Asian Studies
A beautifully illustrated, interdisciplinary look at the ceremonies and protocols of the dynastic court of Joseon Korea
Why and how local coffee bars in Italy—those distinctively Italian social and cultural spaces—have been increasingly managed by Chinese baristas since the Great Recession of 2008
How undetonated bombs from a war that ended more than fifty years ago still affect Cambodian farmers and their land
A richly diverse collection of classical Indian terms for expressing the many moods and subtleties of emotional experience
A rich, discovery-filled history that tells how a forgotten empire transformed the ancient world
A comprehensive, fully illustrated field guide to the birds of China
A monumental illustrated survey of the architecture of thirteenth- and fourteenth-century China
How climate change ushered in the collapse of one of history’s mighty empires
How Arabic influenced the evolution of vernacular literatures and anticolonial thought in Egypt, Indonesia, and Senegal
A groundbreaking history of fengshui’s roles in public life and law during China’s last imperial dynasty
A provocative defense of a forgotten Chinese approach to identity and difference
The discriminatory logic at the heart of multilateralism
How China’s economic development combines a veneer of unprecedented progress with the increasingly despotic rule of surveillance over all aspects of life
A monumental intellectual history of the pivotal figure of Hindu nationalism
A multifaceted history of Ho Chi Minh’s climactic victory over French colonial might that foreshadowed America’s experience in Vietnam
A fascinating history of China’s relations with the West—told through the lives of two eighteenth-century translators
A pioneering history that transforms our understanding of the colonial era and China's place in it
An inside view of Chinese academia and what it reveals about China’s political system
Muslim intellectuals who sought to establish the boundaries of modern Muslim identity
The unknown history of economic conservatism in India after independence