Series Harvard East Asian Monographs – all Bücher

Halle O'Neal
Dead Letters

In Dead Letters, Halle O'Neal explores how inventive makers in medieval Japan, haunted by love and loss, turned to things left behind in the wake of a loved one's death-specifically, the letters they once…

available from 26.3.2027.

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Wen-Chin Chang
Echoes from the Sino-Burmese Borderlands

Harvard East Asian Monographs

Grounded in extensive fieldwork and archival research, Echoes from the Sino-Burmese Borderlands explores the clandestine travel of primarily Yunnanese Chinese migrants during the Cold War. Wen-Chin Chang …

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Wen-Chin Chang
Echoes from the Sino-Burmese Borderlands

Harvard East Asian Monographs

Grounded in extensive fieldwork and archival research, Echoes from the Sino-Burmese Borderlands explores the clandestine travel of primarily Yunnanese Chinese migrants during the Cold War. Wen-Chin Chang …

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Tracy Miller
Harnessing Divinity

Harvard East Asian Monographs

In traditional studies of Chinese architecture, Buddhist halls are often seen as mere variations of imperial palaces and understood primarily as shelters. Harnessing Divinity challenges this view, arguing…

available from 29.1.2027.

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Aihe Wang
Painting into Being

Harvard East Asian Monographs

Amid the political turmoil of China's Cultural Revolution, a small group of painters in Beijing defied state control, creating art in secrecy that challenged the ideological constraints of their time. Pai…

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Ashton Lazarus
Performing Transgression

Harvard East Asian Monographs

What happens when performance defies social and political boundaries? Performing Transgression offers a new cultural history of non-elite spectacle in Heian Japan (794-1185), uncovering how performances o…

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Shiuon Chu
Reinventing Examination and the State in Twentieth-Century China and Taiwan

Harvard East Asian Monographs

Reinventing Examination and the State traces the ideological evolution of civil service and state-organized educational examinations in the twentieth-century China and Taiwan, showing how modern examinati…

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Talia Andrei
Sacred Journeys and Institutional Rivalries - Pilgrimage Mandalas and the Art of Fundraising in Medieval Japan

Harvard East Asian Monographs

Sacred Journeys and Institutional Rivalries is a detailed and richly illustrated exploration of pilgrimage mandalas (sankei mandara ). These large-scale, brightly colored landscape paintings, which appear…

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Helen Hardacre
Shinto Shrines in Prewar and Wartime Japan

Harvard East Asian Monographs

Shinto Shrines in Prewar and Wartime Japan examines the religious and social history of Shinto shrines, focusing on the economic, social, and ideological implications of State Shinto. Helen Hardacre argue…

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Ronald C. Po
The Silver Thread of the Deep

Harvard East Asian Monographs

Often gracing the tables of weddings and banquets, shark fin symbolizes opulence and prestige in China and beyond. Yet its rise from offcut to delicacy reveals a complex history of how value is constructe…

available from 27.11.2026.

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Ronald C. Po
The Silver Thread of the Deep

Harvard East Asian Monographs

Often gracing the tables of weddings and banquets, shark fin symbolizes opulence and prestige in China and beyond. Yet its rise from offcut to delicacy reveals a complex history of how value is constructe…

available from 27.11.2026.

Buch