Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies Event Please join us for a workshop with: Stefan Andriopoulos, Columbia University Weihong Bao, UC Berkley Zeynep Celik Alexander, Columbia University Nadine Chan, Claremont Graduate University Yuriko Furuhata, McGill University Jennifer Gabrys, University of Cambridge Bishnupriya … [Read more...]
“TIANANMEN 30 YEARS LATER: A PORTENT OF CHINA’S AUTHORITARIAN FUTURE?”
Conference The Overseas Press Club hosts conference at: Club Quarters, 40 West 45th Street, New York, NY 10036 Starting at 12:30 p.m. Thirty years ago, as of June 4, the Chinese leadership made a crucial decision—it sent in the tanks to crush students demonstrating for greater democratic rights, killing thousands. Come listen to the stories of … [Read more...]
Residual Futures: The Urban Ecologies of Literary and Visual Media of 1960s and 1970s Japan
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Franz Prichard (Columbia University Press, 2019) For information from the publisher, please click here. In the postwar years, an eruption of urbanization took place across Japan, from its historical central cities to the outer reaches of the archipelago. During the 1960s and 1970s, Japanese literary and visual media took a deep … [Read more...]
The Power of Print in Modern China: Intellectuals and Industrial Publishing from the End of Empire to Maoist State Socialism
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...]
Aesthetic Life: Beauty and Art in Modern Japan
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Miya Elise Mizuta Lippit (Harvard University Asia Center, 2019) For information from the publisher, please click here. This study of modern Japan engages the fields of art history, literature, and cultural studies, seeking to understand how the “beautiful woman” (bijin) emerged as a symbol of Japanese culture during the Meiji period … [Read more...]
