Publications Program
Harvard University Asia Center titles in print may be purchased from our distributor, Harvard University Press.
Through collaborations with Brill (500+ titles), JSTOR (500+ titles), Project Muse (400+ titles), ProQuest (400+ titles), and the ACLS Humanities E-book Program, nearly all of our books—even those that have gone out of print—are now available digitally. A book’s digital edition is usually published about one year after the release of the print book. Please visit each vendor’s website to learn more and to browse the Asia Center E-book collections.
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![Strange Tales from Edo book cover](/sites/default/files/styles/publication_thumbnail/public/2023-06/fleming.jpg?itok=11VRDuXy)
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![Cover image of Betting on the Civil Service Examinations: The Lottery in Late Qing China](/sites/default/files/styles/publication_thumbnail/public/2023-05/Betting-on-the-Civil-Service-Examinations.jpg?itok=05cdkgul)
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![Dreaming and Self-Cultivation in China, 300 BCE–800 CE book cover](/sites/default/files/styles/publication_thumbnail/public/2023-06/campany.jpg?itok=zAONp7O1)
![The Threshold: The Rhetoric of Historiography in Early Medieval China book cover](/sites/default/files/styles/publication_thumbnail/public/2023-06/raft.jpg?itok=YeTQRzBP)
![Literary History in and beyond China: Reading Text and World book cover](/sites/default/files/styles/publication_thumbnail/public/2023-06/ChenAllenTian.jpg?itok=IdITIUS6)
![Inked: Tattooed Soldiers and the Song Empire’s Penal-Military Complex book cover](/sites/default/files/styles/publication_thumbnail/public/2023-06/Alyagon.jpg?itok=ggOqDjkN)
![Genealogy and Status: Hereditary Office Holding and Kinship in North China under Mongol Rule book cover](/sites/default/files/styles/publication_thumbnail/public/2023-06/iiyama.jpg?itok=yMWGDy6o)