We are excited to announce a new title in the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute book series: The End of Japanese Cinema: Industrial Genres, National Times, and Media Ecologies, published by Duke University Press. The book's author is Alexander Zahlten, an Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University. In The End of … [Read more...]
Post-Fascist Japan: Political Culture in Kamakura after the Second World War
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Laura Hein (Bloomsbury Press/SOAS Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan, 2018) For information from the publisher, please click here. In late 1945 local Japanese turned their energies toward creating new behaviors and institutions that would give young people better skills to combat repression at home and coercion abroad. They … [Read more...]
Dorothy Ko discusses her Study of the WEAI “The Social Life of Inkstones” with the New Books in East Asian Studies Podcast
Dorothy Ko, Professor of History at Barnard College and faculty member of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, recently discussed her new book The Social Life of Inkstones: Artisans and Scholars in Early Qing China with the New Books in East Asian Studies Podcast. Published by the University of Washington Press in 2017, The Social Life of Inkstones is in the Studies of the … [Read more...]
Food of Sinful Demons: Meat, Vegetarianism, and the Limits of Buddhism in Tibet
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Geoffrey Barstow (Columbia University Press, 2017) For information from the publisher, please click here. Tibetan Buddhism teaches compassion toward all beings, a category that explicitly includes animals. Slaughtering animals is morally problematic at best and, at worst, completely incompatible with a religious lifestyle. Yet … [Read more...]
WEAI Author Q&A: D. Colin Jaundrill’s “Samurai to Soldier”
We are excited to announce a new title in the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute book series: Samurai to Soldier: Remaking Military Service in Nineteenth-Century Japan, published by Cornell University Press. The book's author is D. Colin Jaundrill, who earned his PhD from Columbia University and is Associate Professor of History at Providence College. In … [Read more...]
