STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Robert Culp (Columbia University Press, 2019) For information from the publisher, please click here. Amid early twentieth-century China’s epochal shifts, a vital and prolific commercial publishing industry emerged. Recruiting late Qing literati, foreign-trained academics, and recent graduates of the modernized school system to work as … [Read more...]
Borderland Memories: Searching for Historical Identity in Post-Mao China
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Martin T. Fromm (Cambridge University Press, 2019) For information from the publisher, please click here. In the 1980s, as China transitioned to the post-Mao era, a state-sponsored oral history project led to the publication of local, regional, and national histories. They took the form of written and transcribed personal testimonies … [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...]
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...]
WEAI Author Q&A: Adam Bronson’s “One Hundred Million Philosophers”
We are excited to announce a new title in the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute book series: One Hundred Million Philosophers: Science of Thought and the Culture of Democracy in Postwar Japan, published by the University of Hawaii Press. The book’s author is Adam Bronson, who will become Lecturer in the History of Japan at Durham University in the fall of … [Read more...]
