We are excited to announce a new title in the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute book series: Fixing Landscape: A Techno-Poetic History of China’s Three Gorges, published by Columbia University Press. The book's author is Corey Byrnes, an Assistant Professor Modern Chinese culture at Northwestern University. Dr. Byrnes was the co-winner of the Weatherhead East … [Read more...]
Fixing Landscape: A Techno-Poetic History of China’s Three Gorges
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Corey Byrnes (Columbia University Press, 2018) For information from the publisher, please click here. In 1994, workers broke ground on China’s Three Gorges Dam. By its completion in 2012, the dam had transformed the ecology of the Yangzi River, displaced over a million people, and forever altered a landscape immortalized in centuries … [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...]
Raising China’s Revolutionaries: Modernizing Childhood for Cosmopolitan Nationalists and Liberated Comrades, 1920s-1950s
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Margaret Mih Tillman (Columbia University Press, 2018) For information from the publisher, please click here. A widespread conviction in the need to rescue China’s children took hold in the early twentieth century. Amid political upheaval and natural disasters, neglected or abandoned children became a humanitarian focal point for … [Read more...]
A Misunderstood Friendship: Mao Zedong, Kim Il-sung, and Sino–North Korean Relations, 1949–1976
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Zhihua Shen and Yafeng Xia (Columbia University Press, 2018) For information from the publisher, please click here. Today, the People’s Republic of China is North Korea’s only ally on the world stage, a tightly knit relationship that goes back decades. Both countries portray their partnership as one of “brotherly affection” based on … [Read more...]