Book Series in Asian Studies
Academia Sinica on East Asia
New & Published Titles:
Beyond Confucian China
The Rival Discourses of Kang Youwei and Zhang Binglin
Young-tsu Wong trows new light on Kang Youwei and Zhang Binglin, both through research on the sources, nature and import of their ideas and through…
read moreJuly 2010 | Hardback: 978-0-415-58208-7 (Routledge)
Divine Justice
Religion And The Development Of Chinese Legal Culture
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…
read more2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-57433-4 (Routledge)
The Poet-historian Qian Qianyi
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…
read more2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-49460-1 (Routledge)
Taiwan in Japan’s Empire-Building
An Institutional Approach to Colonial Engineering
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…
read more2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-44738-6 (Routledge)
Forthcoming Titles:
Dandyism and Transcultural Modernity: The Dandy, the Flaneur, and the Translator in 1930s Shanghai, Tokyo, and Paris
By Peng Hsiao-yen
To be published August 5th 2010
