STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Jeremy A. Yellen (Cornell University Press, 2019) For information from the publisher, please click here. In The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, Jeremy Yellen exposes the history, politics, and intrigue that characterized the era when Japan's "total empire" met the total war of World War II. He illuminates the ways in which the … [Read more...]
Thought Crime: Ideology and State Power in Interwar Japan
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Max M. Ward (Duke University Press, 2019) For information from the publisher, please click here. In Thought Crime Max M. Ward explores the Japanese state's efforts to suppress political radicalism in the 1920s and 1930s. Ward traces the evolution of an anti-radical law called the Peace Preservation Law, from its initial application to … [Read more...]
The Making of Japanese Settler Colonialism: Malthusianism and Trans-Pacific Migration, 1868–1961
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Sidney Xu Lu (Cambridge University Press, 2019) For information from the publisher, please click here. This innovative study demonstrates how Japanese empire-builders invented and appropriated the discourse of overpopulation to justify Japanese settler colonialism across the Pacific. Lu defines this overpopulation discourse as … [Read more...]
Sovereignty Experiments: Korean Migrants and the Building of Borders in Northeast Asia, 1860–1945
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Alyssa M. Park (Cornell University Press, 2019) For information from the publisher, please click here. Sovereignty Experiments tells the story of how authorities in Korea, Russia, China, and Japan—through diplomatic negotiations, border regulations, legal categorization of subjects and aliens, and cultural policies—competed to control … [Read more...]
Statebuilding by Imposition: Resistance and Control in Colonial Taiwan and the Philippines
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Reo Matsuzaki (Cornell University Press, 2019) For information from the publisher, please click here. How do modern states emerge from the turmoil of undergoverned spaces? This is the question Reo Matsuzaki ponders in Statebuilding by Imposition. Comparing Taiwan and the Philippines under the colonial rule of Japan and the United … [Read more...]
