STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Charlene Makley (Cornell University Press, 2018) For information from the publisher, please click here. In a deeply ethnographic appraisal, based on years of in situ research, The Battle for Fortune looks at the rising stakes of Tibetans’ encounters with Chinese state-led development projects in the early 2000s. The book builds upon … [Read more...]
China’s Philological Turn: Scholars, Textualism, and the Dao in the 18th Century
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Ori Sela (Columbia University Press, 2018) For information from the publisher, please click here. In eighteenth-century China, a remarkable intellectual transformation took place, centered on the ascendance of philology. Its practitioners were preoccupied with the reliability of sources as evidence for restoring ancient texts and … [Read more...]
The Army and the Indonesian Genocide: Mechanics of Mass Murder
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Jess Melvin (Routledge/Rethinking Southeast Asia Series, 2018) For information from the publisher, please click here. For the past half century, the Indonesian military has depicted the 1965-66 killings, which resulted in the murder of approximately one million unarmed civilians, as the outcome of a spontaneous uprising. This … [Read more...]
Lien-Hang Nguyen to Speak about the Tet Offensive on March 15 at Baruch College
Lien-Hang Nguyen, the Dorothy Borg Associate Professor in the History of the United States and East Asia at Columbia University, will discuss the history of the Vietnam War at the Friedman Symposium "“Rethinking the Tet Offensive, 50 Years On” at Baruch College on Thursday, March 15, 2018. Baruch College's event description follows: "The Tet Offensive of 1968 was the … [Read more...]
Carol Gluck Takes Part in Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Conference on Japan-Korea Relations
Carol Gluck, the George Sansom Professor of History and Chair of the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University, took part in the March 8, 2018 conference "Japan-Korea Relations 20 Years After the Kim-Obuchi Summit," held at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, … [Read more...]
