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WEAI Author Q&A: Emily Baum’s “The Invention of Madness”

November 27, 2018 by Ross Yelsey

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...]

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Beyond the Asylum: Mental Illness in French Colonial Vietnam

STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Claire E. Edington (Cornell University Press, 2019) For information from the publisher, please click here. Claire Edington's fascinating look at psychiatric care in French colonial Vietnam challenges our notion of the colonial asylum as a closed setting, run by experts with unchallenged authority, from which patients rarely left. She … [Read more...]

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