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Keith McMahon studies Ming and Qing fiction, male and female character types, Chinese eroticism, the culture of opium smoking in 19th century China and Euro-America, psychoanalytic theory, and the history of imperial polygamy from the legendary past…

Masterpieces of Chinese Portrait Painting in the National Palace Museum

Opium pipe and accessories

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…

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,…

Wagashi fudoki (Japanese Sweets)

Cover image of the almanac’s 2011 reprint edition

Image 1: Bonshō: Bronze; height 120 cm.

Image 2: Close-up of Bonshō from Ongakuji revealing Batō 馬頭 : (Horse-headed)) Kannon on the bonshō. The image is approximately 9 cm tall