This book is a teaching textbook for both lower and upper level courses on modern Chi...

Is modernity in non-Western societies always an alternative modernity, a derivative copy of an or...

Traces Japan's efforts to modernize Taiwan through gendered educational practicesIn Good Wife, Wi...

Old Beijing has become a subject of growing fascination in contemporary China since the 1980s. Wh...

During the 1920s and 1930s, in cities from Beijing to Bombay, Tokyo to Berlin, Johannesburg to Ne...

Stories of migration, displacement, democratization, and transformationFrom a cradle of Austrones...

Where statehood is contested, questions of identity and territory define the political landscapeD...

A collection that examines the global phenomenon of the Modern Girl that emerged in the 1920s and...

Essays address expressions of modernity in relation to non-Western politics and national cultures.