the role of birthing and women in the reproduction of society.

Explores the relationship between revelation and reason in medieval Islamic intellectual history.