Asian Studies
![Recording State Rites in Words and Images](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691973906.jpg?w=180&auto=format)
A beautifully illustrated, interdisciplinary look at the ceremonies and protocols of the dynastic court of Joseon Korea
![Chinese Espresso](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691245782.jpg?w=180&auto=format)
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
![When the Bombs Stopped](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691255941.jpg?w=180&auto=format)
How undetonated bombs from a war that ended more than fifty years ago still affect Cambodian farmers and their land
![Words for the Heart](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691222936.jpg?w=180&auto=format)
A richly diverse collection of classical Indian terms for expressing the many moods and subtleties of emotional experience
![Sacred Language, Vernacular Difference](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691249834.jpg?w=180&auto=format)
How Arabic influenced the evolution of vernacular literatures and anticolonial thought in Egypt, Indonesia, and Senegal
![Laws of the Land](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691246734.jpg?w=180&auto=format)
A groundbreaking history of fengshui’s roles in public life and law during China’s last imperial dynasty
![The Gilded Cage](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691212821.jpg?w=180&auto=format)
How China’s economic development combines a veneer of unprecedented progress with the increasingly despotic rule of surveillance over all aspects of life
![The Road to Dien Bien Phu](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691228648.jpg?w=180&auto=format)
A multifaceted history of Ho Chi Minh’s climactic victory over French colonial might that foreshadowed America’s experience in Vietnam
![The Perils of Interpreting](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691225463.jpg?w=180&auto=format)
A fascinating history of China’s relations with the West—told through the lives of two eighteenth-century translators
![Modi's India](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691247908.jpg?w=180&auto=format)
A riveting account of how a popularly elected leader has steered the world's largest democracy toward authoritarianism and intolerance
![Plato Goes to China](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691229591.jpg?w=180&auto=format)
The surprising story of how Greek classics are being pressed into use in contemporary China to support the regime’s political agenda
![From Development to Democracy](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691231082.jpg?w=180&auto=format)
Why some of Asia’s authoritarian regimes have democratized as they have grown richer—and why others haven’t
![The King’s Road](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691237831.jpg?w=180&auto=format)
An exciting and richly detailed new history of the Silk Road that tells how it became more important as a route for diplomacy than for trade
![Visualizing Dunhuang](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691208169.jpg?w=180&auto=format)
A beautifully illustrated study of the caves at Dunhuang, exploring how this important Buddhist site has been visualized from its creation to today
![The Thief Who Stole My Heart](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691202594.jpg?w=180&auto=format)
The first book to put the sacred and sensuous bronze statues from India’s Chola dynasty in social context
![The Place of Many Moods](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691201849.jpg?w=180&auto=format)
A look at the painting traditions of northwestern India in the eighteenth century, and what they reveal about the political and artistic changes of the era
![Chinese Architecture](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691169989.jpg?w=180&auto=format)
An unprecedented survey of the origins and evolution of Chinese architecture, from the last millennia BCE to today
![In Asian Waters](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691146829.jpg?w=180&auto=format)
A sweeping account of how the sea routes of Asia have transformed a vast expanse of the globe over the past five hundred years, powerfully shaping the modern world
![Chinese Art and Dynastic Time](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691231013.jpg?w=180&auto=format)
A sweeping look at Chinese art across the millennia that upends traditional perspectives and offers new pathways for art history