Senior Research Scholar, Weatherhead East Asian Institute Email: Seymou8@gmail.com BIO PUBLICATIONS NEWS Research Interests: Politics of the PRC, especially Tibet and the northwest; comparative human rights Dr. Seymour’s field is Chinese politics, and his particular interests are human rights, ethnic minorities, labor issues, and the environment. He is … [Read more...]
Wei Shang
Du Family Professor of Chinese Culture, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University Email: ws110@columbia.edu BIO PUBLICATIONS NEWS Research Interests: Premodern Chinese literature and cultural history Professor Shang is an expert on pre-modern Chinese fiction and drama with special concentration on the cultural and intellectual … [Read more...]
Haruo Shirane
Shincho Professor of Japanese Literature, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures Chair, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures E-mail: hs14@columbia.edu BIO PUBLICATIONS NEWS Research Interests: Japanese literature, visual culture, and cultural history, with particular focus on the interaction between popular and elite cultures Haruo … [Read more...]
Henry D. Smith II
Professor Emeritus of Japanese History, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures Email: hds2@columbia.edu BIO PUBLICATIONS NEWS Research Interests: Late Edo landscape prints; the history of color and pigments in Japanese woodblock prints of the eighteenth and nineteenth century; woodblock views of Edo and Tokyo; "Chūshingura" and the relationship … [Read more...]
Tomi Suzuki
Professor of Japanese Literature, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures Email: ts202@columbia.edu BIO PUBLICATIONS NEWS Research Interests: Modern Japanese literature and criticism in comparative context; literary and cultural theory, particularly theory of narrative, genre and gender, modernism and modernity; intellectual history of modern Japan; … [Read more...]
