Conference The Overseas Press Club hosts conference at: Club Quarters, 40 West 45th Street, New York, NY 10036 Starting at 12:30 p.m. Thirty years ago, as of June 4, the Chinese leadership made a crucial decision—it sent in the tanks to crush students demonstrating for greater democratic rights, killing thousands. Come listen to the stories of … [Read more...]
Engineering Asia: Technology, Colonial Development, and the Cold War Order
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Edited by Hiromi Mizuno, Aaron S. Moore, and John DiMoia (Bloomsbury Press/SOAS Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan, 2018) For information from the publisher, please click here. Weaving together chapters on imperial Japan's wartime mobilization, Asia's first wave of postwar decolonization, and Cold War geopolitical conflict in … [Read more...]
The Chinese Typewriter: A History
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Thomas S. Mullaney (The MIT Press, 2017) Winner, 2018 John K. Fairbank Prize, American Historical Association For information from the publisher, please click here. Chinese writing is character based, the one major world script that is neither alphabetic nor syllabic. Through the years, the Chinese written language encountered … [Read more...]
