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East Asian Languages and Cultures

East Asian Languages & Cultures

Welcome to the East Asian Languages and Cultures Research Guide!

This guide is meant to provide you with starting points for research in this subject area. See the Quick Links box on this page for general help with research, or use the sidebar to find recommended resources for your classes.

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New & Noteworthy

Buddhism in Five Minutes
A Cultural History of Late Meiji Japan
The Fox Spirit, the Stone Maiden, and Other Transgender Histories from Late Imperial China
Hyakunin'shu: Reading the Hundred Poets in Late Edo Japan
Japanese Chess: The Game of Shogi
Japanese Culture Through Videogames
Laughing Back at Empire
Memes, Myth and Meaning in 21st Century Chinese Visual Culture
Mindful America
More Swindles from the Late Ming: Sex, Scams, and Sorcery
Music, Mind, and Language in Chinese Poetry and Performance
Occult Hunting and Supernatural Play in Japan
Voices of Early Modern Japan

Recent Titles in Open Access

Buddhist Statecraft in East Asia
China and the World in a Changing Context
Colours on East Asian Maps : Their Use and Materiality in China, Japan and Korea between the Mid-17th and Early 20th Century
Confucian Iconoclasm : Textual Authority, Modern Confucianism, and the Politics of Antitradition in Republican China
Contemporary Chinese Novels in Translation since 1978 : Literary Voices from the Periphery
Disability, Sexuality, and Gender in Asia : Intersectionality, Human Rights, and the Law
The Dreaming Mind and the End of the Ming World
Escaping Kakania: Eastern European Travels in Colonial Southeast Asia
Evangelizing Korean Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
Expanding Verse
Fate and Freedom in Korean Historical Films 
Following His Own Path : Li Zehou and Contemporary Chinese Philosophy
Games and Play in Chinese and Sinophone Cultures
Gender in Japanese Popular Culture: Rethinking Masculinities and Femininities
Ginkgo Village: Trauma and Transformation in Rural China
The Han
Modern Japan’s Place in World History : From Meiji to Reiwa 
Negotiating the Christian Past in China : Memory and Missions in Contemporary Xiamen
The Other Women's Lib
Performing Grief
Placing Empire
Poet-Monks: The Invention of Buddhist Poetry in Late Medieval China
Poetry, History, Memory
Realisms in East Asian Performance
Revolutionary Stagecraft
Sociolinguistics of the Korean Wave : Hallyu and Soft Power

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