Nathan Shockey (Columbia University Press, 2019) For information from the publisher, please click here. Nathan Shockey examines the emergence of new forms of reading, writing, and thinking in Japan from the last years of the nineteenth century through the first decades of the twentieth. Charting the relationships among prose, politics, and print capitalism, he … [Read more...]
The Power of Print in Modern China: Intellectuals and Industrial Publishing from the End of Empire to Maoist State Socialism
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Robert Culp (Columbia University Press, 2019) For information from the publisher, please click here. Amid early twentieth-century China’s epochal shifts, a vital and prolific commercial publishing industry emerged. Recruiting late Qing literati, foreign-trained academics, and recent graduates of the modernized school system to work as … [Read more...]
September 12 Event “Also Like Life: The Films of Hou Hsiao-hsien:” Photos and Audio
Photographs are available here from the September 12, 2014 event Also Like Life: The Films of Hou Hsiao-hsien, which featured acclaimed writer and academic Ian Buruma, Columbia University film studies professor Richard Peña, and Bard College professor Richard I. Suchenski. Suchenski organized the international retrospective "Also Like Life: The Films of Hou Hsiao-hsien," which … [Read more...]
A New Retrospective on Hou Hsiao-hsien: A Discussion with Organizer Richard Suchenski
On Friday, September 12, 2014, the Museum of the Moving Image will launch a retrospective of the films by Taiwan's celebrated director Hou Hsiao-hsien. The internationally-touring series, titled "Also Like Life: The Films of Hou Hsiao-hsien," runs through October 17 in New York and includes all of the director's seventeen feature films. The retrospective will also showcase … [Read more...]
