Publications

Imperfect Understanding: Intimate Portraits of Chinese Celebrities edited by Christopher Rea (2018)

Publication title: Imperfect Understanding: Intimate Portraits of Chinese Celebrities Publication year: 2018 Author: Edited by Christopher Rea About the book What did it mean to be a celebrity in 1930s China? Who were Republican China’s preeminent intellectuals, writers, artists, politicians, diplomats, and businesspeople, and how were they represented in the popular press? This anthology brings together […]

Da bujing de niandai: Jindai Zhongguo xin xiaoshi [The Age of Irreverence: A New History of Laughter in China] by Christopher Rea (2018)

China’s Chaplin: Comic Stories and Farces by Xu Zhuodai translated and with an introduction by Christopher Rea (2019)

Publication title: China’s Chaplin: Comic Stories and Farces Publication year: 2019 Author:Xu Zhuodai translated and with an introduction by Christopher Rea About the book Hoaxes! Jokes! Farces and fun! China’s Chaplin introduces the imagination of Xu Zhuodai (1880–1958), a comic dynamo who made Shanghai laugh through the tumultuous decades of the pre-Mao era. Xu was […]

Literary Information in China: A History co-edited by Bruce Rusk (2021)

Publication title: Literary Information in China: A History Publication year: 2021 Author: Co-edited by Bruce Rusk About the book “Information” has become a core concept across the disciplines, yet it is still often seen as a unique feature of the Western world that became central only in the digital age. In this book, leading experts turn […]

Literary Sinitic and East Asia: A Cultural Sphere of Vernacular Reading edited and co-translated by Ross King (2021)

Publication title: Literary Sinitic and East Asia: A Cultural Sphere of Vernacular Reading Publication year: 2021 Author: Edited and co-translated by Ross King About the book In Literary Sinitic and East Asia: A Cultural Sphere of Vernacular Reading, Professor Kin Bunkyō surveys the history of reading technologies referred to as kundoku 訓讀 in Japanese, hundok in Korean and xundu in Mandarin. Rendered by […]

Chosŏn Hugi Yugyo wa Ch’ŏnjugyo ŭi Taerip [The Confucian Confrontation with Catholicism in the Latter Half of the Chosŏn Dynasty] by Donald L. Baker (1997)

Korean Spirituality by Donald L. Baker (2008)

Publication title: Korean Spirituality Publication year: 2008 Author: Donald L. Baker About the book Korea has one of the most dynamic and diverse religious cultures of any nation on earth. Koreans are highly religious, yet no single religious community enjoys dominance. Buddhists share the Korean religious landscape with both Protestant and Catholic Christians as well as […]

Catholics and Anti-Catholicism in Chosŏn Korea by Donald L. Baker with Franklin Rausch (2017)

Publication title: Catholics and Anti-Catholicism in Chosŏn Korea Publication year: 2017 Author: Donald L. Baker with Franklin Rausch About the book Korea’s first significant encounter with the West occurred in the last quarter of the eighteenth century when a Korean Catholic community emerged on the peninsula. Decades of persecution followed, resulting in the deaths of […]

Kanbunmyaku: The Literary Sinitic Context and the Birth of Modern Japanese Language and Literature edited and translated by Ross King and Christina Laffin (2020)

Publication title: Kanbunmyaku: The Literary Sinitic Context and the Birth of Modern Japanese Language and Literature Publication year: 2020 Author: Edited and translated by Ross King and Christina Laffin About the book In Kanbunmyaku: The Literary Sinitic Context and the Birth of Modern Japanese Language and Literature, Saito Mareshi demonstrates the centrality of Literary Sinitic poetry and […]

Contesting Islam, Constructing Race and Sexuality: The Inordinate Desire of the West by Sunera Thobani (2020)

Publication title: Contesting Islam, Constructing Race and Sexuality: The Inordinate Desire of the West by Sunera Thobani (2020) Publication year: 2020 Author: Sunera Thobani About the book The current political standoffs of the ‘War on Terror’ illustrate that the interaction within and between the so-called Western and Middle Eastern civilizations is constantly in flux. A recurring theme […]