Publications
Counting Dreams tells the story of Nomura Bōtō, a Buddhist nun, writer, poet, and activist who joined the movement to oppose the Tokugawa Shogunate and restore imperial rule. Banished for her political…
East Asia Program
This paper is an overview of the history of, and future prospects for, undesirable levels of price inflation in the U.S. economy. The paper concludes that concerns raised in 2021 by several well-known economists and…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
The 2021 Bulletin features many original articles, on 50 years of Bangladesh, student’s virtual internships with Oxfam India, the impacts of COVID-19 in India and the US, an unusual Humphrey Fellowship year, palm-leaf…
South Asia Program
By exploring a rich array of Malay texts from novels and newspapers to poems and plays, Tom G.
Southeast Asia Program
Ong Soon Keong explores the unique position of the treaty port Xiamen (Amoy) within the China-Southeast Asia migrant circuit and examines its role in the creation of Chinese diasporas. Coming Home to a Foreign…
East Asia Program
In Law, Economics, and Conflict, Kaushik Basu and Robert C.
Einaudi Center for International Studies
By Our Faculty
Performing Power illuminates how colonial dominance in Indonesia was legitimized, maintained, negotiated, and contested through the everyday staging and public performance of power between the…
Southeast Asia Program
Kyokutei Bakin's Nansō Satomi hakkenden 南総里見八犬伝 is one of the monuments of Japanese literature. This multigenerational samurai saga was one of the most popular and influential books of the nineteenth century and has…
East Asia Program
The Pitfalls of Piety for Married Women shows how problematic the practice of Buddhist piety could be in late imperial China. Two thematically related "precious scrolls" (baojuan) from the Ming dynasty…
East Asia Program
