STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Wen-Qing Ngoei (Cornell University Press, 2019) For information from the publisher, please click here. Arc of Containment recasts the history of American empire in Southeast and East Asia from World War II through the end of American intervention in Vietnam. Setting aside the classic story of anxiety about falling dominoes, Wen-Qing … [Read more...]
Sovereignty Experiments: Korean Migrants and the Building of Borders in Northeast Asia, 1860–1945
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Alyssa M. Park (Cornell University Press, 2019) For information from the publisher, please click here. Sovereignty Experiments tells the story of how authorities in Korea, Russia, China, and Japan—through diplomatic negotiations, border regulations, legal categorization of subjects and aliens, and cultural policies—competed to control … [Read more...]
Statebuilding by Imposition: Resistance and Control in Colonial Taiwan and the Philippines
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Reo Matsuzaki (Cornell University Press, 2019) For information from the publisher, please click here. How do modern states emerge from the turmoil of undergoverned spaces? This is the question Reo Matsuzaki ponders in Statebuilding by Imposition. Comparing Taiwan and the Philippines under the colonial rule of Japan and the United … [Read more...]
Nation-Empire: Ideology and Rural Youth Mobilization in Japan and Its Colonies
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Sayaka Chatani (Cornell University Press, 2018) For information from the publisher, please click here. By the end of World War II, hundreds of thousands of young men in the Japanese colonies, in particular Taiwan and Korea, had expressed their loyalty to the empire by volunteering to join the army. Why and how did so many colonial … [Read more...]
Resurrecting Nagasaki: Reconstruction and the Formation of Atomic Narratives
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Chad R. Diehl (Cornell University Press, 2018) For information from the publisher, please click here. In Resurrecting Nagasaki, Chad R. Diehl examines the reconstruction of Nagasaki City after the atomic bombing of August 9, 1945. Diehl illuminates the genesis of narratives surrounding the bombing by following the people and groups … [Read more...]
