Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute
This series is directed by Professors Kim Brandt, Eugenia Lean, Carol Gluck and Gray Tuttle and is sponsored by the Institute. The aim of the series is to bring to light scholarship on modern and contemporary East Asia and Southeast Asia. Since its inception in 1962, the series has published over 150 titles by scholars from all over the world. The studies are published by various university and trade presses.
Studies publications by regional specialty:
China
Japan
Korea
Pacific Basin
International Relations
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)
Leung, Angela Ki Che. Leprosy in China: A History (Columbia University Press, 2008)
Alexander Des Forges. Mediasphere Shanghai: The Aesthetics of Cultural Production (University of Hawai’i Press, 2007)
Myron L. Cohen. Kinship, Contract, Community, and State: Anthropological Perspectives on China (Stanford University Press, 2005)
Morris Low. Building a Modern Japan: Science, Technology, and Medicine in the Meiji Era and Beyond (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005)
James Reardon-Anderson. Reluctant Pioneers: China's Expansion Northward, 1644-1937 (Stanford University Press, 2005)
Madeleine Zelin. The Merchants of Zigong: Industrial Entrepreneurship in Early Modern China (Columbia University Press, 2005). Prizes: 2006 Allan Sharlin Memorial Prize of the Social Science History Association; 2007 Fairbank Prize of the Association for Asian Studies; and ICAS Book Prize 2007 History
James Gao. The Communist Takeover of Hangzhou: The Transformation of City and Cadre, 1949-1954 (University of Hawai’i Press, 2004)
Madeleine Zelin, Jonathan K. Ocko, and Robert P. Gardella, eds. Contract and Property in Early Modern China (Stanford University Press, 2004)
Christopher A. Reed. Gutenberg in Shanghai : Chinese Print Capitalism, 1876-1937 (UBC Press, 2004) "Winner of the 2003-2005 International Convention of Asian Scholars Book Prize (ICAS) (Humanities category)"
Thomas P. Bernstein and Xiaobo Lü. Taxation without Representation in Rural China (Modern China Series, Cambridge University Press, 2003)
Lawrence Christopher Reardon. The Reluctant Dragon: Crisis Cycles in Chinese Foreign Economic Policy (University of Washington Press, 2002)
Carl Riskin, Zhao Renwei, Li Shi, eds. China's Retreat from Equality: Income Distribution and Economic Transition (M.E. Sharpe, 2001)
Xiaobo Lü. Cadres and Corruption: The Organizational Involution of the Chinese Communist Party ( Stanford University Press, 2000)
Michael T. W. Tsin. Nation, Governance, and Modernity: Canton, 1900-1927 (Stanford University Press, 1999)
Dorothy Solinger. Contesting Citizenship in Urban China : Peasant Migrants, the State and Logic of the Market (University of California Press, 1999)
Roderick MacFarquhar. The Origins of the Cultural Revolution : III , The Coming of the Cataclysm, 1961-1966 (Columbia University Press, 1997)
Andrew J. Nathan. China's Transition (Columbia University Press, 1997)
Richard Lufrano. Honorable Merchants: Commerce and Self-Cultivation in Late Imperial China (University of Hawai'i Press, 1997)
C. Martin Wilbur. China in my Life: A Historian's Own History (M.E. Sharpe, 1996)
Joan Judge. Print and Politics: ‘Shibao' and the Culture of Reform in Late Qing China (Stanford University Press, 1996)
Helen Chauncey. Schoolhouse Politicians: Locality and State during the Chinese Republic (University of Hawai'i Press, 1992.)
James Reardon-Anderson. Pollution, Politics and Foreign Investment in Taiwan : The Lukang Rebellion (M. E. Sharpe, 1993)
Dorothy Solinger. China 's Transition from Socialism: Statist Legacies and Market Reforms, 1980-1990 (M.E. Sharpe, 1993)
Helen Chauncey. Schoolhouse Politicians: Locality and State during the Chinese Republic(University of Hawai’i Press, 1992)
Harvey J. Feldman, ed. Constitutional Reform and the Future of the Republic of China (M.E. Sharpe, 1991)
James Reardon-Anderson. The Study of Change: Chemistry in China, 1840-1949 (Cambridge University Press, 1991)
Peter Zarrow. Anarchism and Chinese Political Culture (Columbia University Press, 1991)
Andrew J. Nathan. China 's Crisis: Dilemmas of Reform and Prospects for Democracy (Columbia University Press, 1990.)
C. Martin Wilbur and Julie Lien-ying How. Missionaries of the Revolution: Soviet Advisers and Chinese Nationalism (Harvard University Press, 1989)
Kathleen Hartford and Steven M. Goldstein, eds. Single Sparks : China 's Rural Revolutions (M.E. Sharpe, 1989)
Edwin A. Winckler and Susan Greenhalgh, eds. Contending Approaches to the Political Economy of Taiwan (M.E. Sharpe, 1988)
James D. Seymour. China's Satellite Parties (M.E. Sharpe, 1987)
Steven I. Levine. Anvil of Victory: The Communist Revolution in Manchuria (Columbia University Press, 1987)
Carl Riskin. China's Political Economy: The Quest for Development since 1949 (Oxford University Press, 1987)
R. Randle Edwards, Louis Henkin, and Andrew J. Nathan . Human Rights in Contemporary China (Columbia University Press, 1986)
Roderick MacFarquhar. The Origins of the Cultural Revolution: II, The Great Leap Forward, 1958-1960 (Columbia University Press, 1983)
Jonathan Unger. Education Under Mao: Class and Competition in Canton Schools (Columbia University Press, 1982)
Richard Curt Kraus. Class Conflict in Chinese Socialism (Columbia University Press, 1981)
Edward M. Gunn, Jr. Unwelcome Muse: Chinese Literature in Shanghai and Peking, 1937-1945 (Columbia University Press, 1980)
Johanna Meskill. A Chinese Pioneer Family: The Lins of Wu-Feng (Princeton University Press, 1979)
Joshua A. Fogel and William T. Rowe, eds. Perspectives on a Changing China (Westview Press, 1979)
T.K. Tong and Li Tsung-jen. The Memoirs of Li Tsung-jen (Westview Press, 1979)
Thomas L. Kennedy. The Arms of Kiangnan: Modernization in the Chinese Ordnance Industry, 1860-1895 (Westview Press, 1978)
Odoric Y. K. Wou. Militarism in Modern China : The Career of Wu P'ei-fu, 1916-1939 (Dawson, 1978)
David Johnson. The Medieval Chinese Oligarchy (Westview Press, 1977)
Myron L. Cohen. House United, House Divided: The Chinese Family in Taiwan (Columbia University Press, 1976)
Thomas A. Metzger. Escape from Predicament: Neo-Confucianism and China 's Evolving Political Culture (Columbia University Press, 1976)
John Israel and Donald W. Klein. Rebels and Bureaucrats: China 's December 9ers (University of California Press, 1976)
Jane L. Price. Cadres, Commanders, and Commissars: The Training of the Chinese Communist Leadership, 1920-45 (Westview Press, 1976)
C. Martin Wilbur. Sun Yat-sen: Frustrated Patriot (Columbia University Press, 1976)
Andrew March. The Idea of China : Essays in Geographic Myth and Theory: (David and Charles, 1974)
Roderick MacFarquhar. Origins of the Cultural Revolution: I, Contradictions Among the People, 1956-1957 (Columbia University Press, 1974)
John R. Watt. The District Magistrate in Late Imperial China (Columbia University Press, 1972)
James C. Hsiung. Law and Policy in China's Foreign Relations: A Study of Attitude and Practice (Columbia University Press, 1972)
O. Edmund Clubb. China and Russia : The "Great Game" (Columbia University Press, 1971)
Katharine Huang Hsiao. Money and Monetary Policy in Communist China (Columbia University Press, 1971)
C.T. Hu, ed. Aspects of Chinese Education (Teachers College Press, 1970)
James P. Harrison, Jr. The Communists and Peasant Rebellions: A Study in the Rewriting of Chinese History (Atheneum, 1969)
A. Doak Barnett. Cadres, Bureaucracy, and Political Power in Communist China (Columbia University Press, 1968)
Samuel Chu. Reformer in Modern China : Chang Chien, 1853-1926 (Columbia University Press, 1965)
Shun-hsin Chou. The Chinese Inflation, 1937-1949 (Columbia University Press, 1963)
Ping-ti Ho. The Ladder of Success in Imperial China (Columbia University Press, 1962)
JAPANSarah Kovner. Occupying Power Sex Workers and Servicemen in Postwar Japan (Stanford University Press, 2012)
Peter Berton. Russo-Japanese Relations, 1905-17: From enemies to allies (Routledge, 2011)
David Lurie. Realms of Literacy: Early Japan and the History of Writing (Harvard University Asia Center, 2011)
Janis Mimura. Planning for Empire: Reform Bureaucrats and the Japanese Wartime State (Cornell University Press, 2011)
Kenneth J. Ruoff. Imperial Japan at its Zenith: The Wartime Celebration of the Empire’s 2,600th Anniversary (Cornell University Press, 2010)
Julian Dierkes. Postwar History Education in Japan and the Germanys: Guilty Lessons (Routledge, 2010)
Alan Tansman. The Aesthetics of Japanese Fascism (University of California Press, 2009)
Scott O'Bryan. The Growth Idea: Purpose and Prosperity in Postwar Japan (University of Hawai'i Press, 2009)
Christopher Hill. National History and the World of Nations: Capital, State, and the Rhetoric of History in Japan, France, and the United States (Duke University Press, 2009)
Kim Brandt. Kingdom of Beauty: Mingei and the Politics of Folk Art in Imperial Japan (Duke University Press, 2007)
David Ambaras. Bad Youth: Juvenile Delinquency and the Politics of Everyday Life in Modern Japan, 1895-194 (University of California Press, 2006)
Andrew Bernstein. Modern Passings: Death Rites, Politics, and Social Change in Imperial Japan (University of Hawai'i Press, 2006)
Takashi Yoshida. The Making of the “Rape of Nanjing”: The History and Memory of the Nanjing Massacre in Japan, China, and the United States( Oxford University Press, 2006)
Morris Low. Science and the Building of a New Japan, (Palgrave Macmillan, Ltd., 2005)
Sarah Thal. Rearranging the Landscape of the Gods: The Politics of a Pilgrimage Site in Japan, 1573-1912, (University of Chicago Press, 2005)
Richard Calichman. Takeuchi Yoshimi: Displacing the West (Cornell East Asia Program, 2004)
Harald Fuess. Divorce in Japan: Family, Gender, and the State, 1600-2000 ( Stanford University Press 2004)
Susan Burns. Before the Nation: Kokugaku and the Imagining of Community in Early Modern Japan (Duke University Press, 2003)
Akitoshi Miyashita. Limits to Power: Asymmetric Dependence and Japan 's Foreign Aid (Lexington Books Inc., 2003)
Michael Bourdaghs. The Dawn that Never Comes: Shimazaki Toson and Japanese Nationalism ( Columbia University Press, 2003)
Hugh Borton. Spanning Japan 's Modern Century: The Memoirs of Hugh Borton (Lexington Books, Inc., 2002)
Tiana Norgren. Abortion before Birth Control: The Politics of Reproduction in Postwar Japan ( Princeton University Press, 2001)
Patricia Maclachlan. Consumer Politics in Postwar Japan : Institutional Boundaries of Citizen Activism ( Columbia University Press, 2001)
Takaaki Suzuki. Japan 's Budget Politics: Balancing Domestic and International Interests (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2000)
Barbara Brooks. Japan's Imperial Diplomacy: Consuls, Treaty Ports, and War with China, 1895-1938 ( University of Hawai'i Press , 2000)
Robin LeBlanc. Bicycle Citizens: The Political World of the Japanese Housewife (University of California Press, 1999)
Gerald L. Curtis. The Logic of Japanese Politics: Leaders, Institutions, and the Limits of Change (Columbia University Press, 1999)
Simon Partner. Assembled in Japan : Electrical Goods and the Making of the Japanese Consumer (University of California Press, 1999)
Gerald Figal. Civilization and Monsters: Spirits of Modernity in Meiji Japan (Duke University Press, 1999)
Simon Partner. Assembled in Japan: Electrical Goods and the Making of the Japanese Consumer (University of California Press, 1999)
Angela Yiu. Order and Chaos in the Works of Natsume Soseki (University of Hawai'i Press, 1998)
Marleen Kassel. Tokugawa Confucian Education: The Kangien Academy of Hirose Tanso (1782-1856) (State University of New York Press, February 1996)
Robert Uriu. Troubled Industries: Confronting Economic Change in Japan (Cornell University Press, 1996)
Dennis C. Washburn. The Dilemma of the Modern in Japanese Fiction (Yale University Press, 1995)
Hiroshi Ishida. Social Mobility in Contemporary Japan (Stanford University Press, 1993)
Alan Tansman. The Writings of Koda Aya, a Japanese Literary Daughter (Yale University Press, 1993)
Gerald L. Curtis, ed. Japan 's Foreign Policy after the Cold War: Coping with Change (M.E. Sharpe, 1993)
Hosea Hirata. The Poetry and Poetics of Nishiwaki Junzaburo: Modernism in Translation (Princeton University Press, 1993)
Michael Smitka. Competitive Ties: Subcontracting in the Japanese Automotive Industry (Columbia University Press, 1991)
Robert Angel. Explaining Economic Policy Failure: Japan and the 1969-1971 International Monetary Crisis (Columbia University Press, 1991)
Alan Wolfe. Suicidal Narrative in Modern Japan : The Case of Dazai Osamu (Princeton University Press, 1990)
Theodore C. Bestor. Neighborhood Tokyo (Stanford University Press, 1989)
Richard Rubinger and Edward Beauchamp. Education in Japan (Garland Publishing, Inc., 1989)
Frances Rosenbluth. Financial Politics in Contemporary Japan (Cornell University Press, 1989)
Gerald L. Curtis. The Japanese Way of Politics (Columbia University Press, 1988)
Anne E. Imamura. Urban Japanese Housewives: At Home and in the Community (University of Hawai'i Press, 1987)
Dennis T. Yasutomo. The Manner of Giving: Strategic Aid and Japanese Foreign Policy (Free Press, 1986)
Dennis T. Yasutomo. The Manner of Giving: Strategic Aid and Japanese Foreign Policy (Free Press, 1986)
Carol Gluck. Japan 's Modern Myths: Ideology in the Late Meiji Period (Princeton University Press, 1985)
H. Paul Varley. Japanese Culture, third edition, revised (University of Hawai'i Press, 1984)
Amy Vladeck Heinrich. Fragments of Rainbows: The Life and Poetry of Saito Mokichi, 1882-1953 (Columbia University Press, 1983.)
Ronald Toby. State and Diplomacy in Early Modern Japan (Princeton University Press, 1983 (hc)); (Stanford University Press, 1991 (pb))
Dennis Yasutomo. Japan and the Asian Development Bank (Praeger Publishers, 1983)
Richard Rubinger. Private Academies of Tokugawa Japan (Princeton University Press, 1982)
T. J. Pempel. Patterns of Japanese Policymaking: Experiences from Higher Education (Westview Press, 1978)
Michael Blaker. Japanese International Negotiating Style (Columbia University Press, 1977)
John Creighton Campbell. Contemporary Japanese Budget Politics (University of California Press, 1977)
G. Cameron Hurst. Insei: Abdicated Sovereigns in the Politics of Late Heian Japan (Columbia University Press, 1975)
Harold Joyce Noble, ed. Embassy at War (University of Washington Press, 1975)
James W. Morley, ed. Japan 's Foreign Policy, 1868-1941: A Research Guide (Columbia University Press, 1974)
David Anson Titus. Palace and Politics in Prewar Japan (Columbia University Press, 1974)
Calvin L. French. Shiba Kokan: Artist, Innovator, and Pioneer in the Westernization of Japan (Weatherhill, 1974)
William E. Steslicke. Doctors in Politics: The Political Life of the Japan Medical Association (Praeger Publishers, 1973)
Donald Ray Thurston. Teachers and Politics in Japan (Princeton University Press, 1973)
H. Paul Varley. Imperial Restoration in Medieval Japan (Columbia University Press, 1971)
Martin E. Weinstein. Japan 's Postwar Defense Policy, 1947-1968 (Columbia University Press, 1971)
Gerald L. Curtis. Election Campaigning Japanese Style (Columbia University Press, 1971)
Herbert Passin. Japanese Education: A Bibliography of Materials in the English Language, (Teachers College Press, 1970)
Koji Taira. Economic Development and the Labor Market in Japan (Columbia University Press, 1970)
Koya Azumi. Higher Education and Business Recruitment in Japan (New York: Teachers College Press, 1969)
Nathaniel B. Thayer. How the Conservatives Rule Japan (Princeton University Press, 1969)
Herschel Webb. The Japanese Imperial Institution in the Tokugawa Period (Columbia University Press, 1968)
James I. Nakamura. Agricultural Production and Economic Development in Japan, 1873-1922 (Princeton University Press, 1967)
Marleigh Ryan. Japan 's First Modern Novel: Ukigumo of Futabatei Shimei (Columbia University Press, 1967)
Herbert Passin. Society and Education in Japan (Teachers College Press, 1965)
Herschel Webb with the assistance of Marleigh Ryan. Research in Japanese Sources: A Guide (Columbia University Press, 1965)
KOREACharles Armstrong. The North Korean Revolution: 1945-50 ( Cornell University Press, 2002)
Andre Schmid. Korea Between Empires, 1895-1919 ( Columbia University Press 2002)
Linsu Kim. From Imitation to Innovation: The Dynamics of Korea 's Technological Learning (Harvard Business School Press, 1997)
Edwin H. Gragert. Landownership under Colonial Rule: Korea 's Japan Experience, 1900-1935 (University of Hawai'i Press, 1994)
Jung-en Woo. Race to the Swift: State and Finance in Korean Industrialization (Columbia University Press, 1991)
Dae-Sook Suh. Kim Il Sung: The North Korean Leader (Columbia University Press, 1988)
Laurel Kendall. Shamans, Housewives, and other Restless Spirits: Women in Korean Ritual Life, (University of Hawai'i Press, 1985)
Youngnok Koo and Sung-joo Han, eds. The Foreign Policy of the Republic of Korea (Columbia University Press, 1984)
Bruce Cumings. The Origins of the Korean War: Liberation and the Emergence of Separate Regimes, 1945-1947 (Princeton University Press, 1981)
Dae-Sook Suh. Documents of Korean Communism, 1918-1948 (Princeton University Press, 1970)
Dae-Sook Suh. The Korean Communist Movement, 1918-1948 (Princeton University Press, 1967)
Murphy, Ann Marie and Bridget Welsh, eds. Legacy of Engagement in Southeast Asia (Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2008)
John Bresnan, ed. Indonesia: The Great Transition (Rowman & Littlefield, 2005)
James W. Morley, ed. Driven by Growth: Political Change in the Asia-Pacific Region, revised edition (M. E. Sharpe, 1999)
John Bresnan. Managing Indonesia : The Modern Political Economy (Columbia University Press, 1993)
Anek Laothamatas. Business Associations and the New Political Economy of Thailand : From Bureaucratic Polity to Liberal Corporatism (Westview Press, 1992)
Hugh T. Patrick, ed., with Larry Meissner. Pacific Basin Industries in Distress: Structural Adjustment and Trade Policy in the Nine Industrialized Economies (Columbia University Press, 1991)
Robert Muscat. Thailand and the United States : Development, Security and Foreign Aid (Columbia University Press, 1990)
James W. Morley, ed. Security Interdependence in the Asia Pacific Region (D.C. Heath anc Co., 1986)
James W. Morley, ed. The Pacific Basin : New Challenges for the United States (Academy of Political Science, 1986)
Melvin Gurtov. The First Vietnam Crisis (Columbia University Press, 1967)
Hill, Christopher. National History and the World of Nations: Capital, State, and the Rhetoric of History in Japan, France, and the United States (Duke University Press, 2008)
Ping-hui Liao and David Der-Wei Wang, eds. Taiwan under JapaneseColonial Rule, 1895–1945: History,Culture, Memory ( University of Hawai’i Press, 2006)
Takashi Yoshida. The Making of the "Rape of Nanjing": The History and Memory of the Nanjing Massacre in Japan, China, and the United States (Oxford University Press, 2006)
Alexis Dudden. Japan 's Colonization of Korea : Discourse and Power (University of Hawai'i Press, 2004)
Victor Cha. Alignment despite Antagonism: The United States , Japan , and Korea (Stanford University Press, 1999)
Yukiko Koshiro. Trans-Pacific Racisms and the U.S. Occupation of Japan (Columbia University Press, 1999)
Louise Young. Japan 's Total Empire: Manchuria and the Culture of Wartime Imperialism (University of California Press, 1997)
Warren I. Cohen. The China Connection: Roger S. Greene, Thomas W. Lamont, George E. Sokolsky, and American-East Asian Relations (Columbia University Press, 1978)
Paula S. Harrell. Sowing the Seeds of Change: Chinese Students, Japanese Teachers, 1895-1905 (Stanford University Press, 1992)
Howard B. Schonberger. Aftermath of War: Americans and the Remaking of Japan, 1945-1952 Kent State University Press, 1989)
Christopher Thorne. Border Crossings: Studies in International History (Basil Blackwell, 1988)
Robert S. Ross. The Indochina Tangle: China 's Vietnam Policy, 1975-1979 (Columbia University Press, 1988)
Sadao Asada. Japan and the World, 1853-1952: A Bibliographic Guide to Recent Scholarship in Japanese Foreign Relations (Columbia University Press, 1988)
Theodore Cohen with Herbert Passin, ed. Remaking Japan : The American Occupation as New Deal (The Free Press, 1987)
Paul A. Cohen. Discovering History in China : American Historical Writing on the Recent Chinese Past ( Columbia University Press, 1984)
Warren I. Cohen, ed. New Frontiers in American-East Asian Relations: Essays Presented to Dorothy Borg (Columbia University Press, 1983)
Gerald L. Curtis and Sung-joo Han, eds. The U.S.-South Korean Alliance : Evolving Patterns of Security Relations (Lexington Books, 1983)
Michael M. Yoshitsu. Japan and the San Francisco Peace Settlement (Columbia University Press, 1982)
James Reardon-Anderson. Yenan and the Great Powers: The Origins of Chinese Communist Foreign Policy (Columbia University Press, 1980)
Dorothy Borg and Waldo Heinrichs, eds. Uncertain Years: Chinese-American Relations, 1947-1950 (Columbia University Press, 1980)
William F. Morton. Tanaka Giichi and Japan 's China Policy (Dawson, 1980; St. Martin's Press, 1980)
Warren I. Cohen. The China Connection: Roger S. Greene, Thomas W. Lamont, George E. Sokolsky, and American-East Asian Relations (Columbia University Press, 1978)
Dorothy Borg and Shumpei Okamoto, eds., with Dale K. A. Finlayson. Pearl Harbor as History: Japanese-American Relations, 1931-1941 (Columbia University Press, 1973)
Shumpei Okamoto. The Japanese Oligarchy and the Russo-Japanese War (Columbia University Press, 1970)
JAPAN'S ROAD TO THE PACIFIC WAR
Selected translations of Taiheiyo senso e no michi. James W. Morley, ed. ( Columbia University Press):
Vol. I: Japan Erupts: The London Naval Conference and the Manchurian Incident, (1984)
Vol. II: The China Quagmire: Japan 's Expansion on the Asian Continent, 1933-1941 (1983)
Vol. III: Deterrent Diplomacy (1976)
Vol. IV: The Fateful Choice: Japan 's Advance into Southeast Asia (1980)
Vol. V: The Final Confrontation: Japan 's Negotiations with the United States, 1941 (1994)