In an article for the American Association of University Professors, Robin A. Harper and WEAI Research Scholar Michael O. Sharpe, both professors at York College, outlined the benefits and shortcomings of online teaching and learning. "For the administration, students, and faculty, online learning provides some apparent advantages. The administration saves money on … [Read more...]
Two Studies of the WEAI receive DeLong Book History Prize commendations
Two 2019 titles in the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute series, Robert Culp's The Power of Print in Modern China and Fei-Hsien Wang's Pirates and Publishers, were recommended as highly commended runner-ups for the 2020 DeLong Book History Prize issued by the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing. Click here to read the announcement. … [Read more...]
Figures of the World: The Naturalist Novel and Transnational Form
Christopher Laing Hill (Northwestern University Press, 2020) For information from the publisher, please click here. An open-access digital version is available here. Figures of the World: The Naturalist Novel and Transnational Form overturns Eurocentric genealogies and globalizing generalizations about “world literature” by examining the complex, … [Read more...]
Arbiters of Patriotism: Right-Wing Scholars in Imperial Japan
John Person (Hawaii University Press, 2020) For information from the publisher, please click here. In the 1930s and 1940s Marxist academics and others interested in liberal political reform often faced virulent accusations of treason from nationalist critics. In Arbiters of Patriotism, John Person explores the lives of two of the most notorious right-wing … [Read more...]
Interview with NHK’s Ayako Takada on US and Japanese media, immigrant stories, and COVID-19
Ayako Takada is a Japanese journalist and was a WEAI professional fellow between September 2019 and January 2020. During her time in New York, she worked to design a journalism platform that builds a bridge among diverse people and began a newsletter titled "New York Immigrant Media Stories," which documented local ethnic media and followed the early days of the spread of … [Read more...]
