Faculty

Research and Projects

Art and Archaeology

• State and society in early China: the archaeological record
• Art and Zen in 17th-century Japan
• Paradigms in 19th-century Japanese art

Asian Medicine

• Social history of medicine in pre-modern Japan
• Yoga and Ayurvedic medicine in South Asia

Economics

• Social spending in globalizing Asian economies
• China’s changing place in the global industrial economy
• Economic thought in 20th-century Japan

History, Society, Policy

• Modernization and globalization of Asian marriage patterns
• Longitudinal studies of the Japanese family in society
• Nuclear proliferation and Asian security
• Public opinion and policy-making in contemporary China
• Legalization of controlled substances: evidence from colonial India
• Contemporary Japanese pedagogies of war and peace
• Book culture in Qing-dynasty Inner Asia

Language and Literature

• Comparative Chinese and Western aesthetics
• Chinese and Japanese linguistics and language pedagogy
• Law and literature in China

Music, Theater, Film

• Cantonese opera today
• Noh drama in cultural and historical perspective
• Modern Japan through drama and film
• Social and political expression in modern Indian film
• Musical and social lives of professional singers in West Java

Religious Studies

• Ritual praxis in Taiwan and the Southwest Pacific
• Evolution of Chinese Buddhist thought
• Ritual patterns in the South and Southeast Asian Tamil diaspora