Asia Perspectives | Weatherhead East Asian Institute

The Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture 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 Emerita of History at Columbia University.

Published by Columbia University Press.

Harry Harootunian. Uneven Moments: Reflections on Japan’s Modern History (Columbia University Press, 2019)
John Nathan. Sōseki: Modern Japan’s Greatest Novelist (Columbia University Press, 2018)
Simon Partner. The Merchant’s Tale: Yokohama and the Transformation of Japan (Columbia University Press, 2017)
Michael Lucken, trans. Karen Grimwade. The Japanese and the War: Expectation, Perception, and the Shaping of Memory (Columbia University Press, 2017)
Donald Keene. The First Modern Japanese: The Life of Ishikawa Takuboku (Columbia University Press, 2016)
Michael Lucken, trans. Francesca Simkin. Imitation and Creativity in Japanese Arts: From Kishida Ryusei to Miyazaki Hayao (Columbia University Press, 2016)
Phyllis Birnbaum. Manchu Princess, Japanese Spy: The Story of Kawashima Yoshiko, the Cross-Dressing Spy Who Commanded Her Own Army (Columbia University Press, 2015)
Donald Keene. The Winter Sun Shines In: A Life of Masaoka Shiki (Columbia University Press, 2013)
Michael Bourdaghs. Sayonara Amerika, Sayonara Nippon: A Geopolitical Prehistory of J-Pop (Columbia University Press, 2012)
Donald Keene. So Lovely a Country Will Never Perish: Wartime Diaries of Japanese Writers (Columbia University Press, 2010)
Rebecca Copeland and Melek Ortabasi, eds. The Modern Murasaki, Writing by Women of Meiji Japan (Columbia University Press, 2006)
Donald Keene. Frog in the Well: Portraits by Watanabe Kazan, 1793-1841 (Columbia University Press, 2006)
Robert Barnett. Lhasa: Streets With Memories (Columbia University Press, 2006)
William Johnston. Geisha, Harlot, Strangler, Star: A Woman, Sex, and Morality in Modern Japan (Columbia University Press, 2005)
Donald Keene. Yoshimasa and the Silver Pavilion: The Creation of the Soul of Japan (Columbia University Press, 2003)
Pierre-François Souyri, trans. Käthe Roth. The World Turned Upside Down: Medieval Japanese Society (Columbia University Press, 2001)
Yoshimi Yoshiaki, trans. Suzanne O’Brien. Comfort Women: Sexual Slavery in the Japanese Military During World War II. (Columbia University Press, 2000)
Jie-Hyun Lim. Global Easts: Remembering, Imagining, Mobilizing (Columbia University Press, 2022)

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