We are excited to share this exclusive interview with Chad Diehl, an assistant professor at the University of Virginia, and author of Resurrecting Nagasaki: Reconstruction and the Formation of Atomic Narratives. The book was recently published by Cornell University Press with the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute. In Resurrecting Nagasaki, Diehl examines … [Read more...]
WEAI Author Q&A: Tatiana Linkhoeva’s “Revolution Goes East: Imperial Japan and Soviet Communism”
We are excited to announce a new title in the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute book series: Revolution Goes East: Imperial Japan and Soviet Communism published by Cornell University Press. The book’s author, Tatiana Linkhoeva, is assistant professor of Japanese history at New York University. Revolution Goes East is an intellectual history that applies a … [Read more...]
Mass Vaccination: Citizens’ Bodies and State Power in Modern China
Mary Brazelton (Cornell University Press, 2019) For information from the publisher, please click here. While the eradication of smallpox has long been documented, not many know the Chinese roots of this historic achievement. In this revelatory study, Mary Augusta Brazelton examines the PRC's public health campaigns of the 1950s to explain just how China managed to … [Read more...]
Beyond the Asylum: Mental Illness in French Colonial Vietnam
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Claire E. Edington (Cornell University Press, 2019) For information from the publisher, please click here. To read the author Q&A, please click here. Claire Edington's fascinating look at psychiatric care in French colonial Vietnam challenges our notion of the colonial asylum as a closed setting, run by experts with … [Read more...]
The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere: When Total Empire Met Total War
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Jeremy A. Yellen (Cornell University Press, 2019) For information from the publisher, please click here. In The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, Jeremy Yellen exposes the history, politics, and intrigue that characterized the era when Japan's "total empire" met the total war of World War II. He illuminates the ways in which the … [Read more...]
