Christopher Rea's Study of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute The Age of Irreverence: A New History of Laughter in China (University of California Press, 2015) has recently been the focus of media attention. Rea, an associate professor of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia, discussed his book with host Carla Nappi on the New Books in East Asian Studies … [Read more...]
“Aesthetic Life,” a Forthcoming Study of the WEAI, Receives Meiss/Mellon Book Award
We are pleased to announce that Miya Mizuta Lippit's forthcoming Study of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Aesthetic Life: The Artistic Discourse of Beauty in Modern Japan, has received a 2015 Meiss/Mellon Author's Book Award from the College Art Association. Professor Lippit's book, which will be published by the Harvard University Asia Center, is an interdisciplinary … [Read more...]
“Inheritance of Loss,” a Forthcoming Study of the WEAI, Receives AAS Subvention Award
We are pleased to announce that Yukiko Koga's forthcoming Study of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Inheritance of Loss: The Political Economy of Redemption After Empire, has received a First Book Award subvention from the Association for Asian Studies. Professor Koga's book, which will be published by the University of Chicago Press in 2016, explores how the current … [Read more...]
Meet the WEAI Authors Event: Emily T. Yeh and “Taming Tibet”
A Report on the Meet the WEAI Authors event featuring Emily T. Yeh, author of the Study of the WEAI Taming Tibet: Landscape Transformation and the Gift of Chinese Development, on March 25, 2014: Emily T. Yeh, Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and moderator Robert Barnett, director of the Modern Tibetan Studies Program … [Read more...]
