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The latest issue of International Journal of Divination and Prognostication (IJDP) is out now!More details here: https:/...
28/05/2026

The latest issue of International Journal of Divination and Prognostication (IJDP) is out now!

More details here: https://brill.com/view/journals/ijdp/7/1/ijdp.7.issue-1.xml

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Virgil the Geomancer: A Geomantic Reading of “Purgatorio” from Dante’s Commedia, with a Focus on Canto XIX
Author: Erwan Dianteill

Mongol Superstition versus Christian Rationality
Literary Representations of Astrology and Divination in the Mongol Empire by European Travelers
Author: Yinghan Li

"Theoretical and Empirical Investigations of Divination and Magic: Manipulating the Divine" edited by Jesper Sørensen and Anders Klostergaard Petersen
Author: Michael Grünbart

"Cosmic Coherence: A Cognitive Anthropology through Chinese Divination" by William Matthews
Author: Wang Xing

"Fate Calculation Experts: Diviners Seeking Legitimation in Contemporary China" by Geng Li
Author: Radu Bikir

"Divination: A Cognitive Perspective" by Ze Hong
Author: Gerhard Mayer

We are saddened by the news of the passing of the renowned literary scholar and author Liu Zaifu. Born in 1941, Liu was ...
28/05/2026

We are saddened by the news of the passing of the renowned literary scholar and author Liu Zaifu.

Born in 1941, Liu was particularly known for his influential scholarship and essays, particularly his reflections on Chinese literary tradition and the spiritual responsibilities of writers and intellectuals. His passing is a great loss for the field of contemporary Chinese literature.

“In the early morning of June 4, 1989, troops of the People’s Liberation Army stormed into Tian’anmen Square in Beijing. They opened fire on thousands of demonstrators who refused to vacate despite earlier warnings of a military crackdown. Within a few hours, the troops had taken over the square, putting an end to the largest democracy movement in the history of the People’s Republic of China. What ensued was a massive manhunt for the activists rumored to be responsible for the movement. Among the targeted names was Liu Zaifu 劉再復 (1941–). Liu was the director of the Institute of Literature at the National Academy of Social Sciences, the leading literary institution of China, and one of the most influential critics in the “New Era” after the Cultural Revolution. His name was associated with national literary and cultural events and his works, such as “On Literary Subjectivity” (“Lun wenxue zhutixing” 論文學主體性) and A Treatise of Character Composition (Xingge zuhe lun 性格組合論) were best-sellers among a generation of Chinese youth yearning for intellectual inspiration.”

— Liu Zaifu: Selected Critical Essays (2021), edited by Howard Y. F. Choy and Liu Jianmei

Liu Zaifu: Selected Critical Essays: https://brill.com/display/title/57544?contents=editorial-content

"The Fear of Witchcraft and Witches in Imperial China" by Barend Ter Haar has recently been reviewed by Prof. Xu Ma in t...
27/05/2026

"The Fear of Witchcraft and Witches in Imperial China" by Barend Ter Haar has recently been reviewed by Prof. Xu Ma in the journal Chinese Studies International.

"'The Fear of Witchcraft and Witches in Imperial China' not only offers the most comprehensive and intellectually rigorous account of witchcraft fear in Chinese history to date, but also opens productive avenues for future research on figurines and familiars as enduring cultural tropes that traverse ritual practice, literary imagination, and moral pedagogy. A masterpiece of exceptional erudition and ambition, ter Haar’s book is, in every respect, an indispensable and monumental achievement."

Read full review here: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987548

Find out more about the publication here: https://brill.com/display/title/70314?language=en&srsltid=AfmBOoqgBtRGsysOd1nSmHWCP6Te651d792ECZs4qAf7hdUXfck3DiYd&contents=toc-136066

Just published! "Model Works During the Cultural Revolution" by Dr Zhang Qingyan offers a groundbreaking exploration of ...
18/05/2026

Just published!

"Model Works During the Cultural Revolution" by Dr Zhang Qingyan offers a groundbreaking exploration of China’s Cultural Revolution through the lens of the Model Works, revealing their intricate fusion of politics, art, and ideology.

From Mao’s diplomatic maneuvers to the enduring legacy of revolutionary opera, this book traces how artistic innovation became a vehicle for cultural transformation and global strategy. Rich in historical detail, it illuminates the creative genius of figures like Yu Huiyong, the political theater of Jiang Qing, and the post-revolution commodification of socialist culture. Both a cultural history and a meditation on revolution’s unfinished mission, it challenges readers to rethink the intersections of arts and politics.

Read more here: https://brill.com/display/title/74161?contents=editorial-content

🎉 Just published: "Recovering the Nature: Ma Yifu’s New Confucian Thought and Its Intellectual Background" by Dr Yu Yiho...
18/05/2026

🎉 Just published: "Recovering the Nature: Ma Yifu’s New Confucian Thought and Its Intellectual Background" by Dr Yu Yihong.

Numerous great Chinese thinkers attempted to realise a transcendent ontological foundation in order to live an ideal life informed by the Confucian way. To this end, they sought answers to how the unconditioned foundation could be realised through cognitive awareness that is circumscribed by the conditioned nature of human existence. Inspired by earlier Confucian and Buddhist thinkers, Ma Yifu attempted to offer more refined responses to these two questions. In addressing them, Ma and other modern thinkers also sought to justify the contemporary significance of the Confucian way in a modernising China. This book presents a rich landscape of these ideas. Many primary materials translated and analysed here are introduced in English for the first time.

Read more about the book here: https://brill.com/display/title/73300

"Fluid Phenomena: The River and Anthropocene Life-world in the Asia-Pacific" by Dr Iftekhar Iqbal, Dr Hasharina Hassan, ...
18/05/2026

"Fluid Phenomena: The River and Anthropocene Life-world in the Asia-Pacific" by Dr Iftekhar Iqbal, Dr Hasharina Hassan, and Dr Asiyah Kumpoh has just been published in our series "African and Asian Anthropocene: Studies in the Environmental Humanities."

The Fluid Phenomena explores the “life-world” of the riverspace that has shaped the ecological, economic, cultural, and governing processes, affecting both humans and other-than-humans in the Asia-Pacific region, including parts of South Asia, Southeast Asia, Japan and Australia.

Using interdisciplinary conceptual and methodological tools, the book ties together three strands of human engagements with rivers: the representation of the river as a other-than-human entity in intellectual discourse, indigeneity, and creative imagination; the layered livelihood activities as supported and endangered by the river; and the governance of the river from the vantage point of development projects and popular responses. In doing so, the book demonstrates the centrality of and predicaments faced by the river in the late Anthropocene.

Read more about this book here: https://brill.com/display/title/72255

The latest issue of Inner Asia (INAS) is out now!More details here: https://brill.com/view/journals/inas/28/1/inas.28.is...
12/05/2026

The latest issue of Inner Asia (INAS) is out now!

More details here: https://brill.com/view/journals/inas/28/1/inas.28.issue-1.xml?utm_source=eToC&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Content_Alerts

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Introduction
Authors: Uradyn E. Bulag and Fabienne Jagou

State Death and Survival: Chinese and Mongol Extinction Politics in the Wake of the Qing Collapse
Author: Uradyn E. Bulag

Transforming Conflict into Independence: the 1912 Tibet–China Agreements
Author: Fabienne Jagou

Tibeto-Bhutanese Relations and the Treaty of Punakha: the Case of the Enclave of Darchen
Author: Matteo Miele

A Cloak for Diplomacy: Four Students and the Dalai Lama’s 1913 Experiment
Author: Scott Relyea

Governing People or Territory? The Nature of the Banner in Early Twentieth-Century Mongolia
Author: Makoto Tachibana

The Contested Borders of Kokonor, 1913–1915
Kokonor in the Simla Negotiations and Claims to the ‘Twenty-Five Yushu Clans’ by Tibet and the Chinese Provinces of Gansu and Sichuan
Author: Bianca Horlemann

"Intermarriage and the Friendship of Peoples: Ethnic Mixing in Soviet Central Asia" by Adrienne Edgar
Author: Elena Barabantseva

"The Secret History of the Mongols" translated by Christopher P. Atwood
Author: Kenneth E. Linden

"Past Progress: Time and Politics at the Borders of China, Russia, and Korea" by Ed Pulford
Author: Agnieszka Joniak-Lüthi

"Evil Spirits and Rocket Debris: In Search of Lost Souls in Siberia" by Ludek Broz
Author: Ksenia Pimenova

"Cutting the Mass Line: Water, Politics and Climate in Southwest China" by Andrea Pia
Author: Theo Hughes-Morgan

"Satirical Tibet: The Politics of Humor in Contemporary Amdo" by Timothy Thurston
Author: Charlene Makley

"China’s Camel Country: Livestock and Nation-building at a Pastoral Frontier" by Thomas White
Author: Victoria Soyan Peemot

"Limi, the Land In-Between: The Art of Governing a Buddhist Frontier Community in the Himalaya" by Astrid Hovden
Author: Theo Hughes-Morgan

"Amdo Lullaby: An Ethnography of Childhood and Language Shift on the Tibetan Plateau" by Shannon M. Ward
Author: Timothy Thurston

"Redacted: Writing in the Negative Space of the State" edited by Lisa Min, Franck Billé and Charlene Makley
Author: Vindhya Buthpitiya

The recording of our “How to Publish Your Academic Book: De Gruyter Brill Editorial Lecture” is now available online.Whe...
30/04/2026

The recording of our “How to Publish Your Academic Book: De Gruyter Brill Editorial Lecture” is now available online.

Whether you’re preparing your first monograph or navigating the academic publishing landscape, this session offers valuable insights from the editorial side.

The YouTube link: https://youtu.be/916nhavzLKU?si=27Mrs86_fPnFZIt2

Feel free to share with colleagues, students, and anyone interested in academic publishing.

We were delighted to welcome Professor Jessica Tsui-yan Li to the Brill booth at Association for Asian Studies, Inc. (AA...
30/04/2026

We were delighted to welcome Professor Jessica Tsui-yan Li to the Brill booth at Association for Asian Studies, Inc. (AAS) 2026 conference in Vancouver! Here she is with her book “Eileen Chang: The Performativity of Self-Translation.”

Interested in learning more or ordering a copy? Find all the details here: https://brill.com/display/title/70371

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