STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Chad R. Diehl (Cornell University Press, 2018) For information from the publisher, please click here. In Resurrecting Nagasaki, Chad R. Diehl examines the reconstruction of Nagasaki City after the atomic bombing of August 9, 1945. Diehl illuminates the genesis of narratives surrounding the bombing by following the people and groups … [Read more...]
The Battle for Fortune: State-Led Development, Personhood, and Power among Tibetans in China
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Charlene Makley (Cornell University Press, 2018) For information from the publisher, please click here. In a deeply ethnographic appraisal, based on years of in situ research, The Battle for Fortune looks at the rising stakes of Tibetans’ encounters with Chinese state-led development projects in the early 2000s. The book builds upon … [Read more...]
China’s Philological Turn: Scholars, Textualism, and the Dao in the 18th Century
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Ori Sela (Columbia University Press, 2018) For information from the publisher, please click here. In eighteenth-century China, a remarkable intellectual transformation took place, centered on the ascendance of philology. Its practitioners were preoccupied with the reliability of sources as evidence for restoring ancient texts and … [Read more...]
The Army and the Indonesian Genocide: Mechanics of Mass Murder
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Jess Melvin (Routledge/Rethinking Southeast Asia Series, 2018) For information from the publisher, please click here. For the past half century, the Indonesian military has depicted the 1965-66 killings, which resulted in the murder of approximately one million unarmed civilians, as the outcome of a spontaneous uprising. This … [Read more...]
Making Time: Astronomical Time Measurement in Tokugawa Japan
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Yulia Frumer (University of Chicago Press, 2018) For information from the publisher, please click here. What is time made of? We might balk at such a question, and reply that time is not made of anything—it is an abstract and universal phenomenon. In Making Time, Yulia Frumer upends this assumption, using changes in the … [Read more...]
