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The Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute were inaugurated in 1962 to bring to public attention the results of significant new research on modern and contemporary East Asia. They are published by academic and trade presses and represent scholars of East Asia from around the world.

Editorial Committee: Carol Gluck, Lauran Hartley, Yao Lu, Lien-Hang Nguyen

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WEATHERHEAD BOOKS ON ASIA

This series, initiated in 2001, is designed to produce and publish high quality translations of works in Asian languages intended for scholars, students, and the interested general reader.

Editors: David D. W. Wang and Edward C. Henderson (Professor of Chinese Literature at Harvard University) for fiction; Carol Gluck (George Sansom Professor of History at Columbia University) for history, society, and culture

Published by Columbia University Press

ASIA PERSPECTIVES: HISTORY, SOCIETY, AND CULTURE

This series presents works that cross the usual boundaries between scholarly monographs and works of general interest. Its aim is to publish serious original writings and significant translations for the general reader and for classroom use.

Editor: Carol Gluck, George Sansom Professor of History at Columbia University

Published by Columbia University Press

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New WEAI Studies title uncovers pockets of reclamation and resistance among filmed depictions of non-Han peoples. 

Kyushu University professor hopes his book heightens recognition of migrants and ethnic minorities in postwar Japan.

A meticulously researched new book challenges decades of orthodoxy surrounding East Asia's economic rise. 

Qian’s "Studies" title charts the evolution of a medium that was embedded in historical upheavals.