STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Sean Hsiang-lin Lei (University of Chicago Press, 2014) For information from the publisher, please click here. Neither Donkey nor Horse tells the story of how Chinese medicine was transformed from the antithesis of modernity in the early twentieth century into a potent symbol of and vehicle for China’s exploration of its own … [Read more...]
The Proletarian Wave: Literature and Leftist Culture in Colonial Korea, 1910-1945
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Sunyoung Park (Harvard University Asia Center, 2014) For information from the publisher, please click here. Socialist doctrines had an important influence on Korean writers and intellectuals of the early twentieth century. From the 1910s through the 1940s, a veritable wave of anarchist, Marxist, nationalist, and feminist leftist … [Read more...]
When the Future Disappears: The Modernist Imagination in Late Colonial Korea
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Janet Poole (Columbia University Press, 2014) For information from the publisher, please click here. Taking a panoramic view of Korea's dynamic literary production in the final decade of Japanese rule, When the Future Disappears locates the imprint of a new temporal sense in Korean modernism: the impression of time interrupted, with … [Read more...]
The Disempowered Development of Tibet in China: A Study in the Economics of Marginalization
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Andrew Fischer (Lexington Books, 2013) For information from the publisher, please click here. Since the central government of China started major campaigns for western development in the mid-1990s, the economies of the Tibetan areas in Western China have grown rapidly and living standards have improved. However, grievances and … [Read more...]
Rise of a Japanese Chinatown: Yokohama, 1894-1972
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Eric C. Han (Harvard University Asia Center, 2014) For information from the publisher, please click here. Rise of a Japanese Chinatown is the first English-language monograph on the history of a Chinese immigrant community in Japan. It focuses on the transformations of that population in the Japanese port city of Yokohama from the … [Read more...]
