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A diverse selection of contemporary ceramic work by Japanese women, featuring stunning pieces from virtuosic artists   Since World War II, women artists from Japan have made …

An epic account of how a new world order under Tamerlane was born out of the decline of the Mongol Empire   “A masterwork.”—William Dalrymple, Financial Times   “A landmark …

A comprehensive survey of Syriac Christianity over three thousand years   Syriac is often referred to as the third main language of Christianity, along with Latin and Greek, and it …

The first in-depth study of the collaborative intellectual exchange between the European and the Arabic Republics of Letters.  Beyond Orientalism reformulates our understanding of …

A pioneering history of cross-cultural knowledge that exposes enduring fractures in unity across the world’s largest continent  “Mr. Green has written a book of rigorous—and …

A compelling, expansive history of the relationship between China and Russia, from the seventeenth century to the present   Russia and China, the largest and most populous …

The long history of China’s relationship between stability, diversity, and prosperity, and how its current leadership threatens this delicate balance  A Foreign Affairs Best Book …

In Crip Colony, Sony Coráñez Bolton examines the racial politics of disability, mestizaje, and sexuality in the Philippines. Drawing on literature, poetry, colonial records, …

In Unknowing and the Everyday Seema Golestaneh examines how Sufi mystical experience in Iran shapes contemporary life. Central to this process is ma’rifat, or “unknowing”—the idea …

This fresh look at artist Takashi Murakami takes on the “monstrous” themes of rampant consumerism, human fallibility, and the perils of life in the digital fast lane, in works from …