The Weatherhead East Asian Institute is saddened by the loss of Madge Huntington, who served as the Institute's publications director for 20 years before her retirement in 2008. During her long tenure at the Institute, she expanded the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute series and oversaw the founding of two additional publications series: Weatherhead Books on … [Read more...]
WEAI Author Q&A: Chad Diehl’s ‘Resurrecting Nagasaki’
We are excited to share this exclusive interview with Chad Diehl, an assistant professor at the University of Virginia, and author of Resurrecting Nagasaki: Reconstruction and the Formation of Atomic Narratives. The book was recently published by Cornell University Press with the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute. In Resurrecting Nagasaki, Diehl examines … [Read more...]
China’s Philological Turn by Ori Sela earns AAS Joseph Levenson Prize – Honorable Mention
Ori Sela's Study of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, China's Philological Turn: Scholars, Textualism, and the Dao in the Eighteenth Century, won an honorable mention for the 2020 Joseph Levenson Prize in the category of Pre-1900 scholarly books. The book is published by Columbia University Press. The prizes are awarded to the English-language books that make the … [Read more...]
Two Studies of the WEAI receive DeLong Book History Prize commendations
Two 2019 titles in the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute series, Robert Culp's The Power of Print in Modern China and Fei-Hsien Wang's Pirates and Publishers, were recommended as highly commended runner-ups for the 2020 DeLong Book History Prize issued by the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing. Click here to read the announcement. … [Read more...]
Figures of the World: The Naturalist Novel and Transnational Form
Christopher Laing Hill (Northwestern University Press, 2020) For information from the publisher, please click here. An open-access digital version is available here. Figures of the World: The Naturalist Novel and Transnational Form overturns Eurocentric genealogies and globalizing generalizations about “world literature” by examining the complex, … [Read more...]
