ASIA PERSPECTIVES: NEW HORIZONS IN ASIAN HISTORY, SOCIETY, AND CULTURE Simon Partner The Merchant's Tale: Yokohama and the Transformation of Japan (2017) "To an already lively cast of Restoration characters—rascals and rebels, poets and fighters—The Merchant’s Tale adds a new voice: that of the rural entrepreneur. Long on dreams but short on capital, Chūemon decamped … [Read more...]
Making Time: Astronomical Time Measurement in Tokugawa Japan
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Yulia Frumer (University of Chicago Press, 2018) For information from the publisher, please click here. What is time made of? We might balk at such a question, and reply that time is not made of anything—it is an abstract and universal phenomenon. In Making Time, Yulia Frumer upends this assumption, using changes in the … [Read more...]
Promiscuous Media: Film and Visual Culture in Imperial Japan, 1926-1945
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Hikari Hori (Cornell University Press, 2018) For information from the publisher, please click here. In Promiscuous Media, Hikari Hori makes a compelling case that the visual culture of Showa-era Japan articulated urgent issues of modernity rather than serving as a simple expression of nationalism. Hori makes clear that the Japanese … [Read more...]
Carol Gluck Talks to BBC World News about Japan and South Korea’s Comfort Women Dispute
Carol Gluck, the George Sansom Professor of History and Chair of the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University, appeared on BBC World News on December 27, 2017 to discuss the recent finding of South Korea's Foreign Ministry that a 2015 deal with Japan to compensate forced World War II sex slaves failed to meet the needs of the victims. https://youtu.be/rapmaxpCUl4 … [Read more...]
Newsweek Japan Features Cover Story on Carol Gluck’s “War Stories” Discussion Group
Newsweek Japan devoted its December 12, 2017 cover story to a special discussion group at Columbia University on "War Stories: Memory and History" that is led by Carol Gluck, the George Sansom Professor of History and Chair of the Committee on Global Thought. Participants in the discussion group included 20 undergraduate and graduate students from Columbia College, Columbia … [Read more...]
