STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Philip Thai (Columbia University Press, 2018) For information from the publisher, please click here. Smuggling along the Chinese coast has been a thorn in the side of many regimes. From opium and weapons concealed aboard foreign steamships in the Qing dynasty to nylon stockings and wristwatches trafficked in the People’s Republic, … [Read more...]
China’s Conservative Revolution: The Quest for a New Order, 1927–1949
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Brian Tsui (Cambridge University Press, 2018) For information from the publisher, please click here. In this ambitious examination of the complex political culture of China under Guomindang rule, Brian Tsui interweaves political ideologies, intellectual trends, social movements and diplomatic maneuvers to demonstrate how the Chinese … [Read more...]
Japan’s Occupation of Java in the Second World War: A Transnational History
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Ethan Mark (Bloomsbury Press/SOAS Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan, 2018) For information from the publisher, please click here. Japan's Occupation of Java in the Second World War draws upon written and oral Japanese, Indonesian, Dutch and English-language sources to narrate the Japanese occupation of Java as a transnational … [Read more...]
Navigating Semi-Colonialism: Shipping, Sovereignty, and Nation-Building in China, 1860–1937
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Anne Reinhardt (Harvard University Asia Center, 2018) For information from the publisher, please click here. China’s status in the world of expanding European empires of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries has long been under dispute. Its unequal relations with multiple powers, secured through a system of treaties rather than … [Read more...]
Where the Party Rules: The Rank and File of China’s Communist State
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Daniel Koss (Cambridge University Press, 2018) For information from the publisher, please click here. In most non-democratic countries, today governing forty-four percent of the world population, the power of the regime rests upon a ruling party. Contrasting with conventional notions that authoritarian regime parties serve to contain … [Read more...]
