STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Jonathan E. Abel (University of California Press, 2012) For information from the publisher, please click here. At the height of state censorship in Japan, more indexes of banned books circulated, more essays on censorship were published, more works of illicit erotic and proletarian fiction were produced, and more passages were Xed out … [Read more...]
Grassroots Fascism
WEATHERHEAD BOOKS ON ASIA Yoshimi Yoshiaki. Grassroots Fascism: The War Experience of the Japanese People Translated by Ethan Mark (2015) "These searing and honest accounts drawn from the diaries and memoirs of ordinary Japanese soldiers and civilians make abundantly clear the brutality of the Japanese Imperial Army. They also reveal the suffering, the blind devotion, … [Read more...]
The Winter Sun Shines In: A Life of Masaoka Shiki
ASIA PERSPECTIVES: NEW HORIZONS IN ASIAN HISTORY, SOCIETY, AND CULTURE Donald Keene. The Winter Sun Shines In: A Life of Masaoka Shiki (2013) "In Donald Keene’s writing, there is an undeniable warmth and humanity that is often absent in much of our contemporary literary criticism. The general reader, even with little interest in haiku, will find this work illuminating and … [Read more...]
Light and Dark: A Novel
WEATHERHEAD BOOKS ON ASIA Natsume Soseki. Light and Dark: A Novel Translated by John Nathan (2013) "This is Natsume Soseki's longest and most complex work, his most ambitious in terms of social description and psychological analysis, and his most intricately plotted. It is a book for the ages, a modernist masterpiece, masterfully translated." -- Alan Tansman, … [Read more...]
The Birth of Chinese Feminism
WEATHERHEAD BOOKS ON ASIA The Birth of Chinese Feminism: Essential Texts in Transnational Theory Edited by Lydia H. Liu, Rebecca E. Karl, and Dorothy Ko (2013) "This magnificent volume opens up a past and conjures a future. Anarcho-feminist He-Yin Zhen published her passionate and closely reasoned essays more than a century ago, yet the issues she raises have yet to be … [Read more...]
