The opening of a bookstore rarely makes international headlines. But when JF Books, known in Chinese as “Jifeng” (seasonal winds), opened its doors in Washington, D.C. on September 1, 2024, the news w...

The opening of a bookstore rarely makes international headlines. But when JF Books, known in Chinese as “Jifeng” (seasonal winds), opened its doors in Washington, D.C. on September 1, 2024, the news…

The Diversity and Equity Committee of the Association for Asian Studies invites applications for its two designated sessions at the 2027 Annual Conference, which will be held in Boston, Massachusetts,...

Enchanted Belonging: Everyday Religiosities, Spiritualities, and Religious Affects in Hong Kong

No doubt owing a great deal to the historical contingencies that gave rise to “area studies” and “Islamic studies,” Asia has not been regarded as central t

ABSTRACT. This article offers a postcolonial reading of Donovan Schaefer’s Wild Experiment to investigate the felt dimension of another form of secularism:

这期节目我们有幸邀请到新加坡国立大学的副教授周陶沫。作为一位历史学者，陶沫的研究和书写涉及冷战国际史，移民与华人华侨，中国外交史，中国经济史，和资本主义全球史。赵益民加入我们作为客座主播。我们聊到她的获奖作品《革命时代的移民》，冷战格局中东南亚华人群体的境遇和发挥的作用，印尼共流亡者Francisca Casparina Fanggidaej的生平和冷战中的“母职”，深圳的全球史，尤其深圳作为一个...

Yellow peril with a dash of green: The global imagining of an Islamized China at the turn of the twentieth century - Volume 59 Issue 4

This is a multilayered book about the colonial, national, and religious landscape of Indonesia in the first half of the twentieth century, and especially h

Scholars in Buddhist studies have long engaged in debates over the scope and location of authority within a field in which knowledge production has been de

In a field often dominated by narratives of conflict and civilizational clash, Kieko Obuse’s Buddhism and Islam: Mutual Engagements in Southeast Asia and J

Summary. This article offers a comprehensive overview of the evolution of filial piety in East Asia and its influence on political, social, legal, cultural

The official journal of the American Academy of Religion. Publishes research that covers the full range of world religious traditions together with provocative studies of the methodologies by which th...

This month, China’s National People’s Congress held its annual meeting and passed a new law on ‘promoting ethnic unity and progress’. The legislation further codifies the suppression of non-Han langua...

With increasing discussions on political deification and the official references to traditional religions in the People's Republic of China (PRC), recent debates on the PRC's alleged infiltration ove....