Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute

Pirates and Publishers: A Social History of Copyright in Modern China Fei-Hsien Wang

In Pirates and Publishers, Fei-Hsien Wang reveals the unknown social and cultural history of copyright in China from the 1890s through the 1950s, a time of profound sociopolitical changes. Wang draws on a vast range of previously...

Making It Count: Statistics and Statecraft in the Early People's Republic of China Arunabh Ghosh

In 1949, at the end of a long period of wars, one of the biggest challenges facing leaders of the new People’s Republic of China was how much they did not know. The government of one of the world’s largest nations was committed to...

Beyond the Steppe Frontier: A History of the Sino-Russian Border Sören Urbansky

The Sino-Russian border, once the world’s longest land border, has received scant attention in histories about the margins of empires. Beyond the Steppe Frontier rectifies this by exploring the demarcation’s remarkable...