We are excited to announce a new title in the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute book series: Electrified Voices: How the Telephone, Phonograph, and Radio Shaped Modern Japan, 1868–1945, published by Columbia University Press. The book's author is Kerim Yasar, an Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Southern California who … [Read more...]
WEAI Author Q&A: Juhn Ahn’s “Buddhas and Ancestors”
We are excited to announce a new title in the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute book series: Buddhas and Ancestors: Religion and Wealth in Fourteenth-Century Korea, published by the University of Washington Press and included in its Korean Studies of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies series. The book's author is Juhn Ahn, an Associate Professor … [Read more...]
WEAI Author Q&A: Brian Tsui’s “China’s Conservative Revolution”
We are excited to announce a new title in the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute book series: China's Conservative Revolution: The Quest for a New Order, 1927–1949, published by Cambridge University Press. The book's author is Brian Tsui, an Assistant Professor of Chinese Culture at Hong Kong Polytechnic University who earned his PhD at Columbia University. In … [Read more...]
Heroes and Toilers: Work as Life in Postwar North Korea, 1953–1961
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Cheehyung Harrison Kim (Columbia University Press, 2018) For information from the publisher, please click here. In North Korea in the decade following the Korean War, labor became the defining means of state control and national unity. In pursuit of rapid industrial growth, the North Korean state stressed order and consistency in … [Read more...]
Nation-Empire: Ideology and Rural Youth Mobilization in Japan and Its Colonies
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Sayaka Chatani (Cornell University Press, 2018) For information from the publisher, please click here. By the end of World War II, hundreds of thousands of young men in the Japanese colonies, in particular Taiwan and Korea, had expressed their loyalty to the empire by volunteering to join the army. Why and how did so many colonial … [Read more...]
