Professor Andrew Nathan was quoted in a January 1 article in the Washington Post titled "Bloomberg’s business in China has grown. That could create unprecedented entanglements if he is elected president." The article highlighted potential conflicts of interest for Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg, who, if elected to the presidency, would need to negotiate … [Read more...]
Madeleine Zelin awarded 2019-2020 Distinguished Columbia Faculty Award
Madeleine Zelin, Dean Lung Professor of Chinese Studies and Professor of History, was named a recipient of the 2019-2020 Distinguished Columbia Faculty Award. This announcement follows another recent honor: In November 2019, Professor Zelin also delivered the annual Leonard Hastings Schoff Memorial Lecture. Professor Zelin delivered three lectures on the theme: "China … [Read more...]
Student Feature: Thu Anh Le
My journey to the Oral History program and Columbia was almost accidental. I had been doing some social advocacy work in my home country, Vietnam. The organization that I founded, Human Library Vietnam, sought to bring in people of marginalized identities and engage with the public as human “books.” My work there bore many resemblances to the practice of oral history, and when … [Read more...]
Madeleine Zelin delivers 2019 Leonard Hastings Schoff Memorial Lectures
Professor Madeleine Zelin delivered three lectures as part of the 27th Leonard Hastings Schoff Memorial Lecture series on November 11, 18, and 25, 2019. In her lectures on the theme of "China Semi-Incorporated: The Battle for a Chinese Legal Modernity in the Early Twentieth Century," Professor Zelin discussed her scholarship on Chinese legal history, beginning with the … [Read more...]
Making It Count: Statistics and Statecraft in the Early People’s Republic of China
Arunabh Ghosh (Princeton University Press, 2020) For information from the publisher, please click here. 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 fundamentally reengineering … [Read more...]
