Academia Sinica on East Asia: Published in association with Academia Sinica, Taiwan
About the Book Series
Academia Sinica on East Asia
Published in association with Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Series Editor:
Dr Ts’ui-Jung Liu, Vice-President, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Initiated by the Academia Sinica, Taiwan’s foremost research centre, this interdisciplinary monograph series publishes original humanities and social sciences research on Asia, with a particular focus on East Asia.
The series uses diverse methodologies and perspectives to identify key issues in East Asian history, politics, economics, sociology, international relations, geography, business, education, religion, literature, culture and ethnicity.
New proposals for the series are welcomed. Prospective authors should in the first instance contact the series editor, c/o Beatrice Chao at: [email protected].
Religion, Ethnicity, and Gender in Western Hunan during the Modern Era: The Dao among the Miao?
1st Edition
By Paul R. Katz
May 31, 2023
This book explores how beliefs and practices have shaped the interactions between different ethnic groups in Western Hunan, as well as considering how religious life has adapted to the challenges of modern Chinese history. Combining historical and ethnographic methodologies, chapters in this book ...
Perspectives on Environmental History in East Asia: Changes in the Land, Water and Air
1st Edition
Edited
By Ts'ui-jung Liu, Micah Muscolino
August 29, 2022
This edited volume engages with some of the most dynamic themes in current research on East Asian environmental history, including agricultural science, war and the environment, imperial forestry, oceanic history, and the history of energy. Chapters in this book supply an overview of environmental ...
The Economy of Lower Yangzi Delta in Late Imperial China: Connecting Money, Markets, and Institutions
1st Edition
Edited
By Billy K. L. So
June 16, 2017
Historically, the Lower Yangzi Delta (or Jiangnan), has played a key role in China’s economic development. Indeed, as the prime example of a traditional Chinese market economy, the region serves as the core case study when making comparisons between the Chinese and Western economies in the early ...
From Eileen Chang to Ang Lee: Lust/Caution
1st Edition
Edited
By Peng Hsiao-yen, Whitney Crothers Dilley
April 27, 2017
In 2007, Ang Lee made an espionage thriller based on the short story "Lust, Caution" by Eileen Chang, China’s most famous female author of the twentieth century. The release of the film became a trigger for heated debates on issues of national identity and political loyalty, and brought ...
Environmental History in East Asia: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Tsui-jung Liu
March 03, 2016
As environmental history has developed as growing sub-discipline within the study of history, great emphasis has been placed on the importance of adopting an interdisciplinary approach. Indeed, as Environmental History in East Asia shows, by drawing on research and methodologies from the fields of ...
Dandyism and Transcultural Modernity: The Dandy, the Flaneur, and the Translator in 1930s Shanghai, Tokyo, and Paris
1st Edition
By Hsiao-yen Peng
June 29, 2015
This book views the Neo-Sensation mode of writing as a traveling genre, or style, that originated in France, moved on to Japan, and then to China. The author contends that modernity is possible only on "the transcultural site"—transcultural in the sense of breaking the divide between past and ...
Beyond Confucian China: The Rival Discourses of Kang Youwei and Zhang Binglin
1st Edition
By Young-tsu Wong
April 09, 2015
Young-tsu Wong throws new light on Kang Youwei and Zhang Binglin, both through research on the sources, nature and import of their ideas and through juxtaposing them. The result is a provocative and stimulating analysis of late Qing-early Republican thought. Never before these two rival thinkers ...
Taiwan in Japan’s Empire-Building: An Institutional Approach to Colonial Engineering
1st Edition
By Hui-yu Caroline Tsai
March 17, 2011
This book explores the institutions through which Taiwan was governed under Japanese colonial rule, illuminating how the administration was engineered and how Taiwan was placed in Japan’s larger empire building. The author argues that rather than envisaging the ruling of the society and then going ...
Divine Justice: Religion And The Development Of Chinese Legal Culture
1st Edition
By Paul R. Katz
December 22, 2009
This book considers the ways in which religious beliefs and practices have contributed to the formation of Chinese legal culture. It does so by describing two forms of overlap between religion and the law: the ideology of justice and the performance of judicial rituals. One of the most important ...
The Poet-historian Qian Qianyi
1st Edition
By Lawrence C.H Yim
June 09, 2009
This book is the first English language study of Qian Qianyi (1582-1664) - a poet and literary critic during the Ming-Qing dynastic transition. Although Qian’s works constitute some of the greatest achievements in pre-modern Chinese lyric poetry, they have been largely understudied and are poorly ...