Please join us for an online talk by Dr. Thomas Gaubatz, whose monograph The Textual Townsman: Writing Urban Identity in Early Modern Japan was published by Columbia University Press in December 2025. In 17th-century Japan, the rapid urbanization of Tokugawa society and the formation of a market economy led to the rise of a new […]
What K-dramas reveal about women and power today 
The Textual Townsman and the Particularism of the Early Modern