Publications

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 […]

A Timely Message from the Cave: The Mahāmudrā and Intellectual Agenda of dGe-bshes Brag-phug-pa dGe-’dun-rin-chen (1926–1997), the Sixty-Ninth rJe-mkhan-po of Bhutan by Dagmar Schwerk (2020)

Publication title: A Timely Message from the Cave: The Mahāmudrā and Intellectual Agenda of dGe-bshes Brag-phug-pa dGe-’dun-rin-chen (1926–1997), the Sixty-Ninth rJe-mkhan-po of Bhutan Publication year: 2020 Author: Dagmar Schwerk About the book This book addresses the long-lasting debate about the Mahāmudrā doctrine and meditative system that was first elicited through Sakya Paṇḍita (1182–1252)’s systematic critique in […]

Peace Corps Volunteers and the Making of Korean Studies in the United States, contributed by Bruce Fulton and Don Baker (2020)

Publication title: Peace Corps Volunteers and the Making of Korean Studies in the United States Publication year: 2020 Author: Contributions by Bruce Fulton and Don Baker About the book From 1966 through 1981 the Peace Corps sent more than two thousand volunteers to South Korea, to teach English and provide healthcare. A small yet significant number […]

One Left, co-translated by Bruce Fulton and Ju-chan Fulton (2020)

Publication title: One Left Publication year: 2020 Author: Translated by Bruce and Ju-chan Fulton About the book During the Pacific War, more than 200,000 Korean girls were forced into sexual servitude for Japanese soldiers. They lived in horrific conditions in “comfort stations” across Japanese-occupied territories. Barely 10 percent survived to return to Korea, where they lived […]

Mind and Body in Early China by Edward Slingerland (2018)

Publication title: Mind and Body in Early China Publication year: 2018 Author: Edward Slingerland About the book Mind and Body in Early China critiques Orientalist accounts of early China as the radical, “holistic” other. The idea that the early Chinese held the “strong” holist view, seeing no qualitative difference between mind and body, has long been contradicted […]

Nusantara’s Indigenous Knowledge co-edited by Thomas Hunter (2020)

Publication title: Nusantara’s Indigenous Knowledge Publication year: 2020 Author: Co-edited by Thomas Hunter About the book The ten chapters in this volume represent a breakthrough in the study of the Social Sciences and Humanities crafted by the professors and graduate students of the Faculty of Cultural Studies of the University of Indonesia (Universitas Indonesia). Taken together, […]

Chinese Film Classics, 1922–1949 by Christopher Rea (2021)

Publication title: Chinese Film Classics, 1922–1949 Publication year: 2021 Author: Christopher Rea About the book Chinese Film Classics, 1922–1949 is an essential guide to the first golden age of Chinese cinema. Offering detailed introductions to fourteen films, this study highlights the creative achievements of Chinese filmmakers in the decades leading up to 1949, when the Communists won […]