STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Yao Li (Cambridge University Press, 2018) For information from the publisher, please click here. Growing protests in non-democratic countries are often seen as signals of regime decline. China, however, has remained stable amid surging protests. Playing by the Informal Rules highlights the importance of informal norms in structuring … [Read more...]
Thomas S. Mullaney’s Study of the WEAI “The Chinese Typewriter” Wins Lewis Mumford Award
We congratulate Thomas S. Mullaney, associate professor of history at Stanford University and Columbia alumnus (M.A. 2004, Ph.D. 2006), whose Study of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute The Chinese Typewriter: A History was awarded the 2018 Lewis Mumford Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Technics from the Media Ecology Association (MEA). The book, … [Read more...]
China’s War on Smuggling: Law, Economic Life, and the Making of the Modern State, 1842–1965
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Philip Thai (Columbia University Press, 2018) For information from the publisher, please click here. Smuggling along the Chinese coast has been a thorn in the side of many regimes. From opium and weapons concealed aboard foreign steamships in the Qing dynasty to nylon stockings and wristwatches trafficked in the People’s Republic, … [Read more...]
China’s Conservative Revolution: The Quest for a New Order, 1927–1949
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Brian Tsui (Cambridge University Press, 2018) For information from the publisher, please click here. In this ambitious examination of the complex political culture of China under Guomindang rule, Brian Tsui interweaves political ideologies, intellectual trends, social movements and diplomatic maneuvers to demonstrate how the Chinese … [Read more...]
Diana Fu’s Study of the WEAI “Mobilizing Without the Masses” Wins APSA Book Award
We congratulate Diana Fu, assistant professor of Asian Politics at the University of Toronto, whose Study of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute Mobilizing Without the Masses: Control and Contention in China was awarded the 2018 Gregory Luebbert Prize for the best book in Comparative Politics from the American Political Science Association (APSA). The book, published in … [Read more...]
