We are excited to announce a new title in the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute book series: Pirates and Publishers: A Social History of Copyright in Modern China published by Princeton University Press. The book’s author, Fei-Hsien Wang, is assistant professor of history at Indiana University, Bloomington. She is also a research associate at the Centre for … [Read more...]
WEAI Author Q&A: Claire E. Edington’s “Beyond the Asylum: Mental Illness in French Colonial Vietnam”
We are excited to announce a new title in the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute book series: Beyond the Asylum: Mental Illness in French Colonial Vietnam published by Cornell University Press. The book’s author is Claire E. Edington, an Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego. Dr. Edington was the winner of the Weatherhead East … [Read more...]
Student Profile: Richard Lo
Richard Lo is a rising senior in the School of General Studies majoring in Political Science. He has worked at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute as a Student Assistant for two years. Before coming to Columbia, Richard served for four years in the US Navy as a seaman and an operations specialist. When I was growing up in Taiwan, I had hoped to move to New York for the … [Read more...]
As teaching on Asia expands from niche to national, Asia for Educators’ repository of tools for teachers evolves
Asia for Educators (AFE) was established in 1977 with the goal of sharing Columbia’s wealth of expertise on East Asia with the wider public. Under the umbrella of the East Asian National Resource Center at Columbia, which is administered by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute (WEAI) and supported by the US Department of Education, AFE draws on the expertise of WEAI faculty and … [Read more...]
The East Asian National Resource Center at Columbia: Seeding the future of East Asian studies
When the East Asian National Resource Center (NRC) was established at Columbia in 1960, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean were not yet widely studied in the United States. Recognizing its importance as a center of excellence engaged in the cultivation of American international experts, the US Department of Education included Columbia among its first Title VI grantees, tasked with … [Read more...]
