Christopher Laing Hill (Northwestern University Press, 2020) For information from the publisher, please click here. An open-access digital version is available here. Figures of the World: The Naturalist Novel and Transnational Form overturns Eurocentric genealogies and globalizing generalizations about “world literature” by examining the complex, … [Read more...]
Arbiters of Patriotism: Right-Wing Scholars in Imperial Japan
John Person (Hawaii University Press, 2020) For information from the publisher, please click here. In the 1930s and 1940s Marxist academics and others interested in liberal political reform often faced virulent accusations of treason from nationalist critics. In Arbiters of Patriotism, John Person explores the lives of two of the most notorious right-wing … [Read more...]
The Chinese Revolution on the Tibetan Frontier
Benno Weiner (Cornell University Press, 2020) For information from the publisher, please click here. Read the Q&A with Professor Weiner here. In The Chinese Revolution on the Tibetan Frontier, Benno Weiner provides the first in-depth study of an ethnic minority region during the first decade of the People's Republic of China: the Amdo region in the … [Read more...]
Tea War: A History of Capitalism in China and India
Andrew B. Liu (Yale University Press, 2020) For information from the publisher, please click here. Click here to read our author Q&A. Tea remains the world’s most popular commercial drink today, and at the turn of the twentieth century, it represented the largest export industry of both China and colonial India. In analyzing the global competition between … [Read more...]
Revolution Goes East: Imperial Japan and Soviet Communism
Tatiana Linkhoeva (Cornell University Press, 2020) For information from the publisher, please click here. Click here to read the WEAI Q&A. Revolution Goes East is an intellectual history that applies a novel global perspective to the classic story of the rise of communism and the various reactions it provoked in Imperial Japan. Tatiana Linkhoeva … [Read more...]
