Offers a new perspective on the first dynasty of imperial China and the reasons for its collapse.

An approachable and readable translation of a classic work of Chinese literature and landmark work of non-Western fiction writing.

Seeks to introduce an "affective turn" to the study of China's political modernization process.

Provides a philosophical, cultural, and historical answer to the question: Where did China come from?

Explores how China’s oldest poetry collection was interpreted in a Confucian exegetical text—the Mao Commentary—in the mid-second century BCE.

Biography of a major figure in modern Chinese history.

An analysis of the China Race—the global competition for leadership and world order between the US-led West and the People's Republic of China.

Reality merges with illusion in this novel of northwestern China.

Traces the development of the Chinese love story during the Song and Yuan dynasties.

A complete translation and analysis of "All Things Flow into Form" (Fan wu liu xing), a recently discovered manuscript from the Warring States period (481–221 BCE).

Detailed assessment of the People's Republic of China as an alternative mode of political system and as a distinctive model of socioeconomic development.

Addresses the question of China's rise and what it portends for the future.

Relates Chinese Realism to contemporary political and ethical challenges, such as in international relations and the morality of the public sector.

The first concerted attempt to analyze how the histories Shiji and Hanshu described the technical arts as they were applied in vital areas of the administration of pre-Han and Han China.

Explores how poetry was used to disseminate and interpret history in early medieval China.

Offers three neo-Confucian understandings of broadening the Way as broadening oneself, through an ongoing process of removing self-boundaries.

Posits the origin of a specifically Chinese concept of “word-meaning,” and sheds new light on the linguistic ideas in early Chinese philosophical texts.

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

Offers a comparative and deconstructive reading of the cross-cultural encounter between the Jesuits and their Confucian hosts in late Ming China.

Brings early Daoist writings into conversation with contemporary contemplative studies.

Offers new perspectives on modern Chinese political thought.

Argues that Confucianism and other East Asian philosophical traditions can be resources for understanding and addressing current global challenges such as climate change and hunger.

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

Explains why and how local critical reporting can exist in China despite the kinds of media control that are the hallmarks of authoritarian rule.

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