A series inaugurated in 1962 to bring to public attention the results of significant new research on modern and contemporary East Asia. The books are published by academic and trade presses and represent scholars of East Asia from around the world.
Editorial Committee: Carol Gluck, Eugenia Lean, Lien-Hang Nguyen, and Eveline Washul.
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Studies publications by regional specialty:
China
Japan
Korea
Tibet
Southeast Asia
International Relations
CHINA
Benno Weiner. The Chinese Revolution on the Tibetan Frontier (Cornell University Press, 2020)
Arunabh Ghosh. Making It Count: Statistics and Statecraft in the Early People’s Republic of China (Princeton University Press, 2020)
Andrew B. Liu. Tea War: A History of Capitalism in China and India (Yale University Press, 2020)
Eugenia Lean. Vernacular Industrialism in China: Local Innovation and Translated Technologies in the Making of a Cosmetics Empire, 1900-1940 (Columbia University Press, 2020)
Fei-Hsien Wang. Pirates and Publishers: A Social History of Copyright in Modern China (Princeton University Press, 2019)
Mary Augusta Brazelton. Mass Vaccination: Citizens’ Bodies and State Power in Modern China (Cornell University Press, 2019)
Robert Culp. The Power of Print in Modern China: Intellectuals and Industrial Publishing from the End of Empire to Maoist State Socialism (Columbia University Press, 2019)
Martin T. Fromm. Borderland Memories: Searching for Historical Identity in Post-Mao China (Cambridge University Press, 2019)
Anne Reinhardt. Navigating Semi-Colonialism: Shipping, Sovereignty, and Nation-Building in China, 1860-1937 (Harvard University Asia Center, 2018)
Corey Byrnes. Fixing Landscape: A Techno-Poetic History of China’s Three Gorges (Columbia University Press, 2018)
Emily Baum. The Invention of Madness: State, Society, and the Insane in Modern China (University of Chicago Press, 2018)
Yao Li. Playing by the Informal Rules: Why the Chinese Regime Remains Stable despite Rising Protests (Cambridge University Press, 2018)
Jia-Chen Fu. The Other Milk: Reinventing Soy in Republican China (University of Washington Press, 2018)
Zhihua Shen and Yafeng Xia. A Misunderstood Friendship: Mao Zedong, Kim Il-sung, and Sino–North Korean Relations, 1949–1976 (Columbia University Press, 2018)
Margaret Mih Tillman. Raising China’s Revolutionaries: Modernizing Childhood for Cosmopolitan Nationalists and Liberated Comrades, 1920s-1950s (Columbia University Press, 2018)
Philip Thai. China’s War on Smuggling: Law, Economic Life, and the Making of the Modern State, 1842–1965 (Columbia University Press, 2018)
Brian Tsui. China’s Conservative Revolution:The Quest for a New Order, 1927–1949 (Cambridge University Press, 2018)
Daniel Koss. Where the Party Rules: The Rank and File of China’s Communist State (Cambridge University Press, 2018)
Ori Sela. China’s Philological Turn: Scholars, Textualism, and the Dao in the 18th Century (Columbia University Press, 2018)
Charlene Makley. The Battle for Fortune: State-Led Development, Personhood, and Power among Tibetans in China (Cornell University Press, 2018)
Max Oidtmann. Forging the Golden Urn: The Qing Empire and the Politics of Reincarnation in Tibet (Columbia University Press, 2018)
Geoffrey Barstow. Food of Sinful Demons: Meat, Vegetarianism, and the Limits of Buddhism in Tibet (Columbia University Press, 2017)
Thomas S. Mullaney. The Chinese Typewriter: A History (MIT Press, 2017)
Diana Fu. Mobilizing Without the Masses: Control and Contention in China (Cambridge University Press, 2017)
Hilary A. Smith. Forgotten Disease: Illnesses Transformed in Chinese Medicine (Stanford University Press, 2017)
Nicolai Volland. Socialist Cosmopolitanism: The Chinese Literary Universe, 1945-1965 (Columbia University Press, 2017)
Becky Yang Hsu. Borrowing Together: Microfinance and Cultivating Social Ties (Cambridge University Press, 2018)
Dorothy Ko. The Social Life of Inkstones: Artisans and Scholars in Early Qing China (University of Washington Press, 2017)
Alexander C. Cook. The Cultural Revolution on Trial: Mao and the Gang of Four (Cambridge University Press, 2016)
Yukiko Koga. Inheritance of Loss: China, Japan, and the Political Economy of Redemption After Empire (University of Chicago Press, 2016)
Sheena Chestnut Greitens. Dictators and their Secret Police: Coercive Institutions and State Violence (Cambridge University Press, 2016)
Guobin Yang. The Red Guard Generation and Political Activism in China (Columbia University Press, 2016)
Kathlene Baldanza. Ming China and Vietnam: Negotiating Borders in Early Modern Asia (Cambridge University Press, 2016)
Ben Hillman and Gray Tuttle, editors. Ethnic Conflict and Protest in Tibet and Xinjiang: Unrest in China’s West (Columbia University Press, 2016)
Yi Wu. Negotiating Rural Land Ownership in Southwest China: State, Village, Family (University of Hawaii Press, 2016)
Li Chen. Chinese Law in Imperial Eyes: Sovereignty, Justice, & Transcultural Politics (Columbia University Press, 2016)
Xing Hang. Conflict and Commerce in Maritime East Asia: The Zheng Family and the Shaping of the Modern World, c.1620–1720 (Cambridge University Press, 2015)
Christopher Rea. The Age of Irreverence: A New History of Laughter in China (University of California Press, 2015)
Shellen Xiao Wu. Empires of Coal: Fueling China’s Entry into the Modern World Order, 1860-1920 (Stanford University Press, 2015)
Chuck Wooldridge. City of Virtues: Nanjing in an Age of Utopian Visions (University of Washington Press, 2015)
Sean Hsiang-lin Lei. Neither Donkey Nor Horse: Medicine in the Struggle Over China’s Modernity (University of Chicago Press, 2014)
Andrew Fischer. The Disempowered Development of Tibet in China: A Study in the Economics of Marginalization (Lexington Books, 2013)
Emily T. Yeh. Taming Tibet: Landscape Transformation and the Gift of Chinese Development (Cornell University Press, 2013)
Michael Gibbs Hill. Lin Shu, Inc.: Translation and the Making of Modern Chinese Culture (Oxford University Press, 2012)
Shao-hua Liu. Passage to Manhood: Youth Migration, Heroin, and AIDS in Southwest China. (Stanford University Press, 2010)
Fabio Lanza. Behind the Gate: Inventing Students in Beijing (Columbia University Press, 2010)
Leung, Angela Ki Che. Leprosy in China: A History (Columbia University Press, 2008)
Alexander Des Forges. Mediasphere Shanghai: The Aesthetics of Cultural Production (University of Hawai’i Press, 2007)
Myron L. Cohen. Kinship, Contract, Community, and State: Anthropological Perspectives on China (Stanford University Press, 2005)
Morris Low. Building a Modern Japan: Science, Technology, and Medicine in the Meiji Era and Beyond (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005)
James Reardon-Anderson. Reluctant Pioneers: China’s Expansion Northward, 1644-1937 (Stanford University Press, 2005)
Madeleine Zelin. The Merchants of Zigong: Industrial Entrepreneurship in Early Modern China (Columbia University Press, 2005). Prizes: 2006 Allan Sharlin Memorial Prize of the Social Science History Association; 2007 Fairbank Prize of the Association for Asian Studies; and ICAS Book Prize 2007 History
James Gao. The Communist Takeover of Hangzhou: The Transformation of City and Cadre, 1949-1954 (University of Hawai’i Press, 2004)
Madeleine Zelin, Jonathan K. Ocko, and Robert P. Gardella, eds. Contract and Property in Early Modern China (Stanford University Press, 2004)
Christopher A. Reed. Gutenberg in Shanghai: Chinese Print Capitalism, 1876-1937 (UBC Press, 2004) Winner of the 2003-2005 International Convention of Asian Scholars Book Prize (Humanities category)
Thomas P. Bernstein and Xiaobo Lü. Taxation without Representation in Rural China (Modern China Series, Cambridge University Press, 2003)
Lawrence Christopher Reardon. The Reluctant Dragon: Crisis Cycles in Chinese Foreign Economic Policy (University of Washington Press, 2002)
Carl Riskin, Zhao Renwei, Li Shi, eds. China’s Retreat from Equality: Income Distribution and Economic Transition (M.E. Sharpe, 2001)
Xiaobo Lü. Cadres and Corruption: The Organizational Involution of the Chinese Communist Party (Stanford University Press, 2000)
Michael T.W. Tsin. Nation, Governance, and Modernity: Canton, 1900-1927 (Stanford University Press, 1999)
Dorothy Solinger. Contesting Citizenship in Urban China: Peasant Migrants, the State and the Logic of the Market (University of California Press, 1999)
Roderick MacFarquhar. The Origins of the Cultural Revolution, Vol. III: The Coming of the Cataclysm, 1961-1966 (Columbia University Press, 1997)
Andrew J. Nathan. China’s Transition (Columbia University Press, 1997)
Richard Lufrano. Honorable Merchants: Commerce and Self-Cultivation in Late Imperial China (University of Hawai’i Press, 1997)
C. Martin Wilbur. China in My Life: A Historian’s Own History (M.E. Sharpe, 1996)
Joan Judge. Print and Politics: ‘Shibao’ and the Culture of Reform in Late Qing China (Stanford University Press, 1996)
Helen Chauncey. Schoolhouse Politicians: Locality and State during the Chinese Republic (University of Hawai’i Press, 1992.)
James Reardon-Anderson. Pollution, Politics and Foreign Investment in Taiwan: The Lukang Rebellion (M. E. Sharpe, 1993)
Dorothy Solinger. China’s Transition from Socialism: Statist Legacies and Market Reforms, 1980-1990 (M.E. Sharpe, 1993)
Helen Chauncey. Schoolhouse Politicians: Locality and State during the Chinese Republic(University of Hawai’i Press, 1992)
Harvey J. Feldman, ed. Constitutional Reform and the Future of the Republic of China (M.E. Sharpe, 1991)
James Reardon-Anderson. The Study of Change: Chemistry in China, 1840-1949 (Cambridge University Press, 1991)
Peter Zarrow. Anarchism and Chinese Political Culture (Columbia University Press, 1991)
Andrew J. Nathan. China’s Crisis: Dilemmas of Reform and Prospects for Democracy (Columbia University Press, 1990.)
C. Martin Wilbur and Julie Lien-ying How. Missionaries of the Revolution: Soviet Advisers and Chinese Nationalism (Harvard University Press, 1989)
Kathleen Hartford and Steven M. Goldstein, eds. Single Sparks: China’s Rural Revolutions (M.E. Sharpe, 1989)
Edwin A. Winckler and Susan Greenhalgh, eds. Contending Approaches to the Political Economy of Taiwan (M.E. Sharpe, 1988)
James D. Seymour. China’s Satellite Parties (M.E. Sharpe, 1987)
Steven I. Levine. Anvil of Victory: The Communist Revolution in Manchuria (Columbia University Press, 1987)
Carl Riskin. China’s Political Economy: The Quest for Development since 1949 (Oxford University Press, 1987)
R. Randle Edwards, Louis Henkin, and Andrew J. Nathan. Human Rights in Contemporary China (Columbia University Press, 1986)
Roderick MacFarquhar. The Origins of the Cultural Revolution, Vol. II: The Great Leap Forward, 1958-1960 (Columbia University Press, 1983)
Jonathan Unger. Education Under Mao: Class and Competition in Canton Schools (Columbia University Press, 1982)
Richard Curt Kraus. Class Conflict in Chinese Socialism (Columbia University Press, 1981)
Edward M. Gunn, Jr. Unwelcome Muse: Chinese Literature in Shanghai and Peking, 1937-1945 (Columbia University Press, 1980)
Johanna Meskill. A Chinese Pioneer Family: The Lins of Wu-Feng (Princeton University Press, 1979)
Joshua A. Fogel and William T. Rowe, eds. Perspectives on a Changing China (Westview Press, 1979)
T.K. Tong and Li Tsung-jen. The Memoirs of Li Tsung-jen (Westview Press, 1979)
Thomas L. Kennedy. The Arms of Kiangnan: Modernization in the Chinese Ordnance Industry, 1860-1895 (Westview Press, 1978)
Odoric Y.K. Wou. Militarism in Modern China: The Career of Wu P’ei-fu, 1916-1939 (Dawson, 1978)
David Johnson. The Medieval Chinese Oligarchy (Westview Press, 1977)
Myron L. Cohen. House United, House Divided: The Chinese Family in Taiwan (Columbia University Press, 1976)
Thomas A. Metzger. Escape from Predicament: Neo-Confucianism and China’s Evolving Political Culture (Columbia University Press, 1976)
John Israel and Donald W. Klein. Rebels and Bureaucrats: China’s December 9ers (University of California Press, 1976)
Jane L. Price. Cadres, Commanders, and Commissars: The Training of the Chinese Communist Leadership, 1920-45 (Westview Press, 1976)
C. Martin Wilbur. Sun Yat-sen: Frustrated Patriot (Columbia University Press, 1976)
Andrew L. March. The Idea of China: Myth and Theory in Geographic Thought (Praeger, 1974)
Roderick MacFarquhar. Origins of the Cultural Revolution, Vol. I: Contradictions Among the People, 1956-1957 (Columbia University Press, 1974)
John R. Watt. The District Magistrate in Late Imperial China (Columbia University Press, 1972)
James C. Hsiung. Law and Policy in China’s Foreign Relations: A Study of Attitude and Practice (Columbia University Press, 1972)
O. Edmund Clubb. China and Russia: The “Great Game” (Columbia University Press, 1971)
Katharine Huang Hsiao. Money and Monetary Policy in Communist China (Columbia University Press, 1971)
C.T. Hu, ed. Aspects of Chinese Education (Teachers College Press, 1970)
Leonard H.D. Gordon. Taiwan: Studies in Chinese Local History (Columbia University Press, 1970)
James P. Harrison, Jr. The Communists and Peasant Rebellions: A Study in the Rewriting of Chinese History (Atheneum, 1969)
A. Doak Barnett. Cadres, Bureaucracy, and Political Power in Communist China (Columbia University Press, 1968)
Melvin Gurtov. The First Vietnam Crisis: Chinese Communist Strategy and United States Involvement, 1953-1954 (Columbia University Press, 1967)
Samuel Chu. Reformer in Modern China: Chang Chien, 1853-1926 (Columbia University Press, 1965)
Shun-hsin Chou. The Chinese Inflation, 1937-1949 (Columbia University Press, 1963)
Ping-ti Ho. The Ladder of Success in Imperial China (Columbia University Press, 1962)
JAPAN
Tatiana Linkhoeva. Revolution Goes East: Imperial Japan and Soviet Communism (Cornell University Press, 2020)
Christopher Gerteis. Mobilizing Japanese Youth: The Cold War and the Making of the Sixties Generation (Cornell University Press, 2020)
Nathan Shockey. The Typographic Imagination: Reading and Writing in Japan’s Age of Modern Print (Columbia University Press, 2019)
Raja Adal. Beauty in the Age of Empire: Japan, Egypt, and the Global History of Aesthetic Education (Columbia University Press, 2019)
Franz Prichard. Residual Futures: The Urban Ecologies of Literary and Visual Media of 1960s and 1970s Japan (Columbia University Press, 2019)
Max M. Ward. Thought Crime: Ideology and State Power in Interwar Japan (Duke University Press, 2019)
Sidney Xu Lu. The Making of Japanese Settler Colonialism: Malthusianism and Trans-Pacific Migration, 1868–1961 (Cambridge University Press, 2019)
Jeremy A. Yellen. The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere: When Total Empire Met Total War (Cornell University Press, 2019)
Miya Elise Mizuta Lippit. Aesthetic Life: Beauty and Art in Modern Japan (Harvard University Asia Center, 2019)
Kerim Yasar. Electrified Voices: How the Telephone, Phonograph, and Radio Shaped Modern Japan, 1868–1945 (Columbia University Press, 2018)
Sayaka Chatani. Nation-Empire: Ideology and Rural Youth Mobilization in Japan and Its Colonies (Cornell University Press, 2018)
David R. Ambaras. Japan’s Imperial Underworlds: Intimate Encounters at the Borders of Empire (Cambridge University Press, 2018)
Robert Tuck. Idly Scribbling Rhymers: Poetry, Print, and Community in Nineteenth-Century Japan (Columbia University Press, 2018)
Ethan Mark. Japan’s Occupation of Java in the Second World War: A Transnational History (Bloomsbury, 2018)
Chad R. Diehl. Resurrecting Nagasaki: Reconstruction and the Formation of Atomic Narratives (Cornell University Press, 2018)
Yulia Frumer. Making Time: Astronomical Time Measurement in Tokugawa Japan (University of Chicago Press, 2018)
Hikari Hori. Promiscuous Media: Film and Visual Culture in Imperial Japan, 1926-1945 (Cornell University Press, 2018)
Laura Hein. Post-Fascist Japan: Political Culture in Kamakura after the Second World War (Bloomsbury, 2018)
Alexander Zahlten. The End of Japanese Cinema: Industrial Genres, National Times, and Media Ecologies (Duke University Press, 2017)
G. Clinton Godart. Darwin, Dharma, and the Divine: Evolutionary Theory and Religion in Modern Japan (University of Hawaii Press, 2017)
Yasuhiro Makimura. Yokohama and the Silk Trade: How Eastern Japan Became the Primary Economic Region of Japan, 1843-1893 (Lexington Books, 2017)
Yukiko Koga. Inheritance of Loss: China, Japan, and the Political Economy of Redemption After Empire (University of Chicago Press, 2016)
Yoshikuni Igarashi. Homecomings: The Belated Return of Japan’s Lost Soldiers (Columbia University Press, 2016)
D. Colin Jaundrill. Samurai to Soldier: Remaking Military Service in Nineteenth-Century Japan (Cornell University Press, 2016)
Adam Bronson. One Hundred Million Philosophers: Science of Thought and the Culture of Democracy in Postwar Japan (University of Hawai’i Press, 2016)
Celeste L. Arrington. Accidental Activists : Victim Movements and Government Accountability in Japan and South Korea (Cornell University Press, 2016)
Laura Lynn Neitzel. The Life We Longed For:Danchi Housing and the Middle Class Dream in Postwar Japan (MerwinAsia, 2016)
Aya Ezawa. Single Mothers in Contemporary Japan: Motherhood, Class, and Reproductive Practice (Lexington Books, 2016)
Travis Workman. Imperial Genus: The Formation and Limits of the Human in Modern Korea and Japan (University of California Press, 2015)
Akiko Takenaka. Yasukuni Shrine: History, Memory, and Japan’s Unending Postwar (University of Hawai’i Press, 2015)
Reto Hofmann. The Fascist Effect: Japan and Italy: 1915-1952 (Cornell University Press, 2015)
Jessamyn R. Abel. The International Minimum: Creativity and Contradiction in Japan’s Global Engagement, 1933-1964 (University of Hawai’i Press, 2015)
Federico Marcon. The Knowledge of Nature and the Nature of Knowledge in Early Modern Japan (University of Chicago Press, 2015)
Lee K. Pennington. Casualties of History: Wounded Japanese Servicemen and the Second World War (Cornell University Press, 2015)
Robert Stolz. Bad Water: Nature, Pollution, and Politics in Japan, 1870-1950 (Duke University Press, 2014)
Eric C. Han. Rise of a Japanese Chinatown: Yokohama, 1894-1972 (Harvard University Asia Center, 2014)
Takashi Yoshida. From Cultures of War to Cultures of Peace: War and Peace Museums in Japan, China, and South Korea (MerwinAsia, 2013)
Noriko Aso. Public Properties: Museums in Imperial Japan (Duke University Press, 2013)
Ian Jared Miller. The Nature of the Beasts: Empire and Exhibition at the Tokyo Imperial Zoo (University of California Press, 2013)
Yukiko Koshiro. Imperial Eclipse: Japan’s Strategic Thinking about Continental Asia before August 1945 (Cornell University Press, 2013)
Louise Young. Beyond the Metropolis: Second Cities and Modern Life in Interwar Japan (University of California Press, 2013)
Jonathan E. Abel. Redacted: The Archives of Censorship in Transwar Japan (University of California Press, 2012)
Kirsten Cather. The Art of Censorship in Postwar Japan (University Of Hawai’i Press, 2012)
Paula S. Harrell. Asia for the Asians: China in the Lives of Five Meiji Japanese (MerwinAsia, 2012)
Sarah Kovner. Occupying Power: Sex Workers and Servicemen in Postwar Japan (Stanford University Press, 2012)
Peter Berton. Russo-Japanese Relations, 1905-17: From Enemies to Allies (Routledge, 2012)
Aaron Herald Skabelund. Empire of Dogs: Canines, Japan, and the Making of the Modern Imperial World (Cornell University Press, 2011)
David Lurie. Realms of Literacy: Early Japan and the History of Writing (Harvard University Asia Center, 2011)
Janis Mimura. Planning for Empire: Reform Bureaucrats and the Japanese Wartime State (Cornell University Press, 2011)
Kenneth J. Ruoff. Imperial Japan at Its Zenith: The Wartime Celebration of the Empire’s 2,600th Anniversary (Cornell University Press, 2010)
Julian Dierkes. Postwar History Education in Japan and the Germanys: Guilty Lessons (Routledge, 2010)
Alan Tansman. The Aesthetics of Japanese Fascism (University of California Press, 2009)
Scott O’Bryan. The Growth Idea: Purpose and Prosperity in Postwar Japan (University of Hawai’i Press, 2009)
Christopher Hill. National History and the World of Nations: Capital, State, and the Rhetoric of History in Japan, France, and the United States (Duke University Press, 2009)
Kim Brandt. Kingdom of Beauty: Mingei and the Politics of Folk Art in Imperial Japan (Duke University Press, 2007)
David R. Ambaras. Bad Youth: Juvenile Delinquency and the Politics of Everyday Life in Modern Japan (University of California Press, 2006)
Andrew Bernstein. Modern Passings: Death Rites, Politics, and Social Change in Imperial Japan (University of Hawai’i Press, 2006)
Takashi Yoshida. The Making of the “Rape of Nanjing”: The History and Memory of the Nanjing Massacre in Japan, China, and the United States (Oxford University Press, 2006)
Morris Low. Science and the Building of a New Japan, (Palgrave Macmillan, Ltd., 2005)
Sarah Thal. Rearranging the Landscape of the Gods: The Politics of a Pilgrimage Site in Japan, 1573-1912 (University of Chicago Press, 2005)
Richard Calichman. Takeuchi Yoshimi: Displacing the West (Cornell East Asia Program, 2004)
Harald Fuess. Divorce in Japan: Family, Gender, and the State, 1600-2000 (Stanford University Press 2004)
Susan Burns. Before the Nation: Kokugaku and the Imagining of Community in Early Modern Japan (Duke University Press, 2003)
Akitoshi Miyashita. Limits to Power: Asymmetric Dependence and Japan’s Foreign Aid (Lexington Books, 2003)
Michael Bourdaghs. The Dawn that Never Comes: Shimazaki Toson and Japanese Nationalism (Columbia University Press, 2003)
Hugh Borton. Spanning Japan’s Modern Century: The Memoirs of Hugh Borton (Lexington Books, 2002)
Tiana Norgren. Abortion before Birth Control: The Politics of Reproduction in Postwar Japan (Princeton University Press, 2001)
Patricia Maclachlan. Consumer Politics in Postwar Japan: Institutional Boundaries of Citizen Activism (Columbia University Press, 2001)
Takaaki Suzuki. Japan’s Budget Politics: Balancing Domestic and International Interests (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2000)
Barbara Brooks. Japan’s Imperial Diplomacy: Consuls, Treaty Ports, and War with China, 1895-1938 (University of Hawai’i Press, 2000)
Robin LeBlanc. Bicycle Citizens: The Political World of the Japanese Housewife (University of California Press, 1999)
Gerald L. Curtis. The Logic of Japanese Politics: Leaders, Institutions, and the Limits of Change (Columbia University Press, 1999)
Simon Partner. Assembled in Japan: Electrical Goods and the Making of the Japanese Consumer (University of California Press, 1999)
Gerald Figal. Civilization and Monsters: Spirits of Modernity in Meiji Japan (Duke University Press, 1999)
Simon Partner. Assembled in Japan: Electrical Goods and the Making of the Japanese Consumer (University of California Press, 1999)
Angela Yiu. Order and Chaos in the Works of Natsume Soseki (University of Hawai’i Press, 1998)
Marleen Kassel. Tokugawa Confucian Education: The Kangien Academy of Hirose Tanso (1782-1856) (State University of New York Press, February 1996)
Robert Uriu. Troubled Industries: Confronting Economic Change in Japan (Cornell University Press, 1996)
Dennis C. Washburn. The Dilemma of the Modern in Japanese Fiction (Yale University Press, 1995)
Hiroshi Ishida. Social Mobility in Contemporary Japan (Stanford University Press, 1993)
Alan Tansman. The Writings of Koda Aya, a Japanese Literary Daughter (Yale University Press, 1993)
Gerald L. Curtis, ed. Japan’s Foreign Policy after the Cold War: Coping with Change (M.E. Sharpe, 1993)
Hosea Hirata. The Poetry and Poetics of Nishiwaki Junzaburo: Modernism in Translation (Princeton University Press, 1993)
Michael Smitka. Competitive Ties: Subcontracting in the Japanese Automotive Industry (Columbia University Press, 1991)
Robert Angel. Explaining Economic Policy Failure: Japan and the 1969-1971 International Monetary Crisis (Columbia University Press, 1991)
Alan Wolfe. Suicidal Narrative in Modern Japan : The Case of Dazai Osamu (Princeton University Press, 1990)
Theodore C. Bestor. Neighborhood Tokyo (Stanford University Press, 1989)
Richard Rubinger and Edward Beauchamp. Education in Japan (Garland Publishing, 1989)
Frances Rosenbluth. Financial Politics in Contemporary Japan (Cornell University Press, 1989)
Gerald L. Curtis. The Japanese Way of Politics (Columbia University Press, 1988)
Anne E. Imamura. Urban Japanese Housewives: At Home and in the Community (University of Hawai’i Press, 1987)
Dennis T. Yasutomo. The Manner of Giving: Strategic Aid and Japanese Foreign Policy (Free Press, 1986)
Dennis T. Yasutomo. The Manner of Giving: Strategic Aid and Japanese Foreign Policy (Free Press, 1986)
Carol Gluck. Japan’s Modern Myths: Ideology in the Late Meiji Period (Princeton University Press, 1985)
H. Paul Varley. Japanese Culture, third edition, revised (University of Hawai’i Press, 1984)
Amy Vladeck Heinrich. Fragments of Rainbows: The Life and Poetry of Saito Mokichi, 1882-1953 (Columbia University Press, 1983)
Ronald Toby. State and Diplomacy in Early Modern Japan (Princeton University Press, 1983; Stanford University Press, 1991)
Dennis Yasutomo. Japan and the Asian Development Bank (Praeger, 1983)
Richard Rubinger. Private Academies of Tokugawa Japan (Princeton University Press, 1982)
T.J. Pempel. Patterns of Japanese Policymaking: Experiences from Higher Education (Westview Press, 1978)
Michael Blaker. Japanese International Negotiating Style (Columbia University Press, 1977)
John Creighton Campbell. Contemporary Japanese Budget Politics (University of California Press, 1977)
G. Cameron Hurst. Insei: Abdicated Sovereigns in the Politics of Late Heian Japan (Columbia University Press, 1975)
Harold Joyce Noble, ed. Embassy at War (University of Washington Press, 1975)
James W. Morley, ed. Japan’s Foreign Policy, 1868-1941: A Research Guide (Columbia University Press, 1974)
David Anson Titus. Palace and Politics in Prewar Japan (Columbia University Press, 1974)
Calvin L. French. Shiba Kokan: Artist, Innovator, and Pioneer in the Westernization of Japan (Weatherhill, 1974)
William E. Steslicke. Doctors in Politics: The Political Life of the Japan Medical Association (Praeger, 1973)
Donald Ray Thurston. Teachers and Politics in Japan (Princeton University Press, 1973)
H. Paul Varley. Imperial Restoration in Medieval Japan (Columbia University Press, 1971)
Martin E. Weinstein. Japan’s Postwar Defense Policy, 1947-1968 (Columbia University Press, 1971)
Gerald L. Curtis. Election Campaigning Japanese Style (Columbia University Press, 1971)
Herbert Passin. Japanese Education: A Bibliography of Materials in the English Language, (Teachers College Press, 1970)
Koji Taira. Economic Development and the Labor Market in Japan (Columbia University Press, 1970)
Koya Azumi. Higher Education and Business Recruitment in Japan (New York: Teachers College Press, 1969)
Nathaniel B. Thayer. How the Conservatives Rule Japan (Princeton University Press, 1969)
Herschel Webb. The Japanese Imperial Institution in the Tokugawa Period (Columbia University Press, 1968)
James I. Nakamura. Agricultural Production and Economic Development in Japan, 1873-1922 (Princeton University Press, 1967)
Marleigh Ryan. Japan ‘s First Modern Novel: Ukigumo of Futabatei Shimei (Columbia University Press, 1967)
Herbert Passin. Society and Education in Japan (Teachers College Press, 1965)
Herschel Webb with the assistance of Marleigh Ryan. Research in Japanese Sources: A Guide (Columbia University Press, 1965)
KOREA
Alyssa M. Park. Sovereignty Experiments: Korean Migrants and the Building of Borders in Northeast Asia, 1860–1945 (Cornell University Press, 2019)
Cheehyung Harrison Kim. Heroes and Toilers: Work as Life in Postwar North Korea, 1953–1961 (Columbia University Press, 2018)
Juhn Y. Ahn. Buddhas and Ancestors: Religion and Wealth in Fourteenth-Century Korea (University of Washington Press, 2018)
Charles R. Kim. Youth For Nation: Culture and Protest in Cold War South Korea (University of Hawaii Press, 2017)
Sheena Chestnut Greitens. Dictators and their Secret Police: Coercive Institutions and State Violence (Cambridge University Press, 2016)
Celeste L. Arrington. Accidental Activists : Victim Movements and Government Accountability in Japan and South Korea (Cornell University Press, 2016)
Travis Workman. Imperial Genus: The Formation and Limits of the Human in Modern Korea and Japan (University of California Press, 2015)
Sunyoung Park. The Proletarian Wave: Literature and Leftist Culture in Colonial Korea, 1910-1945 (Harvard University Asia Center, 2014)
Janet Poole. When the Future Disappears: The Modernist Imagination in Late Colonial Korea (Columbia University Press, 2014)
John P. DiMoia. Reconstructing Bodies: Biomedicine, Health, and Nation-Building in South Korea Since 1945 (Stanford University Press, 2013)
Andre Schmid. Korea Between Empires, 1895-1919 (Columbia University Press, 2002)
Linsu Kim. From Imitation to Innovation: The Dynamics of Korea’s Technological Learning (Harvard Business School Press, 1997)
Edwin H. Gragert. Landownership under Colonial Rule: Korea’s Japan Experience, 1900-1935 (University of Hawai’i Press, 1994)
Jung-en Woo. Race to the Swift: State and Finance in Korean Industrialization (Columbia University Press, 1991)
Dae-Sook Suh. Kim Il Sung: The North Korean Leader (Columbia University Press, 1988)
Laurel Kendall. Shamans, Housewives, and Other Restless Spirits: Women in Korean Ritual Life (University of Hawai’i Press, 1985)
Youngnok Koo and Sung-joo Han, eds. The Foreign Policy of the Republic of Korea (Columbia University Press, 1984)
Bruce Cumings. The Origins of the Korean War: Liberation and the Emergence of Separate Regimes, 1945-1947 (Princeton University Press, 1981)
Dae-Sook Suh. Documents of Korean Communism, 1918-1948 (Princeton University Press, 1970)
Dae-Sook Suh. The Korean Communist Movement, 1918-1948 (Princeton University Press, 1967)
TIBET
Benno Weiner. The Chinese Revolution on the Tibetan Frontier (Cornell University Press, 2020)
Charlene Makley. The Battle for Fortune: State-Led Development, Personhood, and Power among Tibetans in China (Cornell University Press, 2018)
Max Oidtmann. Forging the Golden Urn: The Qing Empire and the Politics of Reincarnation in Tibet (Columbia University Press, 2018)
Geoffrey Barstow. Food of Sinful Demons: Meat, Vegetarianism, and the Limits of Buddhism in Tibet (Columbia University Press, 2017)
Ben Hillman and Gray Tuttle, editors. Ethnic Conflict and Protest in Tibet and Xinjiang: Unrest in China’s West (Columbia University Press, 2016)
Lama Jabb. Oral and Literary Continuities in Modern Tibetan Literature: The Inescapable Nation (Lexington Books, 2015)
Emily T. Yeh. Taming Tibet: Landscape Transformation and the Gift of Chinese Development (Cornell University Press, 2013)
Andrew Fischer. The Disempowered Development of Tibet in China: A Study in the Economics of Marginalization (Lexington Books, 2013)
SOUTHEAST ASIA
Duncan McCargo. Fighting for Virtue: Justice and Politics in Thailand (Cornell University Press, 2020)
Andrew B. Liu. Tea War: A History of Capitalism in China and India (Yale University Press, 2020)
Haydon Cherry. Down and Out in Saigon: Stories of the Poor in a Colonial City (Yale University Press, 2019)
Olga Dror. Making Two Vietnams: War and Youth Identities, 1965-1975 (Cambridge University Press, 2019)
Claire E. Edington. Beyond the Asylum: Mental Illness in French Colonial Vietnam (Cornell University Press, 2019)
Wen-Qing Ngoei. Arc of Containment: Britain, the United States, and Anticommunism in Southeast Asia (Cornell University Press, 2019)
Reo Matsuzaki. Statebuilding by Imposition: Resistance and Control in Colonial Taiwan and the Philippines (Cornell University Press, 2019)
Jess Melvin. The Army and the Indonesian Genocide: Mechanics of Mass Murder (Routledge, 2018)
Kathlene Baldanza. Ming China and Vietnam: Negotiating Borders in Early Modern Asia (Cambridge University Press, 2016)
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Soren Urbansky. Beyond the Steppe Frontier: A History of the Sino-Russian Border (Princeton University Press, 2020)
Reo Matsuzaki. Statebuilding by Imposition: Resistance and Control in Colonial Taiwan and the Philippines (Cornell University Press, 2019)
Hiromi Mizuno, Aaron S. Moore, and John DiMoia. Engineering Asia: Technology, Colonial Development, and the Cold War Order (Bloomsbury Press, 2018)
Sheena Chestnut Greitens. Dictators and their Secret Police: Coercive Institutions and State Violence (Cambridge University Press, 2016)
Celeste L. Arrington. Accidental Activists: Victim Movements and Government Accountability in Japan and South Korea (Cornell University Press, 2016)
Kathlene Baldanza. Ming China and Vietnam: Negotiating Borders in Early Modern Asia (Cambridge University Press, 2016)
Christopher Hill. National History and the World of Nations: Capital, State, and the Rhetoric of History in Japan, France, and the United States (Duke University Press, 2008)
Ping-hui Liao and David Der-Wei Wang, eds. Taiwan under Japanese Colonial Rule, 1895-1945: History, Culture, Memory ( University of Hawai’i Press, 2006)
Takashi Yoshida. The Making of the “Rape of Nanjing”: The History and Memory of the Nanjing Massacre in Japan, China, and the United States (Oxford University Press, 2006)
Alexis Dudden. Japan’s Colonization of Korea: Discourse and Power (University of Hawai’i Press, 2004)
Victor Cha. Alignment Despite Antagonism: The U.S.-Korea-Japan Security Triangle (Stanford University Press, 1999)
Yukiko Koshiro. Trans-Pacific Racisms and the U.S. Occupation of Japan (Columbia University Press, 1999)
Louise Young. Japan’s Total Empire: Manchuria and the Culture of Wartime Imperialism (University of California Press, 1997)
Warren I. Cohen. The China Connection: Roger S. Greene, Thomas W. Lamont, George E. Sokolsky, and American-East Asian Relations (Columbia University Press, 1978)
Paula S. Harrell. Sowing the Seeds of Change: Chinese Students, Japanese Teachers, 1895-1905 (Stanford University Press, 1992)
Howard B. Schonberger. Aftermath of War: Americans and the Remaking of Japan, 1945-1952 (Kent State University Press, 1989)
Christopher Thorne. Border Crossings: Studies in International History (Basil Blackwell, 1988)
Robert S. Ross. The Indochina Tangle: China’s Vietnam Policy, 1975-1979 (Columbia University Press, 1988)
Sadao Asada. Japan and the World, 1853-1952: A Bibliographic Guide to Recent Scholarship in Japanese Foreign Relations (Columbia University Press, 1988)
Theodore Cohen with Herbert Passin, ed. Remaking Japan: The American Occupation as New Deal (The Free Press, 1987)
Paul A. Cohen. Discovering History in China: American Historical Writing on the Recent Chinese Past (Columbia University Press, 1984)
Warren I. Cohen, ed. New Frontiers in American-East Asian Relations: Essays Presented to Dorothy Borg (Columbia University Press, 1983)
Gerald L. Curtis and Sung-joo Han, eds. The U.S.-South Korean Alliance: Evolving Patterns of Security Relations (Lexington Books, 1983)
Michael M. Yoshitsu. Japan and the San Francisco Peace Settlement (Columbia University Press, 1982)
James Reardon-Anderson. Yenan and the Great Powers: The Origins of Chinese Communist Foreign Policy (Columbia University Press, 1980)
Dorothy Borg and Waldo Heinrichs, eds. Uncertain Years: Chinese-American Relations, 1947-1950 (Columbia University Press, 1980)
William F. Morton. Tanaka Giichi and Japan’s China Policy (Dawson, 1980; St. Martin’s Press, 1980)
Warren I. Cohen. The China Connection: Roger S. Greene, Thomas W. Lamont, George E. Sokolsky, and American-East Asian Relations (Columbia University Press, 1978)
Dorothy Borg and Shumpei Okamoto, eds., with Dale K.A. Finlayson. Pearl Harbor as History: Japanese-American Relations, 1931-1941 (Columbia University Press, 1973)
Shumpei Okamoto. The Japanese Oligarchy and the Russo-Japanese War (Columbia University Press, 1970)
JAPAN’S ROAD TO THE PACIFIC WAR Selected translations of Taiheiyo senso e no michi. James W. Morley, ed. (Columbia University Press):
Vol. I: Japan Erupts: The London Naval Conference and the Manchurian Incident, 1928-1932 (1984)
Vol. II: The China Quagmire: Japan’s Expansion on the Asian Continent, 1933-1941 (1983)
Vol. III: Deterrent Diplomacy: Japan, Germany, and the USSR, 1935-1940 (1976)
Vol. IV: The Fateful Choice: Japan’s Advance into Southeast Asia, 1939-1941 (1980)
Vol. V: The Final Confrontation: Japan’s Negotiations with the United States, 1941 (1994)
