STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Guobin Yang (Columbia University Press, 2016) For information from the publisher, please click here. Raised to be "flowers of the nation," the first generation born after the founding of the People's Republic of China was united in its political outlook and ambitions. Its members embraced the Cultural Revolution of 1966 but soon split … [Read more...]
One Hundred Million Philosophers: Science of Thought and the Culture of Democracy in Postwar Japan
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Adam Bronson (University of Hawai'i Press, 2016) For information from the publisher, please click here. After the devastation of World War II, journalists, scholars, and citizens came together to foster a new culture of democracy in Japan. Adam Bronson explores this effort in a path-breaking study of the Institute for the Science of … [Read more...]
Ethnic Conflict and Protest in Tibet and Xinjiang: Unrest in China’s West
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Edited by Ben Hillman and Gray Tuttle (Columbia University Press, 2016) For information from the publisher, please click here. Despite a decade of rapid economic development, rising living standards, and large-scale improvements in infrastructure and services, China's western borderlands have experienced a wave of ethnic unrest not … [Read more...]
Imitation and Creativity in Japanese Arts: From Kishida Ryusei to Miyazaki Hayao
ASIA PERSPECTIVES: NEW HORIZONS IN ASIAN HISTORY, SOCIETY, AND CULTURE Michael Lucken (trans. Francesca Simkin). Imitation and Creativity in Japanese Arts: From Kishida Ryusei to Miyazaki Hayao (2016) "A well-written and rigorously researched analysis that is grounded in both Continental and Japanese theoretical literature. The book will offer a perspective that is fresh … [Read more...]
Negotiating Rural Land Ownership in Southwest China: State, Village, Family
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Yi Wu (University of Hawaii Press, 2016) For information from the publisher, please click here. Negotiating Rural Land Ownership in Southwest China offers the first comprehensive analysis of how China’s current system of land ownership has evolved over the past six decades. Based on extended fieldwork in Yunnan Province, the author … [Read more...]
