Forty lessons introducing students to the basic patterns and structures of Classical Chinese are taken from a number of pre-Han and Han texts selected to give... Læs mere
This book assesses the historical significance of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE)—commonly called the Tokyo trial—established as the eastern counterpart of the Nuremberg trial in the immediate aftermath of World War II.
Qingming shanghe, dubbed China’s Mona Lisa, is a revered painting attributed to Zhang Zeduan (960–1127). Up the River of Time is... Læs mere
The Mongol Empire changed the world, but early chronicles of its conquests, written from regional perspectives... Læs mere
In Performing Enlightenment, Mengxiao Wang argues that the late Ming and early Qing Buddhists in the sixteenth and seventeenth... Læs mere
Drawing on more than two decades of fieldwork, Mark Meulenbeld’s The Presence of Peach Spring reassesses Tao Qian’s classic Daoist story “Record... Læs mere
The Promised Republic offers a bold new history of South Korea’s rapid national development. Drawing on a range of... Læs mere
Traversing the Belt and Road brings together leading voices from China and beyond to examine the dynamics of... Læs mere
Through detailed case studies of sixth-century architecture, Harnessing Divinity argues that Buddhist halls in... Læs mere
Longing for Landscape explores the work of famed Chinese poet Su Shi (1037–1101) and his... Læs mere
In Dead Letters, Halle O’Neal explores how mourners in medieval Japan, haunted by love and loss, reused the epistles of the... Læs mere