Discover a repository of catalogues, site reports and translations to to help support research into the items hosted by the International Dunhuang Programme.

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Longtime Association for Asian Studies member Harriet Zurndorfer passed away on 18 March 2026 in Leiden. Harriet arrived at Berkeley to study Chinese history in the late 1960s. Her supervisor, Frederic Wakeman, would go on to have a major influence on the trajectory of her academic career. On Wakeman’s suggestion, Harriet spent time in Cambridge […]

Water Powers is an interdisciplinary collection that presents timely, original research on sacred aquatic animals—from dragons and nagas to crocodiles, eels, dugongs, and whales—and environmental c…

Cambridge Core - East Asian History - Mind and Psychology in Early China

The Journal of the American Oriental Society (ISSN 0003-0279) is published quarterly by the American Oriental Society.

The monster has been here all along. It is a historical constant that manifests in wildly different ways across time, place, and culture. Whatever form it takes, the monster claws at categories; it un...