test post body … [Read more...]
Steffen Rimner
2015 – 2016 International Network to Expand Regional and Collaborative Teaching (INTERACT) Postdoctoral Fellow at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute Global history of East and Southeast Asia; internationalization and globalization Steffen Rimner received his historical training at the University of Konstanz and Yale University and holds a Ph.D. in International History … [Read more...]
Ginger Nolan
Ginger Nolan holds a B.A. in Comparative Literature, a master's degree in Architecture, and a Ph.D. in Architectural History and Theory. Her current work explores how design disciplines during the late 19th through 20th century instrumentalized conceptions of "savage thought" to gain access to the mind's putatively unconscious methods of semiotic production, a … [Read more...]
WEAI Author Q&A: Christopher Rea’s “The Age of Irreverence”
We are excited to announce a new title in the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute book series: The Age of Irreverence: A New History of Laughter in China, published by the University of California Press. The book’s author is Christopher Rea, associate professor of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia. In his book, Professor Rea tells the story of … [Read more...]
WEAI Author Q&A: Reto Hofmann’s “The Fascist Effect”
We are pleased to announce a new title in the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute book series: The Fascist Effect: Japan and Italy: 1915-1952, published by Cornell University Press. The book’s author is Reto Hofmann, who currently teaches at Monash University. In this book, Professor Hofmann uncovers the ideological links that tied Japan to Italy in the interwar … [Read more...]
