Book Talk hosted by Center for Korean Research Featuring: Cheehyung Harrison Kim, Assistant Professor, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa Visit WEAI's book series page for more about the book, found here. Thursday, February 7, 2019 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM International Affairs Building 918 Registration not required. Co-sponsored by the Department of East Asian … [Read more...]
WEAI Author Q&A: David Ambaras’s “Japan’s Imperial Underworlds”
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...]
Down and Out in Saigon: Stories of the Poor in a Colonial City
Haydon Cherry (Yale University Press, 2019) For information from the publisher, please click here. Historian Haydon Cherry offers the first comprehensive social history of the urban poor of colonial French Saigon by following the lives of six individuals—a prostitute, a Chinese laborer, a rickshaw puller, an orphan, an incurable invalid, and a poor Frenchman—and how … [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...]
