William Arnot Mather, American Missionary to China and Richard Burroughs Mather, Professor of Chinese: The Biography and Autobiography of a Father and Son (Posted on Jan. 13, 2011)

By Richard Mather ’35

(Edwin Mellon Press) This is a double-biography of both Richard Mather and his father, William Arnot Mather 1896. The elder Mather was a missionary in China, where he created a system of transcribing the Scriptures into Chinese phonetic script. The younger...

Uncloseting Drama: American Modernism and Queer Performance (Posted on Jan. 13, 2011)

By Nick Salvato ’00

(Yale University Press) In the early 20th century, many modernist writers turned to “closet dramas,” plays that are written for private reading and not for public presentation. In this book, Salvato does a close reading of the works of writers like Ezra Pound...

No Man’s Land: Globalization, Territory, and Clandestine Groups in Southeast Asia (Posted on Jan. 13, 2011)

By Justin V. Hastings ’01

(Cornell University Press) Hastings examines the three clandestine organizations in Southeast Asia: the terrorist group Jemaah Islamiyah, the insurgent Free Aceh Movement, and organized criminals in the form of smugglers and maritime pirates. He explores the...

The Fate of Nature: Rediscovering Our Ability to Rescue the Earth (Posted on Jan. 13, 2011)

By Charles Wohlforth ’86

(Thomas Dunne Books) Wohlforth explores the importance of culture, rather than technology, in solving environmental issues. He examines the different layers of these issues, looking at their economic, scientific, and anthropological parts, while using the...

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