In a new opinion piece in The New York Times titled "The Carlos Ghosn Case Puts Japan's Legal System on Trial," Center for Japanese Legal Studies Executive Director Nobuhisa Ishizuka highlighted the differences between Japanese and Western legal systems and broke down Japan's high conviction rate in criminal cases. Japan's legal system has come under significant scrutiny for … [Read more...]
Edward Wong discusses covering Tibet as diplomatic correspondent for The New York Times
Edward Wong is a diplomatic and international correspondent for The New York Times who reports on foreign policy from Washington, D.C. He has spent most of his 20-year career with the Times abroad, reporting for 13 years from China and Iraq. As Beijing bureau chief, he ran the Times’ largest overseas operation. Wong began reporting for the Times in 1999 and worked for four … [Read more...]
Tea War: A History of Capitalism in China and India
Andrew B. Liu (Yale University Press, 2020) For information from the publisher, please click here. Click here to read our author Q&A. Tea remains the world’s most popular commercial drink today, and at the turn of the twentieth century, it represented the largest export industry of both China and colonial India. In analyzing the global competition between … [Read more...]
Revolution Goes East: Imperial Japan and Soviet Communism
Tatiana Linkhoeva (Cornell University Press, 2020) For information from the publisher, please click here. Click here to read the WEAI Q&A. Revolution Goes East is an intellectual history that applies a novel global perspective to the classic story of the rise of communism and the various reactions it provoked in Imperial Japan. Tatiana Linkhoeva … [Read more...]
Vernacular Industrialism in China: Local Innovation and Translated Technologies in the Making of a Cosmetics Empire, 1900–1940
Eugenia Lean (Columbia University Press, 2020) For information from the publisher, please click here. In early twentieth-century China, Chen Diexian (1879–1940) was a maverick entrepreneur—at once a prolific man of letters and captain of industry, a magazine editor and cosmetics magnate. He tinkered with chemistry in his private studio, used local cuttlefish to … [Read more...]
