STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Yi Wu (University of Hawaii Press, 2016) For information from the publisher, please click here. Negotiating Rural Land Ownership in Southwest China offers the first comprehensive analysis of how China’s current system of land ownership has evolved over the past six decades. Based on extended fieldwork in Yunnan Province, the author … [Read more...]
Ming China and Vietnam: Negotiating Borders in Early Modern Asia
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Kathlene Baldanza (Cambridge University Press, 2016) For information from the publisher, please click here. Studies of Sino-Viet relations have traditionally focused on Chinese aggression and Vietnamese resistance, or have assumed out-of-date ideas about Sinicization and the tributary system. They have limited themselves to national … [Read more...]
Conflict and Commerce in Maritime East Asia: The Zheng Family and the Shaping of the Modern World, c.1620–1720
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Xing Hang (Cambridge University Press, 2015) For information from the publisher, please click here. The Zheng family of merchants and militarists emerged from the tumultuous seventeenth century amid a severe economic depression, a harrowing dynastic transition from the ethnic Chinese Ming to the Manchu Qing, and the first wave of … [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...]
Chinese Law in Imperial Eyes: Sovereignty, Justice, & Transcultural Politics
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...]
