Argues that the role of Buddhism in modern Japanese prose literature has been significantly overlooked.

Investigates the professional practices of astrologers in urban India and their popularity among the educated middle and upper classes.

Offers an in-depth ethnography of paradigm shifts in the lifestyles and values of youth in post-growth Japan.

Examines Shanghai both as a real city and an imaginary locale, from diverse cultural and disciplinary perspectives.

Argues for an important transformation in the construction of the self among Japanese converts to Roman Catholicism.

Examines China’s involvement in Ethiopia as the latter embarks on modernization and economic development.

Examines the political dynamics behind anticorruption efforts in Asia.

Presents a new vision of the Buddhist history and philosophy of emptiness in Tibet.

Challenges descriptions of East Asian societies as Confucian cultures and communitarian Confucian models as a political alternative to liberal democracy.

An innovative comparative study of the role of racial stereotypes in expressing state power under globalization.

Offers the first focused study of the shifei debates of the Warring States period in ancient China and challenges the imposition of Western conceptual categories onto these debates.

Reveals the complicity between the Kyoto School’s moral and political philosophy, based on the school’s founder Nishida Kitarō’s metaphysics of nothingness, and Japanese imperialism.

Analyzes the breadth of representations of the mythic figure of Māra in Buddhism to reveal how closely tied such narratives are to the social and historical concerns of Buddhist communities.

Shows how Japan’s immigration policy is shaped by the nature of Japan’s economy and elite debates about the country’s national identity.

A guide to Buddhism’s rich variety of traditions and cultural expressions for educators who would like to include Buddhism in their undergraduate courses.

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

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

Offers biographical accounts of several of North Korea’s leaders to illuminate the inner workings of its government.

Captures how Indian Protestant Christians negotiate their religious and cultural identities within the Indian diaspora.

Explores how religious travel in India is transforming religious identities and self-constructions.

Short stories that reflect the complexities of contemporary Tibetan life, written by Tibetan filmmaker Pema Tseden.

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

Discusses contemporary Confucianism's relevance and its capacity to address pressing social and political issues of twenty-first-century life.

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.