Yeh examines how Chinese development projects in Tibet served to consolidate state space and power.

Christopher R. Duncan spent several years conducting fieldwork in North Maluku, Indonesia, and here examines how individuals taking part in the sectarian violence of 1999 and 2000 understood and experienced that conflict.

This ethnography details the activities of Arivoli Iyakkam (the Enlightenment Movement), in which thousands of Tamil villagers in southern India have participated in literacy lessons, science demonstrations, and other events.

Kim examines the revolutionary events that shaped people’s lives in the development of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

A new history of Korea's Ilchinhoe (Advance in Unity Society), a social and political reform organization whose members ardently embraced Japanese imperialism in Korea and its "civilizing" mission.

From the Korean War to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, this book shows how, despite its objective weakness, North Korea has managed for much of its history to deal with the outside world to maximum advantage.

Special issue: West Papua

This book complicates our understanding of Mindanao's history and ethnography, and outlines the beginning of an autonomous history for the marginalized Lumad peoples.

A sensitive and multidimensional portrait of what it means to live with mental illness in contemporary Japan.

Yukiko Koshiro reassesses the role that Eurasia played in Japan's diplomatic and military thinking from the turn of the twentieth century to the end of the war.