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...]
Fu Ping: A Novel
WEATHERHEAD BOOKS ON ASIA Wang Anyi. Fu Ping: A Novel Translated by Howard Goldblatt (2019) Nainai has lived in Shanghai for many years, and the time has come to find a wife for her adopted grandson. But when the bride she has chosen arrives from the countryside, it soon becomes clear that the orphaned girl has ideas of her own. Her name is Fu Ping, and the … [Read more...]
Japan’s Imperial Underworlds: Intimate Encounters at the Borders of Empire
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES David R. Ambaras (Cambridge University Press, 2018) For information from the publisher, please click here. This major new study uses vivid accounts of encounters between Chinese and Japanese people living at the margins of empire to elucidate Sino-Japanese relations in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Each chapter … [Read more...]
Idly Scribbling Rhymers: Poetry, Print, and Community in Nineteenth-Century Japan
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Robert Tuck (Columbia University Press, 2018) For information from the publisher, please click here. How can literary forms fashion a nation? Though genres such as the novel and newspaper have been credited with shaping a national imagination and a sense of community, during the rapid modernization of the Meiji period, Japanese … [Read more...]
