Issues

Articles:
YA-HWEI HSU on the social trends reflected in the tomb epitaphs of Liao, Song, and Jin China
TINA LU on the connection of literati aesthetics with enslavement in late imperial China
MATTHEW WILD on evidential scholarship’s links to the poetics of ancient song in the Qing

Review Essays:
AMY STANLEY on the study of women, agency, and structure in the social history of Edo Japan
ALLEN HOCKLEY on two recent books reexamining the arts of the Meiji period

And reviews of books by Deng Xiaonan, Lewis Doney et al., William Fleming, Christopher Hanscom, Charlotte Horlyck, Matthew Kapstein, Jungwon Kim, Peter Kwon, Matsuoka Shinpei, John Phan, Ying Qian, Akiko Yano, and Zhang Zhen et al.

Articles:
YANGMOTSO on Buddhist emanation in Tibetan literary representations of the kingship of Songtsen Gampo
EUNMI GO on the requisition of ships for naval defense and the rise of piracy during the Southern Song
GRAEME R. REYNOLDS on the sublime royal discourse of movable metal-type printing in Chosŏn Korea

Review Essays:
FUSHENG WU on two recent studies of the Chuci and its literary afterlives
JOAN E. CHO on three studies of the fate of democracy under neoliberalism in South Korea

And reviews of books by David Atherton, Tristan G. Brown, Ariel Fox, Gustav Heldt, Peter Jackson, Sheila Miyoshi Jager, Thomas Kelly, Shinyoung Kwon, Jie Li, Xiaolu Ma, Christopher M. B. Nugent, Se-Mi Oh, Jessica Rawson, Edward L. Shaughnessy, and Mark Teeuwen

Articles:
PENG XU on the equivocal embrace of the Korean poetess Hŏ Nansŏrhŏn in Ming China
MENG ZHANG on the origins of the medicinal and culinary uses of edible birds’ nest in early modern China
TSUYOSHI ISHII, MINGHUI HU, & JOHN EWELL on the confrontations of two critical thinkers of modern China and Japan with past and present

Review Essays:
PEI-YING LIN on three books detailing Buddhism’s transnational circulation in premodern Asia
SEUNGSOOK MOON on two recent studies that decenter and engender North Korean history

And reviews of books by by Alison Melnick Dyer, Dylan Esler, Charles Hartman, Satoru Hashimoto, Tomoyasu Iiyama, Dal Yong Jin, John Kieschnick, Aaron Proffitt, Wayne Tan, Sophie Volpp, Xin Wen, Wu Hung, and Takahiro Yamamoto

Articles:
AKINOBU KURODA on the importation and uses of old Chinese coins—real and counterfeit—in medieval Japan
MORTEN OXENBOELL on conflicts over forest resources and self-governance among mountain woodsmen in medieval Japan
REINIER H. HESSELINK on the life of a Nagasaki merchant, printer, church elder, and art sponsor during Japan’s “Nanban Moment”
MENGXIAO WANG on the fusion of ritual and theater in a Qing-era Buddhist play and its staging for edification and entertainment

Review Essays:
SEONMIN KIM on two scholarly arguments for Chosŏn Korea’s centrality in the history of imperial Chinese designs
MARIANA MÜNNING comparing a pair of recent studies about the creation of a national language for China

Biographical Essay:
MARY ELIZABETH BERRY on Elizabeth Huff (1912–1988), Harvard grad & founder of the UC Berkeley East Asian Library

And reviews of books by Peter Bol, Michael Bourdaghs, Paul Cha, Wai-yee Li, Hwasook Nam, Morgan Pitelka, Janine Sawada, Nathan Vedal, Lan Wu, and Lawrence Zhang

Research Articles:
XIN WEN on Khotanese kings’ adoption of the trappings of Chinese imperial rulership in post-Tang Central Asia
PAIZE KEULEMANS on reevaluating the Ming novel Outlaws of the Marsh through the lens of its video-game remediation
JEFFREY WENG on the material and economic constraints facing Chinese character simplification during the Nanjing decade

Review Essays:
PETER BOL on three recent studies using historical data to theorize China’s late-imperial challenges
DIANE WEI LEWIS on four studies examining the persistence of hegemonic masculinities in East Asia’s media sphere

research articles:
YUDA YANG & NANNY KIM on reevaluating the scale of Ming and Qing silver mining outputs
VINCENT GOOSSAERT on Daoist catechisms’ promotion of the god Laojun in post-Yuan China
YAN LIU on the material and cultural history of saffron’s transmission to China

review essays:
NICOLAS TACKETT on the history and future of applying digital methods to China studies
SUNG-SHENG YVONNE CHANG on the state-of-the-field in the study of Taiwan Literature

research articles:
CHEN LIU on the rise of tiba colophons as a literary genre in Song dynasty China
ELLEN GARDNER NAKAMURA on the social history of sea bathing in Meiji Japan
CHARLOTTE EUBANKS on the interment and excavation of Buddhist sutras in Japan

review essay:
D. JONATHAN FELT on the study of local and borderland spaces in early China

research articles:
GALA MARIA FOLLACO on urban Japanese soundscapes in 1874
SUYOUNG SON on use of self-images in late Ming publishing
KEITH McMAHON on modes of sexual language in Jin Ping Mei

review essays:
REGINALD JACKSON on anglophone Heian literary studies
CHARLENE MAKLEY on Buddhist geopolitics across Tibetan history

special issue articles:
LÚCIO DE SOUSA on slavery’s invisibility in Asia
ADAM CLULOW & SIYEN FEI on Chinese slaveholders in SE Asia
CLAUDE CHEVALEYRE on lineage regulations on slavery
NAM-LIN HUR on Japan’s invasion & capture of Koreans
TINA LU on slavery in The Plum in the Golden Vase
SAM H. BASS on slave donations to lamas in Mongolia
SUN JOO KIM on the resilience of Korean slavery
EUGÉNIE MÉRIEAU on slavery as state resistance in Siam
STUART M. MCMANUS on slavery in Macau & South China
HYUN SUK PARK on courtesan slavery in Chosŏn Korea
KRISTIN ROEBUCK on female slavery in Asia-Pacific patriliny
JOHANNA S. RANSMEIER on slavery’s spectrum

review essays:
DAVID R. AMBARAS on reconciliations in East Asia
ALEXANDER ZAHLTEN on “Asian Media Studies”
WENQING KANG on queer East Asia

research articles:
THOMAS KELLY on the Song poet Su Shi and ink making
RUTH YUN-JU CHEN on Song innovations in managing medical knowledge
JAMES REICHERT on fetishism, allegory, and irony in Bushūkō hiwa
STEPHEN R. BOKENKAMP on animal rebirth in Buddhism and Daoism

review essays:
LIVIA KOHN on medieval Chinese Daoism
RAJA ADAL on sound, music and speech in modern Japan
KIRK W. LARSEN on movements across Korea’s border