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Making a case for quantitative research in the study of modern Chinese history: The New China News Agency and Chinese policy views of Vietnam, 1977--1993	Seeing ghosts in late eighteenth-century China in Luo Pin's 1766 "Guiqu Tu" ("Ghost Realm Amusements") scroll

Blood, flesh and bones: Kinship and violence in the social economy of the Late Shang	An archaic fabric: Culture and landscape in an early Inner Asian oasis (3rd--4th century C.E. Niya)

Defending the empire: Uchida Yasuya and Japanese foreign policy, 1865--1936	Strategic alliances: The complex relationship between Japanese and Korean Buddhism, 1877--1912

Cosmos, state and society: Song dynasty arguments concerning the creation of political order	Pinning down the floating world: Prostitution in provincial Japan, 1600--1868

Unearthing the nation: Modern geology and nationalism in republican China, 1911--1949	Policing health in modern Taiwan, 1895--1949

Networks, communities, and identities: On the discursive practices of Yuan literati	Inventing Koreans abroad: Immigration, cultural citizenship, and history making, 1903--2003

Four-syllable verse in medieval China	Dreams undeferred: Mao, Nehru, and the strategic choices of rising powers

Negotiating virtue and the lives of women in late Choso˘n Korea	Evolutionary statecraft: The Ming state and local elites in the field of hydrological management in the Lower Yangtze Delta

People's empire: Democratic imperialism in Japanese Manchuria	Infanticide and fertility in Eastern Japan: Discourse and demography, 1660--1880

Sandalwood and carrion: Smell in South Asian culture and religion	A girl without talent is therefore virtuous: Educating Chinese women in British Malaya and Singapore, 1850s--1960s

A groundwork for normative unity: Zhu Xi's reformation of the "Learning of the Way" tradition	Practice and emptiness in the "Discourse Record of Ruru Jushi", Yan Bing (d. 1212), a Chan Buddhist layman of the Southern Song

A comparative study of state violence in mainland China and Taiwan in the 1950s	Stigma: Social suffering for social exclusion and social insecurity. From the ethnography of mental illness to the ethnography of HIV/AIDS in China

Differentiating the pearl from the fish eye: Ouyang Jingwu (1871--1943) and the revival of scholastic Buddhism	Ledi Sayadaw, Abhidhamma, and the development of the modern insight meditation movement in Burma

Different mirrors of the past: Southern Song historiography	Scriptures and bodies: Jest and meaning in the religious journeys in "Xiyou Ji"

Rewriting the Southern Tang (937--975): Nostalgia and aesthetic imagination	The Precious Lord: The history and practice of the cult of the jo bo Sakyamuni in Lhasa, Tibet

Marginal constituencies: Qing borderland policies and vernacular histories of five tribes on the Sino-Russian frontier	Order and violence in authoritarian breakdowns: How institutions explain communal violence in Indonesia

Printed maps in Late Ming publishing culture: A trans-regional perspective	Nationalizing aesthetics: Art education in Egypt and Japan, 1872-1950

Nation, race and politics amongst the South Asian diaspora: From colonial Kenya to multicultural Britain	Imaging nation: The resilience of indigenous Australian art and its colonial representation

Negotiated power: The state and elites in 12th-14th century China	Antiquity in revolution: Cultural relics in twentieth-century Shanghai

The sources for the writing of the "Rgyud bzhi", Tibetan medical classic	The Qianlong emperor's perspective: Illusionistic painting in eighteenth-century China

Capitalists, cadres, and culture in 1950s China	The past is not like smoke: A memory museum of the Maoist era (1949--1976)

Between tortoise and mirror: Historians and historiography in eleventh-century China	Recasting antiquity: Ancient bronzes and ritual hermeneutics in the Song dynasty

The urgency of history: Language and ritual in Japanese Buddhism and Kokugaku	Power for a price: Office purchase, elite families, and status maintenance in Qing China

Miraculous Mundane: The True Jesus Church and Chinese Christianity in the Twentieth Century	Reinventing 'Koreanness': "The Tale of Spring Fragrance" and the Gendered Culture of Colonial Korea

500 Maori PhDs in five years: Insights from a successful indigenous higher education initiative	Managing the Territories from Afar: The Imperial State and Elites in Sichuan, 755-1279

The World Beyond the Walls: Morishima Churyo (1756-1810) and the Development of Late Edo Fiction	Serving Your Master: The Kashindan Retainer Corps and the Socio-Economic Transformation of Warring States Japan

Preserving Manchu Tradition with Chinese Culture: The Banner People's Kinship Organizations (1644--1911)	Patronage, Politics, and the Emergence of Rock-Cut Tombs in Early Han China

Insatiable Women and Transgressive Authority: Constructions of Gender and Power in Early Tang China	The 1960 US-Japan Security Treaty Crisis and the Origins of Contemporary Japan

The Power of Ritual: An Integrated History of Medieval Kofukuji	The Politics of the Past in Early China

Voting as a Rite: Changing Ideas of Elections in Early Twentieth Century China	Delivering the Lotus-Born: Historiography in the Tibetan Renaissance

Constructing the Chinese: Paleoanthropology and Anthropology in the Chinese Frontier, 1920--1950	Seizing Civilization: Antiquities in Shanghai's Custody, 1949--1996

The Causal Effect of Completing another Year of High School on Subsequent Earnings: New Evidence from the Chinese Cultural Revolution	The Envelope of Global Trade: The Political Economy and Intellectual History of Jute in the Bengal Delta, 1850s to 1950s

From the Brothel, to the Body: The Relocation of Male Sexuality in Japan's Prostitution Debate, 1870--1920	Wartime Atrocities and the Politics of Treason in the Ruins of the Japanese Empire, 1937--1953