STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Franz Prichard (Columbia University Press, 2019) For information from the publisher, please click here. In the postwar years, an eruption of urbanization took place across Japan, from its historical central cities to the outer reaches of the archipelago. During the 1960s and 1970s, Japanese literary and visual media took a deep … [Read more...]
The Power of Print in Modern China: Intellectuals and Industrial Publishing from the End of Empire to Maoist State Socialism
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Robert Culp (Columbia University Press, 2019) For information from the publisher, please click here. Amid early twentieth-century China’s epochal shifts, a vital and prolific commercial publishing industry emerged. Recruiting late Qing literati, foreign-trained academics, and recent graduates of the modernized school system to work as … [Read more...]
Borderland Memories: Searching for Historical Identity in Post-Mao China
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Martin T. Fromm (Cambridge University Press, 2019) For information from the publisher, please click here. In the 1980s, as China transitioned to the post-Mao era, a state-sponsored oral history project led to the publication of local, regional, and national histories. They took the form of written and transcribed personal testimonies … [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...]
WEAI Author Q&A: Robert Tuck’s “Idly Scribbling Rhymers”
We are excited to announce a new title in the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute book series: Idly Scribbling Rhymers: Poetry, Print, and Community in Nineteenth-Century Japan, published by Columbia University Press. The book's author is Robert Tuck, an Assistant Professor of Modern Japanese Literature and Culture at Arizona State University who received his PhD … [Read more...]
