A cultural history of writer and literary critic Hayashi Fusa's (1903–75) tenkō experience, Stories from the Samurai Fringe examines Hayashi's tenkō (ideological conversion) through a close reading

Jooyeon Rhee provides an innovative and compelling analysis of gendered representations of nation and modernity in early twentieth-century Korean novels.

Successful transitions to enduring democracy are both difficult and rare. In Scandal and Democracy, Mary E.

Editor and Translator: Takako Lento 

Editor: Michael J. Pettid

The 2019 Bulletin features many original articles, on the Varanasi archives, water management in Tamil Nadu, the Jim Gair collection, study abroad programs in India, and more.

Translator: Masako Inamoto

In Financial Citizenship, Annelise Riles explores the necessity of understanding the purposes, roles, and challenges of central banks and of financial governance more generally.

This is the first monograph in English on how China's agricultural collectivization began.

Good Dogs explores the intersection of didacticism, Chinese vernacular scholarship, social criticism, and commercial storytelling in late Tokugawa Japan through an ex