De Gruyter Brill Asian Studies

06/10/2026

The latest issue of our Open Access journal Bamboo and Silk (BSMS) is out now!

Read it for free here: https://brill.com/view/journals/bsms/9/2/bsms.9.issue-2.xml?utm_source=eToC&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Content_Alerts

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How to Lose Weight with Confucius: Immodesty, Inner Struggle, and Moral Learning of Yan Yuan in the *Junzi wei li 君子為禮
以孔子思想減重：從《君子為禮》看顏淵的不謙遜、內心掙扎與道德學習
Author: Albert Galvany [aka. 梵寧 高]

New Inquiries into the Criteria to Define Shu-Category Texts in the Tsinghua Collection
清華簡《書》類文獻界定原則新探
Author: Liu Guangsheng [aka. 光勝 劉]

A Tentative Interpretation of the Passage ju zhu zhi yi jiu 㵭（煮）之以酉（酒）from the Tsinghua *Medical Formulas 病方 Manuscript㵭（煮）之以酉（酒）”條簡文試解
清華簡《病方》“㵭（煮）之以酉（酒）
Author: Li Li [aka. 麗 李]

Arc and Bow Fields in Mathematical Texts
算術書中的弧田与弓田
Author: Tan Jingnan [aka. 競男 譚]

Scribal Agency in the Production of Judicial Texts in Early Imperial China: Evidence from the Zoumalou Western Han Manuscripts
漢代司法文本製作中的書吏能動性：以長沙走馬樓西漢簡牘爲例
Author: Fung Tong [aka. 唐 俊峰]

Primers as Ordering Devices in Eastern Han Tombs: Just Another Brick in the Vault?
東漢墓用爲次序的小學字書：只是券頂上另一塊磚嗎？
Author: Christopher J. Foster [aka. 希明 傅]

Book Review

"The Tsinghua University Warring States Bamboo Manuscripts: Studies and Translations 3. The Yi Yin Manuscripts and Related Texts"
Author: Laetitia Chhiv

01/10/2026

Our author Paul D.C. Robinson just received his copy of the recently published "Phnom Penh: A City Shaped by Spirituality."

Congratulations, Paul!

Prompted by lived experience, this book presents spatial impacts of spirituality in the city of Phnom Penh through a diverse array of text, photographs, and drawings. It introduces the prevalent hybrid spirituality of Khmer culture that is spatially manifest in three leading ways: the topographical elements of tree, mountain, and water; house typologies and urban focal points at variety of scale; and finally, through traditional rituals. A plausible dynamic relationship between spirituality and urban design emerges that demonstrates spirituality as a core urban design parameter. This work makes a vital and timely contribution to Southeast Asian urbanism that will inform future city design.

More details here: https://brill.com/display/title/70149?contents=editorial-content

28/09/2026

15/09/2026

The latest issue of our journal Philippine Political Science Journal (PPSJ) is out now!

More details here: https://brill.com/view/journals/ppsj/46/3/ppsj.46.issue-3.xml?utm_source=eToC&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Content_Alerts

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Incentivizing Disaster Preparedness: The Role of Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfers and Participatory Governance
Authors: Cielo Magno and Dante Gatmaytan

Assessing the Impact of Republic Act 10618
A Critical Evaluation of RFS as a Strategy for Sustainable Rural Development in Western Visayas, Philippines
Author: Ma. Josephine Therese Emily G. Teves

Political Efficacy and Social Media Political Participation of Filipino Student Voters: Evidence from the Youth in Isabela
Author: Kathlyn Princess V. Cadeliña

Book Reviews

China and Its Small Neighbors: The Political Economy of Asymmetry, Vulnerability, and Hedging, written by Sung Chull Kim
Author: Martial Fanga Agbor

Navigating Trust, Journalism, and Health in the Age of Populism: The Dengvaxia Vaccine Scandal in the Philippines, written by Karl Patrick R. Mendoza
Author: Nathan Mishael O. Go

11/09/2026

*NEW Open Access Journal of Silk Roads Heritage*

Read it for free

Editor-in-Chief:
ZHAO Feng, Professor of Art and Archaeology at Zhejiang University; Honorary Director of the China National Silk Museum; Executive Member of ICOM; UNESCO Chair on Silk Roads Heritage; President of IASSRT.

Deputy Editors:
Helen Wang, Adjunct Researcher at the School of Art and Archaeology, Zhejiang University; LUO Shuai, Tenured Associate Professor at the School of History, Zhejiang University.

Four decades ago, in the summer of 1985, Professor Zhao Feng first set foot on the Silk Roads. What began as a fascination with ancient silk fragments grew into a forty-year mission to bridge cultures. Through decades of collaboration with UNESCO, Professor Feng helped transform a scholarly concept into the world’s first transnational World Heritage site.

Today, a new chapter begins with the founding of the UNESCO Chair on Silk Roads Heritage at Zhejiang University and the simultaneous launch of the Journal of Silk Roads Heritage (JSRH), co-published by and Zhejiang University.

The Journal publishes scholarship on Silk Roads Studies, especially in the field of heritage, including tangible and intangible, and movable and immovable heritage. It encourages broad surveys and deep research of diverse expressions, histories, and intercultural dialogues across and along the Silk Roads through multidisciplinary methods, bringing together fields such as archaeology, art history, the history of science and technology, anthropology, material culture, museum studies, conservation studies and digital humanities.

Supported by Zhejiang University, all articles are published under a non-exclusive Open Access license at no cost to the author, ensuring that high-level scholarship remains accessible to the global community.

Call for Papers:
The editorial board invites scholars and researchers to submit original research, broad surveys, and deep studies concerning the diverse expressions and histories of the Silk Roads. Prospective authors should contact the editorial team:

Helen Wang, Deputy Editor: [email protected]
Zhao Feng, Editor-in-Chief: [email protected]

De Gruyter Brill

"Journal of Silk Roads Heritage" published on by Brill.

09/09/2026

New in Numen & fresh on our shelves! 🔖

"Buddha of Two Faces" by Keith Clark

How can we explain the diversity of Indic Buddhism, its many different images of worship and its (apparently) dramatic alterations in doctrine?

This book demonstrates that they reflect the tensions between the meanings of Buddha’s absence and presence and the wide variety of combinatory resolutions of those tensions which were brought into being. The meanings of absence and presence were encoded in separate systems of meaning—signified, respectively, in words and in images. Albeit antithetical, these meanings operated in a complementary manner. However, the nature of that complementarity altered during the course of three different phases of the religion’s history.

Want to check out the book? Link is in the first comment 👇

29/08/2026

Currently attending the 18th International Conference of the European Association for Japanese Studies in Poznań, where we had the pleasure of meeting Prof. Miriam Kingsberg Kadia, co-volume editor of "Drugs and the Politics of Consumption in Japan."

Learn more about the book: https://brill.com/edcollbook/title/63704?contents=editorial-content

26/08/2026

Just published in Open Access!

"Studying the Bka’ ’gyur and Bstan ’gyur" by Annie Heckman, Adam C. Krug, and Rory Lindsay has just been published in "Brill's Tibetan Studies Library" (BTSL)! 🎉

This volume contains groundbreaking research from scholars specializing in the Buddhist literature preserved in Tibetan translation in the Bka’ ’gyur and Bstan ’gyur collections. The authors of these chapters examine Tibetan strategies for organizing Vinaya literature, polemical debates and issues of apocrypha in the dhāraṇī and sutra literature, the formulation of the Phug brag compendium of dhāraṇīs, the transmission of ta**ra collections in the Mustang Bka’ ’gyurs, the kriyāta**ra tradition of the Goddess Mārīcī, linguistic analyses of the mahāsiddha Saraha’s abecedarian poetry, and Buddhaśrījñāna’s work the Jinamārgāvatāra as a window onto the lived tradition of Buddhist authors.

Download it here for free: https://brill.com/edcollbook-oa/title/71420