We are excited to announce a new title in the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute book series: Japan's Imperial Underworlds: Intimate Encounters at the Borders of Empire, published by Cambridge University Press. The book's author is David Ambaras, an Associate Professor of History at North Carolina State University. Japan's Imperial Underworlds uses vivid … [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...]
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...]
