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This series brings together scholars of East Asia to address crucial topics such as regional patterns of co-operations and social, political, cultural implications of interregional collaborations, but also includes volumes on individual regional themes across the spectrum of East Asian Studies. With its critical analysis of central issues in East Asia and its contributions to a wider understanding of East Asian countries’ international impact the series will interpret the shifting patterns in this region within an increasingly globalised world.

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4 results in Edinburgh East Asian Studies

Failures East and West
  • Cultural Encounters between East Asia and Europe
  • Edited by Ralf Hertel, Kirsten Sandrock
  • Published by:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Published online:
    11 March 2025
    Print publication:
    30 April 2023
  • Often, the story of encounters between Asia and the West has been told as one of success, of cross-fertilization, reciprocal stimulation and an exchange of commodities and knowledge. Yet, the history of East-West encounters is riddled with prominent examples of misunderstandings, ignorance, unrealistic expectations or unbridgeable cultural differences. Bringing together scholars working across Chinese Studies, Japanese Studies, English Studies and French Studies, this book presents new perspectives on such instances by theorizing epistemologies of failure. Providing examples from different periods and disciplines, it reveals how culturally informed expectations and biases, performative and linguistic practices and imaginative horizons specific to the cultures involved shape notions of failure and success. Case studies range from first encounters in the early modern period to contemporary novels and focus on actual or imaginary encounters between East Asia and Western European cultures.

Japanese Racial Identities within US-Japan Relations, 1853-1919
  • Tarik Merida
  • Published by:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Published online:
    17 November 2023
    Print publication:
    28 February 2023
  • This book retraces the process through which, at the turn of the twentieth century, the Japanese went from a racial anomaly to honorary members of the White race. It explores the interpretation of the Japanese race by Western powers, particularly the United States, during Japan's ascension as a great power between 1853 and 1919. Forced to cope with this new element in the Far East, Western nations such as the US had to device a negotiation zone in which they could accommodate the Japanese and negotiate their racial identity. In this book, Tarik Merida, presents a new tool to study this process of negotiation: the Racial Middle Ground.

Asia after Versailles
  • Asian Perspectives on the Paris Peace Conference and the Interwar Order, 1919-33
  • Edited by Urs Matthias Zachmann
  • Published by:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Published online:
    22 December 2017
    Print publication:
    22 May 2017
  • Asia After Versailles addresses an important watershed for Asian nations - the response to the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. It marked the end of a conflict which, although intrinsically European, had globalized the world on many levels and stood at the beginning of a new order that saw the power centre shift towards the US and Asia.

On the Margins of Modernism
  • Xu Xu, Wumingshi and Popular Chinese Literature in the 1940s
  • Christopher Rosenmeier
  • Published by:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Published online:
    20 December 2017
    Print publication:
    27 June 2017
  • Xu Xu and Wumingshi were among the most widely read authors in China during and after the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945). This groundbreaking book re-establishes their importance within the popular Chinese literature of the 1940's, with in-depth analyses of their innovative short stories and novels.