De Gruyter Brill Asian Studies

25/07/2025

The latest issue of East Asian Publishing and Society (EAPS) is out now!

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Navigating Literacies, Love and Gendered Epistolary Styles between Nagasaki and Leiden: Kusumoto Taki’s Rediscovered Letter to Siebold, 1830
Author: Aafke van Ewijk

The Book Travels of Commodore Perry: Reading and Framing the Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan
Author: Michael B. Pass

Three Manchu Manuscripts in the East Asian Collection of the University of Chicago Library
Author: Elvin Meng

Vernacular Chinese-Character Manuscripts from East and Southeast Asia, edited by David Holm
Author: Barend ter Haar

Dai Kan-Wa jiten no hyakunen『大漢和辞典』の百年, written by Ikezawa Tadaaki 池澤正晃
Author: William D. Fleming

25/07/2025

We're thrilled to see "Christian Mission in Seventeenth-Century Taiwan" by Christopher Joby reviewed in the Taipei Times by Steven Crook!

“Christopher Joby’s fascinating new work zooms in on the seventeenth century occupation of Taiwan by the Spanish and Dutch East India Company.”

📖 Read the full review here: https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2025/07/24/2003840813

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23/07/2025

The latest issue of the International Journal of Divination and Prognostication (IJDP) is out now!

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An Art of Storytelling: Online Tarot Divination in Contemporary China
Author: Zuohong Elaine Zhuang

Pick a Card, Press “Play”: Understanding Digital Divination through Tarot Readings on YouTube
Author: Dorothy Kalit

Now You Can Find It All on the Internet: Spelling Out Secret Knowledge in China and the Challenge of Complexity
Author: Stéphanie Homola

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Determination over Predetermination: Feng Shui Divination as an Effective Means to Change One’s Destiny in Contemporary Hong Kong
Author: Lai Hung Yu

"Laws of the Land: Fengshui and the State in Qing Dynasty China" by Tristan G. Brown
Author: Michael R. Matthews

"The Art of Fate Calculation: Practicing Divination in Taipei, Beijing, and Kaifeng" by Stéphanie Homola
Author: Esther-Maria Guggenmos

22/07/2025

17/07/2025

The latest issue of NAN NÜ: Men, Women and Gender in China (NANU) is out now!

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Power and Position in Women’s Biographies: Explaining Success in the Official Histories of the Han
Author: Olivia Milburn

Mingyuan shiwei, Zhang Hao, and Wang Duanshu’s Editorial Hand
Author: Ellen Widmer

Sentimental Performance and Public Sympathy: Confession and Representations of a Le***an Crime of Passion in 1930s China
Author: Tam Hiu Man

The Potent Eu**ch, Revisited
Author: Keith McMahon

Gender and Friendship in Chinese Literature, edited by Wai-yee Li
Author: Allan H. Barr

The Women Who Ruled China: Buddhism, Multiculturalism, and Governance in the Sixth Century, written by Stephanie Balkwill
Author: T. H. Barrett

Kunzheng: Qingdai gongting nüxing yanjiu 壼政: 清代宮廷女性研究, written by Mao Liping 毛立平 and Shen Xin 沈欣
Author: Chenxi Luo

Women as Writing Subjects in High Qing China: Reconfiguring the Poetics of Feminine Propriety, written by Chengjuan Sun
Author: Yanning Wang

Jiating geming: Qingmo Minchu dushuren de chongjing 家庭革命: 清末民初讀書人的憧憬, written by Zhao Yanjie 趙妍傑
Author: Chen Dandan

From Forest Farm to Sawmill: Stories of Labor, Gender, and the Chinese State, written by Shuxuan Zhou
Author: Linda Grove

16/07/2025

The latest issue of Journal of Central Asian History (JCAH) is out now!

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“The Boundary Disputes of Villagers”: the Qing Empire and the Micropolitics of the Pamirs
Author: David Brophy

Hybridizing Folklore Theories and Methods in 1950s and 1960s Tajikistan
Authors: Nicholas Seay and Benjamin Gatling

‘History,’ ‘Biography,’ and Framing a Central Asian Identity in a Turkic Tīmūr-nāma from Early Eighteenth-Century Khwārazm
Author: Devin DeWeese

Warnings Ignored? Soviet Post-war Economic Debates and the Violent Collapse of the USSR
Author: Giovanni Cadioli

Rewriting the Perestroika from the South
Author: Anna Whittington

Переписывая распад Советского Союза: центральноазиатская перспектива
Rewriting the Collapse of the Soviet Union: A Central Asian Perspective
Author: Сергей Абашин

Тajikistan at the End of the USSR: Destabilization, Violence, and Moscow’s Ongoing Role
Author: Isaac McKean Scarborough

14/07/2025

The latest issue of Ming Qing Yanjiu (MQYJ) is out now!

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The Apex of Privilege: Ming Court Painting in the Late Fifteenth Century
Author: Ka-yi Ho

From Ordinary to Extraordinary: the Stylistic Transformation of Zhangzhou Export Porcelain in Late Ming Era
Author: Judy Law

Peeking into the First Dutch Embassies: Min-Yue Literati’s Eyewitness Accounts and Knowledge Networks
Author: Jasmin Wai Tan Law

Biographies of Shanghai Flowers: Embodied Space and the Building of an Affective Realism
Author: Daniela Licandro

11/07/2025

We are pleased to announce a new podcast episode hosted by Ari Barbalat, featuring a conversation with Sven Saaler and Tajima Nobuo about their book “Mutual Perceptions and Images in Japanese-German Relations, 1860–2010,” published by Brill in 2017.

🎧 Listen to the full episode here: https://newbooksnetwork.com/mutual-perceptions-and-images-in-japanese-german-relations-1860-2010

📖 Explore the book here: https://brill.com/display/title/34609?language=en&srsltid=AfmBOorjzpRlde8fJJucgBmsH-wZm_0vrD9vMJukPBQKzW3q_q4IYeDh

11/07/2025

Author and translator Rui Zhou has received his copies of 'A General Survey of Song-Poetry (Sanqu) of Yuan China (1260–1368)' (original title《元散曲通論》by Zhao Yishan 趙義山), the culmination of several years of hard work!

This book provides a survey of Yuan sanqu, with its principal sections focusing on fundamental theories, compositional features, and historical evolution.

More details here: https://brill.com/display/title/72541

10/07/2025

The latest issue of the Bandung: Journal of the Global South (BJGS) is out now!

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Volume 12 (2025): Issue 2

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Microhistory, Cultural Memory and Indus Valley Civilization in Vasant Davé’s Trade Winds to Meluhha
Authors: Shankhadeep Ghosal and Rajni Singh

Persistent Patterns: Evaluating Media Funding During Brazil’s First Left-Wing Governments
Author: Eleonora de-Magalhães-Carvalho

Role Expectations and Realities: The Philippines’ Foreign Policy Under Marcos Jr. Amid Shifting Regional Dynamics
Author: Maria Thaemar Camañag Tana

Imagining Soqotra: A Genealogy of an Indigenous Community’s Representations
Author: Serge D. Elie

Asymmetric Battleground: Terrorism and the Indo-Pakistani Protracted Conflict
Authors: Surinder Mohan and Josukutty C. Abraham

09/07/2025

09/07/2025

The latest issue of the European Journal of East Asian Studies (EJEA) is out now!

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Volume 24 (2025): Issue 2 (Jul 2025)

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Connecting Southeast Asia: The Engagement of Vietnam in Cross-Border Economic Corridors
Author: Do Ta Khanh

The Forgotten Class Factor?: Examining Structure-Agency Dynamics in Taiwan’s Sunflower Movement at Its Tenth Anniversary
Author: Silvia Frosina

Creating Duality in Korea: A Critical Perspective on the Role of Samsung and Social Actors
Author: Simon Gerster

Reading the Chinese Metaverse through the Past: The Construction of a National Narrative through Qian Xuesen’s Collection of Letters
Author: Gianluigi Negro

Reflections on the Fifteenth Anniversary of Suppressed Dissent: The Internal Security Operations Command’s 2009–2010 Crackdown on Thailand’s Red Shirts
Author: Siwach Sripokangkul

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Korean Drama: From Korean TV to Worldwide Popularity, by Bianka Francistyová and Lucia Novanská Škripcová
Author: Lucia Furtáková

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Games, Changes, and Fears: The Philippines from Duterte to Marcos Jr, by Aries A. Arugay & Jean Encinas-Franco, eds.
Author: Aaron Abel Mallari

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Zhou Enlai. A Life, by Chen Jian
Author: Paola Paderni