The Weatherhead East Asian Institute is saddened by the loss of Madge Huntington, who served as the Institute's publications director for 20 years before her retirement in 2008. During her long tenure at the Institute, she expanded the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute series and oversaw the founding of two additional publications series: Weatherhead Books on … [Read more...]
Gerald Curtis quoted in Reuters article on WWII anniversary
Professor Emeritus Gerald Curtis was quoted in an August 11 Reuters article, "Japan faces World War Two anniversary in shadow of coronavirus." In the article, Curtis said: "Fear of getting drawn into military conflict continues to strongly impact public opinion while ... a defensive attitude among Japan’s conservative political leaders about Japan’s actions during the war … [Read more...]
WEAI Author Q&A: Chad Diehl’s ‘Resurrecting Nagasaki’
We are excited to share this exclusive interview with Chad Diehl, an assistant professor at the University of Virginia, and author of Resurrecting Nagasaki: Reconstruction and the Formation of Atomic Narratives. The book was recently published by Cornell University Press with the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute. In Resurrecting Nagasaki, Diehl examines … [Read more...]
China’s Philological Turn by Ori Sela earns AAS Joseph Levenson Prize – Honorable Mention
Ori Sela's Study of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, China's Philological Turn: Scholars, Textualism, and the Dao in the Eighteenth Century, won an honorable mention for the 2020 Joseph Levenson Prize in the category of Pre-1900 scholarly books. The book is published by Columbia University Press. The prizes are awarded to the English-language books that make the … [Read more...]
Myron Cohen interviewed on his work in Chinese anthropology
Professor Myron Cohen was recently interviewed on "Collaborations, Legacies, and Shifts in Chinese Anthropology" for the International Sociological Association's e-Symposium July issue on his long career studying Chinese anthropology. In the interviewer's words: "I had approached Myron Cohen who, to my knowledge, is the longest-practicing Chinese anthropologist today, for an … [Read more...]
