STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Charles R. Kim (University of Hawaii Press, 2017) For information from the publisher, please click here. This in-depth exploration of culture, media, and protest follows South Korea’s transition from the Korean War to the political struggles and socioeconomic transformations of the Park Chung Hee era. Although the post–Korean War … [Read more...]
WEAI Author Q&A: G. Clinton Godart’s “Darwin, Dharma, and the Divine”
We are excited to announce a new title in the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute book series: Darwin, Dharma, and the Divine: Evolutionary Theory and Religion in Modern Japan, published by the University of Hawaii Press. The book's author is G. Clinton Godart, who teaches history at Hokkaido University. Darwin, Dharma, and the Divine is the first book in … [Read more...]
Darwin, Dharma, and the Divine: Evolutionary Theory and Religion
in Modern Japan
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES G. Clinton Godart (University of Hawaii Press, 2017) For information from the publisher, please click here. Darwin, Dharma, and the Divine is the first book in English on the history of evolutionary theory in Japan. Bringing to life more than a century of ideas, G. Clinton Godart examines how and why Japanese intellectuals, religious … [Read more...]
WEAI Author Q&A: Adam Bronson’s “One Hundred Million Philosophers”
We are excited to announce a new title in the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute book series: One Hundred Million Philosophers: Science of Thought and the Culture of Democracy in Postwar Japan, published by the University of Hawaii Press. The book’s author is Adam Bronson, who will become Lecturer in the History of Japan at Durham University in the fall of … [Read more...]
Negotiating Rural Land Ownership in Southwest China: State, Village, Family
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Yi Wu (University of Hawaii Press, 2016) For information from the publisher, please click here. Negotiating Rural Land Ownership in Southwest China offers the first comprehensive analysis of how China’s current system of land ownership has evolved over the past six decades. Based on extended fieldwork in Yunnan Province, the author … [Read more...]
