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This illustration of a "juju" priest is taken from The Ibo Native Law and Custom (pg. 28).

Illustration of The King in the drama, My Seven Daughters are After Young Boys, (pg. 34).

This map shows Onitsha's position as the center of the Nigerian book trade in the 1960's.

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,…

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

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…

Refereed Publications

John James Kennedy, “Supply and Demand for Grassroots Political Reform in Rural China”, Journal of Chinese Political Science (accepted February 2009)

John James Kennedy, “Legitimacy with Chinese Characteristics: ‘Two…