Newsweek Japan recently devoted four cover stories to a series of two-hour special seminars led by Professor Carol Gluck, the George Sansom Professor of History at Columbia University. In these seminars Gluck engaged in spirited conversations with a group of around fifteen Columbia students on the subject of the public memory of World War II. The group of graduate students, … [Read more...]
April 2 Event: “Can We Globalize WWII?: A Chinese Perspective:” Audio and Photos
Audio and photographs are now available from the April 2, 2018 event "Can We Globalize WWII?: A Chinese Perspective." The event featured Hans van de Ven, Professor of Modern Chinese History, University of Cambridge, who discussed his new book China at War: Triumph and Tragedy in the Emergence of the New China, 1937 – 1953. His talk was moderated by Madeleine Zelin, Dean … [Read more...]
March 29 Event: “Scales of History: Family History/Global History:” Audio and Photos
Audio and photographs are now available from the March 29, 2018 event "Scales of History: Family History/Global History." The event featured distinguished scholar Shunya Yoshimi, Professor of Sociology, Cultural Studies and Media Studies, University of Tokyo. Moderated by Carol Gluck, George Sansom Professor of History, Columbia … [Read more...]
Where the Party Rules: The Rank and File of China’s Communist State
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Daniel Koss (Cambridge University Press, 2018) For information from the publisher, please click here. In most non-democratic countries, today governing forty-four percent of the world population, the power of the regime rests upon a ruling party. Contrasting with conventional notions that authoritarian regime parties serve to contain … [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...]
