We are excited to announce a new title in the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute book series: Japan's Imperial Underworlds: Intimate Encounters at the Borders of Empire, published by Cambridge University Press. The book's author is David Ambaras, an Associate Professor of History at North Carolina State University. Japan's Imperial Underworlds uses vivid … [Read more...]
WEAI Author Q&A: Emily Baum’s “The Invention of Madness”
We are excited to announce a new title in the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute book series: The Invention of Madness: State, Society, and the Insane in Modern China, published by the University of Chicago Press. The book's author is Emily Baum, an Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine. Throughout most of history, in China the … [Read more...]
The Power of Print in Modern China: Intellectuals and Industrial Publishing from the End of Empire to Maoist State Socialism
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Robert Culp (Columbia University Press, 2019) For information from the publisher, please click here. Amid early twentieth-century China’s epochal shifts, a vital and prolific commercial publishing industry emerged. Recruiting late Qing literati, foreign-trained academics, and recent graduates of the modernized school system to work as … [Read more...]
Borderland Memories: Searching for Historical Identity in Post-Mao China
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Martin T. Fromm (Cambridge University Press, 2019) For information from the publisher, please click here. In the 1980s, as China transitioned to the post-Mao era, a state-sponsored oral history project led to the publication of local, regional, and national histories. They took the form of written and transcribed personal testimonies … [Read more...]
“Global China Connection: 2018 Global Summit”
Conference Global China Connection: 2018 Global Summit Kevin Rudd, Former Prime Minister, Commonwealth Of Australia Linpeng Wang, Chairman And CEO, Beijing Easyhome Investment Holding Group Ian Bremmer, President And Founder, Euraisa Group Edmund S. Phelps, 2006 Nobel Laureate In Economics - Director, Center On Capitalism And Society, Columbia University David Zhu, … [Read more...]
