Peter E. Hamilton is the 2016-2018 Dorothy Borg Postdoctoral Scholar in the Making of the Modern Pacific World at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute. He received his doctorate in History from the University of Texas at Austin in 2015. Dr. Hamilton is a historian of China and the World and the modern Pacific. His research explores transpacific networks of migration and … [Read more...]
Darwin, Dharma, and the Divine: Evolutionary Theory and Religion
in Modern Japan
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES G. Clinton Godart (University of Hawaii Press, 2017) For information from the publisher, please click here. Darwin, Dharma, and the Divine is the first book in English on the history of evolutionary theory in Japan. Bringing to life more than a century of ideas, G. Clinton Godart examines how and why Japanese intellectuals, religious … [Read more...]
Carol Gluck Delivers Lecture “What the World Owes the Comfort Women” at Washington University in St. Louis
Carol Gluck, the George Sansom Professor of History and Chair of the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University, delivered a public lecture on November 3, 2016 at Washington University in St. Louis titled "What the World Owes the Comfort Women." "The practices and norms of public memory have changed in the seventy years since the end of World War II creating what I … [Read more...]
The Cultural Revolution on Trial: Mao and the Gang of Four
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Alexander C. Cook (Cambridge University Press, 2016) For information from the publisher, please click here. The trial of Cultural Revolution leaders, including Mao's widow and her Gang of Four, was the signal event in China's post-Mao transition. In its wake, Chinese socialism emerged from the rubble of the Cultural Revolution to … [Read more...]
Inheritance of Loss: China, Japan, and the Political Economy of Redemption After Empire
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Yukiko Koga (University of Chicago Press, 2016) For information from the publisher, please click here. Winner, 2017 Francis L. K. Hsu Book Prize, American Anthropological Association Winner, 2017 Anthony Leeds Book Prize, American Anthropological Association How do contemporary generations come to terms with losses inflicted by … [Read more...]
