STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Yukiko Koshiro (Cornell University Press, 2013) For information from the publisher, please click here. The "Pacific War" narrative of Japan's defeat that was established after 1945 started with the attack on Pearl Harbor, detailed the U.S. island-hopping campaigns across the Western Pacific, and culminated in the atomic bombings of … [Read more...]
Reconstructing Bodies: Biomedicine, Health, and Nation-Building in South Korea Since 1945
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES John P. DiMoia (Stanford University Press, 2013) For information from the publisher, please click here. South Korea represents one of the world's most enthusiastic markets for plastic surgery. The growth of this market is particularly fascinating as access to medical care and surgery arose only recently with economic growth since the … [Read more...]
Beyond the Metropolis: Second Cities and Modern Life in Interwar Japan
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Louise Young (University of California Press, 2013) For information from the publisher, please click here. In Beyond the Metropolis, Louise Young looks at the emergence of urbanism in the interwar period, a global moment when the material and ideological structures that constitute “the city” took their characteristic modern shape. In … [Read more...]
Lin Shu, Inc.: Translation and the Making of Modern Chinese Culture
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Michael Gibbs Hill (Oxford University Press, 2012) For information from the publisher, please click here. How could a writer who knew no foreign languages call himself a translator? How, too, did he become a major commercial success, churning out nearly two hundred translations over twenty years? Lin Shu, Inc. crosses the fields … [Read more...]
Redacted: The Archives of Censorship in Transwar Japan
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Jonathan E. Abel (University of California Press, 2012) For information from the publisher, please click here. At the height of state censorship in Japan, more indexes of banned books circulated, more essays on censorship were published, more works of illicit erotic and proletarian fiction were produced, and more passages were Xed out … [Read more...]
