Brown Bag Lecture Featuring Klaus Muehlhahn, Chair Professor of Chinese History and Culture, FU Berlin Moderated by Madeleine Zelin, Dean Lung Professor of Chinese Studies; Professor of History, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures and Department of History, Columbia University In this talk, Klaus Muehlhahn will discuss his new book, Making … [Read more...]
Heroes and Toilers: Work as Life in Postwar North Korea, 1953–1961
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Cheehyung Harrison Kim (Columbia University Press, 2018) For information from the publisher, please click here. In North Korea in the decade following the Korean War, labor became the defining means of state control and national unity. In pursuit of rapid industrial growth, the North Korean state stressed order and consistency in … [Read more...]
A Misunderstood Friendship: Mao Zedong, Kim Il-sung, and Sino–North Korean Relations, 1949–1976
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Zhihua Shen and Yafeng Xia (Columbia University Press, 2018) For information from the publisher, please click here. Today, the People’s Republic of China is North Korea’s only ally on the world stage, a tightly knit relationship that goes back decades. Both countries portray their partnership as one of “brotherly affection” based on … [Read more...]
Engineering Asia: Technology, Colonial Development, and the Cold War Order
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Edited by Hiromi Mizuno, Aaron S. Moore, and John DiMoia (Bloomsbury Press/SOAS Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan, 2018) For information from the publisher, please click here. Weaving together chapters on imperial Japan's wartime mobilization, Asia's first wave of postwar decolonization, and Cold War geopolitical conflict in … [Read more...]
Victor Louzon, 2016-18 INTERACT Postdoctoral Scholar, Publishes Article in the Journal of Asian Studies
Victor Louzon, the 2016-2018 International Network to Expand Regional and Collaborative Teaching (INTERACT) Postdoctoral Scholar at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, published the article "From Japanese Soldiers to Chinese Rebels: Colonial Hegemony, War Experience, and Spontaneous Remobilization during the 1947 Taiwanese Rebellion" in the Journal of Asian Studies. His … [Read more...]
