Issues

research articles:
MICHAEL McCARTY on Jien, monk and political actor in medieval Japan
ZHIYI YANG on Wang Jingwei’s equivocal use of cultural memory
ALEXANDER DES FORGES on Tang Xianzu’s analysis of excess production
TINA LU on Xinxue’s derivation from 16th-century textual practices

review essays:
REBECCA DORAN on Tang material culture and fashion
MELISSA J BROWN on footbinding in economic context

research articles:
LUCAS RAMBO BENDER on poetry about the An Lushan rebellion
UFFE BERGETON on translating wen 文 as culture in The Analects
GUOJUN WANG on theatrical costuming and identity in the early Qing
SI NAE PARK on cosmopolitan-vernacular mediation in the Chosŏn
PATRICIA BUCKLEY EBREY on Song government public notices

review essays:
HAUN SAUSSY on what literary histories are, with three examples about Chinese literary history
RUTH ROGASKI on Asian epidemics of infectious disease in relation to modernity
MARK DRISCOLL on modernization and Japanese imperialism in Taiwan, as well as Okinawa, Korea, and Manchuria

research articles:
STEPHEN MCDOWALL on cultural trauma of Ming remnant subjects
BRIAN STEININGER on medieval Sino-Japanese education
KEVIN BUCKELEW on supernatural embodiment in Buddhism & Daoism
ARMIN SELBITSCHKA on scribes’ skills and identity in early China

review essays:
PAMELA KYLE CROSSLEY on The Cambridge History of China series
EVELYN S. RAWSKI & SUSAN NAQUIN on eighteenth-century Canton trade
JAMES A MILLWARD on Xinjiang & Uyghur historiography
MATTHEW W. MOSCA on seventeenth-century maritime China

research articles:
NATHAN VEDAL on cosmological innovations in Chinese phonology
CHELSEA FOXWELL on Meiji woodblock prints as social criticism
JOHN E. HERMAN on Qing settler colonialism in Southwest China
MICHAEL HUNTER on the Last Words of Confucius

review essays:
ANGUS LOCKYER on the Natural History of Japanese colonialism
DAVID A. PALMER on the transnational circulation of spirituality in Asia
DAVID MERVART on Japanese Confucianism

research articles:
HE BIAN on eighteenth-century Chinese pharmacopeia
MATTHEW STAVROS on monuments and mandalas in medieval Kyoto
MÅRTEN SÖDERBLOM SAARELA on Qing lexicography in Korea and Japan
JOHN WHITTIER TREAT with an Arendtian view of Nanjing and Hiroshima

review essays:
MORGAN PITELKA on seduction in early modern Japanese art
ELLEN WIDMER on gender and the public sphere in modernizing East Asia
T. GRIFFITH FOULK on rehabilitating two neglected Chan Buddhist masters

Special Issue on the Tributary System:
SAEYOUNG PARK on the IR turn in premodern history
HENDRIK SPRUYT on culture, hegemony, and the limits of political science
SAEYOUNG PARK on an East Asian alternative to Westphalian IR
JOSHUA VAN LIEU on the tribute system and 19th century China-watching
SANKARAN KRISHNA on the insidiousness of Eurocentrism
With a response by DAVID KANG and an afterword by PRASENJIT DUARA

review essays:
JACK CHEN on new approaches to Tang literature
PETER PERDUE on the Yellow River in Chinese history
PERRY LINK on Confucius Institutes

research articles:
REGINALD JACKSON on homosocial male relationships in the Tale of Genji
ARIEL FOX on the embodiment of money in Chinese literature
PAUL VIERTHALER with a digital-humanities approach to Chinese book history
ANGELA SCHOTTENHAMMER on Iranian & Arab merchants in Tang maritime commerce

review essays:
JAMES A. BENN on medicine and spells in Tibetan and Chinese Buddhism
SHELDON H. LU on Republican-era Chinese cinema

research articles:
PENG XU on professional singing teachers during the late Ming
SACHI SCHMIDT-HORI on gender construction in medieval Japanese acolyte tales
EDWARD L. SHAUGHNESSY on the Classic of Poetry and the limits of orality
RUYUE HE and MICHAEL NYLAN on the origins of the postface to the Documents

review essays:
DONALD L. BAKER on Tonghak and Korean religious movements
ELENA BARABANTSEVA on US-Chinese historical migrations & identities

research articles:
ANDREW HUI on Buddhist allegory in the perplexing ending of Journey to the West
OLIVER WEINGARTEN on the social role of disciples in early Chinese texts
CHARLES HARTMAN and CHO-YING LI on literati resistance during the Song

research articles:
SOOKJA CHO on the transmission and transformation of a Chinese love story in Korea
RICHARD VON GLAHN on Sino-Japanese maritime trade during the Song & Yuan
DAVID SPAFFORD on the flexibility of the late medieval Japanese house (ie)