STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Li Chen (Columbia University Press, 2016) For information from the publisher, please click here. Winner, 2018 Joseph Levenson Pre-1900 Book Prize (China), Association for Asian Studies Commended, 2017 Peter Gonville Stein Award, American Society for Legal History Before the First Opium War (1839-1842), China had control over the … [Read more...]
Imperial Genus: The Formation and Limits of the Human in Modern Korea and Japan
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Travis Workman (University of California Press, 2015) For information from the publisher, please click here. Imperial Genus begins with the turn to world culture and ideas of the generally human in Japan’s cultural policy in Korea in 1919. How were concepts of the human’s genus-being operative in the discourses of the Japanese empire? … [Read more...]
The Knowledge of Nature and the Nature of Knowledge in Early Modern Japan
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Federico Marcon (University of Chicago Press, 2015) For information from the publisher, please click here. Honorable Mention: 2017 John Whitney Hall Book Prize (Japan), Association for Asian Studies Between the early seventeenth and the mid-nineteenth century, the field of natural history in Japan separated itself from the … [Read more...]
