Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute | Weatherhead East Asian Institute

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. To date more than 250 titles have been published, by academic and trade presses and represent scholars of Northeast Asia, Inner Asia, and Southeast Asia from around the world.

2026–2027 Editorial Committee:
Ruth Barraclough, Nick Bartlett, Carol Gluck, Lauran Hartley, John Phan, Ying Qian

Benno Weiner. The Chinese Revolution on the Tibetan Frontier (Cornell University Press, 2020)
Yukiko Koga. Inheritance of Loss: China, Japan, and the Political Economy of Redemption After Empire (University of Chicago Press, 2016)
Sheena Chestnut Greitens. Dictators and their Secret Police: Coercive Institutions and State Violence (Cambridge University Press, 2016)
Arunabh Ghosh. Making It Count: Statistics and Statecraft in the Early People’s Republic of China (Princeton University Press, 2020)
Andrew B. Liu. Tea War: A History of Capitalism in China and India (Yale University Press, 2020)
Eugenia Lean. Vernacular Industrialism in China: Local Innovation and Translated Technologies in the Making of a Cosmetics Empire, 1900-1940 (Columbia University Press, 2020)
Fei-Hsien Wang. Pirates and Publishers: A Social History of Copyright in Modern China (Princeton University Press, 2019)
Mary Augusta Brazelton. Mass Vaccination: Citizens’ Bodies and State Power in Modern China (Cornell University Press, 2019)
Robert Culp. The Power of Print in Modern China: Intellectuals and Industrial Publishing from the End of Empire to Maoist State Socialism (Columbia University Press, 2019)
Martin T. Fromm. Borderland Memories: Searching for Historical Identity in Post-Mao China (Cambridge University Press, 2019)
Anne Reinhardt. Navigating Semi-Colonialism: Shipping, Sovereignty, and Nation-Building in China, 1860-1937 (Harvard University Asia Center, 2018)
Corey Byrnes. Fixing Landscape: A Techno-Poetic History of China’s Three Gorges (Columbia University Press, 2018)
Emily Baum. The Invention of Madness: State, Society, and the Insane in Modern China (University of Chicago Press, 2018)
Yao Li. Playing by the Informal Rules: Why the Chinese Regime Remains Stable despite Rising Protests (Cambridge University Press, 2018)
Jia-Chen Fu. The Other Milk: Reinventing Soy in Republican China (University of Washington Press, 2018)
Margaret Mih Tillman. Raising China’s Revolutionaries: Modernizing Childhood for Cosmopolitan Nationalists and Liberated Comrades, 1920s-1950s (Columbia University Press, 2018)
Philip Thai. China’s War on Smuggling: Law, Economic Life, and the Making of the Modern State, 1842–1965 (Columbia University Press, 2018)
Brian Tsui. China’s Conservative Revolution: The Quest for a New Order, 1927–1949 (Cambridge University Press, 2018)
Daniel Koss. Where the Party Rules: The Rank and File of China’s Communist State (Cambridge University Press, 2018)
Ori Sela. China’s Philological Turn: Scholars, Textualism, and the Dao in the 18th Century (Columbia University Press, 2018)
Charlene Makley. The Battle for Fortune: State-Led Development, Personhood, and Power among Tibetans in China (Cornell University Press, 2018)
Max Oidtmann. Forging the Golden Urn: The Qing Empire and the Politics of Reincarnation in Tibet (Columbia University Press, 2018)
Geoffrey Barstow. Food of Sinful Demons: Meat, Vegetarianism, and the Limits of Buddhism in Tibet (Columbia University Press, 2017)
Thomas S. Mullaney. The Chinese Typewriter: A History (MIT Press, 2017)
Diana Fu. Mobilizing Without the Masses: Control and Contention in China (Cambridge University Press, 2017)
Hilary A. Smith. Forgotten Disease: Illnesses Transformed in Chinese Medicine (Stanford University Press, 2017)
Nicolai Volland. Socialist Cosmopolitanism: The Chinese Literary Universe, 1945-1965 (Columbia University Press, 2017)
Becky Yang Hsu. Borrowing Together: Microfinance and Cultivating Social Ties (Cambridge University Press, 2017)
Dorothy Ko. The Social Life of Inkstones: Artisans and Scholars in Early Qing China (University of Washington Press, 2017)
Alexander C. Cook. The Cultural Revolution on Trial: Mao and the Gang of Four (Cambridge University Press, 2016)
Guobin Yang. The Red Guard Generation and Political Activism in China (Columbia University Press, 2016)
Kathlene Baldanza. Ming China and Vietnam: Negotiating Borders in Early Modern Asia (Cambridge University Press, 2016)
Ben Hillman and Gray Tuttle, editors. Ethnic Conflict and Protest in Tibet and Xinjiang: Unrest in China’s West (Columbia University Press, 2016)
Yi Wu. Negotiating Rural Land Ownership in Southwest China: State, Village, Family (University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2016)
Li Chen. Chinese Law in Imperial Eyes: Sovereignty, Justice, & Transcultural Politics (Columbia University Press, 2016)
Xing Hang. Conflict and Commerce in Maritime East Asia: The Zheng Family and the Shaping of the Modern World, c.1620–1720 (Cambridge University Press, 2015)
Christopher Rea. The Age of Irreverence: A New History of Laughter in China (University of California Press, 2015)
Shellen Xiao Wu. Empires of Coal: Fueling China’s Entry into the Modern World Order, 1860-1920 (Stanford University Press, 2015)
Chuck Wooldridge. City of Virtues: Nanjing in an Age of Utopian Visions (University of Washington Press, 2015)
Sean Hsiang-lin Lei. Neither Donkey nor Horse: Medicine in the Struggle Over China’s Modernity (University of Chicago Press, 2014)
Andrew Fischer. The Disempowered Development of Tibet in China: A Study in the Economics of Marginalization (Lexington Books, 2013)
Emily T. Yeh. Taming Tibet: Landscape Transformation and the Gift of Chinese Development (Cornell University Press, 2013)
Takashi Yoshida. From Cultures of War to Cultures of Peace: War and Peace Museums in Japan, China, and South Korea (MerwinAsia, 2013)
Michael Gibbs Hill. Lin Shu, Inc.: Translation and the Making of Modern Chinese Culture (Oxford University Press, 2012)
Paula S. Harrell. Asia for the Asians: China in the Lives of Five Meiji Japanese (MerwinAsia, 2012)
Shao-hua Liu. Passage to Manhood: Youth Migration, Heroin, and AIDS in Southwest China. (Stanford University Press, 2010)
Fabio Lanza. Behind the Gate: Inventing Students in Beijing (Columbia University Press, 2010)
Angela Ki Che Leung. Leprosy in China: A History (Columbia University Press, 2008)
Alexander Des Forges. Mediasphere Shanghai: The Aesthetics of Cultural Production (University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2007)
Ping-hui Liao and David Der-Wei Wang, eds. Taiwan under Japanese Colonial Rule, 1895-1945: History, Culture, Memory (University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2006)

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