We are excited to announce a new title in the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute book series: Japan's Imperial Underworlds: Intimate Encounters at the Borders of Empire, published by Cambridge University Press. The book's author is David Ambaras, an Associate Professor of History at North Carolina State University. Japan's Imperial Underworlds uses vivid … [Read more...]
WEAI Author Q&A: Robert Tuck’s “Idly Scribbling Rhymers”
We are excited to announce a new title in the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute book series: Idly Scribbling Rhymers: Poetry, Print, and Community in Nineteenth-Century Japan, published by Columbia University Press. The book's author is Robert Tuck, an Assistant Professor of Modern Japanese Literature and Culture at Arizona State University who received his PhD … [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...]
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...]
