Publications
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
East Asia Program
Successful transitions to enduring democracy are both difficult and rare. In Scandal and Democracy, Mary E.
Southeast Asia Program
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.
South Asia Program
In Financial Citizenship, Annelise Riles explores the necessity of understanding the purposes, roles, and challenges of central banks and of financial governance more generally.
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
This is the first monograph in English on how China's agricultural collectivization began.
East Asia Program
Good Dogs explores the intersection of didacticism, Chinese vernacular scholarship, social criticism, and commercial storytelling in late Tokugawa Japan through an examina
East Asia Program
