We are excited to announce a new title in the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute book series: Making Time: Astronomical Time Measurement in Tokugawa Japan, published by the University of Chicago Press. The book's author is Yulia Frumer, the Bo Jung and Soon Young Kim Assistant Professor of East Asian Science and Technology in the Department of History of Science … [Read more...]
Two Studies of the WEAI Receive Award Recognition from the Association for Asian Studies
We are delighted to share the news that two recent titles in the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute book series, Li Chen's Chinese Law in Imperial Eyes: Sovereignty, Justice, and Transcultural Politics and Yoshikuni Igarashi's Homecomings: The Belated Return of Japan's Lost Soldiers, have been recognized for their outstanding scholarship by the Association for … [Read more...]
WEAI Author Q&A: Alexander Zahlten’s “The End of Japanese Cinema”
We are excited to announce a new title in the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute book series: The End of Japanese Cinema: Industrial Genres, National Times, and Media Ecologies, published by Duke University Press. The book's author is Alexander Zahlten, an Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University. In The End of … [Read more...]
Dorothy Ko discusses her Study of the WEAI “The Social Life of Inkstones” with the New Books in East Asian Studies Podcast
Dorothy Ko, Professor of History at Barnard College and faculty member of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, recently discussed her new book The Social Life of Inkstones: Artisans and Scholars in Early Qing China with the New Books in East Asian Studies Podcast. Published by the University of Washington Press in 2017, The Social Life of Inkstones is in the Studies of the … [Read more...]
WEAI Author Q&A: D. Colin Jaundrill’s “Samurai to Soldier”
We are excited to announce a new title in the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute book series: Samurai to Soldier: Remaking Military Service in Nineteenth-Century Japan, published by Cornell University Press. The book's author is D. Colin Jaundrill, who earned his PhD from Columbia University and is Associate Professor of History at Providence College. In … [Read more...]
