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

2026 Publications Catalogue

Revised and expanded for 2026, the Weatherhead East Asian Insitute's Publications Catalogue offers a comprehensive overview of new and recent titles in all three Weatherhead book series, recent award winners, and the latest winner of the Seldon First Book Award.

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Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute — A Sortable List

Andrew Grant, The Concrete Plateau: Urban Tibetans and the Chinese Civilizing Machine (2022)
Aaron Herald Skabelund. Inglorious, Illegal Bastards: Japan’s Self-Defense Force During the Cold War (2022)
Timothy M. Yang. A Medicated Empire: The Pharmaceutical Industry and Modern Japan (Cornell University Press, June 2021)
Nathan Shockey. The Typographic Imagination: Reading and Writing in Japan’s Age of Modern Print Media (Columbia University Press, December 2019)
Nu-Anh Tran and Tuong Vu, Editors, Building a Republican Nation in Postcolonial Vietnam, 1920–1963 (University of Hawai’i Press, December 2022)
Nu-Anh Tran. Disunion: Anticommunist Nationalism and the Making of the Republic of Vietnam (University of Hawai’i Press, February 2022)
Christina Elizabeth Firpo, Black Market Business: Selling Sex in Northern Vietnam, 1920–1945
Aram Hur. Narratives of Civic Duty: How National Stories Shape Democracy in Asia (Cornell University Press, November 2022)
Weiping Wu and Qin Gao, China Urbanizing: Impacts and Transitions (University of Pennsylvania Press, September 2022)
Satoru Hashimoto, Afterlives of Letters: The Transnational Origins of Modern Literature in China, Japan, and Korea (2023)
Trinh M. Luu and Tuong Vu, Editors, Republican Vietnam, 1963–1975: War, Society, Diaspora (University of Hawai`i Press, 2023)
Miya Xie. Territorializing Manchuria: The Transnational Frontier and Literatures of East Asia (Harvard East Asian Monographs, 2023)
Yasuko Sato, Takamure Itsue, Japanese Antiquity, and Matricultural Paradigms That Address the Crisis of Modernity: A Woman from the Land of Fire (2023)
Jérôme Doyon, Rejuvenating Communism: Youth Organizations and Elite Renewal in Post-Mao China (University of Michigan Press, 2023)
Matthew R. Augustine, From Japanese Empire to American Hegemony: Koreans and Okinawans in the Resettlement of Northeast Asia (2023)
Wendy Matsumura, Waiting for the Cool Moon: Anti-Imperialist Struggles in the Heart of Japan's Empire (2024)
Thomas S. Mullaney, The Chinese Computer: A Global History of the Information Age (2024)
Anri Yasuda, Beauty Matters: Modern Japanese Literature and the Question of Aesthetics, 1890-1930 (Columbia University Press, 2024)
Genevieve Alva Clutario, Beauty Regimes: A History of Power and Modern Empire in the Philippines, 1898–1941 (Duke University Press, 2023)
Koume’s World The Life and Work of a Samurai Woman Before and After the Meiji Restoration
Yanqiu Zheng, In Search of Admiration and Respect: Chinese Cultural Diplomacy in the United States, 1875–1974 (2024)
Arvid J. Lukauskas and Yumiko Shimabukuro, Misery Beneath the Miracle in East Asia (Cornell University Press, 2024)
Tsering Wangmo Dhompa, The Politics of Sorrow: A Story of Unity and Allegiance Across Tibetan Exile (2025)
Ying Qian, Revolutionary Becomings: Documentary Media in Twentieth-Century China (Columbia University Press, 2024)
Kwai-Cheung Lo, Ethnic Minority Cinema in China’s Nation-State Building (2025)
Phi-Van Nguyen, A Displaced Nation: The 1954 Evacuation and Its Political Impact on the Vietnam Wars (Cornell University Press, 2024)
James Lin, In the Global Vanguard: Agrarian Development and the Making of Modern Taiwan (University of California Press, 2025)
Alexsia T. Chan, Beyond Coercion: The Politics of Inequality in China (Cambridge University Press, 2025)
Andrew W. Bernstein, Fuji: A Mountain in the Making (Princeton, 2025)
Keru Cai, Poverty in Modern Chinese Realism: From Russia with Squalor (Oxford University Press, 2025)
Sayaka Chatani, with KumHee Cho. A Nation Within: North Korean Zainichi in Postimperial Japan (Stanford University Press, 2026)
Eveline Washul. High Lands, Pure Earth: Place Making, History, and Urban Transitions on the Tibetan Plateau (Cornell University Press, 2026)
Joshua Schlachet. Nourishing Life: Cultures of Food and Health in Early Modern Japan (University of Hawai'i Press, 2026)

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