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...]
WEAI Author Q&A: Max Oidtmann’s “Forging the Golden Urn”
We are excited to announce a new title in the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute book series: Forging the Golden Urn: The Qing Empire and the Politics of Reincarnation in Tibet, published by Columbia University Press. The book's author is Max Oidtmann, an Assistant Professor of Asian History at Georgetown University Qatar. In 1995, the People’s Republic of China … [Read more...]
WEAI Author Q&A: Philip Thai’s “China’s War on Smuggling”
We are excited to announce a new title in the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute book series: China's War on Smuggling: Law, Economic Life, and the Making of the Modern State, 1842–1965, published by Columbia University Press. The book's author is Philip Thai, an Assistant Professor of History at Northeastern University. Smuggling along the Chinese coast has … [Read more...]
WEAI Author Q&A: Kathlene Baldanza’s “Ming China and Vietnam”
We are excited to announce a recent title in the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute book series: Ming China and Vietnam: Negotiating Borders in Early Modern Asia, now in paperback from Cambridge University Press. The book's author is Kathlene Baldanza, an Associate Professor of History and Asian Studies at the Pennsylvania State University who earned her PhD in … [Read more...]
