We are pleased to announce that Eugenia Lean, the Director of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute (on leave AY 2017-18) and Associate Professor of Chinese History at Columbia University, has been awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). The NEH grant, announced in December 2017, will support the next six months of Professor Lean's work on the … [Read more...]
The Center for Korean Research Publishes Fall 2017 Issue of The Journal of Korean Studies
The Center for Korean Research in the Weatherhead East Asian Institute is pleased to announce the publication of the Journal of Korean Studies Fall 2017 issue, Volume 22, No.2. Guest edited by Professor Steven Chung of Princeton University and Professor Hyun Seon Park of Yonsei University, the Fall 2017 thematic issue, “The Cold War in Korean Cinemas,” offers seven articles … [Read more...]
Newsweek Japan Features Cover Story on Carol Gluck’s “War Stories” Discussion Group
Newsweek Japan devoted its December 12, 2017 cover story to a special discussion group at Columbia University on "War Stories: Memory and History" that is led by Carol Gluck, the George Sansom Professor of History and Chair of the Committee on Global Thought. Participants in the discussion group included 20 undergraduate and graduate students from Columbia College, Columbia … [Read more...]
Andrew J. Nathan writes “What is Xi Jinping Afraid Of?” in Foreign Affairs
Andrew J. Nathan, the Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science at Columbia University, wrote the article "What is Xi Jinping Afraid Of?" in the December 8, 2017 edition of Foreign Affairs. "Why this intense concentration of power and emphasis on obedience?" Professor Nathan writes. "Xi claimed that China is on the brink of achieving its great dream of national … [Read more...]
Qin Gao Talks on Council on Foreign Relations Podcast About Her New Book on Social Assistance in China
Qin Gao, Professor of Social Policy and Social Work and Director, China Centre for Social Policy, at Columbia University, discussed her recently published book Welfare, Work, and Poverty: Social Assistance in China (Oxford University Press, 2017) on the Council on Foreign Relations' December 8, 2017 podcast "Eradicating Poverty in China—An Impossible Task?" Professor Gao's … [Read more...]
