Mary Brazelton (Cornell University Press, 2019) For information from the publisher, please click here. While the eradication of smallpox has long been documented, not many know the Chinese roots of this historic achievement. In this revelatory study, Mary Augusta Brazelton examines the PRC's public health campaigns of the 1950s to explain just how China managed to … [Read more...]
Pirates and Publishers: A Social History of Copyright in Modern China
Fei-Hsien Wang (Princeton University Press, 2019) For information from the publisher, please click here. To read the author Q&A, please click here. In Pirates and Publishers, Fei-Hsien Wang reveals the unknown social and cultural history of copyright in China from the 1890s through the 1950s, a time of profound sociopolitical changes. Wang draws on a vast range … [Read more...]
Beauty in the Age of Empire: Japan, Egypt, and the Global History of Aesthetic Education
Raja Adal (Columbia University Press, 2019) For information on the publisher, please click here. Beauty in the Age of Empire is a global history of aesthetic education focused on how Western practices were adopted, transformed, and repurposed in Egypt and Japan. Raja Adal uncovers the emergence of aesthetic education in modern schools and its role in making a broad … [Read more...]
Down and Out in Saigon: Stories of the Poor in a Colonial City
Haydon Cherry (Yale University Press, 2019) For information from the publisher, please click here. Historian Haydon Cherry offers the first comprehensive social history of the urban poor of colonial French Saigon by following the lives of six individuals—a prostitute, a Chinese laborer, a rickshaw puller, an orphan, an incurable invalid, and a poor Frenchman—and how … [Read more...]
Residual Futures: The Urban Ecologies of Literary and Visual Media of 1960s and 1970s Japan
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Franz Prichard (Columbia University Press, 2019) For information from the publisher, please click here. In the postwar years, an eruption of urbanization took place across Japan, from its historical central cities to the outer reaches of the archipelago. During the 1960s and 1970s, Japanese literary and visual media took a deep … [Read more...]
