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This widescreen epic was produced at the height of the Cold War referring to the failed Mongol invasion as a metaphor for the threat of communism and reified an idealized image of Japan as historically resisting aggression from the Chinese mainland.

An example of a bronze inscription and transcription from the CHANT site that KU subscribes to. The site contains searchable texts for most early Chinese works as well as a great many excavated texts, including oracle bones, bronze inscriptions,…

An example of a search result in the Scripta Sinica site that KU subscribes to. This site has searchable texts of many editions of early Chinese works, many of which include commentaries. Commentaries are often essential when one is reading early…

The collection of interdisciplinary essays considers the production, consumption, and circulation of Japanese foods from the mid-15th century to the present day in political, economic, cultural, social and religious contexts. In his chapter, “Honzen…

Contemporary “Japanese cuisine” was developed beginning in the late 19th century by blending native and foreign cooking styles. By examining Japanese cookbooks, recipe collections, and gastronomic writings from 1400 to 1868, the author offers the…

My research focuses on premodern Japanese social and cultural history especially foodways, consumption, and the performing arts. I offer courses on Japanese and Tibetan history and food culture, and I have taught at the University of Kansas since…

Opium pipe and accessories

Masterpieces of Chinese Portrait Painting in the National Palace Museum

The author provides a thought provoking literary history of the normative ideal of polygamy from the late Ming to the late Qing, countering the ideal with the theme of sublime love between two people. McMahon argues that the fantasies of polygamy had…