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Publications 2020 PUBLICATIONS 2020 WEATHERHEAD EAST ASIAN INSTITUTE COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY | 1 For inquiries about the publications of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University and about submitting a project to the series, please contact Ariana King, communications officer, at [email protected] or 212-854-1725. For a complete list of publications, please visit our website: http://weai.columbia.edu/publications/ ORDERING INFORMATION Please place your purchase orders and inquiries directly with the presses listed below. 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They are published by academic and trade presses and represent scholars of East Asia from around the world. Editorial Committee: Carol Gluck, Eugenia Lean, Lien-Hang Nguyen, and Eveline Washul CHINA Benno Weiner NEW AND RECENT TITLES The Chinese Revolution on the Tibetan Frontier Arunabh Ghosh (Cornell University Press, 2020) Making It Count: Statistics and Statecraft in the Early “The Chinese Revolution on the Tibetan People’s Republic of China Frontier is one of the few accounts in (Princeton University Press, 2020) English of the relatively neglected watershed year of 1958, when the so-called “A fascinating, original look at the role Chinese revolution was actually brought to of statistics in the formation of the early non-Chinese communities in the western socialist state in China, Making It Count frontier zone. Compellingly narrated, this book has remarkable makes an insightful, important contribution contemporary relevance.” to early PRC studies.” – Charlene Makley, Reed College, author of The Battle for Fortune – Peter C. Perdue, Yale University Sören Urbanksy Eugenia Lean Beyond the Steppe Frontier: Vernacular Industrialism in A History of the Sino-Russian China: Local Innovation and Border Translated Technologies in (Princeton University Press, 2020) the Making of a Cosmetics Empire, 1900–1940 “In this remarkable book, Urbansky’s (Columbia University Press, 2020) extensive archival research on both sides of the Argun river yields a riveting look “This path-breaking book conclusively at a shape-shifting frontier. The result is a demonstrates that the values and habits comparative and linked history of Chinese of classically trained Chinese literati, so and Russian state-building efforts, and a nuanced exploration of scorned by May Fourth modernizers, were fully reconcilable transborder connections among nomads, pastoralists, peasants, with modern science and technology. Eugenia Lean’s Vernacular and ethnic groups. This is an outstanding contribution to Industrialism will be a touchstone for all future work on the boundary and borderland studies.” history of science and technology in China.” – Peter Sahlins, University of California, Berkeley, and author of – Sigrid Schmalzer, University of Massachusetts Amherst Boundaries Andrew B. Liu Mary Brazelton Tea War: A History of Mass Vaccination: Citizens’ Capitalism in China and Bodies and State Power in India Modern China (Yale University Press, 2020) (Cornell University Press, 2019) “Tea War is not only a detailed compara- “By challenging the conventional tive history of the transformation of tea understanding of the celebrated ‘Chinese production in the 19th and early 20th model’ of public health, Mass Vaccination centuries, but it also intervenes in larger succeeds brilliantly in revealing how debates about the nature of capitalism, the Chinese state developed a stunning global modernity, and global history.” capability to protect, as well as to control, life.” – Alexander F. Day, Occidental College – Sean Hsiang-Lin Lei, Academia Sinica, author of Neither Donkey nor Horse 4 | COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY NEW AND RECENT TITLES RECENT CHINA TITLES Diana Fu Fei-Hsien Wang Mobilizing Without the Masses: Control Pirates and Publishers: A and Contention in China Social History of Copyright (Cambridge University Press, 2018) in Modern China (Princeton Washington Press, 2019) Charlene Makley The Battle For Fortune: State-led “Offering an inspired look through Development, Personhood, and Power the archives and back rooms of the Among Tibetans in China publishing worlds of Shanghai and (Cornell University Press, 2018) Beijing, Pirates and Publishers is a wonderfully wise introduction to the complexities of China’s adoption of copyright. ...A tour de force and a Ori Sela pleasure to read.” China’s Philological Turn: Scholars, – Joseph McDermott, University of Cambridge. Textualism, and the Dao in the Eighteenth Century (Columbia University Press, 2018) Daniel Koss Robert Culp Where the Party Rules: The Rank and File of The Power of Print in China’s Communist State Modern China: Intellectuals (Cambridge University Press, 2018) and Industrial Publishing from the End of Empire to Maoist State Socialism Max Oidtmann (Columbia University Press, 2019) Forging the Golden Urn: The Qing Empire and the Politics of Reincarnation “Rich, meticulous, and sparkling with in Tibet insight, this work further cements (Columbia University Press, 2018) Culp’s position as perhaps the fore- most scholar of modern Chinese print culture, knowledge Anne Reinhardt formation, and intellectual history working today.” Navigating Semi-Colonialism: Shipping, – Thomas S. Mullaney, author of The Chinese Typewriter: A Sovereignty, and Nation-Building in China, History 1860–1937 (Harvard University Asia Center, 2018) Corey Byrnes Martin T. Fromm Fixing Landscape: A Techno-Poetic History Borderland Memories: of China’s Three Gorges (Columbia University Press, 2018) Searching for Historical Identity in Post-Mao China (Cambridge University Press, 2019) Margaret Mih Tillman Raising China’s Revolutionaries: Moderniz- “[A] prodigiously well-researched ing Childhood for Cosmopolitan National- book. ...Fromm traces the process of ists and Liberated Comrades, 1920s-1950s constructing an always incomplete (Columbia University Press, 2018) ideological consensus in 1980s China, showing how post-Mao political Emily Baum discourse was the continuously negotiated product of a The Invention of Madness: State, Society, flexible, mediated, and in many ways collaborative effort. and the Insane in Modern China This is a fundamental contribution to our understanding (University of Chicago Press, 2018) of the Deng era.” – Fabio Lanza, University of Arizona COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY | 5 Nathan Shockey The Typographic JAPAN Imagination: Reading and Writing in Japan’s Age of Modern Print Media NEW AND RECENT TITLES (Columbia University Press, 2019) Tatiana Linkhoeva “Rich in detail and vast in scope, Revolution Goes East: [Shockey] deftly charts a course Imperial Japan and Soviet through the roiling complexity Communism (Cornell University Press, 2020) of print media that collectively generated a typographic effect in the early twentieth “Linkhoeva’s book brings a new century.” line of analysis and new material to – Thomas Lamarre, Duke University modern Japanese history, and will impact histories of the left, of the interwar period, of prewar politics, Raja Adal and of Russo-Japanese relations.” Beauty in the Age of – Louise Young, Professor of History at the University of Empire: Japan, Egypt, and Wisconsin, Madison, author of Japan’s Total Empire the Global History of Aesthetic Education Jeremy A. 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