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...]
Sōseki: Modern Japan’s Greatest Novelist
ASIA PERSPECTIVES: NEW HORIZONS IN ASIAN HISTORY, SOCIETY, AND CULTURE John Nathan Sōseki: Modern Japan's Greatest Novelist (2018) "Sōseki captures the soul of Japan’s greatest modern writer in the best tradition of biography. Here the venerated figure comes fully alive with his infuriating failings and astounding intelligence, his maddening ambitions and biting … [Read more...]
Dust and Other Stories
WEATHERHEAD BOOKS ON ASIA Yi T'aejun. Dust and Other Stories Translated by Janet Poole.(2018) "This eloquent book masterfully restores the quiet, nostalgic voices of Yi T’aejun’s fiction while also positing a connection between early North Korean literature and its colonial antecedent. Poole’s judicious selection of midcentury short stories is an important contribution … [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...]
