Photographs are available here from the September 12, 2014 event Also Like Life: The Films of Hou Hsiao-hsien, which featured acclaimed writer and academic Ian Buruma, Columbia University film studies professor Richard Peña, and Bard College professor Richard I. Suchenski. Suchenski organized the international retrospective "Also Like Life: The Films of Hou Hsiao-hsien," which … [Read more...]
A New Retrospective on Hou Hsiao-hsien: A Discussion with Organizer Richard Suchenski
On Friday, September 12, 2014, the Museum of the Moving Image will launch a retrospective of the films by Taiwan's celebrated director Hou Hsiao-hsien. The internationally-touring series, titled "Also Like Life: The Films of Hou Hsiao-hsien," runs through October 17 in New York and includes all of the director's seventeen feature films. The retrospective will also showcase … [Read more...]
Apply to Columbia’s MARSEA Graduate Program
Interested in furthering your study of East Asia by learning from the world's leading scholars of the region? Apply to Columbia University's Master of Arts in Regional Studies--East Asia (MARSEA) program: Columbia University's Weatherhead East Asian Institute administers the Masters in Regional Studies—East Asia (MARSEA) through Columbia's Graduate School of Arts and … [Read more...]
Eugenia Lean Receives the 2013-2014 Faculty Mentoring Award from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
The WEAI congratulates Eugenia Lean, associate professor of Chinese history, who has received the 2013-2014 Faculty Mentoring Award from Columbia University's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS). The award is a student initiative to recognize outstanding mentoring of Ph.D. students. Selections were made by graduate student representatives in GSAS and affiliated … [Read more...]
Professor Lydia H. Liu on Human Rights Pioneer and Columbia alum P.C. Chang
Columbia University's list of illustrious alumni includes many graduates from China whose achievements have been widely celebrated. Columbia alumnus Peng-chun “P.C.” Chang (1892-1957), the Vice-Chair of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights and one of the architects of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, has received relatively less recognition--until … [Read more...]
