Benno Weiner (Cornell University Press, 2020) For information from the publisher, please click here. Read the Q&A with Professor Weiner here. In The Chinese Revolution on the Tibetan Frontier, Benno Weiner provides the first in-depth study of an ethnic minority region during the first decade of the People's Republic of China: the Amdo region in the … [Read more...]

Andrew B. Liu (Yale University Press, 2020) For information from the publisher, please click here. Click here to read our author Q&A. Tea remains the world’s most popular commercial drink today, and at the turn of the twentieth century, it represented the largest export industry of both China and colonial India. In analyzing the global competition between … [Read more...]

Tatiana Linkhoeva (Cornell University Press, 2020) For information from the publisher, please click here. Click here to read the WEAI Q&A. Revolution Goes East is an intellectual history that applies a novel global perspective to the classic story of the rise of communism and the various reactions it provoked in Imperial Japan. Tatiana Linkhoeva … [Read more...]

Eugenia Lean (Columbia University Press, 2020) For information from the publisher, please click here. In early twentieth-century China, Chen Diexian (1879–1940) was a maverick entrepreneur—at once a prolific man of letters and captain of industry, a magazine editor and cosmetics magnate. He tinkered with chemistry in his private studio, used local cuttlefish to … [Read more...]

Duncan McCargo (Cornell University Press, 2020) For information from the publisher, please click here. Watch our interview with Professor McCargo here. Fighting for Virtue investigates how Thailand's judges were tasked by the late King Bhumibol Adulyadej (Rama IX) in 2006 with helping to solve the country's intractable political problems—and what happened next. … [Read more...]