STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Shellen Xiao Wu (Stanford University Press, 2015) For information from the publisher, please click here. For an interview with the author, please click here. From 1868–1872, German geologist Ferdinand von Richthofen went on an expedition to China. His reports on what he found there would transform Western interest in China from the … [Read more...]
WEAI Author Q&A: Shellen Wu’s “Empires of Coal”
We are pleased to announce a new title in the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute book series: Empires of Coal: Fueling China’s Entry into the Modern World Order, 1860-1920, published by Stanford University Press. The book’s author is Shellen Xiao Wu, an assistant professor of history at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. In this study about the international … [Read more...]
