A new book by EALC and History professor Roderick Wilson examines the vital role that rivers played in Japan’s modern transformation, as well as how people view their environments....
In Engaging the Other: “Japan and Its Alter-Egos”, 1550-1850, Ronald P. Toby examines new discourses of identity and difference in early modern Japan, a discourse catalyzed by the “Iberian irruption,” the appearance of Portuguese and other new, radical others in the sixteenth century. The encounter with peoples and countries unimagined in earlier discourse provoked an identity...
The next volume in EALC professor Zong-qi Cai's How to Read Chinese Poetry series will be published by Columbia University Press in February 2018. How to Read Chinese Poetry in Context is an introduction to the golden age of Chinese poetry, spanning the earliest times through the Tang dynasty (618–907). It aims to break down barriers—between language and culture...