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 Invention of Madness: State, Society, and the Insane in Modern China
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Emily Baum (University of Chicago Press, 2018) For information from the publisher, please click here. Throughout most of history, in China the insane were kept within the home and treated by healers who claimed no specialized knowledge of their condition. In the first decade of the twentieth century, however, psychiatric ideas and … [Read more...]
“Social Mobility in the Tibetan Army”
Lecture "Social Mobility in the Tibetan Army" Alice Travers, Permanent Researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research Moderated by Gray Tuttle, Leila Hadley Luce Associate Professor of Modern Tibetan Studies, Columbia University Wednesday, March 28, 2018 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM International Affairs Building, Room 918 Alice Travers is a researcher … [Read more...]