Nathan Shockey (Columbia University Press, 2019) For information from the publisher, please click here. Nathan Shockey examines the emergence of new forms of reading, writing, and thinking in Japan from the last years of the nineteenth century through the first decades of the twentieth. Charting the relationships among prose, politics, and print capitalism, he … [Read more...]
Beauty in the Age of Empire: Japan, Egypt, and the Global History of Aesthetic Education
Raja Adal (Columbia University Press, 2019) For information on the publisher, please click here. Beauty in the Age of Empire is a global history of aesthetic education focused on how Western practices were adopted, transformed, and repurposed in Egypt and Japan. Raja Adal uncovers the emergence of aesthetic education in modern schools and its role in making a broad … [Read more...]
U.S.-Japan Relations in a Turbulent World
Weatherhead East Asian Institute Event Click here for a write-up and video of the event. Please join us for a panel discussion: Featuring: Kanji Yamanouchi, Ambassador and Consul General of Japan in New York In discussion with: Gerald Curtis, Burgess Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Department of Political Science, … [Read more...]
Japan’s Russia policy under the Abe Administration: Why Tokyo does not share Washington’s threat perception
Weatherhead East Asian Institute Event Please join us for a lecture with: James Brown, Associate Professor Department of Political Science, Temple University Japan Campus Peter Clement, Visiting Senior Research Scholar and Adjunct Professor Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies, Columbia University Moderated by: Takako … [Read more...]
“Reporting Asia: Japan”
Weatherhead East Asian Institute Event Bill Emmott, former editor-in-chief The Economist Tomoko Kubota, Independent Journalist and Oral historian Moderated by: Carol Gluck, George Sansom Professor of History Columbia University About the Speakers: Bill Emmott is a writer and consultant best known for his 13 years as editor in chief … [Read more...]
