Our Mission Statement

Western Washington University’s Center for East Asian Studies Press exists to make readily available at reasonable prices excellent specialized works of scholarship in Inner and East Asian history and culture.

Managing Editor

Trained in the history of China, inner Asia, and Japan, and in Chinese thought and religion, Scott Pearce specializes in the alien dynasties that ruled northern China during the 5th and 6th centuries AD. He currently is working on a book on the “great reformer” emperor, Xiaowen (r. 471-499), who refashioned his realm from an imposition by force of arms into a state that sought to rest upon the traditions of his conquered Chinese subjects. From this work come scholarly and teaching interests in many related issues, such as the encounter and interaction of cultures, the evolution of Buddhism in medieval China, military history, and the poetry of war.