Science and the Building of a New Japan
This book highlights the importance of individuals in the shaping of postwar Japan by providing an historical account of how physicists constituted an influential elite. An history of science perspective provides insight into their role, helping us to und
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Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University The Weatherhead East Asian Institute is Columbia University’s center for research, publication, and teaching on the modern Asia Pacific region. The Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute were inaugurated in 1962 to bring to a wider public the results of significant new research on modern and contemporary Asia Pacific.
Selected Titles (Complete list at: www.columbia.edu/cu/weai/publications.html) Gutenberg in Shanghai: Chinese Print Capitalism, 1876–1937, by Christopher A. Reed. UBC Press, 2004 Japan’s Colonization of Korea: Discourse and Power, by Alexis Dudden. University of Hawai’i Press, 2004 Divorce in Japan: Family, Gender, and the State, 1600–2000, by Harald Fuess. Stanford University Press, 2004 The Communist Takeover of Hangzhou: The Transformation of City and Cadre, 1949–1954, by James Gao. University of Hawai’i Press, 2004 Taxation without Representation in Rural China, by Thomas P. Bernstein and Xiaobo Lü. Modern China Series, Cambridge University Press, 2003 The Reluctant Dragon: Crisis Cycles in Chinese Foreign Economic Policy, by Lawrence Christopher Reardon. University of Washington Press, 2002 Cadres and Corruption: The Organizational Involution of the Chinese Communist Party, by Xiaobo Lü. Stanford University Press, 2000 Japan’s Imperial Diplomacy: Consuls, Treaty Ports, and War with China, 1895–1938, by Barbara Brooks. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2000 China’s Retreat from Equality: Income Distribution and Economic Transition, Carl Riskin, Zhao Renwei, and Li Shi, eds. M.E. Sharpe, 2000 Nation, Governance, and Modernity: Canton, 1900–1927, by Michael T.W. Tsin. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999 Assembled in Japan: Electrical Goods and the Making of the Japanese Consumer, by Simon Partner. University of California Press, 1999 Civilization and Monsters: Spirits of Modernity in Meiji Japan, by Gerald Figal. Duke University Press, 1999 The Logic of Japanese Politics: Leaders, Institutions, and the Limits of Change, by Gerald L. Curtis. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999 Contesting Citizenship in Urban China: Peasant Migrants, the State and Logic of the Market, by Dorothy Solinger. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999 Bicycle Citizens: The Political World of the Japanese Housewife, by Robin LeBlanc. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999 Alignment despite Antagonism: The United States, Japan, and Korea, by Victor Cha. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999 China’s Transition, by Andrew J. Nathan. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997 The Origins of the Cultural Revolution, Vol. III, The Coming of the Cataclysm, 1961–1966, by Roderick Macfarquhar. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997 Japan’s Total Empire: Manchuria and the Culture of Wartime Imperialism, by Louise Young. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997 Honorable Merchants: Commerce and Self-Cultivation in Late Imperial China, by Richard Lufrano. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 1997
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