All Episodes

Commerce and Commodities: Argentina, Capitalism, and the Wheels of Trade

Historical Epistemology: Seeing, Knowing, and the Evolution of Objectivity

Capital and Cotton: Unpacking the Foundations of Global Capitalism

Shaping Perceptions: Chinese Cultural Diplomacy in the U.S., 1875–1974

South Korea’s Demographic Crisis: Low Birth Rates and Aging Workforces

China’s Military Strategy: From Total War to Informatised Conflicts

Tao Jiang, "Origins of Moral-Political Philosophy in Early China: Contestation of Humaneness, Justice, and Personal Freedom," (Oxford University Press, 2021)

Ezra Vogel’s Legacy and Deng Xiaoping: Transforming East Asia

Divya Cherian, "Merchants of Virtue: Hindus, Muslims, and Untouchables in Eighteenth-Century South Asia," (University of California Press, 2022)

The Good Immigrants: How US Policies Shaped Chinese Elite Migration

Julia F. Andrews, "Buy This Book Painters and Politics in the People's Republic of China, 1949-1979," (University of California Press, 1995)

Tibetology in Decline? The Past, Present, and Future of Tibetan Studies

Indrani Chatterjee, "Forgotten Friends: Monks, Marriages, and Memories of Northeast India," (Oxford University Press, 2013)

What is History? Objectivity, Temporality, and Modernity

The Asian American Achievement Paradox: Success and Its Costs

China’s Foreign Policy: Competition, Counter-Globalization, and Digital Innovation

Yudru Tsomu, "The rise of Gönpo Namgyel in Kham: the blind warrior of Nyerong," (Lexington Books, 2015)

Connected Histories: Exploring Global Ties from the Tagus to the Ganges

Paul Kocot Nietupski, "Labrang Monastery: A Tibetan Buddhist Community on the Inner Asian Borderlands, 1709-1958," (Lexington Books, 2010)

Gatekeeping Nation: The History and Legacy of U.S. Xenophobia

Gender, Power, and Intersectionality: Rethinking Social Structures

The New Qing History Debate: China and the West in Dialogue

ASEAN: Unity in Diversity

Why Study Vietnam? A History of Conflict, Culture, and Transformation

EAST: Stability, Diversity, and China's Future

Breaking Barriers: Asian Americans and Political Representation in the U.S.

Wild Ride: China's Rise, Fall, and the Illusion of Reform

Inside the PLA: Perspectives on Taiwan and US-China Relations

Global Shifts: U.S. Elections, Ukraine, and the Middle East

Taiwan Strait Dilemmas: U.S.-Japan Alliance in Focus

Navigating Change: U.S.-Japan Relations and Security in Southeast Asia

Navigating Alliances: Leadership Transitions and East Asian Security

North Korea in Transition: Uncertainty, Power, and Global Impacts

Geremie Randall Barmé, "An Artistic Exile: A Life of Feng Zikai (1898-1975)," (University of California Press, 2002)

Contours of Colonialism: Decoding Postcolonial Worlds

Victor C. Shih, ”Coalitions of the Weak: Elite Politics in China from Mao's Strategem to the Rise of Xi," (Cambridge University Press, 2022)

Sören Urbansky, "Beyond the Steppe Frontier: A History of the Sino-Russian Border," (Princeton University Press, 2020)

Andrew Martin Fischer, "The Disempowered Development of Tibet in China: A Study in the Economics of Marginalization," (Lexington Books, 2013)

Sonya S. Lee, "Surviving Nirvana: Death of the Buddha in Chinese Visual Culture," (Hong kong University Press, 2010)

Breaking Patriarchy: Women, Markets, and Change in North Korea

Michael Walsh, "Sacred Economies: Buddhist Monasticism and Territoriality in Medieval China," (Columbia University Press, 2010)

Kangxi’s Red Tickets: Jesuits, Diplomacy, and Sino-Western Encounters

On Dangerous Ground: The US, China, and the South China Sea Conundrum

Elad Alyagon, "Inked: Tattooed Soldiers and the Song Empire’s Penal-Military Complex," (Harvard University Asia Center, 2023)

China 2049: The Economic Frontier

Adam Clulow, "The Company and the shogun: the Dutch encounter with Tokugawa Japan," (Columbia University Press, 2014)

Benno Weiner, "The Chinese Revolution on the Tibetan Frontier," (Cornell University Press, 2020)

Durba Mitra, "Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought," (Princeton University Press, 2020)

Malini Sur, "Jungle Passports: Fences, Mobility, and Citizenship at the Northeast India-Bangladesh Border," (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021)

Vaibhav Saria, "Hijras, Lovers, Brothers: Surviving Sex and Poverty in Rural India," (Fordham University Press, 2021)

Lien-Hang T. Nguyen ,"Hanoi’s War: An International History of the War for Peace in Vietnam," (Univ of North Carolina Pr, 2012)

Ying Qian, "Revolutionary Becomings Documentary Media in Twentieth-Century China," (Columbia University Press, 2024)

Melissa Macauley, "Distant Shores: Colonial Encounters on China’s Maritime Frontier," (Princeton University Press, 2021)

Kriti Kapila, "Nullius The Anthropology of Ownership, Sovereignty, and the Law in India," (University of Chicago Press, 2022)

Sylvia Houghteling, "The Art of Cloth in Mughal India," (Princeton University Press, 2022)

David Strand, "Rickshaw Beijing: City People and Politics in the 1920s," (University of California Press, 1993)

Gregor Benton, "Mountain Fires: The Red Army's Three-Year War in South China, 1934-1938," (University of California Press, 1992)

Race for Revival: The Transpacific Ties Between American Evangelicalism and South Korea

Lemon Presidencies: South Korea’s Struggle with Democracy and Power

Roderick MacFarquhar, "The Origins of the Cultural Revolution, Volume 3," (Columbia University Press, 1999)

Prasenjit Duara, "Culture, Power, and the State: Rural North China, 1900-1942," (Stanford University Press, 1991)

Edward Friedman, Paul G. Pickowicz, and Mark Selden, "Chinese Village/Socialist State," (Yale University Press, 1993)

Edward J. M. Rhoads, "Manchus and Han: Ethnic Relations and Political Power in Late Qing and Early Republican China, 1861-1928," (University of Washington Press, 2000)

Trade Wars Unpacked

Yunxiang Yan, "Private Life under Socialism: Love, Intimacy, and Family Change in a Chinese Village, 1949-1999," (Stanford University Press, 2003)

Brenton Sullivan, "Building a Religious Empire: Tibetan Buddhism, Bureaucracy, and the Rise of the Gelukpa," (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020)

Lucien Bianco, "Peasants without the Party: Grassroots Movements in Twentieth Century China," (Routledge, 2000)

Manduhai Buyandelger, "A Thousand Steps to Parliament Constructing Electable Women in Mongolia," (Chicago University Press, 2022)

Lynette H. Ong, "Outsourcing Repression: Everyday State Power in Contemporary China," (Oxford University Press, 2022)

Heonik Kwon, "Ghosts of War in Vietnam," (Cambridge University Press, 2013)

Justin Thomas McDaniel, "The Lovelorn Ghost and the Magical Monk: Practicing Buddhism in Modern Thailand," (Columbia University Press, 2011)

Prasannan Parthasarathi, "Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not: Global Economic Divergence, 1600-1850," (Cambridge University Press, 2011)

Geoffrey B. Robinson, "The Killing Season: A History of the Indonesian Massacres, 1965-66," (Princeton University Press, 2019)

Mary P. Callahan, "Making Enemies: War and State Building in Burma," (Cornell University Press, 2005)

Imagined Nations: Nationalism, Empire, and the Modern World

South Korea's Martial Law in Historical Context

Andrew Hardy, "Red Hills: Migrants and the State in the Highlands of Vietnam," (University of Hawaii Press, 2003)

Sexualities and Power: Narratives Across Time and Cultures

Susan Greenhalgh, "Just One Child: Science and Policy in Deng's China," (University of California Press, 2008)

Echoes of the Plateau: Tibet's History and Legacy

Jacob Eyferth, "Eating Rice from Bamboo Roots The Social History of a Community of Handicraft Papermakers in Rural Sichuan, 1920–2000," (Harvard University Asia Center, 2009)

Dagmar Schäfer, "The Crafting of the 10,000 Things Knowledge and Technology in Seventeenth-Century China," (The Chicago University Press, 2011)

Sasha Su-Ling Welland, "Experimental Beijing Gender and Globalization in Chinese Contemporary Art," (Duke University Press, 2018)

Johan Elverskog, "A History of Uyghur Buddhism," (Columbia University Press, 2024)

Susan Naquin, "Gods of Mount Tai Familiarity and the Material Culture of North China, 1000-2000," (Brill, 2022)

Dominique Townsend, "A Buddhist sensibility : aesthetic education at Tibet’s Mindröling Monastery," (Columbia University Press, 2021)

Nicole Willock, "Lineages of the Literary: Tibetan Buddhist Polymaths of Socialist China," (Columbia University, 2021)

Michael Szonyi, "The Art of Being Governed: Everyday Politics in Late Imperial China," (Princeton University Press, 2017)

Prasenjit Duara, "Rescuing History from the Nation: Questioning Narratives of Modern China," (University of Chicago Press, 1997)

Victor Cha and Ramon Pacheco Pardo, "Korea: A New History of South and North," (Yale University press, 2023)

Sun Joo Kim and Jungwon Kim, "Wrongful Deaths : Selected Inquest Records from Nineteenth-Century Korea," (University of Washington Press, 2014)

Russia's Pivot to Asia: Sino-Russian Strategies in the Xi Jinping Era

Matthew King, "Ocean of Milk, Ocean of Blood: A Mongolian Monk in the Ruins of the Qing Empire," (Columbia University Press, 2019)

Robert Ford Campany, "Making Transcendents: Ascetics and Social Memory in Early Medieval China," (University of Hawaii Press, 2009)

Andrew Quintman, "The Yogin and the Madman: Reading the Biographical Corpus of Tibet’s Great Saint Milarepa," (Columbia University Press, 2013)

Anna Sun, "Confucianism as a World Religion: Contested Histories and Contemporary Realities," (Princeton University Press, 2015)

Shifting Alliances: The China-Russia Dynamic Amid the Ukraine War

Yuhang Li, "Becoming Guanyin: Artistic Devotion of Buddhist Women in Late Imperial China," (Columbia University Press, 2020)

Penny Edwards, "Cambodge: The Cultivation of a Nation 1860-1945," (Univ of Hawaii Pr, 2007)

Navigating the Dragon's Footprint: China’s Economic Influence on Latin America

Jeffrey Hadler, "Muslims and Matriarchs: Cultural Resilience in Indonesia through Jihad and Colonialism," (Cornell University Press, 2008)

Susan B. Hanley, "Everyday Things in Premodern Japan: The Hidden Legacy of Material Culture," (University of California Press, 1999)

Erik Harms, "Saigon’s Edge: On the Margins of Ho Chi Minh City," (University of Minnesota Press, 2011)

Mark James Hudson, "Ruins of Identity: Ethnogenesis in the Japanese Islands," (University of Hawaii Press, 1999)

Big Data and East Asian Histories: Unlocking the Past with Digital Humanities

Financial Cold War: Decoding Sino-US Tensions Through Global Markets

Teren Sevea, "Miracles and Material Life: Rice, Ore, Traps and Guns in Islamic Malaya," (Cambridge University Press, 2020)

Andre Schmid, "Korea Between Empires," (Columbia University Press, 2002)

Bridging East and West: Michael Sandel's Journey into Chinese Philosophy

Eleana J. Kim, "Adopted Territory: Transnational Korean Adoptees and the Politics of Belonging," (Duke University Press, 2010)

Eiko Ikegami, "Bonds of Civility: Aesthetic Networks and the Political Origins of Japanese Culture," (Cambridge University Press, 2005)

Donald S. Lopez Jr.,"Prisoners of Shangri-La: Tibetan Buddhism and the West," (University Of Chicago Press, 1998)

James B. Palais, "Confucian Statecraft and Korean Institutions: Yu Hyongwon and the Late Choson Dynasty," (University of Washington Press, 1996)

Lori Meeks, "Hokkeji and the Reemergence of Female Monastic Orders in Premodern Japan," (University of Hawaii Press, 2010)

Charles Keith, "Catholic Vietnam: A Church from Empire to Nation," (University of California Press, 2012)

Jisoo M. Kim, "The Emotions of Justice: Gender, Status, and Legal Performance in Choson Korea," (University of Washington Press, 2017)

Mary C. Brinton, "Lost in Transition: Youth, Work, and Instability in Postindustrial Japan," (Cambridge University Press, 2010)

Christine Mollier, "Buddhism and Taoism Face to Face: Scripture, Ritual, and Iconographic Exchange in Medieval China," (University of Hawaii Press, 2008)

Kimberly Kay Hoang, "Dealing in Desire: Asian Ascendancy, Western Decline, and the Hidden Currencies of Global Sex Work," (University of California Press, 2015)

Alice Beban, " Unwritten Rule: State-Making through Land Reform in Cambodia," (Cornell University Press, 2021)

Heonik Kwon, "After The Korean War: An Intimate History," (Cambridge University Press, 2020)

Noriko Manabe, "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: Protest Music After Fukushima," (Oxford University Press, 2015)

Aiko Takeuchi-Demirci, "Contraceptive Diplomacy: Reproductive Politics and Imperial Ambitions in the United States and Japan," (Stanford University Press, 2018)

Gabriele Koch, "Healing Labor: Japanese Sex Work in the Gendered Economy," (Stanford University Press, 2020)

Morgan Pitelka, "Reading Medieval Ruins: Urban Life and Destruction in Sixteenth-Century Japan," (Cambridge University Press, 2022)

Sherzod Muminov, "Eleven Winters of Discontent: The Siberian Internment and the Making of a New Japan," (Harvard University Press, 2022)

David Brophy, "Uyghur Nation: Reform and Revolution on the Russia-China Frontier," (Harvard University Press, 2016)

Jacob P. Dalton, "The Taming of the Demons: Violence and Liberation in Tibetan Buddhism," (Yale University Press, 2011)

Clare E. Harris, "The Museum on the Roof of the World: Art, Politics, and the Representation of Tibet," (University of Chicago Press, 2012)

Emily T. Yeh, "Taming Tibet: landscape transformation and the gift of Chinese development," (Cornell University Press, 2013)

James L. Hevia, "Cherishing Men from Afar: Qing Guest Ritual and the Macartney Embassy of 1793," (Duke University Press Books, 1995)

Timothy Brook, "The Confusions of Pleasure: Commerce and Culture in Ming China," (University of California Press, 1999)

Robert P Hymes, "Way and byway: Taoism, local religion, and models of divinity in Sung and modern China," (University of California Press, 2002)

Unlocking East Asian Studies with Generative AI: Insights from Harvard's Workshops

Digital Dharma: Geshe Lobsang Monlam, PhD on Tibetan Knowledge, Monlam AI, and the Future of Tibetan Information Technology

Peter C. Perdue, "China Marches West: The Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia," (Harvard University Press, 2005)

Ping Foong, "The Efficacious Landscape: On the Authorities of Painting at the Northern Song Court," (Harvard University Asia Center, 2015)

Lara Blanchard, "Song Dynasty Figures of Longing and Desire: Gender and Interiority in Chinese Painting and Poetry," (Brill, 2018)

Stephen Owen, "Just a Song: Chinese Lyrics from the Eleventh and Early Twelfth Centuries," (Harvard University Asia Center, 2019)

Ruth Mostern, "The Yellow River: A Natural and Unnatural History," (Yale University Press, 2022)

Robert Hymes, "Statesmen and Gentlemen: The Elite of Fu-Chou Chiang-Hsi, in Northern and Southern Sung," (Cambridge University Press, 1987)

Andrew G. Walder, "Communist Neo-Traditionalism: Work and Authority in Chinese Industry," (University of California Press, 1988)

Sherman Cochran, "Chinese Medicine Men: Consumer Culture in China and Southeast Asia,"(Harvard University Press, 2006)

John Fitzgerald, "Awakening China: Politics, Culture, and Class in the Nationalist Revolution," (Stanford University Press, 1996)

R. Keith Schoppa, "Blood Road: The Mystery of Shen Dingyi in Revolutionary China," (University of California Press, 2023)

Michael Dutton, Rey Chow, and Harry Harootunian, "Policing Chinese Politics: A History," (Duke University Press Books, 2005)

Haiyan Lee, "Revolution of the Heart: A Genealogy of Love in China, 1900-1950," (Stanford University Press, 2022)

Yomi Braester, "Painting the City Red: Chinese Cinema and the Urban Contract," (Duke University Press, 2010)

Vincent Goossaert and David A Palmer, "The religious question in modern China," (University of Chicago Press, 2011)

Joseph R Allen, "Taipei: city of displacements," (University of Washington Press, 2014)

Winnie Won Yin Wong, "Van Gogh on Demand: China and the Readymade," (University of Chicago Press, 2014)

Luigi Tomba, "The Government Next Door: Neighborhood Politics in Urban China," (Cornell University Press, 2014)

Christopher Rea, "The Age of Irreverence: A New History of Laughter in China," (University of California Press, 2015)

Joel Andreas, "Disenfranchised: The Rise and Fall of Industrial Citizenship in China," (Oxford University Press,2019)

Silvia M Lindtner, "Prototype Nation: China and the Contested Promise of Innovation," (Princeton University Press, 2020)

Joshua Goldstein, "Remains of the Everyday: A Century of Recycling in Beijing," (University of California Press, 2020)

Joseph W. Esherick, "Accidental Holy Land: The Communist Revolution in Northwest China," (University of California Press, 2022)

Philip Huang, "The Peasant Economy and Social Change in North China," (Stanford University Press, 1985)

Gray Tuttle, "Tibetan Buddhists in the Making of Modern China," (Columbia University Press, 2005)

Sheldon Garon, "The State and Labor in Modern Japan," (University of California Press, 1990)

Miriam Rom Silverberg, "Changing Song: The Marxist Manifestos of Nakano Shigeharu," (Princeton University Press, 1990)

Andrew Gordon, "Labor and Imperial Democracy in Prewar Japan," (University of California Press, 1992)

Kathryn Bernhardt, "Rents, Taxes, and Peasant Resistance: The Lower Yangzi Region, 1840-1950," (Stanford University Press, 1992)

Elizabeth Perry, "Shanghai on Strike: The Politics of Chinese Labor," (Stanford University Press, 1995)

Peter Zinoman, "The Colonial Bastille: A History of Imprisonment in Vietnam, 1862-1940," (University of California Press, 2001)

David G. Marr, "Vietnam 1945: The Quest for Power," (University of California Press, 1996 reprint 2023)

John W. Dower, "Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II," (W. W. Norton & Company, 2000)

Julia Adeney Thomas, "Reconfiguring Modernity: Concepts of Nature in Japanese Political Ideology," (University of California Press, 2002)

Ruth Rogaski, "Hygienic Modernity: Meanings of Health and Disease in Treaty-Port China," (University of California Press, 2004)

Madeleine Zelin ,"The Merchants of Zigong: Industrial Entrepreneurship in Early Modern China," (Columbia University Press, 2005)

Eugenia Lean ,"Public passions: the trial of Shi Jianqiao and the rise of popular sympathy in Republican China," (University of California Press, 2007)

Susan Mann, "The Talented Women of the Zhang Family," (University of California Press, 2007)

Barbara Mittler, "A Continuous Revolution: Making Sense of Cultural Revolution Culture," (Harvard University Press, 2013)

Klaus Muhlhahn, "Criminal Justice in China: A History," (Harvard University Press, 2009)

James C. Scott, "The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia," (Yale University Press, 2022)

Carol Benedict, "Golden-Silk Smoke: A History of Tobacco in China, 1550-2010," ( University of California Press, 2011)

Rian Thum, "The Sacred Routes of Uyghur History," (Harvard University Press, 2014)

Barak Kushner, "Men to Devils, Devils to Men: Japanese War Crimes and Chinese Justice," (Harvard University Press, 2015)

Thomas S. Mullaney, "The Chinese Typewriter: A History," (The MIT Press, 2017)

Chris Courtney, "The Nature of Disaster in China: The 1931 Yangzi River Flood," (Cambridge University Press, 2018)

Eric Schluessel, "Land of Strangers: The Civilizing Project in Qing Central Asia," (Columbia University Press, 2020)

Eiichiro Azuma, "In Search of Our Frontier: Japanese America and Settler Colonialism in the Construction of Japan’s Borderless Empire," (University of California Press, 2022)

Hwasook Nam, "Women in the Sky: Gender and Labor in the Making of Modern Korea," (Cornell University Press, 2021)

H. Yumi Kim, "Madness in the Family: Women, Care, and Illness in Japan," (Oxford University Press, 2022)

Tristan G. Brown, "Laws of the Land: Fengshui and the State in Qing Dynasty China," (Princeton University Press, 2023)

Satoko Shimazaki， “Edo Kabuki in Transition: From the Worlds of the Samurai to the Vengeful Female Ghost，“ (Columbia University Press, 2020)

Tom Cliff, "Oil and Water: Being Han in Xinjiang," (University of Chicago Press, 2016)

Sigrid Schmalzer, "Red Revolution, Green Revolution: Scientific Farming in Socialist China," (The University of Chicago Press, 2016)

Li Chen, "Chinese Law in Imperial Eyes: Sovereignty, Justice, and Transcultural Politics (Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University)," (Columbia University press, 2015)

Doreen Lee, "Activist Archives: Youth Culture and the Political Past in Indonesia," (Duke University Press, 2016)

Bryan D. Lowe, "Ritualized Writing: Buddhist Practice and Scriptural Cultures in Ancient Japan," (University of Hawaii Press, 2017)

Ching Kwan Lee, "The Specter of Global China: Politics, Labor, and Foreign Investment in Africa," (University of Chicago Press, 2018)

Jonathan Schlesinger, "A World Trimmed with Fur: Wild Things, Pristine Places, and the Natural Fringes of Qing Rule," (Stanford University Press, 2019)

Yoon Sun Yang, "From Domestic Women to Sensitive Young Men: Translating the Individual in Early Colonial Korea," (Harvard University Asia Center, 2017)

Max Oidtmann, "Forging the Golden Urn: The Qing Empire and the Politics of Reincarnation in Tibet," (Columbia University Press, 2018)

C.W. Lara Blanchard, "Song Dynasty Figures of Longing and Desire (Women and Gender in China Studies, 10)," (Brill, 2018)

Ho-fung Hung, "City on the Edge: Hong Kong under Chinese Rule," (Cambridge University Press, 2022)

Kenneth Pomeranz, "The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy," (Princeton University Press, 2001)

Carole McGranahan, "Arrested Histories: Tibet, the CIA, and Memories of a Forgotten War," (Duke University Press Books, 2010)

Melvyn C. Goldstein, "A History of Modern Tibet" Vol 1+2

Kaushik Roy, "War, Culture and Society in Early Modern South Asia, 1740-1849," (Routledge, 2011)

John Hinnells and Richard King eds., "Religion and Violence in South Asia: Theory and Practice," (Routledge, 2006)

Kenneth Conboy and James Morrison, "The CIA's Secret War in Tibet," (University Press of Kansas, 2002)

Poo Mu-Chou, "Ghosts and Religious Life in Early Chinaous Life in Early China," (Duke University Press, 2022)

Joseph W. W. Esherick, "The Origins of the Boxer Uprising," (University of California Press, 1988)

Frederic Wakeman Jr., "Strangers at the Gate is a historical account of the Taiping Rebellion in South China between 1839 and 1861," (University of California Press, 1997)

Frederic Wakeman, Jr. "The Great Enterprise: The Manchu Reconstruction of Imperial Order in Seventeenth-Century China, Volume 1," (University of California Press, 1985)

Taisu Zhang, "The Laws and Economics of Confucianism: Kinship and Property in Preindustrial China and England," (Cambridge University Press, 2017)

Tobie Meyer-Fong, "What Remains: Coming to Terms with Civil War in 19th Century China," (Stanford University Press, 2013)

R. Kent Guy, "Qing Governors and Their Provinces: The Evolution of Territorial Administration in China, 1644-1796," (University of Washington Press, 2013)

Philip A. Kuhn, "Soulstealers: The Chinese Sorcery Scare of 1768,“ (Harvard University Press, 2006)

Philip A Kuhn, "Rebellion and its enemies in late imperial China,: Militarization and social structure, 1796-1864," (Harvard University Press, 1970)

Patricia Ann Berger, "Empire of Emptiness: Buddhist Art and Political Authority in Qing China," (Univ of Hawaii Pr, 2003)

Nicola Di Cosmo and Don J Wyatt eds, "Political Frontiers, Ethnic Boundaries and Human Geographies in Chinese History," (Routledge, 2003)

Morris Rossabi, "Governing China's Multiethnic Frontier," (University of Washington Press, 2004)

Matthew H. Sommer, "Sex, Law, and Society in Late Imperial China," (Stanford University Press, 2002)

Matthew Mosca, "From Frontier Policy to Foreign Policy: The Question of India and the Transformation of Geopolitics in Qing China," (Stanford University Press, 2013)

Jonathan N. Lipman, "Familiar Strangers: A History of Muslims in Northwest China," (University of Washington Press, 2011)

James Polachek, "The Inner Opium War (Harvard East Asian Monographs)," (Harvard University Asia Center, 1991)

James Millward, "Eurasian Crossroads: A History of Xinjiang," (Columbia University Press, 2009)

Beatrice S. Bartlett, "The book, Monarchs and Ministers: The Grand Council in Mid-Ch'ing China, 1723-1820," (University of California Press, 1990)

C. Patterson Giersch, "Asian Borderlands: The Transformation of Qing China's Yunnan Frontier," (Harvard University Press, 2006)

Janet Gyatso, "Being Human in a Buddhist World: An Intellectual History of Medicine in Early Modern Tibet," (Columbia University Press, 2015)

Tsering Shakya, "The Dragon in the Land of Snows: A History of Modern Tibet Since 1947," (Penguin Publishing Group, 2000)

Victor Lieberman, "Strange Parallels," Volumes 1+2, (Cambridge University Press, 2003/2009)

Qichen Qian, "“Benign” Bellicosity: Tibetan Military History and the Making of Ganden Podrang (1642–1793)," (Columbia University, 2024)

Mark C. Elliott, "The The Manchu Way: The Eight Banners and Ethnic Identity in Late Imperial China," (Stanford University Press, 2001)

Tonio Andrade, "The Gunpowder Age: China, Military Innovation, and the Rise of the West in World History," (Princeton University Press, 2017)

Susan Naquin, "Peking: Temples and City Life, 1400-1900" (University of California Press, 2000)