STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Alyssa M. Park (Cornell University Press, 2019) For information from the publisher, please click here. Sovereignty Experiments tells the story of how authorities in Korea, Russia, China, and Japan—through diplomatic negotiations, border regulations, legal categorization of subjects and aliens, and cultural policies—competed to control … [Read more...]
Statebuilding by Imposition: Resistance and Control in Colonial Taiwan and the Philippines
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Reo Matsuzaki (Cornell University Press, 2019) For information from the publisher, please click here. How do modern states emerge from the turmoil of undergoverned spaces? This is the question Reo Matsuzaki ponders in Statebuilding by Imposition. Comparing Taiwan and the Philippines under the colonial rule of Japan and the United … [Read more...]
Fixing Landscape: A Techno-Poetic History of China’s Three Gorges
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Corey Byrnes (Columbia University Press, 2018) For information from the publisher, please click here. In 1994, workers broke ground on China’s Three Gorges Dam. By its completion in 2012, the dam had transformed the ecology of the Yangzi River, displaced over a million people, and forever altered a landscape immortalized in centuries … [Read more...]
“#MeToo and Big Brother in China”
Lecture "#MeToo and Big Brother in China" Leta Hong Fincher, Scholar and Journalist Lu Pin, Activist and graduate student, SUNY-Albany Wednesday, October 17, 2018 4:00 - 5:30 p.m. International Affairs Building Room 918 A dialogue between Leta Hong Fincher and Lu Pin on the past strategies and future prospects of the feminist movement in China. … [Read more...]
“A Misunderstood Friendship: Mao Zedong, Kim Il-sung, and Sino-North Korean Relations”
Lecture “A Misunderstood Friendship: Mao Zedong, Kim Il-sung, and Sino-North Korean Relations” Zhihua Shen, Professor of History, East China Normal University Danhui Li, Professor of History, East China Normal University Yafeng Xia, Professor of History, Long Island University Moderator: Thomas Christensen, Professor of Public and International Affairs and Director of … [Read more...]
