"Science and Capitalism: Entangled Histories" Discussion William Deringer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Marwa Elshakry, Columbia University Michael Gordin, Princeton University Eugenia Lean, Columbia University Malgosia Mazurek, Columbia University Lukas Rieppel, Brown University Carl Wennerlind, Barnard College Monday, November 12, 2018 6:15 PM - 8:00 … [Read more...]
The Invention of Madness: State, Society, and the Insane in Modern China
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Emily Baum (University of Chicago Press, 2018) For information from the publisher, please click here. Throughout most of history, in China the insane were kept within the home and treated by healers who claimed no specialized knowledge of their condition. In the first decade of the twentieth century, however, psychiatric ideas and … [Read more...]
Engineering Asia: Technology, Colonial Development, and the Cold War Order
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Edited by Hiromi Mizuno, Aaron S. Moore, and John DiMoia (Bloomsbury Press/SOAS Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan, 2018) For information from the publisher, please click here. Weaving together chapters on imperial Japan's wartime mobilization, Asia's first wave of postwar decolonization, and Cold War geopolitical conflict in … [Read more...]
WEAI Author Q&A: Yulia Frumer’s “Making Time: Astronomical Time Measurement in Tokugawa Japan”
We are excited to announce a new title in the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute book series: Making Time: Astronomical Time Measurement in Tokugawa Japan, published by the University of Chicago Press. The book's author is Yulia Frumer, the Bo Jung and Soon Young Kim Assistant Professor of East Asian Science and Technology in the Department of History of Science … [Read more...]
Making Time: Astronomical Time Measurement in Tokugawa Japan
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Yulia Frumer (University of Chicago Press, 2018) For information from the publisher, please click here. What is time made of? We might balk at such a question, and reply that time is not made of anything—it is an abstract and universal phenomenon. In Making Time, Yulia Frumer upends this assumption, using changes in the … [Read more...]
