STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Alexander Zahlten (Duke University Press, 2017) For information from the publisher, please click here. In The End of Japanese Cinema Alexander Zahlten moves film theory beyond the confines of film itself, attending to the emergence of new kinds of aesthetics, politics, temporalities, and understandings of film and media. He traces the … [Read more...]
Forgotten Disease: Illnesses Transformed in Chinese Medicine
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Hilary A. Smith (Stanford University Press, 2017) For information from the publisher, please click here. Around the turn of the twentieth century, disorders that Chinese physicians had been writing about for over a millennium acquired new identities in Western medicine—sudden turmoil became cholera; flowers of heaven became smallpox; … [Read more...]
Youth for Nation: Culture and Protest in Cold War South Korea
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Charles R. Kim (University of Hawaii Press, 2017) For information from the publisher, please click here. This in-depth exploration of culture, media, and protest follows South Korea’s transition from the Korean War to the political struggles and socioeconomic transformations of the Park Chung Hee era. Although the post–Korean War … [Read more...]
Socialist Cosmopolitanism: The Chinese Literary Universe, 1945-1965
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Nicolai Volland (Columbia University Press, 2017) For information from the publisher, please click here. Socialist Cosmopolitanism offers an innovative interpretation of literature from the Mao era, proposing to read Chinese socialist literature as world literature. China after 1949 engaged with the world beyond its borders in myriad … [Read more...]
The Social Life of Inkstones: Artisans and Scholars in Early Qing China
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Dorothy Ko (University of Washington Press, 2017) For information from the publisher, please click here. An inkstone, a piece of polished stone no bigger than an outstretched hand, is an instrument for grinding ink, an object of art, a token of exchange between friends or sovereign states, and a surface on which texts and images are … [Read more...]
