STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Geoffrey Barstow (Columbia University Press, 2017) For information from the publisher, please click here. Tibetan Buddhism teaches compassion toward all beings, a category that explicitly includes animals. Slaughtering animals is morally problematic at best and, at worst, completely incompatible with a religious lifestyle. Yet … [Read more...]
Mobilizing Without the Masses: Control and Contention in China
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Diana Fu (Cambridge University Press, 2018) For information from the publisher, please click here. Winner, 2018 Gregory Luebbert Prize for the best book on Comparative Politics from the American Political Science Association (APSA) When advocacy organizations are forbidden from rallying people to take the streets, what do they do? … [Read more...]
The Chinese Typewriter: A History
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Thomas S. Mullaney (The MIT Press, 2017) Winner, 2018 John K. Fairbank Prize, American Historical Association For information from the publisher, please click here. Chinese writing is character based, the one major world script that is neither alphabetic nor syllabic. Through the years, the Chinese written language encountered … [Read more...]
The End of Japanese Cinema: Industrial Genres, National Times, and Media Ecologies
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Alexander Zahlten (Duke University Press, 2017) For information from the publisher, please click here. In The End of Japanese Cinema Alexander Zahlten moves film theory beyond the confines of film itself, attending to the emergence of new kinds of aesthetics, politics, temporalities, and understandings of film and media. He traces the … [Read more...]
Forgotten Disease: Illnesses Transformed in Chinese Medicine
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Hilary A. Smith (Stanford University Press, 2017) For information from the publisher, please click here. Around the turn of the twentieth century, disorders that Chinese physicians had been writing about for over a millennium acquired new identities in Western medicine—sudden turmoil became cholera; flowers of heaven became smallpox; … [Read more...]
