STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Sunyoung Park (Harvard University Asia Center, 2014) For information from the publisher, please click here. Socialist doctrines had an important influence on Korean writers and intellectuals of the early twentieth century. From the 1910s through the 1940s, a veritable wave of anarchist, Marxist, nationalist, and feminist leftist … [Read more...]
When the Future Disappears: The Modernist Imagination in Late Colonial Korea
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Janet Poole (Columbia University Press, 2014) For information from the publisher, please click here. Taking a panoramic view of Korea's dynamic literary production in the final decade of Japanese rule, When the Future Disappears locates the imprint of a new temporal sense in Korean modernism: the impression of time interrupted, with … [Read more...]
Oral and Literary Continuities in Modern Tibetan Literature: The Inescapable Nation
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Lama Jabb (Lexington Books, 2015) For information from the publisher, please click here. This is the first book-length study to appear in English on the literary, cultural and political roots of modern Tibetan literature. While existing scholarship on modern Tibetan writing takes the 1980s as its point of “birth” and presents this … [Read more...]
The Disempowered Development of Tibet in China: A Study in the Economics of Marginalization
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Andrew Fischer (Lexington Books, 2013) For information from the publisher, please click here. Since the central government of China started major campaigns for western development in the mid-1990s, the economies of the Tibetan areas in Western China have grown rapidly and living standards have improved. However, grievances and … [Read more...]
Rise of a Japanese Chinatown: Yokohama, 1894-1972
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Eric C. Han (Harvard University Asia Center, 2014) For information from the publisher, please click here. Rise of a Japanese Chinatown is the first English-language monograph on the history of a Chinese immigrant community in Japan. It focuses on the transformations of that population in the Japanese port city of Yokohama from the … [Read more...]
