In my first blog post as Indie Spotlight contributor, I wrote about The Foundling’s Daughter , set partly in India in the days of the B...

Michael Wert is Associate Professor of East Asian History at Marquette University in Wisconsin. Specializing in early modern and modern Japa...

Nicky Harman looks at translating tools, and it's more fascinating than you'd think. It’s not often that I, as a translator, get...

John D. Greenwood is a Scot now transplanted to America. He began his career teaching philosophy, including a stint at the National Universi...

As this is my first blog post as a regular contributor, I thought I’d change it up from my other articles – Researching Historical Japan ...

Jonathan Chatwin writes on travel, culture and history with a particular focus on China. His first book, Anywhere Out of the World , was a ...

Courtesy Leland Cheuk Reading a book that hits hard but also keeps you rolling around in laughter is, to quote Seneca, a res severa e...