STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Daniel Koss (Cambridge University Press, 2018) For information from the publisher, please click here. In most non-democratic countries, today governing forty-four percent of the world population, the power of the regime rests upon a ruling party. Contrasting with conventional notions that authoritarian regime parties serve to contain … [Read more...]
Mobilizing Without the Masses: Control and Contention in China
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Diana Fu (Cambridge University Press, 2018) For information from the publisher, please click here. Winner, 2018 Gregory Luebbert Prize for the best book on Comparative Politics from the American Political Science Association (APSA) When advocacy organizations are forbidden from rallying people to take the streets, what do they do? … [Read more...]
The Chinese Typewriter: A History
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Thomas S. Mullaney (The MIT Press, 2017) Winner, 2018 John K. Fairbank Prize, American Historical Association For information from the publisher, please click here. Chinese writing is character based, the one major world script that is neither alphabetic nor syllabic. Through the years, the Chinese written language encountered … [Read more...]
Socialist Cosmopolitanism: The Chinese Literary Universe, 1945-1965
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Nicolai Volland (Columbia University Press, 2017) For information from the publisher, please click here. Socialist Cosmopolitanism offers an innovative interpretation of literature from the Mao era, proposing to read Chinese socialist literature as world literature. China after 1949 engaged with the world beyond its borders in myriad … [Read more...]
