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
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
How China’s economic development combines a veneer of unprecedented progress with the increasingly despotic rule of surveillance over all aspects of life
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 riveting account of how a popularly elected leader has steered the world's largest democracy toward authoritarianism and intolerance
The surprising story of how Greek classics are being pressed into use in contemporary China to support the regime’s political agenda
Why some of Asia’s authoritarian regimes have democratized as they have grown richer—and why others haven’t
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
A beautifully illustrated study of the caves at Dunhuang, exploring how this important Buddhist site has been visualized from its creation to today
The first book to put the sacred and sensuous bronze statues from India’s Chola dynasty in social context
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
An unprecedented survey of the origins and evolution of Chinese architecture, from the last millennia BCE to today
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