Argues that the only way to understand the Confucian vision of the consummate moral life is to take the tradition on its own terms.

Explores the cultural dimensions of protest and dissent in China, focusing on dramatic forms of bodily, spatial, strategic, and artistic performativity.

Through an examination of archaeologically recovered texts from China’s northwestern border regions, argues for widespread interaction with texts in the Han period.

Critically introduces the philosophical system of Li Zehou, one of the most significant modern scholars of Chinese history and culture.

Pioneering study of the localization of Chinese culture in early modern Japan, using legends, classics, and historical terms as case studies.

Examines the Great Peace (taiping), one of the first utopian visions in Chinese history, and its impact on literati lives in Han China.

Presents an updated account of Hong Kong and its culture two decades after its reversion to China.

Offers a new perspective on the relationship between religion and the creation of the first Chinese empires.

A wide-ranging exploration and critical assessment of the work of a major figure in Chinese and comparative philosophy.

Shows that the feminist interventions of the Mao era (1949–1976) continue to influence contemporary Chinese women.

Sheds new light on pre-modern Chinese gender relationships in the context of marriage, male Confucian literati self-presentation, and social networks.

Reassesses didacticism in seventeenth-century Chinese vernacular fiction and challenges the view that the late Ming was a notoriously immoral time.

Critical reflections on the work of Angus Charles Graham, renowned Western scholar of Chinese philosophy and sinology.

Engages with Chinese philosophy to offer new conceptual models for reframing gender, bodies, and aesthetics.

Challenges the idea held by many prominent twentieth-century Sinologists that early China experienced a “language crisis. ”

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

Using Li Zehou’s theories of aesthetics, argues for the importance of the arts to philosophy.

Analyzes the use of anecdotes as an essential rhetorical tool and form of persuasion in various literary genres in early China.

Examines the rising power of China and Chinese foreign policy through a revisionist analysis of Chinese civilization.

First English translations of a novel and two play excerpts based on tales of the goddess Chen Jinggu, an eighth-century shaman and present-day cult deity.

Presents a new view of the Chinese revolution through the lens of the local Communist movement in Hainan between 1926 and 1956.

Provides a systematic and comprehensive survey of writings on military philosophy in early China.

Critiques the idea of a Chinese cultural identity and argues that such identities are instead determined by geopolitical and economic forces.

English-language translations of traditional plays from the marionette puppet theater of Northern China.

A comprehensive analysis of the transformations of ancient history in early Chinese texts.