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CONTENTS Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute 4 China 4 Japan 6 Korea 8 Southeast Asia 8 International and Comparative Studies 9

Weatherhead Books on Asia 10

Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture 11

PUBLICATIONS 2018 weatherhead east asian institute columbia university


Charlene MakleyThe Battle for Fortune: State-Led Development, Personhood, and Power Among Tibetans in China(Cornell University Press, 2018)

“The Battle for Fortune conveys a wealth of new insights about the deeply ambivalent, contradictory, and precarious experiences of

Tibetan life in the contemporary PRC. Charlene Makley’s rich ethnography and brilliant use of theory will change the way we think of Tibet.” – Ralph Litzinger, Duke University

Ori SelaChina’s Philological Turn: Scholars, Textualism, and the Dao in the Eighteenth Century(Columbia University Press, 2018)

“Ori Sela clearly and persuasively argues for the importance of the philological turn in the late eighteenth century, explaining fully the larger

moral and intellectual justification for the turn and its significance for the whole course of Chinese intellectual history.”

– Cynthia Brokaw, Brown University

Philip ThaiChina’s War on Smuggling: Law, Economic Life, and the Making of the Modern State, 1842–1965 (Columbia University Press, 2018)

“Thai skillfully explores how smuggling remade the Chinese state by enabling it to establish better protection of border and revenues plus standardizing regulations and the constant

challenges to this process by political and economic disruptions.”– Elisabeth Köll, University of Notre Dame

STUDIES OF THE WEATHERHEAD EAST ASIAN INSTITUTE The Studies 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, Theodore Hughes, Eugenia Lean, Lien-Hang Nguyen, and Gray Tuttle

Thomas S. MullaneyThe Chinese Typewriter:A History(The MIT Press, 2017)

“The Chinese Typewriter is a fascinating book: in the light of new developments in computer science, Thomas Mullaney brings us a completely different interpretation of nonalphabetic Chinese and the modern fate of Chinese culture through the historical lens

of the Chinese typewriter.” – Wang Hui, Tsinghua University

Diana FuMobilizing Without the Masses: Control and Contention in China(Cambridge University Press, 2018)

“Based on remarkable participant-observation field work, Diana Fu provides a rare and revealing look inside the otherwise opaque world of China’s labor NGOs. Mobilizing Without the Masses is a must-read, not only for

those studying contemporary China but for anyone interested in the possibilities for social mobilization and social justice in authoritarian regimes.” – Elizabeth J. Perry, Harvard University

Hilary A. SmithForgotten Disease: Illnesses Transformed in Chinese Medicine(Stanford University Press, 2017)

“This fascinating, meticulous study of the unstable concept of foot qi provides a welcome perspective on Chinese medical thought and highlights the pitfalls of retrospective diagnosis. It is a valuable contribution to the nuanced and

deeper understanding of Asian medical traditions with broader lessons for all medical historians.” – William C. Summers, Yale University

CHINANEW TITLES


RECENT CHINA TITLES

Geoffrey BarstowFood of Sinful Demons: Meat, Vegetarianism, and the Limits of Buddhism in Tibet(Columbia University Press, 2017)

Nicolai VollandSocialist Cosmopolitanism: The Chinese Literary Universe, 1945-1965 (Columbia University Press, 2017)

Dorothy KoThe Social Life of Inkstones: Artisans and Scholars in Early Qing China(University of Washington Press, 2017)

Alexander C. CookThe Cultural Revolution on Trial: Mao and the Gang of Four(Cambridge University Press, 2016)

Ben Hillman & Gray Tuttle, eds.Ethnic Conflict & Protest in Tibet & Xinjiang: Unrest in China’s West(Columbia University Press, 2016)

Li ChenChinese Law in Imperial Eyes: Sovereignty, Justice, & Transcultural Politics(Columbia University Press, 2015) 2018 Joseph Levenson Pre-1900 Book Prize, AAS

Christopher ReaThe Age of Irreverence: A New History of Laughter in China(University of California Press, 2015)2017 Joseph Levenson Post-1900 Book Prize, AAS

Shellen Xiao WuEmpires of Coal: Fueling China’s Entry into the New World Order, 1860-1920 (Stanford University Press, 2015)

Sean Hsiang-lin LeiNeither Donkey Nor Horse: Medicine in the Struggle Over China’s Modernity (University of Chicago Press, 2014) 2016 William H. Welch Medal, AAHM

Emily T. YehTaming Tibet: Landscape Transformation and the Gift of Chinese Development (Cornell University Press, 2013)

NEW CHINA TITLES

Daniel KossWhere the Party Rules: The Rank and File of China’s Communist State(Cambridge University Press, 2018)

In most non-democratic countries, the power of the regime rests upon a ruling party. Contrasting with conventional notions that au-thoritarian regime parties serve to contain elite conflict and manipulate electoral-legislative

processes, this book presents the case of China and shows that rank and file members of the Communist Party allow the state to penetrate local communities.

Max OidtmannForging the Golden Urn: The Qing Empire and the Politics of Reincarnation in Tibet(Columbia University Press, 2018)

“Max Oidtmann explores the impact of the Golden Urn ritual that the Qianlong emperor introduced in the early 1790s in order to - as he claimed - make the recognition of reincarnated

lamas legitimate.” – Johan Elverskog, Southern Methodist University

Becky Yang HsuBorrowing Together: Microfinance and Cultivating Social Ties(Cambridge University Press, 2017)

“This is the most authoritative book on microfinance and a must read for anyone interested in global poverty, development, and moral selfhood.”– Kimberly Kay Hoang, University of Chicago

Anne ReinhardtNavigating Semi-Colonialism: Shipping, Sovereignty, and Nation-Building in China, 1860–1937 (Harvard University Asia Center, 2018)

Navigating Semi-Colonialism examines steam navigation introduced by foreign powers to Chinese waters in the mid-nineteenth century as a constitutive element of the treaty system to

illuminate both conceptual and concrete aspects of China’s international relations, arguing for the specificity of China’s experience, its continu-ities with colonialism in other contexts, and its links to global processes.


JAPAN

Alexander ZahltenThe End of Japanese Cinema:Industrial Genres, National Times, and Media Ecologies(Duke University Press, 2017)

“Demonstrating a special command of industry history, Zahlten facilitates fruitful dialogue between text and context that will change how people talk about Japanese cinema. A great read.”

– Miryam Sas, University of California, Berkeley

Yulia FrumerMaking Time: Astronomical Time Measurement in Tokugawa Japan(University of Chicago Press, 2018)

“Brace yourself for a most thought-provoking journey through time in premodernJapan. Historically brilliant and beautifully

written, Frumer unfolds how and why astronomical time-space relationships came to matter in Tokugawa and Meiji scientific minds and public life.”– Dagmar Schäfer, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science

Robert TuckIdly Scribbling Rhymers: Poetry, Print, and Community in 19th Century Japan(Columbia University Press, 2018)

“This is an important book that is impressive in its scope, thorough in its research, and very timely. Idly Scribbling Rhymers provides us with

a fresh view of the Meiji poetic scene that is both richly detailed and broadly-based. Tuck takes readers on a deeply rewarding tour of areas that are all but unknown in Anglophone

scholarship.” – Matthew Fraleigh, Brandeis University

NEW TITLES

Chad R. DiehlResurrecting Nagasaki: Reconstruction and the Formation of Atomic Narratives(Cornell University Press, 2018)

“This deeply researched and beautifully written study of how different constituencies in Nagasaki responded to the bomb substantially enriches our understanding of the only other

atomically bombed city in history.” – Lori Watt, Washington University in St.Louis

Hikari HoriPromiscuous Media: Film and Visual Culture in Imperial Japan, 1926-1945(Cornell University Press, 2018)

“Promiscuous Media is a tour de force of enthralling historical scholarship that covers anastonishing array of texts, events, people, and issues. Hikari Hori’s work is a refreshing and timely reminder of the staggering breadth and

depth of visual media culture in Japan’s wartime empire as well as how it might have been received by its intended audiences.”

– Michael Baskett, University of Kansas

Laura HeinPost-Fascist Japan: Political Culture in Kamakura after the Second World War(Bloomsbury Press/SOAS Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan, 2018)

“Post-Fascist Japan casts vital new light on the history of Japan’s postwar democratization. This fascinating book is not only essential reading for

all those with an interest in Japan’s intellectual history, but also conveys a powerful message about dilemmas of war memory and democracy in Japan today.” – Tessa Morris-Suzuki, Australian National University


G. Clinton GodartDarwin, Dharma, and the Divine: Evolutionary Theory and Religion in Modern Japan(University of Hawaii Press, 2017)

Yoshikuni IgarashiHomecomings: The Belated Return of Japan’s Lost Soldiers(Columbia University Press, 2016) Honorable Mention: 2018 John Whitney Hall Prize, AAS

D. Colin JaundrillSamurai to Soldier: Remaking Military Service in Nineteenth-Century Japan(Cornell University Press, 2016)

Adam BronsonOne Hundred Million Philosophers: Science of Thought and the Culture of Democracy in Postwar Japan(University of Hawaii Press, 2016)

Laura NeitzelThe Life We Longed For: Danchi Housing and the Middle Class in Postwar Japan(MerwinAsia, 2016)

Federico Marcon The Knowledge of Nature and the Nature of Knowledge in Early Modern Japan(University of Chicago Press, 2015) Honorable Mention: 2017 John Whitney Hall Prize, AAS

Akiko TakenakaYasukuni Shrine: History, Memory, and Japan’s Unending Postwar(University of Hawaii Press, 2015)

Lee K. PenningtonCasualties of History: Wounded Japanese Servicemen and the Second World War(Cornell University Press, 2015)

Jessamyn AbelThe International Minimum: Creativity and Contradiction in Japan’s Global Engagement, 1933-1964(University of Hawaii Press, 2015)

Robert StolzBad Water: Nature, Pollution, and Politics in Japan, 1870-1950 (Duke University Press, 2014)

Eric C. HanRise of a Japanese Chinatown: Yokohama, 1894-1972(Harvard University Asia Center, 2014)

Ian Jared MillerThe Nature of the Beasts: Empire and Exhibition at the Tokyo Imperial Zoo(University of California Press, 2013)

Louise Young Beyond the Metropolis: Second Cities and Modern Life in Interwar Japan (University of California Press, 2013)

Jonathan E. Abel Redacted: The Archives of Censorship in Transwar Japan (University of California Press, 2012)

David B. Lurie Realms of Literacy: Early Japan and theHistory of Writing (Harvard University Asia Center, 2011)

Kenneth J. Ruoff Imperial Japan at Its Zenith: The Wartime Celebration of the Empire’s 2,600th Anniversary (Cornell University Press, 2010)

Alan Tansman The Aesthetics of Japanese Fascism (University of California Press, 2009)

Kim Brandt Kingdom of Beauty: Mingei and the Politics of Folk Art in Imperial Japan (Duke University Press, 2007)

Sarah Thal Rearranging the Landscape of the Gods: The Politics of a Pilgrimage Site in Japan, 1573–1912 (University of Chicago Press, 2005)

David AmbarasBad Youth: Juvenile Deliquency and the Politics of Everyday Life in Japan(University of California Press, 2005)

Michael BourdaghsThe Dawn that Never Comes: Shimazaki Toson and Japanese Nationalism(Columbia University Press, 2003)

RECENT JAPAN TITLES


Janet PooleWhen the Future Disappears: The Modernist Imagination in Late Colonial Korea(Columbia University Press, 2014)Honorable Mention: 2016 James D. Palais Prize, AAS

Charles K. ArmstrongTyranny of the Weak: North Korea and the World, 1950-1992(Cornell University Press, 2013)

John P. DiMoia Reconstructing Bodies: Biomedicine, Health, and Nation-Building in South Korea Since 1945 (Stanford University Press, 2013)

Charles K. ArmstrongThe North Korean Revolution: 1945-50(Cornell University Press, 2002)

Andre SchmidKorea Between Empires, 1895-1919(Columbia University Press, 2002)

KOREA

Juhn Y. AhnBuddhas & Ancestors: Religion and Wealth in Fourteenth-Century Korea(University of Washington Press, 2018)

“Makes important contributions and will generate excitement in the broader fields of East Asian Buddhist and religious studies.” – Paul Copp, University of Chicago

Charles R. KimYouth for Nation: Culture and Protest in Cold War South Korea(University of Hawaii Press, 2017)

“Youth for Nation opens up rich historical sources on mid-twentieth-century South Korean society and culture. It offers an intimate ethnographic portrayal of the Korean cultural scene with its pervasive

anxieties about poverty, dizzying pace of modernization, and clashes between the old and the young, giving primacy to the voices of intellectuals and ordinary students.”

– Namhee Lee, UCLA

Sunyoung ParkThe Proletarian Wave: Literature and Leftist Culture in Colonial Korea, 1910-1945 (Harvard University Asia Center, 2015)

“The Proletarian Wave is a magisterial book that broadens, complicates, and innovates our understanding of the leftist thought and culture of Korea under Japanese rule.”

– Jin-kyung Lee, UC San Diego

NEW AND RECENT TITLES

SELECTED KOREA TITLES

SOUTHEAST ASIA NEW TITLE

Jess Melvin The Army and theIndonesian Genocide: Mechanics of Mass Murder (Routledge, 2018)

“This book is a breakthrough for the study of the mass murder of 1965-66. Melvin has uncovered much new evidence and has

leveraged the case-study of the province of Aceh to reveal hidden aspects of the national-level decision-making. She presents an original argument on why the mass murder should be understood as a genocide. Her book is not an ordinary contribu-tion to the field of Indonesian history – it is a game-changer.” – John Roosa, University of British Columbia


Sheena Chestnut GreitensDictators and Their Secret Police: Coercive Institutions and State Violence(Cambridge University Press, 2016) 2017 Best Book Award, APSA Section on Comparative Democratization2017 Best Book Award, ISA

“Amid the recent scholarly turn toward the study of dictatorship, one authoritarian institu-

tion remains poorly understood: the coercive apparatus. Dictators and Their Secret Police thus fills an important void. Impressively researched and beautifully written, Dictators and Their Secret Police will be widely read and assigned. Indeed, it is essential reading for scholars of authoritarianism.” – Steven Levitsky, Harvard University

Travis WorkmanImperial Genus: The Formation and Limits of the Human in Modern Korea and Japan(University of California Press, 2016)

“Travis Workman’s project is no less than a rewriting of modern intellectual history as a site of translation. An analysis that powerfully

demonstrates the possibilities for a revitalized comparativism opened up by postcolonial theory and the critique of Orientalism, it will be essential reading for a new generation of scholars of East Asia.”– Brett de Bary, Cornell University

Celeste L. ArringtonAccidental Activists: Victim Movements and Government Accountability in Japan and South Korea(Cornell University Press, 2016)

“In this innovative study of victim redress move-ments, Celeste L. Arrington skillfully pairs cases in South Korea and Japan to investigate

what explains differences in outcomes - why some movements get more redress than others. To her credit, Arrington is never satisfied with the easy answers, and as a result her compelling analysis deserves wide attention. Scholars of South Korean and Japanese politics, social movements, and civil society will want to take note of this book.”– Robert J. Pekkanen, University of Washington

Yukiko KogaInheritance of Loss: China, Japan, and the Political Economy of Redemption after Empire(University of Chicago Press, 2016)2017 Francis L. K. Hsu and Anthony Leeds Book Prizes, AAA

“Focused on three cities in Northeast China and set in the aftermath of Japanese empire, Inheritance of Loss goes beyond familiar references to the politics of postwar memory and points us toward the political economy of redemption in the wake of colonial modernity. ”

– Michael Rothberg, UCLA

Kathlene BaldanzaMing China and Vietnam: Negotiating Borders in Early Modern Asia(Cambridge University Press, 2016)

“Kathlene Baldanza uses Vietnamese and Chinese materials from the thirteenth to eighteenth centuries to fundamentally change our understanding of the Sino-Vietnamese relationship. This book will

reorient all future scholarship on the topic.”– Keith Weller Taylor, Cornell University

Reto HofmannThe Fascist Effect: Japan and Italy, 1915-1952(Cornell University Press, 2015)

“The Fascist Effect is brilliantly researched, conceptually sophisticated, and engagingly written. The transnational focus on Italy and the circuits of exchange between Italian fascist thinkers and political figures and

their Japanese counterparts have never been explored with such rigor and control. In tying culture and ideas together with shifting economic and political realities, Hofmann opens up many new and exciting questions about fascism as aquestion of global modernity.”– Takashi Fujitani, University of Toronto

RECENT TITLES

INTERNATIONAL AND COMPARATIVE STUDIES


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, 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

NEW AND SELECTED TITLES

Yi T’aejunDust and Other StoriesJanet Poole, trans. (2018)

“Dust is an evocative collection by one of Korea’s modernist masters that explores some of twentieth century Korea’s tortured relations: those between art and life, the indi-vidual and history, and the private and public.”– Dafna Zur, Stanford University

Yi Mun-yolMeeting with My Brother: A NovellaHeinz Insu Fenkl with Yoosup Chang, trans. (2017)

“I’ve always wondered why more Korean literature in translation isn’t available in the United States. Heinz Insu Fenkl’s stylish translation of beloved Korean author Yi Mun-

yol’s complexly layered novella might change that. Meeting with My Brother trenchantly explores the ruptures the ruptures of Korea’s parti-tion and hopes of reunification.” – Marie Myung-Ok Lee, author of Somebody’s Daughter: A Novel

Jun’ichirō TanizakiIn Black and White: A Novel Phyllis I. Lyons, trans. (2017)

“In Black and White provides yet more evidence of Tanizaki’s full mastery of his craft. Tightly structured and full of dark humor, it is both a murder mystery and metafiction in which a novel incriminates its own creator. Only

a writer of Tanizaki’s caliber could have penned this and The Makioka Sisters, two works so radically different one can only marvel that they are the product of the same mind.” – Minae Mizumura, author of A True Novel

Ch’ae Masnshik Sunset: A Ch’ae Manshik ReaderBruce Fulton and Ju-Chan Fulton, trans. (2017)

Abe KōbōBeasts Head for Home: A novelRichard F. Calichman, trans. (2017)

Hideo FurukawaHorses, Horses, in the End the Light Remains Pure: A Tale that Begins with FukushimaDouglas Slaymaker with Akiko Takenaka, trans. (2016)

Yoshimi YoshiakiGrassroots Fascism: The War Experience of the Japanese PeopleEthan Mark, trans. (2015)

Lydia H. Liu, Rebecca E. Karl, and Dorothy Ko, eds.The Birth of Chinese Feminism: Essential Texts in Transnational Theory (2013)

Natsume Sōseki Light and Dark: A Novel John Nathan, trans. (2013)

Zhu Wen The Matchmaker, The Apprentice, & the Football Fan: More Stories of China

Julia Lovell, trans. (2013)

Abe KōbōThe Frontier Within: Essays by Abe KoboRichard F. Calichman, trans. and ed. (2013)


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, Columbia University

Published by Columbia University Press

NEW AND SELECTED TITLES

John NathanSōseki:Modern Japan’s Greatest Novelist (2018)

“Nathan offers a lucid view of the life and works of the writer many consider to be Japan’s most important, and best, novelist. He deftly shows how Sōseki’s life reflects the many social and intellectual changes that

occurred over the tumultuous decades of his lifetime—decades of Japan’s transformation into a modern nation.”– Alan Tansman, U.C. Berkeley

Simon PartnerThe Merchant’s Tale: Yokohama and the Transformation of Japan (2017)

“Combining his finely honed skills as a storyteller with his deep knowledge of historical context, Partner paints a compellingly human picture of nineteenth-

century Japan’s integration into the global economy, helping us understand the excitement and opportunities, as well as the risks and challenges that it opened up for those who decided to seek their fortunes in the bustling treaty port of Yokohama.”– Daniel Botsman, Yale University

Michael LuckenThe Japanese and the War:Expectation, Perception, and the Shaping of MemoryKaren Grimwade, trans. (2017)

“In this highly readable book, Michael Lucken combines an encyclopedic overview of Japan’s diverse conflicts over the memory of WWII with a razor-sharp dissection of their

historical origins. At the core of this, Lucken argues, lies the fateful interplay between wartime ideologies and Japan’s American-brokered entry into the postwar world.” – Franziska Seraphim, Boston College

The First Modern Japanese:The Life of Ishikawa Takubokuby Donald Keene (2016)

Imitation and Creativity in Japanese Arts: From Kishida Ryusei to Miyazaki Hayaoby Michael Lucken. Francesca Simkin, trans. (2016)

Manchu Princess, Japanese Spy: The Story of Kawashima Yoshiko, the Cross-Dressing Spy Who Commanded Her Own Army by Phyllis Birnbaum (2015)

The Winter Sun Shines In: A Life of Masaoka Shiki by Donald Keene (2013)

Sayonara Amerika, Sayonara Nippon: A Geopolitical Prehistory of J-Pop by Michael Bourdaghs (2012)

So Lovely a Country Will Never Perish: Wartime Diaries of Japanese Writers, by Donald Keene (2010)

The Modern Murasaki: Writing by Women of Meiji Japan, edited by Rebecca Copeland and Melek Ortabasi (2007)

Frog in the Well: Portraits by Watanabe Kazan, 1793–1841, by Donald Keene (2006)

Lhasa: Streets With Memoriesby Robert Barnett (2006)

Geisha, Harlot, Strangler, Star: A Woman, Sex, and Morality in Modern Japan, by William Johnston (2004)


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