WEATHERHEAD BOOKS ON ASIA Paek Nam-nyong. Friend: A Novel from North Korea Translated by Immanuel Kim (2020) Paek Nam-nyong’s Friend is a tale of marital intrigue, abuse, and divorce in North Korea. A woman in her thirties comes to a courthouse petitioning for a divorce. As the judge who hears her statement begins to investigate the case, the story unfolds into a broader … [Read more...]
The Typographic Imagination: Reading and Writing in Japan’s Age of Modern Print Media
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...]
Beauty in the Age of Empire: Japan, Egypt, and the Global History of Aesthetic Education
Raja Adal (Columbia University Press, 2019) For information on the publisher, please click here. Beauty in the Age of Empire is a global history of aesthetic education focused on how Western practices were adopted, transformed, and repurposed in Egypt and Japan. Raja Adal uncovers the emergence of aesthetic education in modern schools and its role in making a broad … [Read more...]
WEAI Author Q&A: Corey Byrnes’s “Fixing Landscape”
We are excited to announce a new title in the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute book series: Fixing Landscape: A Techno-Poetic History of China’s Three Gorges, published by Columbia University Press. The book's author is Corey Byrnes, an Assistant Professor Modern Chinese culture at Northwestern University. Dr. Byrnes was the co-winner of the Weatherhead East … [Read more...]
Thurs. Feb. 7th Book Talk hosted by CKR: “Heroes and Toilers: Work as Life in Postwar North Korea, 1953-1961”
Book Talk hosted by Center for Korean Research Featuring: Cheehyung Harrison Kim, Assistant Professor, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa Visit WEAI's book series page for more about the book, found here. Thursday, February 7, 2019 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM International Affairs Building 918 Registration not required. Co-sponsored by the Department of East Asian … [Read more...]
