STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES D. Colin Jaundrill (Cornell University Press, 2016) For information from the publisher, please click here. In Samurai to Soldier, D. Colin Jaundrill rewrites the military history of nineteenth-century Japan. In fifty years spanning the collapse of the Tokugawa shogunate and the rise of the Meiji nation-state, conscripts supplanted … [Read more...]
The Red Guard Generation and Political Activism in China
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Guobin Yang (Columbia University Press, 2016) For information from the publisher, please click here. Raised to be "flowers of the nation," the first generation born after the founding of the People's Republic of China was united in its political outlook and ambitions. Its members embraced the Cultural Revolution of 1966 but soon split … [Read more...]
One Hundred Million Philosophers: Science of Thought and the Culture of Democracy in Postwar Japan
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Adam Bronson (University of Hawai'i Press, 2016) For information from the publisher, please click here. After the devastation of World War II, journalists, scholars, and citizens came together to foster a new culture of democracy in Japan. Adam Bronson explores this effort in a path-breaking study of the Institute for the Science of … [Read more...]
Ethnic Conflict and Protest in Tibet and Xinjiang: Unrest in China’s West
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Edited by Ben Hillman and Gray Tuttle (Columbia University Press, 2016) For information from the publisher, please click here. Despite a decade of rapid economic development, rising living standards, and large-scale improvements in infrastructure and services, China's western borderlands have experienced a wave of ethnic unrest not … [Read more...]
Accidental Activists : Victim Movements and Government Accountability in Japan and South Korea
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Celeste L. Arrington (Cornell University Press, 2016) For information from the publisher, please click here. Government wrongdoing or negligence harms people worldwide, but not all victims are equally effective at obtaining redress. In Accidental Activists, Celeste L. Arrington examines the interactive dynamics of the politics of … [Read more...]
