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...]
WEAI Author Q&A: David Ambaras’s “Japan’s Imperial Underworlds”
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...]
WEAI Author Q&A: Kerim Yasar’s “Electrified Voices”
We are excited to announce a new title in the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute book series: Electrified Voices: How the Telephone, Phonograph, and Radio Shaped Modern Japan, 1868–1945, published by Columbia University Press. The book's author is Kerim Yasar, an Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Southern California who … [Read more...]
