Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute - Japan Author Lecture "The Knowledge of Nature and the Nature of Knowledge in Early Modern Japan" Federico Marcon, Associate Professor of Japanese History, Princeton University Moderated by Carol Gluck, George Sansom Professor of History, Columbia University 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM International Affairs Building, Room 918 No … [Read more...]
WEAI Author Q&A: Sheena Chestnut Greitens’ “Dictators and Their Secret Police”
We are excited to announce a new title in the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute book series: Dictators and Their Secret Police: Coercive Institutions and State Violence, published by Cambridge University Press. The book's author is Sheena Chestnut Greitens, Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Missouri and Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the … [Read more...]
Homecomings: The Belated Return of Japan’s Lost Soldiers
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Yoshikuni Igarashi (Columbia University Press, 2016) For information from the publisher, please click here. Honorable Mention: 2018 John Whitney Hall Book Prize (Japan), Association for Asian Studies Soon after the end of World War II, a majority of the nearly 7 million Japanese civilians and serviceman who had been posted overseas … [Read more...]
Samurai to Soldier: Remaking Military Service in Nineteenth-Century Japan
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES D. Colin Jaundrill (Cornell University Press, 2016) For information from the publisher, please click here. In Samurai to Soldier, D. Colin Jaundrill rewrites the military history of nineteenth-century Japan. In fifty years spanning the collapse of the Tokugawa shogunate and the rise of the Meiji nation-state, conscripts supplanted … [Read more...]
Reto Hofmann’s “The Fascist Effect” Shortlisted for Australian Book Award
We are pleased to announce that Reto Hofmann's Study of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute The Fascist Effect: Japan and Italy: 1915-1952, has been shortlisted for the Australian Historical Association's W.K. Hancock Book Prize. The W.K. Hancock Prize recognises Australian scholars who have published an outstanding first book in any field of history. The Prize was … [Read more...]
