Brown Bag Lecture "Can We Globalize WWII?: A Chinese Perspective" Hans van de Ven, Professor of Modern Chinese History, University of Cambridge Moderated by Madeleine Zelin, Dean Lung Professor of Chinese Studies, Columbia University Monday, April 2, 2018 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM International Affairs Building, 918 No registration required This program will build on … [Read more...]
“Social Mobility in the Tibetan Army”
Lecture "Social Mobility in the Tibetan Army" Alice Travers, Permanent Researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research Moderated by Gray Tuttle, Leila Hadley Luce Associate Professor of Modern Tibetan Studies, Columbia University Wednesday, March 28, 2018 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM International Affairs Building, Room 918 Alice Travers is a researcher … [Read more...]
WEAI Author Q&A: D. Colin Jaundrill’s “Samurai to Soldier”
We are excited to announce a new title in the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute book series: Samurai to Soldier: Remaking Military Service in Nineteenth-Century Japan, published by Cornell University Press. The book's author is D. Colin Jaundrill, who earned his PhD from Columbia University and is Associate Professor of History at Providence College. In … [Read more...]
Homecomings: The Belated Return of Japan’s Lost Soldiers
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Yoshikuni Igarashi (Columbia University Press, 2016) For information from the publisher, please click here. Honorable Mention: 2018 John Whitney Hall Book Prize (Japan), Association for Asian Studies Soon after the end of World War II, a majority of the nearly 7 million Japanese civilians and serviceman who had been posted overseas … [Read more...]
Samurai to Soldier: Remaking Military Service in Nineteenth-Century Japan
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES D. Colin Jaundrill (Cornell University Press, 2016) For information from the publisher, please click here. In Samurai to Soldier, D. Colin Jaundrill rewrites the military history of nineteenth-century Japan. In fifty years spanning the collapse of the Tokugawa shogunate and the rise of the Meiji nation-state, conscripts supplanted … [Read more...]
