STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Hikari Hori (Cornell University Press, 2018) For information from the publisher, please click here. In Promiscuous Media, Hikari Hori makes a compelling case that the visual culture of Showa-era Japan articulated urgent issues of modernity rather than serving as a simple expression of nationalism. Hori makes clear that the Japanese … [Read more...]
Yukiko Koga’s Study of the WEAI “Inheritance of Loss” Receives AAA’s 2017 Francis L. K. Hsu and Anthony Leeds Book Prizes
We are pleased to announce that WEAI associate research scholar Yukiko Koga's Study of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute Inheritance of Loss: The Political Economy of Redemption After Empire has received the American Anthropological Association's 2017 Francis L. K. Hsu and Anthony Leeds Book Prizes. The Francis L. K. Hsu Book Prize is awarded by the American … [Read more...]
Sheena Greitens’ Study of the WEAI “Dictators and Their Secret Police” Wins APSA and ISA Best Book Awards
We congratulate Sheena Chestnut Greitens, assistant professor of political science at the University of Missouri, whose Study of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute Dictators and Their Secret Police: Coercive Institutions and State Violence was named the co-winner of the 2017 Best Book Award from the American Political Science Association (APSA) Section on Comparative … [Read more...]
WEAI Author Q&A: Hilary A. Smith’s “Forgotten Disease”
We are excited to announce a new title in the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute book series: Forgotten Disease: Illnesses Transformed in Chinese Medicine, published by Stanford University Press. The book's author is Hilary A. Smith, an assistant professor of history at the University of Denver. Around the turn of the twentieth century, disorders that Chinese … [Read more...]
WEAI Author Q&A: Diana Fu’s “Mobilizing Without the Masses”
We are excited to announce a new title in the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute book series: Mobilizing Without the Masses: Control and Contention in China, published by Cambridge University Press. The book's author is Diana Fu, an assistant professor of Asian politics at the University of Toronto. Mobilizing Without the Masses was awarded the 2018 Gregory … [Read more...]
