Larissa N. Heinrich, The Afterlife of Images: Translating the Pathological Body between China and the West (Durham: Duke University Press, 2008).

A tremendous book on a fascinating subject - Heinrich also does a brilliant job of incorporating a variety of disciplines into a cohesive whole. Is it history? Literature? Visual cultures? History of ( Read more... )

Andre Schmid, Korea Between Empires, 1895-1919 (New York: Columbia University Press, 2002).One of my favorite books, more so after I've read a number of other works on Japanese empire building in Korea. The explication of the complex interplay between Korea, Japan, and China - with Korea taking center stage - is sort of unmatched in any other work ( Read more... )