The publications program of the Harvard University Asia Center oversees three book series: Harvard East Asian Monographs, the Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series, and the Harvard Contemporary China Series. Since their inception, nearly 500 titles have been published in the three series. The program currently publishes about 15 to 20 new titles per year and, as shown below, its books have won more than a dozen major awards over the past decade. The program has become one of the world’s largest and widely-respected publishers of scholarly books in East Asian Studies. We welcome new submissions in the humanities and social sciences related to East Asia.
China’s Communist Party seized power in 1949 after a long period of guerrilla insurgency followed by full-scale war, but the Chinese revolution was just beginning. China Under Mao narrates the rise and fall of the Maoist revolutionary state from 1949 to 1976—an epoch of...
Perhaps no one in the twentieth century had a greater long-term impact on world history than Deng Xiaoping. And no scholar of contemporary East Asian history and culture is better qualified than ...
by F. Warren McFarlan, William C. Kirby and Regina Abrami
In this thought-provoking book, noted China experts from Harvard Business School and the Wharton School assert that while China has experienced remarkable economic growth in recent decades (nearly 10 percent for more...
The Erickson Collection contains outstanding work from the Neolithic to the Tang period. This catalogue commemorates the collection of Ernest Erickson. You may read it online...